MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 13:30:24+00:00
"The most shocking thing to me about that isn't the malicious compliance, but that even after a court injunction, and fully knowing that there could be subsequent discovery, they have people putting something like that in writing."

Keep in mind that once you lose, the process is no longer adversarial. In ~all cases you will be required to provide evidence and status updates and such on implementation of an injunction, among other things.

So you do practically have to keep records of what you are doing to comply. These are the kinds of records you would normally see as a result. The only shocking thing is that they didn't lie :)

They often do try to hide bad stuff through privilege anyway - I believe they tried here and lost but i will go back and look - but that doesn't often work.
by jihadjihad | 2025-05-01 13:30:37+00:00
> We switched from a front loading washer back to a top-loading one hoping we'd get results similar to the top-loading washers from our youth. But nope.

As sibling comment says, get yourself a Speed Queen, made with commercial parts and still washes the good old fashioned way [0].

0: https://speedqueen.com/speed-queen-difference/#classic-clean
by teeray | 2025-05-01 13:30:43+00:00
> is the one where people are willingly entering agreements

“Willingly” makes it sound like there’s a lot more choice in the process than there is. Many municipalities want a free lunch when it comes to approving new developments—they want all the tax revenue without any of the pesky costs of road maintenance, trash removal, drainage maintenance, etc. The solution? Approve the development with an HOA—now that’s the neighborhood’s problem (tax bills are still due in full though!). They apply this playbook over and over until the large majority of houses coming on the market are in HOAs. Buyers in these markets severely limit their choices (in an already limited market) if they eliminate HOAs from their search.
by ffsm8 | 2025-05-01 13:30:49+00:00
As far as I can see, nobody said anything that could conceivably be interpreted to imply otherwise, so sure?

I am really unsure what your argument even is, gymbeaux - and how it relates to verisimi's previous point. You're not trying to argue that it was Google's masterplan all along to get the anti-trust ruling, right?
by glenstein | 2025-05-01 13:30:52+00:00
Exactly. It's like the arguments that are sometimes made to that credit Genghis Kahn with creating an integration of the Eurasian landmass and rolling out administrative reforms. It doesn't tell us what the world could have been like if it wasn't steered towards consolidation, and it doesn't even pretend to morally justify the domination. It's an inevitable consequence of domination that no one but you has the power to roll out reforms or advancements of any type. Organic progression that might have happened anyway becomes something that only could have ever happened through you.
by ahofmann | 2025-05-01 13:30:56+00:00
This is so important to look at, when we talk about this topic. I was there, 3000 years ago, when browser where kind of simple software. We could go back to that state and would loose almost nothing. All the complexity that is now in browsers was in the operating systems at that time. The millions of fronted-devs of today would just be "normal" devs three decades ago. I know, that that will not happen. But it helps looking through all the bullshit that Google has created, where they've build and control the platform (the web with chromium), that Microsoft and Apple used to control (their oses).
by hundredwatt | 2025-05-01 13:31:07+00:00
The recently released sqlite_rsync utility uses a version of the rsync algorithm optimized to work on the internal structure of a SQLite database. It compares the internal data pages efficiently, then only syncs changed or missing pages.

Nice tricks in the article, but you can more easily use the builtin utility now :)

I blogged about how it works in detail here: https://nochlin.com/blog/how-the-new-sqlite3_rsync-utility-w...
by tomhow | 2025-05-01 13:31:12+00:00
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by levihanlen | 2025-05-01 13:31:27+00:00
I agree with your thoughts on Crown of Ash and Honor. That was made with v0.7.25, so some of the algorithms weren't as good. For example, new "plot promises" are made every 4 scenes. In the old version, the AI would gradually get more and more fantastical with these (hence why the story seemed to change genres so much). I've made it so this happens less, but it still happens a bit.

And that book was mostly me letting the AI do what it wanted with minimal guidance from me. So, I didn't edit many of the plot promises.

I'll definitely switch the sample book to "Under Fallen Banners", though. As I believe it's a bit better.

And thanks for telling me about the bug with the ToC. I'll fix that ASAP!
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-01 13:31:56+00:00
Yes, Putin is dictator he has delusions of grandeur.

(this is not sarcasm, im just taking your nearsighted worldview as a joke.)

If you think im exaggerating than educate yourself on matter more then 2 minutes of googling.

Situation is simple. Question: does russian establishemnt attacks European and USA infrastructure?

Answer: Yes.

If you genuinely asking about delusions of grandeur then your answer to that question is no. So who does have delusions? Pure logic.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-05-01 13:31:59+00:00
While trade barriers might improve working conditions, as you hint, it's going to come at a cost of disposable income.

Those barriers work by raising the minimum price of a product, making it profitable to produce it in a more expensive labor market. When you make products more expensive though, it comes out the other side as people have to pay more to get the things they want, and you get inflation.

If that is what people want, OK, fine. I don't think it's what has been sold to most Americans though - not only is the narrative that inflation going to be avoided, but income tax is going to be scrapped too. It's hard to find credible economists from any part of the political spectrum who agree.

I hope it does work, because if it doesn't, what will follow will be horrible to watch from afar, even if as a result we end up with prices for most things coming down (if Chinese companies can't sell to the US, they'll just dump to the rest of the World).
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 13:31:59+00:00
Would this still be clear bad faith had these chat logs not been created?

In other words, could Apple have done these exact same actions and successfully argued that the language ("external website") was in fact neutral, if not for the direct written record that established their intent to do otherwise?

Everything you just said makes sense, but the details of how the courts manage to enforce orders like this are interesting, and it seems like enforcing notions of good faith must be extremely difficult.

Thanks for writing this though, this is a window into a space I have never played in. The legal system is very mysterious to me.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-01 13:32:06+00:00
No real offense intended, because I understand the feeling here, but this...

> I’ve realized this at some point, but video games are ephemeral and should really be enjoyed in the now. Even if you can perfectly preserve a game, and the means to play it, tastes change so quickly in gaming that a game that’s fun today might not be enjoyable even a year later.

This is horseshit.

It's a defeatist attitude, and it's not reflective of reality. Yes - some things go out of fashion for a while, but trends almost always cycle back. You might think something is out of style right now, (and that's fine) but to be facetious: One man's trash is another man's treasure.
by pc86 | 2025-05-01 13:32:32+00:00
Who are you referring to with "the original poster?" I follow from this comment the whole way up to the root of the thread and not a single comment even begins to suggest someone "knows what the world looks like if every marriage that ends in divorce just never happened."

It's pretty easy to create strawmen arguments and argue against those instead of what people actually say, but it makes for at best boring and at worst confusing reading.
by fifteen1506 | 2025-05-01 13:32:54+00:00
Ok I could have been less snarky.

What I meant is, I have ideas I like to explore but a two-liner blog post won't entice anyone.

For example on https://user934.com/2025/04/22/securing-home-and-smb-network... I mix several ideas together and define the test plan (chapter 5), and let LLM fill in the blanks. Plus I clearly identify it as mostly written by LLM, which is better than most SEO garbage spam. So I think I've achieved a good compromise.
by jpgvm | 2025-05-01 13:33:04+00:00
The TTP was structured as the economic equivalent of the Island Chain containment. It's conception lead to Made in China 2025 which wasn't rolled back just because USA withdrew from TPP.

Obama had the right idea, Trump if he understood it (lol) would have used it to screw China instead of giving China a free pass by withdrawing from it.

Note that China <-> US relations soured under Obama, well before Trump came into the picture and most of it was a direct result of TPP and policies like it designed to contain China economically.
by yladiz | 2025-05-01 13:33:06+00:00
This is kind of the reality of ratings online: you have to accept that someone could leave a bad review about something that you’ve fixed, or even arbitrary. In general if you’re doing a good job the positive reviews will eventually counter the bad ones. It’s arguably not fair but 1. in this case maybe they should have put more care into the initial release, and 2. I, not the company, would rather be the one to judge the review and the response because I don’t have an incentive to hide negative things about the product.
by venusenvy47 | 2025-05-01 13:33:16+00:00
Do I need to be on a paid version or Pro? I don't see Customize in Audio Overview in the notebook that I just tested.

Edit: I actually see Customize on a notebook where I hadn't already created a podcast. But on a notebook where I had already created one, I can't find a way to Customize. I guess I just need to create a new notebook with the same source material.
by pollan9977 | 2025-05-01 13:33:20+00:00
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Show HN: Active adaptive immersion reading for language learners
by dothereading | 2025-05-01 13:33:25+00:00
Simplify native-level content—news articles, blogs, documentation—to match your current proficiency. The idea was inspired by Stephen Krashen's i+1 hypothesis and Andy Mutuschak's post on Why books don't work (https://andymatuschak.org/books/).

A typical problem with language learning is that all of the stuff you want to read is too hard, and textbooks/graded readers are too boring. This tool solves that: native-level content can be simplified to your level, making the process of language learning more interesting, and helping you work up to eventually reading content at the native-level.
by tomhow | 2025-05-01 13:33:29+00:00
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by happyhardcore | 2025-05-01 13:33:37+00:00
You can generate the keys on-device during the initial provisioning and have it encrypt the flash with that key, so every device generates its own unique key and there isn't any practical way to extract it; even the developer can't flash it directly, and OTAs are required to update the firmware. This effectively means nobody can flash the chip anyway since you can't know the keys. Is there some sort of attack vector here I'm missing that gets mitigated by preventing flashing entirely?
by ebiester | 2025-05-01 13:33:52+00:00
The founding fathers would have been called terrorists today by the British. Past the Boston Tea Party, the Green Mountain Boys is a pretty good example. "The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods." - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Mountain-Boys
by gymbeaux | 2025-05-01 13:33:54+00:00
In my experience everyone thinks “we’ve got a good thing here, let’s not ruin it.”

Indeed the bar is so low that even with all the bullshit in the tech industry, we seem to have it better than most- on salary alone. Throw in “full remote” (although that’s disappearing) and it really can’t be beat, even when your boss yells obscenities at you every day.
by kouteiheika | 2025-05-01 13:34:02+00:00
With pirated games, you can play them forever.

There already exist games which you can (illegally) play today only because they were archived by pirates. However with the consoles' security getting better, piracy not being as widespread as back in the day and the industry not being interested in game preservation it's also a matter of time before we start permanently losing games again.
by martinald | 2025-05-01 13:34:19+00:00
No this is seemingly what happened, and yes I agree (I'm in the UK). The UK national grid has 2.5-3GW of CCGT gas always running for this reason. Spain had less than 1GW before the outage, I suspect it was lower but the snapshot data wasn't granular enough.

Spain was saying they were running on 100% renewables just a few days ago, which means zero CCGT if you take that at face value.

Furthermore I read they had 60% of their large hydro plants offline for maintenance at the time of the outage, further reducing inertia.

I was also absolutely shocked when I saw the grid dashboard and saw it was ~500MW of CCGT against 15GW+ of Solar PV.

In "fairness" this is possible though still. I suspect that there was a sub 5/15 min drop in solar output because of cloud coverage, which arguably isn't taken account in forecasting.
by tacker2000 | 2025-05-01 13:34:29+00:00
I got into Vim (NeoVim) recently, after coding in a multitude of IDEs for the last 15yrs.

I spent about a month getting to grips with it, and now i feel more productive than ever, and I regret not doing it sooner!

Also I can rest assured that it will be forever free, no more annoying licenses to deal with.
by naming_the_user | 2025-05-01 13:35:36+00:00
From a personal perspective -

I don't care that much about "labour issues" because it seems like a logically flawed avenue to explore to begin with.

To be financially successful under any market system I can think of requires you, in a mathematical sense, to be close enough to the top within a company that you get a greater proportion of the profit than simply 1/employees.

In simple terms - I can't employ a maid unless I earn more than a maid, a maid can never be paid enough that I would want to be a maid (being the maid's employer, or at least having that optionality, is strictly superior).

Some jobs have comparative advantage, e.g. I might enjoy working on my car but know that a mechanic can do the same job in 1/10th the time. But a lot of stuff is just straight - I earn more than you, you do it for me, so I can get more things done.
by matkoniecz | 2025-05-01 13:35:47+00:00
The unions I have heard about or seen in action (in Poland or from news) either

(1) demanded flat payment increases for all workers based on seniority etc. Which may make sense for factory workers but I am not enthusiastic about flat rates for programmers not taking into account actual experience/availability/output etc.

Factory workers in many cases do job that can be easily rated and measured and do some specific amount of it.

While measuring output of programmers is notoriously hard.

I expect that union agreement of this kind would in fact benefit only lazy freeloaders not doing any work but having seniority.

(2) are guilds that existed to keep jobs for members and to outlaw or ban hiring outsiders.

I strictly prefer for exclusionary guilds to not exist and one of my big worries is that one would be setup, in area affecting me. One way or another, not necessarily an obvious self-naming itself as a guild.

(3) are gangs existing to steal public money - for example, see coal miners in Poland. Main union achievements was to steal billions of public money to help lazy freeloaders doing work that was not worth doing or outright harmful.

I do not support theft, also in terms of parasiting on public resources. Even if I would get some of proceeds of theft.

(4) intended to achieve more free days, flexibility etc. On my freelancing agreements I sacrificed large part of earning to get about 100+ free days a year, very significant flexibility where and how and on what I work. So this part is achieved for me - and I am not sure how many other tech workers would actually prefer more free time over being paid more.

I am not automatically against unions for tech workers but my first reaction and assumption is not that it will be positive or useful for me.
by ericmay | 2025-05-01 13:35:49+00:00
All great points and great questions - today however they're not really available for consideration because those jobs remain in China.

I mentioned in another post, but I think having a 4.2% unemployment rate and putting even more pressure on that rate is a good thing, particularly for workers who will see wages rise, and technology as new automation techniques will be created to also alleviate that same pressure.

The status quo today is, well, we have none of that and those factories sit in China and we continue to buy things and ship them over - not really great for the environment either.

> And if it does happen, we all suffer from several years of being poorer in the mean time.

Yes, that's kind of how America operates - quarter by quarter. We focus on the short-term and worry about Temu products* doubling in price, but fail to see the long-term implications - economic outflows, loss of manufacturing capacity and know-how, etc.

* Yes, I know China manufactures more than these specific products and "we can't", which is all the more reason we need to figure out how to do it, even if it costs more money to do so. Absolute efficiency and the cheapest possible price for a good/product are not ends in themselves, but outcomes to economic policy decisions we make.
by Y_Y | 2025-05-01 13:36:28+00:00
Wouldn't it be nice if the Library of Congress or the Bodleian or some other prestigous clouty institution could demand that these published artworks be given to them as an unencumbered copy? I know that such a thing might have to include server code and some agreements on runtime environment, but I don't see that as insuperable.

This is culture and it's part of our patrimony. The privilege of getting to publish thinga and having copyright protection ought to include responsibilities to the society too.
by glenstein | 2025-05-01 13:36:48+00:00
>Perhaps with 80% of their funding gone, Firefox will be forced to stop wasting money on all those harebrained non browser initiatives and concentrate on ... the Firefox browser.

Again, the whack-a-mole myth that simply won't die. I have asked people about this over and over and over again over I'm gonna say like the past year and a half and at this point I feel pretty confident that this was kind of a mass-hallucinated myth. If you try to be objective and actually look at the numbers and you look at the time period over which Firefox lost browser share and you look at their budgets in the time period over which they engaged in side bets, the math just doesn't add up. None of the side bets ever occurred at prohibitive development costs, and they did not occur over a time period over which Firefox's browser share crashed. There's no such thing as a missing browser feature which Firefox was unable to implement because they didn't have access to resources due to those resources being siphoned away by sidebeds. And people seem to have forgotten they're supposed to actually like make a real argument about these things before simply claiming it.

There is a kinda-sorta real version of the argument, which is that around 2016 or so, before Firefox released quantum, the quality of the browser was lagging behind alternatives, and they were investing significant resources in Firefox OS. That's the closest to a real thing that this argument can attach to. But no one making this claim even knows that no one making this claim has looked at their budget, how much it costs to run a VPN, or made any cause and effect connection between that and other things. This is a myth that kind of got hallucinated into existence by hn comment sections.

I do think the critique of straying from a commitment to privacy is a real thing, but the narrative that they wasted time and resources on side features while the core browser experience deteriorated, attempts to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between that and market share is not backed up by any facts. And if you look at my comment history, it's practically a year of pleading with people to cite any example whatsoever that would substantiate this argument.
by badestrand | 2025-05-01 13:36:55+00:00
Yes, true of course.

But I meant that if you take an example of tshirt production that gets sold in the US, with fabric that comes from Bangladesh, one producer in Vietnam, one in the US. The final price consists of materials, labor, shipping. Both effectively have materials and shipping tariffed and for the Vietnam company additionally the labor is tariffed.

So the only difference is the application of the tariff on the labor for the Vietnam company.