MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2025-09-01 15:33:55+00:00
Reading your comments in context of the thread you're on, you think the disclaimer is sufficient to do things up to and including falsely claiming public figures have opposite views to their true ones on the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Considering the extent to which people have very strong opinions about "their" side in the conflict, to the point of committing violent acts especially when feeling betrayed, I don't think spreading this particular piece of disinformation is any less potentially dangerous than the things I listed.
by pydry | 2025-09-01 15:33:57+00:00
Your citation isn't. It doesn't contradict anything I've said. It doesn't back up what you said. In fact, it agreed with me on one key point which you just trashed as Russian propaganda:

>Absent the 1994 agreements, many seem to believe Ukraine could have maintained a nuclear arsenal. In fact, it would have encountered likely insurmountable challenges.

Here is where the Americans said "look, this memorandum isn't even legally binding" while they also try to pretend they didn't violate it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140419030507/http://minsk.usem...
by delusional | 2025-09-01 15:34:45+00:00
Two counterpoints:

What we're talking about here are legal democratic weapons. The only thing stopping us from using these weapons right now is democratic governance. "The bad people", being unconcerned with democracy, can already use these weapons right now. Trumps unilateral application of tariffs wasn't predestined by some advancement of governmental power by the democrats. He just did it. We don't even know if it was even legal.

Secondly, the people in power are who are spreading this misinformation we are looking at. Information is getting suppressed by the powerful. Namely Google.

Placing limits on democracy in the name of "stopping the bad guys" will usually just curtail the good guys from doing good things, and bad guys doing the bad thing anyway.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-09-01 15:35:01+00:00
I certainly get the hurt feelings, but i'm not clear on the license at all.

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

Where on the spectrum sits an average cookie-cutter VPS provider that comes with an OS package manager that installs the program? Does the VPS provider have to screen the package manager? Does that change if they build a wiki with "1-click-install" that just sends an ssh command to install?

Is this just a requirement to have some theater where an "unaffiliated" third party has to provide the set-up scripts? Or just a rule you can't mention the option during the sales pipeline?
by reactordev | 2025-09-01 15:35:26+00:00
If you really wanted to go for realism, there would be NO GRAVITY at the core. :P

As you dig down you would get lighter and lighter on your feet.

Any mass you are below (within the sphere of Earth) will exert a gravitational pull in one direction, while the mass above you (also within the Earth) will exert an equal and opposite pull.
by dijit | 2025-09-01 15:35:31+00:00
That's a deflection. The question isn't about a developer's salary; it's about the fundamental difference between a one-time investment and a permanent cost.

Either way: 1 day of a mid-level developer in the majority of the world (basically: anywhere except Zurich, NYC or SF) is between €208 and €291. (Yearly salary of €50-€70k)

A junior developer's time for setup and the cost of hardware is practically a one-off expense. It's a few days of work at most.

The alternative you're advocating for (a recurring SaaS fee) is a permanent rent trap. That money is gone forever, with no asset or investment to show for it. Over a few years, you'll have spent tens of thousands of dollars for nothing. The real cost is not what you pay a developer; it's what you lose by never owning your tools.
by lioeters | 2025-09-01 15:35:37+00:00
> better having no ai in search

But then the product manager wouldn't get a promotion. They don't seem to care about providing a good service anymore.

> probably dumber than the other ones for cost savings

It's amusing how anyone at Google thinks offering a subpar and error-prone AI search result would not affect their reputation worse than it already is.

It's making stuff up, giving bad or fatal advice, promoting false political narratives, stealing content and link juice from actual content creators. They're abusing their anti-competitively dominant position, and just burning good will like it's gonna last forever. Maybe they're too big to fail, and they no longer need reputation or the trust of the public.
by rugu | 2025-09-01 15:35:47+00:00
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by NickC25 | 2025-09-01 15:36:20+00:00
>But if you don't explore a line, even if you believe it's effectively useless, then you haven't solved chess.

That's actually a good point because ideas that modern GMs found to be useless (in particular, locking a wing down via aggressive early wing play) have actually found a new home in AlphaZero's play.

What might be completely dumb from an early move (say, aggressively pushing the F pawn from the start) might provide to be an incredible opening, but humans are too stupid to be able to execute it perfectly.
by alemanek | 2025-09-01 15:36:28+00:00
I am not an expert here but I am currently researching for a planned project.

For backups, including Postgres, I was planning on paying Veeam ~$500 a year for a software license to backup the active node and Postgres database to s3/r2. Standby node would be getting streaming updates via logical replication.

There are free options as well but I didn’t want to cheap out on the backups.

It looks pretty turnkey. I am a software engineer not a sysadmin though. Still just theory as well as I haven’t built it out yet
by jacquesm | 2025-09-01 15:37:31+00:00
That actually sounds pretty close to what I would expect to happen IRL. After all the mass is mostly all around you at that point and depending on how far you are towards the core you might build up speed, overshoot the target and then do it all over again.

But hollow planets are hard to come by so this is just my imagination, I'm sure someone has worked out exactly what would happen.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-01 15:37:32+00:00
Hypothetically yes, but in 2025 it is impossible to do so on critical minerals/REEs.

The entire processing chain's IP and production capacity is in Asia. Even in South Korea and Japan, workers in these industries are given third world safety protections with temp workers imported from Vietnam, Indonesia, and poorer areas of China, as was seen with the Hwaseong battery factory fire a couple months ago [0][1]

Throwing environmental and workers rights tariffs on REEs and e-waste processing means the upstream supply chain for the entirety of electronics, automotive, aerospace, and every other manufacturing industry is ground to a halt, and you have to depend on foreign countries anyhow but with even less leverage.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/world/asia/lithium-batter...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/world/asia/south-korea-li...
by rob-istria | 2025-09-01 15:37:37+00:00
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by darkwater | 2025-09-01 15:37:58+00:00
So why GP reasoning doesn't apply to Google AI snippets and you consider it a straw-man? 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). But a text, generated by Google, put as the first paragraph of text under your search, answering in plain English to a specific question you just asked, what should a disclaimer like that supposed to be? A "read it but discard it because it could be factually wrong"? Why are they showing it topmost?

I do understand it is a complicated matter, but looks like Google just want to be there, no matter what, in the GenAI race. How much will it take for those snippets to be sponsored content? They are marketing them as the first thing a Google user should read.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-09-01 15:38:35+00:00
top players are hard to model just because there aren't many of them. 1200-2200 has tons of players and they all make various degrees of sensible moves most of the time, so you can plausibly train a NN to sample from those distributions. for 2500+ you have far fewer players so the likely moves depend a lot more on the styles and blindspots of specific players.
by tombert | 2025-09-01 15:38:45+00:00
Yeah, I don't remember the last time a Medium article trended on HN. I suspect Substack will have a similar fate eventually, for the same reasons.

I was self-hosting my blog on my own server until very recently, but I moved to Cloudflare Pages and thus far I find it to be the least-awful platform I've used for it. Cloudflare might eventually turn out to be evil, but at least since I have my own domain name and it's just a static site, it's trivial to move to a different provider or even just host again myself if necessary.

I really would like to figure out a good way to syndicate though; there's really no discoverability with the current iteration.
by accrual | 2025-09-01 15:39:19+00:00
This is SO fun! You have the foundation for a cool voxel-y interplanetary game if that's your jam. I had fun "getting into orbit" and watching my velocity increase at periapsis and decrease at apoapsis, then descending and landing with the rocket power button ([Space]). I would love a Minecraft + Kerbal Space Program fusion game and most of the pieces for it are already here. :D
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-01 15:39:26+00:00
If you have a sudden massive change in plans like this, it resets the timer. You were doing long term, but now you want a quick buck and you don't care much if the company survives.

If I set up a get rich quick scheme based on overhyping and selling land, it doesn't matter whether I buy the land today or it's land I had for decades for a completely different reason. Either way I'm going for a quick buck now.
by echelon | 2025-09-01 15:39:48+00:00
CloudFlare are going to tax the internet like Apple and Google tax smartphones.

Ugh.

On the one hand, I don't like AI bots consuming our traffic to build their proprietary products that they one day hope to put us out of business with.

On the other hand, nobody asked Cloudflare to be the unelected leader of the internet. And I'm sure their policing and taxing will end here...

God damnit, Internet. Can't we have nice open things? Every day in tech is starting to feel like geopolitical Game of Thrones. Kingdoms, winning wars, peasants...
by sdwolfz | 2025-09-01 15:39:52+00:00
Thanks for the replies!

1. Good to know, I'll keep this in mind for when I'll have a bottleneck in http parsing/throughput.

2. OK so curb now yields on fiber IO where it previously did not. Got it!

3. I was referring to Ractors, the experimental Ruby’s Actor-like concurrent abstraction: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/ractor_md.html
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-01 15:40:07+00:00
I'm self-employed in Germany, and when I was employed, what was in the contract went more in the other direction: it was explicitly allowed to contribute to FOSS projects. Of course, it still would not have been OK to randomly add GPL software to a closed source customer project. If anyone had been stupid (uneducated, really) enough, somebody else on the same project would have noticed.
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by jraph | 2025-09-01 15:41:31+00:00
People saying wrong things about the AGPL isn't an AGPL problem, it's an issue of people saying wrong things.

AGPL allows competition. Any free software license does. It's rule 0 of free software.

> it's chosen to to be a non-compete.

Well, too bad for them, because I can still fork this AGPL software and compete. So what's the issue?

The issue would be for contributors contributing for to this code under CLA seeing their contributions closed up. If that's not your thing, don't contribute to software under such CLA. I avoid it myself.
by happymellon | 2025-09-01 15:41:50+00:00
> Author's note: the above thoughts are for how the AGPL is used in startup-land alongside a CLA — not for AGPL in general. The AGPL is a fine open source license for libraries and other infrastructure.

The whole piece is about CLAs, the AGPL has absolutely nothing to do with signing over your copyrights. See Canonical for the same behaviour without the AGPL, the AGPL just requires that you allow your users to also see the code they are using, even if it is accessed over a network.

> Many, like Google, have flat out banned the AGPL.

Yeah, but that's because Google hates sharing what they have built on the shoulders of giants.
by mzajc | 2025-09-01 15:42:09+00:00
> This license is almost identical to the MIT license but with the stipulation that the software cannot be provided as a hosted or managed service

Note that while the original change was an additional clause to the MIT license, it was quickly changed to something completely different.[0] Since it no longer permits sublicensing and restricts "remov[ing] or obscur[ing] any licensing, copyright, or other notices in the Software," I believe it's closer to GPL now?

[0]: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/commit/89c3f346ef...
by microsestudios | 2025-09-01 15:42:13+00:00
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by techn00 | 2025-09-01 15:42:32+00:00
Hey, author here

You're not forced to use that comment, you can pass the event however you like, if you satisfy the event.Any interface (by having the method EventName() string).

I prefer that comment because Go doesn't have native sum types, and I believe that by using the framework in combination with the gochecksumtype linter, you get the best developer experience and type safety (you DO have tab autocomplete with the events for recordThat - the type system helps because of the sealed interface).

But again, if you don't want to use the linter, no problem. You can create constructors for the events however you like, just like in your example.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-01 15:43:03+00:00
That would depend on whether the snippet was presented as "this is a view of the other website" vs "this is some information"

In the latter case I'm fine with "yes" and "immediately". When you build a system that purports to give answers to real world questions, then you're responsible for the answers given.

information is from another website and may not be correct.
by jibal | 2025-09-01 15:43:11+00:00
> I wouldn't discount symmetries in chess

I didn't ... the word used was "supersymmetry". And likening chess to a Rubik's cube or cryptanalysis is just silly ... silly enough that I'm going to stop commenting. But:

> None of the existing engines, heuristic, probabilistic, heuristic and probabilistic, are so far (a) bringing new maths to help apply new maths to chess positions, (b) bringing new game-representations that would lend better to interpretability during inference.

Sigh. The people developing chess engines are not idiots, and are strongly motivated to find the most effective algorithms.
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by dsign | 2025-09-01 15:43:36+00:00
I think we are very close to that limit. I mean, with the right set of drugs applied in the right way during the right timespans and correctly targeted, you can give a person wings and they can take flight. But all of those constraints are very specific to the person and to their current biological condition. The pipeline for drugs today is for the drugs, not for an individual’s peculiarities.

We need a fundamental breakthrough in the way we do medicine (and preventive medicine). Digital twins[^1] of individuals need to become widespread, and today they aren’t even used in research settings, as far as I know. And, to be honest, this is not at all an easy feat. It is, however, something I would love to work on if I had time and resources; humans and even mice are extremely far-fetched, but perhaps hydrozoans can be cracked as a first milestone.

[^1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/digital-twin/
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-01 15:43:47+00:00
> If you use oathtool on your laptop, and the password is stored there as well, you're back to 1FA

This is trivially true, but also misses some nuance. Not all "1FA" is created equal. A leaked password can be used by any bad actor remotely who has never met you.

Also your computer could itself have a password and disk encryption, so someone who stole it would still need 2 factors: something you have (your physical laptop) + something you know (laptop password).

Regardless, TOTP is not phishing resistant, so I do tend to prefer passkeys but I understand they're problematic in terms of losing access to the devices/clouds with passkeys stored and then what do you do? (Sometimes services have an out-of-band process to prove identity and reset passkeys, but not all do)
Ask HN: Loss of entropy in AI based alt-self chat apps
by Arkid | 2025-09-01 15:43:48+00:00
I have seen a bunch of well funded companies raise money with the thesis they will create alt-self of humans which can chat on behalf of humans. I have tried explaining to a bunch of folks how there is entropy loss in such conversations very much in sync with how averages of averages cause smoothening of any series. All i get to hear is a bunch of gen ai jargon from a bunch of folks who have raised a lot of money because no body understood their jargon and threw money on them. they don't get basic averages and want to build alt-self chats. Genuine rant but wanted to ask HN folks, isn't the loss of entropy very obvious and very explainable
by daft_pink | 2025-09-01 15:43:56+00:00
The fact that I go to McDonald’s and they play a recording every time asking me for an app code. Or I go to Petsmart and they give me all kinds of discounts for installing their app. Or Reddit barely works unless you install their stupid app. There is clearly some invasive behavior happening with apps on phones that doesn’t seem to happen on computers the companies are so insanely motivated to get you to install their freaking app

The difference is I bought the device so I don’t care if you feel restricted as a developer. I’m just saying as a user I feel protected by having someone review the apps that are going on my phone and denying ones they feel suck.

I’m also a developer however I don’t write phone apps
by Zambyte | 2025-09-01 15:44:00+00:00
All software distributed under permissive licenses can be sublicensed under GPLv3 overnight. And all future contributions can only be accepted under GPLv3. Software licensed as exactly GPLv2 (rather than GPLv2 or later) is harder to do this upgrade for because of the reasons you mention, but lots of software can have their license fixed.
by chrsw | 2025-09-01 15:44:37+00:00
CPU design has come a long way since the 1990s. Superscalar designs, high speed memory interfaces, multi-level caches, out-of-order execution, machine level translation, JIT optimization, the list goes on. Just one feature of frontier high performance chip design is far more complex than an entire MPU from decades ago. And many of these techniques are IP protected. Which is of no concern to China. But here in the US it's a big reason why there hasn't been as much competition in this space, aside from the ISA cross-licensing agreements of course.

Design and manufacturing are both engineering problems. Throw enough people and money at the problem and it will get done eventually. What we're banking on in the West is by the time China catches up to where we are now we'll be on to the next thing. Always one step ahead. What I'm saying is, unless we refocus our society on STEM, those days are numbered.