MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon373839 | 2025-05-02 06:22:32+00:00
Are you using Ollama? If so, the issue may be Ollama's default context length: just 2,048 tokens. Ollama truncates the rest of the context silently, so "thinking" models cannot work with the default settings.

If you are using Ollama, try explicitly setting the `num_ctx` parameter in your request to something higher like 16k or 32k, and then see if you still encounter the looping. I haven't run into that behavior once with this model.
by bluelightning2k | 2025-05-02 06:22:42+00:00
Couple things:

First, perf you mention is from fundamentally CPU intensive workloads, not a sparse async environment like a typical server.

Second (far more important) the reason we do this is type safety. We don't want types to break at the handover or to maintain them twice. We eliminate a huge category of issues and mental overhead.

This maintainability and simplicity is worth more (to me at least) than perf.

As a bonus there's also directly shared utils, classes etc. which again can be reused across client/server but more importantly stay in sync.
by palata | 2025-05-02 06:22:43+00:00
> A hyperscaler clause such that any managed offering has to (1) be fully open source, (2) has to pay a fee, or (3) is prevented outright.

A copyleft licence (not necessarily GPL, there is also MPL and EUPL) from the beginning on would result in (1), no need for a new license.

But people "don't want strings attached" and are happier with permissive licences, and then they complain.
by manquer | 2025-05-02 06:22:51+00:00
* In a better car, serviced much better than the average professional vehicle.

The % matters because it is close enough excluding these factors, so we can not definitely say it currently better than humans yet, close but not conclusively so.

That is not a argument against them. It is a simple function of economics, i.e. as long as it better than Lyft/Uber(they are already) that is the price point that Waymo operates at, so it is safer for most users and easy choice to make.

However if you can afford and regularly use high quality private livery car services then the data has to be lot clearer to make the switch.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-02 06:23:35+00:00
> I'm not porting my webapps to your tinker-toy OS for marginal return on my investment.

Even more so if there is no return in the first place. Fun toy exploration-style projects, or something to scratch an itch. Remember the GUI for ffmpeg filter graph (that also encodes the video client-side), remember retro music trackers… The kind of stuff people can and do build in single-digit days is perhaps the best thing left about this otherwise bleak post-small post-2.0 age of Web.
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by RMPR | 2025-05-02 06:24:47+00:00
> In windows, I can just shut the lid and not worry about it, because it will sleep first, and eventually hibernate. Ubuntu would just sleep until the battery dies.

It's really funny because this is one of the things I absolutely do not like about Windows. I absolutely hate it that I put the computer to sleep and when I come back the next day it has hibernated. That said, I agree that hibernation has always been finicky on Linux, however, I would say Ubuntu is not the best distro for this use case. I have been using Fedora and they even publish official guides for it[0] that's how seriously they take it.

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by benator | 2025-05-02 06:25:08+00:00
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by speerer | 2025-05-02 06:25:11+00:00
I want to make two observations here.

First, the order being reported is made against the lawyer, not against the lawyer's client - And it is in order not to do this in future. So, while your observation is good I think the conclusion you draw from it doesn't follow.

Secondly, one aspect of your good point is that arguments are filed in a very plain format. The point being that the format does not detract from the message. In this case, the format heavily detracts from the message. Have you seen the PDF? It's absolutely nuts. I hope he doesn't turn up to court wearing a dragon mask.
by imiric | 2025-05-02 06:25:37+00:00
The purpose of a software license is to codify the rights the author grants to its users. The author can't claim to use a free software license, while also making separate demands about how the software can be used. These demands should either be part of the license, or removed altogether. This moral shaming for breaking a "social contract" is ridiculous. The software is either free or not. You can't have it both ways.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-05-02 06:25:41+00:00
McDonald's doesn't cost $15 per head.

Right now when I open the app:

- One of the 'app exclusive deals' is 35% off an order over $12

- A Big Mac meal (burger, fries, drink) is $12.97 before that discount

- A double cheeseburger (no fries or drink) is $3.99
by gambiting | 2025-05-02 06:25:42+00:00
And as the court pointed out, it's hard to judge the merit of the case when you're distracted by a huge purple dragon when reading the legal document.

It's the same reason why you can't send documents written in yellow font on a blue background - technically not against the rules, but no judge will suffer through reading it.

>>What if someone comes to court wearing tattoos are they more guilty?

Obviously you can just choose not to watermark the document, tattoos cannot be removed that easily. And yes, there are various situations where you'd be asked to cover your tattoo if it was inappropriate for the situation too.
by nazavo | 2025-05-02 06:27:16+00:00
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by globular-toast | 2025-05-02 06:27:40+00:00
The increased use of AGPL is a good sign. Hopefully more people start to realise copyleft licences are what is good for us (people, communities). Permissive licences are for big corporations.

Looking at the comments it's amazing how much damage Ballmer/Microsoft did to free software with their "infection" rhetoric. Amazing that people would choose something that's good for Microsoft. Hint: if Microsoft likes something then you (a person) almost certainly want the complete opposite.
by palata | 2025-05-02 06:28:33+00:00
> worst case is the company goes under, but you still keep using last released version indefinitely, and hope new entity (maybe even hyperscaler!) forks the code

But it's not always the worst case, is it? If the licence is permissive, an hyperscaler can just take is and make a proprietary product out of it.

Hence copyleft licences without a CLA. Nobody could make Linux proprietary because the copyright is shared between so many people/companies.
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by immibis | 2025-05-02 06:29:15+00:00
None of them have bothered to evaluate it or have explicitly decided it's not worth evaluating for now. They haven't endorsed it as Proprietary and/or Closed Source either.

And notice the OSI's objection actually makes no sense and could apply to any copyleft license! By the same reasoning, AGPL isn't open source. Yet they say it is.
by dosman33 | 2025-05-02 06:29:44+00:00
Man, this brings back memories of playing with Festival back in the day. I wrote a bunch of scripts to generate dynamic Festival text2speech audio for a Part15 AM radio station, a virtual radio station DJ over 15 years ago. The intelligibility was not great back then, the funny thing was after spending many hours listening and tweaking my input text I trained myself to understand the default voice a lot better. Other people had a hard time with the default voice but I could understand it perfectly. Thankfully some of the improved voices available back then helped it a lot.

To fix pronunciation problems I had developed a set of domain-specific "dictionaries", sed substitution scripts that would translate certain words and phrases into their phonetic versions that would be pronounced better by Festival. Besides announcing the names of songs being played, I was also feeding news articles and some other web-scraped info through it. Tons of fun to hear your project working on the air in public as you drive around town.
by fakedang | 2025-05-02 06:30:12+00:00
Consumer electronic product design. India has some native consumer and business electronics manufacturing (with chips designed in China), but for an outsider to the country used to good product design, using them is an alien experience. They could have at least gotten the software part right, but nope, even that's dated.

There are some companies that are working towards that end though, but they still have quite a long way to go. And a lot of native manufacturers in India have faced financial issues, so that's another hurdle.
by lelanthran | 2025-05-02 06:30:37+00:00
> Seems pretty unethical to me.

I'm seeing this sentiment multiple times on this thread - "fine, it's legal, but it's still wrong!"

That's an extremely disrespectful take on someone adhering to a contract that both parties agreed to. You are using shaming language to pressure people into following your own belief system.

In this specific instance, the author could have chosen any damn license they wanted to. They didn't. They chose one to get the most adoption.

You appear to want both:

1. Widespread adoption

and

2. Restrict what others can do.

The MIT license is not compatible with #2 above. You can ask nicely, but if you don't get what you want you don't get to jump on a fucking high horse and religiously judge others using your own belief system.

Author should have used GPL (so any replaced images get upstreamed back and thus he has control) OR some other proprietary license that prevents modifications like changing the image.

A bunch of finger-pointers gabbing on forums about those "evil" people who stick to both the word and the spirit of the license are nothing more than the modern day equivalent of witch-hunters using "intent" to secure a prosecution.

Be better than that - don't join the mob in pointing out witches. We don't need more puritans.
by skissane | 2025-05-02 06:31:23+00:00
> It’s still fairly safe to argue that the best LLMs today are not yet thinking, at least not in a way a human does. But in another generation or two? It will become much harder to deny.

Current LLMs have a hard division between training and inference time; human brains don’t-we train as we infer (although we probably do a mix of online/offline training: you build new connections while awake, but then pruning and consolidation happens while you sleep). I think softening the training-vs-inference division is a necessary (but possibly not sufficient) condition for closing the artificial-vs-human intelligence gap. But that softening is going to require completely different architectures from current LLMs, and I don’t think anyone has much of an idea what those new architectures will look like, or how long it will take for them to arrive
by SequoiaHope | 2025-05-02 06:31:58+00:00
What bothers me regarding surveillance and self driving cars is that an executive sympathetic to the surveillance state could build a system that allows arbitrary surveillance of vehicles or housing by license plate or location. Eric Schmidt was a regular visitor of The Pentagon and Billionaires simply live in a different world than we do. So while some driver could happen to capture me and upload it to YouTube, Waymo could, if someone wanted, have a secret operations center which allows surveillance of all sorts of people, locations, and vehicles. The same way that AT&T had a secret NSA closet that split off major fiber pipes, some data pipeline could have an invisible filter that duplicates data matching certain variables and delivers it to a surveillance partner.
by eru | 2025-05-02 06:33:49+00:00
> FWIW I'm far left myself, so it's not like I'm complaining.

So perhaps it's just sycophancy after all?

> I'm sorely tempted to say that it's because the reality has a liberal bias, but I'll let other people repeating the experiment to make the inference on their own.

What political left and political right mean differs between countries and between decades even in the same country. For example, at the moment free trade is very much not an idea of the 'right' in the US, but that's far from universal.

I would expect reality to have somewhat more consistency, so it doesn't make much sense for it to have a 'liberal bias'. However, it's entirely possible that reality has a bias specifically for American-leftwing-politics-of-the-mid-2020s (or wherever you are from).

However from observations, we can see that neoliberal ideas are with minor exceptions perennially unpopular. And it's relatively easy to win votes promising their repeal. See eg British rail privatisation.

Yet, politicians rarely seriously fiddle with the basics of neoliberalism: because while voters might have a very, very interventionist bias reality disagrees. (Up to a point, it's all complicated.) Neoliberal places like Scandinavia or Singapore also tend to be the richer places on the planet. Highly interventionist places like India or Argentina fall behind.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of... for some interesting charts.

https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/ has some perhaps disturbing food for thought. More at https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/09/27/bmww1/
by ChadNauseam | 2025-05-02 06:34:05+00:00
I disagree that "the effects of that portion will not be permanent". The safety level can be set to whatever is desired by governments, since governments control how much liability Waymo has. We haven't seen cars get less safe, we've seen governments force car manufacturers to make them more safe. (As well as institute seatbelt requirements, speeding cameras, etc.) I expect the same to happen with self-driving tech. The benefits to driving more aggressively are also likely to be pretty small to the company - I don't think I've ever been in a Waymo ride that's spent more than a minute waiting for pedestrians. So even if they were twice as aggressive, that's saving 30 seconds per ride. Probably not going to have a huge impact on the bottom line.

Also, if you want to include the speculation that they'll make their cars drive more aggressively, you should also include the speculation that the technology will become better and the driving tech will become even safer than they are now.
by altairprime | 2025-05-02 06:35:17+00:00
I do not agree with your position that two parties who enter into a contract are no longer subject to ethical judgment by others. Contract law does not invalidate ethics, no matter how appealing it is to opt out of them. As one of the asocial / decoupled people who has no social compulsion whatsoever, I voluntarily opt-in to preferring prosocial outcomes and typically deem anti-prosocial actions unethical even if our society currently accepts them.

For example, if an employee does something hostile towards society at their employer when they have the freedom to choose not to do so — and since employment is at will, they always have that freedom to choose — I will tend to judge their antisocial actions unethical, even if their contract allows it. (This doesn’t mean I will therefore judge the person as unethical! One instance does not a pattern make, etc.)

So, for me, ethical judgments are not opt-out under any circumstance, nor can they be abrogated by contract or employment or law. I hold this is a non-negotiable position, so I will withdraw here; you’re welcome to continue persuading others if you wish.
by cwillu | 2025-05-02 06:35:24+00:00
Dunno. Like I said, there's no way to do this effectively without some form of leverage over the counter-party. This sort of thing is why SCIF's exist, and is an example of the more extreme ends of leverage, but it still ultimately comes down to leverage: they can make you delete the message and will throw you in jail if you figure out a way to evade it.

One-time secret, maybe?
by bluelightning2k | 2025-05-02 06:36:55+00:00
I like deno's security model where you have to enable things. But I think it made a HUGE mistake to the point of being useless.

Realistically, we need to grant access to env variables, network, etc. So those flags are functionally useless as always enabled.

The issue we face is making sure our dependencies don't do something nefarious. Demo doesn't solve that. I would really, really like to be able to specify these flags at the package level.
by vjk800 | 2025-05-02 06:37:13+00:00
This is really just part of a bigger trend of tech homogenizing the culture and language across the world.

Smaller languages have suffered from the dominance of English long before AI. Most of the content in Reddit, X, or any internet platform really, is in English. All new tech is, at least initially, only in English. English language, and the culture of those who produce the English language content, dominates the world now. Especially when it comes to commercial culture. With government grants, etc. smaller languages can be propped up to some degree, but how about creating a massive block buster movie in Estonian language? Forget about it.
by ulugbek7 | 2025-05-02 06:37:16+00:00
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by palata | 2025-05-02 06:37:38+00:00
> Google and AWS exploit open source work for profit, and don’t contribute back enough to ensure its support. This is what you should be really mad about. The internet giants are literally killing open source.

They would have to publish their changes if those projects used copyleft licences. Copyleft licences don't force to "contribute back", but they force disclosing the changes, that the community can then benefit from.
by DCKing | 2025-05-02 06:38:51+00:00
The opsec reason I use Safari as a work browser today is that Safari has a much more blunt tool to disrupt cookie stealers: Safari and macOS do not permit (silent) access to Safari's local storage to user level processes. If malware attempts to access Safari, its access is either denied or the user gets presented a popup to grant access.

I wish other browsers implemented this kind of self protection, but I suppose that is difficult to do for third party browsers. This seems like a great improvement as well, but it seems this is quite overengineered to work around security limitations of desktop operating systems.
by chii | 2025-05-02 06:39:03+00:00
> The solution is legislation. We need the equivalent of DMCA for our privacy

and how does one know their privacy has been invaded? How does the user know to enforce the DMCA law for privacy?

I think the solution has to be technological. Just like encryption, we need some sort of standard to ensure all browsers are identical and unidentifiable (unless the user _chooses_ to be identified - like logging in). Tor-browser is on the right track.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-02 06:39:16+00:00
> however more than half (55%) of them are now admitted those redundancy decisions were wrong.

That's over half _admitting_. You can bet that the real figure is higher, because no-one really _wants_ to get up and say "as a CEO, I did an obviously stupid thing".

I'm actually a little surprised they get this high a level of admission of incompetence; when a company does something stupid, a fairly common response is to carefully pretend it didn't happen.
by cess11 | 2025-05-02 06:39:16+00:00
People who are into dragons are furries, it's not a literal term. Their furry subgroup is usually called scalies, which besides dragons and snakes include people who are into things like salamanders and other amphibians.

I'm under the impression that such taxonomies are less important to these in-groups than whether you're just into the aesthetic or get off on it sexually as well.
by Snakes3727 | 2025-05-02 06:40:00+00:00
I contributed heavily to a project during its early days and spent almost 2.5 years helping it grow. For awhile i was one of the most active contributors.

Then there was talk of turning the project into an actual business, and myself and a few of the original contributers were offered extremely poor paying jobs. That no one took. Then they got a CEO, investors and we were basically forced out of the project unless we joined the company.

I distinctly remember being in a call where we were told they would be relicensing it eventually and launching a SaaS. To protect our work from being used by large companies. I laughed and pointed out the irony in that call that you were doing the same thing.

After that they changed their policy such they do not accept outside PR's. It has killed any interest in supporting open source projects outside personal stuff.
by n-gauge | 2025-05-02 06:40:03+00:00
I've looked at a few new builds which also have heat pumps as standard. Looks like the trend is to have a smaller footprint and build upwards (so 3 floors).

Also adds ~100K to cost of new build for customer (which I think is to much), and this is without any battery included, would have thought ideal to pair with solar.