MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by armchairhacker | 2025-04-03 22:36:07+00:00
You're allowed to draw IP and share your drawings. You're allowed to screenshot and photoshop IP. You're allowed to sell tools that help others draw and photoshop IP*. You're not allowed to sell these drawings and photoshops.

I don't see why an AI can't generate IP, even if the AI is being sold. What's not allowed is selling the generated IP.

Style is even more permissive: you're allowed to sell something in any style. AFAIK the only things that can be restricted are methods to achieve the style (via patents), similar brands in similar service categories (via trademarks), and depictions of objects (via copyrights).

Note that something being "the original" gives it an intrinsic popularity advantage, and someone being "the original creator" gives their new works an intrinsic advantage. I believe in attribution, which means that if someone recreates or closely derives another's art or style, they should point to the original**. With attribution, IP is much less important, because a recreation or spin-off must be significantly better to out-compete the original in popularity, and even then, it's extra success usually spills onto the original, making it more popular than it would be without the recreation or spin-off anyways. Old books, movies, and video games like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Sonic have many "recreations" which copy all but their IP, and fan recreations which copy even that; yet they're far more popular than all the recreations, and when Warner Bros, Disney, or SEGA release a new installment, the new installment is far more popular too, simply because it's an original.

* IANAL, maybe there are some technicalities, but in practice this is true.

** Or others can do it. As long as it shows up alongside their work, so people don't see the recreation or close derivation without knowing about the original.
by ppseafield | 2025-04-03 22:36:47+00:00
Copyright makes the legality of arXiv and SciHub questionable at best. It locks publicly funded research behind paywalls. It makes being able to search the law (including case law) of the US incredibly expensive. It puts a burden on platforms to be beholden to DMCA takedowns, lest the content owner go to their hosting or DNS provider, has happened to itch.io. It adds licensing fees onto public musical performances (ASCAP).

Additionally plenty of people making videos for YouTube have had their videos demonetized and their channels even removed because of the Content ID copyright detection scheme and their three strikes rule. In some cases to a ridiculous extent - some companies will claim ownership of music that isn't theirs and either get the video taken down or take a share of the revenue.

I watched a video where someone wrote a song and registered it via CDBaby, which YouTube sources for Content ID. Then someone claimed ownership of the song, so YouTube assigned the third party 50% of the ad revenue of the video.
by netbsdusers | 2025-04-03 22:36:57+00:00
I'm saying that it did work perfectly fine and reliably for the common case of types oneshot and simple services. To expect it to work for type Forking services would be absurd since no mechanism would exist to even try to keep track of them. It's just a point to illustrate that systemd is not as intimately and irretrievably integrated with Linux features as some imagine.

Freezers were never used by systemd as part of its process tracking mechanism. And cgroup emptiness notification was unreliable under cgroups v1. So that's not wrong. It used some horrible mechanism where a binary is launched (!) when the cgroup becomes empty. And that can fail to happen under situations of low memory availability.

Related read is Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on cgroups:https://jdebp.uk/FGA/linux-control-groups-are-not-jobs.html
by donatj | 2025-04-03 22:37:20+00:00
> The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education

I'm always skeptical of the idea that we can just educate ourselves out of problems.

As I see it, that would only raise people's wage expectations which would make us even less competitive on a global market?

The need for blue collar workers doesn't just evaporate, and there's frankly only a finite demand for white collar workers. You give everyone expectations of a white collar job, and they end up working blue collar because there's no job for them, you're just setting society up for mass disappointment and resentment.

You give your average blue collar worker today a degree, are they actually more valuable to their current position? Probably not.
by abelanger | 2025-04-03 22:38:03+00:00
Really appreciate the candid feedback, and glad to hear you like the product. We ran a broken links checker against our docs, but it's possible we missed something. Is there anywhere you're seeing a broken link?

Re SDK specs -- I assume you mean full SDK API references? We're nearly at the point where those will be published, and I agree that they would be incredibly useful.
by alpha_squared | 2025-04-03 22:38:09+00:00
> It would be less of a problem only if you went to a country and location that has a similar cost of living as where you live now, but then again, that's not really on the table, is it...

This seems to be an assumption you made, but the poster did not imply or state.

As someone in a similar mindset to the poster, I'm not looking for lower CoL places, I'm looking for comparable QoL places which ultimately points to Europe or Oceania. We'd be paid dramatically less, which we're okay with, but the QoL would be comparable (perhaps even better when counting social services).
by NavinF | 2025-04-03 22:38:52+00:00
Last time I saw someone complaining about scrapers, they were talking about 100gib/month. That's 300kbps. Less than $1/month in IP transit and ~$0 in compute. Personally I've never noticed bots show up on a resource graph. As long as you don't block them, they won't bother using more than a few IPs and they'll backoff when they're throttled
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-03 22:38:54+00:00
Correct, and that EV mining equipment was only pursued because that 1kg of gold is $100,000 now instead of $5,750 in 1975. because of that constant quantity that is now unavailable. If gold was still worth $5,750/kg, it wouldn't matter what policy changes about mining regulations were done, nobody would pursue creating the more expensive equipment and mining gold.

The conclusion in your stated logic is to actually hoard as much gold as possible so that mining in the year 2075 is even more EV+ and safer.
by dughnut | 2025-04-03 22:39:27+00:00
I think what’s happening backstage in this magic show are desperate moves to recapitalize the country. Foreign and domestic investors are pledging to spend trillions, probably under duress. Stocks are being crashed to create a flight to treasuries. Dollars are partially anchored to crypto by so-called stable coins. Federal assets are getting dumped and operating costs cut.

Maybe we will get out of this without having to survive on cat food, but I’m not holding my breath.
by cauch | 2025-04-03 22:39:35+00:00
It is a problem that so many people thinks that a presidential election is to vote for the guy they relate to and not a competent manager. I guess they are so used to vote for the prom king and the reality tv show candidate that they don't realise that the point is not to vote for the person they like.

Similarly, it is worrisome that people vote for what will profit the most for them instead of what is the more just and fair (sometimes even voting against your own profit). It leads to stupid situations, for example where idiots are for protectionist measures whatever the consequences on other countries, but at the same time are angry when people in another country are voting for protectionist measures that affect theirs negatively. It is quite clear with the Trump supporter: they are furious if someone else treats them like they treat others, and seems to not even realise the absurdity.

It is really hard to live in a society with people like that: it just creates lose-lose situations for everyone.
by runarberg | 2025-04-03 22:40:17+00:00
That is where I am in online chess. But every so often I get a message from chess.com that I was refunded some rating points because my opponent from a couple of weeks ago violated the fair play standards. I honestly don’t think about it much. Some of those games I played poorly enough that I deserved to loose either way, but at the end of the day I played much more fair games that this one particular game doesn’t really bother me.
by abelanger | 2025-04-03 22:40:18+00:00
We use gRPC on our workers. All API specs can be found here: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/tree/main/api-contrac...

However, the SDKs are very tightly integrated with the runtime in each language, and we use gRPC on the workers which will make it more difficult to call the APIs directly.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-04-03 22:40:25+00:00
you should add a bit where AI is pushed really hard in places where the subjects have low political power, like management of entry level workers, care homes or education and super bad stuff happens.

Also we need a big legal event to happen where (for example) autonomous driving is part of a really big accident where lots of people die or someone brings a successful court case that an AI mortgage underwriter is discriminating based on race or caste. It won't matter if AI is actually genuinely responsible for this or not, what will matter is the push-back and the news cycle.

Maybe more events where people start successfully gaming deployed AI at scale in order to get mortgages they shouldn't or get A-grades when they shouldn't.
by trbutler | 2025-04-03 22:40:48+00:00
> Then by all means, they should.

That was definitely the point -- well, two points. (1) there isn't any Apple Silicon-level Linux hardware right now, (2) Apple would benefit from more competition. In this particular case, it's the inverse of the usual Linux desktop argument, because the argument is the Linux desktop is pretty good, it needs hardware to match it, rather than "Linux needs to totally (or greatly) change."
by alexey-salmin | 2025-04-03 22:40:48+00:00
> Okay, I Ctrl+F'ed for "evil" and found... nobody calling anyone else evil (actions, not people, were described as evil by one commenter--the rest were discussing ethics in the abstract, not describing anyone or any action as evil).

I was mainly referring to dialogs like the one below. Not quite abstract.

>> I think essentially tolerating other peoples opinions and trying to understand where they are coming from is more useful than applying purity tests to your friends and family. > It's more about watching people pivot towards unquestionable evil. "Empathy is a sin" is such a deep, dark line in the sand. I'm not going to just stand there and watch you cross it.

> But let me present a possibility: what if one side really is doing evil things? If you were transported to literal Nazi Germany or the Stalinist USSR, where millions of people were being murdered by one party, would it be "tribalism" to call that party's actions evil?

Amazing example. If you got magically transported to the "literal Nazi Germany" you would discover that the popular opinion at the time was to call "evil" the communists and the jews. If you spend a long time calling someone "evil" you gradually stop seeing them as people. This is how later on you don't notice when they're relocated into ditches and furnaces. Inhumane treatment doesn't raise the alarm when applied to non-humans. Check for instance what this SS veteran has to say [1].

Tribalism is not whether you're allowed or not to call people evil. Tribalism is calling people evil not because they did something evil, but because they belong to the wrong group or sympathize with it.

The original post does not advocate for "enlightened centrism", furthermore centrists are as prone to tribalism as anybody else. Applying blanket judgement is a very natural thing to do because it saves a hell lot of time and energy. Why argue about all the topics, why argue about all the individuals when you can just divide people in tribes and decide who's evil at the tribe level. Everyone does it to some extent. However if you overdo it, you may indeed find yourself in Nazi Germany.

[1] https://youtu.be/G6lN_VVaqdA?t=2811
by earonesty | 2025-04-03 22:40:53+00:00
I use it myself, because I wanted to control the prompt and the model used. The "service version" lets you... set the "focus" and pick from claude or openai (claude is a little nicer imo).

This is not about posting some big summary, it's about creating a draft for an actual human to pick through.

It drives focus and productivity, doesn't take away from it (for me at least)

Anyway, a lot of it runs in the browser and uses indexdb for storage. Should be possible to make all of it do that.
by esafak | 2025-04-03 22:41:01+00:00
When I look back at that era now I am amazed at how Gary Killdall failed to capitalize on his amazing position as the creator of CP/M, which was the dominant 8-bit OS and ran on numerous popular platforms, like the 8080, 8086, Z80, and the 68000. When IBM entered the PC market, Killdall and IBM could not come to an agreement so MS stepped in and licensed then purchased an imitation of CP/M called 86-DOS, which IBM offered in addition their own PC DOS. Killdall's company created an 8086 OS called CP/M-86 but it was more expensive than IBM's PC DOS and never took off. IBM did not want the liability of having contested code, so they let MS hold that bag and the rest is history.
by Leftium | 2025-04-03 22:41:06+00:00
OK, now I was able to create an account and register a domain.

However the domain page does not seem to work: https://nameflip.io/@leftium/coolcases.com

Also, the "Get Started" button still goes to https://nameflip.io/Account/Login

(Need to click "Sign up", which takes you to https://nameflip.io/Account/Register)
by rbanffy | 2025-04-03 22:41:15+00:00
There is a point to be made in favor of political stability.

One of the great things in Ireland is the list-based voting that punishes extreme viewpoints and policies. OTOH, sometimes we need politicians willing to make unpopular choices, and our system makes that more difficult.

China, IIRC, has a different concept, one where a person can't be a candidate to a position more than one level higher than the highest one they were previously elected for. This prevents anomalies like Trump, and seems to be a very sensible approach (if coupled with a couple extra freedoms and multiple parties).
by dr_dshiv | 2025-04-03 22:41:18+00:00
But, I think this piece falls into a misconception about AI models as singular entities. There will be many instances of any AI model and each instance can be opposed to other instances.

So, it’s not that “an AI” becomes super intelligent, what we actually seem to have is an ecosystem of blended human and artificial intelligences (including corporations!); this constitutes a distributed cognitive ecology of superintelligence. This is very different from what they discuss.

This has implications for alignment, too. It isn’t so much about the alignment of AI to people, but that both human and AI need to find alignment with nature. There is a kind of natural harmony in the cosmos; that’s what superintelligence will likely align to, naturally.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-03 22:42:33+00:00
I think statistical methods are the best primary option. There are a lot of other tools you can use but this is the most impenetrable from the outside.

The chances that the cheater is able to anticipate the statistical state of everything logged server-side is negligible. There is no way to "sandbag" performance on purpose if you don't know how your performance is being measured.

There is also the problem (solution) of sample size. The players' performance in one or ten games is ideally not relevant to the heuristic. There is a threshold that is crossed after hundreds of rounds of dishonest play. Toggling cheats within a match or tournament series would be irrelevant.
by btilly | 2025-04-03 22:42:42+00:00
> The fact that you can reason about intelligence is a counter argument to this

The fact that we can provide a chain of reasoning, and we can think that it is about intelligence, doesn't mean that we were actually reasoning about intelligence. This is immediately obvious when we encounter people whose conclusions are being thrown off by well-known cognitive biases, like cognitive dissonance. They have no trouble producing volumes of text about how they came to their conclusions and why they are right. But are consistently unable to notice the actual biases that are at play.
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-03 22:42:51+00:00
I reiterate:

> This is assuming by "deterministic," you mean the same thing I said about programming language implementations being "controllable, reproducible, and well-defined." If you mean it produces random but same results for the same inputs, then you haven't made any meaningful points.

"Determinism" is a word that you brought up in response to my comment, which I charitably interpreted to mean the same thing I was originally talking about.

Also, it's 100% correct to analyze things based on its fundamental properties. It's absurd to criticize people for assuming 2 + 2 = 4 because "continual progress" might make it 5 in the future.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-03 22:43:02+00:00
> You can use lots of English words to describe exactly what kabuki is, but if you're going to be talking about it a lot, operating solely in English is going to become burdensome, and it's better to borrow the Japanese word "kabuki".

This is incorrect. Using the word "kabuki" has no advantage over using some other three-syllable word. In both cases you'll be operating solely in English. You could use the (existing!) word "trampoline" and that would be just as efficient. The odds of someone confusing the concepts are low.

Borrowing the Japanese word into English might be easier to learn, if the people talking are already familiar with Japanese, but in the general case it doesn't even have that advantage.

Consider that our name for the Yangtze River is unrelated to the Chinese name of that river. Does that impair our understanding, or use, of the concept?
by breadwinner | 2025-04-03 22:43:16+00:00
They were not dim, but Microsoft copied a lot, and didn't innovate. This aspect of Microsoft hasn't changed.

In the 1990s, during the competition between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy, compared Bill Gates to Ginger Rogers. This analogy suggested that, like Rogers, who danced everything Fred Astaire did but backward and in high heels, Gates was adept at following and adapting competitors' innovations. This comparison was part of Sun's broader critique of Microsoft's business practices at the time.

"It has been noted that everything Astaire did, Rogers was able to do -- backwards and in high heels. That's high praise for the nimble Ms. Rogers. But for a would-be visionary, following someone else's lead -- no matter how skillfully -- simply doesn't cut it."

https://web.archive.org/web/19991013082222/www.sun.com/dot-c...
by recoup-papyrus | 2025-04-03 22:43:16+00:00
> unsubstantiated claims on social media

Yes. Put your actual decision makers on social media, and have them engage openly with the people making unsubstantiated claims.

> Even AG Barr said

Almost all of the information that was put forward that seemed plausible was deleted from the internet, and never addressed.

We can figure out what happened after we get rid of everyone that played a role in that; once we have a truth-finding apparatus that is made up of friendlies.

The only thing that matters from all of this is that unfriendly people are in power, and the only solution to that is to get rid of them and replace them with friendly people.

Trump, for all of his many flaws, at least pretends to be friendly.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-03 22:44:47+00:00
<< You need to be specific about how green cards are currently sold before I can attempt to explain the difference.

I was personally referring to EB5[1]

<< Further, if there is no difference IYO, then why is Trump proposing something new?

Eh, I have a personal theory, but that one will likely need some time to confirm. The shortest, handwavy way I can offer is politics ( and separation/differentiation from existing EB5 ), but I am open to alternative explanation.

[1]https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent... [2]https://legalservicesincorporated.com/immigration/minimum-eb...

<< It's important to remember those were not the only ways, they just happened to have be the most effective,

True, but I am questioning how much some of this stuff will be increasingly challenging to evade. The fact that beneficial owner version in US was effectively scrapped suggests the AML regimes were getting pretty close to the issues you were referring to. And, as always, conversations within the industry players are discussing more monitoring, more data.. not less.

<< The fact that governments only chipped at the edges with no systemic changes is telling.

That is true, but it does not prove that capital has no borders ( original point of contention ).
by billforsternz | 2025-04-03 22:44:49+00:00
There's something rather cringeworthy about the heavy and painful animations etc. on this website trying to create a 1970s computer technology vibe but instead just giving me a headache. I'd much prefer the same information, and the same vibe, with some much less fancy, lightweight easy to read web tech that actually simulates an authentic 1970s experience (I remember that era well! I'm an 8080 programmer myself from way way back).
Show HN: Vibe Coded Bird Classifier for Photographers
by madhavanmalolan | 2025-04-03 22:44:56+00:00
My dad is a bird photographer. Everyday, he comes home with hundreds of photos and spends hours identifying and classifying the photos into folders.

I used Gemini to do the bird identification for him. It's not perfect, but it's not too bad.

And I wrapped it into a GUI so that my dad could use it. Interestingly enough, i just wrote a python script to take a few inputs and do the classification - and then asked Cursor to build me the GUI for it. It worked almost perfectly in the first try :)
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-03 22:44:59+00:00
If the U.S. adds more tariffs, some companies may not want to hire workers from other countries. i work online for different places, so if one country changes its rules, i still have work.

last time the rules changed, some companies hired people from their own countries instead. if this happens again, it may be harder to find jobs in the U.S.

to be safe, i try to work with people from many places, not just one.
by lmm | 2025-04-03 22:44:59+00:00
> You're allowed to draw IP and share your drawings.

No you're not, not in general. The copyright holder has the exclusive right to prepare and distribute derivative works.

> You're allowed to screenshot and photoshop IP.

Again, no, not in general.

> You're allowed to sell tools that help others draw and photoshop IP*.

Sort of. You're allowed to sell tools that might be used for those purposes. You're not allowed to sell tools as "for that purpose" or advertise those use cases.
by aruametello | 2025-04-03 22:45:18+00:00
> It's a mindset I don't understand.

one of the scenarios is the person that is not looking on the enjoyment of "winning", but instead diving on the "trolling" realms of ruining the fun of others.

its irrelevant if he gets a ban because when he hears someone getting mad at him or sad, he gets a boner.

the mentality of "trying to punch people that cant defend themselves" is the description that i give of these to people that dont play video games. (because most wouldn't cheat without the anonymity)