MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evanelias | 2025-11-19 19:46:02+00:00
> Open source software explicitly invites collaboration, and sharing of knowledge.

The licenses permit that, but they explicitly do not "invite" it; they are totally neutral on that point. Upstream FOSS authors can reject all third-party contributions, and their software is still unarguably FOSS.

> When someone sees people asking for help, and making feature and improvement suggestions, as "demands" from "entitled" users

You're mischaracterizing the situation. It's usually about a specific small vocal subset of users, who are literally demanding things in a rude and arrogant manner.

> Despite what some may claim, there is an unwritten social contract which is created when software is published in the open, whether the author decides to ignore this or not.

"Unwritten social contracts" effectively only exist in cases where an overwhelming majority of people believe in the same set of social norms. That absolutely is not the case in the software industry. There's no broad agreement about what that social contract entails, or if it even exists, and therefore it de facto does not exist for the industry as a whole.

Individual projects can choose their own social norms, but that doesn't inherently extend those norms to the entire industry.
by kstrauser | 2025-11-19 19:46:07+00:00
I disagree. Clients shouldn't be expected to know the ins and outs of legal procedure and rules of evidence and a million other things like that. I think they should be reasonable expected to say something when their attorney is making factual mistakes, like "when my client wrote this, they meant...", when the client knows that's not at all what they meant.

To give an example that might resonate to HN folks, suppose your attorney says "I know my client had a bunch of hacking tools on his computer, and that looks bad". Now suppose the laptop in question is your work-issues computer, and you work in pen testing, so you possess all of those for legitimate work-related reasons. I think it'd be hard to appeal on those grounds. "My attorney should have said something?" "You just sat there and went along with it, though." Appeals aren't meant to be an infinite series of do-overs were you get to relitigate every single thing you wish you'd said differently.

If your attorney messes up on legal issues, that's on them. When they mess up on the basic facts, and you don't say anything about it, I think that's kind of on you.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-19 19:46:27+00:00
Fascinating. I'm honestly quite confused -- most of the bike headlights I see simply run on 2-3 AA or AAA batteries, and it doesn't seem physically possible for them to output the kind of bright light you're talking about. I personally am very careful to angle them downwards, because the entire point is to illuminate the ground in front of me -- if I'm shining in people's eyes, then it's not illuminating the ground. And they're already so weak, you need all the illumination you can get.

E-bike rentals don't have anything adjustable, and where I am, they're quite fixed at illuminating the ground.

Maybe there are people with e-bikes who can draw a lot more power and have higher-powered headlights? Are you talking about e-bikes specifically? But it's just not something I've ever seen. I'm certainly blinded by vehicles while cycling under certain circumstances, but I've never once in my life felt blinded by cyclists or even anywhere close. That's why I'm so confused by what you're describing. When you say "blow away your vision from half a mile away easily", I honestly can't even begin to imagine what you're talking about.
by philsnow | 2025-11-19 19:47:13+00:00
> and then WhatsApp starts to send ads in push-notifications that you can't turn off

*that you can't filter.

Every time an app begs me to enable notifications, I give it the side-eye because I immediately assume it's going to include notifications that I don't want to see, which are essentially ads for some app feature / some part of their walled garden.

I want to be able to filter notifications at the OS level. That could be by a substring search on the content of the notification, or by a unique-per-call-site (in the code) identifier included in the API the app uses to surface a notification (though I suspect most apps would just re-use the same identifier everywhere because the developers don't want me to be able to filter their ads).
by zrn900 | 2025-11-19 19:47:18+00:00
While they are at it, the EU should also correct another sh*tty law: The Digital 'Resilience' Act (or whatever it was) that holds the Open Source developers responsible for unlimited fines for security issues in their projects.

The Open Source community fought it, and thought that it won a concession, but it really was not a concession: The Eu commission will 'interpret' the law. So it will be interpreted politically - or worse, lobby-driven - with every other Eu commission that takes office.

The law does not allow you to make any kind of income from your open source project in ANY way, and basically forces you to be free labor for megacorps. Charging for support? Responsible for fines that can go up to millions of Euros. Charging for 'downloads'. Same. Licenses? Same.

It looks like this was another law pushed by Eu big software lobbies: Cripple any small player that may be a competitor by building a moat against small players and those pesky Open Source startups that may challenge your online service, but still keep Open Source developers as the free labor for your company's infrastructure.

The tech legislation landscape in the Eu has been co-opted by Eu megacorps. Like I said in another comment, we arent in the early days of the Pirate Party anymore. Now career politicians and sold-out lobbyists make laws to protect megacorps. Therefore Im against any new tech legislation from the Eu, despite having been an early Pirate Party advocate back when even using the word 'pirate' put you in legal trouble.
by fancy_pantser | 2025-11-19 19:47:59+00:00
> Attention is quadratic

Exactly. Standard Multi-Head Attention uses a matrix that grows to 4B parameters for a 64K sequence as a starting place. FlashAttention v2 helps slightly, but as you grow to 128K context length, you still need over 1TB/s memory bandwidth to stay compute-bound in practice even with this optimization.

So there has been a lot of research in this area and model architectures released this year are showing some promising improvements. Sliding windows lose context fidelity and if you go fully linear, you sacrifice math, logic, and long multi-turn (agentic) capabilities, so everyone is searching for a good alternative compromise.

MiniMax-M1 had lightning attention to scale up to 1M context lengths. It's "I/O aware" via tiling and calculates attention two ways block-wise (intra-block traditional attention and inter-block linear attention), thereby avoiding the speed-inhibiting cumulative summation.

DeepSeek V3.2 uses DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), which is sub-linear by only computing "interesting" pairs. For example, in 128K context lengths this requires only 10-20% of attention pairs to be materialized.

Both Qwen3-Next and Kimi Linear adopt a Gated DeltaNet, which is borrowed from Mamba2. In Qwen3-Next it alternates three Gated DeltaNet (linear attention) layers for every one gated [full] attention. The speedup is from a delta rule, which basically amounts to caching in a hand-wavy way.

There's no universally-adopted solution yet, as these are all pretty heavy-duty compromises, but the search is going strong right now for linear or better attention mechanisms that still perform well.
by bitpush | 2025-11-19 19:48:46+00:00
> Yes. Initially all the core OS components were OSS.

Are you saying they "un-open sourced" things? Because that hasnt happened. Just beacuse a piece of code is open source doesnt mean additional services need to be open source as well.

vscode core is open source, but MS maintains closed-source stuff that builds on top of vscode. That doesnt mean vscode isnt open source anymore.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-19 19:49:00+00:00
In terms of whether or not the ubiquity of cookie banners is malicious compliance or if it was an inevitable consequence of GDPR, it doesnt matter if trackers are good or necessary. GDPR doesn't ban them. So having them and getting consent is just a normal consequence.

We can say, "Wouldn't it have been nice if the bad UX of all these cookies organically led to the death of trackers," but it didn't. And now proponents of GDPR are blaming companies for following GDPR. This comes from confusing the actual law with a desired side effect that didn't materialize.
by sumit_psp | 2025-11-19 19:49:11+00:00
Even in the minimal example there are way more variables than it first seems.

1. How many shirts do we order? 2. When is it worth moving on to the next trend? 3. How should we handle shipping? Do we market globally or locally?

Even the smallest business require a lot of balancing of priorities and planning for the long run with uncertain returns
by jerf | 2025-11-19 19:49:16+00:00
As someone who played these back in the day and enjoyed them, I don't think I could even recommend them to myself today. Ultima VII is everything the other comments say it is... but it's also one staggeringly large nested fetch quest, with nothing much breaking it up.

I'd recommend some combination of the Bethesda open world games and the JRPG genre today. They're not the same, nothing really quite fills the Ultima gap that I know of, but between those two I'd call it close enough.
by tom_alexander | 2025-11-19 19:49:33+00:00
What are those features? I've never used iMessage but my ultimate point is that iMessage isn't enabling bullying, it just happens to be the platform these kids are currently using. The same bullying tactics have been possible since long before the iPhone existed.

So far semi-extrinsic provided a list of features they think is uniquely enabling bullying in iMessage but I've just established those features are actually commonly available to everyone, so what other features does iMessage have that uniquely makes it enable bullying compared to MMS?
by forgetfreeman | 2025-11-19 19:50:04+00:00
I mean you leave with whatever take suits you but don't expect buyin for some revisionist narrative that casts 90s era 16 year olds as infantilized incompetents. I'd like to point out that the majority of kids that age at that time had cars, jobs to support said, and relationships of their own of varying levels of "adult"-ness.
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-19 19:50:05+00:00
Yeah, I really tried to cover a part of how it's so bad in my post. It's really something from a different time. There's a lot of the old WAP 1.0 kind of thinking where the carrier ran their own proxy to make the content consumable by the end device due to limitations at the time. If you don't fetch the content off the MMSC in time it expires. I know there's lots of RCS spam complaints, but the carriers ran email to MMS gateways that had abuse for years.

Verizon had the wackiest system with their vtext service where it really tried to customize more than the GSM carriers and they ran their own web portal. When they phased that out a few years ago it broke picture scaling for pretty much all non-iphone devices on their network. This is another big reason I wanted working RCS because if I send a picture to Android users on Verizon it ends up scaled down.
by lutusp | 2025-11-19 19:50:23+00:00
Thanks! I tried the anaglyphic option, but the data being provided to the engine doesn't include third dimension data (so the orbits are essentially flat in the third dimension). Also the orbital colors interfere with the anaglyphic effect (which normally expects white graphic data that it then splits into red and cyan).

I think adding third-dimension data would solve or mitigate the other issues, because full-color anaglyphs are possible, although at a reduced degree of subjective separation between the views.

Thanks for pointing out to me that an anaglyphic option is present, which I managed not to notice the first time.

Anyway, with third-dimension data, the anaglyph option ought to work -- for hard-core, old-fashioned red-blue eyeglass wearers. :)
by rzerowan | 2025-11-19 19:50:31+00:00
I think the headline is incorrect , as far as the timeline goes there were TWO separate actions. The first was the Business Court removing the CEO and the Board, the second was the ministrial action to take over Nexperia NL business as part of the wartime measure.

These were all precipitated by the US BIS50+ ruling that threatend to sanction any Chinese subsidiary of any company on the Entity list , which increaed the list from something like 1500 to 30k companies overnight with Nexperia in the mix.

After the recent US-China talks and the suspension of the rule , the Dutch have in kind made movements to backtrack.

However at this point its only the Ministerial action that has been suspended i.e the SECOND action.

The FIRST action by the Business courts still remains in place , so the CEO/Board is still outed.
by GeekyBear | 2025-11-19 19:50:48+00:00
> Apple has admitted to the government forcing them to cover-up backdoors

Handing over push notification data stored on a company's server is not any type of "backdoor".

That's how the law works in the US when the Federal, State, or local authorities come to you with a warrant.

If the Feds come to you with a National Security Letter, then you are forced to hand over the data stored on your servers, and are indeed prohibited from speaking out about it.

The only way to defend your customer's privacy is to minimize data collected and stored on your servers, which is what makes the surveillance capitalism business model of companies like Google and Meta so dangerous.
by 7777777phil | 2025-11-19 19:51:01+00:00
Article behind Paywall; AI Summary:

Kalshi Partners with StockX to Launch Prediction Market for Collectibles and Sneakers Kalshi, a prediction market platform, has teamed up with sneaker marketplace StockX to create new event contracts based on the resale prices of popular collectibles, including sneakers like Jordans, Supreme hoodies, and Labubu dolls. The contracts allow users to bet on whether specific items will surpass price thresholds after release or predict top-selling brands during major shopping events like Black Friday. This move marks Kalshi's expansion beyond sports and political predictions into consumer goods, tapping into the booming market for high-demand collectibles that often resell for multiples of their original price. The platform’s growth follows a legal victory over U.S. regulators, which has spurred further investment, with Kalshi aiming to become a broad "everything exchange" for diverse market categories. The partnership’s event contracts will initially focus on select releases and average resale prices for items on StockX, with plans for expansion. However, the industry continues to face regulatory challenges, with gaming regulators in Nevada scrutinizing Kalshi's operations.
by aylmao | 2025-11-19 19:51:02+00:00
> We've gone from a sense of techno optimism to tech blaming.

IMO this is simply because the tech industry isn't what it was 20+ years ago. We didn't have the monopolistic mammoths we have today, such ruthless focus on profiteering, or key figures so disconnected from the layperson.

People hated on Microsoft and they were taken to court for practices that nowadays seem to be commonplace with any of the other big tech companies. A future where everyone has a personal computer was exciting and seemed strictly beneficial; but with time these "futures" the tech industry wants us to imagine have just gotten either less credible, or more dystopic.

A future where everyone is on Facebook for example sounds dystopic, knowing the power that lays on personal data collection, the company's track record, or just what the product actually gives us: an endless feed of low-quality content. Even things that don't seem dystopic like VR seem kinda unnecessary when compared to the very tanginble benefit the personal computer or the internet brought about.

There are more tangible reasons to not be optimistic nowadays.
The death of Arduino?
by ChuckMcM | 2025-11-19 19:51:08+00:00
There was a lot of speculation here about why Qualcomm would pay so much for Arduino. I believe that question has been answered by Limor Freid (LadaAda of AdaFruit) in her LinkedIn post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-t...

I know a lot of people avoid LinkedIn like the plague, but the two key bits are that Qualcomm's new "Terms of Service" explicitly disallow reverse engineering, claim IP ownership of anything submitted to the platform, and claim a right to use any and all data associated with accounts connected to Arduino for pretty much any purpose they want. Limor goes into more detail but at the end of the day I agree with her assessment that this will be the end of Arduino.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-19 19:51:11+00:00
What's the point of this sarcastic comment? Do you think that some people claim that Rust's memory safety guarantees mean that a Rust program is incapable of crashing or having a bug? This is a dumb thing to claim certainly, but I'm not aware of anyone actually making this claim.

I'm also not sure what you're getting at with the comment about exception handling being lame. I think the ML/Haskell inspired model that Rust uses of having a parameterized Result type for fallible operations is generally better than exceptions for a variety of reasons (although maybe better Exception semantics could help with some of this), but what does this have to do with match blocks?
by graemep | 2025-11-19 19:51:27+00:00
I am not saying privacy laws should be repealed (if you look at my other comments, quite the opposite).

I am saying that the same regulations are both too easy for big business to evade (or ignore and treat fines as a cost of doing business) AND too burdensome on small organisations that do not trade information. Something as simple as a membership list can draw you in.
by 542354234235 | 2025-11-19 19:51:37+00:00
How is using comic pictograms as one of the many ways we communicate some sort of reversion? We use different vocabularies when talking to different audiences, for instance I speak much more casually with friends than with my boss. We often specifically use vocabulary and word choice to provide context to the nature of the conversation. Like using formal and respectful wording to highlight professionalism, or using casual slang to highlight a joking or lighthearted tone.

As we have moved more informal conversations to written form (texting everyday with friends is a lot more casual than sending paper letter correspondence through the mail to friends), we have added ways to provide tonal context that is lost by not hearing someone’s voice or seeing their body language. Adding “LOL” or “haha” to indicate your statement is meant to be a joking tone, for instance. Emojis are just another way to do that and to reinforce the casual nature of the communication. Someone might use the turtle emoji when messaging their girlfriend about how long they have been waiting in line to give the message a cute playful tone, where they wouldn’t use it when talking about a production slowdown in a message to their coworkers.

Its fine not to like emojis, but it is eyerollingly pretentious to act like it is some indication of the de-evolution of society.
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-11-19 19:51:56+00:00
I'm taking upper level classes, and had an issue where the professor asked me to recall some information from an old math class. I had to be honest with him, so I told him straight up in front of the class: "I took the class and passed it, my passing of a class is not mean I actually remember or understand what was taught. While I do have an interest in math, I struggle with it and forget what I don't regularly practice. I can't afford to constantly retake classes, and as such I have sacrificed my ability to know X subject in math in exchange for the passing grade I got"

I can't be regularly be practicing all levels of math and reviewing on top of my regular class schedules and work....I literally don't have the time, mental energy, or ability to even remember any of this stuff.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-11-19 19:52:07+00:00
> Comcast pulled the ability to use IPv6 in this manner

Can you expand on this?

It's been a while since I've explored IPv6, but I'm on Comcast and I recently switched from OpenWRT to an Ubiquiti router and was surprised that 1) it doesn't enable IPv6 by default and 2) It asks for configuration [2] that I'm not sure how to answer. I thought everything "just worked" with Router Advertisement.

[2] https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-Gat...
by tlamponi | 2025-11-19 19:52:10+00:00
It makes no sense to add an extra layer, and we definitively do not want to make us and our users dependent of docker project.

There exist many OCI runtimes, and our container toolkit already provides a (ball parked) 90% feature overlap with them. Maintaining two stacks here is just needless extra work and asking for extra pain for us devs and our users, so no, thanks.

That said, PVE is not OCI runtime compatible yet, that's why this is marked as tech preview, but it can be still useful for many that control their OCI images themselves or have an existing automation stack that can drive the current implementation. That said, we plan to work more on this in the future, but for the midterm it will be not that interesting for those that want a very simple hand-off approach (let's call it "casual hobby homelabber"), or want to replace some more complex stack with it; but I think we'll get there.
by jaredklewis | 2025-11-19 19:52:25+00:00
I don't buy that at all. Young people in Russia and next door Finland have equal levels of financial security? What are you basing this on?

But let's say I did accept your premise, I still don't think financial security drives birth rates. In 1957, almost 10% of teenage women gave birth. Do we think 1957 teenagers were having babies because they were all homeowners with secure, well paying jobs?
by jrochkind1 | 2025-11-19 19:52:28+00:00
I don't know if Heineman was well-known under her previous name or not, but it's literally in the second paragraph of the wikipedia article on her. And wikipedia generally does mention former names in the cases you are describing.[1]

y'all are just imagining things to be mad about.

It would be rude to mention the name in these comments on a post posted in honor of her death though, please don't.

[1] "As the guideline on birth names and gender identity note, birth and former names of transgender and non-binary people should only be included in the lead section if they were notable prior to coming out… Instead, this information may be woven into an "Early life" section… In cases where the prior name is known only as the result of being outed, editors may feel it would be giving it undue weight to include it in the article, unless it was subsequently widely reported in reliable sources." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBTQ%2B...
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-19 19:52:35+00:00
It could, however, be good policy independent of personal preference.

I like folks who have to work for a living and dislike billionaires relaxing on yachts bought on their generational wealth, but in addition sociology metrics of the United States in the past 100 years suggest that the highest levels of happiness correlated pretty heavily with marginal tax rates as high as 100% based on wealth.
by kragen | 2025-11-19 19:52:36+00:00
You could start a new project or contribute to an existing one. You could try out other people's projects and write about what you learned. You could write about what you learned from your own projects. You could give a talk that starts with a killer demo. You could try to find work that improves the situation, however slightly, instead of worsening it. You could sharpen your skills so that when you have more spare time you can make faster progress.