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by flats | 2025-05-12 14:24:41+00:00
I don’t believe this is true? I’m pretty sure that you’re prohibited from making money from that fan fiction, not from writing it at all. So I don’t understand the claim that copyright “massively stifles” creativity. There are of course examples of people not being able to make money on specific “ideas” because of copyright laws, but that doesn’t seem to me to be “massively stifling” creativity itself, especially given that it also protects and supports many people generating these ideas. And if we got rid of copyright law, wouldn’t we be in that exact place, where people wouldn’t be allowed to make money off of creative endeavors?

I mean, owning an idea is kinda gross, I agree. I also personally think that owning land is kinda gross. But we live in a capitalist society right now. If we allow AI companies to train LLMs on copyrighted works without paying for that access, we are choosing to reward these companies instead of the humans who created the data upon which these companies are utterly reliant for said LLMs. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and all the other tech CEOs will benefit in place of all of the artists I love and admire.

That, to me, sucks.
by motohagiography | 2025-05-12 14:24:55+00:00
Assume the average FTE costs $250k all in, so the 100 scientist salary bill is ~$25M.

If the fund charges investors 2% of AUM and 20% of profits, factoring in the actual fund costs, hypothetically I'd estimate you'd need an AUM of 2.5B-5B to fund the scientists just on half the management fees.

Practically, you wouldn't do it on mgmt fees and you could do it much smaller, distributed differently, and grow/shrink the research division using fund profits instead of management fees. Using fund money to invest in a seed venture arm for the spinoff startups would just be another investment theme.

the main question would be, if you're making money on the investment side, what do you need the researchers for, and does that research mission (and their expenses) conflict with being a fiduciary. speculatively you'd need to have the fund as a separate entity owned by a partnership who took profits and invested in the research side separately.

at that point, you're back to the original basic problem, where instead of using the profits of a single private fund to support a research team, just make it a bluesky company of researchers who also generate investment strategies, and use venture funding.

the essential pattern is: make a large low-risk financial economic engine to fuel a small high risk one. if a VC firm put 80% of their LP's money in an index fund and just did a bunch of small seed investments, the effect could be similar. I'm not an expert in this, but nobody has invented another bell labs since, so the field seems open to new ideas and it's fun to think about.
by JohnAtQNX | 2025-05-12 14:25:10+00:00
Have you noticed the base level knowledge change? I talked with a second year CS student a while back who didn't know how to ping another host, and it really made me wonder if new students are choosing CS because it seems cool (versus _back in my day_ when we were all geeks who took CS because we lived and breathed it all day in life anyway).
by janwilmake | 2025-05-12 14:25:26+00:00
Here's the prerelease of DORM 1@next. I needed cheap performant multi-tenant databases on cloudflare, and the experience on Durable Objects was very painful.

This is my attempt at solving that DX.

Now it's slowly becoming a OSS Turso Alternative, I think. What does it not have yet? Curious for your feedback.
by iCeGaming | 2025-05-12 14:25:53+00:00
I built a browser-based multiplayer arena game inspired by the Warlocks map from Warcraft 3.

No install — just open the link to play: https://warlockjs.pages.dev

Left-click = shoot fireball, Right-click = move. Last one standing wins.

It’s fully server-authoritative: fireball hits, knockback, cooldowns, and win logic all come from the server.

If no one's online, just open the game in two browser tabs to simulate a duel.

Feedback welcome, especially on:

Responsiveness

Input lag

Movement feel

Region you're playing from
by lukan | 2025-05-12 14:25:58+00:00
Just some lines more? I am sure modern LLMs can print out tons of different versions for your specific usecase and it will be way less than 2.5 MB.

HTML and JS is compact. The browser is not. But often installed already, so my PWA is very small as a result, but behaves quite native.

(But if you mean, that Lazarus can do that easily with a GUI, that would still be cool. Can it?)
by keyringlight | 2025-05-12 14:26:19+00:00
How much of that is down to browser bare-bones defaults before the page defines its own styles, IIRC bare HTML doesn't define what the client must do because at that level it's not defining a presentation.

I could see a browser making a change to have their defaults for an undefined style to something else, other colors and fonts or closer to reader mode, with an options toggle or flag to restore old behavior. I doubt many browsers would bother as unstyled pages are so rare for most of the web.
by xphos | 2025-05-12 14:26:36+00:00
I recommend reading the federalist papers they going your own way on everything is something that is treated with distain. Precisely because number of barriers that would develop between 13 or in our case 50 different states is innumerable imagine you had to have 50 TSAs, and 50 different FAAs, FCCs, FDAs, USDAs instead of 1 each. The solution you seek to poor regulation is not no regulation but Better Regulation (which includes burning some of the bad ones but also includes having replacements)

I think the unpopular but true opinion is that the government is surprising efficient and good at a lot of things. They are not 100% efficient but neither are companies and the private sector at large. There is certainly negations and discussions on where funding should come from but a large part of government success in the USA is that the federal government assumes state debts and gives us the worlds best credit line. This is something that happened 20-30 years after the nation was formed. We abandoned the article's of confederation because they were such a cluster fuck and a horrible way to administer things. The Federalist paper enumerate several huge problems with the state's go it alone approach naming states on the interior basically wouldn't have to fund any military since they could never actually be attacked and it would be unfair to those that would have to, too the point they likely would just not do it and in a time of peril we'd be screwed. But the are several other reasons to not reinvent everything 13 or 50 times.

Also your analogies need work. The idea that the government under previous admin were beating you up at the bus stop with onerous regulation is ironic considering the current admin is literally beating and deporting people at bus stops. I'd argue there is no regulation like the end of a boot.

But also the remedy is childish too, uber is built atop a federal system that established wildly unprofitable networks because they benefit society in non monetary ways. And now that those widely profitable networks exist you can uber instead of taking the bus. But Uber would not exist today if the internet infrastructure took 2-3 longer to get standard convergence because there was no federal body to say we are building the network this way because we are paying for it.

I hope I am no to dismissive either but rather I am highlighting that the idea the states don't do anything isn't really accurate. Because states host all of those federal run agencies. There people manage them the river service isn't run in Hawaii or anyone state but distributed to states who have linked interest in rivers local to them. Its organized by the federal government but run precisely by the people who care and live in those regions.
by throw738384 | 2025-05-12 14:27:15+00:00
Donations are going to Organic Maps company. They have 10+ years of history. Most likely to pay for map server traffic.

Non-profit does not guarantee transparency, look at Mozilla as an example.

This fork is just a bunch of anonymous dudes on internet, who setup PayPal and replaced donate button. Until they do map data hosting, there is not much credibility!

Edit: there are 3th party mirrors for manual download, so I guess they can use those.
by aurareturn | 2025-05-12 14:27:28+00:00
Not sure if all crypto is a scam necessarily, but sure that world is chock full of scammers trying to out-scam each other.

It's all scams. Even if the coin itself is not a total scam, the exchanges do some of the most shady things you can imagine. They'll actively trade against their customers. They'll do insider trading, rugpull their customers, gets "hacked" by an insider and steal all your coins, etc.

Even BTC and ETH are shady. ETH should have been classified as security. BTC is an environmental disaster and centralized by a few large miners.
by baggy_trough | 2025-05-12 14:27:45+00:00
I've been happy with some of the great improvements to Ruby in the past year. But this one really leaves me scratching my head. It seems like a lot of complexity for what I perceive as a negative value feature. I'm concerned about damage to the gem ecosystem by encouraging gems to bundle version locked dependencies. The last thing I want is a gem deciding to have multiple versions of other gems in my app.
by iteria | 2025-05-12 14:27:47+00:00
I'm frome trade family and I've seen the opposite. The ones who actually stay in the trade and don't step onto management of some sort are broken down in old age. It looks fine at 40, but by 50 you see the impact and by 60 the difference is alarming. Of course you maintain physical fitness by virtue of what they do, but the amount of injuries they acclimate is also worth considering, especially since an office worker can just get a better chair and run on occasion to mitigate risk. Not so for trade jobs. You normally must stop doing the trade and manage those who do it to maintain your health.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-12 14:27:49+00:00
I was assured on another thread that industry can pick up all the slack, and in fact now that Academica is finally being pushed aside, industry research will take off because they will no longer be worried about the public funding research and therefore will take on the mantle themselves to do basic research.

I hope they are right but my feeling is that this will just leave a big hole that no one wants to fill because it's too not profitable. I guess we will see.
by Swizec | 2025-05-12 14:27:49+00:00
> why the menu is tied to the view at all, and not deriving its state from the user session

Yes! But it turns out in some of these frameworks “the user session” is not a magic global, your view has to pass it into the template.

And even if it was a global, you are super limited in how much derived data/queries you can compute off of it. Because you’re not using a full-powered language – instead it’s jinja, mustache, or similar.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-05-12 14:29:40+00:00
i'm not sure i agree. maybe if you're "vibe-coding", but not if you're using AI as an assistant. a good abstraction makes it hard to write bugs, so telling AI to use a certain library (which i know to be high quality) is a good way to constrain the types of bugs i have to look for when reviewing the code.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-05-12 14:29:46+00:00
Are there any off-the-shelf hobbyist boards that expose QSPI CSn (pin 75 on the RP2350B?) and QPI_SD1-3 signals to a header or pin? Doesn't seem like the official Pico 2 or the Adafruit or Pimoroni versions of the Pico 2 expose access to these signals without modifying the board, which most people won't be able to do.
Ask HN: Do You Prepare for Job Interviews? If So, How?
by dovab | 2025-05-12 14:30:00+00:00
Curious how folks here approach job interview prep.

Do you do mock interviews? Review system design questions? Study company-specific question banks? Just wing it?

Whether you're actively job hunting or just staying sharp. I'd love to hear your approach.

What works best for you?
by jraph | 2025-05-12 14:30:06+00:00
They seem to have some sort of experimental support for GTFS [1], and one important part of Transitous is being a GTFS aggregator, so maybe they are not too far away from being able to use that part of Transitous.

Although it'd probably be good to be able to query Transitous itself when online.

[1] https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/...
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-12 14:30:18+00:00
That is a very deep truth that you're stating, and also very hard for many people to learn. I've tried asking these kind of people if they believe that Martin Luther or Vladimir Lenin is going to reward them after death for their faithfulness, but the thing most closely to an explanation that I've gotten is that they can throw it into the faces of the townspeople that they worked hard while the others didn't.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-12 14:30:29+00:00
At this point, the US court system is the only thing keeping its rules-based order intact.

Consequently, you see a lot of 'executive / legislative branch does illegal thing' news items, that are then often emergency stayed by the courts while legal cases work out.

For the good of the country, one or both branches of the legislative need to be taken by the opposition in the 2026 midterms.
by pfdietz | 2025-05-12 14:30:45+00:00
> "just" an engineering problem

This is a major fallacy that makes people think DT fusion is more promising than it actually is.

Engineering problems are perfectly capable of killing a technology. After all, fission after 1942 was "just an engineering problem". And DT fusion faces very serious engineering problems.

I include cost issues as engineering problems, as engineering cannot be divorced from economic considerations. Engineering involves cost optimization.
by bgro | 2025-05-12 14:31:33+00:00
What if instead of just using html, instead we use 20 JavaScript frameworks that talk to an electron server to call a series of microservices to determine which sql lite docker instance to call.

Then, sql lite returns a connection string to aws to pull XML containers of html that are converted to JSON and sent back to the front end to convert to html and render the page.

Maybe we can use lazy loading and some sliding panels on the page that slide in with fully rendered bmp images that are 20MB each despite only appearing in a 16x16 icon.

Oh darn this is just the standard webdev JavaScript bro tech flow? Guess I need to keep memorizing leetcode until I get my next genius JavaScript main idea to add another layer to this.
by vessenes | 2025-05-12 14:31:52+00:00
Thank you - a voice of sanity on this important topic.

I understand people who create IP of any sort being upset that software might be able to recreate their IP or stuff adjacent to it without permission. It could be upsetting. But I don't understand how people jump to "Copyright Violation" for the fact of reading. Or even downloading in bulk. The Copyright controls, and has always controlled, creation and distribution of a work. In the nature even of the notice is embedded the concept that the work will be read.

Reading and summarizing have only ever been controlled in western countries via State's secrets type acts, or alternately, non-disclosure agreements between parties. It's just way, way past reality to claim that we have existing laws to cover AI training ingesting information. Not only do we not, such rules would seem insane if you substitute the word human for "AI" in most of these conversations.

"People should not be allowed to read the book I distributed online if I don't want them to."

"People should not be allowed to write Harry Potter fanfic in my writing style."

"People should not be allowed to get formal art training that involves going to museums and painting copies of famous paintings."

We just will not get to a sensible societal place if the dialogue around these issues has such a low bar for understanding the mechanics, the societal tradeoffs we've made so far, and is able to discuss where we might want to go, and what would be best.
by ajross | 2025-05-12 14:32:05+00:00
No, I'm making the observation that corporations do fund or perform basic research; and the straightforward inference that removing the incentive for them to do so is bad.

Is that wrong? Possibly. But if you're hanging your argument on the idea that the transistor would have been invented without Bell Labs (or BSD without AT&T's open research, which was my example), I think it's on you to provide the evidence.
by smurthy123 | 2025-05-12 14:32:13+00:00
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by econ | 2025-05-12 14:32:20+00:00
That was a wonderful read.

The puzzle should be considered exciting. If I've learned one thing in life it is that it is easy to do better than a thousand people convinced it can't be done. Illusions of grandeur are useful.

As the article points out, there is a lack of a long term plan. If there is such a thing (however idiotic) you can promise specific taxes and regulations for things that get in the way and specific tax breaks and subsidies for projects complimenting it. It has to be clear and specific so that one can bank on it. NIMBY is fine, you get a reasonable bill for it.
by ratorx | 2025-05-12 14:32:22+00:00
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Taken to the logical extreme, everything above pure machine code is “abstraction”, but I don’t expect AIs to produce good machine code any time soon.

Even if you consider trainability (amount of code etc), Python is a higher abstraction than C and I don’t see that going away either.

A more nuanced view is that libraries that exist to reduce boilerplate will likely see less use, whereas libraries that exist to simplify a problem domain or similar (automatic memory management language, crypto libraries, parallelisation abstractions) will stay, at least whilst we are relying on humans to review AI generated code.
by ksymph | 2025-05-12 14:33:05+00:00
Yeah, if the point they're making is that you can make modern websites with just HTML, the website looking as it does really undermines that. Show off some flair if you want to convince me! I think the site this one is based off [0] argues for simplicity in a much less muddled way.

[0] https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-05-12 14:33:13+00:00
>Six of the seven companies use algorithms with opaque rules to assign jobs and determine wages, meaning that workers do not know how much they will be paid until after completing the job.

This seems like the low hanging fruit that should be resolved immediately.

Though Uber does show how much someone will make before taking a ride, I'm not sure how one would legislate forcing a user to only accept a ride if it's profitable for them after taking gas+depreciation of the vehicle into account. And if someone wants to trade life of the vehicle for income now (pretty much no one takes their car to it's manufactured limit, it's usually age that kills it), shouldn't we allow that?
by ModernMech | 2025-05-12 14:33:18+00:00
> As others have pointed out, there was no room in the current model for the curiously ambitious scientists, the ones responsible for ground-breaking discoveries.

Who explained this to you? In this thread (I haven't read it all yet)? There's a lot of money in academia for curiously ambitious people just starting their careers so it's an odd thing to say.

And you say "careerist" as if people looking to start a career in research are somehow bad?

I think maybe you have to expand this comment because it's throwing out a lot of negativity without much substance to back it up.
by bdcravens | 2025-05-12 14:33:20+00:00
I have no idea if this is satire, or if you're a younger developer who "found" the techniques we ran away from screaming 20 years ago.

<table border="0" width="720" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"> <td height="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#575677"> <img src="spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0"> </td>

I feel like CSS is unfairly coupled to JS frameworks. It may be reasonable to say that CSS 3 is unnecessarily complex, but clean "semantic" HTML and a basic presentational style sheet is an amazing combination that isn't related to the ball of mud that modern development has become.
by Arnt | 2025-05-12 14:33:25+00:00
Reminds me of the network a friend described. After a couple of mergers and sales, they had so much NAT that one particular cron job tab used an internal server-to-server connection that passed through five NAT instances.

And this tailscale product seems to say "this product makes that kind of situation less awful" which I'm sure is somehow good but I can't help thinking that "less awful" is going to mean "still awful" for most deployments.
by Zambyte | 2025-05-12 14:33:36+00:00
> If an artist produces a work they should have the rights to that work.

That would indeed be nice, but as the article says, that's usually not the case. The rights holder and the author are almost never the same entity in commercial artistic endeavors. I know I'm not the rights holder for my erroneously-considered-art work (software).

> If I self-publish a novel and then penguin decides that novel is really good and they want to publish it, without copyright they'd just do that, totally swamping me with their clout and punishing my ever putting the work out. That's a bad thing.

Why? You created influential art and its influence was spread. Is that not the point of (good) art?
by pfdietz | 2025-05-12 14:33:39+00:00
Ordinary fusion doesn't overcome the Coulomb barrier either. In a purely classical sense, fusion wouldn't happen, since the thermal energies are well below the height of the Coulomb barrier.

What happens is that thermal energies get high enough that the nuclei get close enough to have a significant rate of tunneling through the barrier. It's a quantum mechanical effect.

There is a nonzero rate of tunneling through the barrier even at room temperature -- just extremely low, far lower than putative cold fusion claims.