MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-19 21:07:50+00:00
Completely agree. The usual social media esque "it's a free service so you are the product" arguments don't apply here, people paid 23andme for genetic testing.

This is important: don't assume that because you're paying for a service that your personal data isn't still being mined. It doesn't matter if you fairly, over or under pay for a service. There's nothing illegal or uncommon about that.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-19 21:08:16+00:00
In my case, I didn't know I was burned out, until after I was -literally- forced out of the industry.

I was really pissed off, for a while, but these days, I have zero desire to return to the Rodent Rally. I have been talking with a friend about a possible effort to create an altruistic organization. I have a couple of bored, rich, retired friends. May not go anywhere, but ya never know...
by agapon | 2025-05-19 21:09:25+00:00
I agree that it's most stupid and most annoying kind of localizing. I search for some specific product (or other information), get a link to an English version of the page (and perhaps the only one). But when I follow the link I get redirected to my language version of the site, most often its portal page. Sometimes because the language specific site does not have a page for the thing I searched, but most often because the site is lazy. And then I have to search again but using the site tools instead of my search engine of choice.
by yks | 2025-05-19 21:10:05+00:00
Ethics aside, we do not understand the technology enough to disentangle its outputs from the biases of its inputs. See the "Emergent misalignment" paper. The founder is clearly seeking to inject his ideology into this technology, so it is prudent to expect the technology to suffer in subtle and yet unidentified ways. This is Lysenkoism but for LLMs.
by username332211 | 2025-05-19 21:10:13+00:00
That's a rather questionable interpretation of international law, I'm afraid. If a country A wages war on country B, A isn't normally bound by treaties signed by B.

And in any case, even if the ICC's actions weren't questionable, the beauty of international law is that America is free to ban companies from serving the ICC for any reason or for no reason at all.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-05-19 21:10:32+00:00
Except of course this other dig at Biden elsewhere in the article:

> “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones, but I’ve had it longer than he’s had it – well, longer than he’s admitted having it,” Adams said.

The use of the word "admitted" implies that Biden is either lying about how far it has progressed, or that he has known about it longer than he has admitted.
by SilasX | 2025-05-19 21:10:46+00:00
>The term "learning" (I presume from "machine learning") shoulders a lot of weight. If we describe the situation more precisely, it involves commercially exploiting literature and other text media to produce a statistical corpus of texts, which is then commercially exploited.

It's "commercially exploiting literature" in the same sense that an author would if they read a bunch of novels and then wrote their own based on what the learned from the pre-existing text. The whole point in dispute is whether that turns into infringement when an AI does it.

By labeling only one of them as "commercially exploiting literature" but not the other, you're failing to distinguish them in any meaningful way, and basically arguing from name-calling.

>It has little to do with "learning" as used in common English — a person naturally retaining some knowledge of what they've consumed. Plain English "learning" doesn't describe the whole of what's happening with LLMs at all! It's a borrowed term, so let's not pretend it isn't.

That's fair, that you can't just call them both "learning" and call it a day. But then the burden's on you to show how machine learning breaks from the time-honored tradition of license-free learning/"updating what you write based on having viewed other works". What's different? What is it about machine learning that makes it infringement in a way that it isn't when humans update their weights from having seen copyrighted works?

>What's happening is closer to buying some music cassettes, ripping parts of songs off them into various mixtapes, and selling them. The fact that the new cassettes "learned" the contents of the old ones, or that the songs are now jumbled up, doesn't change that the mixtape maker never had a license to copy the bits of music for commercial exploitation in the first place.

Okay, but (as above) to make that case, you'd need to identify where "acceptable" learning/"updating what you write based on having viewed other works" crosses over into the infringing mixtape example, and I have yet to see anyone try beyond "they're evil corps, it must be bad somehow".
by conradev | 2025-05-19 21:11:17+00:00
It's worth noting that while net metering is helpful for bootstrapping rooftop solar, ratepayers are essentially subsidizing solar arrays on the houses of (wealthier) homeowners.

The utility company would normally pay wholesale rates for solar energy (which has an aggressive duck curve), but instead they're forced to pay retail prices to net metering customers.

California pays wholesale rates now (they're on NEM 3.0) with a fixed fee for maintaining the wires even if you don't use them a whole lot.
by FjordWarden | 2025-05-19 21:11:45+00:00
Imagine a committee of 10 people granting funding to a firm to commercialise NFTs of digital fashion where the owner of the company is also a member of the committee. The company isn't even a real company but a general partnership without limited liability. Your inquiries into this affair under the public information act get stonewalled by a obscure law that where voted on as part of the budget of 2018. When members are asked about this incestuous relationship they react in an indigenous fashion saying there can not be a conflict of interest because they abstained from voting on their own project. You make some noice about this and you get ostracised. This is just one example.

A dutch sociologist has coined a term for this calling it network corruption, we had to invent a word for it because it is so prevalent, there isn't even a page about this on the English language Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwerkcorruptie
by geye1234 | 2025-05-19 21:11:52+00:00
If you wanted to explain to someone what the 00s-blogging phenomenon was all about, and to given them an example of the best of it, you may well point to this.

Photos of NK like these are incredibly difficult to come by. What a beautiful country.

Also, I admire his courage. In several photos, military people are staring at him, as they may well be. He was lucky as well. He states he hid the photos in a zip file in his C:\windows folder when leaving the country, having deleted them from his SD Card.
by davidclark | 2025-05-19 21:12:24+00:00
The same legal rule applies to both for determining whether something is a derivative work.

No one is stopping you from using similar proportions or colors as Miyazaki to draw a character. You are also allowed to draw your own interpretation of an electric mouse-like monster.

Copyright infringement occurs if that character looks exactly like say Totoro or Pikachu. That is not “in the style of”, that is copying.

A problem with LLMs is that since their corpus is so large, it is difficult to identify when any given output is crossing that line because a single observer’s knowledge of the works influencing the output is limited. You might feed it a picture of your grandfather and it returns an almost exact copy of a grandfather character from a Miyazaki film you haven’t seen. If you don’t share the output with others, it might never be noticed that the infringement occurred.

The given argument conflates the slightest influence with direct copying. It is a reductive take that, personally, I’ve found emblematic of pro-LLM arguments.
by davrosthedalek | 2025-05-19 21:12:31+00:00
Yes, machines with Linux preinstalled normally work quite well. But it's still a downside of choosing Linux that the choice of laptops is so much smaller. Similar to the downside of Mac OS that you are locked in to pricey-but-well-built laptops, or the downside of Windows that "it runs Windows" doesn't mean the hardware is not bottom-of-the-barrel crap with a vendor who doesn't care about Linux compatibility. WSL allows to run a sane development environment even then :)
by SilasX | 2025-05-19 21:12:55+00:00
>Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant.

If you were trying to be charitable rather than clever, you would have read "evil corps" as "corps that the critic regards as evil".

>Keeping aside the motives of people, what is clear is that scale effects of AI cannot be ignored.

Okay, so just give some kind of standard -- any clear, articulable standard -- for how and why the scale matters. It's a cop-out to just rest your case on a hand-wavy "it changes at scale".
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-19 21:13:23+00:00
One time fee, perpetual services are (mostly) inherently unsustainable.

There should've been an on-going fee to house samples, maintain the website and the labs, and expand the options.

The thing with versions of processes was an expensive way to do it.

Lots of lessons to learn and, hopefully, there will legislation in the EU, US, and elsewhere to regulate personal genetic data as PHI.
by shakna | 2025-05-19 21:13:36+00:00
Anecdote follows. The below matters little.

I did the same gradual move, and I can remember being excited to get home from school because I might have solved some problem by letting it tick over in my head.

But I do remember thinking GML was amazing (it was fugly, kid), and struggling with C, because the language was so different. (These days, leap to love2D and Lua instead).

Just the idea of multiple languages was so foreign and impossible to me. Writing a raycaster in GML was possible, writing an event loop in C was insane... And these days picking up a language tutorial for something new is a hobby.
by palata | 2025-05-19 21:14:15+00:00
Not a Windows user, but I think WSL is great. I see a lot of Windows user criticising Linux for... essentially not looking like Windows. "Linux Desktop will never reach mass adoption unless it [something that boils down to 'looks more like Windows']".

The thing is: I consider myself a real Linux user, and I don't want it to look like Windows. And I hate it when Windows people try to push Linux there, just because they want a free-with-no-ads version of Windows.

In that sense, if WSL can keep Windows users on Windows such that they don't come and bother me on Linux, I'm happy :-).
by umeshunni | 2025-05-19 21:14:36+00:00
I've often wondered if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

It feels like reading through Wikipedia, I'm missing some specifics, details or even points of view on a particular (international) topics when I'm reading it in English. I was reading about a town in Estonia recently while trying to track down some ancestry and while the English page had limited information, when I switched to Estonian and used google translate, I was able to find a ton of detail. I see the same when reading about smaller towns in India or non-English literature.

Would some sort of auto-translation and content augmentation (with editorial support) be useful here.
by breppp | 2025-05-19 21:15:04+00:00
Claiming Palestine is a state in its current form is a huge stretch and would probably undermine the rest of the court case.

Is Israel actually supposed to supply food for the independent state of Palestine whose controlling government in Gaza (Hamas) has initiated said war, while the war is ongoing, and where the food is transferred to areas that are not even controlled by Israeli forces? I don't think that's very common in warfare between states
by CoolCold | 2025-05-19 21:15:24+00:00
> I can imagine that WSL2 looks attractive if all you want to do is run command line apps in multiple isolated environments, but it is miserable for anything graphical or interactive.

Indeed, that's my case - using CLI mostly for ssh/curls/ansible/vim over ansible and Puppet, so on.

For GUI part, Windows is chosen and shines for me.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-19 21:16:23+00:00
> ... millions of people probably prayed earnestly for God to save ...

Plausibly quite true. But given (1) how often the succession turned violent after a monarch died, and (2) how very little power the average person had - I'd say such prayers were entirely reasonable. If they made "life in the lower 99%" just 1% more bearable, that'd be a worthwhile RoI.

Demon-Haunted World is a book worth reading...but Carl often seems to forget that 99% of humans are neither huge science geeks (as he is), nor rationalist robots.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-19 21:16:45+00:00
QEMU has win64 builds, and the guest OS can access SAMBA/NFS/SSHFS host shares. Getting guest OS hypervisor to work is soft locked on Home licensed windows, so options are often limited to Win guests on linux hosts.

In general, the utilities on posix systems heavily rely on a standardized permission and path structure fundamentally different than windows registry paradigms.

Even something as simple as curl... while incredibly useful on windows, also opens a scripting ecosystem that side-channels Microsoft signing protections etc.

Linux VM disk image files can be very small (some are just a few MB), simply copied to a physical drive/host later given there is no DRM/Key locks, and avoids mixing utf8 with windows codepage.

Mixing ecosystems creates a Polyglot, and that is going to have problems for sure... given neither ecosystems wants the cost of supporting the other.

Best method, use cross platform application ports supported on every platform. In my opinion, Windows should only be used for games and industry specific commercial software support. For robust system privacy there are better options now, that aren't booby-trapped for new users. =3
by Analemma_ | 2025-05-19 21:16:48+00:00
It's mostly shortage of labor: if you're willing to do the research on your setup, buy the equipment yourself, and just hand instructions+gear to a contractor, you save a bunch of money. If you're willing/able to do the installation yourself, you save even more.

This isn't specifically a rooftop solar thing, the entire construction industry in America has been bottlenecked on labor for years. You can insert your own personal hobbyhorse here about why that is (immigration, undervaluing trades, etc.), but whatever it is it sure is a headwind on solar migration.
by unit149 | 2025-05-19 21:17:02+00:00
4-5 bn stake in xAI from Kingdom Holdings, who started Humain AI during the gulf tour. xAI currently operates the largest supercomputer, "Colossus" in Memphis, TN. Also, 5bn GB-200 NVIDIA server deal w/ Dell. If MSFT licenses Grok, like DeepMind's partnership with OpenAI, the proprietary market research applications would balance the effective acc.
by aerophilic | 2025-05-19 21:17:17+00:00
This has been a pain point for us and our development process… not all versions of Nvidia drivers are the same… even released ones. You have to find a “good” version and keep to it, and then selectively upgrade… at least this has been the case the last 5 years, folks shout out if they have had different experiences.

Side note: our main use case is using cuda for image processing.
by fluidcruft | 2025-05-19 21:17:23+00:00
I run Ubuntu and suspend is pretty much a nightmare to the point I just gave up pretending it exists. These are Dell computers sold with supposed Ubuntu support. Close the lid and put it in a backpack is inevitably an invitation for a hot laptop or empty battery when you pull it out a few hours later (for the record: Windows isn't any better at this in my experience so WSL never solved that problem either).

Previous laptops (all ThinkPads) used to be able to get everything all to work (debian) but it did take effort and finding the correct resources. Unfortunately all the old documentation about this stuff is pre-systemd and UFI and it's not exactly straightforward anymore.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-19 21:17:40+00:00
Thing is, LLMs are already better than people at the "architecting a plan" and "figuring out what the product should be" in details that go beyond high-level vibes. They do that even better than raw coding.

In fact, that's the main reason I like developing quick prototypes and small projects with LLMs. I use them less to write code for me, and more to cut through the bullshit "research" phase of figuring out what code to write, which libraries to pick, what steps and auxiliary work I'm missing in my concept, etc.
by lhecker | 2025-05-19 21:17:54+00:00
Hey all! I made this! I really hope you like it and if you don't, please open an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

To respond to some of the questions or those parts I personally find interesting:

The custom TUI library is so that I can write a plugin model around a C ABI. Existing TUI frameworks that I found and were popular usually didn't map well to plain C. Others were just too large. The arena allocator exists primarily because building trees in Rust is quite annoying otherwise. It doesn't use bumpalo, because I took quite the liking to "scratch arenas" (https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/27/) and it's really not that difficult to write such an allocator.

Regarding the choice of Rust, I actually wrote the prototype in C, C++, Zig, and Rust! Out of these 4 I personally liked Zig the most, followed by C, Rust, and C++ in that order. Since Zig is not internally supported at Microsoft just yet (chain of trust, etc.), I continued writing it in C, but after a while I became quite annoyed by the lack of features that I came to like about Zig. So, I ported it to Rust over a few days, as it is internally supported and really not all that bad either. The reason I didn't like Rust so much is because of the rather weak allocator support and how difficult building trees was. I also found the lack of cursors for linked lists in stable Rust rather irritating if I'm honest. But I would say that I enjoyed it overall.

We decided against nano, kilo, micro, yori, and others for various reasons. What we wanted was a small binary so we can ship it with all variants of Windows without extra justifications for the added binary size. It also needed to have decent Unicode support. It should've also been one built around VT output as opposed to Console APIs to allow for seamless integration with SSH. Lastly, first class support for Windows was obviously also quite important. I think out of the listed editors, micro was probably the one we wanted to use the most, but... it's just too large. I proposed building our own editor and while it took me roughly twice as long as I had planned, it was still only about 4 months (and a bit for prototyping last year).

As GuinansEyebrows put it, it's definitely quite a bit of "NIH" in the project, but I also spent all of my weekends on it and I think all of Christmas, simply because I had fun working on it. So, why not have fun learning something new, writing most things myself? I definitely learned tons working on this, which I can now use in other projects as well.

If you have any questions, let me know!
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-19 21:18:04+00:00
[image of the show with a giant screen beside] https://imageshack.com/i/exQrNAZnj

I was like "wow that is a big screen although not very bright".

> Each background picture is created by about 40.000 childrens holding tables containing pages with different pictures/colours

[zoom of the "screen" with endless pixels: a color square a little head on top of each - impressionist style] https://imageshack.com/i/exw2BFluj
by robocat | 2025-05-19 21:18:14+00:00
> A premonition is a fancy name for an unconscious prediction

The problem with woo is you can always add more woo (bonus points if it has sciencey glitter). Goes from woowoo to woowoowoo.

Woo has no logical consistency and has nothing predictably predictive.

Ask manifestation believers why they are not successful or rich or whatever? You'll hear some fabulous reasons.

My neighbour paid money (I presume thousands) to do courses on learning how to unblock herself. The stated reason for the failure to manifest was due to blocks. Her explanation of the material was outrageous. I have yet to see the positive effect on her.

I don't manifest, yet I've got things others would like to manifest. Not sure there that fits in with the woo.
by Lerc | 2025-05-19 21:18:38+00:00
It has a degree of benefit in helping you identify focus, but much of the purported benefits come from having the skills required to obtain your goals being quite correlated with the ability to do a chosen task every single day.

A lot of time has past since I read Scott Adams view on manifesting. I got a decent way through before I realised it wasn't satire. It did seem clear to me that he was advocating a form of manifesting that went beyond either of those principles. That benefits came from manifesting in ways that no-other influence from yourself would be possible. That's essentially declaring it to be magic. Psychology I can believe, if you want me to believe in magic you're going to need a bit more.

From the point of view of an ADHD person, it doesn't surprise me at all that someone who had the ability to do a dumb task like manifesting would also have the ability to do meaningful things that that I find nearly impossible.
by Vanclief | 2025-05-19 21:18:57+00:00
Claude Code is my favorite way to use LLMs for coding.

However I feel what we really need is to have an open source version of it where you can pass any model and also you can compare different models answers.

(Aider and other alternatives really doesn't feel as good to use as Claude Code)

I know this is not what anthropic would want to do as it removes their moat, but as a consumer I just want the best model and not be tied to an ecosystem. (Which I imagine is the largest fear of LLM model providers)
by adolph | 2025-05-19 21:19:04+00:00
Basically you need to sovereign-balance your services over different regions. Also have a high available pool of people to replace arrestees.

One reason the the court has been hamstrung is that it relies heavily on contractors and non-governmental organizations. Those businesses and groups have curtailed work on behalf of the court because they were concerned about being targeted by U.S. authorities, according to current and former ICC staffers.

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-co...
by Scarbutt | 2025-05-19 21:19:34+00:00
Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes for systemd services to start and if you close a WSL 2 terminal for just a few minutes systemd will delay a new terminal from opening for quite some time. This basically means disabling systemd to use WSL 2 in your day to day.

That doesn't sound good. I was planning to set up a Windows/WSL2 box, but this gives me second thoughts. Where can I read more about this?