MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hansvm | 2025-04-04 02:47:05+00:00
I saw that, but I'm still not sure how this fits in:

> The enemy has been trying to spin it as "AI bots DDoSing" but one wonders how much of that was their own doing...

I'm reading that as `enemy == fingerprinters`, `that == AI bots DDoSing`, and `their own == webmasters, hosting providers, and CDNs (i.e., the fingerprinters)`, which sounds pretty straightforwardly like the fingerprinters are responsible for the DDoSing they're receiving.

That interpretation doesn't seem to match the rest of the post though. Do you happen to have a better one?
by ch13_ | 2025-04-04 02:47:22+00:00
The page design is distracting and making it hard to browse through. Pressing Page down/up key does not work! Such a design is not UX friendly.

I tried to view on a Windows 10 machine that's connected to a physical keyboard. In the scrolling on the mouse feels so laggy - you gotta wait for the animation to play before you can read.

I spent hardly a minute to read the top and then jumped back here to make this comment, which I never ever did before.
by shirro | 2025-04-04 02:47:29+00:00
Yes it is regressive taxation. It can't be judged in isolation without considering how that revenue will be spent. If that revenue went into massive public works and social programs the stimulus could increase consumer spending which in combinations with tariffs might possibly benefit US business and jobs (gut feeling, not an economist) though perhaps the overall economy might still suffer. Clearly that isn't the plan though.

If it funds tax cuts for the extremely wealthy then potentially its going to be a colossal shit show.

Meanwhile countries are raising barriers against US exports and those losses will need to be made up with increased domestic demand. It is a very brave experiment.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-04 02:48:06+00:00
It smells like a psyop, to be honest. Doesn't take much to get the ball rolling. Just more temporarily embarrassed millionaires sticking up for billionaires and corporations, buying their propaganda hook line and sinker, and propagating it themselves for free. Copyright is a joke, DMCA is a disgusting, selectively applied tool of the elite.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-04 02:48:35+00:00
> Commissioned work is owned by the commissioner unless otherwise agreed upon by contract.

I think the LLM example is closer to the LLM and its creator being like a vendor selling pictures of Indiana Jones on the street corner than hiring someone and performing work for hire. Yes, if it was a human artist commissioned to create an art piece, then yeah, the commissioner owns it.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-04 02:49:34+00:00
You're framing this in an odd way if you want neutral responses. Is withdrawing federal funding an attack? The government has always used the power of the purse as a lever to influence many institutions, including universities, and it often uses this mechanism to exert influence for ideological purposes. The most famous example is withholding funding for roads until states mandated a drinking age of 21. It's how the federal-state power asymmetry works. The disturbing thing is that Congress isn't really the one exerting it in this case, not that it's being used at all.
by ryanackley | 2025-04-04 02:50:30+00:00
So you're saying >50% of the USA population are objectively shit people? If you're a member of the other 50%, you aren't automatically shit but you still could be?

Seems bleak dude. Also, consider that conservative media has indoctrinated people to think like you do...except in the opposite direction. i.e. if you voted for Kamala or Biden, you're the enemy.
by nullocator | 2025-04-04 02:50:43+00:00
Interesting the way you framed this. Especially the part about liberals doing the beatings and threatening more of them.

One party had a message and large portion of it's voter base focused on messages and policies that can only be described as hateful and harmful. Now that it seems like that harm is transpiring and surprise surprise just as the "we don't give two shits about you" liberals warned that harm is at best indiscriminate and at worst going to impact those spiteful voters the most.

Trump is doing exactly what he said he'd do, tariff all the things, these people proudly and loudly voted for the (self-inflicted) punishment you're describing.
by fractallyte | 2025-04-04 02:51:11+00:00
> I don’t know…the actual inspirations for Indiana Jones, like Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard's novels, "King Solomon's Mines", and the real life Roy Chapman Andrews, who led expeditions to Mongolia and China in the 1920s and wore a fedora.

The actual inspiration for Indy was protagonist Harry Steele from the movie The Secret of the Incas (1954). Filmed on location in Cusco and Machu Picchu, before they became popular tourist destinations, the movie also had scenes and elements that made it into Raiders of the Lost Ark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas

The movie's available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TS7Fabyolw

A lot more info: http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/secret_of_in...

(And listen out for the astonishing voice of Yma Sumac!)
by zie | 2025-04-04 02:51:47+00:00
In modern times, we have taken the everything breaks all the time, make redundancy and failover cheap/free approach.

VMS(and the hardware it runs on) takes the opposite approach. Keep everything alive forever, even with hardware failures.

So the VMS machines of the day had dual redundant everything, including interconnected memory across machines and SCSI interconnects and everything you could think of was redundant.

VMS clusters could be configured in a hot/hot standby situation, where 2 identical cabinets full of redundant hardware could failover during an instruction and keep going. You can't do that with the modern approach. The documentation was an entire wall of office bookcase almost clear full of books. There was a lot of documentation.

These days, nothing is redundant inside the box level usually, we instead duplicate the boxes and make them cheap sheep, a dime a dozen.

Which approach is better? That's a great question. I'm not aware of any academic exercises on the topic.

All that said, most people don't need decade long uptimes. Even the big clouds don't bother with trying to get to decade long uptimes, as they regularly have outages.
by accurrent | 2025-04-04 02:52:06+00:00
As a fellow 90s kid... I feel the same. I remember when Sony Ericson launched their first camera phone and how we used to go through PC upgrades like crazy. My dad would go to the bookstore to buy magazines with new linux distros included for free. Now I have laptop thats 4 years old and Im not excited to buy my next (heck I dont even need to buy my next... I can run LLama.cpp just fine on my current).

I do think the barrier to entry in tech has significantly increased. There was a wave of internet companies like Uber, (and their global equivalents) that benefited massively from providing local internet services. In the 2000s and 2010s the tech companies benefited massively from global poverty alleviation efforts to get users in remote regions on line. The push to get people online meant that millions of people in poor countries had access to social media and ads but not basic needs like toilets. As the tech companies saturated the emerging markets, covid began to hit. The stark inequalities began to be rubbed in. The big tech companies also dont really have any real material asset to fight over anymore. Their markets have been largely captured. As a big tech firm the game is now to maintain your lead. The industry is now run by MBAs, not hackers anymore.
by holycrapwhodat | 2025-04-04 02:52:18+00:00
The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly talking with the other browser engines and web developers at the W3C TPAC conference, making concrete proposals to the relevant web standards githubs, taking feedback, etc.

Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?
by photonthug | 2025-04-04 02:52:37+00:00
Even if this were true, it's not quite the end of the story is it? The hype itself creates lots of compute and to some extent the power needed to feed that compute, even if approximately zero of the hype pans out. So an interesting question becomes.. what happens with all the excess? Sure it probably gets gobbled up in crypto ponzi schemes, but I guess we can try to be optimistic. IDK, maybe we get to solve cancer and climate change anyway, not with fancy new AGI, but merely with some new ability to cheaply crunch numbers for boring old school ODEs.
by sleepyguy | 2025-04-04 02:53:00+00:00
> “He launched Cybertruck into the teeth of the hardest segment to crack.”

I don't know who his market is outside of Tesla Bro's. Did he think the guy driving an F150 or Ram 1500 would buy this? I haven't seen a single construction guy working out of one of these. Why would a trade use it? They don't off road well, and they are big and clumsy for the inner city.

What a waste of time and resources. could have made a 25k commuter car and possibly sold millions. Too late for that now. China will drive him out of business without Gov protection...
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-04 02:53:05+00:00
> Is it really necessary to highlight the heading at all?

You should be able to take a given UX and ask yourself if it can be improved.

A table of contents that tells you where you are on the page is useful.

Here's an implementation: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/components/modal/

On desktop, the table of contents on the right shows you which header you're on.
by Slate_official | 2025-04-04 02:53:11+00:00
I recently made the leap from product management to coding, with a lot of help from GPT-4 (it basically taught me how to code). I’ve been obsessed with LLM workflows and kept running into the same pain: constant context resets, tool-switching, and token limits that kill flow mid-task.

So I built Slate — an AI-powered workspace that supports long-context reasoning (up to 1M tokens), persistent memory, and lets you work with multiple models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.) in a Notion-like interface.

It’s still early, but live. If anyone here experiments with long-context LLM use cases or AI tooling, I’d love your feedback — and I’m currently giving away credits to try the Gemini models because I’ve got $300 worth that expire in 48 hours. No catch, just want it used and tested.

First time building and launching something on my own — excited but also a bit overwhelmed. Appreciate any thoughts!
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-04 02:53:19+00:00
> when was the last time your restaurant told you what was in, and how to make, your favourite dish

Today? All the time? I just went into a new local joint today, talked to the owner about adding some vegetarian meals, and we hashed out some ideas in terms of both ingredients and preparation.

As a pescetarian and cook myself, I frequently ask establishments detailed questions about ingredients and preparation
by throw10920 | 2025-04-04 02:54:03+00:00
> You make bad faith arguments. When someone wants to talk about "capitalism" v. "communism" they typically want to discuss the idea of capitalism and the idea of communism as political enterprises.

This is not quite accurate. Most of the advocates of communism want to contrast the historical instances of capitalism (with all of its visible faults) with the idea of communism (with all of its ideological perfection).

This is exemplified in this particular thread (although present everywhere) by freejazz's statement "So how is the Amazon-economy a more moral choice than communism?"

"Amazon-economy" is capitalism as a real system/historical instances. "Communism" is the idea of communism.

So, the claim that people usually want to discuss the idea of capitalism is false, because they almost invariably argue based off of real-world drawbacks of capitalism. It's not bad faith to then compare those to real-world drawbacks of historical+contemporary instances of communism.

If someone really wants to discuss the idea of communism, they have to elide any mention of specific instances of capitalism (while still taking human factors into account for all theories proposed).
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-04 02:54:05+00:00
I think you're half right.

On one hand, I don't see many of the modern services having years to decades of uptime. Clustering is also bolted onto many products while not available for most products. These were normal for OpenVMS deployments. Seems like a safer bet in that regard.

If people have $$$, which VMS requires for such goals, they can hire the type of sysadmins and programmers who can do the same in Nix' systems. The number of components matching VMS's prior advantages increases annually. Also, these are often open source with corresponding advantages for maintenance and extensions.

The other thing I notice is VMS systems appear to be used in constrained ways compared to how cloud companies use Linux. It might be more reliable because users stay on the happy path. Linux apps keep taking risks to innovate. FreeBSD is a nice compromise for people wanting more stability or reliability with commodity hardware.

Then, you have operating systems whose designs far exceed VMS in architectural reliability. INTEGRITY RTOS, QNX, and LynxOS-178B come to mind. People willing to do custom, proprietary systems are safer building on those.
by c0ndu17 | 2025-04-04 02:54:30+00:00
Out of curiosity, would you still need to pay the full tariff, if the cost of an item that was shifted to a token/smart contract, that only enabled a right to purchase, but reduce the device cost to like a dollar or shipping.

It’d be pretty cool if someone derived a legal smart contract solution. One could argue that, the tech enabled products are two things a digital service, and a manufactured product. Those costs could be potentially be seperated.

Then again, I know nothing ^_^
by heloisa-mullen | 2025-04-04 02:54:39+00:00
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Now I’m really looking for an opportunity to join a real software company, to keep growing and learning best practices.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-04 02:55:16+00:00
> Distribution of copyrighted material is prohibited.

Copying without distribution is also an exclusive right under copyright -- the one for which the whole area of law is named -- and, as such, prohibited without a license or a specific exception in law.

> Reading, watching, listening, etc, it is not.

To the extent that reading, watching, listening, etc. involves copying, and that copying is neither explicitly licensed nor implicitly licensed by, e.g., a sale of copy where reading, watching, listening, etc., by means that inherently involve such an act of copying is clearly an intended use, is effectively prohibited because of the unauthorized copying involved.

> A copyright holders tort is with the infringing distributor, not the end user.

It is often with both, though the infringing distributor is (1) generally more likely to have ability to pay which makes tort action worth pursuing, (2) generally likely to be involved in more acts subject to liability increasing the tort liability, making tort action more worth pursuing, (3) less likely to be seen as a sympathetic figure by a jury should they invoke their right to a jury trial, (4) likely to be subject to greater liability per offense under the statutory damage alternative, even if the actual damages would be similar were that option pursued instead.
by flessner | 2025-04-04 02:55:19+00:00
Everyone is talking about theft - I get it, but there's a more subtler point being made here.

Current generation of AI models can't think of anything truly new. Everything is simply a blend of prior work. I am not saying that this doesn't have economic value, but it means these AI models are closer to lossy compression algorithms than they are to AGI.

The following quote by Sam Altman from about 5 years ago is interesting.

"We have made a soft promise to investors that once we build this sort-of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return."

That's a statement I wouldn't even dream about making today.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-04 02:55:44+00:00
I don't get "as a backend engineer" comments like these.

OP is doing a basic analysis on what kind of solutions exist for a typical UX edge-case. They even provide the simple solution that most people use (margin-bottom).

And for fun they go on to see if they can solve it without the minor drawback of the simple solution.

We've got to stop acting like it's a badge of honor to avoid UX consideration. We might not be people who implement UIs, we use UIs all day and should be able to muster up a few opinions about how a UX interaction should work.
by holycrapwhodat | 2025-04-04 02:56:01+00:00
> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.

Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push. It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
by baranul | 2025-04-04 02:57:05+00:00
Arguably, what you describe, is closer to what C2 was/is[1]. By the way, C2 is still alive, for those that care to look.

C3 (link[2]) is a fork of/inspired by C2, which appears to have incorporated a lot of Odin and Jai "flavoring". In the case of both C3 and Odin, it can be argued that part of their popularity is that Jai isn't publicly released. Consequently, they seem to pull in a lot of the crowd, that would be attracted to Jai. Another aspect of this, is the more C3 promotes itself (whether intentional or not), the more likely C2 will get faded out. Many will likely think C3 is the next iteration of C2 or simply know the name more, because pushed on HN and other social media.

[1] https://github.com/c2lang/c2compiler

[2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c
by rs186 | 2025-04-04 02:57:39+00:00
I did the whole thing, was able to get the Fibonacci numbers appear and learned a lot during the process. However, I would not recommend other people to try this today, because --

* It is not necessarily the best way to spend your time and money. You'll be looking at tens of hours on building it plus over $300 in parts, for a very slow and basic computer that you probably will forget and throw away at some point. Cutting and laying out wires are some of the most tedious and frustrating process. There are other cheaper, more efficient ways to learn how a computer works. It may or may not be worth the effort to you.

* The tutorial is really old, with some very questionable design choices and no updates from the author. Some of the designs are just plain wrong -- e.g. floating inputs or missing resistors. It is very unlikely you can reproduce it by strictly following the tutorial. You'll need to spend time debugging those issues and go to reddit to see other people's experience with this, potentially seeking help as well. No doubt debugging is an important part of designing and understanding the circuit. But only if you have the foundational knowledge and patience, of which I happened to have, but I can imagine that someone who does not understand digital electronics well enough can easily get lost and feel defeated.

* To make the previous point worse, some of the parts are hard to source, depending on where you are. (You'll likely fry or physically break a few components when building it.) Many of the parts are not very commonly used these days, and not exactly easy to acquire, if you only need 1 or 2 of them. I had to go to eBay to get some of them, which took about a week, during which I had to stop and wait for parts to arrive.

With all that said, this may still be the best resource out there that lets you build all these on a breadboard, as I am not aware of an alternative that addresses all the issues above.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-04 02:58:10+00:00
I thought the definition of literate was "can interpret text in place of the spoken word". At which point it's worth noting that text is a much lower bandwidth channel than in person communication. Also worth noting that, ex, a mute person could still be considered intelligent.

Is it necessarily the case that you could discern general intelligence via a test with fixed structure, known to all parties in advance, carried out via a synthesized monotone voice? I'm not saying "you definitely can't do that" just that I don't see why we should a priori assume it to be possible.

Now that likely seems largely irrelevant and out in the weeds and normally I would feel that way. But if you're going to suppose that we can't cleanly differentiate LLMs from humans then it becomes important to ask if that's a consequence of the LLMs actually exhibiting what we would consider general intelligence versus an inherent limitation of the modality in which the interactions are taking place.

Personally I think it's far more likely that we just don't have very good tests yet, that our working definition of "general intelligence" (as well as just "intelligence") isn't all that great yet, and that in the end many humans who we consider to exhibit a reasonable level of such will nonetheless fail to pass tests that are based solely on an isolated exchange of natural language.
by Ichthypresbyter | 2025-04-04 02:58:23+00:00
The big issue AIUI is die-cut cardboard. The vast majority of modern board games come with several sheets of it to punch out small pieces (think coins or victory point chips).

Producing these (and other game components) requires specialized machinery which isn't made in the US. So even if someone did want to set up a board game manufacturing company in the US, they would now be hit by tariffs as they bought the machines they need.

Stegmaier says that possibly games where all the components are cards will be less affected, as there are companies in the US printing playing cards.
by jordigh | 2025-04-04 02:58:27+00:00
> copywritten

This syntactic mistake is driving me nuts in the article is driving me nuts. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the the word means.

It's "copyright". It's about the rights to copy. The past participle is "copyrighted", someone has already claimed the rights to copy it, so you can't also have those rights. The rights belong to someone else. If you remember that copyright is about rights that are exclusive to someone and that you don't have them, then you wouldn't make such a syntax error as "copywritten".

The homophone "copywriting" is about take a sales copy (that is, an ad) and writing it. It's about creating an advertisement. Copywritten means you've gone around to creating an ad. As an eggcorn (a fake etymology created after the fact in order to explain the misspelling or syntax error), I assume it's understood as copying anything, and then writing it down, a sort of eggcornical synonym of "copy-paste".
by dcow | 2025-04-04 03:00:15+00:00
It's not obvious at all! You are citing the only difference that typically comes up. A quesadilla is beyond trivial to reproduce and most people have the ingredients readily available. 3D printers make it trivial to reproduce things that would have been obviously hard to reproduce a few years ago. A book is hard to reproduce if it's not in digital form. Is MIDI a song or a set of instructions? Source code is easy to copy but hard to reproduce. Source code is just a recipe telling a compiler what to do. And we've already established that recipes aren't copyrightable because it was "so obvious" at the time copyright was established that you shouldn't be able to copyright the creative process.