MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2025-06-21 18:49:24+00:00
You can't possibly maintain software in good conditions without the source code. You've lost the ability to take your software with you and stop relying on the provider, unless you rewrite it.

More penetration of something which has lost its substance seems useless.

I would say if WhatsApp is a good baseline for you w.r.t freedom, there's nothing more to do: any gratis software does the job, and most software is already gratis. You get Big Tech-controlled users with ad and tracking-ridden software, and you seem happy with this.

You are probably not even allowed to share WhatsApp binary (likely disallowed by the EULA), and as for studying the software, you are probably not allowed to disassemble the binary (also prohibited by the EULA). It's as non-free as it can get. There's also nothing moderate about disallowing these things.

I don't see anything to be happy about in this deal.

The meaning you have of moderate is "please don't alienate Big Tech and force them to let users have the minimal control of their computing". Poor Big Tech, I feel for them. Yes, that's not a nice thing to say, but you are calling perfectly reasonable, non-violent, harmless opinions "extreme". I hope you reconsider.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-06-21 18:49:51+00:00
> but it had set! for just as long.

Purity has nothing to do with functional programming.

> It is also not a list based language, but a tree based one.

It's not called Trep, it's called Lisp. Yes, you can represent trees as lists embedded in lists, and the cons cell allows that thanks to type recursion. But it's still based around lists. Trees don't allow cycles, lists formed from ordered pairs do. Every single piece of literature written by McCarthy talks about lists[1].

> The fundamental point of lisps is that you can manipulate the abstract syntax tree directly

Macros weren't introduced until 1963[2]. They might be the reason you use a Lisp, and they may have become synonymous with Lisp after 1.5, but they are not a "fundamental point" of Lisp. The fundamental point was always about lambda calculus[1].

[1] - https://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf

[2] - http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/ai/aim/...
by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 18:50:32+00:00
Next you're going to tell me there is no such thing as a Hannibal Directive. Sure is convenient that all these ugly doctrinal conventions are actually invented by the media despite them being first reported[0] by IDF members. Definitely not systemic denial[1] from a famously brutal armed force and historically dishonest government, nosiree.

[0] https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkjqoobip

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel
by beeflet | 2025-06-21 18:50:36+00:00
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/authorization.png

>Unless someone figures out a way where we can safely share computing power and connections to real-life services (e.g. banking, having an identity, communication in general), I think there is no real alternative.

I think the opposite is true. We don't have adequate sandboxing of userspace on most desktop OSes. If your malware has access to the victim's home directory and can phone home, they've been pwned for all intents and purposes. Root access would matter if userspace programs were well sandboxed.

On OSes where this is true like android, you have terrible interoperability of userspace programs and it's impossible to get "real work" done. Not to mention that without root access, you are just relying on the corporation to manage your system for you, which isn't tenable for a democracy.

You don't need all of this trusted computing stuff to have secure, private payments. Chaumian ecash and cryptocurrencies have known this for a while. Just use a digital signature scheme instead of relying on open-source information.
by cubefox | 2025-06-21 18:52:17+00:00
Plastic doesn't actually necessarily end up in the ocean. Most plastic in the ocean comes from certain countries, like the Philippines, while other countries contribute basically not at all. The problem here is mainly the law and law enforcement in certain countries which fail to prevent dumping plastic in the sea. But that's not an overly hard thing to prevent, because many countries are doing it successfully.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-21 18:52:34+00:00
But really it's all about framing. For example on desktop computers it's not possible for people to create new instructions for their CPU to handle. At some layer there will be an API that user needs to use to interact with the device. As times goes on I think it's natural for that layer that users are expected to interact with their device with to become higher level. I believe the top level comment is framing this issue such that current phones don't have an API that matched how it worked for UNIX computers and that is a bad thing. The commenter is too focused on how things worked in the past and doesn't want to allow for things to change.
by btilly | 2025-06-21 18:52:36+00:00
This is a state level thing. As is whether IP produced outside of your job, on your own equipment, is yours.

I moved from New York to California a bit over 20 years ago in large part because I personally encountered this (the IP ownership bit), and preferred to live under California's rules.

It is worthwhile to read https://www.paulgraham.com/america.html. Point 7 talks about how easy it is for regulations to accidentally squash startups. I believe that the fact that California makes neither mistake causes us squash fewer startups. It is not sufficient to have made Silicon Valley a startup hub, but it was likely necessary.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-21 18:53:15+00:00
For example: selective enforcement, for example states vs terrorists. Even Russia became a victim of that, which I'll point out in hopes of avoiding discussion on Israel.

Russia, of course commits human rights abuses in Ukraine. But Daesh committed serious human rights abuses against Russia [1] [2], as did a number of other islamist, nationalist and even a socialist group. Not one iota of attention of the court ever went to that.

But this is a general problem. The court undertakes action against states, especially if they are currently unpopular in the UN (who appoints the judges), but never against the many groups that commit large scale human rights abuses against those states.

A third problem is that ICC convictions are entirely optional if you're in power. Any government is allowed to ask the ICC to not sue anyone for things either they did, or that happened on their soil. Sorry, any government EXCEPT the US and Israel are allowed to ask that. The ICC changed it's own statutes TWICE last year to sue Israel, and has done so before against the US. A relevant question would be "is the ICC allowed to change it's own statutes?" ... and of course the answer is no.

Or you could point out less serious, but ubiquitous human rights abuses that the ICC won't touch for various reasons. For example, every last muslim-majority state violates freedom of religion, a human right. Even Morocco and Turkey do [3] [4]. You will not hear the ICC on this issue.

Or to focus on a different problem, there's constant human rights abuses essentially everywhere on the planet in the prison system, including juvenile justice systems and just general youth services. This happens everywhere, with famous incidents in Romania, the US, France, Australia, ... you will not hear the ICC on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus_City_Hall_attack [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Morocco [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Turkey#...
by joshstrange | 2025-06-21 18:53:33+00:00
LLMs are not the second coming but to blame this on ChatGPT seems far-fetched. This isn’t quite “Michael Scott driving his car into a lake” but it’s pretty darn close.

While I’m glad these people are ok, I can’t help but think more people need to feel stronger consequences for their mistakes. Hopefully they got slapped with a large fine for wasting emergency service resources.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-06-21 18:54:15+00:00
A single developer in Denmark (it's a Danish company) would easily cost around $100K a year to the company.

They might save 90% of their $24K on hardware, but just spend probably double the amount on salaries.

This is why AWS is in the end cheaper if it is costs more for the same (let's be real it's not at all the same actually) software.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-06-21 18:54:57+00:00
When I worked at a startup that tried to maximize revenue per employee, it was an absolute disaster for the customer. There was zero investment in quality - no dedicated QA and everyone was way too busy to worry about quality until something became a crisis. Code reviews were actively discouraged because it took people off of their assigned work to review other people's work. Automated testing and tooling were minimal. If you go to the company's subreddit, you'll see daily posts of major problems and people threatening class-action lawsuits. There were major privacy and security issues that were just ignored.
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-21 18:55:19+00:00
It gives them a chance for grift. They're going into an "innovation" unit whose job is to get the Army (or DOD more broadly, but they're in the Army now) to select particular technologies moving forward. Naturally, they'll recommend whatever their employer produces, and recommend to their employer that they expand into other areas so they can get the Army to buy that as well later on.

Good news, that sort of behavior is technically illegal even if the current administration is wildly corrupt already. So give it 4 years and they open themselves to the possibility of being courtmartialed for their grifting.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-21 18:55:28+00:00
Fred Brooks, the author of The Mythical Man-Month said:

> “Software is ten times easier to write than it was ten years ago, and ten times as hard to write as it will be ten years from now.”

Ansible, Hetzner, Prometheus and object storage will give you RDS if you prompt an LLM, or at least give you the parts of RDS that you need for your use case for a fraction of the cost.
by jeremyjh | 2025-06-21 18:55:34+00:00
That is not correct. Table stakes are not a "bet size", they are the minimum you have to bring to have a seat at the table. For example you might have to bring $300 to sit a table where the minimum bet size (big blind) is $5. You only have to bet the blinds 2 out of 10 hands (or more, if short-handed), which would be much smaller.
by a_shovel | 2025-06-21 18:55:37+00:00
"Gender-Affirming Medical Treatments for Pediatric Patients with Gender Dysphoria", College of Pharmacy University of Utah, https://le.utah.gov/AgencyRP/reportingDetail.jsp?rid=636 , states:

> Page 116: "... the consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric GD patients. The evidence also supports that the treatments are safe in terms of changes to bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer."

If you could cite these randomized controlled trials, that would be great.

In how many US states were pediatric gender treatments suspended or phased out by medical bodies because doctors examined the evidence and determined that the treatments were not beneficial? That's what I would expect if the treatments really didn't work. From what I know, this isn't the case for any of the bans. The bans are all laws passed by state legislatures, especially conservative ones, and aren't meaningful evidence of anything except conservative lawmakers' political incentives.
by nixgeek | 2025-06-21 18:56:15+00:00
It only enforces a restrictive covenant for 10 years. Buy land in 2026, build a few homes, repurpose to a datacenter campus in 2036. Looks like that would be entirely legal from reading the bill.

If they were concerned about future redevelopment they should have put a 50-100 year restrictive covenant in the bill, not only 10 years.
by thisislife2 | 2025-06-21 18:56:37+00:00
There is something called the "WebView" in all the major platforms. The idea is that it allows you to use the browser engine only for creating the UI. But people complain its not "enough" because it is not the same on all the platform (it is if you use it just for UI), restricts access to some browser APIs (ignoring the fact that the OS often offers the same, even and more APIs) and Javascript (a crappy language for creating software applications).
by simonw | 2025-06-21 18:57:02+00:00
This inspired me to have a try at running Edit on macOS via Docker - here's what I got working (should work for anyone else with Docker installed on Apple silicon too, I pushed the image to the GitHub Container Registry):

docker run --platform linux/arm64 \ -it --rm \ -v $(pwd):/workspace \ ghcr.io/simonw/alpine-edit

Run that in a directory to open Edit against the files in that directory.

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/edit-is-now-open-sourc... - and a new TIL on publishing to the GitHub Container Registry here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github/container-registry

You can also compile directly from source on macOS - instructions here, I've not tried this yet: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/README.md#build-...
by fakedang | 2025-06-21 18:57:24+00:00
The amount of dilly-dallying on the Israeli question (which is at the heart of the OP issue also) is enough evidence that the EU is a has-been power - they can't even make up their minds, what with France against the Iran strikes, while Germany likes Israel "doing our dirty work".

And both are centre-right governments to boot! If the White House is the clownshow in the circus, the EU is the acrobatics act.
by hollandheese | 2025-06-21 18:57:51+00:00
>I wonder if any of BeOS ended up on my current WebOS powered LG TV. I bet someone here knows.

None at all. Palm split into two companies in 2003, PalmOne and PalmSource. PalmOne handled the hardware and PalmSource handled the software. BeOS went with PalmSource.

PalmOne eventually bought the full rights to the Palm trademark from PalmSource in 2005 and switched back to being Palm. This is the company that made WebOS and got bought by HP.

PalmSource got bought by ACCESS (the company that made NetFront, one of the early mobile webbrowsers) and the rights to BeOS went to them in the sale.
by WD-42 | 2025-06-21 18:58:07+00:00
I've been pretty aware of this ever since I became a cyclist. I will ride down to the corner store to pick up a six pack and some chips, throw them in a backpack and ride back. It's easy. I see people driving their cars to do the same thing. All that weight and space for a 6 bottles of beer. There is massive waste all around us.
by echelon | 2025-06-21 18:58:15+00:00
> triple-nine uptime & fault tolerance.

Haha, we used to joke that's how many nines our customer-facing Ruby on Rails services had compared against our resilient five nines payments systems. Our heavy infra handled billions in daily payment volume and couldn't go down.

With the Ruby teams, we often playfully quipped, "which nines are those?" humorously implying the leading digit itself wasn't itself a nine.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-21 18:58:31+00:00
> Initially pitched to help software engineers pass job interviews using real-time AI assistance,

I’ll never fully understand this. Maybe getting 1-2 paychecks before being kicked out is worth it but if you enable this kind of thing you are scum.

Why would you want to help people who can’t do the job (since they need AI help to chest their way in), get the job? Are you comfortable with prospective employees using it to apply to your company?

I could never put my name and reputation behind something that I didn’t believe in or feel was a net-positive. I do not understand people willing to sacrifice all morals for money.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-21 19:00:03+00:00
Well said. It reminds me of a story I heard in a podcast once.

A database administrator for a drug cartel became an informant for the police.

His cartel boss called him in on a weekend due to a server errors. He said in the podcast "I knew I've been found out because a database running Linux never crashes"

Makes you wonder what everyone is telling themselves about the need for RDS..
by cnames | 2025-06-21 19:00:32+00:00
I’m in the U.S. and don’t want to rely on this stuff either, but I don’t know that I’d really trust any sufficiently complex software. Anything can be compromised. Even if you build from source, your compiler might be compromised, or you buy a cool new usb peripheral and plug it in- boom! Compromised. Bought a new device? Compromised already. That printer you bought years ago? Compromised and in your secure wireless network. Your sniffer and firewall? Compromised. Firefox? Compromised. Tor? Compromised. Wikileaks? Compromised. Your dishwasher? Compromised. You drive out in the woods without any devices and live in a tent. Hiker comes along and takes photos. You and tent are compromised. Walking out in the middle of nowhere naked hiding under a bush my ass.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-21 19:00:43+00:00
I was also really interested in to see an advanced early warning (AEW) mq-9b variant.

The replaceable nose here on this mq-28 feels in the same realm of interest, in that it's where sensor packages would go. Where-as they just strapped some huge pods on the mq-9b?

From what I've seen, the only interestingly advanced system has been PhantomStrike, with a nice little actively scanned electronic array (asea) radar in the nose. This feels like perhaps the most important CCA role to me, figuring out what the hell is out there.

It's disappointing as hell that much more advanced craft like E-7A have been so un-prioritized, first by saying, nah, build the aircraft but we'll upgrade all the old sensor tech down the road, now saying meh maybe we won't buy it, space will let us do it all. I really struggle to buy that, and it feels insecure, unreliable if there's any active space denial (jamming or physical attacks). Who really knows but it feels like drones have been under tapped to provide more advanced sensing (predators etc have obviously been very effective eyes in the air against low sophistication targets).

It'll be interesting as heck to see how the communications systems work out. The idea of the B-21 as a network hub was interesting as heck. I worry again we'll end up over-reliant on space, but it is amazing as heck what these huge satellite constellations enable.

https://www.twz.com/air/mq-9b-airborne-early-warning-variant...

https://www.twz.com/air/phantomstrike-low-cost-lightweight-a...
by jll29 | 2025-06-21 19:01:00+00:00
The location where scientists reside should be irrelevant - at best the venue where it was published should matter (I can understand that some obscure journals in other languages may be skipped in favor of more well-known (ACM/IEEE/ACL/...) English language conferences or journals), and it's not that Schmidhuber was hiding from the mainstream outlets.

In the age of globalization, it's getting harder to justify ignoring anything out there.
by exe34 | 2025-06-21 19:01:02+00:00
> They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere in this industry during your entire career without violating confidentiality with the technical and business instincts you bring to that domain

In that case you need to ask for a lifetime worth of salary, including growth from being in position to be put in escrow before you sign the dotted line. Otherwise they can hire you and fire you immediately and you'd never be able to work in your field that you spent years/decades training for.
by eesmith | 2025-06-21 19:01:31+00:00
Why not?

The US has several ways to acquire jurisdiction over foreign defendants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_over_int...

If Macron were to sell old GREs online then, as the Raju case determined, the US can try him, and if Macron fails to appear for the trial, he defaults on the case and is subject to arrest should he appear in the US, or any county which has the appropriate extradition treaty.

If the US can legally do that for selling GREs, it can surely do it for far more serious crimes.

If the US can do that to citizens of other countries, then other countries should be able to do that to US citizens, including the president.

The solution for American presidents is simple - never visit any place subject to the ICC.

Just like Pinochet should never have visited the UK where he was subject to European Union extradition law letting him be moved to Spain to be tried for his abuses in Chile on Spanish citizens.

US presidents should also be concerned about their support of "extraordinary rendition."
by SllX | 2025-06-21 19:01:34+00:00
I thought I was clear on this, but I guess not: it was entirely appropriate. They lost so thoroughly and the Holocaust was so repulsive that it was arguably necessary. Germany itself was also in such a precarious position that the continued existence of the German State was in jeopardy, and probably the only way it could continue to exist in any form even after being divided was to go through the Nuremberg Trials first. Don’t forget Stalin and the USSR was out for blood and new additions to the Eastern Bloc.
by nixgeek | 2025-06-21 19:01:47+00:00
Well, your obvious choices for datacenter cooling are in some climates evaporative /or/ using a heck of a lot more energy and a closed loop system. Pick your “problem”.

Water usage can also be optimized and is becoming part of the sustainability conversation at most of the hyperscalers with multi-gigawatt energy footprints:

https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/natural-resources/wat...
by vidarh | 2025-06-21 19:02:04+00:00
He invoked controversial right-wing populist slogans in the project README. Yes, that is involving politics, and doing so in a way that is guaranteed to put a lot of people off.

He can be political even in ways people finds offensive, and still have people prepared to still engage with his projects, but he can't do that within the project and expect people to ignore it. It's his choice. He appears to have chosen to double down on being controversial and driving people away from the project.

> why you think someone who pledges not to discriminate against people for politics

The "no DEI" bit is a common "slogan" from people who by many are seen to want to ignore discrimination and pretend it isn't a problem, often because they are seen as quite happy for discrimination to continue. As such, to a lot of people when someone makes a claim like that adjacent to claiming not to want to discriminate, it rings hollow, and in fact often signals to them that the person using that language is likely to either be a racist or is fine with racists.

You don't need to agree with those views. You're free to find that interpretation ridiculous or offensive. But when you try to defend this project, you ought to at least understand that this is how it gets interpreted by a lot of people, and this is why the project is mired in controversy, and will remain mired in controversy as long as the project presents itself in this way.

If his intent seriously is to genuinely not discriminate, then his choice of working is exceedingly poor and shows a lack of understanding of the politics involved.

He has now had plenty of opportunity to read reactions to it, and has still chosen to leave that language in place. To me, that is strongly negative signal - either he doesn't care about the reaction, or is being stubborn and willing to push people away, or he's fine with people seeing him that way. Either way, it's not going to do anything good for this project.