MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johngai | 2025-05-02 09:20:29+00:00
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by seabass | 2025-05-02 09:21:18+00:00
The news did not affect the price in the way you are describing. The AH drop you are noticing was well after markets had time during the trading day to react. The timeline is important: the earliest archive link of the news I can find is from 11:55pm UTC April 30th. This leaves the entire trading day May 1st for the market to react. Apple’s earnings call was also May 1 after hours and it was their quarterly financials that led to the drop you described. In addition, pre- and post-market trading tends to have higher volatility due to the lower volume. In other words, markets are not pricing in a significant hit to Apple’s bottom line as a result of this ruling right now.
by pjerem | 2025-05-02 09:21:22+00:00
> And the author is breaking a social contract of not shoving stuff I don't want to see in an excessive amount.

Except the author is not shoving any stuff at you. Author doesn't owe anything to you and can do whatever they want and you doesn't owe the author the obligation to use their software.

It's not business, it's a person giving something free to the world and asking people who uses it to play the game. You can chose to not play the game or to not use it, but you can't act like your issue with an anime character is the author's fault. Just don't install it on your server and go ahead.
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by weatherlite | 2025-05-02 09:22:44+00:00
> I see a future where someone who has the skill and talent to be a surgeon earning millions of dollars is now living in a basic pod, eating rations of slop, exactly the same as everyone else, with no meaningful role or contribution to society.

And at the same time other people (way more numerous than your surgeon example) will get amazing healthcare, better shelter and be able to choose how to spend their time instead of hopping between soul crushing low pay jobs.
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AI (Ethically) Hacks Computers?
by Adeeb0123 | 2025-05-02 09:24:22+00:00
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by pveierland | 2025-05-02 09:25:27+00:00
Anecdotally, Gemini 2.5 Pro has been yielding good results lately for Rust. It's been able to one-shot pretty intricate proc macros that required multiple supporting functions (~200 LoC).

Strong typing is super helpful when using AI, since if you're properly grounded and understand the interface well, and you are specifying against that interface, then the mental burden of understanding the output and integrating with the rest of the system is much lower compared to when large amounts of new structure is created without well defined and understood bounds.
by cess11 | 2025-05-02 09:25:37+00:00
That's too vague. Free software is software you can't take and then modify and keep your modifications hidden or proprietary, thus depriving your users and the community of access to these changes.

MIT license allows this, hence it's not a free software license. Because very large corporations don't like freedom they've poisoned the discourse around software freedom and launched PR campaigns trying to substitute talk about freedom with talk about openness or open source. To some extent they've succeeded, as evidenced by the chatter about it in this thread.
by simianwords | 2025-05-02 09:26:21+00:00
Not totally related but I have wondered how someone who thinks they are an expert in a field may deal with contradictions presented by GPT.

For example, you may consider yourself an expert on some niche philosophy like say Orientalism. A student can now contradict any theories you can come up with using GPT and the scary thing is that they will be sensible contradictions.

I feel like the bar to consider yourself an expert is much higher - you not only have to beat your students but also know enough to beat GPT.
by mort96 | 2025-05-02 09:27:11+00:00
I don't want companies to see, "re-licensing to janky licenses is risk-free, because we can always go back to the old license if people react too negatively". I would like them to see, "re-licensing to janky licenses is a death sentence which immediately makes your product almost completely irrelevant and causes the community to switch to a fork and never switch back".
by Ukv | 2025-05-02 09:27:20+00:00
> i am suspicious of all the anti-human-driver comments [...] I am not convinced that public testing of such services is safe

There are currently over a million fatalities from road traffic crashes every year, being the leading cause of death for the 5-29 year age group[0].

I'd claim that inaction is unacceptably dangerous/deadly here and that, to minimize deaths, we need to be aggressive in trying out and pushing forward potential solutions.

> One cannot punish a self driving vehicle in any meaningful sense.

The goal of punishment for driving offenses is, in my eyes, largely about reducing unsafe behavior - not just to make someone suffer. Fines/incentives for manufacturers and fine-tuning of models based on incident data should fulfill this purpose.

[0]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...
by flohofwoe | 2025-05-02 09:28:15+00:00
Tbf, C and C++ did constant folding for function calls since forever too (as well as pretty much any compiled language AFAIK), just not as a language feature, but as an optimizer feature:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Kja5jrWo5

>I don't understand why it is so complex in C++

Because C++ is a completely overengineered boondoggle of a language where every little change destabilizes the Jenga tower that C++ had built on top of C even more ;)
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by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-05-02 09:29:31+00:00
Yes, my comment focused on NLP research but the importance of university teaching has also taken a hit - not that I fear bullying, but now students can have a dedicated custom teacher with infinite time and patience and that can answer questions at 3 AM, and obviously that reduces the relevance of the professor. While the human interaction in in-person teaching still provides some exclusive value, demand logically should go down. Although don't underestimate the power of inertia - one could also think that small noname universities would go out of business when the likes of MIT began offering their courses to everyone online, and it didn't happen. I do think LLMs bring higher risk than that, and a shrinking will indeed happen, but maybe not so dramatic. Let's see.

Regarding science, if we leave it exclusively to corporations we won't get very far, because most corporations aren't willing to do the basic/foundational science work. The Transformers and most of the relevant followup work that led to LLMs were developed in industry, but they wouldn't have been possible without the academics that kept working on neural networks while that field was actively scorned during the 90s-2000s AI winter. So I think research universities still should have a role to play. Of course, convincing the funders that this is indeed the case might be a different story.
by joegibbs | 2025-05-02 09:29:31+00:00
I was recently setting up some ads and I was surprised that something like this wasn’t already possible. Are there any platforms where it is?

Apart from that I it wouldn’t really work until a couple of years from now when image generators get a bit better than gpt-image and it’s really impossible to tell what’s AI and what’s real. Even now it’s very obvious when something is created using gpt-image.

But after that think that when the vast majority of ads are AI they will start to look cheap to people. The ad for a $200 million movie will look the same quality as for a student film, an ad for a bedroom-run dropshipping shirt brand (if these exist in two years) will be like an ad for Nike. At the moment an expensive ad is kind of like proof that a business has a lot of money to pay for it, so businesses will need some other kind of method to imply their legitimacy and success.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-02 09:29:46+00:00
> After compiling the game with the flag -Dcpu=baseline, the binary contained only x86-64-v1 instructions, allowing my friend to play the game.

Feels like the startup code should actually verify that it's running on a suitable CPU rather than just crashing.

I don't think C/C++ or Rust do this either but they should!
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by bravetraveler | 2025-05-02 09:30:11+00:00
Sorry, you're right. ICs, CTOs, and CEOs. Oh my. Pardon me for not subscribing to another accountability shell game. I again call Mullenweg.

/s in case I haven't piled it on thick enough to make an impact.

Read the last link of TFA [0], the last time this came up [1] (noting the timespan), and extrapolate as necessary.

0: https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ (CEO)

1: https://redis.io/blog/redis-license-bsd-will-remain-bsd/ (CTO)

Or don't, I don't care. Point/fix has been made.
by deaddodo | 2025-05-02 09:30:33+00:00
ARM isn't CISC and has, by sheer numbers, completely dominated x86 for decades now; not counting the massive number of MIPS, AVR, etc embedded chips.

Additionally, if you want to get super technical (as if there were ever a real delineation between RISC/CISC), both AMD and Intel decode x86 into internal micro-ops which are essentially RISC.

So, for all intents and purposes, CISC is dead and buried.
by VMG | 2025-05-02 09:30:50+00:00
> Every team I've been on has had a mix of developers, some of whom are responsive to doing code reviews and will pick them up and process them quickly.

Rubber-stamping is not really "reviewing" though.

And leaving a comment "I don't have enough info to review this properly" is a valid review as well. It signals that somebody else needs to pick it up.

> I fear that compounding that by layering on another obligation to the star team members would further push them out.

I get it, but I don't see an alternative.

1. the company culture must value reviews as work, probably even more important than coding

2. the reviewers must be allowed to respond with "I don't feel comfortable reviewing this because I don't have enough context"
by jajko | 2025-05-02 09:31:10+00:00
You do you, but lets say I don't agree with what you say at all. Quality of life and all. Since I do both sides its easy to compare short and long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness, plus its trivial to look around and see exactly same stuff repeating all over with literally everybody.

Suffice to say parent is correct, and you are not.
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by tabtix | 2025-05-02 09:31:18+00:00
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by tasuki | 2025-05-02 09:31:19+00:00
> if this person is actually good at their job and takes it seriously, it's certain: he or she is not going to leak a secret again

If they were good at their job, they wouldn't have leaked the secret in the first place. The correct workflow is to:

1. Create commits that only change do one thing. Not possible to "forget" there were secrets added alongside another feature.

2. When adding secrets, make sure they're encrypted or added to the project's `.gitignore` equivalent.

I'm so sorry for a first-world engineer incompetent enough to commit a secret in a GitHub repository. They'll probably have to downsize from their mansion to a regular house. Meanwhile in the third world, many more competent people are starving or working some terrible menial job because they didn't have the right opportunities in life...
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-02 09:32:13+00:00
Another thing that came out from the transcript (and this was called out by Ben Thompson of Stratechery) that Phil Schiller who is head of the App Store actually read the entire ruling and spoke up and wanted Apple to follow the spirit of it.

He was actually complimented by the judge. Schiller was overrruled by the CFO.
by patrakov | 2025-05-02 09:32:31+00:00
Important: this is about the prosecution of Christopher Krebs, the former cybersecurity chief.

Christopher Krebs is not to be confused with Brian Krebs, a reporter also active in the cybersecurity area and known via his blog: https://krebsonsecurity.com/

As far as I know, Brian Krebs is safe. His own report on the situation is here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/trump-revenge-tour-targe..., specifically mentioning "(no relation)".
by CopyOnWrite | 2025-05-02 09:33:57+00:00
IMHO it is one of the big tragedies of modern IT history, that JavaScript and Python 'own' the market for scripting languages in the mainstream.

From a pure technical perspective, I would guess JRuby or one of the JavaScript implementations would have been a better choice for scripting, especially given the poor state of Jython.

From a pragmatic perspective and what your users are mostly able to figure out, Python might have been the best choice. I even saw software developers with years of experience in imperative languages struggling to understand Rubys blocks...

Out of pure interest: What was the purpose of the Java application and which aspects did you allow the users of the application to script with Jython?
by bobdvb | 2025-05-02 09:34:41+00:00
As someone in tech over 40, and who previously worked in embedded systems, it amazes me how little attention we pay to efficiency today.

I now work with teams who will think nothing of spinning up 1000 containers with 2000 vCPUs to run a microservice.

I've previously been told developer availability and developer convenience are higher priority than performance. But frankly, when you're spending millions on compute, perhaps reducing the cost of compute might be more important than finding devs?
by sneak | 2025-05-02 09:35:03+00:00
You are not allowed to modify an AGPL program without adding a mandatory feature to provide the currently-running source code to a remote network user of the software. You are also not allowed to remove that functionality. It's a clear violation of freedom 0.

I suggest that you read the actual text of the AGPL. It's madness. They wanted a EULA so badly.
by vram22 | 2025-05-02 09:35:33+00:00
He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and worked for Qualcomm as a wireless engineer.

Then he started a company called AdventNet which created network management software. They had a product called ManageEngine, before starting Zoho.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhar_Vembu

>In 1996, Vembu, along with two of his brothers, founded a software development house for network equipment providers called AdventNet.[7][9]

So there is some connection to chips, at least, plus his educational background could incline him to be interested in this area.
by j1elo | 2025-05-02 09:36:00+00:00
Most problems caused by the introduction of new(ish) and modern protections (like 2FA in services, encryption for the layperson's computer, etc) is a matter of BAD UI and badly thought out processes.

"You have the choice of making a backup when the system is set up" is NOT a solution. Do you know how many steps, things to care about, and dialogs are there to click through, when one is setting up a system? yes, we all do know. Crucial stuff is mixed with irrelevant cruft and the whole experience naturally drives the person to activate a mindless clicking mode.

All these security things should be accompanies with proper UX. See WhatsApp as an example: you set an account unlocking code? Ok you'll have to re-enter it every other month, to ensure you still have access to it.

In case of Windows, I wouldn't require entering a recovery key. But I would think a nagging screen every few months would be a good choice unless either a OneDrive backup can be verified to exist, or the user goes out of their way to enter some kind of Advanced Settings to disabe the nagging.
by codingdave | 2025-05-02 09:37:11+00:00
This is definitely a question for the lawyers. But to my eyes, that email is highly defensive. My guess is they are trying to talk people out of making a stink about this.

IANAL, so my take on this is amateurish at best, but when you buy a company you take over all their contracts, not just the ones you like. Whenever these lifetime accounts signed up, whatever terms of the account existed at the time still are valid.

So Id ask OP - do you have any of the original info from when you signed up? Any terms/conditions about the account? If you do, that would help clarify the situation.
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