MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by the_af | 2025-05-01 18:19:30+00:00
So you're saying NK agents are completely different to, say, Soviet era agents, who could and would say anything as long as it furthered their mission?

Ok, fair enough. In common perception of NK, they do seem bizarre, not like the Soviets during the Cold War.

I think it's unwise to dismiss them as lunatics incapable of deceit. If I were a NK agent, I'd work towards this notion, "NK are incapable of lying if it would diss their leader, that's how we get them!". In fact, I would spread this notion in Reddit, like the OP mentioned.

By the way, this still leaves the easy way out of "why are you asking about Kim Jong Un in a job interview, is it because I'm Korean? I'd like to speak to your HR department please".
by mikestew | 2025-05-01 18:19:38+00:00
Devil's advocate: what is the typical markup at retail stores?

Who cares? We're not selling boxed software. Let me give you a better question: how much would it cost to host a web site and give a payment processor their cut? I can answer that, because I've done it for Pocket PC/WinMobile apps: 7% to FastSpring, or whoever, for payment processing and then web site hosting for, what, a few hundred a year?

30% is friggin' ridiculous. Discovery is non-existent on Apple's App Store, so we are paying for...what? Overpriced payment processing, and some minimal online storage? I don't give a shit that Apple provided a "platform", as Microsoft isn't charging for me to have the privilege of dropping a binary on a Windows box. And for Apple to then turn around and demand a cut every time money changes hands, whether Apple had anything to do with it or not, is just icing on that anti-competitive cake.
by k310 | 2025-05-01 18:19:52+00:00
Hacker News. It's moderated and users Sherlock quickly and smartly.

Perhaps a "Hackerpedia" of archived articles, not just Algolia search, but organized in some {use your imagination} way.

TBH,when I search, I choose Wikipedia first, then as close to the originator as possible.

Everyone's search results seem heavily weighted by "Shit for sale". And just as an aside, ebay seems to offer every search term for sale, including Richard Feynmann and a slave ship.
by xp84 | 2025-05-01 18:20:19+00:00
I believe you -- though it's not surprising in the USA. Apple absolutely dominates the US market. I'd estimate of the top 75% of incomes Apple has at least an 80% market share. I live in a high-income area and the only Androids I ever see are carried by my house cleaners. And among young people it's only more intense because teens are so obsessed with brand cachet (as they always have been).

Now, on HN we know some people, though plenty wealthy enough to afford Apple, are choosing Android for function. But I doubt most of the public even thinks about that choice through that lens. Green bubble is the same as arriving to pick up your date in a 2002 Civic. It projects "I'm probably broke." Statistically. In the US only.
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-01 18:20:27+00:00
The point is that you are betting on the fundamentals of a business. Or a basket of businesses. And it's not just about whether a business is under/overvalued. That matters for growth stocks, but there are also stocks you can make scads of money on over the long term because they are boring, stable businesses that pay a consistent dividend you can then reinvest. Or boring, stable low-cost index funds that just track the market.

Gambling is the total opposite of that. Investing in an equity is saying "I have reason to believe this business or basket of businesses will continue to return profits to their shareholders." And you can do research into their financials, their industry, and so forth to make an informed decision. Gambling is just that . . . random chance in a game that's ultimately rigged against you. Investing is almost the opposite of gambling.
by thatguymike | 2025-05-01 18:20:32+00:00
Elder care is a difficult and painful topic, and change is clearly needed. I feel like I am missing something in the article's argument though. A quick google says that the profit margin of nursing homes is in the 5-10% range. If the profit motive is to blame for conditions, doesn't that mean that costs could be 10% lower if nobody was making profit?

I guess maybe that doesn't account for profits being made by any contractors providing medicines, food, etc, which maybe could be done more cheaply without the profit motive. But 10% just doesn't scream "evil nursing home executives getting fat off of the elderly" to me.

It's a labor-intensive and difficult service to provide. The article's suggestion to professionalize care work seems right, but will increase costs. The two areas of dissatisfaction (high cost and poor quality) seem fundamentally at odds to me, are there proposals which would address them both?
by microsestudios | 2025-05-01 18:20:49+00:00
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by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-01 18:21:19+00:00
That is not a proper accounting of this situation.

Suppose the chargebacks due to fraud/whatever without Apple Pay cost the issuing banks 0.20%.

Then the banks reduce their expenses by paying Apple 0.15%.

Maybe it helps reduce customer service calls and the associated expenses. Maybe Apple results in higher total spend. I’m sure the leaders at JPM, BoA, Wells Fargo, etc have done the calculations to figure out that it is better for them to pay Apple than to not.

And since it is not required for any bank to allow Apple Pay to work with their cards, it stands to reason that in a competitive market like credit cards, it doesn’t result in an increase in end user prices.
by ccheever | 2025-05-01 18:21:24+00:00
Yes they prevent sideloading.

The scare part refers to warning dialogs that iOS would pop up if you used a link to an external web browser to collect payments. It would warn you that Apple wasn't running the payments and use scary language warning you about potential fraud, etc. to try to scare people away. They would also demand a 27% fee from developers for collecting money on the web outside apps if users were paying from following that link.
by OJFord | 2025-05-01 18:21:28+00:00
Where's the permissioning, the data protection?

People will say 'aaah ad company' (me too sometimes) but I'd honestly trust a Google AI tool with this way more. Not just because it already has access to my Google Workspace obviously, but just because it's a huge established tech firm with decades of experience in trying not to lose (or have taken) user data.

Even if they get the permissions right and it can only read my stuff if I'm just asking it to 'research', now Anthropic has all that and a target on their backs. And I don't even know what 'all that' is, whatever it explored deeming it maybe useful.

Maybe I'm just transitioning into old guy not savvy with latest tech, but I just can't trust any of this 'go off and do whatever seems correct or helpful with access to my filesystem/Google account/codebase/terminal' stuff.

I like chat-only (well, +web) interactions where I control the input and taking the output, but even that is not an experience that gives me any confidence in giving uncontrolled access to stuff and it always doing something correct and reasonable. It's often confidently incorrect too! I wouldn't give an intern free reign in my shell either!
by mamcx | 2025-05-01 18:21:30+00:00
> why we don't have the ability to make websites and web apps appear and operate like an app

The more we get this, the more dystopian thing will be.

Make the web more powerful is negative.

Is replace a 'wallen garden' with the most lock-down/monopolistic form of computing (the browser).

Is NOT possible to make your own browser. You can't. Make your own APP (from TUI and UP) is doable.
by kierangill | 2025-05-01 18:21:43+00:00
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by justsid | 2025-05-01 18:21:46+00:00
But the simple answer is that the devices suck and people don't want to use them. This is going to be more and more true as time goes on because new people coming in will be used to the creature comforts they have from their personal equipment. I'm not defending anyone here, the people in power need to be held to a higher standard than some rando citizen on the street.
by Shraal | 2025-05-01 18:21:51+00:00
It's relatively easy. macOS is easier to set up than Linux, but it will always depend on your specific needs and environment.

E.g.: I go a little bit overboard for the average macOS user:

- custom system- and app-specific keyboard mappings (ultra-modifier on caps-lock; custom tabbing-key-modifier) via Karabiner Elements

- custom trackpad mappings via BetterTouchTool

- custom Time Machine schedule and backup logic; you can vibe-code your install script once and re-use it in the future; just make it idempotent

- custom quake-like Terminal via iTerm

- shell customizations

- custom Alfred workflows

- etc.

If all you need is just a sensible package manager and the terminal to get started, just set up Time Machine with default settings, Homebrew, your shell, and optionally iTerm2, and you're good to go. Other noteworthy power-user tools:

- Hammerspoon

- Syncthing / Resilio Sync

- Arq. Naturally, the usual backup tools also run on macOS: Borg, Kopia, etc.

- Affinity suite for image processing

- Keyshape for animations on web, mobile, etc.
by gspencley | 2025-05-01 18:22:07+00:00
> I'm not exactly sure why I should find a corporate entity any less centralized or unelected or not respectful of rights than a government

Because corporate entities and government entities operate under radically different frameworks.

The domain of government is force. This isn't a bad thing, it is necessary. Government is the recognition that we, as human beings, can interact with each other in two fundamental ways: force or reason/diplomacy. That when reason/diplomacy is chosen life flourishes. People create, produce, trade, freely associate and basically build civilization. When force is chosen you get war, destruction, poverty, misery.

Government's primary role in society, in my opinion, is to remove the element of force from civil existence so that all interpersonal relations are consensual (there are edge cases - the parent/child relationship or the extremely ill etc. but I need to scope cap somewhere).

The concept of rights derives directly from this concept. They are the recognition that rational people can cooexist peacefully if certain aspects of the human experience are recognized and protected. Those aspects being that in order to survive as a human being your tools are reason and action; you need to be able to think freely and you need to be able to act in accordance with your rational judgements. The infringement of a person's rights is fundamentally interference in either the ability to think (freedom of expression / conscience) or the ability to act (freedom to own and acquire property, freedom to travel, freedom of association etc.)

This means that government's entire domain is force. It is the entity that gets to determine the rules around when the application of force is allowed. It is the entity that gets to step in when you and I can't agree on what the definition of "assault" is and one of us calls the cops.

Businesses ought to exist entirely outside of the domain of force. Business is what happens when you remove force from society and people are able to think, create, develop, produce and trade freely without gangs and thieves and thugs interfering.

Where things get blurry is when you marry government and business. But always remember that business operates under the rules that government creates. The more incentive there is for business to care about political policy, the more lobbyists and corporate interest groups you will create but that's the framework you're creating. Government forces it through laws. Business is just playing by the rules that you voted for.
by 47282847 | 2025-05-01 18:22:07+00:00
> Working should never cost you money.

And that’s the case as long as the income tax is at or less than 100%. Income taxes could well be collected from employers directly and never reach you (like some European countries do for roughly 50% taxes due). Ultimately what counts is how much your employment costs. Psychologically, it then may not feel like you are paying anything, because you don’t. You working supports public infrastructure for public benefit (which includes you again). Prefer to pay no taxes but having to build your own roads? Good luck with that.
by lolinder | 2025-05-01 18:22:15+00:00
Yeah, we just did this whole ride with Elastic [0]: company changes the license out from under the community, community revolts, company gives up and changes it back. Both companies even pulled the same "it worked" excuse ("while it was painful, it worked", "this achieved our goal").

Neither company has built in a legal safety mechanism to prevent themselves from pulling the rug again later and both companies have shown themselves to be untrustworthy stewards. They came groveling back when it turned out that community goodwill really did matter after all, but this is definitely a "fool me twice, shame on me" situation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394797
by languagehacker | 2025-05-01 18:22:22+00:00
Insightful words from the Coldplay guy.

In all seriousness, there is definitely the comfortable lie of nostalgia playing into a lot of the dudes approaching (or squarely in) middle age as far as tech goes.

It's truly a bummer that they're expressing the internalization of the wrong lessons. Instead of standing up against decades of enshittification, they're complaining about having to say "allowlist" instead of "blacklist", and still erroneously believing that the right hackathon will solve their company's existential problems.

I got the best monkeys and the best typewriters, so if I let them do what they want in this "meritocracy" I created, it will definitely make the next Hamlet, right?
by avar | 2025-05-01 18:22:25+00:00
> If you are doing > something wrong, stop.

You may be a lawyer, but this is clearly bad advice if your client was Apple.

It's not like they couldn't afford competent legal advice, and surely they either knew they were flaunting the injunction, or could have predicted that the judge would take this view of their activity.

So, they're set on doing the "wrong" thing, but could still use legal advice.

What I'm amazed at up-thread is how seemingly incompetent they were at changing their workflow so they wouldn't hand the court evidence on a silver platter.

In this case, surely they could have pulled all the stakeholders into a room with a whiteboard, and made sure nobody kept any records of the meeting.

They'd have ended up with the same wording, but the court couldn't have merely done a text search of relevant Slack conversations.

Yes, the court could have eventually forced everyone who was in that room to testify, but the end result would have been a bunch of "I think so-and-so wanted it more such-and-such".

Surely that's better than the sort of quotes the court could copy/paste into its decision.
by gray_-_wolf | 2025-05-01 18:22:37+00:00
I see, I misunderstood that. I have read it as an attempt to prevent redis taking the code from valkey.

However, if the intention was the other way (to allow valkey to take code from redis), valkey should just go for AGPL as well, there is little reason to pick GPL if the code sharing would be the motivation for the license change.
by jglamine | 2025-05-01 18:23:34+00:00
This essay is weird. The author lumps James Damore, rank-and-file software engineer, in with Marc Andreessen and Mark Zuckerberg. Damore hasn't updated his LinedIn since 2018 - he might not even work in tech anymore?

It closes saying they need to stop reliving their glory days and be good fathers and not the town drunk. Those are serious accusations - being a bad father and a drunk. The author doesn't give any evidence for either.
by chatmasta | 2025-05-01 18:23:39+00:00
I’m not OP but as this is a common pattern…

Parquet stores the metadata in the footer so first request is effectively a negative byte range (content length minus footer length). This metadata includes table statistics like “column ‘date_sold’ has minimum date 1-1-1970 and maximum date 12-31-2024,” and row group statistics like “the row group at byte offset X has minimum ‘date_sold’ value of 1-1-2023 and maximum ‘1-1-2024’.”

So if your query tool gets a SQL query with a predicate like “WHERE date_sold > ‘3-1-2024’ AND date_sold < ‘3-30-2024’” then it can use “partition pruning” to fetch only the RowGroup of the parquet file that includes the March 2024 data.

My colleague Artjoms (and co-founder of Splitgraph with me) gave a great presentation [0] on how we achieved this with DataFusion, including visualization of the pruning.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=D_phetiS-4w
by thephyber | 2025-05-01 18:23:45+00:00
> there are talented people sitting on unemployment right now that can't find a job, yet fake people are getting hired left and right. Something in the industry as a whole is quite broken.

An entire country has dedicated significant resources to getting some of their hackers hired. Those talented people you mention are likely trying to get hired by themselves. It’s not an industry problem so much as a coordinated attack.
by _msw_ | 2025-05-01 18:23:45+00:00
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

In theory, one would not be able to offer a combined program under other licenses (in particular, RSALv2 and SSPLv1), as those licenses have conflicts with GPL obligations.

Direct contributions to the Redis project avoid this issue via a separate Contributor License Agreement. It would only mean that Redis developers could not unilaterally copy code from Valkey.

I'm not saying that the Valkey community should do this. Personally, I think it's better off as a BSD-3 licensed project, with the community fulfilling the promise made by others that it would always be that way.
by clvx | 2025-05-01 18:24:08+00:00
I'm more excited I can run now a custom site, hook an MCP for it, and have all the cool intelligence I had to pay for SaaS without having to integrate to them plus govern my data, it's a massive win. I just see AI assistant coding replicating current SaaS services that I can run internally. If my shop was a specific stack, I could aim to have all my supporting apps in that specific stack using AI assistant coding, simplifying operations, and being able to hook up MCP's to get intelligence from all of them.

Truly, OSS should be more interesting in the next decade for this alone.
by weinzierl | 2025-05-01 18:24:21+00:00
They already had made a strong statement by choosing BSD when GPL was at their disposal. That is a much stronger statement than some blog post that reflects a momentary snapshot of their plans.

It is just that people don't hear what they don't want to hear. Every BSD or MIT is a loud and clear statement to deny the guarantee that derivative works will remain free and open.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-01 18:24:36+00:00
> adding/subtracting by 1 is a billion times easier to understand than adding/subtracting 42.

Ok, then add start your indices with something else 1 or 2, -1 would be best but probably not well supported. Whatever you aren't used to.

Also why is substracting a small number such a problem? I never found adding/substracting 1, much more difficult than 42. It's just math.
by mritchie712 | 2025-05-01 18:24:48+00:00
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Definite has a data lake, ETL, and BI in one app.
by jhirshman | 2025-05-01 18:24:54+00:00
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by ceejayoz | 2025-05-01 18:25:32+00:00
The US never declared war on North Korea in the first place, and there are no active hostilities between the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_Sta...

> The terms used in the definition derive from English legal tradition, specifically the Treason Act 1351. Levying war means the assembly of armed people to overthrow the government or to resist its laws. Enemies are subjects of a foreign government that is in open hostility with the United States.