MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cinericius | 2025-09-01 15:06:55+00:00
As far as I understand it, the stance of the 'Open Source' crowd is that if Amazon can't make it one of their AWS offerings then it isn't true open source, and they'll get very upset at you if you claim it is.

I'd like to see some recognition from this crowd of the "free-ride competition" problem as this author puts it. What Herman is doing is a service to us all, and we should find a term (better than 'source-available', which is cold and doesn't capture community projects accurately) that people can promote themselves under without much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

EDIT from a comment in a thread way down, that summarises my point:

I argue that the natural winner-take-all dynamics of the marketplace are not beneficial to the the mission of free and open source software. In fact, having no safeguard against large organisations making money this way is actually hugely detrimental to the mission by enabling these companies to ensnare unsuspecting users in a web of both their own proprietary software as well as all that free and open source software has to offer.
by boerseth | 2025-09-01 15:07:15+00:00
The danger is when solutions that are convenient, but require giving up some sort of freedom, are made mandatory even for those who would like to stay free. I hope this is a lesson we avoid having to learn the hard way.

I have done some backpacking these past two years, and it is worrying how easy it is to get into big trouble if you lose your phone or payment cards.

As an example, my debit card got eaten by an ATM on my way to Argentina, and after my 6 month travel, the backup credit card I had brought was about to expire.

Despite my card working as a means of payment, I was starting to feel the effects of this corner case in every aspect of modern life. I could not use our equivalent of cashapp, I assume because my card was about to expire. I could not ride public transit, or trains, or do things like book a yoga class with my friends, all because all these institutions basically only let you interact with their service through their apps, where I had no way to pay.

I spent some time visiting friends in the capitol on my way home, and tried to sort the situation out with my bank. They thankfully were able to order some new cards to their office, rather than to my home address. But immediately after my talk with them I found that my one remaining card had been cancelled.

Then I tried bringing my passport to withdraw some cash, but the bank teller almost laughed at me, before explaining that you can't just do that anymore. The bank isn't even allowed to let you get your money in cash and leave. You can get bits of it in bills at the ATM for a fee the price of a coffee, but also that requires a card, of course.

Electronic payment solutions are so convenient, for the public and for institutions, for law enforcement and control, that we've forgotten how much we need to give up in order to use them, and now they're being made mandatory as we trudge along into a cashless society.

Now I couldn't even get food or shelter, if not for my friends. I remember half stumbling out of the bank with my passport in my hand, half dizzy with shock and anger. This, along with lots of other small mishaps like losing my phone and encountering trouble, kind of radicalized me on these topics.
by zeven-alex | 2025-09-01 15:07:44+00:00
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by dazbradbury | 2025-09-01 15:07:55+00:00
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by ARandumGuy | 2025-09-01 15:08:05+00:00
I've got to ask, do you play much chess? Because this post reads like you don't understand much about chess.

The issue with "solving" chess isn't that there isn't an objectively best move in every position. The issue is that calculating that move is functionally impossible for most positions. That's because chess gets exponentially more complicated the more pieces there are on the board. For example, there are around 26 million positions with 5 or fewer pieces, and over 3.7 billion positions with 6 or fewer pieces.

And most of those positions are distinct. This isn't like a Rubik's cube, where there are a lot of functionally identical positions. Any experienced chess player can tell you that a single piece placement can be the difference between a winning position, and a losing position.

And this complexity is what I love about chess! I love the fact that I can enter positions that no one has ever encountered before just by playing some chess online. I love the fact that deep analysis is possible, but that the sheer size of the possibility space means we can never truly solve chess. Chess strikes a perfect balance of complexity. Any simpler, and evaluating the best move would be too easy. Any more complicated, and evaluation becomes so difficult that it's hardly worth trying.

Which isn't to say that we can't build computers that are very good at chess. A person hasn't beaten a top computer in decades. Magnus Carlson is probably the greatest chess player to have ever lived, and you can run software on your phone that could easily beat him. But there's a wide gulf between "can beat every human alive" and "plays objectively perfect chess."
by allanjude | 2025-09-01 15:08:06+00:00
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Show HN: Core – open-source memory graph for AI agents (88.24% SOTA on LoCoMo)
by Manik_agg | 2025-09-01 15:08:27+00:00
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by tptacek | 2025-09-01 15:08:28+00:00
(1) It doesn't work reliably, because middleboxes don't pass DNSSEC/TLSA records reliably, so there has to be a downgrade path, so it's strippable.

(2) It's much slower than the TLS WebPKI.

(3) There's no transparency log and never will be, both because it hasn't been designed and because Google and Mozilla basically had to mug the WebPKI CA's in a dark alley to make CT happen.

(4) It requires you to set up DNSSEC, which is so error prone that some of the largest engineering teams in the world have managed to take their sites (and also countries) offline.

The thing about DNSSEC is that once you turn it on, it's a king-hell pain in the ass to turn it off without incurring an outage. DNS providers know this, and they know ops teams are terrified of DNSSEC, so they push it as a kind of account lock-in tool. There's a reason that the overwhelming majority of large site don't use it.
by biztos | 2025-09-01 15:08:43+00:00
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by kace91 | 2025-09-01 15:09:16+00:00
This is really a problem that should be solved by the daw itself.

AFAIK they all dump file management into the user, both for the “source” (projects) and the “binaries” (exported songs).

Ableton includes a feature for exporting self-contained projects so they don’t break if you load them in a different pc, which is the bare minimum, but other than that good luck.

Most of the problems engineers face are present in music production - collaboration, parallel work that may need to be merged, etc.

The subjective nature of music also makes it so that you’ll frequently want to try to develop the project some way and drop all changes if it doesn’t work, or that you’ll realise a change is problematic later (for example, something might sound well in headphones but horribly later in the car).
by ardit33 | 2025-09-01 15:09:22+00:00
lol... you really don't like it, do you. I used it for a couple of my projects, and I kinda agree with you. I didn't like it at all how it took over projects (you have to use a workspace).

For my small personal projects, eventually I ended up into reverting to just downloading the dependencies myself into a lib folder. A bit more work upfront, but simpler builds and you know what's going into your project.

I think it had its use and time, and it is good for the maintainers to mark it deprecated and time to move on.
by slightwinder | 2025-09-01 15:09:38+00:00
Searching for "benn jordan isreal", the first result for me is a video[0] from a different creator, with the exact same title and date. There is no mentioning of "benn" in the video, but some mentioning of jordan (the country). So maybe, this was enough for Google to hallucinate some connection. Highly concerning!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUzVZiint0
by lausingh | 2025-09-01 15:09:47+00:00
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by justin_sdx | 2025-09-01 15:09:51+00:00
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by ahmedbaracat | 2025-09-01 15:09:58+00:00
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by atrettel | 2025-09-01 15:10:08+00:00
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by jorvi | 2025-09-01 15:10:16+00:00
> There is no added benefit to 2FA if you store the 2FA secret next to the password when both are generated securely

Over this entire thread you keep repeating this, and you're so confidently wrong.

If a hacker (or shoulder peeper) gets my password to a site without a TOTP, they can login. 1FA. If I also use a TOTP adjacently, the hacker can't login and the shoulder peeper has a window of 30 seconds.

Its 2FA. Storing critical TOTPs in your password manager is bad practice and thus bad 2FA, but its still 2FA.
by jibal | 2025-09-01 15:10:21+00:00
P.S.

> This kind of messaging is a large part of the problem, because it's trivially verify-able to be a lie, muddying the waters of wherever it should be used.

How ironic.

I'm not going to respond directly to and get into an argument with someone who accuses me of bad faith, but I offer this from ChatGPT (these statements are readily verifiable):

Most side effects were mild and short-lived (injection site pain, fatigue, headache, fever).

Severe side effects were very rare — things like myocarditis (mostly in young men, usually mild and treatable), Guillain–Barré syndrome, or blood clotting events with adenovirus vaccines.

Surveillance data (VAERS, V-Safe, EMA, etc.) show that the incidence of these severe effects was in the range of a few per hundred thousand to a few per million doses — not “a lot of people.”

By contrast, COVID-19 infection itself caused severe illness in many more people, and even increased the baseline risks of myocarditis and clotting much more than vaccines did.

So the corrected takeaway:

Saying vaccines caused severe side effects “in a lot of people” is inaccurate.

The reality is that severe vaccine side effects were rare but carefully monitored, and the risk/benefit balance strongly favored vaccination.
by amluto | 2025-09-01 15:11:14+00:00
I sometimes contemplate that this sort of incidental ToS should be 100% unenforceable.

Here’s what I mean: suppose I want to order a cup of coffee at a cafe. I’ve made a choice to go to that cafe, and it’s at least generally reasonable that the cafe and I should agree to some terms under which they sell me coffee, and those terms should be enforceable.

But if the cafe requires me to use an app, and the app requires me to use a Google account, then using the app and the Google account is not actually a choice I made — it’s incidental to my patronage of the cafe. And I think it’s at least interesting to imagine a world in which this usage categorically cannot bind me to any contract with the app vendor or Google. Sure, I should have to obey the law, and Google should have to obey the law, but maybe that should be it. If Google cannot find a way to participate without a contract, then they shouldn't participate.

I might even go farther: Google and the app’s participation should be non discriminatory. If the cafe doesn’t want to sell me coffee, fine. But Google should have no right to tell the cafe not to serve me coffee.

(For any of this to work well, Google should not be able to incorporate its terms into the terms of the cafe. One way to address this might be to have a rule that third parties like Google cannot assert any sort of claim against an end user arising from that end user’s terms of service with the cafe. If Google thinks I did something wrong (civilly, not criminally) in my use of the app, they would possibly have a claim against the cafe, but neither Google nor the cafe would have a claim against me.)
by protoduction | 2025-09-01 15:11:20+00:00
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