MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ijk | 2025-07-19 05:15:21+00:00
> Targeting them with what?

> What could possibly hold enough leverage that Visa would jeopardize their sweet gig as an ideology-neutral, essential piece of American infrastructure siphoning 1-2% off of every dollar of consumer spending?

The US courts.

Visa was specifically pulled into the lawsuit against PornHub; here's Visa's official statement on the matter: https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-perspectives/compan...

The lawsuit is still ongoing.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-19 05:15:21+00:00
Let's explore the implied argument a lil:

Imagine simplest possible deployment you've cooked up.

Now imagine explaining your mother how to maintain it after you're dead and she needs to access the files on the service you setup.

usually, selfhosting is not particularly hard. It's just conceptually way beyond what the average joe is able to do. (Not because they're not smart enough, but simply because they never learned to and will not learn now because they don't want to form that skill set. And I'm not hating on boomers, you can make the same argument with your hypothetical kids or spouse. The parents are just an easy placeholder because you're biologically required to have them, which isn't the case for any other familial relationship)
by noahonai | 2025-07-19 05:15:46+00:00
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by oaiey | 2025-07-19 05:15:47+00:00
But AI also carries tremendous risks, from something simple as automating warfare to something like a evil AGI.

In Germany we have still traumas from automatic machine guns setup on the wall between East and West Germany. The Ukraine is fighting a drone war in the trenches with a psychological effect on soldiers comparable to WWI.

Stake are enormous. Not only toward the good. There is enough science fiction written about it. Regulation and laws are necessary!
by filleduchaos | 2025-07-19 05:16:48+00:00
> A more useful distinction would be, the JS interpreter is single-threaded while C code can be multithreaded.

...this seems like a long way round to say "JS code is not parallel while C code can be parallel".

Or to put it another way, it seems fairly obvious to me that parallelism is a concept applied to one's own code, not all the code in the computer's universe. Other parts of the computer doing other things has nothing to do with the point, or "parallelism" would be a completely redundant concept in this age where nearly every CPU has multiple cores.
by felineflock | 2025-07-19 05:18:16+00:00
> "Enclosure, once accepted, redefines community. Enclosure underlines the local autonomy of community. Enclosure of the commons is thus as much in the interest of professionals and of state bureaucrats as it is in the interest of capitalists. Enclosure allows the bureaucrats to define local community as impotent..."

That was made much more evident with the government restrictions/mandates during Covid.

The endgame seems to be that people will be treated as farm animals.
by aabhay | 2025-07-19 05:18:48+00:00
I am deeply skeptical of the author’s conclusions to the point of being skeptical of their motive.

These HALO type acquisitions are awful for the tech industry and this trend is deeply concerning to me.

1. The author fails to consider the impact of this kind of acquihire on the company’s customers. We’ve already seen Scale AI have a dramatic change in customer behavior post hire. Windsurf was a real company with real revenue. How many of those customers want to use a product with a much less predictable future now? Where the team was basically disembowled?

2. The creation of a “class hierarchy” both within and between companies has a dis-spiriting king-maker vibe. 1/5 of the company ascends to heaven through this process and the other 4/5 is left to manage a shell corp? How is that supposed to feel?

3. The concept of windsurf rebuilding their product in google land is laughable. What product will they build but the same thing they already built? And windsurf is nowhere near the velocity of Cursor, so theyve burned months of time doing this and they’ll burn months more adapting to the new environment. How does this square with the thesis of google wanting their talent? Lets be real about the reason google bought windsurf — they got a discount from the $3B OpenAI acquisition and most of all — they wanted to fuck OpenAI. At this point, I would guess that these companies would do whatever they can to harm OpenAI, given the sheer velocity of their product and how terrified everyone is of them discovering something very soon.

4. I haven’t seen any example of a successful post-acquisition company operation. Inflection? Covariant? Character? What’s happened to these companies post change? Are all employees on strict NDAs? Why has nobody written about what it was like?

5. The conclusion I see here is straightforward — in a post AI economy, very very few people are “important” to these companies. The top 10 largest corporations in the world will basically be competing over a pool of ~5k individuals and everyone else is irrelevant.

If there’s anything that makes me wish we were living in Lina Khan’s world it’s this.
by saghm | 2025-07-19 05:21:54+00:00
> You don't need mutex in async code, since there is no parallel execution whatsoever. In fact languages that use async programming as a first class citizen (JavaScript) don't even have a construct to do them.

This isn't even remotely true; plenty of languages have both async and concurrency, probably more than ones that don't. C# was the language that originated async/await, not JavaScript, and it certainly has concurrency, as do Swift, Python. Rust, and many more. You're conflating two independent proprieties of JavaScript as language and incorrectly inferring a link between them that doesn't actually exist.
by verisimi | 2025-07-19 05:22:57+00:00
As a member of 'humanity', do you find yourself creating authority systems for AI though? No.

If you are paying for lobbyists to write the legislation you want, as corporations do, you get the law you want - that excludes competition, funds your errors etc.

The point is you are not dealing with 'humanity', you are dealing with those who represent authority for humanity - not the same thing at all. Connected politicians/CEOs etc are not actually representing 'humanity' - they merely say that they are doing so, while representing themselves.
by bryanhogan | 2025-07-19 05:23:58+00:00
Have been using Obsidian for this which I can also highly recommend. Each book is a note with frontmatter properties that matter to me. The book search plugin[1] also makes it easy to add new books with a cover image included. Using Obsidian for other kind of collections as well[2].

[1]: https://github.com/anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin

[2]: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-gaming-backlog
by nine_k | 2025-07-19 05:24:57+00:00
This works if you have a trade union. I'd hazard to say that at least 99% of software engineers in the US work on "at-will" employment agreements, and do not belong to any unions.

A separation agreement usually stipulates paying 2-3 months worth of salary, and extending the benefits similarly. I don't see how it is worse than spending a couple of extra weeks in the office, and receiving the same.

(Also note that employees that are harder to lay off also get hired with much more reluctance.)
by JackYoustra | 2025-07-19 05:27:09+00:00
mariel boatlift study found that even with a 7% short-term supply shock to labor concentrated in only miami in only low wage work led to no disruption in either employment or wages: https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/mariel-impact.pdf

lump of labor simply never happens. I know it's fashionable to say 'wage suppression' but wages mostly reflect productivity in competitive AND deregulated markets!
by jancsika | 2025-07-19 05:29:06+00:00
Is there home lab for isolated LAN and "self-sufficient" devices?

I want to have a block of gunk on the LAN, and to connect devices to the LAN and be able to seamlessly copy that block to them.

Bonus: any gunk I bring home gets added to the block.

First part works with navidrome: I just connect through the LAN to my phone with amperfy and check the box to cache the songs. Now my song gunk is sync'd to the phone before I leave home.

This obviously would fit a different mindset. Author has a setup optimized for maximum conceivable gunk, whereas mine would need to be limited to the maximum gunk you'd want to have on the smallest device. (But I do like that constraint.)
by ranger_danger | 2025-07-19 05:29:34+00:00
You're not wrong, but it's funny that this same topic was posted just earlier today with a very different sentiment in the comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606646

But if you dig hard enough, there's actually links to more evidence of why it is that complicated... so I don't think it was necessarily intentionally done as a method of lock-in, but where's the outrage in that? /s

"Complicated file format has legitimate reasons for being complicated" just doesn't have the same ring to it as a sensationalized accusation with no proof.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-19 05:30:05+00:00
Don't do it with bash. You can at least use Ruby, Python to make an API for it, or use configuration management. They really didn't think about being (local) runtime configurable for the dev/ops UX being too ultra *NIX purist with single file plain text configuration. At least it could have a plain text watch directory like daemontools for dynamic reconfiguration.
by jltsiren | 2025-07-19 05:30:15+00:00
Legislators thought otherwise, when they explicitly created two subcategories of O-1 visas:

* O-1A: Individuals with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics (not including the arts, motion pictures or television industry).

* O-1B: Individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry.

The reason is pretty simple. Entertainment industry depends more on specific individuals than most other industries. If you have cast a foreign actor for a role, you can't easily replace them with generic interchangeable talent. But that foreign actor is not magically allowed to work in the US. They need a visa that allows it. Hence O-1B.
by josephg | 2025-07-19 05:31:32+00:00
I suspect all new frontiers are like this. There was probably a similar outcry over violence in films. And maybe violence in fictional books too. Both long lost from living memory.

It does feel different in a video game, because you're the one pulling the trigger. I played that CoD mission when the game came out, and I felt a bit sick in my stomach playing that mission out. But I'd probably have exactly the same feeling from violence in films if I wasn't so desensitised to it after growing up watching american movies and tv shows.

Its just new.
by parineum | 2025-07-19 05:31:51+00:00
It never is a person. The Citizens United ruling determined that the people in the corporation have the right to free (political) speech, regardless of the coalition they are part of.

Everyone pretty much agrees with this, The Democratic party liked to push the meme you're repeating because it helped them beat Romney. They intentionally misinterpreted his and the court's words to win an election and people have been repeating the lie ever since.

The answer to your question is no, a corporation without people isn't a person and neither is a corporation with people. The "people" in the phrase "corporations are people" are the ones with rights.

The singular if the phrase is "a corporation is people" not "a corporation is a person", as you were misled into thinking.
by raluk | 2025-07-19 05:32:38+00:00
This is what i hand in mind whit "manually handing of futures". In this case you have to write

Promise1 = f1(); Promise2 = f2(); v1,v2 = await Join(Promise1, Promise2); return v1 + v2

I think this is just too much of synthactic noise.

On the other hand, it is necessary becase some of underlying async calls can be order dependend.

for example

await sock.rec(1) == 'A' && await sock.rec(1) == 'B'

checks that first received socket byte is A and second is B. This is clearly order dependant that can't be executed concurrently out of order.
by mirdaki | 2025-07-19 05:32:49+00:00
Appreciate that! Simple login and access was certainly the hardest requirement to hit, but it can be the difference between people using something and not

And I agree with the feeling that open source is everywhere, up until a regular user picks up something. I think part of the paradox you mention is that every project is trying to work on their own thing, which is great, but also means there isn't a single entity pushing it all in one direction

But that doesn't mean we can't get to nice user experiences. Just in the self-hosting space, things have gotten way more usable in the last 5 years, both from a setup and usage perspective
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-07-19 05:33:46+00:00
CPA pricing removes the burn

Not true. There is limited ad space which all advertisers compete for. No matter which model, CPC or CPA, the advertiser who pays most gets the ad placement.

Its similar to SEO. Nobody says "Oh my god, advertising via SEO is free, what a blessing!". It's still a competition. It's still a zero sum game.
by aquafox | 2025-07-19 05:33:48+00:00
> This sort of thing is exactly like preventative whole body MRI scans. It's very noisy, very overwhelming data that is only statistically useful in cases we're not even sure about yet. To use it in a treatment program is witchcraft at this moment, probably doing more harm than good.

The child of a friend of mine has PTEN-Hamartom-Tumor-Syndrom, a tendency to develop tumors throughout life due to a mutation in the PTEN gene. The poor child gets whole body MRIs and other check-ups every half year. As someone in biological data science, I always tell the parents how difficult it will be to prevent false positives, because we don't have a lot of data on routine full body check-ups on healty people. We just know the huge spectrum on how healthy/ok tissue looks like.
by saghm | 2025-07-19 05:34:45+00:00
You're not reporting yourself, though, since you didn't make it clear at all in your initial comment you were talking about hardware. The previous comment you made only mentioned "parallel data races" in a conversation about software ecosystems, where both of those terms are regularly used to describe things that occur. You're laughing about dunking on people who you've run up to in the middle of a football field; no one stopped you from scoring because you didn't tell them that you're apparently playing an entirely different game on your own.
by mindslight | 2025-07-19 05:34:53+00:00
No message should have still won out against a message of hating everything about America, but here we are.

I agree that the Democrats are feckless, but still let's not forget which direction is up. (personally I think they're just coasting along and assuming they'll still be elites in whatever "new order" arises as long as they don't stick their heads up)
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-19 05:35:18+00:00
OK well this is interesting information, what are the connections between crypto or even mildly sexual content exactly that create this phenomenon? I mean they do not seem to be related - if you said crypto or drawings of currency I would say huh, well they are sort of related, but the graph connection between crypto and even mildly sexual content would seem to me to be about as tenuous as that between crypto and meat eating.

So why do these two things cause credit card abuse to go through the roof?

Furthermore if it caused the credit card abuse to go through the roof wouldn't Valve just remove it of their own accord - at some point the abuse would mean money was taken away from Valve right?

Finally the article doesn't give this as a reason why it was removed - it said "violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors" - which sure, that may mean "high rates of credit card abuse were reported", but I doubt it.

Anyway, a link to studies of this phenomenon?

ps: I would probably believe credit card abuse increase under crypto, due no doubt to my innate prejudices.
by 0xcafefood | 2025-07-19 05:38:57+00:00
There are still taboos even for pixels on a screen, even for video games. It's a good thing. There should be.

Perhaps you're just saying that you're mostly comfortable with the depiction of some forms of violence in some contexts. But what about other scenarios though? Would you feel the same about a game where the player runs around raping women, or capturing and lynching escaped slaves? It's just pixels!
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-19 05:39:01+00:00
Synopsis and excerpt:

[Rest] markets itself as a way to "unlock a new revenue stream" with the help of a "robust algorithm" for detecting smoking.

Hotels where these sensors are installed rack up complaints and negative reviews, after Rest sensors register false positives - thereby unlocking that revenue stream for the hotels.

The awesome thing about black-box algorithms is they can't be challenged when they're wrong. And errors reliably favor the institution that manages (and profits from) them.
by antisol | 2025-07-19 05:39:26+00:00
> Sounds like linux cake meme

Or the unix philosophy.

> self hosting is tough

Depends on your definition of "tough", I guess - I've spent 0 minutes this year thinking about it (outside of this thread).

> Proton does not allow me to use IMAP on free.

I refer you back to my previous response WRT "free".

> how do you know that other companies are better on serving you? How can I know if they sell my data to China?

So, to summarise:

"baaawww it would take me half an hour's work to set it up!"

"If you don't run your own people could do nefarious things"

...Do you people proof-read at all? I legit don't understand how someone posts something so self-contradictory.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-19 05:40:31+00:00
Where do you think most of the excess energy from anthropogenic climate change is being absorbed? It's measured on a scale of hundreds of 1e21 J, of which each 1 is 1 million 1 Mt nuclear bombs equivalent. We're already at +200 from 1993. Human activity is leading to massive changes in Earth's delicate systems, and data centers folks want to more than double energy production primarily for AI.
by ttoinou | 2025-07-19 05:41:30+00:00
The distinction between lack of wealth/goods/services and lack of access to services that you now mandatory need to get wealthy/goods/others services (because of how society just changed commons into privatisation). Note that I’m not anticapitalist yet I think there are interesting concepts there

Majid RAHNEMA wrote a book about this in french, “Quand la misère chasse la pauvreté” based on similar ideas than Illich
by blub | 2025-07-19 05:42:51+00:00
My use of formal was from: “The standard is not intended to teach how to use C++. Rather, it is an international treaty – a formal, legal, and sometimes mind-numbingly detailed technical document intended primarily for people writing C++ compilers and standard library implementations.”

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/wg21 is still very US skewed, but much more diverse than both https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/lang and and the foundation. The latter does influence the direction of the language: https://rustfoundation.org/safety-critical-rust-consortium/
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-19 05:43:05+00:00
A majority isn't impossible, but they would have to remove the filibuster. Ideally I'd want the filibuster removed right this instant, but reinstated for judicial and really any confirmations. Let the party in power make their laws and remove old ones, but keep the judiciary independent.

Edit: When the democrats removed the filibuster for judicial confirmations they started us on this path. Predictably the Republicans responded by including the scotus. That was the end of an independent judiciary. It just took a while for it to be sufficient to kill democracy. And to be clear, no ratings agency in the world still considers the US a democracy. At years end it will be an official downgrade from flawed democracy to electoral autocracy or competitive authoritarian state.
by dosco189 | 2025-07-19 05:44:09+00:00
the "aha" moment for me would be if I could click a picture of my bookshelf and have the catalogue be ready.

I'd highly recommend a checkout flow where a user clicks a picture of their bookshelf, and the app automatically extracts the titles, versions, publications etc. I'd be interesting to know how people use your product depending on the "size" of their libraries... cheers and good luck!
by gjvc | 2025-07-19 05:48:58+00:00
I build the package contents with rpmbuild and create the .deb file with dpkg-deb. This allows me to use a single .spec file for both debian and redhat systems. It's still necessary to create the changelog and control file in exactly the right format to appease dpkg-deb, but it's easier than dealing with all the dh_ commands.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-19 05:49:05+00:00
I suspect it's because he's like most of the more radical writers: if you actual dissect his writing, it really gets to the heard of a lot of what is rotten about modern industrial society. And the rectification of the problems he highlights pretty much necessitates disassembling a lot of modern technological society and getting rid of most of its institutions.

So while he makes sense, no one wants to discuss his work, because then they must also come to a lot of the same conclusions he did, which is: the global society we have today is a lost cause, and a lot of it needs to be torn down. Which of course goes against the status quo.

It's a lot different than the fluffy, weak criticism of many today that recommend making changes that don't change anything. But then at least people reading that stuff can convince themselves that they are doing something, when they are not.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-19 05:49:12+00:00
Making compound words is not an important difference between human language and the languages of other animals. Even in human languages the ability to make compound words seems to have appeared later.

The main difference seems to be in having sentences structured into verbs and their associated nouns (which may encode various roles, e.g. patients, agents, instruments, beneficiaries, subjects of intransitive or copulative verbs, nominal predicates, results etc.).

As far as we could determine until now, the language of most animals consists only of a set of nouns, which typically have an associated implicit action.

For example:

"Lion!" (meaning "Climb up the tree!");

"Eagle!" (meaning "Take cover under branches!");

"Children!" (meaning "Come here, to mother!");

"Bananas!" (meaning "Come here to eat good food!");

and so on.

Some apes have been trained to compose very simple sentences, as complex as agent-verb-patient, but it is not known whether a similar form of communication exists between wild apes.