MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by travisbhartwell | 2025-05-01 22:33:43+00:00
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by floxy | 2025-05-01 22:34:19+00:00
>but why does any federal body have this authority?

The current "Advanced Clean Cars II" is operating under a federal EPA waiver for California and 12 other states. The EPA regulates sources of pollution, which includes internal combustion automobiles. The current waiver allows California (and the other states with identical legislation) to have stricter pollution standards for cars than the rest of the U.S..

California could institute a special sales tax on internal combustion engine vehicles and raise the rate on gas taxes without federal interference.
by andres | 2025-05-01 22:34:42+00:00
Yep! You can use Kubetail on your desktop (using the CLI tool) or you can install it directly in your cluster using helm:

helm repo add kubetail https://kubetail-org.github.io/helm-charts/ helm install kubetail kubetail/kubetail --namespace kubetail-system --create-namespace

Then you can access it using `kubectl proxy` or `kubectl port-forward`:

kubectl port-forward -n kubetail-system svc/kubetail-dashboard 8080:8080

You can also configure an ingress using the values.yaml file (https://github.com/kubetail-org/helm-charts/blob/main/charts...)
by tulert | 2025-05-01 22:35:34+00:00
When you say “this is explicitly for iot manufacturers…” are you referring to secure boot? That’s what I was referring to. I’ve done embedded development for about a decade, 6 at an IOT company, and our main motivation for using secure boot was to keep our firmware secure. The last thing we want is someone writing an article on the internet about how with this one easy trick you can break the security of the device and do whatever you want ( the devices are related to access control). If the company went out of business we’d have the option of publishing the signing key but it’d render all the devices vulnerable to malicious OTAs. Point is we’re not trying to lock folks out of tinkering, we’re trying to keep the devices secure. I understand as a side effect it means you can’t flash the device to whatever you want.

Also for what it’s worth these ESP chips are unbelievably cheap when bought at scale. The box the product comes in is probably more expensive
by jasonthorsness | 2025-05-01 22:35:42+00:00
Even in software development, which the models are better trained for than other domains and where results are easily verifiable by tests and compilers, I haven't heard of much outright replacement. Maybe the businesses that have tried it are fumbling anyway and that's why they jumped on an unproven idea.

I think at the end of the day there will be a tremendous skills amplification in many fields but the amount of work to be done will expand with the lowered cost and the amount of jobs will decrease less than the doomsayers are predicting.
by jzelinskie | 2025-05-01 22:35:42+00:00
No commentary on your latter points about Oxide's compensation structure, but I fundamentally don't share the same sentiment you have about the dynamics of cash flow for venture-backed startups.

Maybe there are still VC-backed companies having catered food, but I think they're by far the exception and not the rule. ZIRP is long over and a decent portion of this generation of startups began in COVID and subsequently don't even have an office. Maybe I'm the one that's in the bubble, but when you take VC money you're on the line to hit growth numbers in a way that you aren't when you bootstrap and can take your time to slowly grow once you've hit ramen profitability.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-05-01 22:35:42+00:00
So the main thing it seems like it is able to do it take very granular song direction. The 4.0 model didn't stick very well to song direction. It "might" put a "bass drop" where you wanted it, etc.

Seems like the new 4.5 both listens to more nuanced song style descriptions as well as in-line direction better. Still not perfect, but it is an improvement. It's pretty incredible.. it is a huge improvement. Take a look at this example (It does have some errors, like a heard it sing one of the sound directions): https://suno.com/s/xaJNWNZSH17wAano

This is going to open up a lot of creativity where while you are still often at the mercy of the random number generator, you can really shape the song more.
by syndeo | 2025-05-01 22:36:52+00:00
Bingo. I doubt the Open Handset Alliance would've gotten off the ground had they charged the kind of licensing fees common at the time by Symbian and Windows Mobile. What would convince manufacturers to pay into an (at the time) remarkably immature platform and gamble their devices' success on it?

But make it free… and now you've suddenly got their attention.
by nelsonfigueroa | 2025-05-01 22:36:56+00:00
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by smcin | 2025-05-01 22:37:24+00:00
It's better to link to more truthful accounts:

"Bed, Bath & Beyond’s Ex-CEO [Mark Tritton] Got Rich Bankrupting the Retailer, Now Workers Stand to Lose - Thousands of workers will lose their jobs after the former CEO "ripped up" the company's playbook to disastrous results." (1/2023) https://perfectunion.us/bed-bath-beyonds-ex-ceo-got-rich-ban...

"Bed Bath & Beyond Just Realized The Hedge Fund That (Briefly) Saved It Actually Killed It - So that $300 million Hudson Bay made from extending BB&B’s life by 10 weeks belongs to it, or something." (5/2024) https://dealbreaker.com/2024/05/bed-bath-beyond-just-realize...

> "Bed Bath & Beyond doesn’t have any stores anymore... But Zombie BB&B does still have some very real creditors following its bankruptcy last year."
by TMWNN | 2025-05-01 22:38:12+00:00
>can someone explain? I don't get it :(

>yes, the cited: "For these reasons, it is critical that the Secret Service maintain open lines of communication with the entertainment industry. The consequences of our inaction could be detrimental" is a bit shocking.

Why are you talking to yourself?

There is nothing "shocking" about the statement. I advise others to read both articles; neither is long, and both are interesting (but nothing in any way salacious/controversial/etc.)
by lolinder | 2025-05-01 22:38:40+00:00
It's really not though. The OSI quickly loses credibility when they try to push a definition that the community doesn't like (see the Open Source AI kerfuffle).

Both the OSI and the FSF are agreed that Source Available with bans on specific use cases is not FOSS. When you've got freaking Richard Stallman opposing you you really have to do better than just scream "corporate capture". Engage with his idea of Freedom, don't set up straw men.
by justicz | 2025-05-01 22:39:21+00:00
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by jazzyjackson | 2025-05-01 22:39:24+00:00
Very solid on M2. I've been out of the "try 10 distros" game for a long while and out of the box gnome fedora won me over. I like the GUI to install and update software, I never have to touch a terminal unless I want to. Only setback is no HDMI over USBC, and it didn't like my particular Bluetooth audio device, but a USB DAC does just fine.
by brominebrewer | 2025-05-01 22:39:33+00:00
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by bionhoward | 2025-05-01 22:39:36+00:00
Again? Didn’t it go from BSD to some infectious copyleft thing? Doesn’t seem “open source again” to me if we can’t use it in private work projects without being forced to open source our project. Isn’t AGPL even WORSE than what they switched from? Wouldn’t “open source again” imply going back to BSD?
by 0xhald | 2025-05-01 22:39:47+00:00
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by kmeisthax | 2025-05-01 22:40:33+00:00
No, SSPL requires you to open source your entire stack. That's why the OSI and FSF rejected it.

AGPLv3 says, if you modify the software and put it on a network, you have to provide a link for anyone accessing the software to download the modified source. There's numerous drafting and technical problems with this arrangement[0] but the only parts of your stack you have to release are the parts that are actually part of the program covered by AGPLv3.

The "strong copyleft" strategy[1] is to identify a specific freedom-restricting behavior we don't like and prohibit just that. We're not saying "Amazon is not allowed to use this software", we're saying "Anyone who turns this software into a service needs to provide a way to fork the service and get the software back without losing anything". If such a copyleft license happens to scare a company into buying license exceptions, that's a happy accident.

In contrast equitable source doesn't say anything about freedom, it just says "these people need to pay a license fee". That's not FOSS, that's shareware. In FOSS, free-riding is not a bug. The problem with AWS isn't that they aren't paying a license fee, it's that they are building roach motels out of community projects.

[0] I'd link to Hector Martin's incredibly informative Mastodon posts regarding the subject, but he deleted his account after crashing out of LKML. As a substitute for that, I'll summarize my hazy memories:

- The intended compliance mechanism is to make your app a quine; but that only makes sense for webapps written in PHP/Python/etc. Someone actually put AGPLv3 on an Ethernet stack - how do you comply with that?

- It's unclear how license compliance works in a pull request driven Git workflow. If you're running the server locally for testing, and someone accesses it, have you violated the license?

- You can filter out the source offer with an HTTP proxy not covered by AGPLv3. That seems like a very wide loophole which the FSF apparently believes would work.

[1] e.g. AGPL, SSPL, OpenWatcom, etc
by lolinder | 2025-05-01 22:40:42+00:00
> The solution is clear: start your new database with an "equitable source / source available" license from day one. Nobody will complain about a relicense since your license will handle the hyperscalers right off the bat.

Yes, this would be the honest thing to do, but people don't do it because using a non-FOSS license loses you adoption. The step you're missing in your little timeline is that the only reason the project takes off at all and becomes big enough that anyone is making money off of it is because it's Open Source. Proprietary databases, programming languages, and similar have lost big time and that's not changing any time soon.

So what's really happening is that these FOSS companies want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to release code for free so that other devs will use it and then make money from the project while somehow banning other companies from also making money off it.
by klntsky | 2025-05-01 22:41:05+00:00
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by pinkmuffinere | 2025-05-01 22:41:21+00:00
> You obviously think a great deal of yourself.

OP is commenting on the process of becoming-who-you-want-to-be. They feel they’ve succeeded. I get that this may come off as self-congratulatory, but what’s the alternative? Stay silent? Lie and say they aren’t who they wanted to be? They seem adequately humble to me, I don’t understand the hostility
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-05-01 22:41:54+00:00
Even 15-ish years ago when I was in school, the NLP folks viewed probabilistic models with suspicion. NLP treated everyone from our Math department with suspicion and gave them a hard time. It created so many politics that some folks who wanted to do statistical approaches would call themselves CS so that the NLP old guard wouldn't give them a hard time.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-05-01 22:42:19+00:00
> Well that's a reason not to use a distro right? If I type `sudo dnf install redis`, I want to install redis not valkey.

Using a distro that handles things your way is your privilege. I assume most people who install packages care about the functionality they provide, not the brand name - so it seems like a fair default for distros that aim to appeal to broad user bases imo.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-01 22:42:25+00:00
This is where philosophical training helps.

People here flippantly conclude whether something is significant or insignificant without defining what significance is and how to determine it. Question begging and bad assumptions abound.

"Pale blue dot" talk is ultimately an intellectually vacuous appeal to confusion and emotion. It strives to seem profound, but it only manages to approximate a silly deepity.
by sethkim | 2025-05-01 22:42:32+00:00
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by anonymars | 2025-05-01 22:43:03+00:00
The point is it's a frame of reference. The claim is that 30% is ridiculous. Why? Based on other comments in the discussion, it sounds in the same ballpark to other online stores, ones without Apple's anticompetitive pressure.

If that's the case, it sounds like a very lucrative market, so competition should bring that number down if it's so profitable.

Again, this is a separate question from Apple's anticompetitive behavior, it's solely about whether a 30% cut is itself reasonable or outrageous.
by neilv | 2025-05-01 22:43:26+00:00
> we did it because sales has an incredibly strong culture of this compensation model, to the degree that it would be difficult to hire otherwise. That isn't an issue with other staff.

SF Bay Area SWEs are famously compensation-focused, and this uniform salary is basically Google new-grad SWE entry-level TC.

Are you hiring from the minority of good engineers who aren't driven primarily by compensation, but you just can't find the analog of that among good salespeople?

> Sales people don't write promo packets, you count up the amount they sold.

And you manage the imperfect alignment? (Imperfect, like the incentive to close a sale by lying to a customer, in a way that won't be discovered until next year. Or incentive to close a sale now, and don't communicate back a customer insight that would nudge the product line in a better direction longer-term, since that insight risks someone at the company wanting to talk to the customer, which puts the imminent commission at risk.)
by vjerancrnjak | 2025-05-01 22:43:47+00:00
CNNs were outperforming traditional methods on some tasks before 2017.

Problem was that all of the low level tasks , like part of speech tagging, parsing, named entity recognition , etc. never resulted in a good summarizing system or translating system.

Probabilistic graphical models worked a bit but not much.

Transformers were a leap, where none of the low level tasks had to be done for high level ones.

Pretty sure that equivalent leap happened in computer vision a bit before.

People were fiddling with low level pattern matching and filters and then it was all obliterated with an end to end cnn .
by mrandish | 2025-05-01 22:44:02+00:00
I just smile hearing the term "Millihertz Computer". I'd love it if building and designing mechanical and analog computers grew as a hobby/educational activity as I find them both fascinating and somehow satisfying.

Also, this 1950s Naval Training film explaining the fundamentals of how mechanical fire control computers work to solve complex problems is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
by Botlabs | 2025-05-01 22:44:12+00:00
Sure, but you can validate it dev tools exist for a reason. Honestly, I just can’t afford the storage costs if users are uploading 50GB+ CSVs. It’d be a huge strain on any server, not to mention painfully slow for users. Running everything client side was the easiest and most practical way to build this MVP at least for me thanks for the feedback
by danShumway | 2025-05-01 22:44:46+00:00
Yes! Why do people keep on asking this? Yes, practically every single tech product that you buy from Walmart will include links to their online stores in the packaging. Including Apple products! And this has been the case for ages.

I remember buying DVDs from Walmart and opening them up and the first thing you would see is a slip of paper telling you in giant letters to use some reward program or streaming service rather than buying the DVDs physically.

If you buy an iPhone from Walmart, there will be a link to the apple store in the packaging. If you buy a Switch, there will be promotions for digital downloads that directly compete with Walmart in your packaging. It's not just digital links either, when I bought a Roomba it came with instructions about how to order future purchases, filters, and parts directly from the manufacturer.

Apple bans developers from including links to alternative stores in bundled manuals and help pages. I can not think of a single physical store that does the same, and I can't think of a single tech company including Apple that doesn't link to competing storefronts in their manuals and packaging inserts.

Apple is worse than Walmart on this issue.
by tristor | 2025-05-01 22:45:07+00:00
>He did more than that. It wasn’t that he had the opinion that women were innately less qualified

He never said that in his letter. The memo was published unredacted. You can definitely disagree with what he said and there are many reasons to do so, but you should at least reference his actual statements and arguments when doing that.

> but that he tried to repeatedly discuss that at work after being told not to.

That is also not true. My understanding is the memo was a report in response to a request from a committee he was part of and wasn't intended to be more widespread. It was leaked inside Google and then outside Google and then people demonized him and he got fired. That's pretty much the high-level set of events. He definitely did not write this after being explicitly told not to, especially "repeatedly" per basically every piece of evidence about the entire kerfuffle.

I'm not a Damore apologist either, but like the sibling it really pisses me off when I see someone just straight up strawmanning or lying about what someone else did to smear them. The man was already blackballed from the entire tech industry and had to leave the country after being fired, mostly for saying factually true statements that are controversial because of the color he (and others) added to them. Isn't that enough? Do you have to lie about what he said, when it was published publicly and anyone can read it for themselves?
by programmertote | 2025-05-01 22:45:22+00:00
Agree with all you've noted. I'd also add that 'Exit'/'Close' buttons sometimes don't work (I use Firefox btw). Worse, you have to click so many different buttons to buy just one index fund.

In contrast, I can do all that in one pop-up/side panel in Fidelity or Charles Schwab. I have been a long time user of Vanguard (almost two decades) and I wish they revert to their old web UI, which is informative and simple enough to get all the jobs I need to do in an efficient manner.