MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troyvit | 2026-02-02 21:55:39+00:00
The thing I like about this article in particular is that it reads like one of their vapid and paid-for vacuum reviews (https://www.theverge.com/tech/625409/best-robot-vacuum-mops) but it's for civil disobedience. They are in a way poking fun at their own business model and it makes me laugh.
by herzzolf | 2026-02-02 21:55:48+00:00
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by tazjin | 2026-02-02 21:56:09+00:00
People go through all this trouble to host convoluted chat systems, and all this time IRC is right there. There's modern servers like Ergo and modern clients like Halloy (or for the JavaScript addicts: Convos, The Lounge, Kiwi, ...) providing all the multi-device history sharing and emoji reactions you could need. All on top of a super simple, extremely battle tested protocol.
by michal-stlv | 2026-02-02 21:56:28+00:00
It's not unlikely, I guarantee it will never happen. Because that's not the point.

Point is to cover most of the common cases (with escape hatch for fine-tuning in special case) and make those super easy and short to do so devs can focus on code and not infrastructure.

It's standard higher level abstraction play of doing more with less (code and time spent).

Thank you for the feedback.
by gowld | 2026-02-02 21:56:30+00:00
GPL and AGLP both use the word "may" 31 times.

If you aren't comfortable with the word "may", you'll have a lot of trouble with open source languages.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
by sfn42 | 2026-02-02 21:56:52+00:00
The person I replied to said they were taking it easy. By push through it I meant keep it up for a while longer even though it made them feel unwell, thinking they would get past the unwellness.

I wasn't intending to suggest anything remotely in the same ballpark as overtraining, that's not the kind of pushing I had in mind.

And when they clarified that they had been doing it for months I just said that's not normal, because a couple of months is beyond the scope I had in mind when I suggested pushing through it. It shouldn't take months. What they describe sounds more like a serious undiagnosed health issue.
by pama | 2026-02-02 21:57:26+00:00
My main take is exactly the opposite. Why not build everything with a simple text interface (shell command) so the models learn to use these tools natively in pretraining. Even TUI like codex-cli or claude code are needless abstractions for such use cases and make full automation hard. You could add as many observability or input layers for humans as you want but the core should be simple calls that are saved in historical and documentation logs. [the headless/noninteractive modes come close, as do the session logs]
by dbgrman | 2026-02-02 21:58:20+00:00
I wonder the same. Have been reading up on literature related to ADD/ADHD diagnosis and prescription stimulants. It seems like there is little to no friction in getting a legit positive diagnosis. One can pretend to have issues securing a medication that is only meant for strong ADHD patients. I know someone who was able to get their hand on a lot of such stimulants, got addicted, went over the typical dosage, and is now suffering from psychosis.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-02 21:58:31+00:00
Speaking only for myself here. But I don't have the arrogance to assume that I can interpret legalese the way I interpret English. When shit goes to court, saying here's I thought "may" means is not going to be a legal defense strategy. There's a reason I hire lawyers for this kind of shit because they are really good at their job and I won't pretend I know their job better than they do.
by condensedcrab | 2026-02-02 21:58:45+00:00
> SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform. This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!

I think Elon's taken one too many puffs of hopium
by joshhart | 2026-02-02 21:59:13+00:00
I thought this wasn't viable due to cooling requirements - how do you cool massive amounts of compute when the only option is to radiate it into space - nothing to convect it with?

Also, the incredible amount of grift here with the left hand paying the right is scarcely believable. Same story as Tesla buying Solarcity. Board of directors should be ashamed IMO.
by bflesch | 2026-02-02 21:59:36+00:00
> By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will transform our ability to scale compute. It’s always sunny in space! Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization, one that can harness the Sun’s full power, while supporting AI-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future.

Apparently optimus robots don't work and he needs to start his final grift, space datacenters, while his datacenters on earth are powered by gas turbines.

Most likely he's just trying to bury his epstein involvement where was exposed lying by his own daughter.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-02 21:59:41+00:00
> Here’s one real-life scenario that Natalie Higgins, vice president of government relations and general counsel for EDA, shared during a recent presentation for the United Equipment Dealers Assn. “An Ohio equipment owner purchased a tractor and then installed a turbocharger on the engine. The tractor owner sustained injuries and then sued both the manufacturer and the equipment dealer, alleging that his injuries were the result of negligence on the part of the manufacturer and dealer. Remember, neither the dealer nor the manufacturer were involved in the turbochargers installation.”

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This is such a weasley disingenuous argument. First of all, it was a guy's insurance company that sued the tractor manufacturer and the supercharger manufacturer. The guy filed an insurance claim, the insurance company is just suing anyone they can possibly imagine to try to make the quarterly results better.

It was also dismissed under summary judgement because the case is ridiculous on it's face. This was not a case where restricting the right to modify things you own based on possible harm to a corporation was justified.

Quite the opposite, this is a case where a greedy insurance company made a really stupid hail-mary lawsuit to try and recover from a legitimate insurance claim.

The fact that we're repeating this blatant corporate propaganda is frankly embarrassing.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ohnd-1_12-cv-01...
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by Sleaker | 2026-02-02 21:59:58+00:00
I haven't seen what you're suggesting from a CEO at a large company that's primary business is non-software related. At some point in a businesses life theres an accumulation of so many disparate needs and systems that there can be many many layers of cross org needs for fulfilling business processes. This stuff is messy.

I think I saw it asserted that its easier for a new company, which definitely makes sense as you don't carry along all the baggage.
by ratrocket | 2026-02-02 22:00:00+00:00
Last things first: on my phone I only run syncthing "on demand", so I can't actually answer your question. Maybe someone else can chime in? From the little I've brushed up against the issue you're referring to, I think there's a way to have it not get killed, but it seems like it might be a little bit of a hassle.

On the transfer, here is what I could dig up:

The github issue about it was deleted, but archive.org has copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20251215062049/https://github.co...

HN discussion of same (with another link to the syncthing forum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730

Lobsters discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/urbcpw/potential_security_breach_syncthi...

(and here is the announcement that the official android syncthing app was being discontinued: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...)

No shortage of reading if you have the time! I'm quite happy to be running just the "standard" package (although, yeah, I should've pointed out that I don't run in continuously on my phone...)
by paxys | 2026-02-02 22:00:04+00:00
Is it AI or just the market realizing that some of these companies were ridiculously overvalued to begin with.

Here are the p/e ratios of companies mentioned in the article, after the said "pummeling":

* ServiceNow - 70.66

* SAP - 28.70

* Salesforce - 28.15

* Workday - 73.16

* Microsoft - 26.53

So they range from "a bit high" to "still completely bonkers".
by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 22:00:15+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful ideas! You make some great points and laid out a few good plans honestly. I do have an "account" feature right now, where you just enter your email to login. It is passwordless. Logged in accounts can only vote 1 time. I still have the fundamental difficulty of not knowing what they actually voted to maybe have two counts, the anonymous vote and the logged in vote.

Maybe if this somehow takes off, I can re-evaluate if there is a better way to maybe have the anonymous voting as well as a more "scientific" version where users opt-in to provide their information or a way to verify it before anonymously storing their vote.
by dstroot | 2026-02-02 22:00:34+00:00
"trust" is a fuzzy concept - people use iMessage and have no concept of how it's architected or how it works. But they trust it. Why? because trust is something that is transferable. If you trust me, and I tell you iMessage is safe then you have a high likelihood of trusting iMessage. If this is reinforced by other people you trust, even better. There would be ways to create a voting system in the open, and have it validated by third parties. If you've ever bought stock it's because underlying the transaction, and auditor has certified their financials...
by tavavex | 2026-02-02 22:00:41+00:00
What you determine to be denial depends only on what you think is inevitable. OP said "my value is in performing more advanced functions that aren't just writing code", and to you it's denial because (from the implication) you think the complete elimination of software engineers as a job is inevitable. If OP said "my value is that I am multifunctional and can pivot to a completely different industry of mental labor" some people would call it denial because they think all those jobs are next in line on the chopping block. If OP said "my value is in being able to perform physical labor for cheap" some people would call it denial because robotics is progressing rapidly. And so on.
by sowbug | 2026-02-02 22:00:42+00:00
Are there any cases where a fork of a project has altered the license language to reduce ambiguity?

Either the original license grant is expansive, so the clarification is welcome and the fork will become the standard unless/until the modification is upstreamed, or else the grant is restrictive, so the fork language is invalid, and the grantors face the risk of laches or other equitable defenses if they don't stop the fork from offering the less ambiguous interpretation that grantees rely on.

Fork as legal test case, if you will.
by JustSkyfall | 2026-02-02 22:00:50+00:00
Supabase seriously needs to work on its messaging around RLS. I have seen _so_ many apps get hacked because the devs didn't add a proper RLS policy and end up exposing all of their data.

(As an aside, accessing the DB through the frontend has always been weird to me. You almost certainly have a backend anyway, use it to fetch the data!)
by kulor | 2026-02-02 22:00:57+00:00
I've recently re-instated a Photoshop subscription and its now part of my core AI generated asset workflow. AI is fantastic at art direction but it needs minor adjustments to make it production ready. E.g putting real screenshots in with correct placement, smoothing, editing out artefacts etc.
I can't imagine the lengths I'd have to go to to instruct an LLM to do these tasks with words.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-02 22:00:59+00:00
Aspera was/is designed for high latency links. Ie sending multi terabytes from london to new Zealand, or LA

For that use case, Aspera was the best tool for the job. It's designed to be fast over links that single TCP streams couldn't

You could, if you were so bold, stack up multiple TCP links and send data down those. You got the same speed, but possible not the same efficiency. It was a fucktonne cheaper to do though.
by throwaway89201 | 2026-02-02 22:01:01+00:00
The counterpoint is that two sentences away, there's a clear "You are licensed to use the source code" for the non-server parts. It can certainly be argued that there's an intentional difference. In any case, the FUD that this creates is enough to make anyone think twice about reusing the server code.

Also, the ambiguity is not only the "you may be" part, but also the "to create compiled versions" part. Open source is more than creating compiled versions of source code.
by xp84 | 2026-02-02 22:01:03+00:00
> When a customer buys the software, they're entitled to that exact version forever

Sure. And if the audience is very broad that could be perpetually sustaining -- they're each year selling new licenses to people who just became old enough to want that type of software. You can see how a major IDE can afford to do that, right?

What it is really bad for is more niche software. This software often reaches its whole addressable audience in just a few years, and then revenue dips toward zero until the random occurrence of an OS breakage, which may take 1 year or 5 years. And some people even expect that "unbreaking" update to be free.

Obviously everyone has a right to refuse to buy under any business model other than a perpetual license if they wish. But I think that refusal to consider paying for subscription-based software under any circumstances greatly decreases the options that are going to be made at all, as the perpetual license model is absolutely unsustainable to all but the largest developers, and the apps with a very broad, naturally-replenishing audience. Everyone else will either quit or make ad-supported crap.
by oersted | 2026-02-02 22:01:38+00:00
Thank you that makes sense. I did a bit more research for context:

The US only left in 2020 and then rejoined in 2021, I suppose that’s why I didn’t remember it as a big thing.

The US was also just paying ~15%. It was the biggest governmental funder, with Germany at ~9% as the second. But the WHO is apparently mostly funded by charity donations, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was paying ~5% for instance.

(it’s awkward to list sources on the phone but should be easy to verify)

I do get the sentiment though from the perspective of the US, I don’t mean to argue your points.
by Ancapistani | 2026-02-02 22:01:45+00:00
I'm not exactly "conservative" in my beliefs, but definitely align more closely with conservative communities.

I'm pro-solar in that I see no reason to see it in a poor light. There are definitely applications that don't make sense that are being pursued, but I'm dealing with a roof leak now and am considering either replacing my asphalt shingles with solar shingles, or will get a roof that will support solar installation in the future if and when the economics make sense. I've not done the math yet, so that may be now.

I'm pro-EV, too, but again - context matters. I drive a '91 GMC pickup because it fits my needs, is in good condition, and I drive very little compared to most people in my situation. The numbers don't work for me to buy an EV. When I bought a car for my daughter, I went with an ICE vehicle because that's what made sense given the requirements (fairly small, "peppy" (esp. acceleration), capable off-road and in snow and ice, reliable, and as inexpensive as practical. I went with a '24 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness not because it was ICE, but because it was by far the best value I found and met all her needs.

But yes, I know what you're saying - lots of people here are politically motivated and wouldn't even consider installing solar or getting an EV. I see those people as being defined by the political alignment, and that's not really who I'm talking about. The vast majority of people feel like they're more "center" than they really are, which means they're not tied to illogical positions as a result. That's a good thing.
by dijit | 2026-02-02 22:01:57+00:00
you'd be surprised how much your command of the english language translates into legalise.

Yes, there's a definite codex of legal terms that have specific legal meaning but sound like "open to interpretation" english, but, those are vanishingly small.

Largely, if you read defensively and try to read what is not said, then you get very very far.

Source: spent about half-a-decade with very expensive swiss lawyers.
by bbellini | 2026-02-02 22:02:00+00:00
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by leoedin | 2026-02-02 22:02:10+00:00
I think in this case it implies choice for the user. There’s an implied “if you want to”. You may use this software if you want to in one of two ways:

That’s pretty clear to me (a native speaker from the UK) - i can’t really see how else it could be interpreted. As another poster said, it’s the same “may” as “you may go to the washroom” or “you may enter now” - which implies consent from the speaker.
by CubsFan1060 | 2026-02-02 22:02:17+00:00
It is: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

"Impact statement: As early as 19:46 UTC on 2 February 2026, we are aware of an ongoing issue causing customers to receive error notifications when performing service management operations - such as create, delete, update, scaling, start, stop - for Virtual Machines (VMs) across multiple regions. These issues are also causing impact to services with dependencies on these service management operations - including Azure Arc Enabled Servers, Azure Batch, Azure DevOps, Azure Load Testing, and GitHub. For details on the latter, please see https://www.githubstatus.com."
by iancmceachern | 2026-02-02 22:02:40+00:00
Yes. It is very cold up there but there is also no matter, or very little matter. So head conduction and convection don't work, it's all radiation. When we are learning to solve heat transfer problems in engineering school we are generally taught to neglect radiation, because it's effect on cooling the system is typically second or third order when compared to the to "big C's"
by llama052 | 2026-02-02 22:02:47+00:00
Looks like Azure as a platform just killed the ability for VM scale operations, due to a change on a storage account ACL that hosted VM extensions. Wow... We noticed when github actions went down, then our self hosted runners because we can't scale anymore.

Information

Active - Virtual Machines and dependent services - Service management issues in multiple regions

Impact statement: As early as 19:46 UTC on 2 February 2026, we are aware of an ongoing issue causing customers to receive error notifications when performing service management operations - such as create, delete, update, scaling, start, stop - for Virtual Machines (VMs) across multiple regions. These issues are also causing impact to services with dependencies on these service management operations - including Azure Arc Enabled Servers, Azure Batch, Azure DevOps, Azure Load Testing, and GitHub. For details on the latter, please see https://www.githubstatus.com.

Current status: We have determined that these issues were caused by a recent configuration change that affected public access to certain Microsoft‑managed storage accounts, used to host extension packages. We are actively working on mitigation, including updating configuration to restore relevant access permissions. We have applied this update in one region so far, and are assessing the extent to which this mitigates customer issues. Our next update will be provided by 22:30 UTC, approximately 60 minutes from now.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
by RocklandSystems | 2026-02-02 22:03:05+00:00
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