MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-10 09:37:57+00:00
I dislike people promoting extensions to the formerly liberal moderation and content controls on the net because the current status quo was entirely predictable.

And your statement is wrong. There was a culture that such content wasn't removed and if it was done, there was a backlash. Even on platforms like Facebook and there certainly was a time where such removals generated feedback.

But activists demanded censorship and everything degenerated into some stupid partisan shit about bullshit topics that do not matter.

It doesn't take too much to comprehend that the demands for censorhip normalized it in the end.

And open solutions like ActivityPub also had to suffer the insufferable and made the openness a moot point.

Govt funding would make everything even worse because people would demand even more content controls and there are numerous leverages where public officials could be pressured to enact more content controls.
by Theodores | 2025-06-10 09:38:11+00:00
Apple know their customers and what they like.

I am actually Apple-phobic, a diehard linux user and incapable of doing simple tasks on Apple products. However, I think they have got a winner here. Although people talk of Vista Aero, it is more sophisticated than that, and, when this rolls out, Android will look distinctly old fashioned and low status, even if it is better as far as accessibility. I like what they have done here, even if it is not for me.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 09:38:54+00:00
> What is your response supposed to show?

The point is domestic isn't qualifying violence, it's referring to a particular category of threat.

> the fact that someone is present in the country illegally

Illegal immigrants aren't "from within [the] country."

The people who are from within the United States are protesting. Mostly peacefully. They're the ones the Marines are being deployed against.
by williamdclt | 2025-06-10 09:39:16+00:00
I think the point was that "Go's quite horrendous and limited type system" gets in the way of everything (programming in general), nothing specific to crafting agents.

There's a lot of discussions on the internet about the bad design decisions of Golang (for example around channels, enums, error handling, redeclarations, interfaces, zero values, nilability... at least generics aren't so much a subject anymore)
by rollcat | 2025-06-10 09:39:30+00:00
> The (maybe) rising solution is "build-your-own-desktop" options [...].

This is not a solution for power users, this is a half-hearted non-solution for people with too much time on their hands. As a power user, I need the computer to do the stupid work for me, so I can focus on the more interesting/important stuff, like playing games, recording a song, building an app, or just making a living.

I play guitar. I tried building one. It was terrible. There's a good reason why there's very few luthiers among guitarists.

> Maybe it's early days.

People have been doing this since before KDE. I started using Linux around 2002, and it wasn't long until I was theming Fluxbox.

If you want a decent and hackable desktop environment, start with matching the functionality of OS X 10.4, then work from there.
by Plasmoid2000ad | 2025-06-10 09:39:39+00:00
This wasn't my first impression of this, but the more I heard this dicussed the more I'm forming an opinion that there might be some intentional parts of this that while maybe not being good, make sense from a certain narrow perspective.

My assumption is, if tax folks in the US were looking Jealously at US companies with large Multinational presence declaring a lot of their profits abroad. They might have noticed that some of them have large dev presence in US, but through complex accounting, IP transfers, licensing and other actions are able to claim that majority of the value is generated outside of the US.

If a company had, say, 100k software devs, 50k in the US, and 50k scattered across other countries, but claimed the value of it's software was primarily in Puerto Rico and Ireland... In that case, I'd expect questions around the 50k devs in the US.

Is software dev the only activity where this is possible - no, but is currently by the far the largest and the largest growth industry.
by namaria | 2025-06-10 09:40:01+00:00
> Socrates had a skeptical view of written language, preferring oral communication and philosophical inquiry. This perspective is primarily presented through the writings of his student, Plato, particularly in the dialogue Phaedrus.

He did not. You should read the dialogue.

> I confirmed that from my own memory via a Google AI summary, quoted verbatim above.

This is the biggest problem with LLMs in my view. They are great at confirmation bias.

In Phaedrus 257c–279c Plato portrays Socrates discussing rhetoric and the merits of writing speeches not writing in general.

"Socrates: Then that is clear to all, that writing speeches is not in itself a disgrace.

Phaedrus: How can it be?

Socrates: But the disgrace, I fancy, consists in speaking or writing not well, but disgracefully and badly.

Phaedrus: Evidently."

I mean, writing had existed for 3 millennia by the point this dialogue was written.
by rswail | 2025-06-10 09:40:11+00:00
So there's numerous layers to this:

1. Where and how is the data stored and retrieved? This can be made local by forcing all data users/services to use an EU data storage service that is locally owned and operated and under EU jurisdiction. Access to the data would only be to the service delivery operator and the appropriate EU legal authorities.

2. Where and how is the data accessed? The data needs to be accessed by the service provider (eg an email service) to handle incoming updates and requests. The access could be limited to the required updates and inquiries, or otherwise logged so that the service provider is held accountable for access.

3. Where and how is the service accessible to legal authorities? For example, police warrants for an email inbox. The service provider should be required to identify and reveal publicly what data is available and how it is legally accessible if required. Given encryption, it may be that the service provider is unable to provide that access to anyone except the end user (eg Protonmail, Signal).

4. What control does the end user have over their data and the associated meta-data maintained by the service provider? GDPR covers a lot of ground here, including the right to be forgotten.
by metalman | 2025-06-10 09:40:18+00:00
goals or constraints are just different life outlooks, and could be rephrased and characterised as overly ambitious and giving up depending on which finger was pointing where as to the worlds complexity, that realy depends on definitions, and how much situational detail is included in "different" so called profesions, which to illustrate I will point out that, no one who has not taken on formal(paid) students and actualy proffesed there occupation is in fact a profesional. my real point is that any discussion of the things that are exclusivly human constructs is stuck in a world of arbitrary definitions and is meaningless unless there is a strict adhearance to those defintions. there are dictionarys, use them
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-10 09:41:07+00:00
> The point is domestic isn't qualifying violence, it's referring to a particular category of threat.

But that is the way TiredOfLife presented it. He says that people who are illegally present don't fall into that category. You respond that he shouldn't be talking about wife beaters. Where did that come from?

(Also, of course, "domestic" is qualifying "violence". It's just doing it in Merriam-Webster's sense 2 rather than sense 3.)
by josevalim | 2025-06-10 09:41:14+00:00
I have a fun anecdote. About 5-6 years ago, Elixir completely disappeared from the top 100 after spending some time in the top 50. People reached out to me and then I reached out to TIOBE to understand why and the reason given was "bad presence on Amazon".

After further investigation, the root cause seemed to be that we finally had enough published Elixir books. At the time, if you searched for "xyz programming" on Amazon and only found a few results, Amazon would pad those results with non-relevant entries. However, because Elixir reached about 20-30 books, we were no longer padded, so we suddenly got worse rankings than every other language with only a handful of books. This happened on every Amazon domain they searched on, so it compounded and effectively kicked us out of the top 100 altogether. This all happened at a time Elixir language activity had already reached top 25 on GitHub PRs/stars.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-10 09:42:16+00:00
Nothing is arbitrary, this doesn't make it a debate though. You can have a statement at best if he states the reasons.

About the healthy life stuff, yes most of the rest of the world already practice this without wedging war on modern science and have plenty of regulations in place to protect the citizens. Additionally, a lot of countries have some form of centralized healthcare structure that has has preventive healthcare.

Maybe RFK wants to make USA like EU using BS to avoid being called socialist.

Also, I previously said that I like the spirit of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134479
by lostlogin | 2025-06-10 09:42:19+00:00
> There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

It’s not just that the military has become both, the police have too. Arming your police to the level of US police is just crazy.
by atmanactive | 2025-06-10 09:42:34+00:00
Yes, I agree. If only I could get my money back...

So now we believe that corporatitis can only make bug-infested games, and that the only way to make a super-complex simulation bug-free is to have a single brain god-mode overview and understanding of the whole codebase. Could be.

Keeping my fingers crossed for your success and looking forward to playing your game. Good luck.
by karlperera | 2025-06-10 09:42:52+00:00
There has always been a huge problem for SETI in my opinion, the size of the area to scan. The sky is huge and so much is out there! It never really occurred to me that we might have already recorded something interesting and just missed it. That's where AI might help. A learning algorithm has been applied to data from the Green Bank Telescope—data that had already been analyzed and cleared by traditional methods. The AI was able to identify 8 promising technosignature candidates that were previously classified as human-generated interference. It makes me wonder what other major discoveries might be hiding in plain sight in old scientific datasets.

Are there any experts in this field that would be able to comment on this and tell us what AI might be able to do with old data like this? What do you think?
by tuetuopay | 2025-06-10 09:42:54+00:00
OMG thanks, it also works in french!

This goes even deeper in the "undiscoverable commands" issue at hand.

"notify me in 15 minutes" feels natural and casual, and how I'd expect to interact with modern voice assistants. "set a 15 minutes timer" feels overly formal and redundant (it does not help that in French, a timer is "minuteur", so you repeat the "minutes" sound twice), and how I'd expect to interact with old voice assistants. This new one is just some hidden trial-and-error thing deep in Siri that's likely an engineer that likes cooking that added it as a shortcut.
by ilaksh | 2025-06-10 09:42:57+00:00
My interpretation of this is he feels that AI-assisted programming is okay if you still participate in the programming sometimes, but if you only prompt then you're not really a programmer. Or something.

He does say that you should provide more context rather than just repeating yourself.

There is a distinction as far as having some engineering skills and knowledge to give the AI hints, but it might be more of a symbolic one than people realize. And as AI continues to improve, that will be more so.

But it does bring up a valid point that if we don't do any problem solving or thinking for ourselves, we will be totally helpless.

I think this is something that all students should be taught pro-actively. Actually there should have already been a national standard reinforcing to kids what happens to your brain if you don't use it and how important it is to actually read, write and solve problems sometimes rather than feeding everything into an AI.

On the other hand, the robustness and general capabilities of ML models continues to improve. We have models that can roughly generate a video game frame-by-frame from a text prompt and input image. How long until we get this for application software? Or a diffusion LLM that just outputs a full WASM source/binary or update from a text prompt or series of images in 4 steps and 5 seconds.

I think it could be a really interesting experiment to create a diffusion LLM trained on thousands and thousands of 6502 games and programs, with the full manual (including images) as input and the output being assembly or machine code along with a bit of metadata for RetroArch or something. Or maybe also include recorded gameplay data/visuals.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 09:43:09+00:00
> Which makes sense or else every DA in the country would have effective veto power over the president

Trump v. United States was decided with respect to "a federal case that was ultimately dismissed by federal district court judge" [1]. It was about the limits of U.S. executive power. Not "every DA in the country."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
by maxlin | 2025-06-10 09:43:14+00:00
>What are the benefits? It's good business. I'd assume you know what the benefits of that are.

>The downsides are <snip> So, less bad than the alternative. The only real danger would be them selling the GPU's to China, but that'd be so short-sighted by them and cut short so its not really that much of an issue, and would be barely worse than the other option that'd come by default. Hell, if you learn from Russia's isolation, to a degree making the Chinese reliant on NVIDIA could even slow them down as they'd not be as pressured to advance domestic technology.

Also, using terms like "arming" here is hardly fair.
by nosianu | 2025-06-10 09:43:45+00:00
> The vast majority of your argument's volume was promoting an incorrect way of thinking comparing two unrelated things

Funny, that is exactly what I saw when I read your "arguments".

> Any reasonable reader would throw away the vast majority of what you had to say as useless

You are talking about your own baseless attacks. You don't even try to argue, you replace coming up with arguments completely with going on the attack with otherwise content-free words, just accusations and insults.
by pembrook | 2025-06-10 09:44:28+00:00
Wind and solar have not been a 'massive' success.

And renewables can only get you so far.

Wind/Solar/etc cannot produce fertilizer - arguably the most important use of fossil fuels.

And the EU's land does not produce enough food to support its population without fossil fuel derived fertilizers (requires lots of nat gas). Hence why the EU still imports $billions of Russian fertilizer despite publicly talking tough about Russia.

The EU leaves fossil fuel extraction to other countries and then imports the result while loudly shouting about their own "morality" and sustainability. It's child-like and pure silly-ness. Until the EU starts fracking they will never have independence over anything.
by sunshine-o | 2025-06-10 09:45:03+00:00
> It doesnt matter if its my home lab or some Saas server, how is it simpler to serve 3 PHP apps with different PHP versions on raw linux than simply using docker for example?

You got me, I have no idea how to manage PHP. Intuitively I would try to solve that problem with Nix first.

But here if you can't run two PHP versions on the same OS I would say the flaw is at the PHP level or how distributions handle it. So personally in my home I would probably avoid it and be grateful containers solve this problem for me at work.

To end on a more positive note, if you like Docker I would recommend you check FreeBSD Jails too because you probably gonna love it.

I used both but Jails have a level of integration in the OS which is next level (if used with ZFS). You really get the best of both world.
by close04 | 2025-06-10 09:45:13+00:00
> This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world.

He has even bigger levers to pull unfortunately. Sanctions are this giant hammer that can be dropped on anyone and the weight of the US ensures compliance. When the ICC chief prosecutor was sanctioned it wasn't just US companies who gave in, like Microsoft. His UK bank also blocked him. Sooner or later in the chain of dependencies there will be something based in the US or relying on something based in the US. Your MSP, the airline you travel with, anything will be used against you if sanctions are transmitted like a disease to anyone giving you assistance. No company or country wants to risk being buried to fight the US on this.
by trhway | 2025-06-10 09:45:40+00:00
>mainly about Firefox.

just couple hours ago loaded new Rasp Pi 5, and between Chromium and FF I of course chose FF (first time i built it, ie. Mozilla, back then in 99, and i really don't like Chrome and the ilk). The FF didn't took a bunch of keyboard keys while for every other application i used there the keyboard works just fine. Didn't have time or intention to troubleshoot, just switched to Chromium. Pity. Just another illustrative FF loss vs. Chrome in that downhill ride of FF losses under the stewardship of Mozilla, whether it is the company or foundation, doesn't seem to matter.
by xdennis | 2025-06-10 09:45:41+00:00
The President has authority to do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807. Note that President Eisenhower did the same thing when he forced desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

I'm pretty sure you were aware of this but cite the Posse Comitatus Act to make it sound like what Trump is doing is illegal.

You can absolutely argue that what he's doing is unnecessary, disproportional, evil, provocative, etc, but it's not illegal.
by Havoc | 2025-06-10 09:46:35+00:00
Yeah Europe really needs to step up here. It's a huge economic block.

The whole chips fab thing may be a bridge too far for now, but the basics really should be doable. The newly launched EU DNS is a good start. Rules like taxpayer money needs to only fund open software etc need to be pushed. The large hosting providers need to be incentivized to build out more complete offerings that don't have gaping product holes vs big cloud etc.

Both China and the US are aggressively pushing homegrown & favouring their own players. Time for the EU to do the same
by CursedSilicon | 2025-06-10 09:47:13+00:00
Something you missed as well was 2018's "CLOUD Act" [1]

Stealing from Wikipedia since frankly it's better articulated than I could do

"The CLOUD Act was introduced following difficulties that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had with obtaining remote data through service providers through SCA warrants, as the SCA was written before cloud computing was a viable technology. The situation was highlighted from a 2013 drug trafficking investigation, during which the FBI issued an SCA warrant for emails that a U.S. citizen had stored on one of Microsoft's remote servers in Ireland, which Microsoft refused to provide."

US Companies can't simply say "well that's in Europe. That's outside *our control*". The US truly considers its data reach to be global in nature when it comes to US companies. it's absolutely terrifying to think about

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
by jfernandezr | 2025-06-10 09:47:34+00:00
Wow, initially I thought this was the typical libertarian thing to pay less taxes. But thanks to your explanation, I see that the scheme is absolutely crazy. Software devs salaries, as any other employee, should be considered an expense.

But, in a second thought, if you sell a software that you hand crafted to a single customer, in Spain, the software enterprise currently deducts all salaries, while the customer has to depreciate the cost. Think about that in the likes of building an expensive machine: the manufacturer deducts all costs while the customer has to depreciate the machine cost over 20 years.

So the question is, how should a software development piece be considered when it's used internally? Why if you sell that software to others have a tax implication different than if you yourself use it?

That's a very difficult question to answer with too many edges.
by lynx97 | 2025-06-10 09:48:26+00:00
I don't have any overall statistics, probably because they don't exist. But I can anecdotally report that I have heard radical "we need to force them if they dont listen" rhetoric from the LGBTQ-Circles several times already in the past years.

To your other question: I perceive DEI, and most other "inclusion" efforts I've seen so far, mostly as a strawman. We basically failed with digital accessibility and more inclusion in the workplace for people with disabilities. If I am not mistaken, the US and EU still stand somewhere around 80% unemployment for people with disabilities. To me, DEI is an attempt to hide that failure by including a lot more marginalized groups, which at the end of the day do not need so much adaptation as people with disabilities do. So IMO, DEI is trying to hide the fact that inclusion of people with disabilities has already failed. And its mixing up too many groups with different needs. I have absolutely nothing in common with a LGBTQ-person when it comes to my needs as a blind guy. There is no overlap, and I dont feel represented when they have their pride month. But they are so loud that the needs of my community have been silenced by now. Which confirms my intuition with DEI. Meanwhile, teachers are telling me they are working with their classes to find a new word for "disability". If that is the outcome of DEI, people endlessly engaging in wordgames, instead of working on the actual hard problems, I don't need anything from it. Its useless waste of time and dumbing down of the actual problems at hand.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-10 09:48:27+00:00
I'm not sure about MacOS, but otherwise all major OSs today can run containers natively. However, the interest in non-Linux containers is generally very very low. You can absolutely run Kubernetes as native Windows binaries [0] in native Windows containers, but why would you?

Note that containers, by definition, rely on the host OS kernel. So a Windows container can only run Windows binaries that interact with Windows syscalls. You can't run Linux binaries in a Windows container anymore than you can run them on Windows directly. You can run Word in a Windows container, but not GCC.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...