MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gvocale | 2025-05-02 15:22:16+00:00
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by motorest | 2025-05-02 15:22:16+00:00
> I agree with the fact that LLMs are big open-source laundering machines, and that is a problem.

Why do you believe this is a problem? I mean, to believe that you first need to believe that having access to the source code is somehow a problem.

> I mostly see it as a problem for copyleft licences.

Nonsense.

At most, the problem lies in people ignoring what rights a FLOSS license grants to end users, and then feigning surprise when end users use their software just as the FLOSS license intended.

Also a telltale sign is the fact that these blind criticisms single out very precise corporations. Apparently they have absolutely no issue if any other cloud provider sells managed services. They single out AWS but completely ignore the fact that the organization behind ValKey includes the likes of Google, Ericsson, and even Oracle of all things. Somehow only AWS is the problem.
by dogleash | 2025-05-02 15:22:27+00:00
> But westerners have been doing stuff like this for ages and prattling on about it - it's kind of a cornerstone of Orientalism. This was actually a plot point in the recent White Lotus season. People rarely go to Appalachia to have these experiences, but you certainly can find people living simple happy lives there.

I think you're moralizing over a pretty bland bit of psychology: people need to be shaken from their frame of reference to see different parts of the world. Even if they exist next door. For many Americans, Appalachia will be too close to home to force off the blinders.

I've flown all over the US for work, and in every location found the same exact city. It's hard to take away someone's footing when they feel at home. OTOH, the preconditions that gave me many life broadening experiences within 100 miles of a single US city are not available to everyone.

Assigning someone internal character traits so that their external practice of respectful travel can still be judged is cruel.
by hayst4ck | 2025-05-02 15:22:28+00:00
These people are implementing Skinner boxes[1] for children.

There are literally "engagement" engineers actively doing A/B tests on children to see what makes them more addicted or gets them to spend more money or time on their platform.

There are humans literally doing experiments on children to figure out what stimulus results in more addicted behavior.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-02 15:22:30+00:00
> This is not very meaningful unless you filter the plethora of 0s and 1s out of games that clearly don't deserve then

Only if you filter out the plethora of 10s that games that "clearly don't deserve them" either.

Who is the judge if a game deserves a score when the aggregator purpose is to normalize it anyway?

If a game sees a bunch of 10s and 0s it means that something in the game is polarizing. The fact that Clair Obscur has such a high rating means it pleased everyone across the board. Nowadays that is quite a feat.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-05-02 15:22:36+00:00
"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."

All dictators/authoritarians have a whole layer of very capable people under them that will implement orders from above without thinking about ethics or morality. But they will do a good job. Hitler had people like Himmler and Speer, Stalin had Beriya and many others (don't know names). The interesting thing is that these people will also do well in democracies. A lot of ex-nazis in Germany turned into good democratic people (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Filbinger). You also have these people in companies where for example layoffs are done in the most humiliating way.
by bluGill | 2025-05-02 15:22:46+00:00
Do you need something? Make it - it doesn't matter what. Quality doesn't even matter, if the shoes you make turn out well you wear them, if not well go to the store and buy some. If you decide you like making shoes then make some more. If you decide it isn't fun then find something else (and come back again if you later change your mind).

See someone else make something, try to do it yourself. Sometimes you get something nice, sometimes you have fun and then throw away the worthless object.

There are a few danger signs to watch out for. Don't get caught up in learning how - you can spend the rest of your life watching "how to make a guitar" videos and never build anything. You can spend a lot of money on tools, or think you cannot do something for lack of tools - for the first one figure out how to use minimal tools (not zero!) so you don't get invested in a hobby you turn out not to enjoy - the big bucks should be only after you are sure the hobby and the tool is for you. You can start with a project too complex - start with small projects you can get done - take on the complex ones only after you are sure this hobby is for you.

Question for you: does creating mean building something? Do you count playing music as creating? What about art? What about dancing? There is no right answer to these questions except whatever you decide.
by hunglee2 | 2025-05-02 15:22:46+00:00
> Manufacturing jobs simply have greater wage potential than many jobs in services because they have more room for productivity growth and a higher degree of leverage to win wage demands <

the reason why service jobs overtook manufacturing is precisely the opposite of this claim. Since Reagan / Thatcher era financialisation of the economy, it made much more sense to get job in 'the service industry' because it you could significantly increase your earning potential vis a vis those who continued in the manufacturing sector.
by exiguus | 2025-05-02 15:23:32+00:00
I think its a strategic decision to use vercel for hosting and for example deno deploy or cloudfront for edge/lambdas to do frontend instead of using directly AWS. And have no backend or a backend everywhere else then on AWS. The strategic behind it, is to avoid a dev/sec/cloud ops team that might cost yearly more then paying the 150-200% of costs that you have when you host it on AWS directly. But the 50-100% plus, will save you all the AWS terraforming, IAM, SecOP stuff. If you don't need SQS or a APIGateway etc., Vercel might be the way to go.

Talking about Next: Before there was only Angular with universal rendering that could do SSR / ISR. Second one was Next and den Nuxt. SSR or ISR is often a must have in enterprise projects. If it is not a internal app, you have todo SSR. And with a modern architecture, you decouple the frontend. So, no other options. Recently we have also Remix, Astro and Svelte Kit for that. And the market get much more diverse, what i like.
by _msw_ | 2025-05-02 15:23:48+00:00
There are different FOSS communities that hold different values. I come from the copyleft camp because I want to advance Software Freedom objectives for end-users. Others are more interested in advancing software developer freedom, and they find the obligations that are designed to advance end-user rights are unduly burdensome to the software developer. Articles like the one on the FreeBSD website [1] explain why they take a different position

I choose to believe that both of these sub-communities of the larger FOSS community are principled in their beliefs. I don’t see whining from FreeBSD folks about competitors, or for-profit companies using all the permissions they give with their choice of license.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/bsdl-gpl/
by Hackbraten | 2025-05-02 15:23:56+00:00
I have no suggestion for you, just an outside perspective:

1. I'm incredibly sorry that this has happened to you.

2. Taking a step back from what happened, I think that there's a relatively cheap lesson for you to be learned here. Businesses are literally dying every day at the hand of platforms too big to give a fuck. You've been relatively lucky to experience this early in your career. Imagine this had happened to you ten years from now, with a living to be made and (more) mouths to feed. Regardless of whether you're going to get your data back: you're young, you have your whole career still ahead of you. Platforms are only going to enshittify more, not less. Next time, you're going to have physical backups at multiple locations. You're also going to diversify platforms. Those are important and incredibly helpful habits, and I'm sure you're going to take this incident as an opportunity to pick up those habits. Lots of people have paid much higher prices than you did to learn that life lesson.

Apologies for not being of much help to you and for possibly coming across as unempathetic. I hope you find a way to get your stuff back!
by glenngillen | 2025-05-02 15:24:03+00:00
I’ve briefly intersected with Adam, admittedly over a decade ago now. I really enjoyed those opportunities and found him to be a great and professional person.

This site just reeks of a misinformed person with an axe to grind. A quarter of Mozilla being laid off? I’d be shocked if a restructure of that size wasn’t already well underway in terms of planning before he joined. That’s not the kind of click your fingers and make it happen decision someone makes in their first month. Unless things were particularly dire financially and urgent action had to be taken, in which case you still can’t exactly blame a new hire for inheriting that such a mess.

And HoneyCode? A project that was literally many years in the making with a semi-secret team of people at AWS long before Adam arrived? Yeah, definitely the fault of the new guy who arrived as it launched for it not working. Not the dozens/hundreds of people responsible for the years of research, design, and product work.

And AWS are apparently pushing Firefox onto people?

What an odd personal vendetta.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-02 15:24:10+00:00
> Their mental maps of how battles should unfold were so ingrained that they couldn't recognize when the territory had changed.

This feels like the core aspect of most bad leadership I've experienced.

Organizations can turn on a dime, even very large ones, if leadership allows themselves to recognize and adapt to the new terrain.

The central challenge with this is that the adaptation process is painful, often requiring a 1v1 contest to the death with one's own ego.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-05-02 15:24:47+00:00
The misleading perspective is your generalization from things that have happened to things that haven’t happened. The system as it currently exists - overzealous immigration enforcement which is often but not always enjoined - cannot ship me to El Salvador.

It’s true that there’s a big danger of someone building a different system that could change that! Preventing that from happening is the key political challenge of today. But effective prevention requires accurate reasoning about which components of society can do what. One of the best ways to ensure there are more transfers to El Salvador is to spread the narrative that courts are powerless and nobody can stop the administration from doing it.
by _bin_ | 2025-05-02 15:25:05+00:00
The point is this might work for a surgeon but does not for an attorney. There are enough jurors who would be strongly biased against anyone arguing before them with purple hair and tattoos that it's exceedingly unlikely anyone with such an appearance ever could rise to the top of his field.

This would also be true in e.g. M&A. Even if Cravath's fieriest new partner looked like that I'd hesitate to hire him. Patent law might be an exception, but if I needed to actually go to court, WilmerHale's top guy would still be a liability. Even in a bench trial the judge could see it as disrespectful or look down on my representation because of it. You see my meaning here?

On the table, the surgeon's appearance has little or nothing to do with his ability; in court, a lawyer's appearance can be crucial.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-05-02 15:25:06+00:00
It's interesting, because 3d graphics are already something that games do very well in 2d.

Is it because the platform is more resource limited, so you have to find a way to squeeze high-quality graphics out of less compute? And I guess I don't know that much about the technology, but I assume they're sending slightly different images to each eye, which probably means they need to generate two pictures instead of one, so that might be a multiplier on the compute to get a given perspective?

I mean Nintendo is pretty well known for squeezing appealing and attractive visuals out of limited hardware, so I can totally see an argument for going for more BOTW/TOTK-style graphics than your CODs or your Gods of War?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-02 15:25:12+00:00
> Yes, America and Canada and Mexico DO want to produce clothing.

"America" meaning what?

American government - really? Why prefer low paying jobs vs high paying ones?

American CEOs - want to increase share price and their annual bonus. Would prefer to offshore.

American consumers - may like "Made in USA", but given a choice prefer cheap "Made in China" vs expensive

American workers - would prefer high paying jobs, or just stay at home collecting government handouts.

We're basically at "full employment", with even fast food companies finding it hard to hire people. I'm sure unemployed US software developers would prefer if US companies would hire them vs offshoring, but where is the demand for low paying jobs?
by selfhoster11 | 2025-05-02 15:26:10+00:00
Allow people to fine-tune for regional and idiosyncratic expression.

Offer more than just 1 master version that everyone must share.

Improve training processes to not overwhelm the regional expression and reasoning with synthetic/curated data of just one culture.

Hire annotators and data entry services across a whole multitude of countries that cover a varied array of cultures, styles, languages, etc.

At least the things above should counteract the effects somewhat.
by brutal_chaos_ | 2025-05-02 15:26:16+00:00
You bring up some good points. I guess I was too absolute in my statement as I didn't intend to imply it was the only problem. Given that, Windows gaining ads (nevermind the number of settings panels/windows, etc), games being released broken or loot box driven, google search once being good and now being ad driven, and a myriad of other problems have caused the downfall as well. So the big players are part of the problem too.
by redbell | 2025-05-02 15:26:31+00:00
> In the European Union, developers can also distribute notarized iOS and iPadOS apps from alternative app marketplaces and directly from their website.

Well, this was only possible because the EU had pushed hard toward this openness otherwise, we wouldn't expect Apple to do this.

> For everything else there is always the open Internet. If the App Store model and guidelines or alternative app marketplaces and Notarization for iOS and iPadOS apps are not best for your app or business idea that’s okay, we provide Safari for a great web experience too.

IMO, Safari on iOS do not have a great experience for web devs who are willing to distribute their apps as PWAs, especially when there is no alternative browser that provides additional capabilities, they are all skinned Safaris. Take for instance the Vibration API [1], it has been supported since a long time in Chrome mobile but not in Safari. I believe it does an excellent job in giving a PWA some native-feeling when being used. Still though, I still miss that haptic feedback is not yet supported by Chrome. Bluetooth [2] is yet another missing API in Safari.

Of course, for these (and other) web APIs to be abused by developers, I encourage browser vendors to disable them by default when requested from a website and enable them ONLY on user consent. On the other hand, when a user installs the PWA, these privileges should be granted automatically with the ability to disable them by the user.

To finalize, another excellent API that facilitate the installation of PWAs by triggering an install prompt [3] is not supported in iOS Safari, which does really makes me wonder: "How Safari provides a great web experience?"

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1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-02 15:26:41+00:00
The lol was at you, my friend. I don't feel the need to address assholes on either side, not some random Ukrainian, not Igor Girkin. These people exist in any war and they should be ignored.

Ah it was a Russian-made MLRS? Seems like a great benchmark range to use for evacuating villages near the conflict you started. Why didn't your country do this?
by AIPedant | 2025-05-02 15:26:51+00:00
Sure, user reviews are totally useless across the board, not disagreeing with that. My point is that if a game gets exceptionally good critical reviews then a 0 is almost always a hissy fit, not a serious assessment. And often the only thing that is "polarizing" is the game's financial success. (Edit: see my prediction about the game winning awards and seeing its user score knocked down accordingly.)
by cwizou | 2025-05-02 15:27:12+00:00
Not op but having played Rebirth, while overall very good, it suffers from the classic case nowadays of adding repetitive "chores" to do around maps, to artificially increase the length of the game with little purpose.

So far (only 6 hours in, but some friends who went further confirmed), Expedition 33 seems to steer away from that, being a lot more story driven.

It also has, by far, the greatest prologue I've seen in a game.

Worse thing so far, the UI in the menu does take a second to get. Particularly the selected state is way too subtle and a bit confusing at first.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-05-02 15:27:41+00:00
Nice! I did the same a while ago: HTTPS://BI6.US/ . I've been using the VT220mod and VT323 typefaces for various projects for a while. It just made sense to make my vanity site look like a terminal from the 80s. Links to the fonts can be found at HTTPS://BI6.US/A.HTML and the whole thing is creative commons licensed. Feel free to use the boilerplate for your own non-commercial projects, though I ask for attribution.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-02 15:27:52+00:00
Depends how the next generation of MAGAs works. The republican party is full of them who are backing Trump all the way. The only opposition seem to be bond traders.

The great thing about wannabe dictators is they don't allow the new generation the space to grow and take over, so there's no clear line of succession (Vance doesn't have it yet)

But the democrats seem completely at a loss, and the mid terms are only 18 months away.
by relistan | 2025-05-02 15:27:53+00:00
Because, like many other tech companies, Tiktok is funneling most of their global revenue through Ireland where the corporate tax rate is very low. I don't know the specifics of the mechanism used by Tiktok. But, most companies do this by registering all of their IP through their Irish company and then paying licensing fees to the Irish entity that just happen to be all of their profit abroad. This is why the Irish regulator punches way above its weight globally and is why it is often the entry point for EU regulation on foreign firms.
by hoppp | 2025-05-02 15:28:12+00:00
Not true that its not updated. They just released Deno 2.3 on the 1st of May.

There was no such thing as a Deno rug pull, the author links to the use of http imports which are better used inside a map than directly in a file.

Deno is fine and as a technology gets more mature it should get more boring.
by intothemild | 2025-05-02 15:28:21+00:00
Yes, don't forget Tim Cook, who from what I've seen, is the biggest proponent of milking every dollar out of absolutely everything, regardless of if it's good for the consumer or not*. So Maestri and Cook were a perfect combination, Maestri got to be tough, and Cook got someone to blame.

*Take USB-C, Apple made tonnes of money from MFA, which was the main reason they didn't ever want to pivot to a different connector. Even if it was the better choice.
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-05-02 15:28:29+00:00
... These sorts of patterns do not help at all, and will hurt those who have critical need for apps without a lot of users.

Speaking as somebody, who owns some mid-grade thermal cameras that stopped production in the past few years after a decade run, that depended on and are solely controlled and run on apps that were removed from the app store or no longer can run on modern phones because they are in 32-bit format ; this sort of thing would further punish that type of software and only speed up its demise.

When you spend thousands and thousands and thousands and of dollars and resources into getting unique capabilities like that, that can only be controlled through Android apps often, and is the only way to get that capability for some (this will apply to multiple and I imagine with niche capabilities that only have one or two methods of Access)

- this hurts a lot of opportunity, and this type of dark anti-pattern is far too blunt
by maccard | 2025-05-02 15:28:34+00:00
OP asked:

> Why cant this happen on Apple devices too?

There are many ways to interpret that question - a hypothetical pondering, or a "why doesn't it work this way?" in the most direct sense. I interpreted it as the latter.

> I think you've been hit with what I call the "hidden agenda" fallacy, which is something many people seem to commit routinely (or almost non-stop on reddit). It's closely related to (and involves) the Strawman fallacy, but includes some specific flawed reasoning.

Isn't this exactly what you've done to my comment?
by labrador | 2025-05-02 15:28:42+00:00
OpenAI mentions the new memory features as a partial cause. My theory as a imperative/functional programmer is that those features added global state to prompts that didn't have it before leading to unpredictability and instabilty. Prompts went from stateless to stateful.

As GPT 4o put it:

1. State introduces non-determinism across sessions 2. Memory + sycophancy is a feedback loop 3. Memory acts as a shadow prompt modifier

I'm looking forward to the expert diagnosis of this because I felt "presence" in the model for the first time in 2 years which I attribute to the new memory system so would like to understand it better.
by dhruvrrp | 2025-05-02 15:29:03+00:00
I went digging for this, and their SEC filing for 2024 mention they have a stay from the Irish High Court.

> The IDPC issued an administrative fine of EUR €1.2 billion as well as corrective orders requiring Meta Platforms Ireland to suspend the relevant transfers and to bring its processing operations into compliance with Chapter V GDPR by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, of such data in the United States. We are appealing this Final Decision and it is currently subject to an interim stay from the Irish High Court.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680125...