MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brokegrammer | 2025-09-01 17:09:57+00:00
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by const_cast | 2025-09-01 17:11:35+00:00
There is no contract, you didn't break anything because there's nothing to break.

Don't like it? Great, I don't either. Do something about at will employment.

The reality is that at will employment is abused 1 million to 1 by companies versus laborers. We truly, genuinely, do not give a single fuck when companies screw people over.

We shouldn't, then, care when people do it back. That sucks, sure, so change the laws.
by toasterlovin | 2025-09-01 17:11:47+00:00
> The real problem is that @gmail.com or @icloud.com are now required to participate in society

They absolutely are not, though. I've been fully bought into the Apple ecosystem for nearly 2 decades and have used a Fastmail email address with it for the last decade (when I ditched my MobileMe email address). Similarly, I have never had an @gmail.com email address, though I've used various Google products.
by pmontra | 2025-09-01 17:11:51+00:00
Note that this is about source code, not binaries, or nobody would be working with docker (and more.)

Of course a company must forbid copy/paste of GPL code, because that would GPL the codebase and that's hardly what they want. But one should ask the Legal office (and/or other offices) about adding any MIT, BSD or proprietary library: credit must be given (how?), licenses must be available and compatible with the way the software is distributed. There are so many licenses out there, everything should be vetted.
by mrmattyboy | 2025-09-01 17:11:51+00:00
It's interesting seeing parts of life overlap.

I did music production at the same time as heavily using SVN and starting to use Git - I didn't cross this over at the time. All (in my case) Cubebase files were just -1, -2 suffixes and it worked. I had continuous backups, sure and it just kinda worked at the time.

Given I now use Git heavily in my work/hobby life, when doing other projects (3D models for printing (questionable at best) and artwork (very very very questionable at best)) I definitely wanted to use some sort of SCM. I opted for these for Perforce - mostly to experiment, but also the idea of having binaries in a distributed SCM. Yes, I know Git-LFS _exists_, but also, to me it breaks the idea of what Git is.. relying on a server for binaries in a situations where everything should be distributed.

If I now went back to audio-production, I would probably consider either Perforce or SVN. Perforce only if it were for a single user (because of licensing). The ability to clone/checkout a single directory of a repo at a given point in time natively and make modifications and push them back is almost quite necessary when dealing with very large files.

And I still use SVN for _some_ situations - particularly those where Perforce is overkill and all I want to _always_ HEAD and the rest is history (for manual preservation history) and no such need for merging and branching (thinking Wiki and other plain-text tooling).

In the case of any sort of any binary-merging - I _heavily_ assume this isn't expected in the poster's situation!
by indigodaddy | 2025-09-01 17:12:12+00:00
Well I disagree. My take: they wanted their cake and to eat it too. They wanted to be able to say they were free/open source, but really didn't want anyone to be able to utilize the code in any meaningful way. The hobbyist will be turned off because it doesn't look like there is any way to even try it out themselves on their own VPS or hardware. That seems intentional. And now, they change their license so that anyone smart enough to figure it out and make money with it, they not gonna allow that either now. Feels like we know how they really felt from the start, which is they didn't really want anyone to run this code on their own to begin with, but they wanted to still be able to claim "fully open source." IMO, even “disingenuous” is actually a somewhat kind word to how they come off to me.
by delecti | 2025-09-01 17:12:13+00:00
A lot of us are also autistic, and I suspect there's a sizable overlap with the people who like to be right. Though as someone in that overlap, it's less "I want to be the one who brings correctness" and more "I want discussions to only contain accurate facts".

But that aside, it is just simply the case that there are a lot of reasons why sarcasm can fail to land. So you just have to decide whether to risk ruining your joke with a tone indicator, or risk your joke failing to land and someone "correcting" you.
by tpae | 2025-09-01 17:12:15+00:00
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by rsynnott | 2025-09-01 17:12:19+00:00
MS had great tech demos of their voice control stuff in the late 90s. Given the history I will believe this is a thing when significant numbers of people (like, hundreds of millions, not the early adopter oddball class who buy VR headsets and palmpilots and other never-quite-made-it stuff) are using voice as their primary interface with computers, and not before.
by icelancer | 2025-09-01 17:12:54+00:00
It is shockingly difficult to use LLMs in chess study. I don't need it to be a better (or worse) Stockfish; an LLM should be great at taking a FEN or multiple lines from Stockfish via MCP or tool call and explain why positions are evaluated the way they are, typical plans in the position (drawing from pretraining knowledge of a vast archive of games), and how to explain to a human to study these positions.

I suspect that the large amount of chess pretraining data is not well synchronized with positions, because in books and articles the text is typically accompanied by pictures of the positions, NOT FENs / PGNs. So the training on the text is decoupled from the representation of the position.

Regarding your tool call thing with stockfish/maia, I made a tool like this for myself called Blunder Sniper which iteratively feeds positions - that I'm likely to get given my openings - and recursively calls the lichess DB and finds the first time in the top 80% played moves in each chain where the opponents in the rating range blunder as the most common move in the chain.

It was a fun way to use an alternative to engine-based preparation that many strong players use, which is something like Nibbler + lc0 and using contempt high values to find higher variance lines rather than game theory optimal ones.

Some day I'll expand on the gpt-chess articles [0] that I found super interesting, fine-tune models... well, I keep telling myself that, anyway...

[0]: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
by iwwff | 2025-09-01 17:13:09+00:00
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by __rito__ | 2025-09-01 17:13:10+00:00
X algorithm is the most tunable I have come across.

I can mute all words I don't like to see, and hit a bunch of "Not Relevant"s once a month or so, and my X feed has only relevant content. And it has very high density.

I like the vibes of Fedi, but there is not enough density.

And Bluesky is just Old Twitter 2.0 without the density of technical stuff. That's the default feeling.

In this note, Facebook algo perform the worst. No matter how much signal I send to the algorithm by watching videos for longer, liking, commenting on stuff of my liking, hitting "Not interested" a lot, it still shows me the lowest commonly understandable dumb thing again and again.

YouTube algo is also very trainable and enjoyable.
by yazmi | 2025-09-01 17:13:27+00:00
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by aredox | 2025-09-01 17:13:31+00:00
And at the same time populism worsens inequality and isn't punished for it (it gets away with making the elections just a little bit "unfair", it doesn't need full totalitarian control over them and can keep the opposition alive on not-too-tight a leash). Which is the most terrifying thing: it is a self-renforcing loop.
by cousin_it | 2025-09-01 17:13:38+00:00
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by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-01 17:13:39+00:00
I have notes with me for anything of importance. rule 2 and beyond is of no concern to me.

I got through uni on entirely point 1, and only relied on accidental memorization from the process of understanding.

I find alot of study advice under-emphasise point 1, and over-emphasise memorization techniques.
by brookst | 2025-09-01 17:13:59+00:00
I’d argue that HN sentiment is a leading indicator, not a claim of current reality.

Compared to a year ago, Google has declined from 89.487% to 88.915%. Just half a percent, but IMO it will accelerate.

Meanwhile OpenAI has gone from 0.194% to 0.226% in just three months (they weren’t on previous quarter’s reports).

Sure, it’ll be years before Google drops to 50%. But it will happen.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-01 17:14:17+00:00
You're drawing an inflammatory connection that I'm going to try my best to dodge. It's true in general that systems can become ossified in such a way that they aren't working but can't be changed without breaking things and causing chaos. It's also true that sometimes the system is perfectly fine and doesn't need to be broken - but I don't think many researchers had that opinion of the grant process before ChatGPT.
by dscthrowaway | 2025-09-01 17:14:21+00:00
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by throwaway22032 | 2025-09-01 17:14:43+00:00
"That's just like, your opinion, man."

The car is clearly not the best way to navigate a dense city. It is impractical to have, say, tower block apartments and also have a car for each resident. It is unreasonable to build enough parking for peak time around every destination that anyone might want to go to.

On the flip side - not everyone wants to live in a dense city, and people's opinions on this change throughout their lives. It was profit maximising and also a lot of fun for me to live in the inner city in my early to mid 20's. Now that I can afford to not maximally push my career I prefer the outer parts of the city / more rural areas, and that's where the car shines.
by ethersteeds | 2025-09-01 17:15:00+00:00
You aren't wrong. I was replying to a flippant declaration "I don't see the point [in coming to grips with mortality]", which is quite different from your nuanced reply.

I tried to convey that I'm not saying "this is as good as it gets and it's wrong to try for longer life". Your "thoughtful and reasonable" approach was exactly what I had in mind.

What I say leads to suffering arises from denying that mortality is inevitable and tarring those who say otherwise as defeatists. Death is another part of life, as you acknowledged. It unnerves me to see denying that truth cast as a virtue.
by icelancer | 2025-09-01 17:15:25+00:00
> Those are the truly hard things in chess. Maybe this changes if you're a high-level player, but I'm not.

They remain pretty difficult. Ben Finegold said it best when doing a lecture on middlegame technique; a novice complained that it's hard to figure out what to do in a positional battle and where to put all the pieces: "I got bad news for you - that's hard for us, too."
by saltcured | 2025-09-01 17:16:00+00:00
That whole article seems odd to me. I don't think I've ever felt this illusion, at least not when old enough to even think about the geometry of it.

I don't intuit the cylindrical projection mentioned in that article. I "feel" an arc over the hemispherical sky. I know the terminator is perpendicular to that arc and the moon chases the sun towards the horizon.

I wonder if latitude or other local terrain and climate features influence what sort of mental model one develops about this...
by foxglacier | 2025-09-01 17:16:01+00:00
Provenance kind of matters though because we can't work out all the details of every piece of information and have to put a bit of trust in the source. A way I like it to cite a source with the opposite bias of what you're trying to say. If even the opponents of the general idea agree with some part of it, that's stronger support than it's supporters agreeing.
by amacneil | 2025-09-01 17:16:03+00:00
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by waffletower | 2025-09-01 17:16:29+00:00
My Tesla used to crash fairly often, and thankfully only once this year. Usually in my driveway but there were two occasions that it crashed while in traffic waiting to make left turns. The touch screen interface component was the subject of all of these so called "crashes": the car is still drivable, but there is a large loss of feedback -- car signal tones are no longer present -- there isn't feedback to know if the car's signal lights are actually engaged or not, no speedometer, climate system stops operation etc. It takes about 2 minutes to restart and recover. Thankfully the Tesla touch screen console is only part of larger system as described.
by dang | 2025-09-01 17:16:57+00:00
p.s. Here's a bunch of past mod explanations about this, if anyone wants to understand why we have this rule:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44772030 (Aug 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770591 (Aug 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161363 (June 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239393 (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39222099 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759361 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759152 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37741801 (Oct 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397355 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354391 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158274 (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818403 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335600 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408468 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28385149 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984132 (Nov 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667632 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244528 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16987471 (May 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822899 (July 2015)
by joshcsimmons | 2025-09-01 17:17:09+00:00
Silly. Globally over half of smartphone users have Android phones. Bear was actually the only thing that kept me in the Apple ecosystem for so long, was really bummed when I switched to Android to have to move to another notes program.

IMO - you are charging money for your app which makes you a business. When you don't listen to the market you forfeit any right to complain when you get your lunch money stolen. Sounds hard but most lessons in business are expensive!
by pessimizer | 2025-09-01 17:17:13+00:00
Brain dead garbage that could have been generated by AI, one of a vast literature that attempts to make popular sovereignty seem like a mental illness rather than the only non-supernatural justification for government at all.

They selected a few strongmen, as designated by the CIA, to illustrate their points: Italy, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina. Only while the CIA disapproves of them, though. The CIA always changes their minds about them at exactly the same time they make a break with their past and announce that their country is open for foreign investment. Al Qaeda leaders in expensive suits.

Anti-establishment populists, the "good" kind, are represented by the organizations that employ people to write garbage like this, and whose primary messaging is that power can be wielded by loving and believing hard enough, and that everyone who does anything to threaten any institution is completely dominated and motivated by hate, cynicism, or ambition. We don't hate them, we love them, so to help them they should be under mandatory therapy; and to protect us, maybe that therapy should be done in a prison.
by ezekg | 2025-09-01 17:17:36+00:00
Too ambiguous. The main driver behind open source’s success is largely in some way, shape, or form "profit." Saying nobody can profit by using the project essentially limits its use to strict personal-use, and even then — it depends on how deep "profit" goes, and what "profit" means.

In any case, you can say that in a clearer way.
by crawshaw | 2025-09-01 17:17:44+00:00
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by nyc_pizzadev | 2025-09-01 17:17:46+00:00
Google has been a hot mess for me lately. Ya, the AI is awful, numerous times I’m shown information that’s either inaccurate or straight false. It will summarize my emails wrong, it will mess up easy facts like what time my dinner reservation is. Worst is the overall search UX, especially auto complete. Suggestions are never right and then trying to tap and navigate thru always leads to an mis-click.
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by akash100x | 2025-09-01 17:18:55+00:00
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