MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-01 00:00:11+00:00
There's also the issue that the burden is on proving they're safe--and nobody has a reason to shell out the bucks to do so.

I do agree that interference is quite relevant. The general rule of radio is that you play nice, especially when on a licensed frequency (the cell companies have the licenses for those bands, the users do not), and a phone up high over multiple cell towers is most certainly not playing nice.
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-01 00:01:12+00:00
In all fairness, Hayao Miyazaki is famously grumpy about everything, especially when related to modern society. I wouldn't have expected anything less.

A common meme is to put him side to side with Junji Ito. Hayao Miyazaki as the grumpy old man whose work is cute and happy, and Junji Ito as the nice and cheerful guy whose work is the thing of nightmares.

Junji Ito's take on AI, is that he worries for his profession, but he thinks he still has something AIs can't replicate, at least for now. As expected, while both of them oppose AI, they do it in a way that couldn't be more different.
by brigandish | 2025-04-01 00:03:21+00:00
You missed Gentile off the list, Neo Hegelian and “godfather of fascism”.

Hegel is useful to me as a shortcut to knowing that anything or anyone deriving from his ideas is awful. I seem to recall Bertrand Russell didn’t seem fond either, Hegel’s entry in the History of Philosophy certainly wasn’t a glowing review.
by bastawhiz | 2025-04-01 00:05:12+00:00
> due to their antiquated sales process

I don't think anyone wants a larger slice of the pie, I think they want the share of the pie that they earned that was consumed by (what appears to be) outright fraud on Tesla's part. Tesla's numbers are implausible at best, at least showing some unusual and unexplained behavior. They exhausted the credits with the incredibly dubious sales. Why shouldn't they be investigated?
by knowknow | 2025-04-01 00:06:03+00:00
I wonder how Hideo Miyazaki feels about this, the fact that machines are able to recreate his style seems to go against the whimsy he creates in his art. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a possible lawsuit considering how strongly that style is tied to him, and that the model surely used his films as data.

If it was me I would feel horrible that what I gave to the public and dedicated my life to was contorted in this manner.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-01 00:06:06+00:00
> Basically, if your stick breaks when defending, you can go ahead and use your body to play and fling the puck to your teammates as appropriate

Isn't that specifically banned?

>> and the play shall not be stopped unless, in the opinion of the on-ice officials, he has directed the puck to a teammate [...] and subsequently possession and control of the puck is obtained by a player of the offending team
by blisterpeanuts | 2025-04-01 00:06:23+00:00
Pre-Trump, I had a paid online subscription to Guardian for a time, because it was so well written and informative.

After 2016, however, they seemed to adopt a firm anti-MAGA stance which I found to be biased and off-putting. Their highly critical stance against Israel after the Hamas attacks of October 2023 was the last straw.

Then, they withdrew from the X platform and now they might as well not exist, as far as I'm concerned. I think that was a mistake, given their significant following on X, but I guess they felt they don't need it.
by gruez | 2025-04-01 00:06:25+00:00
>Yes, it is. It is blatantly unfair to charge different people different prices. You can illustrate this with a thought experiment: nobody would think it's ok if I charge Joe $5, but charge Bob $10 because I don't like him very much.

This isn't as airtight proof of "unfair" as you think it is. Moreover this happens all the time without people being outraged. McDonalds might charge Joe $5, and Bob $10 for the same burger, because McDonalds likes Joe very much for using their app, so they send him offers.

Even if we do grant that charging people different prices is fundamentally "unfair", it leads to all sorts of strange conclusions. For instance if some retailer has some product on discount today only. Is that also "unfair"? I don't see how "buys a fridge on Wednesday rather than Thursday" is a morally justifiable reason to give different prices than say, being able to scout out a coupon or not. Should we ban time limited sales as well?
by tomxor | 2025-04-01 00:06:48+00:00
No, to be fair I use it for everything except root (which I prefer to backup as IaC, not that I wouldn't use ZFS, it's just not default so requires more effort). I use ZFS datasets to back everything except the OS, including DBs which has been the most satisfying aspect of using ZFS (being able to snapshot live DBs together with all other relevant state rather than a as a separate replication process).

While I can't comment on using it for root, I can say for other use, the only annoyance I have is compiling the kernel module on every single update. This is automatically handled by APT, but for very small servers it can be slow... at most ~15 mins. Could be solved with private distribution for a large fleet but I can't be bother with that stuff. Hoping at some point Debian will relax their strict "to the letter of the GPL" attitude at some point like they did with install media drivers. But it's not the worst experience, at least installing is automated.
by ketzo | 2025-04-01 00:06:54+00:00
I feel like you underestimate the degree to which AI developers are influenced in just the same ways as everybody else.

Capturing mindshare matters no matter how you do it. I would bet my life savings that more people will join OpenAI to work on their models as a result of the Ghibli moment than will join Google as a result of this particular (incredibly impressive!) Gemini iteration.

Because we’re humans! And we’re all pretty easily impressed, even those of us who actually build these dang things.
by leonim | 2025-04-01 00:08:18+00:00
One of my favorite tools. However, I don’t think that Visidata is a spreadsheet, even though it looks like one and is named after one. It is more spreadsheet adjacent. It is focused on row-based and column-based operations. It doesn’t support arbitrary inter-cell operation(s), like you get in Excel-like spreadsheets. It is great for “Tidy Data’, where each row represents a coherent set of information about an object or observation. This is very much like Awk, or other pipeline tools which are also line/row oriented.

For CLI tools, I’m also a big fan of Miller (https://github.com/johnkerl/miller) to filter/modify CSV and other data sources.
by btbuildem | 2025-04-01 00:08:52+00:00
I wish I had suggestions! The daunting nature of the onboarding is what cooled my jets in the first place, and I never got part the ideation phase with this particular project.

The need is there (at least for some of us!) so the sell shouldn't be so hard, but I feel like I'm missing the "a-ha!" differentiator here. It's not enough to pull the good/useful remnants from the sludge socials are today; it would need an extra something to excite people enough to make the effort to engage with yet another online service.
by 0x70run | 2025-04-01 00:09:06+00:00
I would love to be proven wrong, but if you ignore all the hype pieces and (from what I can tell) a TON of pseudo-scientific shit floating around, while it's possible to make these systems as accurate as possible, they would still be fundamentally unreliable since the systems aren't deterministic. Try asking the usual "is 9.11 greater than 9.9" question, on my last test with 3.7 Sonnet it first said "yes" and then eventually converged to "no". Quite hilarious at times.

Point being, LLMs don't really understand what they're saying; they're just predicting the next word. I'm not trying to downplay that, by the way - it's all very impressive. But it's not intelligent intelligent, and I think we should all be wary of comments like "oh we should just keep throwing more compute and data at it and consciousness/self awareness would eventually emerge". I think that's just fodder to raise/burn VC money (and the planet).
by em-bee | 2025-04-01 00:09:28+00:00
there is more. the number of moves left at the end is a multiplier for your points, so try to get through the level with a minimum number of moves while maximizing points by capturing high value pieces and also find streaks where you capture multiple pieces in a row.

i love looking at a board and try to figure out the best order of moves to get the most points.

not that i am very good at it, but it's fun and addictive.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-01 00:09:40+00:00
Common to all "3rd options" seems to be their (read, immediate) implicit/tacit "dual-use" assumption:

Egs:

DARPA: every new findout is an edge for beating the soviets

Patronage: sooner or later, but most likely sooner, you come up with something your funder can brag about or profit from or simply feel good about

(Detour back to second options.

Academia: professors must bring in the tuition bacon at the very least

Industry: academics can immediately reverse engineer your artifacts or even patents, if they happen not to be mere positioning.)

Bell labs: if you squint hard enough, everything is related to infocomm infra

Sorry, had to try to beat that "one day everything will see the sun!" clause

https://archive.today/latest/www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/nyre...
by mushufasa | 2025-04-01 00:10:02+00:00
Honestly things like this can also be an argument FOR crazy high death taxes.

Something similar happened in a history podcast I heard about Porche, which is still owned by the original family. At one point, germany told them their tax on ownership gains is 90%. So instead, they decided they would just re-invest into the business R&D to write off the taxes instead. That gave us the invention of Porche's Racing team. source: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/porsche-with-doug-demuro
by Nexxxeh | 2025-04-01 00:10:10+00:00
The early ~2008 Linux-supplied dirt cheap Acer Aspire One A110L netbooks came with small (8GB?) and horrifically slow SSDs.

Back in the days of such things, we'd upgrade the RAM and use Windows XP with the write filter to make them great little machines. There was an SD card slot in the side that would happily store files.

The SSDs were very limited in read-write cycles from what I remember. More noticeable they brutally slow at writing. By shoving all the writes into RAM instead of direct the SSD, everything ran more smoothly.

If you wanted to keep any changes (usually due to OS or software updates) then you ran a batch file that wrote out the changes to the SSD before shutdown. Otherwise you shut the machine down and all your changes were immediately forgotten.

RAM Upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3WVb1dL--o Enhanced Write Filter: https://www.prime-expert.com/articles/a04/speeding-up-ssd-ba...
Show HN: April Fools No More: PunyNews Goes Large, Quality Leaps Are No Joke
by punyname | 2025-04-01 00:10:10+00:00
After a month of running PunyNews.com on modest hardware, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a decent GPU. This allowed me to run significantly larger models with generation speeds that are dramatically faster - what used to take minutes now completes in seconds. The quality improvement has been remarkable - images are noticeably more coherent, text integration is smoother, and the overall aesthetic has jumped several levels. What started as a playful experiment has evolved into something that occasionally produces results that genuinely surprise me. Check it out today - the puns might still be puny, but the quality certainly isn't.
by kjreact | 2025-04-01 00:10:12+00:00
That is a good question, is there any harm to play freemium games if the kids aren’t allowed to spend any money?

My view is that freemium games tend to be engineered to hook people into playing for long periods of time. They use strategies similar to how casinos hook gamblers with behavioral conditioning giving intermittent rewards for long play time; basically timed dopamine hits.

So going back to your question regarding not spending money, even though they’re not spending money now they are being conditioned to find such behaviors in games as a norm and one day when they have a source of income themselves those dopamine hits are just a few dollars away.

But my kids are strong willed and they won’t fall for these tricks, you may say. That may be so but the fact that they’re participating in these game platforms is drawing in other children who may not have the same mental fortitude.

I guess my long winded rant is just to say that we shouldn’t be promoting these casino-like games. We should be promoting games that foster creativity and a sense of achievement without pay to win shortcuts and gambling for rewards.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-01 00:11:29+00:00
I was a fan of the Guardian back during the Snowden leaks. Ive had to dodge them in recent months for what you described. Since people are doubting you, let's look at the headlines on the front page of a newspaper they is mostly factual despite having some bias. Here we go:

Musk is evil, most scientists warning about Trump, Trump takes over Chips Act, and Trump is a "dictator."

Then, Trump cuts Planned Parenthood, Trump reviews Harvard for antisemitism claims, and Trump pardons "Jan 6 loyalist."

Also, Israel are killers and woke people were right per someone on TV. Then, a few, normal pieces of news if the articles themselves had no slant.

Most of the front page would make those considering source integrity wonder if the paper was funded by a top opponent of Trump or Musk specifically to attack them. I'm not saying there's any data for that. I'm saying that, as a former liberal who used to want high-quality news with a range of views, I'd have thought the Guardian today was as extremely polarized as CNN or Fox.

Then, a popup that billionaires control the media with only two, right-wing ones mentioned. No mention that richest oligarchs funding or controlling education, media, and political campaigns are leftist:

https://youtu.be/fwZPrgcSRaw

Such papers are highly misleading with much drama following the games they play.

It's unfortunate given that the Guardian's ownership model might let it be a politically neutral paper with a range of views. They could be independent with quality, non-extreme writing from many sides. We could see a range of views. If one side, reporting with data representing many perspectives where we know they aren't cherry picking.

I want more news like that. Even the reliable sources that write in endless attacks or pour gas on the fire are draining to read. I'd rather it just be a little work or even pleasant. I dread reading the news these days.
by conartist6 | 2025-04-01 00:11:45+00:00
Maaybe, but you'd also have to pass the three-prong test of fair use, and one of the prongs of the test is that your fair use of the material can't eliminate the market for the original material.

I fail to see how taking a distinctive artistic style that was incredibly difficult to produce and shitting out massive amounts of it everywhere as a super low quality commodity would pass the test of fair use.
by titaphraz | 2025-04-01 00:12:47+00:00
A lot of offline sync projects just drop data on conflict and pretend it didn't happen. It's the salesman job to divert your questions about it.

I found another blogpost from turso where they say they offer 3 options on conflict: drop it, rebase it (and hope for no conflict?) and "handle it yourself".

Writing an offline sync isn't hard. Dealing with conflicts is a PITA.

https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-offline-writes-for-turso...
by ketau | 2025-04-01 00:13:11+00:00
What would you want to see for transparency?

We always tried to be as transparent to our users as possible in the product, in the faq, in our customer support, etc.

You can see evidence of that approach at 6:17 in Jonathon's video in the response that he got from customer service about how Honey works (even when he intentionally removes critical context). He reads a support email that says:

"If Honey is activated and is the last program used while shopping on a site, it is likely Honey will receive credit for the purchase, and Gold will be earned by the member. However, if your favorite influencer's affiliate link was the last program associated with your purchase during your shopping on the site then they will receive the credit for the purchase. Keep in..."

Notably he stopped reading before the "and Gold will be earned by the member" because it didn't fit his narrative.

I know it flashed on the screen faster than anyone could read and was zoomed so you couldn't see the whole thing on one screen but would you consider this level of transparency adequate if he read the whole thing?
by gruez | 2025-04-01 00:14:09+00:00
>"billionnaire that builds companies that utterly depend on government subsidies but the companies are not doing well, goes into government to make the government more efficient and spend less"

Given that he's cutting government workers and programs he despises (eg. "DEI" or foreign aid), that's not too surprising. What people think is important is in the eye of the beholder, so it's not incongruent for someone to be pro government subsidies in their industry, but against other forms of government spending.
by wlesieutre | 2025-04-01 00:14:30+00:00
> After seeing a brief demo of a grotesque zombie-esque creature

Reacting to an animation where a gross critter "learned to walk using AI" instead of being animated by a person 8+ years ago, and ended up using its head as a leg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

It has nothing to do with the current image generation topic beyond the "AI" label being stuck on both of them

Which is not to say I expect he's thrilled about ChatGPT cloning the art style on a mass scale, but that quote that everyone keeps reposting doesn't have anything to do with it
by defrost | 2025-04-01 00:14:36+00:00
In 2023, EU exported $6.43T (28.4% of global exports) and imported $6.56T (29% of global imports).

https://oec.world/en/profile/international_organization/euro...

Not a lot "stands out" - their exports are a rich diversity of many smaller items, Pharma, electronics, many types of machines.

The OEC link has internal and external trade breakdowns by product if you scroll down.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-01 00:14:42+00:00
That accident happened long ago, on a testing track, due to bad signalling/communications, leading to maintenance equipment still on the tracks, and the maglev running into that.

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

The slowing of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train is caused more by economical factors like ridership and electricity costs.
by PostOnce | 2025-04-01 00:15:03+00:00
Ghibli art is famous because ghibli art means ghibli movies. It is more beautiful in motion than still, the beauty is in part due to the emotion evoked by the story.

There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom. The same will be true of AI art copycats.

This, however, is not the first time ghibli has had competition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_and_the_Witch's_Flower in fact they have a whole studio dedicated to copying ghibli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ponoc

Yes they used to work at ghibli, but so too did john romero work at id, and yet daikatana was not a quake-killer.

This doesn't devalue ghibli at all, I think

(In fact, I think AI will always have the fundamental problem that most people have no taste or sense or introspection, they don't know why good things are good, and can't see that crap things are crap, so they are predestined to only be able to produce garbage. Nod to Ted Sturgeon.)
by clown_strike | 2025-04-01 00:15:04+00:00
It's all the same to me but that's often how it goes. Everyone is a sleeper agent until compelled to act by whatever means. Israelis do the same thing under the sayanim program (appeal to loyalty). Malware agents are staged until called upon using the same strategy.

I don't know what motivated this guy's disappearance but you don't get quietly fired, scrubbed from public association and have the FBI raid your apartment when you're a victim of abduction. We know some sort of federal crime took place to justify the raid so my guess is the guy is not an abductee but a fugitive.
by okanat | 2025-04-01 00:15:30+00:00
> I am sure this is true. But I seem to have had good results building static executables and libraries for C/C++ with cmake (which presumably passes -static to clang/gcc). golang also seems to be able to create static executables for my use cases.

Depends on what you link with and what those applications do, I would also check the end result. Golang on top of a Docker container is the best case, as far as compatibility goes. Docker means you don't need to depend on the base distro. Go skips libc and provides its own network stack. It even parses resolv.conf and runs its own DNS client. At this point if you replace Linux kernel with FreeBSD, you lose almost nothing as function. So it is a terrible comparison for an end-user app.

If you compile all GUI apps statically, you'll end up with a monstorous distro that takes hundreds of gigabytes of disk space. I say that as someone who uses Rust to ship binaries and my team already had to use quite a bit nasty hacks that walk on the ABI incompatibility edge of rustc to reduce binary size. It is doable but would you like to wait for it to run an update hours every single time?

Skipping that hypothetical case, the reality is that for games and other end user applications binary compatibility is an important matter for Linux (or any singular distro even) to be a viable platform where people can distribute closed-source programs confidently. Otherwise it is a ticking time-bomb. It explodes regularly too: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1129310/discussions/0/6041473...

The incentives to create a reliable binary ecosystem on Linux is not there. In fact, I think the Linux ecosystem creates the perfect environment for the opposite:

- The majority economic incentive is coming from server providers and some embedded systems. Both of those cases build everything from source, and/or rely on a limited set of virtualized hardware.

- The cultural incentive is not there since many core system developers believe that binary-only sofware doesn't belong to Linux.

- The technical incentives are not there since a Linux desktop system is composed of independent libraries developed by semi-independent developers that develop software that is compatible with the libraries that are released in the same narrow slice of time.

Nobody makes Qt3 or GTK2 apps anymore, nor they are supported. On Windows side Rufus, Notepad++ etc. are all written on the most basic Win32 functions and they get to access to the latest features of Windows without requiring huge rewrites. It will be cursed but you can still make an app that uses Win32, WPF and WinUI in the same app on Windows, three UI libraries from 3 decades and you don't need to bundle any of them with the app. At most you ask user to install the latest dotnet.
by MostlyStable | 2025-04-01 00:16:17+00:00
It is _maybe_ a great deal for the average consumer, who might not be putting any effort into finding deals. It's emphatically not a good deal for the (probably small) group of users who _would_ have put in the effort and found the _actual_ best deal, but trusted Honey who said they would provide the best deal and then knowingly gave worse deals (lied, potentially committed fraud?).
by lurk2 | 2025-04-01 00:16:34+00:00
> and which youtube doesn't really have power over.

I can’t be certain but I remember sponsorships and other monetization methods being against the rules from 2005 to around 2010. Everything had to be done through the official affiliate program (YouTube Partners, I think they called it), which required an application and a large number of views and subscribers. I don’t remember seeing sponsored segments regularly until well after 2013. Sponsorblock already crowdsources this information. It wouldn’t be a technical hurdle to require uploaders to demarcate sponsored segments.