MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zambyte | 2025-05-05 20:37:56+00:00
> The concept of copyright first developed in England. In reaction to the printing of "scandalous books and pamphlets", the English Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662, which required all intended publications to be registered with the government-approved Stationers' Company, giving the Stationers the right to regulate what material could be printed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Okay, not a corporation, but a company.
by whynotminot | 2025-05-05 20:38:16+00:00
> Why would we need to be more creative? The explanation of him wanting more money is perfectly adequate. Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition.

The dude announces new initiatives from the White House, regularly briefs Senators and senior DoD leaders, and is the top get for interviews around the world for AI topics.

There’s a lot more to be ambitious about than just money.
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-05 20:38:30+00:00
My boss is about to learn this lesson the hard and painful way. Retention has fallen to the point where I am the only person who groks the full stack. I'm making an attempt to document what I can, but they're going to be fucked when I leave. I would feel bad about it, but CEO has tried to fuck me over many times-- for no apparent reason.
by smcin | 2025-05-05 20:38:40+00:00
Only for the US nationwide average - the tyranny of averages. Affordability varies greatly by region/metro/suburb, as the underlying data in the Axios article [0] shows; rural and small towns are more affordable. Also, it quotes prices for mid-priced homes, not starter homes. People don't actually need 2200 sqft homes (2023 median). Watch home builders shift to building smaller homes. And, people rediscovering the sensibleness of multigenerational living like they did since 2020.

Obviously if 7% mortgages and >3% inflation continue, esp. in a recession/stagflation, esp. after BEA Q2 GDP estimate (July 30, could officially confirm a recession), they will severely dampen the housing market, and eventually crash it. Even if oil is $30 a barrel.

All eyes on the next Fed interest rate decisions and statements: May 7, June 18, July 30, Jackson Hole Symposium (late Aug), see-sawing developments on tariffs, the G7 summit (Canada, June 15-17) and any prospective Ukraine or Iran deals which will stabilize inflationary pressures and geopolitics. And the not-so-coded rhetoric between Powell and the President. Powell's term as Chair ends 5/2026.

Polymarket [1] has multiple related prediction markets on US interest rates, bond yields, inflation (beware that markets on Polymarket are gamed by a handful of whales, but still informative):

[0]: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/10/covid-home-prices-trends

[1]: https://polymarket.com/event/how-many-fed-rate-cuts-in-2025
by zeta0134 | 2025-05-05 20:41:09+00:00
I think the counterintuitive thing is that the marketing communicates a lack of confidence. It's... sortof odd to think about it that way, but to communicate actual confidence in your field, you mostly have to be willing and able to have a conversation about whatever topic your interviewer fancies. Being able to do that comfortably speaks volumes that your resume and project portfolio struggle to replicate.
by MPSFounder | 2025-05-05 20:41:14+00:00
Never understood his appeal. Lacks charisma. Not technically savvy relative to many engineers at OpenAI(I doubt he would pass their own intern interviews, even less so their FT). Very unlikeable in person (comes off as fake for some reason, like a political plant). Who is vouching for this guy. When I met him, for some reason, he reminded me of Thiel. He is no Jobs
by SubiculumCode | 2025-05-05 20:41:18+00:00
Yeah, when I am trying to learn about a topic, I need to think about my question, you know, pausing mid-sentence. All the products jump in and interrupt, no matter if I tell them not to do so. Non-annoying humans don't jump in to fill the gap, they read my face, they take cues, then wait for me to finish. Its one thing to ask an AI to give me directions to the nearest taco stand, its another to have a dialogue about complex topics.
by ivape | 2025-05-05 20:41:45+00:00
Two input streams sounds like a good hacky solution. One input stream captures everything, the second is on the look out for your filler words like "um, aahh, waaiit, no nevermind, scratch that". The second stream can act as the veto-command and cut off the LLM. A third input stream can simply be on the lookout for long pauses. All this gets very resource intensive quickly. I been meaning to make this but since I haven't, I'm going to punish myself and just give the idea away. Hopefully I'll learn my lesson.
by nightpool | 2025-05-05 20:42:11+00:00
I highly recommend that you read through https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r... and watch the underlying debate (starting here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vaooTKHCM), it does a really good job of laying out the arguments for and against lab leak in a very thorough and evidence-based way like you're asking for here.
by bouchard | 2025-05-05 20:43:08+00:00
No, it's the standard procedure for F35 parts supplied to allied countries. Which is why it's a bit of an issue in the current political context.

But a U.S. Government Accountability Office report in 2023 revealed the rules governing the F-35 parts. The report noted that the parts are the property of the U.S. government until they are installed on another nation’s aircraft.
by wduquette | 2025-05-05 20:43:16+00:00
I'm having a lot more fun with the Oblivion remaster than I did with the original game (which I first played years after Skyrim came out).

But I will say, while the graphics are better than the original Oblivion, Unreal 5 is NOT an improvement over the engine they used for Skyrim, not from a visual point of view, at least not for me. Quite frankly, I'd much rather have Skyrim-era graphics, which are plenty good enough, and Skyrim's quick startup times, than have to wait for shaders to load as you do with lots of recent games.
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-05 20:44:17+00:00
On the other hand...If you asked, 5-6-7 years ago, 100 people which of the following they used:

Slack? Zoom? Teams?

I'm sure you'd get a somewhat uniform distribution.

Ask the same today, and I'd bet most will say Teams. Why Teams? Because it comes with office / windows, so that's what most people will use.

Same logic goes for the AI / language models...which one are people going to use? The ones that are provided as "batteries included" in whatever software or platform they use the most. And for the vast majority of regular people / workers, it is going to be something by microsoft / google / whatever.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-05-05 20:44:18+00:00
It wouldn't need to be some plan signed off on by ULA's top brass.

It could have been a single person acting alone for whatever reason. Plausibly an employee of ULA who formerly worked at SpaceX and was mad as mistreatment there, or mad they interviewed and didn't get hired, or mad that SpaceX was beating them at whatever and making them look bad or whatever.

Or it could have been a person unaffiliated with ULA who just found a way to access their roof.

History has a handful of pretty significant events that were basically "one guy with a rifle".
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-05 20:44:58+00:00
> The second speedup concerns the system used to let trains to switch from one track to another, called a switch or turnout. American turnout geometry is particularly antiquated, and the German geometry we propose is in theory 50% faster, in practice often more than that at major station throats.

Scanned quickly for videos online showing the difference but didn't find anything. I had no idea there would be differences in railway switches.
by nullc | 2025-05-05 20:45:13+00:00
I have a smartphone that runs signal, the phone app, the camera app, and a mapping app. Why not do the same?

I have never logged into anything except signal on a phone. I haven't removed the browser but I don't have any interest in using it and have only used it to look up wikipedia stuff while traveling and what not. If I did feel some temptation to web browse on it I could remove the browser.

I find it surprising that anyone wants to browse on their phone, I find the tiny screen infuriating.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-05-05 20:45:45+00:00
I am not confusing any such thing. You need to define "database" such that "file system" doesn't include it.

Common usage does this by convention, but that's just sloppy thinking and populist extentional definitining. I posit that any rigorous, thought-out, not overfit intentional definition of a database will, as a matter of course, also include file systems.
by gamblor956 | 2025-05-05 20:47:05+00:00
$3.50.

But seriously, LLMs are useless for anything except the most basic secretarial tasks and even there they still require as much reviewing as a high school intern. The reason executives want to use AI instead of humans is because AI is a capital expense that does not hit the financial the same way that wages do. (Capital expenses are excluded from EBITDA, which is the most common metric for measuring a company's financial performance. But it's become so popular for companies to push expenses to ITDA whenever they can that financial analysts are starting to push back and include ITDA in their analyses.)

In a nutshell, there are 3 ways to look at company financials: the PR way (EBITDA), the financial reporting way (GAAP, which includes ITDA), and the tax way (starts from GAAP or IFRS but with numerous rules on what items are included or excluded).
by Zambyte | 2025-05-05 20:47:32+00:00
> It protected works to reward authors during their lifetime.

This was the pitch by the (printing) companies that established copyright to gain a legal monopoly on copying.

> Instead of supporting the small fish, copyright law can reinforce the dominance of the sharks and whales.

This was always the case. It's just worse now.

Personally I'd love to see sane copyright laws. That is, abolishing copyright. Copyright only helps people in power stay in power. Oh, does Disney argue that you used a character of theirs in your story? Does it even matter if you did? You think you can take on Disney's lawyers? It doesn't matter if copyright is 5 years or 500. You're going to lose.

Art, and things erroneously treated like art under copyright like software, would be so much better if people could do it without fear of being a victim of copyright. Imagine if anyone could add their own flare to any story ever. Incredible.
by williamsss | 2025-05-05 20:48:01+00:00
I found this article while doing a write up about why I created my own personal knowledge management (PKM) tooling. While my preference for record keeping is digital, it still has valuable take aways. Besides search functionality, with NLP/AI there are steep arguments for making the digital shift more than ever for those who haven't.

Here's an article about how I created my PKM here https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/the-last-note-system the "why" part I'm hoping to publish later this week.
by skydhash | 2025-05-05 20:48:04+00:00
> So the interesting question is: How did that happen? Why wasn't Google search an easily swapped commodity? Or if it was, how did they win and defend their default status? Why didn't the existing juggernauts at the time (Microsoft) beat them at this game?

Maybe the big amount of money they've given to Apple which is their direct competitor in the mobile space. Also good amount of money given to Firefox, which is their direct competitor in the browser space, alongside side Safari from Apple.

Most people don't care about the search engine. The default is what they will used unless said default is bad.
by stevenAthompson | 2025-05-05 20:48:06+00:00
There was a relatively famous Google case regarding their digitization of books without the authors consent in 2015. Although it's not a perfectly analogous to this situation.

In Googles case they were digitizing the books (that they did not own), and publishing snippets for search users to help them find books and other material that weren't indexed on the web. The court found they had that right, but did place some pretty strict limits on them.

Still, Google was allowed to keep their database of scanned material despite not owning the originals.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
by hnuser123456 | 2025-05-05 20:48:23+00:00
The training data probably included hack forums and similar stuff. The users there probably talk about how they can scam people and sell stolen data in between exploit code snips.

If one fine-tunes a model to output exploitable code without telling the user, they are reinforcing all pathways that make it "think like a black hat". I don't think it's too surprising. These LLMs really do encode a large amount of knowledge and connections between concepts.

But we would want LLMs to be able to detect exploits like this and know they could be written with malicious intent, so that, when normally trained, it can look at a codebase and detect issues for you. So I don't think we should just eliminate hackforums from training.
by lxe | 2025-05-05 20:48:25+00:00
Your defense of the contrarian framing feels like it's missing the point. What you're describing as "counterintuitive" is actually pretty standard for anyone who's been working deeply with LLMs for a while.

Most experienced LLM users already know about temperature controls and API access - that's not some secret knowledge. Many use both the public vanilla frontends and specialized interfaces (various HF workflows, custom setups, sillytavern, oobabooga (̵r̵i̵p̵)̵, ollama, lmstudio, etc) depending on the task.

Your dismissal of LLMs for writing comes across as someone who scratched the surface and gave up. There's an entire ecosystem of techniques for effectively using LLMs to assist writing without replacing it - from ideation to restructuring to getting unstuck on specific sections.

Throughout the article, you seem to dismiss tools and approaches after only minimal exploration. The depth and nuance that would be evident to anyone who's been integrating these tools into their workflow for the past couple years is missing.

Being honest about your experiences is valuable, but framing basic observations as contrarian insights isn't counterintuitive - it's just incomplete.
by WhitneyLand | 2025-05-05 20:48:30+00:00
>>they don't allow talking naturally

Neither do phone calls. Round trip latency can easily be 300ms, which we’ve all learned to adapt our speech to.

If you want to feel true luxury find an old analog PTSN line. No compression artifacts or delays. Beautiful and seamless 50ms latency.

Digital was a terrible event for call quality.
by onlypassingthru | 2025-05-05 20:48:47+00:00
To answer below: My fellow Sunday Leaguers also study and re-enact Champions League football. It's a lot of fun but I'm not foolish enough to think I belong on the pitch in a real competition. I didn't train my whole life to be an expert footballer and most researchers didn't train their whole life to drive an arrow through a man in battle.
by chaoskitty | 2025-05-05 20:49:00+00:00
You're conflating a few different issues: the newness of a domain, and the quality and cost of of your VPS.

Some email providers don't like brand new domains, yes, but if a domain is brand new, nobody is going to immediately start using it for mission critical things. That's just common sense, although now I want to buy a domain to see how much of an issue this really is.

The cost and quality of a VPS means very little because if a VPS is on a network with a poor reputation, one can easily smarthost through a mail provider that has a good reputation.

Likewise, people can run servers at home, or they can colocate, or whatever, and don't have to run a VPS at all, although I think you're just generalizing and aren't suggesting that people can't use other servers.
by evilduck | 2025-05-05 20:49:01+00:00
All of the measured subreddits in the linked repo also seem like grift-heavy subreddits to me. They're all the stereotypical "get rich selling pickaxes to miners" subs so seeing them infiltrated by "get rich using AI to sell pickaxes" seems almost expected to me.

I'm curious if the trend was similar across all subreddits with a broader set of topics.
by xp84 | 2025-05-05 20:49:13+00:00
Agreed. I do have a lifetime web hosting account that was purchased off of one of those same deal sites. However, the only reason I use it is because my usage of it is so minimal that I don’t really care if they ever shut it off.

Lifetime service has to either be so expensive that it’s paid for by basically an endowment (interest income on your original payment is enough to cover the cost in perpetuity) or simply a Ponzi scheme (your service is paid for by people who have signed up this year). There’s no third option (that’s sustainable).

The only other category would be situations where the service itself is now a money loser overall because growth stopped. Obviously exactly this happened to the original company and that’s how they ended up selling their assets.

For something as small potatoes as a cheapo VPN subscription, I’d be amused by anybody who wasted their time trying to sue somebody over this. I bet the company sold certain assets rather than sell itself outright. Meaning the beef of these “lifetime” users is going to be with a defunct, broke, company. Good luck forcing them to provide you with lifetime VPN service or a refund.
by alnwlsn | 2025-05-05 20:49:14+00:00
From when I was briefly working with "personal" resin printers (elegoo, anycubic, etc):

- In terms of strength, print orientation doesn't really matter.

- The z height is pretty much the only thing that affects print time since it exposes a single layer all at once. So it takes the same time to print one item as it does to print with a bed full of them.

- The supports in resin aren't to push the print up like FDM, they are to pull the print up. Each layer needs something above it to pull it out of the vat for the next layer.

- Unlike FDM, the surface attached to the bed isn't normally used as one of the finished surfaces. The printer usually exposes the first few layers long to make a solid base which is well adhered to the bed. If you want good surfaces all around, raise your part up a bit and use supports.

- It's pretty unusual to not use supports in resin printing.

- It can help to orient the print so that the least cross section area is in contact with the FEP film at any given time. This makes it less likely for the print to get stuck to the bottom of the vat.

- Resin parts don't really have a concept of infill. You either print hollow parts or ones that are 100% solid (you never print FDM parts at 100%). If you print hollow, make sure you have a way to drain out the resin when it's done printing.

- Even if your print is open at the top, it can still become filled with resin during the print, like putting your finger over the end of a straw. Make sure this doesn't suck up all the resin in your vat, or put a somewhere so air can get in.

- The whole business of washing and curing parts is more than I can get into here. Of note is that you can't really cure the "inside" of a part because light from the outside only makes it so far in.

- Resin parts tend to be very brittle. I once pressure tested one with 800 Psi CO2 once, through a small printed tube, and it held, but it would break if you hit it with a hammer. We tried the "tough" resins too, but never got any result comparable to even regular FDM with PLA. I used to say that I thought of resin parts not as a solid piece of plastic, but of finely powdered dust particles glued together.

- Large resin parts warp, badly. Dimensions will be accurate on the small scale (millimeters) but not on the large scale (10s or 100s of millimeters). Not sure if it's because there's a good amount of force pulling on each layer during the printing process, or from stresses introduced during the curing process.

I mostly make mechanical parts. Between the messy processing, weak materials, warping that throws off dimensions, and health concerns surrounding the resin (not to mention the intolerable smell), I pretty much gave up on resin printing. Any more, if I need something that must be resin printed, I'll order it from a professional service (which have both better performance resins than the home gamer can get and the correct setup to deal with them).
by Alucard9712 | 2025-05-05 20:50:08+00:00
I was tired of scribbling book titles while listening to podcasts, so I built a site that automatically collects every book mentioned by guests on shows like Chris Williamson, Joe Rogan, and Lex Fridman.

It updates regularly and focuses on surfacing the kinds of books that shape long-form conversations—philosophy, science, self-development, etc.

Here’s the archive: https://mcaneff.github.io/podcasts-to-books/

I’m curious—would you find something like this useful? What other podcasts would you want added?
by Jtsummers | 2025-05-05 20:50:08+00:00
Look at these two statements in this poll:

> No, the AI does it all and I'm 10x as effective. Hardly any polish is needed.

> No, the AI writes it all. I'm 3x as effective. It still needs substantial polish.

You're only allowing people to say, "AI does it all and I'm more effective because of it." You don't even admit the possibilities that AI is doing it all but people are only as effective as before or that they're less effective. Your "yes but less than 100%" answers similarly don't offer sufficient variations. Why is 75% the only break-even option (when using AI) and not 50% or 25%? Below 75% you only let people say "AI is writing at least as much code as me, and it's made me more effective".

This poll needs at least two axes: What percentage of your code is written by you (versus AI)? and What effect has it had on your productivity/effectiveness as a developer?

HN polls are ill-suited to this unless you want to make 25+ polling options.
by jimbokun | 2025-05-05 20:50:44+00:00
That reminds me of Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture, discussing how he handled his boss demanding a way to contact him in his honeymoon in case of a work emergency.

Pausch gave his boss the number of his new mother in law. In case of an emergency, the boss could explain to the mother in law why it was worth interrupting her daughter’s honeymoon, in which case the mother in law would relay the message.

There mother in law was never called.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-05 20:51:36+00:00
> If you use it, that means you received more value than you gave up. It's called consumer surplus

This is true for literally any transaction. Actually, it's true for any rational action. If you're being tortured, and you decide it's not worth it to keep your secrets hidden any longer, you get more than you give up when you stop being tortured.
by hinkley | 2025-05-05 20:51:40+00:00
A lot of innovation is stealing ideas from two domains that often don’t talk to each other and combining them. That’s how we get simultaneous invention. Two talented individuals both realize that a new fact, when combined with existing facts, implies the existence of more facts.

Someone once asserted that all learning is compression, and I’m pretty sure that’s how polymaths work. Maybe the first couple of domains they learn occupy considerable space in their heads, but then patterns emerge, and this school has elements from these other three, with important differences. X is like Y except for Z. Shortcut is too strong a word, but recycling perhaps.