MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voidhorse | 2025-04-16 02:41:56+00:00
But that's precisely the problem—while in theory the ideal is good, it is impractical unless you fundamentally change the economic model.

Artists rely on some form of IP to help secure payment for their creative works. They need this payment to be able to afford their own subsistence so that they can continue to live and create.

In an alternative system, maybe you could abolish all forms of IP outright, but how will you do that under capitalism while sustaining (already impoverished) artists?

If you are against the principle of IP, you are essentially saying that an entire segment of capital should be deactivated, and effectively the only jobs remaining would be those of active service/tangible goods. In the age of digital media, basically everything is instantly and infinitely replicable, so you are effectively asking for a world in which it becomes rapidly impossible to make money off of any kind of digital good (music, literature, film, software, etc.) This has an obvious material consequence of disincentivizing creation of these works simply because if the creators need to earn wages in tangible good/service markets they have strictly less time to devote to the creation of creative works.
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-04-16 02:43:38+00:00
Of course

But I've never said you can't, I've said it's lame and you should be punished for doing it, punished meaning people will totally not attach any meaningful value to it, because it's a stupid replica

Value in art is not given by the content (and usually not the idea), but by the author's intent

The fact that you can legally copy something that is in public domain doesn't take away authors' rights to decide what you can and cannot do with their creation

The problem here is that corporations want to copy creations of authors that are still alive and never granted them rights to replicate them ad libitum, for free.
by atonse | 2025-04-16 02:44:22+00:00
Not necessarily. A SOC2 audit also often has a "Scope" – that can mean that some apps are in-scope for the audit, and some aren't.

It might be that this particular app was not ready to be in scope for their audit or observation period, so was left out, even if it's in the same infrastructure.

It still means the app is less mature, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a red flag.

Either way, I'd wait for something this critical (like giving it access to my email) for a few months to have any low hanging fruit bugs worked out before jumping in.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-16 02:44:51+00:00
I understand your logic. I just find I don't have patience to split hairs any more for an academic stance like yours. To do so these days is too overwhelming.

As xkcd has pointed out, there are cameras everywhere now. I think we can comfortably put Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster in the bin with the Fairies.
by ericwood | 2025-04-16 02:44:55+00:00
This is where the disconnect is for me; mundane code can sometimes be nefarious, and I find the mental space I'm in when writing it is very different than reviewing, especially if my mind is elsewhere. The best analogy I can use is a self-driving car, where there's a chance at any point it could make an unpredictable and potentially fatal move. You as the driver cannot trust it but are not actively engaged in the act of driving and have a much higher likelihood of being complacent.

Code review is difficult to get right, especially if the goal is judging correctness. Maybe this is a personal failing, but I find being actively engaged to be a critical part of the process; the more time I spend with the code I'm maintaining (and usually on call for!) the better understanding I have. Tedium can sometimes be a great signal for an abstraction!
by transpute | 2025-04-16 02:45:12+00:00
April 2024 article on the result of NVD funding cutbacks, with comments by Linux Foundation OpenSSF, security startups like ChainGuard and commercial vendors, https://www.securityweek.com/cve-and-nvd-a-weak-and-fracture...

Threat intelligence firm Flashpoint noted in March 2024 it was aware of 100,000 vulnerabilities with no CVE number and consequently no inclusion in NVD. More worryingly, it said that 330 of these vulnerabilities (with no CVE number) had been exploited in the wild.. Since the start of 2024 there have been a total of 6,171 total CVE IDs with only 3,625 being enriched by NVD. That leaves a gap of 2,546 (42%!) IDs.

Despite all those private companies and various OSS projects being willing to contribute ideas, infrastructure and code, they have somehow failed to coalesce into a decentralized replacement for NVD, built on CC0 data and OSS tooling.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-16 02:45:28+00:00
No: an LLM that doesn't confabulate will certainly get things wrong in some of the same ways that honest humans do - being misinformed, confusing similar things, "brain" damage from bad programming or hardware errors. But LLM confabulations like the one we're discussing only occur in humans when they're being sociopathically dishonest. A lawyer who makes up a court case is not a "human being wrong," it's a human lying, intentionally trying to deceive. When an LLM does it, it's because it is not capable of understanding that court cases are real events that actually happened.

Cursor's AI agent simply autocompleted a bunch of words that looked like a standard TOU agreement, presumably based on the thousands of such agreements in its training data. It is not actually capable of recognizing that it made a mistake, though I'm sure if you pointed it out directly it would say "you're right, I made a mistake." If a human did this, making up TOU explanations without bothering to check the actual agreement, the explanation would be that they were unbelievably cynical and lazy.

It is very depressing that ChatGPT has been out for nearly three years and we're still having this discussion.
by pyfon | 2025-04-16 02:45:47+00:00
Doesn't matter. Subreddits create vast islands of value. A single sub overrun with bots is quarantined effectively.

That is why Reddit is one of my favourite social sites. It is algorithmic but if you go to r/assholedesign you get asshole design. (and an anal mod who keeps it like that) Etc.

Value $44bn ;)
by gnabgib | 2025-04-16 02:47:07+00:00
(2007 /w updates in 2017) Past discussions:

2017 (132 points, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731331

2014 (54 points, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7675415

2013 (153 points, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123720
by TeaBrain | 2025-04-16 02:47:07+00:00
In Blade Runner's case, the art design is superb. As I mentioned in my parent comment, that's not what I referred to as generic. The script though is what is generic and ham-fisted compared to the novel. It's also not a case of that meme, as I was comparing to the novel, and to earlier films which it is derivative of while taking just the skeleton of the plot from the novel.
by mollyphelps | 2025-04-16 02:47:42+00:00
While it started with clinicians reporting off-label treatments for infectious diseases, it has since expanded. Users can now report treatments for any disease, and the reports can be made by patients, their caregivers, or healthcare providers. I have been involved with the team as a community advocate. You should enter your experience on the site! You can go to https://cure.ncats.io or they have a mobile app “CURE ID” available on the App and Play Store. Happy to answer other questions if folks have them or connect you to the right people. The CURE ID team has been really collaborative and eager to engage with members of the community.
by pmags | 2025-04-16 02:48:20+00:00
At this point I can't help but conclude you're trolling, or the post linked here applies -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693402

But for the record here's the breakdown of malnutrition related mortality (ICD codes E40-E46) by 5 year age blocks as reported by the CDC for 2023. First field is age range, 2nd field is total number of deaths attributed to ICD codes related to malnutrition:

25-29 years, 17 30-34 years, 22 35-39 years, 40 40-44 years, 71 45-49 years, 119 50-54 years, 197 55-59 years, 323 60-64 years, 651 65-69 years, 1112 70-74 years, 1722 75-79 years, 2507 80-84 years, 3321 85-89 years, 4147 90-94 years, 4362 95-99 years, 2821 100+ years, 824 Total 22284

Anyone who wishes to repeat the query themselves or to look at other demographic aspects can do so at https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

ICD classifications aren't perfect but they are standardized. Here's the CDCs description of where this data comes from:

The Underlying Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate identifies a single underlying cause of death and demographic data....
by drob518 | 2025-04-16 02:48:45+00:00
Clolog is more of a direct translation of Prolog into Clojure, with an s-expression syntax rather than Prolog’s standard syntax, but close. Core.logic is a translation of Mini-Kanren into Clojure and doesn’t use anything close to Prolog’s syntax, even one based on s-expressions. Prolog and Mini-Kanren, while both logic programming systems also use different search algorithms. Prolog uses a depth-first exploration of the solution space, whereas Mini-Kanren uses a breadth-first search. Consequently, Prolog can be more memory efficient (remember, it was created in the 1970s), but it can get stuck in infinite parts of the solution tree and never find a solution. Mini-Karen is less memory efficient as it explores the solution tree more broadly, but it can find solutions even if the solution tree has infinite branches.

So, why/when to choose this? When you want something much more Prolog-like, using the same search algorithm as Prolog. That said, they both do logic programming. I haven’t benchmarked, but from comments in the README, I suspect core.logic will be more performant as it compiles down to Clojure function calls which are then compiled down to Java function calls. It’s sort of like choosing between Python and Java. They both do imperative programming with objects but they both have their own strengths and weaknesses.
by dang | 2025-04-16 02:49:02+00:00
Related. Others?

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29512302 - Dec 2021 (38 comments)

Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200260 - Jan 2020 (326 comments)

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18365433 - Nov 2018 (175 comments)
by kristopolous | 2025-04-16 02:49:07+00:00
That's all speculative. Musk Twitter brought a bunch of far right provocateurs like Alex Jones Back on and increased the bans by 3x. There's more people leaving than coming to the platform.

That's what we do know.

As far as "Red/Blue" that's not current.

Instead we've got an establishment party, the Democrats, a disempowered left, a disempowered conservative party, and a party that does Nazi shit, the Republicans.

That's why a bunch of the Bush era conservatives lined up behind the Democrats, conservative and right wing are Not the same just like liberal and left wing are not
by ActorNightly | 2025-04-16 02:49:24+00:00
I mean, scary is a relative term. Its just as scary as Trump being legally immune to anything he does, as granted by Supreme Court.

The Republicans are basically still at the mercy of the economy - Trump backed of tariffs real quick when Japan started selling off US debt on the cheap. So I don't think its going to get levels of Saddam Hussein authoritarian. But time will tell.

The thing is, just like in Russia, smart people will know when to leave, and will leave, which is good. As soon as it becomes economically better to work in EU, you will have lots of talented people immigrating there which will bolster their economy.
by viraptor | 2025-04-16 02:49:24+00:00
That's a good idea to raise during the budget time or with some warning ahead of time. But even discussing the cost of CVE program itself is likely a waste of time and money. When trying to deal with 2tn deficit, looking at things that historically got ~$5M is just a distraction. And the lack of it may cost even more given how many existing agreements/contracts rely on cve to be a thing - maybe just in gov lawyers having to rewrite things.
by atonse | 2025-04-16 02:49:29+00:00
Very interesting...

I use Mail.app all the time because I like a unified inbox. But is this one of those "let's build everything in rust since it's super-fast"? (I HOPE so actually).

Or is it just another electron app? For sure there are nice examples of snappy electron apps (like Linear) but which one is it?

I feel there might be a market for a fully native MODERN and OS-native looking mail client (alternative to at least Mac Mail, but actually fast with search that is actually useful).

Is that what you're building?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-16 02:50:39+00:00
It is not only about learning material being available. It is also about live circumstances of people. Think about when you are doing your learning. When do you have opportunity to learn. Think about what other people might be doing at that time, that prevents them from learning. Think about the mental framework you have, that enables you to learn and that others might not have.

Many times when I see some idle shop keeper wasting their time at candy crush on their phone, I think something like:

"Oh my, stop wasting your time! You could read something interesting or even learn a whole new subject!"

But then I remind myself from what a position I am thinking these thoughts. From what kind of knowledge and background. Could people start using their time better? Sure. But it will be damn hard for them, in contrast to probably many people here, including yourself, and we should not forget that. What's more is, that even if those people learned a lot about some subject, let's say even computer programming, there is no accreditation for them. Where can they go, to claim certificates or whatever, for their new knowledge, to get any chance of employment?
by mollyphelps | 2025-04-16 02:51:06+00:00
I volunteer with the team and they are very open to sharing the data. It’s all freely available on the website and app, but if you want to request a download of it for your own analysis, etc, they are happy to provide one. You do have to sign a data use/transfer agreement in that case, which they are working on revising right now. You can email curesupport@nih.gov to request a download of the data. Also they recently emailed us about that note - the Administration is requiring all NIH programs that collect any human data to post that message.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-16 02:51:28+00:00
For most of the period from 2020 to 2023, /pol/ has had more posts/day than any other board, often substantially more and it was 2nd most of the time. The /vt/ is a pretty distant 4th behind /v/.

I'm not entirely certain that I would call /pol/, which generates upwards of 110K posts/day a tiny phenomenon. It's about 13% of all 4chan posts. Add in /b/ and it's about a fifth.

And of course, casual bigotry is all over 4chan, not just /pol/.

https://4stats.io/
by mattmaroon | 2025-04-16 02:52:18+00:00
As a thing that happens, has happened many times, will happen many more times, and while possibly awful is not a sign that we’re about to become a fascist dictatorship?

It’s all a matter of framing and I was asking the parent if they’re open to an alternate frame because if not, they’re a toddler too and I don’t think they recognize it. The comments I got in reply were pretty solid evidence that it’s toddlers all the way down.
by daemonologist | 2025-04-16 02:52:20+00:00
They had a bot, for a long time, that responded to every github issue in the persona of the founder and tried to solve your problem. It was bad at this, and thus a huge proportion of people who had a question about one of their yolo models received worse-than-useless advice "directly from the CEO," with no disclosure that it was actually a bot.

The bot is now called "UltralyticsAssistant" and discloses that it's automated, which is welcome. The bad advice is all still there though.

(I don't know if they're really _famous_ for this, but among friends and colleagues I have talked to multiple people who independently found and were frustrated by the useless github issues.)
by mntruell | 2025-04-16 02:52:24+00:00
(Cursor cofounder)

Apologies - something very clearly went wrong here. We’ve already begun investigating, and some very early results:

* Any AI responses used for email support are now clearly labeled as such. We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support.

* We’ve made sure this user is completely refunded - least we can do for the trouble.

For context, this user’s complaint was the result of a race condition that appears on very slow internet connections. The race leads to a bunch of unneeded sessions being created which crowds out the real sessions. We’ve rolled out a fix.

Appreciate all the feedback. Will help improve the experience for future users.
by voidhorse | 2025-04-16 02:52:24+00:00
I fully agree, but the vision is not practical unless you want to change the entire economy around the shift.

Yes, artists existed before IP but they also existed before the internet and digital works. Prior to the internet, creative works met real material limits and real scarcity due to the limitations of physical media. In the digital age, these limits are obliterated. You then have two options:

1. You instate something like IP to make digital markets roughly (and admittedly arbitrarily) like real material markets. 2. You establish no such system. No property rights exist in digital space.

I am a major fan of (2) myself, but history gave us (1). At this stage, too many people make a living off digital markets for us to just impose a radical shift—you're taking about reworking the entire global economy here. Without concomitant shifts toward socialism globally this would probably just result in digital space becoming sparse and people adopting "analog only" release models to try and sustain incomes off of creative work.

If you want to abolish IP, go the full mile and abolish the principle of property period. The distinction between IP and physical goods is just an accidental feature of digital technology. If you are against the idea of IP you are against property. Period. And I'm in full agreement, but I also don't think it's easy to achieve this at this historical juncture. Go read Proudhon.
by dang | 2025-04-16 02:54:15+00:00
Maybe? I'm wary of technical solutions to non-technical problems. The base problem here seems non-technical to me—it's the combination of:

1. there's a tsunami of intense (and important) political stories right now

2. HN has 30 slots on its frontpage

3. HN is not a current affairs site

In other words, the fundamentals themselves are twisted in a knot. I don't see how one gets around that.
by submerge | 2025-04-16 02:54:23+00:00
Am I right to think this could be used to "inject" limits on the number of rows returned by a user query, or otherwise restrict what users see allowed to do?

I know it sounds silly/crazy but I have a use case where I would like to allow "mostly" trusted users to access the database directly and not through an API, but I need to apply some restrictions on their output.
by deanputney | 2025-04-16 02:55:55+00:00
Tracking stock trades is one of the most advanced uses of audio journaling I've seen– wow! You're pushing that into an area I had not thought of, very cool.

I made Stardate[0] for my own voice journaling and use it similarly. I track how much my dog weighs, sailing hours and notes, and new issues I find in the app. Recently I used it to make a daily checklist on paper by feeding the notes into LaTeX[1]. There's just so much to explore here!

[0] https://stardateapp.com

[1] https://www.deanputney.com/blog/2025/03/20/Paper-Checklist-P...
by VenturingVole | 2025-04-16 02:56:24+00:00
"all that's left to jump on at the moment is AI" -> No, it's the effective applications of AI. It's unprecedented.

I was in the VC space for a while previously, most pitch decks claimed to be using AI: But doing even the briefest of DD - it was generally BS. Now it's real.

With respect to everything being awful: One might say that's always been the case. However, now there's a chance (and requirement) to build in place safeguards/checks/evals and massively improve both speed and quality of services through AI.

Don't judge for the problems: Look at the exponential curve, think about how to solve the problems. Otherwise, you will get left behind.
by nxobject | 2025-04-16 02:57:05+00:00
> I understand that the fact that private research grants contain indirect percentages less than half of the federal rate and yet still the universities not refuse them is a very difficult thing for you to argue against.

Here's an easy approach to a counterargument.

Private foundation grants account for less than 10% of all research funding in the sciences [1]. The fact that researchers apply for and receive private grants has _nothing_ to do with whether their funding restrictions would be sustainable when scaled up.

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24332
by pvg | 2025-04-16 02:57:25+00:00
You are funding

You've got me confused with someone else cause I ain't funding anything beside my burrito habit.

As to the rest of this stuff... I don't find it terribly persuasive, personally. We do all have all sorts of moral responsibilities, individual and collective ones and it behooves us to meet them. We do not have a responsibility to turn every single facet and corner of our lives into some instrument of political power and expression - those are important individual (and group) choices and there's a name for disregarding them and imposing them on others - totalitarianism.
by Nevermark | 2025-04-16 02:57:30+00:00
A social network that faithfully and intelligently curated posts according to my own continuously updated (explicit) direction would be most excellent.

But it would also juice echo chamber depth and further amplify extremist "engagement".

And the monetary incentives for OpenAI to generate most of the content, the "people", and the ads, including creative hallucinations and novel extremisms, so they directly match each of our curation directions, would enshittify the whole thing within a short minute.

--

The time has come to outlaw conflict of interest businesses that scale (the conflict).

If a startup plan includes "sales" and "customers": Green light go.

If it talks about ways to "monetize": Red trash can.

If only.