MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by msabalau | 2025-06-24 21:28:49+00:00
Copyright's goal, at least under Constitution under which this court is ruling is to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" not to ensure that authors get paid for anything that strikes their whim.

LLMs are models of languages, which are models of reality. If anyone deserves compensation, it's humanity as a whole, for example by nationalizing, or whatever the global equivalent is, LLMs.

Approximately none of the value of LLMs, for any user, is in recreating the text written by an author. Authors have only ever been entitled to (limited) ownership their expression, copyright has never given them ownership of facts.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-24 21:29:18+00:00
California was gentrified, ask any economist and they'll tell you collapse was inevitable. The soil there isn't filled with gold, your property prices aren't going to magically sustain ZIRP-rate office space prices. Contrary to popular belief, McDonalds workers do not live at the restaurant and need a place to live alongside $450,000/yr OpenAI prompt engineers.

So you have to ask your self, as a high-density city; do you want your bubble to pop, or are you willing to back off to prevent catastrophe? The difference in opinion between residents and real estate investors may shock you.
by wrboyce | 2025-06-24 21:29:28+00:00
This would’ve been really handy for me a few weeks ago when I ended up working this out for myself (not a huge job, but more effort than reading your documentation would’ve been). While I can’t think of anything missing off the top of my head, I do think a PR to uv to update the official docs would help a lot of folk!

Actually, I’ve thought of something! Migrating from poetry! It’s something I’ve been meaning to look at automating for a while now (I really don’t like poetry).
by sgeisenh | 2025-06-24 21:29:49+00:00
Similar to ruff, uv mostly gathers ideas from other tools (with strong opinions and a handful of thoughtful additions and adjustments) and implements them in Rust for speed improvements.

Interestingly, the speed is the main differentiator from existing package and project management tools. Even if you are using it as a drop-in replacement for pip, it is just so much faster.
by martin-t | 2025-06-24 21:29:54+00:00
As you point out, people make rules ("laws") which benefit them. I care about fairness and justice though, even if I am a minority.

Fundamentally, fair compensation is based on the amount of work put in (obviously taking skill/competence into account but the differences between people in most disciplines probably don't span a single order of magnitude, let alone several).

The ultimate goal should be to prevent people who don't produce value from taking advantage of those who do. And among those who do, that they get compensated according to the amount of work and skill they put in.

Imagine you spend a year building a house. I have a machine that can take your house and materialize a copy anywhere on earth for free. I charge people (something between 0 and the cost of building your house the normal way) to make them a copy of your house. I can make orders of magnitude more money this way than you. Are you happy about this situation? Does it make a difference how much i charge them?

What if my machine only works if I scan every house on the planet? What if I literally take pictures of it from all sides, then wait for your to not be home and xray it to see what it looks like inside?

You might say that you don't care because now you can also afford many more houses. But it does not make you richer. In fact, it makes you poorer.

Money is not a store of value. If everyone has more money but most people only have 2x more and a small group has a 1000x more, then the relative bargaining power changed so the small group is better off and the large group is worse off. This is what undetectable cheap mass plagiarism leads to for all intellectual work.

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I wrote a lot of open source code, some of it under permissive licenses, some GPL, some AGPL. The conditions of those licenses are that you credit me. Some of them also require that if you build on top of my work, you release your work with the same licence.

LLMs launder my code to make profit off of it without giving me anything (while other people make profit, thus making me poorer) and without crediting me.

LLMs also take away the rights of the users of my code - (A)GPL forced anyone who builds on top of my work to release the code when asked, with LLM-laundered code, this right no longer seems to exist because who do you even ask?
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-24 21:30:17+00:00
> Apple does not attest because they were lazy.

Apple has made clear statements in places such as WWDC talks that they believe attestations are bad for consumer privacy and consumer choice (migrating between Passkey providers, using Password Managers of their choice). They support attestations in very specific enterprise scenarios, so they didn't lazily ignore the work altogether, they just locked it behind a security fence (MDM environments).

Apple has put in extra work to champion other (optional) parts of the spec trying to provide some of what attestation was built to do, but in more privacy-focused/privacy-preserving ways.

> FIDO should have rejected this approach but from the very beginning they were captured by the largest corporate interests.

From the standpoint of consumer Passkey privacy it certainly feels a lot more that attestations were the capture by the largest corporate interests (both Google and Microsoft championed for them as core parts of the specs), and Apple's lone dissent of the big three is the one thing stopping FIDO from having made attestations required rather than optional.
by arp242 | 2025-06-24 21:30:19+00:00
You can already use web-ext to sign it; it doesn't need to be published (you can keep the extension private). It's just that you need to be logged in to download it and can't really provide a "share link" (but you can of course upload/send that .xpi to anyone).

I have a few private extensions like this (e.g. for HN, GOG, my own new tab page, etc.). I don't have the exact steps for this at the handy, been meaning to do a write-up at some point, but my mk script is just "$webext sign --channel unlisted --api-key $jwt_issue --api-secret $jwt_secret" – I don't recall if you need to create it the extension in the Mozilla web UI first, but I don't think so(?)
by readthenotes1 | 2025-06-24 21:30:32+00:00
Much of what we are supposed to learn in a classroom is irrelevant and some of it is just down right wrong.

Getting the job will depend more upon the grade and the network then it does upon any one homework assignment...

Is it stupid to do something perfunctorily when there is no direct evidence that a huge time& effort investment is going to pay off?
by moelf | 2025-06-24 21:31:27+00:00
even gemma3:12b gets it correct:

~> ollama run gemma3:12b-it-qat >>> ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4

Here's a good ffmpeg command to convert `movie.mov` to a reasonably sized MP4, along with explanations to help you adjust it:

```bash ffmpeg -i movie.mov -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -c:a aac -b:a 128k movie.mp4 ```

*Explanation of the command and the options:*
by tecleandor | 2025-06-24 21:32:07+00:00
I have a problem with that. I've seen how disabled users are milked out of their money (or their insurance, if they have one that covers it) just because they don't have another option. And I know, economy of scale and everything, but most of the time the huge price differences aren't justified (like commented in the $1K wheelchair post [0]). I've seen it with software (simple pictoric augmentative communication software for iPad that costs hundreds of dollars, plus some DLCs...), and in hardware (consumer hardware that costs 1 or 2 hundred dollars, but is firmware locked so it cannot be used in augmentative communication software. You have to pay a thousand or two for the unlocked versión).

Also, sadly, the salaries in my country aren't that high that it makes it look cheap compared to do it yourself.

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711437
by vel0city | 2025-06-24 21:32:30+00:00
> What part of "as a rule" made you think this was about a specific area?

As a rule that just happenes to not work in any of the large metros of the country in question. I've got a rule that a pen always rolls off on the left side of a desk, too bad it only works on my desk here that is missing a couple of legs!

> Hollowed out opportunity, or hollowed out available jobs? As noted earlier, there is a pretty big difference

Sure they'll go work minimum wage jobs at the highway fast food and gas stops. Buc-ees is iticing for jobs to sling BBQ sandwiches and scrub toilets! Big opportunity there. Once again, where's your data? I've linked mine, you're a foreigner going arguing against my lived experiences without even pointing to actual data, instead berating me and taking down to me about asking for you to actually give examples.

> Can I assume this implies that you have diligently read mine?

Yes, I have read yours. Have you actually read mine? I'm taking about one of the largest metro areas in the US trying to describe why people make the choices I do, showing real examples backed by federal reserve data and actual maps and housing costs and tax data. You're seemingly ignoring them and instead giving your own imagined ideas of transit times and job opportunities and property values not backed by any kind of data.

You're giving assumed ideas while ignoring actual factual linked data and multiple lived experiences in this chat while accusing me of not reading the data you refuse to share. You might want to re-evaluate who is going by gut assumptions.
by dinfinity | 2025-06-24 21:32:31+00:00
It's also extrapolating on what already exists. We are way beyond 'just some academic theories'.

One can argue all day about timelines, but AI has progressed from being fully inexistent to a level rivaling and surpassing quite some humans in quite some things in less than 100 years. Arguably, all the evidence we have points to AI being able to take over AI research at some point in the near future.
by airforce1 | 2025-06-24 21:33:35+00:00
It was an honest mistake, especially for someone who rarely travels.

It could happen to anyone in a country where possessing lock picks is not a criminal act. For example, your sibling might get you some picks in credit card form factor one year for Christmas. You put them in your wallet and forget about them. You travel a bit within the USA and nobody cares. Then years later you travel to Japan and are whisked away to jail because of a thing you forgot about in your wallet. The Japanese don't understand why an innocent civilian would ever have such a thing; therefore you must be a nefarious criminal.
by tucnak | 2025-06-24 21:34:06+00:00
I'd never claimed that "TPU is going to conquer everything," it's a matter of fact that the latest-generation TPU is currently the most cost-effective solution for large-scale training. I'm not even saying that NVIDIA has lost, just that GPU's have lost. Maybe NVIDIA comes up with a non-GPU based system, and it includes programmable fabric to enable compute-in-network capabilities, sure, anything other than Bluefield nonsense, but it's already clear from the engineering standpoint that the large HBM-stacks attached to a "GPU"+Bluefield formula is over.
by kelnos | 2025-06-24 21:34:15+00:00
> With the oligopoly situation

I saw the article use the term "legacy carrier", and was curious about its actual definition, and while skimming its wikipedia article read that we went from ten major US carriers in 1991 to just four today (Alaska/Hawaiian, American, Delta, United). Oof.

While many great things did come from deregulation, US airlines' tendencies to race to the bottom and consolidate are not among them. To be fair, though, the more consolidation, the less competition, and the less of a need for that race.

So I'm not sure. Certainly labor costs elsewhere contribute to significantly lower-cost routes, and flights in the US are way cheaper than they were in the 80s and prior, and I think, inflation-adjusted, they're still historically very low, perhaps at their lowest. So what's more expensive in the US? Labor, certainly. Regulation imposes a cost, perhaps more of one here than elsewhere? Are many carriers in other places in the world heavily subsidized by their governments, so they can offer cheaper fares and better service?
by RealityVoid | 2025-06-24 21:34:22+00:00
AUTOSAR is a spec, this seems to tackle an actual implementation.

As the other commenter said AUTOSAR had some good ideas, but now it has too much cruft and it's hard to decrusity it. If they trimmed 80% of the standard, had an actual open source reference implementation, overhauled the tooling to make it not suck and added solid observability capabilities and did something about the god awful RTE experience, it would be pretty good. The API's are sane, interactions make sense.
by fallingknife | 2025-06-24 21:34:40+00:00
But if you did pirate the book, and let's say it cost $50, and then you used it to write a play based on that book and made $1 million selling that, only the $50 loss to the publisher would be relevant to the lawsuit. The fact that you wrote a non-infringing play based on it and made $1 million would be irrelevant to the case. The publisher would have no claim to it.
by zargon | 2025-06-24 21:35:00+00:00
> Where do you move the weights anyway once they are loaded into the GPU VRAM?

The GPU can’t do anything with weights while they are in VRAM. They have to be moved into the GPU itself first.

So it is about memory round-trips, but not between RAM and VRAM. It’s the round trips between the VRAM and the registers in the GPU die. When batch processing, the calculations for all batched requests can be done while the model parameters are in the GPU registers. Compared to if they were done sequentially, you would multiply the number of trips between the VRAM and the GPU by the number of individual inferences.

Also, batched prompts and outputs are indeed mathematically independent from each other.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-06-24 21:35:20+00:00
I disagree with the forecast too, but your critique is off-base. The assumption that exponential cash is required assumes that subexponential capex can't chug along gradually without the industry collapsing into mass bankruptcy. Additionally, the investment cash that the likes of Softbank are throwing away comes from private holdings like pensions and has little to nothing to do with the sovereign holdings of OPEC+ nations. The reason that it doesn't hold water are the bottlenecks on compute production. TSMC is still the only supplier of anything useful for foundation model training and their expansions only appear big and/or fast if you read the likes of Forbes.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-24 21:35:31+00:00
Make sure to spend some time asking them questions on topics you already know a lot about. (I like to ask the AI about a game I developed called Neptune's Pride.)

A year ago the AI would just make up some completely random stuff. The current crop do a very good job, but still not 100% correct.

They are wrong enough that I would be wary of using them to "teach" me topics I don't know about.
by compiler-devel | 2025-06-24 21:35:37+00:00
Brilliant. This is another piece of evidence on the pile of why we got Wayland: it's because people who understood X11 mostly retired and everyone else couldn't be bothered to learn X11 because it's "yucky C code" or something. And it bothers me that we lose remote rendering with Wayland (unless one fights with waypipe) that was just built-in to X11. Yes, it was slow, but actually if you're running a VM on your local system and using SSH to connect to it, then it works great. Sigh. I'm an old person yelling at clouds.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-24 21:35:47+00:00
> Anthropic has to go to trial still, they had to pirate the books to train

They did not have to, they had an alternate means available (and used it for many of the books), buying physical copies and destructively scanning them.

> and they will not win on their right to commercialize the results of training

That seems an unwarranted conclusion, at best.

> so what good is the Fair Use ruling

If nothing else, assuming the logic of the ruling is followed by the inevitable appeals court decision and becomes binding precedent, it provides a clear road to legally training LLMs on books without copyright issues (combination of "training is fair use" and "destructive scanning for storage and searchability is fair use"), even if the pirating of a subset of the source material in this case were to make Anthropic's existing products prohibited (which I think you are wrong to think is the likely outcome.)
by what-the-grump | 2025-06-24 21:36:16+00:00
I cannot reproduce this in any version of copilot?

Copilot with outlook.com

Copilot base one that comes with M365,

And the add-on one for 30$/mo.

Copilot in VS code

All produce: ffmpeg -i movie.mov -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -acodec aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

Which is not surprising because its just an Open AI 4o call... so how are you getting this?
by sho_hn | 2025-06-24 21:36:27+00:00
In KDE Plasma we've supported the way you like for quite some years, because Qt is a cross-platform toolkit that supported fractional on e.g. Windows already and we just went ahead and put the mechanisms in place to make use of that on Wayland.

The standardized protocols are more recent (and of course we heavily argued for them).

Regarding the way the protocol works and something having to be retrofitted, I think you are maybe a bit confused about the way the scale factor and buffer scale work on wl_output and wl_surface?

But in any case, yes, I think the happy camper days are coming for you! I also find the macOS approach attrocious, so I appreciate the sentiment.
by dmix | 2025-06-24 21:37:00+00:00
Which is amusing because NYTimes has fought in court a few times in favour of technology progress over copyright. Including recently when they got sued over collected a bunch of freelance writing into a database without consent. https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2024/04/nyt-v-openai-the-t...

I doubt the exact replica stuff will stand, as technically it was only achievable via advanced prompt engineering (hacking), not simply asking for a replica. So their 2 other arguments boils down to scraping a news database = infringement and LLM output = derivative works.
by nopelynopington | 2025-06-24 21:37:37+00:00
Everything out of her mouth is a lie anyway. You have to calculate the opposite of her statement and that's the truth

So:

"This correct assessment is accurate and was not classified as ‘top secret’ and leaked to CNN by an known, high level competent person in the intelligence community. The leaking of this assessment is not an attempt to demean President Trump, or discredit the nervous bomber copilots who conducted a failed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Nobody knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs imperfectly on their targets: so we're not sure.”
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-24 21:37:42+00:00
There are pathological things about theoretical physics culture but the dominant problem in the field is the lack of decisive experimental results. When the system is working properly the gap between theory and experiment can be upwards of 50 years -- so a young theoretical physicist just can't pull off a coup like

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

In a world of massive PhD overproduction there is no way to prove your merit independent of your ability to play the politics.

It is possible theoreticians are missing something but the problem is not that we can't think up possible dark matter particles but rather that we can't do any experiments that distinguish one from the another.

If you're looking for where the rot started I think it goes back before the string theory bubble: inflation and GUTs were always fishy. I remember reading articles about inflation in Scientific American circa 1981 that seemed strangely confused, like they couldn't tell the difference between the inflaton and the Higgs mechanism. I see that rot in cosmology too. When I worked at arXiv I had a coworker who was a recent astro-ph PhD who thought that a few old men were promoting a false consensus about how accretion disks and I couldn't help but think this was going on when The New York Times ran their first article about Λ-CDM and about a decade later it's starting to look like I was right.
by fallingknife | 2025-06-24 21:37:46+00:00
> It's not adding to the cultural expression like a parody would.

Says who?

> Is AI contributing to education and/or culture _right now_, or is it trying to make money?

How on earth are those things mutually exclusive? Also, whether or not it's being used to make money is completely irrelevant to whether or not it is copyright infringement.
by bdunks | 2025-06-24 21:37:49+00:00
Absolutely. And I’m finding the same with “agent” coding tools. With the ever increasing hype around Cursor I tried to give it a go this week. The first 5 minutes were impressive, when I sent a small trial ballon for a simple change.

But when asking for a full feature, I lost a full day trying to get it to stop chasing its tail. I’m still in the “pro” free trial period so it was using a frontier model.

This was for a Phoenix / Elixir project; which I realize is not as robustly in the training data as other languages and frameworks, but it was supposedly consuming the documentation, other reference code I’d linked in, and I’d connected the Tidewave MCP.

Regardless, in the morning with fresh eyes and a fresh cup of coffee, I reverted all the cursor changes and implemented the code myself in a couple hours.
by keybored | 2025-06-24 21:38:30+00:00
> That's not really the threat model. It's that the U.S. has played the role of policing the world's oceans and world's regional conflicts since WW2. If the U.S. descends into civil war, it will be too preoccupied with internal power struggles to continue to play that role. Many, many countries elsewhere in the world will take the opportunity to settle old scores and jockey for regional advantage. Meanwhile, the population in many countries is supported by food imports that can only be sustained while global trade can freely occur.

So it’s not the Hollywood action movie view of the world. It’s just the standard 2005 version of Pax Americana make-believe.

Meanwhile Israel has attacked Iran and its US ally said “we want to do that too”.
by nickjj | 2025-06-24 21:38:38+00:00
> Your new version no longer has the bug we are talking about. I don't know why you are trying to pretend it was never there though?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean?

1. I posted the article last week on my site 2. I noticed it was on HN today (yay) 3. I looked at the parent's comment 4. The parent's description isn't what happens with the original code 5. I made the comment you're replying to on HN to address their concerns and included a refactored version of the original condition for clarity then said I pushed the updates 6. I pushed the updates to both git and my site so both match up

There's nothing to pretend about and there's no bug because both versions of the code do the same thing, the 2nd version is just easier to read and requires less `uv` knowledge to know what happens when `uv lock` runs with an invalid lock file. The history is in the HN comment I wrote and git history.

It doesn't make sense to leave the original code in the blog post and then write a wall of text to explain how it worked fine but here's a modified version for clarity. Both versions of the code have the same outcome which is ensuring there's a valid lock file before syncing.

What would you have done differently? I saw feedback, saw room for improvement, left an audit trail in the comments and moved on.

Here's the commits https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/commit/d1b7b9... and https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example/commit/a12e2... btw.