MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shermantanktop | 2025-05-05 15:16:29+00:00
We all say “Microsoft” “Google” “Amazon” as though each is a single monolithic entity with a consistency of culture, mission, and behavior. And yet I bet the company you work does things in marketing which don’t reflect how engineering thinks.

Your observations imply a root cause. But public information about Amazon’s corporate structure shows that AWS is almost a separate company from the website. Same is true for Google’s search vs YouTube or Apple hardware design vs their iMessages group.
by albumen | 2025-05-05 15:16:31+00:00
This is a great idea, thank you for building it!

My wife organises a lot of double elimination tournaments; could you add that as an option?

Also, it would be cool to see the live demo tournament populated with matches, so you'd get an idea straight away of the experience without needing to create stages etc (but also keep the ability to set up a new tournament).

Lastly re notifications that wavemode suggested; perhaps you let people pay for SMS notifications themselves, as an option beyond web notifications. This page [1] implies that web push notifications are unreliable, on iOS and android.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79215345/reliability-of-...
by graemep | 2025-05-05 15:16:38+00:00
"What is life is full of care, we have no time to stand and stare" - William Henry Davies

ON Saturday was waiting to meet people on a road that had just been reopened after a May Day (traditional British style with May Queen etc.) parade. Other people were doing the same.

I looked around and noticed people (some still in costume etc. so interesting crowd) and looked at buildings (its a pretty street, even though I know it well) and was quite happy.

One thing I noticed was the everyone else who was waiting for people was on their phones, almost all the time they were there.

Obsessive business is the opposite of mindfulness.

It also kills casual social interaction. Talking to someone who is standing next to you.
by msabalau | 2025-05-05 15:16:51+00:00
AI Boosters can suggest whatever nonsense strikes their fancy, and creatives can give into fear for no reason, but the best estimates we have from the BLS is that the there are careers and ongoing demand for artists, writers, photographers.

Regardless, deep learning models are valuable because they generalize within the training data to uncover patterns and features and relationships that are implicit, rather (simply) present with the data. While they can return things that happen to be within the training set, there is no reason to believe that any particular output is literally found there or is something that could be attributable, or that a human would ever attribute. Human artists also make meaning from the broad texture of their life experiences and general diffuse unattributable experience of culture.

Sure, this is something a random artist is unlikely to know, but if they are simply refusing to pick up a useful tools that can't give credit--say avoiding LLMs for brainstorming, or generative selection tools for visual editing, or whatever, their particular careers will be harmed by their incurious sentimentality, and other human artists will thrive because they know that tools are just tools, and it is the humans using the tools that make meaning that people care about.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-05-05 15:16:58+00:00
I have a weird controversial view on this in terms of how to legally do it, and that is, for your 1 model, you should be only required to buy a digital copy of the work, maybe publishers should make digital copies that are tailored for LLMs to churn through, but then price it at a reasonable rate, and make the format basically perfect for LLMs.
by dahart | 2025-05-05 15:17:38+00:00
The specific problem is that the alternative in the case of school lunches does not involve upgrading the payment system. Just because transit might benefit in the short term from not upgrading doesn’t mean school lunches would.

TBH I’m a little skeptical of the payment system story, it sounds oversimplified and might be agenda driven. All our transit systems need payment system maintenance and upgrades over time. Riders want & demand tap to pay, for example. All costs cut into and balance against incomes, but that doesn’t mean they can opt out, nor that it will save taxpayers in the long run. Keeping the old payment system might have rising costs and lead to reduced ridership over time, costs which may not have been assumed in the story you shared. I doubt the payment system is very significant compared to train cars, rails, crossing lights & gates, employees, etc.

We tend to cherry-pick and arm-chair debate individual budget items without seeing the big picture, in order to justify the preconceived claim that governments are bad at spending. Making families pay for school lunches is pretty funny when taxpayers pay for the building, books, teachers, and janitorial and food staff, the sum of which is literally thousands of times more than lunch. Debating the funding of school lunches is missing the forest for the trees, right?
by hobs | 2025-05-05 15:17:42+00:00
Civil courts work by you proving damages (at least in the USA), not by you going on fishing expeditions because they "might" have done something.

So good luck finding the thing that looks exactly like your copyrighted work that's not in the corpus, if you can yeah, you might be able to prove it.

At the end of the day its like a lot of business, where a liability shell game is played out, and if the chain of evidence cant be drawn quite brightly then lawsuits would be frivolous at best.
by Zigurd | 2025-05-05 15:17:42+00:00
GM bought a pig in a poke. The 2023 accident prompted GM senior management to review the Cruise operation and they found too many deficiencies to be worth fixing.

It's easy to look like Waymo. Much harder to actually perform at that level.

Robotaxis are a high stakes bet. You have to be extremely confident in the tech before spending billions of dollars to expand your service area.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-05 15:18:26+00:00
It could be a good infection vector. I’m under the impression that these programs are generally distributed on shady sites, need low-level access and high permissions, and are generally (actually, not sure about this part) proprietary and closed source. So, release some good cheats, and see if anybody important downloads one.

Government officials and security researchers play videogames too, after all… sure, we’d hope they’d have good computer self defense. But it is a fishing expedition and all that.
by grimcompanion | 2025-05-05 15:19:27+00:00
I absolutely don't endorse it. I just find it counterproductive to say things like "malice is the point".

I do have trouble finding good faith arguments in favor of this policy. It is cruel. But the people who decided to implement it aren't "other". They're humans who think they're good people (aside from a small minority of people who really don't care) and much as we'd like to think so we're not that different than them. If we can understand their justification, that's a step toward actually convincing them there is another way. And yes, I have changed many people's viewpoints with this level of patience, not everyone is too stupid/mean/insult of your choice to change their minds.
by vishnugupta | 2025-05-05 15:20:15+00:00
I was somewhat downvoted for saying something similar recently here [1].

Four year degree is a very expensive investment in the current environment. We should push younger people to face the real world as soon as possible. Apprenticeship is indeed a great way to achieve that IMO. As a great side effect the young people won’t have to start out their careers saddled with huge debt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768903
by belter | 2025-05-05 15:20:28+00:00
S3 buckets were never public by default. From the link you posted:

"...Amazon S3 buckets are and always have been private by default. Only the bucket owner can access the bucket or choose to grant access to other users..."

The feature and announcement you linked was about making active an additional safety feature that would block them becoming public. Even if you intentionally ( or accidentally ) configured them with public access.

The well known accidents in the past, of Facebook or the Pentagon having private data in public S3 buckets, I can only attribute to the modern practices of self-paced learning, skipping videos on Udemy courses or deciding formal training is no longer necessary because I can Google it...
by geoka9 | 2025-05-05 15:20:28+00:00
> "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession" was made in 1973 on a budget that was modest even by Soviet standards. It looks like a cheap TV movie

To be fair, it looks just like any other Soviet movie from that era ("The Diamond Arm", "Afonya", "Shurik's Adventures", etc.), with the exception of the few that were considered "mega projects' by the government ("War and Peace").
by kop316 | 2025-05-05 15:20:30+00:00
The same author discusses something similar here:

https://acoup.blog/2020/05/01/collections-the-battle-of-helm...

In discussing why in LOTR Saruman's battle campaign is terrible:

"Saruman is an builder, engineer, plotter and tinkerer. Given his personality, he strikes me as exactly the sort of very intelligent person whose assumes that their mastery of one field (effectively science-and-engineering, along with magic-and-persuasion, in this case) makes them equally able to perform in other, completely unrelated fields (a mistake common to very many very smart people, but – it seems to me, though this may be only because I work in the humanities – peculiarly common to those moving from the STEM fields to more humanistic ones, as Saruman is here). I immediately feel I understand Saruman sense of “I am very smart and these idiots in Rohan can command armies, so how hard can it be?” And so I love that this overconfidence leads him to man-handle his army into a series of quite frankly rookie mistakes. After all, the core of his character arc is that Saruman was never so wise or clever as he thought himself to be."
by veggieroll | 2025-05-05 15:20:51+00:00
Yes!! This is my preferred way to enable network printing and scanning. I've done this for about 5 years.

I've always hated having printers on my network, because vendor software is absolutely terrible. Completely insecure and open to who-knows-what through automatic updates.

I use a raspberry Pi and it works great even for non-technical family members. Printing from your phone is also really nice.

The functionality is about the same as the vendor printers. But the peace of mind is amazing. 100% assurance that there's nothing weird going on, it's secure, and there's no account and stupid cloud.
by ekidd | 2025-05-05 15:21:40+00:00
> If the former ever gets tested in court, it's the end of the road. All major AI companies have trained on copyrighted work, one way or another.

I can absolutely guarantee you that neither DeepSeek nor Alibaba's highly talented Qwen group will care even a little bit, in the long run. Not if there's value to be had in AI. (And I can tell you down to the dollar what LLMs can save in certain business use cases.)

If the US decides to unilaterally shut down LLMs, that just means that the rest of the world will route around us. Whether this is good or bad is another question.
by __mharrison__ | 2025-05-05 15:21:43+00:00
I find today much easier to contribute to (in the open source sense) than latex. Go to the GitHub and interact with the developers. Who happen to be very responsive.

I used latex for 20+ years and don't know how to file a bug for latex. Do I do it for xelatex, latex? Where? How do I update things? Download 4 gigs? Where's to documentation? Where's a book that explains how to contribute to latex? These are some of the issues I've dealt with and am happy to never have to again.
by alexvitkov | 2025-05-05 15:21:47+00:00
Watching a guy type at 30 WPM in a chatbox reminds me of those old YouTube tutorials where some dude is typing into into a notepad window, and showing you how to make a shortcut to "shutdown -s -t 0" on your school computer and give it the Internet Explorer icon. It's only missing Linkin Park blasting in the background.

If you're debugging from a crash dump you probably have a large, real world program, that actual people have reviewed, deemed correct and released in the wild.

Current LLMs can't produce a sane program over 500 lines, the idea that they can understand a correct looking program several orders of magnitude larger, well enough to diagnose and fix a subtle issue that the people who wrote the it missed, is absurd.
by zzzeek | 2025-05-05 15:22:32+00:00
I found the easter egg in Adventure on my own, however, this was using the method of turning the 2600 power switch on and off really fast which caused the game to boot into a semi broken mode where one of those thin vertical black lines would be moved over, such that you could go under it. that's how I got into the room. I thought if I kept experimenting like this I'd find the source code for the game, but that didn't happen. learned about the dot some years later.
by cesarb | 2025-05-05 15:23:07+00:00
> The cause is the frequency drop that was not compensated by the inertia of rotating turbines due to increasing use of photovoltaics.

But what caused the frequency drop? Large-scale grids are designed and operated in such a manner that any single fault, even one which causes a frequency drop (like a generator or a power line getting disconnected), will not cause a blackout. Which means: if there isn't enough inertia to compensate the frequency drop caused by a single fault anywhere in the grid, the system operator will either order photovoltaics and wind turbines to reduce their generation to a safer level, or order traditional rotating generators to operate as synchronous condensers (which adds inertia without adding generation).

Which means that either there was a double fault (two faults close enough in time that there wasn't enough time to reconfigure the system to a safer state before the second fault), or that the modeling of how the photovoltaics and wind turbines would react to a single fault was incorrect (for instance, expecting them to stay connected for longer on that level of frequency drop). My personal guess is that we're going to see a repeat of what happened here in Brazil in 2023, as I explained in another comment on an earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821801), where a single fault was enough to destabilize the system because the inverters in wind and solar power plants disconnected earlier than expected.
by i_like_pie1 | 2025-05-05 15:23:09+00:00
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by reverendsteveii | 2025-05-05 15:23:37+00:00
>A few minutes earlier, I’d taken out my camera and checked my light meter. Good, the room was bright enough. I could shoot at one-one-hundred-twenty-fifth of a second. Not much blur. I looked around for the proper angle from which to photograph the birth. Unfortunately, the doctors and nurses, who were moving quickly, even urgently, kept getting in my way. I moved here and there. What if a nurse blocked my view? I couldn’t say “Move,” but I wanted to. My frustration mounted. Nobody paid any attention to me. Then, looking through the viewfinder—there, within the rectangle of a potential photograph—I saw my wife’s face contract in pain. Multiple emotions flooded through me, but the one I identified first was the photographer’s “Yes!,” and I immediately pressed the shutter. Then, a minute later, when the doctor held a wriggling infant in the air, I pressed it again.

>Over the next few days, I thought about my son’s birth. I was in the room when it happened, but was I really there, or had I been hiding behind my camera?

Thing is, the photo taking experience can be as involved as all of that or it can be as simple as taking my phone out of my pocket, double tapping the power button, pointing it at the thing and hitting another button. All over and done with in a few seconds, I get to participate in the moment overall but I also get my little totem that will help me relive memories of the moment later. I think that the author is in a personal backlash because of this disconnection with a moment they believed to be of profound importance, but I think this isn't the camera's fault. In talking about how the birth of your child can be a moment of life or death, a tipping point between extraordinary joy and unrecoverable sorrow, the author reveals what I think is the true issue behind their mildly obsessive photo-taking: control. They can't make the baby come sooner. They can't guarantee the baby or the mother will survive the birth unscathed. But what they can do is make sure the lighting is right, the shutter speed is dialed in, the right lens is used, the right framing and blocking is applied and the right moment picked. All things that they can control, but that necessarily take them out of the situation (because the situation is uncontrollable, so you must exit it in order to gain any sort of power).

I think the author was using their camera to compensate for their anxiety and is now using the idea of intentionally not carrying a camera to compensate for the sense of loss they felt after trying to distract themselves from the anxiety of the moment and ending up distracting themselves from the entire moment.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-05-05 15:23:53+00:00
Why does it have to be verbatim? Seriously, this I don't understand.

If I produce a terrible shakycam recording of a film while sitting in a movie theater, it's not a verbatim copy, nor is it even necessarily representative of the original work -- muddied audio, audience sounds, cropped screen, backs of heads -- and yet it would be considered copyright infringement?

How many times does one need to compress the JPEG before it's fair use? I'm legitimately curious what the test is here.
by woodruffw | 2025-05-05 15:24:13+00:00
I would absolutely put "Israel taps the National Security Advisor's phone" in a different category of risk to the two country's relationship than previous activities. This, again, isn't a normative argument.

(A piece of context that's often missing from - typically charged - discussions about US/Israel relationships is the degree of dependence between the two, and how that's varied over the years. Israel's defense policies have historically been informed by a desire to be fully self-sufficient during wartime, i.e. not require active support from countries like the U.S. That policy has been deprioritized over the last 20-30 years, to the point where the US is now a significant active defense provider for Israel, rather than just an arms supplier. This is a dependency relationship that's new to the ongoing conflict, and should color any analysis of Israel's willingness to do things that would threaten its relationship with the U.S.)
by wtallis | 2025-05-05 15:24:17+00:00
Only to the same extent that any other co-processor add-in card can do stuff that's not observable by the CPU. Your CPU's RAM is managed by the CPU's memory controller hardware, and that memory controller does not give software the ability to issue individual DRAM commands like precharge. This research uses a memory controller implemented on a FPGA, talking to its own pool of RAM.
by llm_nerd | 2025-05-05 15:24:17+00:00
My rich country that is often accused of "socialism" (Canada) has no real lunch program at any school level. Kids pack and bring their own lunch, though a lot of high schools have a bespoke cafeteria where you can buy some fries or a burger, it operates more like a restaurant than a meal plan, and elementary/middle schools don't have kitchens at all.

With four kids I've made a lot of lunches over the years.

More recently schools have started "nutrition club" kind of things for kids that fall through the cracks, but it is mostly just things like nutrigrain bars or apples.

So it kind of varies.

I don't want any child to go hungry, but it is unfortunate that school meal programs usually seem to involve prison-style terrible food. I did see a program on Italian lunch programs and that stuff was just amazing.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-05 15:24:20+00:00
The problem goes way back before modern online platforms and is outlined well by Habermas in 1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_crisis

He looked for solutions in his later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...

which seem dangerously naive in the current day of online platforms. See also the concepts of "input legitimacy" vs "output legitimacy"

https://macleans.ca/general/two-concepts-of-legitimacy/

the critical discussion in the Democratic Party is around "deliverism" and the alternate ideas that it has to get some successes and get things right to build legitimacy vs the view that things just happen to us and we can't count on things going right so why try?
by foota | 2025-05-05 15:24:23+00:00
I don't think this is a reasonable argument. I don't think copyright is actually defined in that sense, but is perhaps more focused on consuming the content. Is an http proxy making a copy of something? What about computing an md5 of it as it's streamed through the proxy? Or maybe counting the words in the thing being served in order to track stats? I'd argue none of these fall under copyright, but each is an incremental step towards what it means to train a model.
by alwa | 2025-05-05 15:25:03+00:00
A former senior Bush administration official (writing under a pseudonym) attempts to survey the social and political side-effects of algorithmic polarization and the tech business cycle.

Arrives at a similar call for deliberate moderation and communities of human-scale judgment as have familiar observers like Jon Haidt, Arthur C Brooks, and the “small web” crowd. Probably nothing new to most of the folks here, but I appreciated the broad view of the trenches we labor in from the perspective of a political person.

> Every platform eventually follows the same arc: nobility gives way to monetization, and monetization gives way to enshittification. But the true cost of enshittification isn’t just a worse internet experience. It’s a worse society.
by Factory_Reset | 2025-05-05 15:25:29+00:00
The theory that it was a sniper lingered for almost 10 months.

Investigations into the catastrophic unscheduled disassembly were looking into internal failures as early as 1 week after the incident.

The 50cal used to shoot the tank was indeed fun and cool, everyone gathered around to watch the explosion.

After 10 months of investigation and destructive testing, the source of the explosion was discovered.

The trial and error necessary to find the cause led to an incredbly McGuyvered testing process/device.

Eventually this led to Space-X developing and building a new in-company supply chain for 1 specific part of the rocket that had been previously outsourced.

To my knowledge Gen 2 and Gen 3 of this part have never failed but I haven't been looking that closely till Starship trials started.