MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by znpy | 2025-06-29 11:19:07+00:00
> They successfully weaponized open source by giving something for free and clawing back step by step (i.e. closing open source VSCode plugins), and leaving parts which does drowns competitors most effectively open.

And that's why people should be pushing for Free Software, rather than Open Source.

20 years in the game, and I ended up agreeing with steve ballmer: open source is cancer.

Look at how bad it went for ElasticSearch and Redis, and then look how well it's going for Grafana (whose software is Free Software - besides being just great).

This is so true that Redis did not go back to being "open source", it became Free Software (AGPL).
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 11:21:23+00:00
Where is the "wealth created for the least well off" going to come from?

Necessarily, that must be wealth that did' go to the rich instead (it could have!). So, necessarily, you are "punishing" them by doing so.

You mainly seem to be against some kind of hypothetical robinhoodesque style redistribution because you worry it's unfair to the rich. Any solution, though, will have to take this shape, whether it targets the existing wealth or wealth generated going forward. It's all about redistribution of access no matter how you slice

You don't need to be so protective of the rich. They are doing just fine and they have plenty of resource and mechanisms in place to protect themselves. If the world's wealthiest people were made even just a tiny bit less wealth by redistribution of assets they would still be living like absolute kings.
by murderfs | 2025-06-29 11:21:24+00:00
GPUs are not particularly hot for compute silicon, they just have ridiculously huge dies. Comparing the 5090 to a Core Ultra 285K, the GPU has a 750 mm^2 die compared to the CPU's 243 mm^2, but has a peak power of 575W compared to 250W. The CPU uses 25% more power per area, and that's before considering the fact that consumer CPUs are packaged for user installation, so there's an extra heatspreader on top of the die, whereas GPUs are sold as integrated units, so the heatsink sits directly on top of the die.
by xienze | 2025-06-29 11:21:47+00:00
> This is about giving more people access to more material resources by taking away some of the exclusive access to those resource by the rich.

You realize most of this wealth is tied up in stocks and other assets that anyone can purchase, right?

> Will preventing the uber rich families from buying their seventeenth fleet of housing complexes

But ARE the likes of Bezos and Musk actually buying housing complexes in the first place, nevermind ones that anyone who isn’t already rich are able to afford?

> and their twentieth estate

And who but the extremely rich would be able to buy these estates in the first place?
by walleeee | 2025-06-29 11:22:01+00:00
> addiction is [dependency] plus inability to quit the habit despite strong and persistent effort

> I am not saying tech addiction can't happen, I just haven't seen any evidence to that effect

Which planet do you live on? It's hard to read this in good faith.

Nobody has a "technology usage" addiction. The digital dopamine drip-feed in your pocket delivers by design in a way a spoon or double-entry bookkeeping does not, despite the fact that you can use the spoon to get high on a substance you traded for money.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-29 11:22:18+00:00
Because there's not actual written legislation, you could try to make this argument in court, but, previously courts have stuck to the idea that they mean everybody so truck drivers wouldn't be enough. Maybe "Everybody in New York" cuts it in a New York court, certainly I'd expect that "Nigerians don't know this word" wouldn't count against you in any court in the United States of America - but the sort of relativity you're thinking of was definitely not on their mind.
by zer00eyz | 2025-06-29 11:22:45+00:00
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look at who authored something because I disliked it on a visceral level.

The writing here goes from too much punctuation to grad students book review to quasi political rant. And the criticism might be valid but I simply can't get past the horrid delivery.

Prelapsarian... yay I learned a new word. It did not help with the delivery of the conclusion.
by hibikir | 2025-06-29 11:22:53+00:00
The fact that they make money doing something doesn't stop hungry PMs and VPs from pushing other revenue sources.

Amazon used to sell us items, now ad sales are a big part of their storefront's revenue. Cable used to not have ads.

If you aren't paying, you are the product doesn't also imply that if you paying you are definitely not the product. To the modern exec, everything and everyone is the product. I an surprised that gig economy apps aren't also selling the eyeballs of their workers, making them watch ads to work.
by cb321 | 2025-06-29 11:23:29+00:00
You may well already be aware, but just in case you aren't, your bin-true benchmark mostly measures dynamic loader overhead, not fork-exec (e.g., I got 5.2X faster using a musl-gcc statically linked true vs. glibc dynamic coreutils). { Kind of a distro/cultural thing what you want to measure (static linking is common on Alpine Linux, BSDs, less so on most Linux), but good to know about the effect. }
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-29 11:23:39+00:00
Thank you for your response.

I am not active much on GH, but mine is:

https://github.com/aspenmayer

> And here's a demo video of my open source ATSC 3.0 transmitter.

Wasn’t yet following you on Twitter, but was already subbed on YT. I see you, but I don’t recognize you. I will review my history to appreciate further your contribution(s) to my present state.

I am going to DEF CON. I hope to see you there, but if not this year, perhaps sometime soon irl or online.

To circle back, how did this happen:

> > They found out that I had an Oscar 10/13 satellite station

Specifically, how did they know

> that I had an Oscar 10/13 satellite station

?

Are there people fox hunting recreationally, all the time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_direction_findin...
by ihiep | 2025-06-29 11:23:43+00:00
After building Zenta, a small tool to help me pause and breathe during work, I felt the need to write down the story behind it. It’s not just about the tool — it’s about what changed in me: how presence, breath, and simple philosophy became part of my life as a developer. I’m sharing this in case it resonates with someone else on a similar path.
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 11:23:54+00:00
> However, rich people don't tend to keep cash in a vault. Most of them own companies or land etc.

exactly. Which is the problem. You seem to actually have all the ingredients to be able to understand why this is a problem, but some kind of sympathy for the rich (lol) seems to prevent you from actually using logic to see the problem.
Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 11:24:17+00:00
I have been working on Octelium for quite a few years now but it was open sourced only by late May 2025. Octelium, as described more in detail in the repo's README, is simply an open source, self-hosted, unified platform for zero trust resource access that is primarily meant to be a modern alternative to corporate VPNs and remote access tools. It can operate as a remote access/corporate VPN (i.e. alternative to Twingate, Tailscale, OpenVPN Access Server, etc...), a ZTNA/BeyondCorp platform (i.e. alterntive to Cloudflare Access, Teleport, Google BeyondCorp, etc...), and it can also operate as an API/AI gateway, an infrastructure for MCP and A2A architectures and meshes, an ngrok alternative, a homelab infrastructure or even as a more advanced Kubernetes ingress. It's basically designed to operate like a unified Kubernetes-like scalable architecture for zero trust secure/remote access that's suitable for different human-to-workload and workload-to-workload environments. You can read more in detail the full set of main features and links about how it works in the repo's README or directly in the docs https://octelium.com/docs
by p_l | 2025-06-29 11:24:24+00:00
Conditioning does not equal "habit". You can train a lot of things to the level of muscle memory (like I always check seat belts before moving and avoid taking them off, or how I mentally recall coordinated turns even when turning while walking), but it's a completely different set of behaviours - or at least totally different difficulty level - when it comes to "habits" that take longer time and aren't linked to directly executed skills - think like making a habit of training every few days to get more fit, or even habit of checking email at the start of work day.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 11:26:16+00:00
If it annoyed them that much they’d have rung apple support and gotten it removed. I agree it’s bad and they shouldn’t have done it, but after a decade you have to accept some personal responsibility for it, if I bought a shoe and a rock was inside from factory and my foot hurt for 10 years at some point some of your current suffering is your own fault for not removing it lol
by frognumber | 2025-06-29 11:26:45+00:00
> Another possibility that has long been on my personal list of “future articles to write” is that the future of computing may look more like used cars. If there is little meaningful difference between a chip manufactured in 2035 and a chip from 2065, then buying a still-functional 30-year-old computer may be a much better deal than it is today. If there is less of a need to buy a new computer every few years, then investing a larger amount upfront may make sense – buying a $10,000 computer rather than a $1,000 computer, and just keeping it for much longer or reselling it later for an upgraded model.

This seems improbable.

50-year-old technology works because 50 years ago, transistors were micron-scale.

Nanometer-scale nodes wear out much more quickly. Modern GPUs have a rated lifespan in the 3-7 year range, depending on usage.

One of my concerns is we're reaching a point where the loss of a fab due to a crisis -- war, natural disaster, etc. -- may cause systemic collapse. You can plot lifespan of chips versus time to bring a new fab online. Those lines are just around the crossing point; modern electronics would start to fail before we could produce more.
by passagyr | 2025-06-29 11:27:30+00:00
Right after posting this, I was:

Logged out from help.openai.com

Shadowbanned from Reddit before I even posted

Unable to create a new Reddit account (instant silent block)

Blocked from accessing OpenAI's support

Feels like someone’s pulling strings. I’ve got all the screenshots and logs.

If this post disappears — you know why.
by shubb | 2025-06-29 11:27:52+00:00
Do you think semi-legal weed made the conspiracy / "it's 4d chess" / bitcoin (don't trust the financial system) demographic larger? A lot of this is stuff people who smoked a lot would talk about back in college and it's interesting it went mainstream as the position on those drugs changed. You'd also expect opioid to create a more depressed lethargic population. Would be cool to see a study of substance use change vs political change...
by delusional | 2025-06-29 11:28:09+00:00
I understand the sentiment, I really do. I also acknowledge that what you offer is more immediately actionable than what I have, but I really hope we can be a little more thoughtful than that.

I happen to believe that the success we've seen has been, in large part at least, due to being able to take democracy for granted. We haven't had to fight for basic rights or the privilege of survival, so we've been able to fight much more ideological fights. We have rightfully had the assumption that even as we all fight bitterly over politics, you won't send your navy to attack my ports. We were safe in our disagreements being intellectual.

I fear that while defending our stable democratic institutions we end up supplanting those very same institutions with the enemy. You cannot fight lawlessness with lawlessness, you must chose to be soft and level headed, even it feels most hobbling. Else we risk becoming Trump in the name of warding him off.
by Bowes-Lyon | 2025-06-29 11:28:52+00:00
Thanks for replying. Maybe I misunderstood something. The way I saw it, I can not use plakar without having to install Go first (the dependency). And that bothers me a bit.

Let me explain my reasoning. Suppose I made an .ptar archive today, put it on a USB stick, threw that in a vault and forgot about it. Ten years down the road I want to restore that archive. But the .ptar file alone is useless without the plakar tool. So I have to install plakar first. Ideally plakar should sit on that USB stick, right next to the archive, ready to be installed. But plakar is dependent on Go, so I have to hunt Go first. And who knows what the state of Go will be ten years down the road. The .ptar file that I made today may end up unusable ten years later, because Go evolved in some unpredictable way.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 11:29:14+00:00
I hear what you are saying, and I respect it. However, what happens when some group threatens to shut down a major global shipping route that the EU relies on?

What happens when imperialism spreads near our borders, but not yet across them? Do we wait until the final moment to mobilize? That seems like horrible planning.

In the period between WW II and Iraq II, the USA used soft and military power to keep basic world order (country borders) and commerce running. It was the enforcer of the post-war Rules Based Order.

This was a good thing, that I believe we all took for granted. Even the USA has now taken that for granted. That historical period is now officially over.

What/who will fill that void of global stability?
by Toorkit | 2025-06-29 11:29:20+00:00
Ha, I actually had to do this last year while setting up Arch Linux on my desktop.

I have to use this wifi dongle, but using IWD to connect somehow only gave me an ipv6 IP.

Most of the big sites worked, but trying to click links from a search engine was a 50/50 chance.

Thankfully, the Arch wiki was accessible, so I got it sorted out pretty quickly.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-29 11:31:52+00:00
At that time, I was using similar performance hardware running Windows (a ThinkPad 755c), Mac OS (a Mac w/ a 68040 processor at my workplace --- can't recall which, I was eventually upgraded to a 9500/180MP), and my NeXT Cube (68040 25MHz) --- the Cube was the most reliable and nicest of them all.
by esperent | 2025-06-29 11:32:24+00:00
There are so many cultures that speak English though. I'm only fluent in English, but as an Irish person who spent parts of my childhood in England and Scotland, I feel like I have a deep (fluent) understanding of Irish and English culture, and a second language equivalent of Scottish and American cultures, maybe at a third language equivalent level I could add Australian.

All of these cultures are easily as different from each other as non English speaking European cultures like German, French, Italian.

I've also spent the last few years living and running a business in Vietnam, and while I've failed hard at learning the language, I do work with Vietnamese people everyday and I am growing to have a reasonable understanding of Vietnamese culture, even while I would struggle to have any kind of deep conversation in the language.
by adbabdadb | 2025-06-29 11:32:53+00:00
Abstract: Spatial proteomics (highly multiplexed tissue imaging) provides unprecedented insight into the types, states, and spatial organization of cells within preserved tissue environments. To enable single-cell analysis, high-plex images are typically segmented using algorithms that assign marker signals to individual cells. However, conventional segmentation is often imprecise and susceptible to signal spillover between adjacent cells, interfering with accurate cell type identification. Segmentation-based methods also fail to capture the morphological detail that histopathologists rely on for disease diagnosis and staging. Here, we present a method that combines unsupervised, pixel-level machine learning using autoencoders with traditional segmentation to generate single-cell data that captures information on protein abundance, morphology, and local neighborhood in a manner analogous to human experts while overcoming the problem of signal spillover. The result is a more accurate and nuanced characterization of cell types and states than segmentation-based analysis alone.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 11:33:02+00:00
I’m not sure you understand the purpose of those designs, it’s much like the clothing on a fashion runway. It’s meant to inspire creative thinking, not be a literal plan to follow. Not being able to recognise that is like, the absolute baseline understanding you should have to even be able to hold any valid criticism, IMO.

Sure, most of it is ridiculous and stupid, you expect that when you brainstorm. Only in environments where you’re allowed to propose any idea regardless of how ridiculous or stupid they are can you uncover certain types of gems of base ideas.
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 11:34:28+00:00
Certain forms of stock are effectively liquid. This means that you can turn around and leverage them to buy material resources quite easily.

It doesn't matter that "anyone can purchase them". If you have N dollars and I have Nx1000I can buy more stock than you. I can also diversify better than you, I simply have more options, more power, etc. Unless I am a total idiot or you get absurdly lucky and effectively win the lotto, my greater amount of initial capital will go further than your small amount.

> But ARE the likes of Bezos and Musk actually buying housing complexes in the first place, nevermind ones that anyone who isn’t already rich are able to afford?

I didn't mention either of these people. There are plenty of people not in the limelight that do precisely the things I'm talking about, often through banks and companies that they run—I can have my investment firm buy property and increase my salary off the extracted rents and it achieves the same thing.

> And who but the extremely rich would be able to buy these estates in the first place?

Exactly. You just restated the problem with inequality. It gives a small class of people exclusive access to important material resources. Further they can they use this exclusivity to further entrench their positions.
by ncruces | 2025-06-29 11:34:45+00:00
If it's possible that it's stuff that's being used at initialization time, wasm-ctor-eval might help.

Also, you probably want to build a reactor (-mexec-model=reactor) if that's not what you're already doing. A command will use WASI to read command-line arguments and environment.

But it's hard to tell without knowing the specific imports you're trying to get rid of.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 11:36:16+00:00
I am honestly not sure what I am proposing myself, exactly. However, if we read each other correctly, I think I agree with your concerns.

Might we both be touching on/dancing around the concept of the "paradox of tolerance?" [0]

As a practical example, one of the most European things in modern history was this beheading of the monarch live music video [1], which was broadcast to the world as part of the Olympic opening ceremonies in Paris. I remember seeing how uncomfortable it made the broadcasters in various countries. It was glorious. Revolution can happen, and this was a reminder.

We should never shy away from discussion of our history. I am not a huge metal fan, but this tiny part of the opening ceremonies event makes me very emotional and proud to my deepest core. I still cannot believe it happened. We should be reminding everyone of the French revolution, its non-ideal near term outcomes, and other uncomfortable European history very regularly. As you stated in your original reply, it is easy to forget how we got here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTMYk7orHw
by lithocarpus | 2025-06-29 11:36:30+00:00
> But ARE the likes of Bezos and Musk actually buying housing complexes in the first place, nevermind ones that anyone who isn’t already rich are able to afford?...

One of the bigger ways this plays out as opposed to your example is: Tons of property is locked up as short term vacation rentals that are only used a tiny percent of the time and only by the rich. There's a spectrum of how rich but we know the bottom 50% almost never use them for example

Similarly the amount of resources locked up in industries that 99% of the time only cater to the very rich is quite a lot and more importantly the trajectory is going more and more that direction.

You could have a world where the work is done mostly by robots and a few million rich people use the world as their playground and then what happens to everyone else?
by Lerc | 2025-06-29 11:36:47+00:00
I'm not sure how you consider this to be an anthropomorphic fallacy, the comparison to the situation with a human exists only because people are prepared to stipulate that humans can reason. That does not assume something about AI behaviour to be like a human's. It is showing the same test applied to a human.

Your statement that AI knows the rules would be considered anthropomorphising by many, I take it more to mean it 'knows' in the same sense that an election 'wants' to be at a lower energy level.

That said, humans who have written entire books on chess have been known to play illegal moves. That should count as proof by counterexample that your reasoning as to why humans fail at tasks is false.
by throwanem | 2025-06-29 11:39:38+00:00
This year for the first time I started carrying an Android along with my iPhone. I've had Apple phones exclusively since I got my first smartphone in 2012, and before now never had a wandering eye. But the moves Apple has made lately make me realize it is time to make sure I'll have a ripcord to pull if I need one.

It's not so bad. I would rather have an appliance than a computer as my primary phone, of course. But if Apple is leaving the appliance market, then thank goodness at least I have the skills to use a pocket computer safely.

Most don't have such skills. None should be required to. That's why it's good there should be a company like Apple around, at least as Apple has been. If I need to advise my older relatives never to upgrade, and help them source and maintain older iPhones, I guess I can do that.
by andrepd | 2025-06-29 11:40:17+00:00
> What economic inequality would you deem small enough?

> And why do you care about inequality, and not eg the absolute livings standards of the least well off?

Answer to both those questions, simplifying massively: the most prosperous period of capitalism in the past 200 years was also that where there was the smallest levels of inequality.

The point of view that you must only look at the overall floor is terribly short-sighted (and even then, the lower and middle classes have become WORSE off in the past 40 years!). The massive increases in wealth have been going overwhelmingly to the pockets of the very rich; this is bad in itself, irrespective of the overall GDP growth or whatever.

Read Pikkety's books and you will understand.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-29 11:40:54+00:00
The mansard roofs, etc are a consequence of tax policy.

End of the day, design can be from architects imposing their views or tax collectors and road engineers doing theirs. The worst design comes from the genius planners, the best usually from people working with well defined constraints of money, taxes and build expense.

The state of American architecture and life is almost completely based on tax policy and allocation of resources to roadways. Our cities of vacant office towers are almost completely a tax story.