MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexneisc | 2025-05-02 13:49:18+00:00
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by mcsolutions | 2025-05-02 13:49:19+00:00
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by throwaway290 | 2025-05-02 13:49:34+00:00
> screwing Spotify over app commissions

Spotify is the one who screws everyone. They deserve it

> Epic

Epic is another example of a shady company who doesn't want to give a cut from its micro transactions from users (users who are brought to them by Apple's innovation)

> difficult repairability

iPhone repairability score is 2-3 points higher than Pixel's according to iFixit. Only HMD beats iPhone.
by orwin | 2025-05-02 13:50:01+00:00
Their anti rule of law stance, their criticism of parliament, their idolatry of ancestry, genealogy and genetics.

Also their retoric: their default stance is the fundamental attribution error (my ingroup failed because we were betrayed/cheated, your outgroup failed because you are lazy/bad/inferior). When your bonapartist (which is cesarism+nationalism basically) ideology is tinted (or tainted I would say, but I'm biased) with that reasoning mistake, you're close to fascism. Some people could call them post-fascists, but to me post-fascism died in Italy in the 80s (not true, I have a post-fascist friend, but they're extremely rare). Because they're too dumb to have real 'thinkers' (and they don't read anyway), they rehash old ideas and dunk everything at the wall to see what stick (which can work l), to me they're closer to proto-fascists (see Balkan nationalists the the late 19th century).
by rsynnott | 2025-05-02 13:50:05+00:00
> Every major tech company is therefore in Ireland because the country is small enough to essentially steamroll local politicians with lobby money

It's more about taxes and an efficient well-understood legal system (similar to the Delaware advantage on the latter). While the DPC used to be kinda useless, it has somewhat gotten its act together, and today issues most of the big GDPR fines. If you were trying to specifically avoid GDPR scrutiny, you'd locate elsewhere.
by ankit_sparks | 2025-05-02 13:50:41+00:00
We just shipped Flamme AI 2.0 — a relationship coach that remembers your shared history.

Ask it: • “What’s my partner’s favorite food?” • “What was the last question I asked you?” Etc

It responds based on months of couple data (with consent), turning generic advice into context-aware emotional support.

We started with 1.2% D30 retention. This update helped push us beyond 50%.

Curious to hear from other builders: Where else could long-term memory make AI feel more human?
by Someone1234 | 2025-05-02 13:50:50+00:00
Fees they do in fact control, otherwise they would be "taxes." Taxes are costs imposed by government, or legislation at any level. Cellular networks like to comingle the two so that they can hide "fees" they impose by wording them like taxes/confuse consumers.

For example: "Regulatory Recovery/Cost Recovery Fee," "Administrative Fee," "Network Access Fee," "Telecom Relay Service Surcharge," and "Local Number Portability" aren't taxes, but they look like taxes due to the misleading verbiage. These all go straight to the networks and in their books don't offset anything specific. These are your classic "what we can get away with fee."

This comingling of network fees and government taxes, and then wording fees like taxes, has worked incredibly well to the point that people online will defend them. Maybe TicketMaster should take note.
by mathgeek | 2025-05-02 13:51:04+00:00
> You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority and often doing so for what he views as ideological crimes.

It’s important to remember that while the President issues the orders, there are other actors behind the scenes writing them for him. They have goals that go beyond a single man considering ideological crimes.
by Maluis | 2025-05-02 13:51:12+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Multi-Cloud/Platform Engineer | Remote (Europe)

Location: Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: kubernetes/openshift (with istio) , terraform/ansible/helm , prometheus/grafana , AWS/GCP/Priv(air-gap) , golang/python, nixos

Interest: electronics / Soc Résumé/CV: https://taap.it/1VWDNg

Email: see@link.up

Observability focused since more than 10 year i worked mainly on kubernetes/OpenShift replacing (M/S)aas with opensource solution from prometheus/thanos.

Using Prometheus/Grafana to do advanced anomaly detection and prediction.

Mainly using terraform/Helm to deploy all of it, to the point to wrote my own terraform provider (twice) and helm Chart to help deploy of application

From 100 to 1000 to nearly 10k VM monitored and alerted
by cyberlurker | 2025-05-02 13:52:04+00:00
Is it unusual for an executive order to claim something like this without any citation or reference?

> The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS.

> Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter.

> What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.
by aftbit | 2025-05-02 13:52:27+00:00
Firefox is alright. I keep around a script called `chrome-new` for those rare case I still need Chrome.

#!/bin/sh if [ -z $CHROME ]; then test -e "$(which chromium)" && CHROME="chromium" test -e "$(which google-chrome)" && CHROME="google-chrome" test -e "$(which google-chrome-stable)" && CHROME="google-chrome-stable" test -e "$(which google-chrome-dev)" && CHROME="google-chrome-dev" fi TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /dev/shm/chrome-XXXXX) $CHROME --user-data-dir=$TMPDIR --no-first-run --no-default-browser-check "$@" rm -rf $TMPDIR
by rsynnott | 2025-05-02 13:52:51+00:00
Yeah, this is pretty ahistorical; most multinational tech companies already had their EU headquarters in Ireland before Brexit. A lot of companies _did_ move operations from the UK to Ireland (or sometimes the Netherlands) as a result of Brexit, but it was mostly financial and insurance companies (plus some pharma, medical devices etc), and those didn't generally move their headquarters if they weren't already in Ireland.
by laborcontract | 2025-05-02 13:53:10+00:00
All the while, I don't think I've ever loved our country as much as now because I think this is a time where our system of checks and balances can come to shine.

I do hope this experience will lead to people re-evaluating their love of FDR. You can like what he stood for, but he was an equal if not (much) greater abuser of the executive office.
by soco | 2025-05-02 13:53:17+00:00
A lot of words here but not much knowledge of politics. Calling western people "marxists" while showing absolutely no clue what Marx proposed (hint: common ownership, stateless society...). If reliable healthcare for citizens is "far left" where exactly on the map would we put communism? Or what is then center, and what is right? And what is then "far right", hunting homeless for sport? I don't really care what the one or the other party trumpet claims, but I don't have to like such loud ignorance.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-02 13:53:25+00:00
The trillion dollar military is Americas welfare system. You may be chronically confused why no politician dem/republican/liberal/conservative ever wants to cut funding for it, and toss it up as obvious collusion between mega-contractors and politicians.

Well it is. And it's willful. That trillion dollars is spent almost entirely on US made things by US workers. Only a small slice (still large in absolute terms) goes to those mega-contractors. The rest is the only thing that has kept any semblance of American manufacturing alive. The military buys everything (this isn't an exaggeration, you would be hard pressed to find something in your life that they don't buy in quantity) , and there are countless businesses that pay decent wages with benefits for low skilled workers in every state that are only still in existence because of military spending.

It also functions as an incubator, having special provisions for small businesses, especially those owned by marginalized people or located in especially impoverished areas. Basically "We need need coffee filters, so if you buy the equipment and higher the workers, we'll sign a contract to buy 2,000,000 packages a year from you. (And it's a kick-your-door-down felony if you try to backdoor foreign made filters)."

That's why it is never cut. It's a welfare plan that republicans agree too because it requires holding down a job to access. It comes with the side effects of keeping factories running and getting an overpowered military.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-02 13:53:31+00:00
Without details it’s impossible to know what you’re talking about, but it should be noted that the early phases of using stimulants or abuse-pattern usage (e.g. doubling doses before doing something, or even taking cocaine or other recreational drugs) is well-known to be associated with a heightened sense of confidence.

This doesn’t work forever (tolerance) and other people will experience the opposite effect with heightened anxiety.

If you want an example of why it’s not a blanket true statement or an easy solution for fear extinction, consider that stimulant use at excess dosages or abuse-pattern usage frequently ends in paranoia, where users are in such deep fear that they start sensing danger everywhere.
by Retric | 2025-05-02 13:53:34+00:00
> vary within and without metro areas

Even more distortion.

When you look land value tax and start thinking ahh but this impact needs to be mitigated that’s a sign there’s an inherent problem with the approach. There’s an endless list of things people would tweak if it was high enough replace income taxes the flawed system that resulted would still just be less efficient overall.

Just by comparison people don’t single out professions and say lawyers should have higher rates than doctors. You’re not tempted to try and manipulate the economy through central planning as we would be with land value taxes.
by netsharc | 2025-05-02 13:53:38+00:00
The executive branch has ignored the courts a few times, basically saying "What are you going to do about it?".

I feel like it has to lead to a standoff of some group with guns saying they're following the courts/defending the constitution against another group with guns saying they're following the orders of the president (just like those Nazis who were "just following orders"). I need to print t-shirts with "Is it a coup d'etat yet?" to sell to the onlookers when this happens (in theory I could start selling these now).
by Maluis | 2025-05-02 13:53:49+00:00
Multi-Cloud/Platform/Observability Engineer | Remote (Europe)

Location: Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: kubernetes/openshift (with istio) , terraform/ansible/helm , prometheus/grafana , AWS/GCP/Priv(air-gap) , golang/python, nixos

Interest: electronics / Soc Résumé/CV: https://taap.it/zMNq09

Email: see@link.up

Observability focused since more than 10 year i worked mainly on kubernetes/OpenShift replacing (M/S)aas with opensource solution from prometheus/thanos.

Using Prometheus/Grafana to do advanced anomaly detection and prediction.

Mainly using terraform/Helm to deploy all of it, to the point to wrote my own terraform provider (twice) and helm Chart to help deploy of application

From 100 to 1000 to nearly 10k VM monitored and alerted
by cge | 2025-05-02 13:54:12+00:00
Yes, that's what I meant by the possibility of them only offering source under AGPL to paying customers. Oddly enough, I'm familiar with that in the completely different context of davisr's reMarkable Connection Utility, and the model can work reasonably.

But from their website, which has terms of service for each app, it really seems that they are presenting them as standard proprietary closed-source offerings.
by iambateman | 2025-05-02 13:54:12+00:00
Same, but it's just the culture. Not enough people in the US complains if "the actual price" ends up being 10% higher than "the price."

A $20 burger actually costs $30 at a restaurant.

Last week I was at a car dealer and they had a car priced at $24.7k which they insisted they could never sell for less than $28k.

I'll never understand why we can't all agree to just make the price the price.
by DCKing | 2025-05-02 13:54:23+00:00
> under this model, every application is let to defend itself in an ad-hoc and specific manner.

This description of the macOS model doesn't really apply so I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or you're misunderstanding the model.

> Another approach is to police everything behind rules (the way selinux or others do), which is even better in theory. In practice, you waste a ton of time bending those policies to your specific needs. A typical user won't take that.

While SELinux could probably provide this kind of data protection on Linux, the method of technical enforcement is only one part. There's a lot of UI involved to get right, and that will require far more effort.

> Then there is the flatpak+portal isolation model, which is probably the most pragmatic, but not without its own compromises and limitations.

That model doesn't really apply here. Flatpak et al allow applications to self confine in order to protect the other things the user is doing. What I'm talking about is for an app to have some protections of its own data from the other things the user is doing. I'm not talking about sandboxing, this data protection.
by pk97 | 2025-05-02 13:54:27+00:00
I noticed this banner on one of my own apps while installing it for my mom on a new phone. The banner said "This app has fewer users than others...", almost as if they are discouraging users from installing it without even informing me. I looked it up online and it seems like many people have begun seeing this. I am linking a thread. If anyone from Google is reading this, such opaque policies are not appreciated!
by eduction | 2025-05-02 13:54:37+00:00
> but my point is that if i just share everything, as a FOSS enthusiast is wont to do, then i don't need to worry about the details.

That’s only true if you also don’t care what other people are required to do with your code. People who want copyleft enforced for their contributions will care if the license actually enforces it, and how.

> if the license for my software is to complicated for you, tough luck

Sure, fine. My whole point in the last comment is that it’s complicated for the /creator/. Wasn’t talking about the user. A badly written license cuts both ways.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-02 13:54:47+00:00
Even judge Xinis [kilmar garcia] was talking a big game, but then folded after promising 'expedited discovery' and the consideration of contempt. She delays week after week and grants the executive the right to hide under the shadows under seal so the public can't know what's happening, even though prior she bragged about forcing them to file these updates with the public.

The court folds and folds when they realize they can't actually impose what they ordered. I am taking note. The executive definitely is taking note -- Marc Rubio on live TV angrily taunted the judge.
by trgn | 2025-05-02 13:54:49+00:00
> big dogs are quite prolific contributors

ok sure, but there's contributing and contributing.

> a significant number of these companies have bought into the idea that they're a failure ...

ok, fair enough. But in that equilibrium you're painting, _only_ companies like AWS will ever be able to monetize open source, especially since software delivery and SAAS are essentially equivalent in 2025, and SAAS is a margin's play which small fry cannot compete with.

VC-funding is also the lever that allows for open source software to find deep and quick penetration in the industry. it's not aws driving it. So when a practitioner benefits from the mature tooling and such a wide userbase of say Redis or ElasticSearch, it is not only because it was cheap (open source), but also because it was lavishly supported (VC).

> I think most of this aggression towards cloud providers is actually coming from ...

I mean, you're certainly right about that, wouldn't call it aggression necessarily.

The software platform is different now than it was 20 years ago. If we want a thriving open source ecosystem, we will need a answer to the fact that big tech can hover up the spoils before the upstarts - that both spearhead the project _and_ fund its expansion - have a chance.
by hypeatei | 2025-05-02 13:54:51+00:00
> Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this

I think "the guardrails will hold" thinking is flawed when you have someone who is willing to completely side step the system and push the limits.

We're not actually sure what holding someone from this administration in contempt even looks like functionally since U.S. marshals are under the DOJ.
by MaKey | 2025-05-02 13:54:56+00:00
> If everyone's an extremist, that word soon loses its meaning. See: the boy who cried wolf. People are getting tired of this crap and can see trying to outlaw a growing party for "extremism" as a shameless political tactic. Which means actual extremists may go unnoticed.

What makes you think that the AfD isn't a right-wing extremist party?
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-05-02 13:55:06+00:00
> Do you disagree that the LLM provided a correct explanation for the reason it answered as it did?

Yes, I do. An LLM replies with the most likely string of tokens. Which may or may not correspond with the correct or reasonable string of tokens, depending on how stars align. In this case the statistically most likely explanation the LLM replied with just happened to correspond with the correct one.
by givan | 2025-05-02 13:55:26+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

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by christophilus | 2025-05-02 13:55:46+00:00
For me, it wasn’t the learning curve that was the problem with Rust. It’s the compilation time. It’s just so slow. I’m used to OCaml, Go, and Typescript (via Bun or esbuild) with iteration times in the tens-to-low-hundreds of milliseconds. Zig still feels a wee bit slow, but it’s acceptable. Rust? It makes me want to toss my laptop into the fire.

To be honest, I haven’t touched Rust in years, so it may have improved.
by arcbyte | 2025-05-02 13:55:51+00:00
I say this as a firm conservative. The courts have so far been outstanding, despite all the inappropriate pressure. I have no doubt they will continue to be. I'm also quite impressed with conservative voters who are speaking out to their conservative representatives.

Ultimately though, despite many many calls not to do so, Congress has goven the executive branch unheard of powers. Executive power needs to be reigned in tightly and then Congressional power needs to reigned in as well. We need to push for Federalism.
by matsemann | 2025-05-02 13:56:15+00:00
What's sad is that something that can take decades to build, can take a single term to destroy. Some things are not easily reverted when power changes. Sometimes it reminds me of a ratchet tool. One side can turn it and make changes, but the other side can only maintain status quo, and then the other side gains power again and turns it further.

I'm at the other side of the world, but one example from my local area is the municipality selling off and privatizing lots of stuff. When the worm is out of the can, you can't get it back in.
by givan | 2025-05-02 13:56:19+00:00
Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-02 13:56:22+00:00
It is not true.

It’s unfortunate that so many podcasters have leaned into the myths about being able to manipulate dopamine as some global up/down thing you can adjust by following certain protocols.

Andrew Huberman is among the worst at this because he has enough education that he should know better. I think he’s too enamored with the traffic and clicks he gets when he talks about dopamine, so he’s willing to stretch the truth or even break it completely if it will make for engaging podcast content.

Some of the studies he cites over and over again about dopamine don’t even say what he claims. Huberman is a joke among people who actually know the science, but he became a hero to people who thought he was just a nice guy sharing free knowledge with them.
by mmastrac | 2025-05-02 13:56:26+00:00
I've been using Git since the early 2010s and this feature was released in Aug 2019 (https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-23...).

You don't think I looked for it for the first 7-8 years of using Git at least a few times and came up empty? Seems a little uncharitable. Hacker News is a place to learn about stuff, not be chided for missing a point note in a release.

Come on man, you've been using HN for almost as long as I have. Be curious, treat people's comments with charity, continue the life-long learning tradition.

Obligatory XKCD lucky 10,000 link: https://xkcd.com/1053/