MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fizzbuzz-rs | 2025-05-02 13:09:48+00:00
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by palata | 2025-05-02 13:10:01+00:00
Sorry, I didn't want to imply that they do. This would be illegal as per antitrust regulations.

What I wanted to say is that AWS using a permissively-licenced project is fine. The project should have thought about the licence beforehand and started with copyleft from the beginning on. Their problem now.

But a more general problem I see is that even if you use a copyleft license for your project, you have the risk to be crushed by anti-competitive behaviours coming from TooBigTech. It's not rare, they do that all the time and the US doesn't enforce anything. And when others (like the EU) try to do it, the US put pressure because they defend their US TooBigTech.

The latter is not a model or licencing issue, it's an antitrust issue. Now Amazon could compete with Redis without doing it illegaly, but they can only because they are so big. And the fact that they are so big is related to the lack of antitrust enforcement (it's documented, TooBigTech have all abused their dominance forever).
by iterance | 2025-05-02 13:10:09+00:00
If the purpose of the exemption were only to reduce the labor cost of importation, some other scheme (such as prohibiting the importation of cheap goods entirely) would be far more effective. Several other options would be at least equally effective. Factors besides labor are clearly also considered.

In your view, what are the factors in addition to customs labor costs that were weighed in 2016 the choice to increase the de minimis exemption? I'm curious, because you seem to feel very strongly that global economic integration is not one of them.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-02 13:10:53+00:00
That person might actually contribute some of their own knowledge and experience. Also you probably put the information out there because you want to spread it, but once it's hidden behind an LLM chat prompt the community dies.

You're correct that there's not really anything stopping a person from ripping you of, tweaking your work just enough that it's not a copy right violation. Unless that person themselves have a really good grasp of the topic and can contribute it will become clear that they are getting the content else where and the readers will end up there in the end. Many, not all obviously, will also provide attribution, something LLMs rarely do.

Then you have the issue that the person publishing something on their own little server now has to deal with commercial companies just hammering their sites into the ground and they have to deal with that problem, just so someone can do an automated version of content theft?

A lot of things people could potentially do are minor issues, until it's automated and commercialized.
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by flohofwoe | 2025-05-02 13:12:48+00:00
This has been cooking for a very long time (pretty much since the AfD was founded in 2013, and some federal chapters of the AfD (like the Thuringian AfD under Hoecke [1], the Saxon AfD [2]) and five 'AfD Youth' federal chapters already earned the 'extreme-right' classification before [3]. The news is only that now the entire AfD is classified as extreme-right (to nobody's surprise).

The AfD also isn't the first party which got the label, the AfD is just the latest reincarnation of the NPD (since the 1960s) and the so-called Republicans ('Die Republikaner') since the 1980s. There's also various smaller splinter-organizations which are more openly right-extremist than the AfD but at best play a minor role in municipal elections).

[1] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/afd-rechtsextremis...

[2] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-sachs...

[3] https://www.rnd.de/politik/wo-gelten-afd-und-junge-alternati...
by John23832 | 2025-05-02 13:12:49+00:00
EDIT: I think the person that I responded to is a bot or malactor. In the history of their account, they say things and have 0 responses.

> This feels like it was a bigger exercise in control.

And this seems like conspiracy.

> It’s ok to make mistakes. It’s the lack of critical thinking which was the problem here and made the outcome so much worse. Who saw evidence that masks were effective? Who tracked COVID infections verses school shut downs? Who forced vaccines on children instead of understanding their natural immunity?

It's readily apparent that the vast majority of people have never attempted to solve hard, consequential problems, with real world (life or death) effect and limited time scope. In that reality you make decisions with what you know, make inferences, and act.

I've worked as an EMT. I can tell you plenty of times we made decisions in the moment that, with the benefit of hindsight, were suboptimal. I've seen emergency doctors do the same. However, there was not the opportunity to do nothing.

I totally agree we could have done better, but that is in hindsight. The armchair quarterbacking on the internet, 5 years later, comes off as unexperienced imo.
by kristoff_it | 2025-05-02 13:13:00+00:00
1. Questions and answers on Discord are searchable, there's a channel format that makes every conversation a thread and the UI even automatically searches for matches as you type the title of a new thread, which is what the Zig Discord server uses. It's correct to say that Discord answers will not be searchable outside of Discord, but it's factually wrong to say that you won't be able to very easily find out if your question has been asked already.

2. OP is not sending anybody anywhere, they're just talking about their experience. Zig has multiple communities and you can get help also elsewhere. A blog post that recounts one's experience doesn't need to list all other ways of getting help and it's wrong for you to assume otherwise.
by zahlman | 2025-05-02 13:13:11+00:00
Not sure what you mean, but I guess you're getting at something like "is it really pip's fault that it imports almost everything on almost every run?".

Well first off, pip itself does defer quite a few imports - just not in a way that really matters. Notably, if you use the `--python` flag, the initial run will only import some of the modules before it manages to hand off to the subprocess (which has to import those modules again). But that new pip process will end up importing a bunch more eventually anyway.

The thing is that this isn't just about where you put `import` statements (at the top, following style guidelines, vs. in a function to defer them and take full advantage of `sys.modules` caching). The real problem is with library dependencies, and their architecture.

If I use a library that provides the `foo` top-level package, and `import foo.bar.baz.quux`, at a minimum Python will need to load the `foo`, `foo.bar`, `foo.bar.baz` and `foo.bar.baz.quux` modules (generally, from the library's `foo/__init__.py`, foo/bar/__init__.py`, `foo/bar/baz/__init__.py` and `foo/bar/baz/quux.py` respectively). But some libraries offer tons of parallel, stand-alone functionality, such that that's the end of it; others are interconnected, such that those modules will have a bunch of their own top-level `import`s, etc. There are even cases where library authors preemptively import unnecessary things in their `__init__.py` files just to simplify the import statements for the client code. That also happens for backward compatibility reasons (if a library reorganizes some functionality from `foo` into `foo.bar`, then `foo/__init__.py` might have `from . import bar` to avoid breaking existing code that does `import foo`... and then over time `bar` might grow a lot bigger).

For pip, rich (https://pypi.org/project/rich/) is a major culprit, from what I've seen. Pip uses little of its functionality (AFAIK, just for coloured text and progress bars) and it tends to import quite a bit preemptively (such as an emoji database). It's very much not designed with modularity or import speed in mind. (It also uses the really old-fashioned system of ad-hoc testing by putting some demo code in each module behind an `if __name__ == '__main__':` block - code that is only ever used if you do `python -m rich.whatever.submodule` from the command line, but has to be processed by everyone).

And yes, these things are slow even with Python's system for precompiling and caching bytecode. It's uniformly slow, without an obvious bottleneck - the problem is the amount of code, not (as far as I can tell) any specific thing in that code.
by andiareso | 2025-05-02 13:13:33+00:00
This is probably the best analogy, however I think what might be different is there is somewhat high of a bar for the merchant/vendor to be operating a legal and legitimate business. On the internet and in the App Store, it’s kind of a Wild West.

Edit: Maybe not globalizing App Store apps would resolve this? Or at least if you want to operate an app in a country, you need to incorporate in that country too? I think that might make it harder for overseas companies to get away with fraud.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-05-02 13:13:36+00:00
> Still, at the time, few could have anticipated just how fully it would be exploited

In 1930? Sure, you couldn't expect them to know that everyone would have a wireless telegraph in their pocket and they'd have cheaper and more skilled Chinese labor/manufacturing available.

In 2016? Really? Amazon was already going full steam. Ali Express was well known. It absolutely should have been obvious to legislators and those that lobby them professionally what would happen. How many people regularly, or even annually, buy items for over $800 from either of them?
by cubefox | 2025-05-02 13:14:27+00:00
Contrary to what most commenters assume, the high bandwidth usage is not coming from scraping text, but images. They are pretty clear about it:

> Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models.
by dboreham | 2025-05-02 13:14:43+00:00
Because "they're ripping us off", apparently.

People find it hard to conceive of another human being so mentally degraded that they just don't understand what's going on. But that's what's happening here. Watch the interview segment where the photograph of a guy's knuckle tattoos with inserted text labels in helvetica font is discussed for an example of how stupid this person is.
by Retric | 2025-05-02 13:14:43+00:00
> How is this relevant to land value tax?

It’s an example of distortion.

> Why would earned income taxes not have unpleasant side effects if land value taxes have unpleasant side effects?

Distortion requires some way to optimize for the tax by charging behavior unnaturally. Maximizing income results in the same behavior with and without an income tax. Instead distortion comes modifications like not taxing health insurance and lower rates on long term capital gains etc.

A land value tax incentivizes less efficient allocation of resources on the other hand because land becomes artificially more expensive. For example it heavily disincentivizes farming etc. Obviously you’d end up with same kind of tax breaks but now you’re further distorting the market.
by broguinn | 2025-05-02 13:15:10+00:00
The above comment is getting downvoted, and I suspect it's due to a misunderstanding of their intent. Yes, high speeds can make collisions (especially, as another commenter points out, to pedestrians and cyclists) more dangerous. However, just as human drivers subconsciously speed up when part of a group of cars, they are not often conscious of the environmental queues informing the speed at which they drive. Given the poster's allusion to 'stroads', I suspect that they're in favor of traffic engineering patterns that encourage speed reduction based on safe context queues without solely relying on an unenforced and often unobeyed traffic speed.

Consider this video on Dutch traffic calming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxRYrpbnuA.

Lane narrowing, raised walkways, curves in the road (chicanes), etc. are all environmental queues that enforce safe traffic speed based on context, without relying on conscious human compliance.
by rossdavidh | 2025-05-02 13:15:12+00:00
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by triceratops | 2025-05-02 13:15:25+00:00
I wasn't being snarky. The Wire is the embodiment of prestige television drama. There's nothing wrong with not being into TV.

I also admitted the topic hasn't been popular of late. Your comment didn't say anything about recency. It's likely that the dwindling percentage of Americans in unions has something to do with fewer recent depictions of labor struggles in TV and movies.
by BarryMilo | 2025-05-02 13:15:29+00:00
My god the amount of projection in your comment. It seems you've mistaken me for everyone who ever commented in favor of migrating off of Excel.

I"m aware that there are things I'm unaware of. Perhaps I don't know how to use Excel, I'm "no true Excel user" if you will, and therefore my opinion is invalid. Like you I'm baffled not by the technical side of things but by our reaction to it. People say "it powers 10% of the world's economy" but not "and it's a problem".

It's a problem. My point is not that LO is better, it's that we should work to remove our dependency on closed-source software for universal office work. Governments should be doing that. But no, let's just say "the other one sucks" and continue to act like depending on a single for-profit company for all our economies is a good thing.

Not sure how my other comment relates to this. Is it arrogant to have preferences?
by rossdavidh | 2025-05-02 13:15:35+00:00
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by LaurensBER | 2025-05-02 13:15:35+00:00
Some of their ex-members have been literal Nazis. Something that doesn't go over very well in Germany. The party banned these people but their standpoints are still very controversial, the main issue is that in some aspects they do no support the juridical system.

So yeah, regular right wing compared to American standards but I think we can all agree that respecting the trias politica is a good thing in any country.
by jasode | 2025-05-02 13:15:55+00:00
>, not because nothing else can work. There's a lot of herd mentality [...]

There is herd mentality yes, but you have to consider that there have been a lot of startups founded by devs who rejected herd mentality and did try to compensate salespeople in a non-standard way. See Pluralsight CEO (a former C# .NET developer) as one example.

The timeline goes like this... When dev worked as an employee at previous company, they hated that salespeople were on commission because it's "unfair". Dev later starts his own company and thus has a chance to implement his own ideas (based on intuition instead of historical evidence) on how to fairly pay salespeople. (I.e. "there's no reason I can't just pay salespeople same as my devs"). He then sees that he can't recruit superstar salespeople or the salespeople he can hire actually can't sell. The market finally "educates" the dev-now-CEO that his intuition and mental framework about salespeople's incentives and motivations were wrong. He relents and switches to the typical commission structure that he really really didn't want to do.

There have been hundreds of years of commerce history showing how salespeople are incentivized by commissions but computer programmers that start companies are an idealistic and stubborn bunch and therefore they want to pay salespeople a different way. There's no risk aversion because they're rebellious against the status quo and are convinced they're right and "everybody else is doing it wrong". Seems like a rite-of-passage that they try their alternative idea and then eventually learn it doesn't work. Ben Horowitz's a16z blog article was aimed at those startup founders (mostly ex-developers) who thought paying commissions was completely illogical and unnecessary.

Your alternative compensation plan idea to pay a delayed annual bonus exactly like the devs is more "fair"; the problem is superstar salespeople aren't interested in it. They don't have to be because they can just work for another company that pays fat commissions.
by DarkWiiPlayer | 2025-05-02 13:16:48+00:00
> This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models.

Sounds like the problem is not the crawling itself but downloading multimedia files.

The article also explains that these requests are much more likely to request resources that aren't cached, so they generate more expensive traffic.
by hypeatei | 2025-05-02 13:17:06+00:00
> Will just switch to domestic products

On what timeline? Does the current environment even encourage companies making huge investments into the U.S. (and no, the pinky promises that we hear about aren't investments) since it'll just change in four years?

There is no central industrial policy being proposed or passed via Congress, just a mad king imposing tariffs on a whim.
by AIPedant | 2025-05-02 13:17:12+00:00
It is demonstrably true that artificial neurons have nothing to do with cortical neurons in mammals[1] so even if this model of human intelligence is useful, transformers/etc aren't anywhere close to actually implementing the model faithfully. Perhaps by Turing completeness o3 or whatever has stumbled into a good implementation of this model, but that is implausible. o3 still wildly confabulates worse than any dementia patient, still lacks the robust sense of folk physics we see in infants, etc. (This is even more apparent in video generators, Veo2 is SOTA and it still doesn't understand object permanence or gravity.) It does not make sense to say something is a model of human intelligence if it can do PhD-level written tasks but is outsmarted by literal babies (also chimps, dogs, pigeons...)

AI people toss around the term "neuron" way too freely.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...
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by Changerons | 2025-05-02 13:18:40+00:00
That is my conception of the world that we all have different interests and cognitive functions. Also, call it serenpidity, synchronicity, fate or luck, but as this article showed, the best ideas come from places you could never have expected.

Read about the discovery of LSD if you haven't, it's one of the perfect example of this.

So you have to find your nature, the garden of iteas that resonates with you. For that, just read. From any topic that interests you and sometimes, dare to read something you would never do. Comics, mangas, niche recipes, biographies, romance, everything is fair game and you never know, sometimes you might just click on something you never might otherwise.

In the age of Wikipedia, kindles and libraries, you really have no excuse to not indulge in your curiosity.

For all we know, we could ever be "hard-coded" to love certain topics more than others(https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/research/the-way-we-app...). Maybe in the future, a drop of saliva would be enough to know if you should study architecture or dancing ?
by specialist | 2025-05-02 13:18:51+00:00
Yes but...

> Run ads that are literally just Trump quotes.

TIL cliché "Democrats buy ads, Republicans buy stations."

I mosdef 100% utterly agree Dems should campaign more.

It's just that... Per the entire duration of the Biden Admin and post mortems of 2024 election, voters barely hear any Dem messaging. So I question the ROI on buying ads.

Like most others fretting from the sidelines (I'm still recovering from activist burnout, sorry), I have no idea how Dems, and "The Left" more broadly, can connect with voters.

AOC & Bernie's nationwide tour is doing a good job. A good start.

Insert something here about embracing social media(s).

Insert something here about owning our own media ecosystem.

Insert something here about loudly and proudly pivoting away from neoliberalism into full throated support for our working class(es).

Blah, blah, blah building and nurturing a movement.

Etc.

Please share any tips, ideas you have. TIA.