MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
We give data to train AI models and get nothing in return
by whooocareslol | 2025-05-18 15:16:27+00:00
I’m less worried about being replaced by AI and more frustrated that companies are stealing our data to train AI models they profit from with potential to make us less valuable over time.

Whether you’re:

- A coder writing clean, reusable functions or internal tooling,

- A UGC creator making tutorials or product demos,

- A data labeller doing precise annotations...

…all of that labor creates intellectual property that ends up training AI models.

But here’s the problem: we don’t own any of it, even though it wouldn’t exist without us.

They take our data—by hook or by crook—train a model, and extract massive value from it, while paying us nothing or, at best, a small one-time fee.

Yes, companies do play a valuable role. But they are using our work to replace us or devalue our work. So we have every right to ask for more.

If you really think about it, data mining is much like mineral mining — just as companies extract valuable resources like gold or diamonds from the earth, often exploiting labor and poorly governed regions, data mining extracts value from a poorly managed pool of people and their data, frequently without their full knowledge or consent regarding how it will be used.

I think now is the right time to build fairer systems around data for everyone—royalties? data unions? open ownership of internal contributions within companies?

This business model isn't new—some data sourcing and collection companies charge not only a one-time fee but also a usage-based fee each time the data is used.

Doing this is not only necessary to make the data supply chain fair, but also to improve AI. We all know that AI performance scales with compute, and the best way to leverage increasing compute is by applying it to new data. So, if we want AI to continue improving, we need a proper data supply chain. And if we want high-quality data for more complex tasks, we must ensure that everyone is paid fairly.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
by akamaka | 2025-05-18 15:16:31+00:00
This sounds a lot like:

> Reason No. 3: We only want to hang out like old times

I see this happen with many of my friends who have kids. They “want to stay connected to who they were before”, as you put it, and treat it like purely a scheduling problem that they don’t have enough time to do that.

As the friend, it’s very uncomfortable be witness to this. When I get invited over, they’ll arrange to put on a movie so the kids are occupied for a couple of hours and they can be their old selves, and their new family life is hidden away as if it’s some secret that I’m not invited to participate in.
by beng-nl | 2025-05-18 15:17:14+00:00
This is sad. I met him. Cryptome had an electric effect on me the first time I came across it - it was a leaked (?) gsm A3A8 authentication + session key generation algorithm document. I was fiercely interested in that at the time. I then started following cryptome near-religiously and one time, when I happened to be in NYC, arranged in in-person-meet with John Young so I could buy some copies of his cd archive, signed. I gave one or two away to friends. He joked that his hat was “hiding his lobotomy scars” (I think). Was short but special real life meeting.
by runarberg | 2025-05-18 15:17:19+00:00
I‘m not super well versed in the literature but I know this has been researched, and—unless you are being hyperbolic—it completely fails the sniff test.

As OP points out, SRS is optimized for memory retention. You will almost certainly encounter many more words watching a two hour long video, but you certainly won‘t retain nearly as many words as half an hour of SRS.

Actually you can combine the two. Use the two hour long video to encounter new vocabulary in context, put the new vocabulary in your Anki deck, and review it with optimized SRS. You get the best of both worlds. As a bonus you often remember the source which will help you recall... This is actually common enough pattern that it has a name: Vocabulary mining.
by microtonal | 2025-05-18 15:17:48+00:00
This might sound far fetched but my friends in the UK police deal with pedestrians who throw themselves in front of slow moving vehicles in an attempt to get a damages claim.

Interesting. I haven't really heard of such issues here much. How it works here:

- The car is responsible: the car driver has to pay 100% of the damage.

- The cyclist or pedestrian is responsible: the car driver has to pay at least 50% of the damage.

- For kids up till 14, the car driver is always 100% responsible for the damage.

I guess this helps, because for the cyclist there is always a risk of being partially responsible if you intentionally cycle into a car. At the same time, since the car driver is always responsible for damages (50% or up, depending on the blame), they are more careful by default.

IANAL, but: https://www.brugmanletselschadeadvocaten.nl/fietsongeluk/#:~...
by bossyTeacher | 2025-05-18 15:17:50+00:00
isn't 'real friendship' a case of no true scotsman? you see friendship as a together no matter what link.

An alternative view: a friendship is a relationship where you help each other grow as people socially and emotionally. A mutual effort.

Having kids in the western world is a choice not something that happens to you out of your control. I take some issue in the way you describe your "friendship" as it seemed to revolve around your needs imo. It's fine if your friends were fine with that, but they shouldn't be described as "bad friends" just because they chose not to bend their limited time around a situation that you fully chose to be in. Not wanting to be around kids does not make it a "not real friendship". You just have incompatible values and there is nothing wrong with that.

If you choose to make yourself less available by having kids, aren't you the not 'real' friend based on your view? They gave up some of their limited youthhood time away from activities suitable for them just to get stuck in a basement. For you. You got all the benefits of raising a kid plus having friends bending to your schedule. But you didn't seem to have returned the gesture. And if you did, you didn't mention it.

Imagine if one of your friends was working crazy hard on becoming a popular musician, paid tons of money to enter a 10 year education program path and was practising all the time, and either they don't come to your social events, if they do they come with their instrument and make you listen to it or you have to come to their recitals to be able to interact with them. They could argue that you are a bad friend for choosing to see them very little or not all, but you could argue back that they made a decision to invest most of their time into something other than your friendship and their time investments are a reflection of their value rankings.

It's not too dissimilar to single parents in the dating market complaining of people going away when the find out they got a kid or people interested in dating but not in playing a parental role.

You put a price on the friendship when you chose to make yourself less available, you can't complain when people leave you if they wish to be with someone who values their friendship more than you do (ie investing more of their limited time in seeing you in ways that don't revolve around your needs solely).
by kazinator | 2025-05-18 15:18:01+00:00
systemS? There is only one program out there that is viable: AnkiDroid.

Anki runs on desktop: you have to be chained to a desk rather than taking advantage of idle moments when you are on-the-go. Even if you have it on a laptop, you still need a place to sit; SRS on mobile can be used anywhere, like standing-room-only public transit.

The AnkiMobile companion app for iOS is a paid app that is somehow chained to the desktop version, whereas AnkiDroid is a full-featured clone of Anki that you could use air gapped without ever syncing anything to or from another device. It has integrated management of decks and note creation/editing.

Every other SRS app out there is just playing very distant catch-up to Anki/AnkiDroid. They usually mention Anki in their pitch, trying desperately to explain why some very minor and very subjective negative point about Anki is worth switching to their massively inconvenient solution.
by brookst | 2025-05-18 15:18:26+00:00
Still the same thing. The argument then was that synths weren’t “real instruments” and that sequencers meant people weren’t “real musicians”.

AI relies on prompting. In the hands of a skilled artist it is just another tool. In the hands of an amateur hack, it is no different than giving a drum kit to a 4 year old.

The tool is not the art. It never was.
by alwillis | 2025-05-18 15:18:40+00:00
You can use Apple Configurator [1] to go beyond ScreenTime offers, including limiting which Wi-Fi networks can be connected to, restricting access to apps and the App Store. You can even remote wipe an iPhone remotely if necessary.

Works on iPads, Macs and Apple TVs too.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/intro...
by rsynnott | 2025-05-18 15:19:06+00:00
> Take the news for example. Last weeks it was tariffs. The entire world was talking about the same thing.

... I mean, that's because it's a global economic crisis. In the early 70s, the entire world was talking about the oil crisis, another induced economic shock. Late noughties? The Great Financial Crisis. That sort of thing is _always_ going to be news everywhere.
by kace91 | 2025-05-18 15:19:39+00:00
Something that bothers me in this kind of discussion is the implicit assumption of “if the relationship doesn’t survive this, it wasn’t true”.

I think it’s toxic to mix up long lasting with real.

I’ve had wonderful relationships with people that worked for a time in my life, and then it just didn’t make sense anymore (drifting interests, life phases, etc).

That is not to say that you shouldn’t put effort into your friendships, but sometimes trying to artificially keep something going can be just as bad as letting something go.
by rvnx | 2025-05-18 15:19:44+00:00
Programming was sometimes even easier in the past, this is actually one of the reason for BASIC to exist: "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".

On Amstrad CPC 464 / 6128, you just entered the interpreter, you could immediately interact with existing code and start playing around with it.

Today, it's more complex, because the Operating System developers deliver more complex APIs to fit the needs of the plethora of developers, and the level of abstraction, and responsibilities of each teams / components.

Though natural selection tends to favor the simpler / more friendly languages (Python / Javascript), and others like Haskell, Erlang, Lisp, etc... are just for people in museums who see beauty in complexity.

Some say:

Simples see beauty in complexity. Smarts see beauty in simplicity.
by kccqzy | 2025-05-18 15:20:18+00:00
From the user experience perspective, the Bay Area Clipper card might be the closest to these IC cards in Asia. It's also a stored value card. The official Clipper app allows you to transfer the card to be an NFC card on the phone and inspect the value on it, entirely offline. (Of course to support the use case of automatically adding value to the card when it's below the threshold necessarily requires the fare reader to be internet connected, but such an internet connection is not on the critical path.) From my Apple Watch there is even no need to press any button to activate (unlike Apple Pay EMV transactions): just hold the watch next to the reader and it works. They are weirder than other public transport payment systems like Chicago CTA or NYC MTA, and are also more wonderful.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-18 15:21:48+00:00
> I would have expected Zig

You can use Zig instead if it meets your needs, but last time I checked, the Zig ecosystem was lacking compared to Rust.

> or using Deno instead, if Rust as extension language

Deno? There was a thread the other day that Deno is dead. I wouldn't even compare Deno and Bun because Bun is just waaay better. Even before Bun already felt very polished and nice to use, and now it even has native postgres and s3 clients. And it doesn't try to sell you a KV database or some shit.
Ask HN: Setting up custom domain for email
by agent008t | 2025-05-18 15:22:46+00:00
Following up on earlier thread about what setup to use for main email account. Consensus appeared to be 'Get a custom domain (e.g. with Cloudflare) and use it with e.g. Fastmail'. The plan is to then make that email address the cornerstone of my online security, use it for password manager recovery etc.

The domain registrar and the email hosting then appear key to the whole security model – if they are compromised, all other accounts are.

So I'm trying to work out the details of how to go about it.

E.g. which email should I use with the registrar to buy the domain? Some throwaway one, which I then change to the new domain I am purchasing in a circular fashion once it is set up? Is that a good practice, or too risky for recovery should anything go wrong?

If I use a separate email address to buy the domain, then seems that email becomes crucial to the security of it all and then why even bother with paying for the domain and Fastmail etc. if I am relying on some pre-existing email account?

I'm probably way overthinking it, but since I'm working on this at all and the stakes are rather high I'd like to set things up properly, for decades.

The goal is to achieve reasonable security against: 1. Attacks that are not highly sophisticated or targeted 2. Getting arbitrarily locked out by Gmail etc., potentially then losing access to other important accounts 3. Me locking myself out by forgetting some secret

It seems surprisingly difficult to find a best practice guide for this scenario, how to set up a password manager with it, which recovery information/backups to keep offline etc. Information I find is either too vague or overly involved (after all I don't want to dedicate all my time to maintaining security, just want a reasonable setup). Any practical advice appreciated!
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-18 15:23:03+00:00
> I totally lost my teen to TikTok and deeply regret succumbing to their (and my wife's) pressure to give them an iPhone at 14 (they're 16 now). It's like hours upon hours of mindless scrolling, with occasional gaming sprinkled in.

We are struggling with this as well. Gave our son a phone for his 12th birthday (after putting it off for a couple of years) but with the agreement of no social media apps. We locked down the phone so he can't install any apps. However, YouTube doesn't require an app, so he can still do hours of mindless scrolling of YouTube shorts.

He has a chat group with his friends (Messenger) that works well, and does some gaming (Genshin Impact and similar), which is fine. But the mindless scrolling is what's most detrimental.

Apple has "Screen Time" controls but they're either useless or broken as they somehow reset on their own (anyone else have this problem)?

I have network controls on the wifi so it's blocked after a certain time, but haven't found a good way of controlling the time on specific apps or websites.

He keeps pushing for a TT account and we're adamant that he can have one. But it's relentless because "everyone has one".
by ednite | 2025-05-18 15:23:39+00:00
You make a great point, and I completely agree that deep friendships require mutual investment, and life doesn’t always make that easy. I feel fortunate to have held on to a few close friends, but I’ve also lost many connections that couldn’t survive the shifting priorities over time.

Your comment is aligned with one of my favorite books on relationships, which I’m sure many here are familiar with: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It’s shaped my mindset in many areas of life, especially when it comes to building and sustaining meaningful connections.

And you’re absolutely right—modern life can be brutal when it comes to creating space for those kinds of relationships. That’s something we don’t acknowledge nearly enough.
by cubefox | 2025-05-18 15:24:10+00:00
> If we step back, we realize that this scheduling system (called “SuperMemo-2”) is pretty arbitrary. Where does the rule of 1, 6, 2.5times correct + 1, reset back on failure come from? It turns out it was developed by a college student in 1987 based on his personal experiments. Can’t we do better?

Note that Anki uses (used) such an old algorithm because it derived it from an ancient open source version of SuperMemo, a software which started the spaced repetition trend. Anki just added a usable GUI instead of the convoluted mess that is SuperMemo. Newer versions of SuperMemo improved the algorithm, but they are no longer open source. I wonder how FSRS compares to current iterations of the SuperMemo algorithm.
by nine_k | 2025-05-18 15:24:12+00:00
Ligatures that give slightly stylized rendering to stuff like <!-- or even replace a >= with a ≥ in your source code view are much less prone to exploitation than a "ligature" that replaces a 18-letter sequence with the word "Google" in your browser's address bar. It's like comparing the hazardousness levels of a safety pin and of a chainsaw.
by david_allison | 2025-05-18 15:24:32+00:00
You can set up Anki to force you to type answers; use Basic (type in the answer) when creating cards.

20 second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxEqRe1Pp1w

It's possible to batch convert your cards to this format using Anki's "Card Templates" feature.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#checking-your...
by latentsea | 2025-05-18 15:24:52+00:00
I learned 17.5k words comprised of ~3k kanji in around 2 years at about an hour a day of review time. That's reviews + new cards, not including time immersing in order to find the daily quota of new vocab which itself was 2 to 3 hours of study.

So, by my calculations for just the Anki time alone it's about 17.5k words split across 730 hours, which comes out to about 23 words and hour or one word every 2.5 minutes.

I've seen a pretty wide variety of people do Anki, and I can say there's a distribution in length of time per card for basically the exact same types of cards among people. The slowest people average around 3x slower than the fastest.
by robch | 2025-05-18 15:24:57+00:00
I'm currently trying to use Windsurf at work since we have a license. The problem I have is that I find it's auto complete distracting from what I want to write. And when I do not know how to do a specific task, It will usually hallucinate an answer because it is not in it's training data. I mostly do staff level android tooling work which likely means it's not likely to be a common coding task.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-18 15:25:11+00:00
Sorry, but your landing page is really awful. I’m not allowed to learn about your app because I’m on a tablet? And I have to give you my e-mail address, even though I know nothing about your app so far?

Suggestion: Allow me to browse your site and learn about your application, and I’ll decide if it’s interesting enough for me to open it on my desktop later.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-18 15:25:54+00:00
> There would be little incentive for captains to take the unfavorable commissions. But the RN did have a very...

I suspect the RN was quite aware of the incentives facing captains, and could think a few moves ahead. And that captains understood their offers of commission weren't random - if you turned down a less-desirable one, you'd need friends in really high places for the RN to offer you anything better.
by justincarter | 2025-05-18 15:25:58+00:00
It's so odd to read a take like this. I agree with the problem but I do think there are ways to fix it, it's just going against the tide.

For music I intentionally listen to local independent radio and also somafm, where I'm not "picking" the exact music.

I read the NYTimes and the Economist and both of them do movie reviews and the Economist has good book reviews.
by lovestory | 2025-05-18 15:26:24+00:00
Well I can give you an output example. This was generated based on chapter from textbook about Vitamin (Vitamin D in this example)

"Which nutrient can be synthesized by the body using sunlight?","Vitamin D" "What is the primary role of vitamin D in calcium regulation?","Raises blood calcium by enhancing absorption, mobilizing bone stores, and reducing kidney excretion" "How does vitamin D affect bones?","Supports bone mineralization and integrity" "What form does vitamin D take before activation?","Inactive precursor synthesized in the skin or consumed in diet" "Which organs activate vitamin D?","Liver and kidneys" "What are signs of vitamin D deficiency in children?","Bowed legs and bone deformities (rickets)" "What is osteomalacia?","Soft, weak bones in adults due to vitamin D deficiency" "What disease is caused by long-term vitamin D deficiency in adults?","Osteoporosis" "How does vitamin D deficiency affect older people?","Increases risk of fractures and joint pain" "What is the toxic effect of too much vitamin D?","Calcification of soft tissues"

You get the idea. How would you rate it's usefulness is subjective but it gets the job done.
by jffhn | 2025-05-18 15:27:18+00:00
Domains are often not very deep, as a lot of people need to understand them.

I've seen smart people quickly figure things out and propose upgrades in a matter of weeks, on points lifelong experts overlooked, or were too lazy to dig.

Reminds me of a company that was looking for people good in both the domain and software, to bridge the experts/devs gap (which is often a bottleneck, information flow between brains being slow and unreliable). They found out that it was much easier to teach the domain to devs, than to teach software to domain experts, i.e. that software was the hard skill.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-05-18 15:28:00+00:00
> Consensus appeared to be 'Get a custom domain (e.g. with Cloudflare) and use it with e.g. Fastmail'.

Huh, that's literally what I do!

> E.g. which email should I use with the registrar to buy the domain?

Not saying you should do this, but I use a fastmail masked email address as my Cloudflare email address.

> use it for password manager recovery etc

The cool thing about fastmail is that it has an integration with 1Password where, if you need to register at a website, you can quickly generate a masked email (e.g. cool.boat1337@fastmail.com) via the 1Password extension at the same time you generate the password. It's reaally nice.
by cratermoon | 2025-05-18 15:28:28+00:00
The big platforms aren't geared for finding things, they're set up to keep you searching, staying on the platform/feed/scroll/whatever looking for your interests, feeding you things they think might catch your attention for a few seconds in between ads or as ads.

Even Google search stopped helping you find things and started pushing to keep looking https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/