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by trjordan | 2025-09-01 15:53:11+00:00
This is almost certainly what happened. Google's AI answers aren't magic -- they're just summarizing across searches. In this case, "Israel" + "Jordan" pulled back a video with opposite views than the author.

It's somewhat less obvious to debug, because it'll pull more context than Google wants to show in the UI. You can see this happening in AI mode, where it'll fire half a dozen searches and aggregate snippets of 100+ sites before writing its summary.
by metalman | 2025-09-01 15:53:35+00:00
bio is hard

bio is still in the investigative stage in many ways, and much of what we do is treating symptoms rather than the often unknown causes of disease

there are so many processeses that are useing wildly complex chemicals (protiens, enzymes, etc) in miniscule quantites, that are used up in there incredibly brief existances, and we can only infer them from the simple fact that something happened and things changed.

Now there is a backtracking on "junk dna", ooopsy baby. the good part is that with each thing we learn we are that little bit closer to bieng able to engineer the bio chemisry we need to achive a given goal the bad part is that it might take 100 trillion to make back the first one,as there will be no partial solution or who knows, the roseta stone for DNA/RNA could be waiting just around the corner
by ezekg | 2025-09-01 15:53:39+00:00
My point is less about the AGPL license itself and more about the people who choose it.

If the OSI came out and made a statement on the ambiguities in the AGPL, and cleared the FUD in such a way that all companies agreed and could reference it, I'd wager that the AGPL would over time become much, much less popular for commercial open source. But I'd wager that they won't do that, because they win when COSS wins.

But if they did, we'd likely even see a move towards non-OSS licenses, ones that are clear as to their intent and rules -- rather than relying on ambiguity -- because there would no longer be an OSI-approved license that businesses could use to have their cake and eat it too.

Very few COSS business/startup/w/e right now are choosing AGPL for altruistic reasons. This thread and every other COSS licensing thread here are evidence of that.

Few of them care about software freedoms, or know why they chose the AGPL. They have a playbook that says AGPL lets them take advantage of the open source distribution flywheel, while largely protecting them from the risks associated with commercial open source, i.e. competition. They choose AGPL for this, not because it's the best license for users.

I honestly don't get how people don't see the deception under the AGPL right now.
by mikewarot | 2025-09-01 15:54:06+00:00
$10/month for GitHub copilot, which apparently allows me to access ChatGPT5 when I'm in visual studio code on my windows pc.

The agent way of doing code generation is light years ahead of the old way of trying to convey error messages back to the LLM manually. You tell ChatGPT5 what you want, it writes code and answers questions, then gives you command lines to try, and watches the output for errors, then fixes them, and has you try again, until it works.

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You do have to watch out, though... ChatGPT5 apparently knows way more Computer Science than I do, it spit out code in a few minutes that I'm still trying to figure out, days later.[1] (line 245, decompile_lut_to_expr(lut: int) -> str)

It's going to take me another day or two to fully grok the Quine–McCluskey algorithm, and the Möbius transform it uses to take a compiled expression of 4 variables, and regenerate the minimum expression necessary to create it.

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by gruez | 2025-09-01 15:54:14+00:00
>Classic search results are clearly not Google's, they just match (or not) with your search query, then you go there and read them (and trust them or not depending on your own criteria or absence of).

What you said might be true in the early days of google, but google clearly doesn't do exact word matches anymore. There's quite a lot of fuzzy matches going on, which means there's arguably some editorializing going on. This might be relevant if someone was searching for "john smith rapist" and got back results for him sexually harassing someone. It might even be phrased in such a way that makes it sound like he was a rapist, eg. "florida man accused of sexually...". Moreover even before AI results, I've seen enough people say "google says..." in reference to search results that it's questionable to claim that people think non-AI search results aren't by google.
by mcv | 2025-09-01 15:54:17+00:00
Getting a real diagnosis is a big obstacle. Waiting lists are ridiculous, and the medical landscape is confusing.

In recent years, I've become increasingly convinced that I've got ADHD. Before, I used to think I've got Asperger's or something. Before that, motivational problems (that was an actual diagnosis when I was a teen). By now, I'm ready to give chemicals a try, but I can't get them without the diagnosis. (Well, except caffeine, but I'm actually trying to reduce that.)

Also, I'm trying to channel that hyperfocus. It rarely works, but sometimes it does.
by oxguy3 | 2025-09-01 15:54:19+00:00
Fortune tellers typically tell you extremely vague things that are designed to trick you into interpreting them favorably; you hear what you want to hear. "Someone new will come into your life soon" or "Something exciting will happen next week" are not claims that can be disproved.

They certainly don't make hyperspecific claims like "this YouTuber traveled to Israel and changed his mind about the war there, as documented in a video he posted on August 18".
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-01 15:54:19+00:00
If a humam published an article claiming this exact same thing as gemeni, the author could be sued and have a pretty good case.

But when gemeni does it its a "mistake by the algorithm". AI is a used as responsibility diversion machine.

This is a rather harmless example. But what about dangerous medical advice? What about openly false advertising? What about tax evasion? If an AI does it is it okay because nobody is responsibile?

If applying a proper chain of liability on ai output makes some uses of AI impossible; so be it.
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by safety1st | 2025-09-01 15:54:40+00:00
I'm not opposed to open standards, but what makes you think that a corporation which simultaneously violates anti-trust law in three markets and evades meaningful enforcement can be forced to comply with standards?

The problem is not primarily technological, it is a problem of rule of law. Google is a serial violator, found guilty multiple times. So it is a failure of enforcement of law (unless government actions in the near term end up being very dramatic).

If someone points a gun to your head, I guess you could solve that by inventing a personal forcefield. But until you do, we need law enforcement as a deterrent against murder. Otherwise murderers will just keep on doing it.
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by calvinmorrison | 2025-09-01 15:55:16+00:00
yes. I work with ancient and opaque tools that dont have good debugging / reporting facilities. Often we have to jump into procmon or whatever see why the heck the thing is stuck. something like strace is native and everywhere and you can sus out easily - hey this proc is trying to open this thing over and over.

procmon is cool, but i have found it limited when the program isnt doing anything 'obvious', and also that i have to download it and run it from the web is a problem when debugging on client systems.
by goalieca | 2025-09-01 15:55:29+00:00
>You need to choose between whether you want sub-$10K EVs and low cost solar panels like in China and India OR strong worker protections in their upstream industries like REE processing. You can only choose one.

With globalism, we got cheap goods and didn't worry about [domestic] worker safety. But, i don't doubt that innovation will happen if we bring stuff back on-shore. There's no motivation to improve processes and innovate if you can just cheaply externalize everything.
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by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-01 15:56:57+00:00
Pretty much straight away actually.

In Australia prices were reduced by over $50 a year per person in the state on average once a similar battery went online. Similar policies and market there to this case too. Details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve

I get that it's easy to be pessimistic but batteries like the above not only pay themselves off in 2years (From the article above, $46million profit in one year alone on a $90million install cost!) they also cut prices on the grid from day one.

Behind the scenes prices can fluctuate between <0 and >100x baseline. These types of installations immediately smooth out the costs. As long as you have competing wholesalers/providers the price reductions will come through pretty quickly based on similar cases.
by Too | 2025-09-01 15:56:59+00:00
The readme does a really bad job of explaining this. They are also using the wrong metrics. What’s really interesting is time to incrementally recompile after changing one header file in $LARGE_PROJECT. Single file compilation sounds like an artificial measurement and isn’t exactly painful with normal clang today. Full build measurements are rather irrelevant in a project with proper incremental setup, or even ccache. Not that I would say no to faster full builds :)
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-01 15:57:04+00:00
Tesla would have a massive advantage compared to conventional car makers if they decided to broaden their product line. That advantage is their dealer-light model. They could decide that they'll do a batch of purple cars once a quarter. If you select purple in their configurator, your delivery date gets pushed out by up to 3 months appropriately. No dealer would ever stock a purple car. So Tesla could get a lock on the small number of people who want purple cars.

(Yes, I know about wraps, substitute "purple" for whatever feature or body style or quirk it is you have trouble finding on modern cars)

Maybe Rivian will fill this niche if Tesla doesn't.
by Spivak | 2025-09-01 15:57:14+00:00
I mean in this specific case we're not talking about AWS or any other large company. We're talking about someone wanting to offer Bear.app hosting in the vein of managed Wordpress. This is good for Open Source. Having multiple commercial entities working off of and invested in the same codebase is exactly what Open Source envisions.

It does take some mental discipline to actually believe in the movement and not view someone using your software to start a business as them "stealing your work." Such a thing doesn't make sense in OSS, you gave it away freely. It's a good thing, the competition is healthy. You don't have to believe, closed-source proprietary software is much easier to run a business off of as evidenced by most businesses operating that way. There's no shame in it. The FOSS folks are the free love "we don't believe in intellectual property mann" hippies of the software world.
by cxr | 2025-09-01 15:57:50+00:00
> It feels mostly in the spirit of FOSS to me

From the license at <https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/998e87263248...>:

"You may not provide the Software as a hosted or managed service that offers users access to substantial features or functionality"

Given that the exclusive purpose of the Software in question is to implement a managed service for its users' hosting needs, I'm having trouble understanding how anyone could take the position that this is "mostly in the spirit of FOSS".

The license might as well say, "You just can't use this."
by lakshikag | 2025-09-01 15:57:58+00:00
Totally fair callout, let me clarify. Berrylog does have a free plan with a 5,000 event cap. The difference (and the reason I criticized other tools) is that they don’t just cap usage. They also delete your data, restrict retention, and then lock you into paying a subscription forever.

With Berrylog, all your events (even on the free tier) go straight into your own database. Nothing ever gets wiped. You always own 100% of your history. The free tier is just a way to let people test things out and cover some infra costs. Once you upgrade, it’s a one-time fee for unlimited projects/events forever.
by phkahler | 2025-09-01 15:58:07+00:00
Naive. Guy picks a license that allow anyone to do anything they want with his code. Later realizes that was not appropriate when he's trying make money. Changes to an obscure license that on the surface seems to fix the problem.

Your options are: MIT / BSD, GPL, LGPL, AGPL. All others are unnecessary and create needless incompatibility.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-01 15:58:43+00:00
I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of HN.

Commenters here both want dirt cheap green tech AND workers rights, but it's a choice between one or the other becuase low margins industries are inherently exploitative, because there are no other levers.

Saying improving processes and innovation is just a "deus ex machina", because any sort of automation depends on these upstream components as well.

I agree that bringing industries back on-shore can help spark innovation, but we also need to be realistic. Most REEs (ignore lithium) just don't exist in large quantities in the US, Canada, or the EU, and we simply cannot onshore EVERY industry, because margins are so low that tariffs don't alleviate them either.

You can't compete when manufacturing in China and India are themselves in the midst of transitioning to automation as well, further driving down margins.

We need to be strategic about the industries we target with tariffs AND incentives, but also recognize that vast swathes of low margins low skill manufacturing and resource processing is never returning to the US unless we adopt the same kind of labor whitewashing practices Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea does [0][1]

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/world/asia/south-korea-li...

[1] - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/probe-...
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-01 15:59:50+00:00
C23 would not be nearly as good as it is without proprietary C compiler extensions, and other non-C programming languages. Sure, C23's versions of some features are better than many proprietary implementations, but they wouldn't exist at all if the lessons hadn't been learned from that exploration.

Once upon a time, Jabber was the messaging protocol. But what killed interoperable instant messaging wasn't a shift away from Jabber: it was a shift away from interoperability. Requiring all chat communication systems to be Jabber wouldn't have helped, and it would have prevented IRCv3.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-01 16:00:08+00:00
If the two options are a) coming from a wet market vs b) coming from a coronavirus gain of function laboratory in Wuhan that's funded by the CDC, you have to start thinking about this more than just MAGA conspiracy theories.

It's the most bloody obvious explanation, and in a sane world where "MAGA" didn't just turn off everyone's brain cells and cause them to blindly repeat what they're told, any alternative would need some serious heft to be convincing.
by greatgib | 2025-09-01 16:00:18+00:00
My goal here is to try and point out that there is a solution that can be rolled out in under 6 months by leveraging existing kyc infrastructure.

You complain of the erosion of privacy, and yet your goal is to give the oppressors tools to justify their actions. Especially tools that you know are far from perfect to achieve the anonymity goal. I'm sure that you don't have bad intentions, but what is happening after is that persons less take savy will take your work as an example that "it is possible" and that technologists are bullshiting them when saying that it is not possible without eroding anonymity. They will not look further than that. Look we can do laws because it is not impossible if we want.

If you look well in UK, this is what is happening, the country trying to give the legislator a reality check, but too late.
by jurajmasar | 2025-09-01 16:00:49+00:00
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by guerrilla | 2025-09-01 16:01:05+00:00
In Sweden, we have BankID for one thing. You can't do anything at all without it, including (in many cases) buying things online with your Visa or Mastercard. You can't even do stupid things like look up license plates or other simple tasks. You certainly can't deal very well with the medical system without it. In many cases even mail can be a pain in the ass without it.

Then we have another problem. Cashlessness. There are fewer and fewer places that accept cash for payment and even if they do some of them won't have change (since it's so rare that other people are paying in cash).

I have a friend now who was cut off from the BankID (and thus cashless) system and it's quite a struggle for him. He has to constantly have other people (i.e. us) do things for him, or drive 40km to one city or another during specific hours to do things (since all the local outlets for everything closed since 99% of people do 99% of everything online now).
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-01 16:01:32+00:00
I've had multiple people copy and paste AI conversations and results in GitHub issues, emails, etc., and there are I think a growing number of people who blindly trust the results of any of these models... including the 'results summary' posted at the top of Google search results.

Almost every summary I have read through contains at least one glaring mistake, but if it's something I know nothing about, I could see how easy it would be to just trust it, since 95% of it seems true/accurate.

Trust, but verify is all the more relevant today. Except I would discount the trust, even.
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by SatvikBeri | 2025-09-01 16:01:36+00:00
I'd definitely be curious to hear how you'd approach our overall situation. We don't have significant egress costs, nor has any place I've worked with before. Our AWS costs are about 80% EC2 and Fargate, with the rest scattered over various services. Roughly half our spend is on 24/7 reserved instances, while the other half is in bursty analytics workloads.

Our workloads are primarily memory-bound, and AWS offers pretty good options there, e.g. x2gd instances have 16gb RAM/cpu, while most rental options we found were much more CPU focused (and charged for it.)