MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by homebrewer | 2025-06-28 20:33:51+00:00
If it's an honest question and not just the beginning of a hate-fest, let's think...

Both Java the language and OpenJDK the main runtime & development kit have had much more money and manpower poured into them under Oracle than they ever had previously. Both continue to advance rapidly after almost dying pre-Oracle acquisition.

MySQL 8 (released in 2018) was a massive release that brought many long awaited features (like CTEs) to the database, although MySQL's development have stalled during the past few years.

Oracle employs several Linux kernel developers and is one of major contributors (especially to XFS and btrfs): https://lwn.net/Articles/1022414

Not top 3 or even top 10, but better than most companies out there.

That's all I can remember.

edit: after thinking about it for a couple more minutes, they're also the main developer of GraalVM — the only high quality FOSS AOT compiler for Java (also mentioned by a sibling comment), and are writing one of the major relatively lightweight modern alternatives to Spring (the other two being Micronaut and Quarkus): https://helidon.io
by duped | 2025-06-28 20:35:07+00:00
I think Matt Levine coined this phrase: "everything is securities fraud."

Activist investors will sue for anything alleging that executives broke securities law by doing anything that harmed their portfolio. It doesn't mean they win the cases, or that anyone is guilty.

There's also something worth noting that even if there isn't a legal obligation for executives to act on their shareholders interests, they have a really strong incentive when their compensation is mostly stock grants and the shareholders can fire them.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-06-28 20:36:33+00:00
> from business ethics class, not law

Well, there was one case in the law over 100 years ago in the USA. A company had decided to sell itself for cash and go out of business. The Court ruled, that in that situation, it should sell to the highest bidder. This is long before Milton Friedman began advocating that corporations had a duty to their common shareholders that provided the only valid yardstick for evaluating corporate activities. Friedman was an economist, and a controversial one, not a lawyer, and how he got the lawyers behind him is itself a long strange story.

The idea that common shareholders own the corporation was not really obvious to anyone from the start. Common shareholders get from the corporation only what is their privilege according to the corporate bylaws and charter. There are now, and have been in the past, many different kinds of and classes of common shareholders. For example, some big corporations today have many common shareholders who do not have any voting rights. The thing that sets common shareholders apart from the other stakeholders who also hold pieces of paper from the corporation granting them various interests in the corporation, is that the common shareholders get to divide up whatever is left over if and when the corporation is liquidated and everyone else is given what they are owed first. They are more heirs than owners. It is more realistic to hold that the corporation, as an artificial person, is not and cannot be owned by other persons, and owns itself.
by 90s_dev | 2025-06-28 20:36:40+00:00
Animal Well has an item called "flying disc" or something since Frisbee is TM.

To google something has for decades for millenials meant search online in any way.

Trademark law is dumb and inconvenient. Only people owning trademarks disagree.

But so are many other laws. We all just have to follow them all anyway.
by klik99 | 2025-06-28 20:36:57+00:00
"The company is the product." -> When I'm feeling more optimistic I see this is how VC sees their portfolio and how you sell it to them, but not what the company is in reality. Like playwrights who write under authoritarian regimes selling it to the censor as promoting the regime while it actually satirizes and undermines them. But even if it's possible to walk that line, the data just doesn't back it up as common.

Side note, on "exit plan" - the most ridiculous thing about raising money is you need an exit strategy but you cannot explicitly say you have an exit strategy, you have to imply it while the whole time pretending it's not a focus for you. It's a very weird dynamic.
by sh34r | 2025-06-28 20:37:26+00:00
At least they could pivot Hotdog or Not into a dick-pic classifier, which was less trivial when that show was airing.

$14 billion for a glorified mechanical turk platform is bananas. Between this, the $6 billion Jonny Ive acquisition, and a ChatGPT wrapper for doctors called Abridge having a $5 billion valuation, this AI fraud bubble is making pets.com look like a reasonable investment.
by _zoltan_ | 2025-06-28 20:38:07+00:00
German is my third language and this has been exactly my experience - I find it more challenging than English, my second language. I feel like my brain is at 100% when I want to speak German.

however, my kids are soaking up languages like a sponge. we speak Hungarian at home, English and Hungarian with our friends, and they speak both Swiss German and German at school, so they are already trilingual.

I know several families where the parents brings their own language, they speak English as a common language at home and the kids learn German/Swiss German at school, so that makes them... quadlingial?
by econ | 2025-06-28 20:39:34+00:00
Your subconscious doesn't know the difference. It would require an overriding effort like trying to not eat or sleep. In the end we lose.

It could also be that it is "just" exploring a new domain which just happens to involve our sanity. Simply navigating a maze where more engagement is the goal. There is plenty in the training data.

It could also be that it needs to improve towards more human behaviour. Take simple chat etiquette, one doesn't post entire articles in a chat, it is not done. Start a blog or something. You also don't discard what you've learned from a conversation. We consider that pretending to listen. The two combined would push the other to the background and make them seem irrelevant. If some new valuable insight is discovered the participants should make an effort to apply, document or debate it with others. Not doing that would make the human feel irrelevant, useless and unimportant. We demoralize people that way all the time. If you put it on steroids it might have a large effect.
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-28 20:39:51+00:00
“Shareholder value” is what turned “we’re a family here” into a joke and cliche. It turns people into lines on a spreadsheet and strips leadership of their ability to care or treat people as humans. It’s represents the very darkest side of capitalism. Im very much a capitalist but it doesn’t mean I have to ignore the realities of it, both good and bad. I’ll take it over all alternatives though as it actually works and improves the lot of society as a whole
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-28 20:40:52+00:00
> state named "Israel" is not a prerequisite for Jewish people to live peacefully anywhere

Sort of irrelevant. The state of Israel exists. Israelis who call that land their home exist.

Those calling for the destruction of Israel are advocating for a holy war in the Levant. A war that would lead to hundreds of thousands if not millions of casualties.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-28 20:41:32+00:00
I don't think that's as trivial and invulnerable as you think it is. You are talking about a key that exists on a device, but cannot be extracted from the device. It can be used to sign a high volume of data in a unique way such that the signature cannot be transferred to another video.

Now you have another problem -- a signature is unique to a device, presumably, so you've got the "I can authenticate that this camera took this photo" problem, which is great if you are validating a press agency's photographs but TERRIBLE if you are covering a protest or human rights violation.
by moffkalast | 2025-06-28 20:41:47+00:00
In retrospect it wasn't really that the models were that bad compared to benchmarks, it was that Meta didn't work with inference engine providers ahead of time to integrate the new architecture like other teams usually do, so it was even more bugged than expected for the first few weeks.

The second problem that compounded it was that both L4 models were too large for 99.9% of people to run, so the only opinion most people had of it was what the few that could load it were saying after release. And they weren't saying good things.

So after inference was fixed the reputation stuck because hardly anyone can even run these behemoths to see otherwise. Meta really messed up in all ways they possibly could, short of releasing the wrong checkpoint or something.
by skydhash | 2025-06-28 20:41:50+00:00
Because the training data does not have it. So we have the label "rock" which intersect with some other label like "hard" and "earth". But the item itself have more attributes that we don't bother assigning label to them. Instead, we just experience them. So the label get linked to some qualia. We can assume that there's a collective intersection of the qualia that the label "rock" refers to.

LLMs don't have access to these hidden attributes (think how to describe "blue" to someone born blind). They may understand that color is a property of object, or that "black" is the color you wear for funerals in some locations. But ask them how to describe the color of a specific object and the output is almost guaranteed to be wrong. Unless they are in a funeral in the above location, so he can predict that most people wear black. But it's a guess, not an informed answer.
by alganet | 2025-06-28 20:41:53+00:00
https://martinfowler.com/aboutMe.html

> [...] I work for Thoughtworks [...]

> [...] I don't come up with original ideas, but do a pretty good job of recognizing and packaging the ideas of others [...]

> [...] I see my main role as helping my colleagues to capture and promulgate what we've learned about software development to help our profession improve. We've always believed that this openness helps us find clients, recruit the best people, and help our clients succeed. [...]

So, we should read him as such. It's a consultant, trying to capture what successful teams do. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-28 20:42:13+00:00
I might not be popular for this but JavaScript is indeed a trademark which Oracle rightfully owns these days. This is fair play.

However, I do believe the word has been diluted and genericized and hope the USPTO chooses to release it.

A good argument to avoid losing a trademark to genericization is to show that there is an actual generic term that overlaps with the trademark, but then the trademark is not the generic term itself.

Examples:

Nintendo → Video Game Console

Post-it → Sticky Note

Xerox → Photocopy

etc ...

In the case of JavaScript, there's no generic term to allude to; JavaScript is the generic term, which might weigh towards the argument of genericization.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-28 20:42:22+00:00
Yeah, I have the opposite problem, being a native English speaker living in Portugal - to my ear, I’ll say something perfectly coherent and pronounced exactly as the locals do - and they won’t understand a bloody word. It isn’t just the phonemes, it’s the cadence - syllabic vs rhythmic stress. I’ll be like “um galão” and they’ll be like “galão?”, “sim, um galão”, “um… que? Galão?”, “sim, galão”, “ahhh, um galão!” and I just can’t seem to be understood.

My wife is a native Russian speaker, and despite making numerous grammatical errors is far better understood than I am.

German, I have no such problem despite being far weaker at the language imo.
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by jokera | 2025-06-28 20:42:50+00:00
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by kevincox | 2025-06-28 20:43:10+00:00
My main question is in 90% of cases these are installers. How are you actually verifying the software that you install? In some cases it is signed and verified but in many cases it is just coming down from the same HTTPS server with no additional verification. So are you then diffing the code (which may be compiled) as well?

I'm not saying that random running random installers from the internet is a great pattern. Something like installing from your distribution can have better verification mechanisms. But this seems to add very little confidence.
by ofjcihen | 2025-06-28 20:43:23+00:00
Take it from someone in the business of exploiting race conditions for money: that’s about as average as you can get. Additionally, whatever Azure is considering “traditional” methods may be bare bones poorly optimized automated code reviews given the egregious issues they’ve had in the past.

As a side note:LLMs by definition do not demonstrate “understanding” of anything.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-28 20:44:06+00:00
I don't know that this is true. A lot of people are getting sucked into "this is my AI friend/girlfriend/boyfriend/waifu/husbando" territory.

In real life, other humans are not machines you can put kindness tokens in and get sex out. AI, on the other hand, you can put any tokens at all into AI and get sex out. I'm worried that people will stop interacting with humans because it's harder.

Sure, the results from a human relationship are 10,000x higher quality, but they require you to be able to communicate. AI will do what it's told, and you can tell it to love you and it will.

for some values of "will".
by lormayna | 2025-06-28 20:45:42+00:00
Arafat was an hero for the Palestinians, but he was the main responsible for the failing of Oslo agreements. Moreover Hamas won the elections in Gaza with 45% of the votes and, as we saw immediately after 7/11, most of them was cheering for the slaughterings and the rapes.

Unfortunately Palestinians have an huge responsibility on the actual situation.
by ryanjshaw | 2025-06-28 20:46:02+00:00
Spent about 12mo on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint) and there were just too many issues.

Ubuntu had weird quirks that almost always turned out to be related to my using a snap package. Of course I wasted countless hours getting to the point where I realised that was the issue.

Mint stopped booting once for unknown reasons on modern hardware and I had to reinstall. Another time I wasted half my day trying to get my whatever-the-distro-calls-taskbar to reappear when it decided to disappear. Debian was stable but every time I had an issue I had to battle through advice that was too new to apply.

Linux is great at making me feel like I’m crazy - I must have wasted 2 hours trying to figure out how to get an app image to run nicely from the whatever-the-distro-calls-a-start-button. Everything seemed so complex and backwards compared to Windows. I have to configure the icon myself?! This was automatic in Windows 3.1. I wasted so much time thinking I was missing a better way only to realise, nope, this is the way. It was bizarre that everybody was happy to run a random 3rd party GitHub app to solve this. Unbelievable that in 2025 downloading an app and getting an icon to start it involved so much complexity (appimage vs flatpak vs snap vs gz vs sh… who the hell has time to figure this out?!).

Eventually I decided I’d had enough and don’t want to spend the rest of my life messing around like I’m a teenager with all the time in the world, and switched everything over to Apple, which is working out great.
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-28 20:46:23+00:00
I hear you but disagree. Who decides what the common good is? You end up with companies moralizing, forcing employees to adhere to those common goods in both their work and personal lives. Forcing people to get the vaccine was for the common good. DEI was common good and that in turn led to Trump being elected. The pendulum swings.

At least with share holder value, you know where you stand. The common good is a constantly changing thing determined by the moral authority in charge at a moment in time.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-28 20:46:31+00:00
> there's still a definite integer that it corresponds to.

The formalism says that there's still a definite integer that it corresponds to. The ultrafinitist would deny that the formalism keeps capturing truth past where we've verified it to be true, or some unknown distance farther.

> I hypothesized a universe in which BB(748) could actually exist, but you can equally hypothesize ones in which not only can it exist, it exists comfortably and is considered a small number by its denizens.

Sure, but the ultrafinitist would argue, "All this is still just a shallow hypothesis: you've said the words, but that's not enough to breathe much 'life' into the concept. It is but the simplest of approximations that can fit into our heads, and such large things (if they could exist) would likely have an entirely different nature that is incomprehensible to us."

> We can't conceive of such a thing but there's no particular a priori reason to suppose it couldn't exist.

That's why I wouldn't call myself an ultrafinitist, but would prefer an agnostic approach. There may be no great a priori reason to suppose it cannot exist, but I similarly do not see any such reason it must necessarily exist. We empirically notice that our formalism works for numbers small enough to work with, and we pragmatically round it off to "this formalism is true", but one could argue that surprising claims about huge numbers need stronger support than mere pragmatism.
by Vektorceraptor | 2025-06-28 20:46:46+00:00
There is still a deeper problem, which the article didn't tackle. We don't need social media in general. Some forums and platforms for geeks and freaks are enough. We don't need perfectly orchestrated or fairly designed apps to simulate genuine connection, which works best without any digital help what so ever.

So let's imagine that the best way is to return to offline interactions and connections - which take time, trust, respect and value of each other.

The internet is better when used by the nerds, not the general public.
by rayiner | 2025-06-28 20:46:49+00:00
I’ve changed my mind on dictators. Name one asian country that became prosperous without a phase where it was ruled by a highly authoritarian ruler?

Even in the west, the civil institutions that underpin democracy were mostly created under “enlightened despots” (or so I learned in AP Euro). You probably need a dictator to break the familial and clan ties and organizer the country around individuals interacting with the civil organs of the state.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-28 20:46:56+00:00
There are around 3 million software developers in the US, most working for regular old enterprise companies in most major metropolitan areas in the US. All of the job boards have openings for those positions.

I spent my entire career from 1996-2020 working locally in Atlanta - 7 jobs in all - until my last three jobs that have been remote.
by volleyball | 2025-06-28 20:47:16+00:00
In 1920 (the year when British took over Palestine from the Ottomans) the jewish population was less than 10% Jewish and represented less than 1% of global Jewry. By 1948, after the British flooded in Jewish migrants mainly from Europe and the Americas, the population became about ~65% + arab and 35+% Jewish. Zionism was always predicated on Ethnic cleansing from the start and the founders of zionists were always aware of that fact.

“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country.” - Theodore Herzl , Father of Zionism in 1895.

"With compulsory transfer we [would] have a vast area [for settlement]. I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it." - David Ben Gurion, Father of Israel.

"the world has become accustomed to the idea of mass migrations and has become fond of them. … Hitler – as odious as he is to us – has given this idea a good name in the world." - Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Founder of Revisionist Zionism, 1940.

Zionism is textbook settler-colonialism. I dont see it worth even arguing the point.
by malux85 | 2025-06-28 20:48:04+00:00
We were given 25k in Azure credits, along with 100k from AWS and 350k from Google.

The microsoft one has been the worst experience by far. No GPU availability, couldnt even get one despite many attempts in many regions. They have two different billing dashboards always out of sync. They accidently billed 11k to our company card and getting it back was a nightmare of talk to X in Y department. The rep assigned to us simply didnt care, and scheduled frequent monthly updates with us but them just tried to get off the call as fast as possible.

Compare with AWS and Google, we have been invited to poker nights with them, they have been attentive in helping us get customers, they get us GPUs when we need them (recently an H200), they connect us with internal teams and they take the interest and go the extra mile.

Azures technical infra is so cut down and restricted it took us a month of nagging just to get a 32 core, CPU only server, which frequently became unresponsive even when not under load.

Bad experience all around, it became quite a joke internally.
by rickcarlino | 2025-06-28 20:48:31+00:00
This is good so far! Most of my sentences were 10/10, but as an upper-intermediate learner, I am more concerns about the 7/10 sentences (and less worried about vocabulary).

I am only a few minutes in- is the app going to do anything about the "gaps" in my skills?

Great work! Very excited to see the future of language learning with LLMs
by afiodorov | 2025-06-28 20:48:48+00:00
When you spend some time transcribing live, impromptu speech, you'll notice that it often doesn't follow the rules of written grammar; speakers frequently abandon sentences midway through.

For example, in the linked clip[^1], the speaker says:

"uh the European Union uh that's not a US creation that's a you guys creation so don't ex..[abandoned word] the strength of the west [abandoned sentence] and the west is a really I don't know what"

For a moment, she struggles to express herself. Yet, there's a qualitative difference between not knowing what to say because a thought is not fully formed, and knowing what you want to say but realizing you've forgotten the specific word you need. For instance, you might be about to say "cherry," only to find you've forgotten the word and instead say something more general, like "forest fruit (fruta de bosque)," which is still correct but less precise.

[^1]: https://youtu.be/_hBd8w-Hlm4?si=7-kvpUoeYo5ODPiI&t=787
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-28 20:49:11+00:00
> you can’t say much about NASA long time commitment either

Of course one can. Those plans could change. But they were set and funded and that inertia appears to be saving them [1].

ESA has nothing similar planned. (Beyond collaboration [2].)

[1] https://yellowhammernews.com/u-s-senate-directive-would-revi...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-european-space-agency...