MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IAmBroom | 2025-04-03 20:24:32+00:00
OK, you're plunging deep into the ethos of IP piracy, and staking your claim that "None exists." If that is deemed TRUE, then there's nothing to ever discuss about AI... or animated pornography where a well-known big-eared mouse bangs a Kryptonian orphan wearing a cape.

The reality of our current international laws, going back centuries, disagrees. And most artists disagree.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-04-03 20:24:39+00:00
> I think there are two main reasons, the first being the sheer intellectual difficulty of crafting an informed political view leads people to tribalism out of convenience.

What's the difference between tribalism and deferring to experts on complex subjects, e.g. climate change? I have a deep skepticism of people who think they can personally reason through any complex topic from first principles. It shows a lack of humility and self-awareness. Nobody has the time to build that kind of expertise in every domain, and there is wisdom in deferring to the hard won experience of others. But the type to think they can reason through everything seems like the type to call this "tribal politics."
by MgB2 | 2025-04-03 20:24:45+00:00
Idk, the models generating what are basically 1:1 copies of the training data from pretty generic descriptions feels like a severe case of overfitting to me. What use is a generational model that just regurgitates the input?

I feel like the less advanced generations, maybe even because of their limitations in terms of size, were better at coming up with something that at least feels new.

In the end, other than for copyright-washing, why wouldn't I just use the original movie still/photo in the first place?
by fch42 | 2025-04-03 20:25:06+00:00
> > [ on ARM ] > Hiring data (both open jobs as well as LinkedIn) show otherwise. Their design presence in UK and US is similar in size, and the India one is not far behind.

If you're saying here that ARM is a company with a large and near-even (by headcount) presence in three countries (and much more distributed overall), then I agree with you fully.

Else, what was your point again ? You said in your first post that a majority of ARM (based on what metric?) comes off Austin, and that is not true by your own later words.

Anyway, I also agree we should be proud of the work done by companies such as (for example) ASML or ARM. Irrespective of where that happens, to be honest.
by erlich | 2025-04-03 20:25:12+00:00
> to realize fundamentally different visions of the world, based on fundamentally different values

I think your use of the word "world" is telling.

Trump, the Republicans, and the global right are focused on their citizens.

The Democrats and the global left are more focused on the world and their role in it.

It's no longer just two approaches on how we can have the strongest economy. Each party has a weighting for how much to consider every issue across the world.

For example, there are people who would be happy with less growth, lower income, but more action on climate change.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-03 20:25:54+00:00
The owner is whoever controls the installed keys. I think the issue is one of misuse rather than implementation.

The firmware refusing to let you change the keys is the root of the problem but it's also useful as an anti theft measure when it's not being abused by OEMs. Boot security doesn't depend on that though.

In addition to the above, as an alternative implementation I believe measured boot and a sealed secret is also sufficient to implement boot security without the need for the firmware to manage user provided keys at all.
by zepolen | 2025-04-03 20:26:18+00:00
Great post, I agree with all your points regarding what is politics except that a functioning democracy should rely on common people, I think it should rely on the valuable people.

Common man democracy just lowers the decision making process to majority of idiots of the country that are easily manipulated. Worse yet, in its current form, it essentially causes the flip flopping mess because of the lack of long term vision and focus, something the common man doesn't want to deal with.

One man one vote in general makes no sense either. Why should a homeless or fresh immigrant's vote have the same impact as someone that has lived and paid taxes in a country for decades? How about...you get a vote weight equal to the amount of investment/taxes you have made in that country over the course of your life. Provide more for the community, have more to lose, get more say on policy.

Give incentive to the society value providers to remain and society detractors to leave.

Add to this that the current Democracy system is fundamentally flawed, most of those systems are exploitable anyway, it makes zero sense to change things up when a great leader is doing well. Having an arbitrary rule that they must step down because they can only serve for x time makes no sense. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Same goes the other way, where bad leaders can remain in power using war mechanisms.

The core problems today with society is not the left right or whatever, it's that people are lazy, selfish, manipulative, different, it's hard to find a system that works that can make everyone happy.

Are you willing to risk personal death or decrease your value for the greater good of the nation as a leader or citizen? That's the standard that all citizens and especially politicians should be held to. There are examples of this in the past, usually when a revolution happens. One might say it's happening in the US right now.

For certain one solution would be to remove people as much as possible from the equation, remove all incentive to abuse the system. The dictatorship and laws of a country should provide negative motivation for someone to cheat and should reward people providing value to society.

It's not easy, no matter how well a system is designed, people will find a way to cheat it, Bitcoin is a great example of this, not accounting for the banking industry buying the ecosystem and shitcoins diluting the entire system.

AI is not there yet, I don't think it ever could be, it's been trained on existing flawed ideas which have been further gimped in the interest of 'security'. It has no original thought, can't even draw a full glass of wine.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-03 20:26:38+00:00
The answer is yes? The person doing the drawing is violating copyright. I don't know why that is even a controversial question.

You are asking the equivalent question of, if I put a pirated copy of windows on my PC that I only use privately at home am I violating copyright, or if I sell copies of music for people to only listen to in their own home.

But this is even more damning, this is a commercial service that is reproducing the copyrighted work.

Edit: Just to clarify to people who reflexively downvote. I'm making a statement of what is it not a value judgement. And yes there is fair use, but that's an exemption from the rule that it is a copyright violation.
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-03 20:26:43+00:00
> Anyone who isn't afraid of woke can see certain voters were demonstrably taken in by transparent demagoguery.

How is this different than the decision-making process of many Democrat voters? Trying to make any rational arguments on "certain issues" gets you labelled as a fascist, racist, bigot or all of this (and more) at the same time. There's nothing rational about this kind of approach.

It seems to me that the left has become lazy and often assumes that something must be rational because they believe it.
by fuzztester | 2025-04-03 20:26:44+00:00
Any other C alternative or C-like languages that people here are using more than experimentally?

Asking because my above question and this current post about C3 are related to this recent post by me, which had a good number of comments:

Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223162
by Balgair | 2025-04-03 20:26:56+00:00
The way I saw the Columbia protests was that Donny's trial was downtown, and because it was not televised, producers told their crews to stop filming the doors to the courthouse. So, looking for any story at all, they took the subway uptown to the hippies camping out on the quad. Hey, at least it's better than literally staring at a door, right? Next thing you know, the student protest thing blew up. Why? Because there was literally nothing else going on for the TV news crews to film those days. Soon as graduation happened and the trial wrapped up, we never heard another thing.

Dartmouth, sure, it may have a high energy protest scene and be smart and whatever. But no-one knows about it - not because they are crafty - but because it's in freakin Hanover.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-03 20:27:03+00:00
>i understand that this sentiment is going around. but i don't think it is coming from the school or the curriculum.

I do not claim I saw it in a textbook. But it was spoken by an adult, by a teacher, and there is no evidence that in my case this opinion was ever discouraged. Furthermore, it played into a form of indoctrination that is now official policy (fight climate change!), and the views are prevalent and encouraged in various colleges of education where these teachers are trained.

To claim that just because it wasn't typed out on school district letterhead and filed with the state that it's not official policy is asinine.

>it is more likely a teacher sharing their personal, misguided, opinion.

That's also bullshit. In another thread on another day, that opinion could be expressed here on Hacker News, and it would be applauded. Climate change is real, it must be tackled using every available tool, etc etc. On reddit, it wouldn't just be applauded, they'd hold a parade and invite the person who said it to the Superbowl with free box seat tickets.

It's not personal, it is a growing consensus among that sort of personality and I'm told that once us old boomers are all senile the people who hold this opinion will all be taking over.

>that doesn't change the fact that companies demand trained employees.

Yes, and China, India, and the rest of Asia are happy to provide those for the companies' overseas locations. And have been happy to do so since the early 1990s if not before.
by judofyr | 2025-04-03 20:27:49+00:00
> I've never seen a language that doesn't have bad things to say about other languages.

That's why I said "communities" and not "languages". Every programming language has a wide set of people who use it. You can always find some people who constantly say bad things about other languages. You can also find people who are interested in the different trade offs of the language. I use languages which are technically interesting, and then I engage with the parts of the community which are interested in finding the best solutions to actual problems.

And guess what? Most of the Zig and Rust community are, in my experience, way more focused on solving real problems than to push their language at all cost. Both /r/rust and /r/zig will often recommend different languages. I mean, this was the most upvoted comment around how to convince someone's boss to use Rust over Python: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/14a7vgo/how_to_convin....
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-03 20:28:07+00:00
> I can only say my personal intent isn't that. I live a simple life.

And yet you will end up doing that when you move to such a country. Regardless of your intentions.

> it's my job to adapt and to respect the culture and country

Unfortunately respect and cultural adaptation do not alleviate the effects of gentrification via housing costs and cost of living.

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...
by egypturnash | 2025-04-03 20:28:21+00:00
> Imagine if the highest earning jobs required immense physical endurance and strength. Nobody would argue that everyone can do that. It would be obvious that only a subset of people are capable of doing those jobs.

"pfff it's easy-peasy, just go attend a (literal) bootcamp, you'll be fine, anyone can do it"

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> Still it is obvious to me that the current system is not working for more than half of Americans. It's fantastic for the top ~20% or so and leaves everyone else behind.

god yes

The elephant in the room here: there is no money for anyone not in the top20%, it all goes into their pockets and they just sit on it, leaving only scraps for everyone else, tax the rich, anyone with more than x% of the median amount of wealth should have everything above that taken away and redistributed to everyone, possibly by means such as UBI/welfare/etc!

But we ain't gonna get any of that without revolution. And honestly it feels like Trump's getting us closer and closer to the brink of that.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-03 20:28:39+00:00
You forgot the part about going from China to Japan and the associated costs.

It could be cheaper? Could also be more expensive as well.

In any case, if too many people play that game, then it only raises the tariff on Japan. I wouldn't assume these tariffs are fixed. They seem to be tied to trade deficit. So..

yeah.

No real way around them over time.

Might even piss the US government off if you try that. Which is kind of like playing with fire right now. It's not clear to me that this administration believes in rule of law in the strict sense that everyone adhered to in the past.

Strange days ahead.
by kiwicopple | 2025-04-03 20:29:02+00:00
> there is no chance I wouldn't inspect and possibly modify the generated "diff" migration

> Of course, you're generally supposed to do that with these tools

this seems to be the crux of the comments - we'll try to make it much clearer than declarative schemas don't skip any migrations/review process, they just provide another way of generating the migrations (note: you can also generate them directly from the database using the CLI)
by evanelias | 2025-04-03 20:29:14+00:00
With large tables, you can't safely make data changes using migration tools either anyway. If you run a single UPDATE against a large table, you end up with a very long transaction with substantial MVCC implications (old row versions that the db needs to clean up) and can basically break production easily.

Side note, but why do folks always bring up this "firstname lastname" example? It is not ever possible to implement that correctly in an automated fashion: some people have spaces in their first names, and some people have spaces in their last names. (I don't mean to single you out, as this exact example comes up multiple times in every declarative vs imperative discussion!)
by prerok | 2025-04-03 20:29:31+00:00
Indeed, but where does it stop? Looks like Potter? No go. Hmm, looks like an illustration of Pug? No go. Looks like Simon the sorcerer. No go. Hmm, looks like a wizard from Infocom's Sorcers get all the girls. No go.

The problem is that it regurgitates what already exists and if you really want to abide by all the permissions then there is nothing left.
by kelnos | 2025-04-03 20:30:14+00:00
> Ownership of "content" is a legal fiction [...] To be a thief, they'd need to, you know, come to my house and steal something.

That's just a legal fiction invented so people can pretend to own physical objects even though we should all know that in this world you can never truly own anything.

Everything we do or protect is made up. You've just drawn the arbitrary line in the sand as to what can be "owned" in a different place than where other people might draw it.
by sprash | 2025-04-03 20:30:36+00:00
A test [1] by a random dude with the older Wormhole N150 delivers half the performance (as in tokens/s) of a RTX 4090 in generic Llama tests. The new p150 should have double the performance according to specs, but who knows. I'd call it somewhat competitive.

1.: https://youtu.be/WibEx3jfKu0?t=957
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-04-03 20:30:39+00:00
>While I agree that LLMs are hardly sapient, it's very hard to make this argument without being able to pinpoint what a model of intelligence actually is.

Maybe so, but it's trivial to do the inverse, and pinpoint something that's not intelligent. I'm happy to state that an entity which has seen every game guide ever written, but still can't beat the first generation Pokemon is not intelligent.

This isn't the ceiling for intelligence. But it's a reasonable floor.
by whynotmaybe | 2025-04-03 20:30:52+00:00
> Let’s do the math: Take a kid’s bike that retails at a big box store for $ 150. Let’s assume that bike costs $ 30 to make. The rest of the cost is shipping to the U.S., warehousing, transport to the store, marketing, admin costs, customer service, warranty, retailer profits, etc. Whether the bike is made in China, Vietnam or Cambodia, the new 34-38% tariffs will increase the cost by ‘only’ $ 10-12. (The old tariffs are already part of the pricing.) Add overhead and capital costs on those $ 10-12 (financing and insuring the higher purchase price, etc.). Now the price goes up by $ 15-20, or about 10-13% of the final price of the bike.

That's a great explanation of the direct impact of tarriffs for a business like this.
by teddyh | 2025-04-03 20:30:54+00:00
The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities. They want to eat the cake and have it too. And they are arguing for essentially eliminating copyright for their specific purpose and convenience, when copyright has virtually never been loosened for the public’s convenience, even when the exceptions the public asks for are often minor and laudable. If these companies were to argue that copyright should be eliminated because of this new technology, I might not object. But now that they come and ask… no, they pretend to already have, a copyright exception for their specific use, I will happily turn around and use their own copyright maximalist arguments against them.

(Copied from a comment of mine written more than three years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582047>)
by mgr86 | 2025-04-03 20:31:09+00:00
Thanks for sharing.

I like this idea, and it is something I've wanted to try out for awhile. I've been around since I we would set the font color on the body element, and nest tables for complex layouts. I've worked with SGML. I rode the XML is Everywhere wave of the late 90s. I've been dying to take web components for a spin for awhile. Particularly as we have a lot of XML, and a lot of XSLT's hanging around in feeding the content of our web application. I work in publishing content that is consumed by library patrons.
by gruez | 2025-04-03 20:31:21+00:00
>That said, it would be difficult to fingerprint at the IP layer, although it is not impossible.

Only if you're using PaaS/IaaS providers don't give you low level access to the TCP/IP stack. If you're running your own servers it's trivial to fingerprint all manner of TCP/IP properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_stack_fingerprinting
by chimpanzee | 2025-04-03 20:31:23+00:00
> Not without money or equivalent trade involved.

This isn’t generally true. The copyright holder need only claim that the value of their copyrighted work or the profits received by its distribution has been reduced or lost. I’m not sure they even need to make such a claim, as courts have already determined that commerciality isn’t a requirement for infringement. It’s a matter of unauthorized use, distribution or reproduction, not trade.

They of course will likely never know and might not bother to litigate given the private and uncommercial nature, but they still have the right to do so.

They would weigh the financial and reputational cost of litigating against children sharing images and decide not to. Of course if one had 10000 friends and provided this service to them in a visible manner, then they’d probably come knocking.
by anon6362 | 2025-04-03 20:31:30+00:00
Yep, both major non-Safari Mobile browser are still using WebKit, which means, it's probably better to use Safari unless there are compelling features that break out of the walled garden.

Apple rescinded the "WebKit for every browser" requirement, but Chrome iOS with the Blink rendering engine will supposedly arrive this year (2025) and yet I don't think a similar FF Quantum for iOS will happen anytime soon.

I happened to have FF installed on an iPhone 13 Pro because it synced over from an iCloud backup but I never bothered to run it since I tried running on an iPhone 6S once-upon-a-time.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-03 20:31:32+00:00
Norway is the one that actually makes it work. Their GDP per capita is slightly higher than the US and more than $30,000 higher than the other Scandinavian countries.

"Captive tax base" means the industry can't move to another country as a result of high taxes. You can move factory jobs to China by moving the factory. You can't move oil and gas extraction jobs to China by moving the oil field.
by webster451 | 2025-04-03 20:31:37+00:00
I think we are getting close to the peak of "declarative"—or rather, I hope we are near the peak.

In my experience, declarative APIs are very powerful abstractions for specific cases where finding the path to the declared state is better left to a machine. This is seldom the case - in most cases, offering the programmer control over the changes leads to better behaviors.

Kubernetes and IaC tools lead the way to a declarative state of infrastructure and these add a ton of value. But, they were also incredibly hard to build - it took many years before Kubernetes eventing and control loop abstracts were rock solid. Most CRD-backed implementations suffer from tons and tons of bugs, and most CRDs are not declarative - they abstract away an imperative operation! I guess this is nothing new - "anything in excess is bad".

Anyways, I think an imperative approach offers much higher control and predictability at a lower cost. The world inherently is imperative.
by MaxfordAndSons | 2025-04-03 20:31:57+00:00
As someone who's fairly ignorant of how AI actually works at a low level, I feel incapable of assessing how realistic any of these projections are. But the "bad ending" was certainly chilling.

That said, this snippet from the bad ending nearly made me spit my coffee out laughing:

> There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives.
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-03 20:32:11+00:00
You won't convince him, because he is not open to be convinced.

I think things will get ugly for the poorest people in society, but I am curious at how things will get ugly exactly.

I don't think price increases due to tariffs will be the worst if it. I think the perfect storm of higher prices, lower economic activity due to the halt in global trade, poor stock market perform performance, and ultimately economic contraction will result in mass layoffs, companies going out of business, and high unemployment rate.

Suddenly people won't even be able to find that odd job anymore.