MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foxyv | 2025-05-01 17:29:41+00:00
Steam contributes a great deal to the games under their platform. They include all sorts of cool features like achievements, reviews, downloads, DLC distribution, Steam Workshop, user statistics, and other cool features on top of excellent marketing. In addition, Steam does not lock it's users into using just their platform. You can add non-steam games to your library and use other stores on your Steam devices.

In addition, Steam happily allows publishers to sell their games on other platforms and does not create 3rd party exclusivity agreements.

Personally I would consider Steam to be absurdly democratic in their distribution model.
by aireo | 2025-05-01 17:29:59+00:00
Frankly, I'm humbled that you created an account to reply to my post. Thank you for taking the time to do so.

> You'll be alright and at the very least, I hope you take away that you're always more than the sum of your parts.

> You have no control over those variables and you're better than that.

These are life-long lessons that I continuously learn and re-learn and, imo, can never be overstated. Thank you.

> ... you may want to try and leverage your non-profit creds and see what NP consortiums are out there.

This is excellent advice, and something I will start doing.

Thank you again for the advice and kindness. It means a lot.
by georgeecollins | 2025-05-01 17:30:15+00:00
I think you are making the argument-- poorly formed, frankly-- that if indexed investments become a big enough share of stock investing it will drive up the price beyond the fundamental value of equities more so than just investing individual equities.

The stock market response to "liberation day" implies that stocks don't all move together as you would expect if indexing was driving everything. Certain FANG stocks did very poorly, some mid cap or European stocks did great. The market is still trying to respond to the perceived actual value of companies, not just the expectation that more indexes will pile in and buy.

If people over invest in anything, including equities, the return on those investments will decline and bubbles will form. That can happen with the purchase of selective equities or with indexes. What Vanguard has done has probably not changed the market as much as lowering the cost to participate in it.
by sp1nningaway | 2025-05-01 17:30:25+00:00
For me as a lay-person, the article is disjointed and kinda hard to follow. It's fascinating that all the quotes are emotional responses or about academic politics. Even now, they are suspicious of transformers and are bitter that they were wrong. No one seems happy that their field of research has been on an astonishing rocketship of progress in the last decade.
Repo with backdated junk, filled with my system, right after I filed patent
by rgunther | 2025-05-01 17:30:55+00:00
I've been privately developing a recursive system for several years, modular, identity aware, designed around cognitive tone, structural reflection, alignment and orchestration.

I never published it. I only worked on it through GPTPro sessions, always with sharing and training disabled.

Shortly after I filed a provisional patent for the system (which GPTPro saw), I found a GitHub repo.

The early commits are random junk-backdated filler. But same repo has filled with a structure similar to mine: framing, terminology, symbolic patterns and math, all reworded, AI-processed, but clearly derivative.

The repo is attached to what looks like a synthetic research profile with AI generated voice notes, fake University history.

There are also a multiple AI-generated eBooks (containing the reworded system) also with backdated AI Junk books on Amazon.

I don't know how this happened, staying measured. Not making accusations… Trying to understand what kind of mechanism could cause something like this.

At this point, I can only imagine the source was either OpenAI or the patent office.

If something similar has happened to you would love it hear it.

Also looking for perspective and to get in touch with researchers, legal thinkers, mentors.

mail.rgunther@proton.me
by user32489318 | 2025-05-01 17:31:02+00:00
Quite a bit in IoT market, especially in the low-mid tier and Chinese imports. There’s an entire ecosystem of custom OS’s for home automation that runs on these ESPs, ESPHome for example. I have flashed quite a few smart sockets to run Matt/kafka messaging client rather than unknown vendors software that has an open socket to offshore ips.
by lsy | 2025-05-01 17:31:22+00:00
What's astonishing to me is the number of companies that will supposedly hire someone and give them credentials without even seeing them on camera. The proliferation of this narrative seems somewhat real and somewhat calculated to further undermine the legitimacy of remote work. But you would think something like "in-person orientation" and requiring that people use their cameras in meetings would solve a lot of the issues here.
by dekhn | 2025-05-01 17:32:32+00:00
This is why I want the field to go straight to building indistinguishable agents- specifically, you should be able to video chat with an avatar that is impossible to tell from a human.

Then we can ask "if this is indistinguishable from a human, how can you be sure that anybody is intelligent?"

Personally I suspect we can make zombies that appear indistinguishable from humans (limited to video chat; making a robot that appears human to a doctor would be hard) but that don't have self-consciousness or any subjective experience.
by samingrassia | 2025-05-01 17:32:35+00:00
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by dang | 2025-05-01 17:32:53+00:00
It's not ok to post political or ideological flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

Both of your posts to this thread (this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857366) have broken the site guidelines.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by liamdgray | 2025-05-01 17:33:02+00:00
Abstract:

We firstly simulated disease dynamics by KAN (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks) nearly 4 years ago, but the kernel functions in the edge include the exponential number of infected and discharged people and is also in line with the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, and the shared weights in the edge are the infection rate and cure rate, and used activation function by tanh at the node of edge. And this Arxiv preprint version 1 of March 2022 is an upgraded version of KAN, considering the invariant coarse-grained which calculated by residual or gradient of MSE loss. The improved KAN is PNN (Plasticity Neural Networks) or ELKAN (Edge Learning KNN), in addition to edge learning, it also considered the trimming of the edge. We not inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem but inspired by the brain science. The ELKAN to explain brain, the variables correspond to different types of neurons, the learning edge can be explained by rebalance of synaptic strength and glial cells phagocytose synapses, and the kernel function means the discharge of neurons and synapses, different neurons and edges mean brain regions. Through testing by cosine, the ELKAN or ORPNN (Optimized Range PNN) is better than the KAN or CRPNN (Constant Range PNN).The ELKAN is more general to explore brain, such as mechanism of consciousness, interactions of natural frequencies in brain regions, synaptic and neuronal discharge frequencies, and data signal frequencies; mechanism of Alzheimer's disease, the Alzheimer's patients has more high frequencies in the upstream brain regions; long short-term relatively good and inferior memory which means gradient of architecture and architecture; turbulent energy flow in different brain regions, turbulence critical conditions need to be met; heart-brain of the quantum entanglement may occur between the emotions of heartbeat and the synaptic strength of brain potentials.
by ameliaquining | 2025-05-01 17:33:05+00:00
By that definition, everything is gambling, because all activities involve risk. Even keeping your money in an FDIC-insured bank account doesn't protect against inflation risk, or against the risk of the U.S. government or financial system collapsing. So this definition of "gambling" is useless for practical purposes and we should pick a better one (or just stop using the word in this kind of discourse, since it tends to confuse people and provoke semantic disputes).
by wowohwow | 2025-05-01 17:33:18+00:00
In the age of floppy disk and CD distribution of software, what was a retailers markup/cut? I imagine, Staples, Best Buy, CompUSA, Office Depot, etc were taking 30%+.

Shelf space, physical distribution, and store operations, etc costs money -- but so does bandwidth, security, tech ops, etc of all of these platforms.

Why isn't it ok for a digital store to require a markup to sell?
by _msw_ | 2025-05-01 17:33:22+00:00
This exchange makes me sad. I know we can do better.

I don't understand why so many people think that it's impossible to have open source in your heart while working for a big company in your day job. I don't understand why people who have dedicated a lot of their time and emotional energy to keep open source ways alive and help build a community effort are attacked because they work for a company that needs to be made the villain in the narrative.

Of course Redis is free to copy BSD licensed code that Valkey contributors add to the project [1]. I only wish that the blog post about this advancement in Redis would give some credit, rather than claiming "We also improved the performance of CRC64 calculations" [2].

We can all do better, and engage with one another with mutual respect and admiration for what has been freely given.

[1] https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13638

[2] https://redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m03-is-out-even-more-perform...
by lapcat | 2025-05-01 17:33:22+00:00
> Should I delete it?

Is that even possible?

Anyway, I just think my 2024 post is a better place to start, because it explains the issue directly, whereas this new post simply refutes another blogger and argues that there's nothing new beyond my 2024 post. That interpersonal drama/conflict probably isn't going to be understandable or useful to readers.
by zahlman | 2025-05-01 17:33:33+00:00
To me, Python is more of a challenge than an excuse when it comes to performance.

On the flip side, I've seen quite a few C developers using their own hand-rolled linked lists where vector-like storage would be more appropriate, without giving it a second thought. Implementing good hash tables from scratch turns out not to be very much fun, either. I'm sure there are off the shelf solutions for that sort of thing, but `#include` and static compilation in C don't exactly encourage module reuse the same way that modern languages with package managers do (even considering all the unique issues with Python package management). For better or worse.

(For what it's worth, I worked in J2ME for phones in the North American market in the mid 00s, if you remember what those were like.)
by Tetraslam | 2025-05-01 17:33:45+00:00
hey everyone! i built https://onemonth.dev to streamline the process of searching for and vetting learning resources for my dad and some of my friends who aren't really great at searching for things on their own. i've found that i actually get results that make me want to use it myself, and so i thought i'd post the first version i have on here for feedback!

here are some of the features i'm currently building out and planning to release in <2 weeks: - pdf exports - shareable curriculum links - chat with/edit curricula - progress journal

looking forward to hearing what y'all think!
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-01 17:33:52+00:00
> cultural focus on "identity" (as in, "who am I") has been kind of negative for people

> many become miserable because they got mired in their identity sexual and otherwise

I think one factor is that we're always looking for a balance between doing what we want and doing what's right. When they're not the same in someone's conscience, they look for external approval that what they want isn't wrong or bad or harmful, so they can keep doing it. Especially sexually.

There's also virtue signalling as a way to get social credit, which is also usually geared towards getting something that you want, but with it either being not justified or not earned.
by ziddoap | 2025-05-01 17:33:56+00:00
>My claim that statistically zero (cloud provider) customers are using valkey should, I sincerely hope, be self-evident.

I have no idea what the actual stats are. But no, I don't find your "statistically 0%" to be self-evident, especially in light of the other comments and links in this thread, and what I've heard elsewhere.

I was hoping, since you presented it so confidently, that you had something more than "trust me". In another comment you say you have evidence of marketshare, maybe you could post that?
by WhitneyLand | 2025-05-01 17:34:10+00:00
The integrations feel so rag-ish. It talks, tells you it’s going to use a tool, searches, talks about what it found…

Hope one day it will be practical to do nightly finetunes of a model per company with all core corporate data stores.

This could create a seamless native model experience that knows about (almost) everything you’re doing.
by AustinWentz | 2025-05-01 17:34:14+00:00
>Nobody has performed any kind of automatic or default transition from Redis to valkey for existing customers.

>My claim that statistically zero (cloud provider) customers are using valkey should, I sincerely hope, be self-evident.

This is simply not true. For example, Aiven (a cloud provider) completely ended support for Redis at the end of March and migrated existing users to Valkey. https://aiven.io/docs/platform/reference/end-of-life#aiven-f...
by fhd2 | 2025-05-01 17:34:18+00:00
Definitely my experience. I manage context like a hawk, be it with Claude-as-Google-replacement or LLM integrations into systems. Too little and the results are off. Too much and the results are off.

Not sure what Anthropic and co can do about that, but integrations feel like a step in the wrong direction. Whenever I've tried tool use, it was orders of magnitude more expensive and generally inferior to a simple model call with curated context from SerpApi and such.
by cruzcampo | 2025-05-01 17:34:24+00:00
It really does feel like most tech leaders are having an internal struggle that they externalize and make all of our problems.

Have you seen Musks Twitter timeline? That guy is so chronically online and desperate to be liked that it's just sad. How can you be the richest man in the world and yet so deeply pathetic?

Same with Zuck's attempt at being "cool" now and don't even get me started on Benioff's whole weird "Aloha" thing.

Deeply insecure, unhappy people, despite having all the wealth in the world. And they're gonna make sure all of us are just as unhappy, because if they can't buy happiness, why should anyone else have it?
by simonw | 2025-05-01 17:34:31+00:00
From this post on the Redis blog https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ it looks like they've made a bunch of new features available under the new AGPL license too:

> Integrating Redis Stack technologies, including JSON, Time Series, probabilistic data types, Redis Query Engine and more into core Redis 8 under AGPL

Redis Query Engine is new-to-me (I stopped following Redis closely after the license change) - it looks like an in-memory alternative to a lot of the things you might do with Elasticsearch: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/interact/search-and-que...

With syntax that looks something like this:

FT.SEARCH places "museum @city:(san francisco|oakland) @shape:[CONTAINS $poly]" PARAMS 2 poly 'POLYGON((-122.5 37.7, -122.5 37.8, -122.4 37.8, -122.4 37.7, -122.5 37.7))' DIALECT 3

(This is a smart move in terms of answering the question "Why would I switch back to Redis if I've moved to Valkey" - Redis just grew a bunch of new interesting features.)
by stevenwoo | 2025-05-01 17:34:35+00:00
A lot of people in those middle school classes didn't get it then, we had already segregated students by ability in middle school and even in the gifted classes there were students who didn't grok the material. One interpretation might be those mythological explanations also make sense if one does not understand basic science using empirical evidence, the best minds of the past believed in these strange to us theories until microscopes were invented and got good enough to make visible what was happening.
by fads_go | 2025-05-01 17:34:39+00:00
Behind, or aligned with different goals?

Can you name a popular civilian tech that blocks adding random journalists to small chat groups? That includes strong identity guarantees? That meets compliance requirements around logging calls?

Bloomberg might come the closest on this. Why don't you go out and price a Bloomberg terminal for yourself, at the grade that lets you trade options with other Bloomberg terminal owners over the chat interface?
by gloosx | 2025-05-01 17:34:45+00:00
I'm a Macbook user, but I often have screen sharing experiences with people using Windows laptops, god, it's painful watching them. Brand new, solid book with decent specs, only used for few months and everything is visibly very slow. Opening some documents and presentations while being on screen share takes minutes, file explorer lags, screen compositor lags. Notifications with weather, STOCKS info, murders and clickbait news around just pop up mid-conferences.

The most funny part? I was debugging application .exe not starting. Reason? AVG antivirus UPLOADED EXE to their server for EXAMINATION. EXE with an 600$ Extended Validation license. There was a message for the user TO WAIT FEW HOURS before they studied it and exe could be unblocked from launching. All was completely normal to the said windows user. What a dystopian thing they are used to
by jandrese | 2025-05-01 17:34:46+00:00
That's going a little far. Apple and Valve do have costs to operating the storefronts. It's just that 30% is an overly big cut for what services they provide.

Between Steam and Apple I think the case against Apple is generally stronger. Steam has competition on PC, but Apple is an effective monopoly on iPhone software. That said, Apple does more work on each release with quality control and software reviews. Valve is much more hands off on each release, but does secondary work like maintaining Proton.

This just brings up the discussion of what the cut should be. 20%? 10%? 5%? Or maybe the full 30% is necessary? In a healthy market a business like this that has relatively low barrier to entry should be ripe for disruption, but even companies like GOG take a 30% cut. Why has nobody started a competing business that only does a 20% cut? I get that there is customer inertia with Steam, but it seems like nobody is really trying very hard to win customers.
by freejazz | 2025-05-01 17:34:58+00:00
Do you think experts don't testify in civil cases?

I find these really elaborate rants about the law, which are based on nothing but presumptions, and in this case, presumptions that do not even arise from actual personal experience, to be incredibly exhausting and in service of creating more confusion than anything else.

Like, you just said upthread that courts shouldn't rely on the word reasonable? I cannot think of an easier way to express that you have absolutely no experience with the legal system than that. It's for sure a common misconception of programmers that the law should function the way code does. What's sad about that is that you are somehow so devoid of actual life experience as to not realize how it must be the case that something like the law must not function like source code out of necessity.
by dang | 2025-05-01 17:35:25+00:00
If you're referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857048 ("everyone who isn’t a bootlicker"), then obviously you broke at least these:

"Eschew flamebait."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That means the users who flagged your post were correct to do so.
by sneak | 2025-05-01 17:35:38+00:00
This is disappointing. The AGPL is a nonfree (and nonsensical) license.

The fact that the FSF wants a EULA but can’t have a EULA without violating Freedom 0 doesn’t make the AGPL suddenly logically sound.

marcan has written about it in more detail than I care to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30044019

Stop using the AGPL. It violates the basic principles of free software.

The ability to run a SaaS company with free software is a feature, not a bug.
by dns_snek | 2025-05-01 17:35:59+00:00
Not disrespectful at all. I agree with the sibling comments, I think what allows someone to become a great software developer, to have great intuition, and to understand systems and abstractions on a really deep level is their curiosity, hunger for knowledge, and a lot of experience.

There are many college educated software developers who have that sort of drive (or passion, if you will) and there are just as many who don't, it's not something college can teach you, and the same is true for self-taught developers.

At the end of the day "self-taught" is also a spectrum that ranges from people who created their first "hello world" React app 2 months ago to people who have been involved in systems programming since they were 10 years old, and have a wealth of knowledge in multiple related fields like web development, systems administration, and networking. That's why I think it's silly to generalize like that.

Software development is extremely broad so depending on the discipline self-taught developers might not be missing anything essential, or they might have to learn algorithms, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, or calculus on their own. I learned all of that in college but I'd probably have to learn most of it again if I really needed it.
by ljoshua | 2025-05-01 17:36:10+00:00
It sounds like you may be speaking from experience, and if so, I respect that.

My kids have done both public schooling and now homeschooling. For a variety of personal reasons, public schooling was not going to be an option for a couple of them, so we're trying this out now and it has been successful. We are tightly integrated into a very active church group, and they have lots of social interactions on a regular basis there, as well as opportunities with other homeschooled kids around town.

It's definitely a balance, and there's no one silver bullet on either side of the fence, but the best any of us can do is actively strive for giving each child the best and most appropriate experiences for them.