MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-06 17:09:56+00:00
I agree that they should divide compensation more fairly among creators, but what are you comparing YouTube to? What other company has a standing offer to anybody to upload their content and get paid for it?

There are plenty of competitors to YouTube for video creators: Netflix, all of cable and on-air TV, all of Hollywood, Amazon, etc. How big are your chances of getting paid for your creativity by any of these companies without being born into the right family and without performing sexual services to their representatives?

How much would you get paid by Google adwords for 100 000 visitors to your website? I doubt it would cover hosting costs. How much does Instagram or Facebook pay a user who gets 100 000 likes on their post?

YouTube (and Spotify) should distribute their pay-outs more fairly among creators, instead of making a casino/lottery system. But right now, they're the only shop which is open for everybody.
by retrodaredevil | 2025-06-06 17:10:34+00:00
It seems that the list of destination IPs would then be determined by whatever the domains listed resolve to (I assume). Since it's trivial to update DNS records, I wonder if they could lead to automated blocking of whatever IP those domains point to.

With that in place, I wonder if that could ever be abused by these pirate sites. Imagine temporarily pointing your pirate site domain name at a valid IP address. When you do that, in theory ISPs (and now VPNs) would automatically block perfectly valid IPs.

This would only happen if the owners of the pirate site domains actually try to do something malicious like that, but I know there are instances in the past of ISPs blocking cloudflare IPs (which is a separate issue, but the scenario I just made up reminds me of it).
by flomo | 2025-06-06 17:10:46+00:00
Adam was mostly interesting in terms of marketing. The Atari 5200 was based on the 400/800 computer, but was intentionally made incompatible. Meanwhile, Coleco heavily advertised the 'computer expansion unit (coming soon)' as a way to upgrade your ColecoVision to a real computer. But by the time Adam finally shipped, the weirdo data cassettes and price made it pretty unappealing, and the ColecoVision was practically dead at that point anyway.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-06 17:11:18+00:00
> A fetus is part of human development just like toddlers and adults

A fetus is part of human development different from toddlers and adults which are also parts of human development different from each other. A sperm is part of human development. A protein molecule is part of human development. A second glass of wine on a rainy evening is part of human development.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-06-06 17:12:49+00:00
I was making a comment on software projects, not a political statement. Thanks for the downvotes. Of course the situation is awful, but not every programmer gets to cherry pick the picture perfect project to work on.

The job market is difficult right now, so who wouldn't take this one? That's the more insidious message from capitalism, there are a lot of cogs in the machine that are fully aware they are cogs, but you still have to eat, so you keep doing cog like things.
by miles | 2025-06-06 17:13:12+00:00
> I get that approval needs to be given, and that there are barriers to entry.

Why is approval necessary, and what specific barriers (before the latest ruling) prevent privacy and no logging from being the default?

OpenAI’s assurances have long been met with skepticism by many, with the assumption that inputs are retained, analyzed, and potentially shared. For those concerned with genuine privacy, local LLMs remain essential.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-06 17:13:25+00:00
In the air, at the moment, seems to be a counter-revolutionary sentiment against the managerial class, the administrative state, and institutions of mass monitoring and the like. There have been several events (, forces, ) intruding themselves into the lives the masses: covid, ai, adtech -- which are making-visible the "exorbitant privilege" of being a rent seeker on top of people's mass communication.

Impositions like this, of course, put the rent-seeking in people's faces -- but privilege always remains, pending a court order or an executive demand. It feels that there's mass loss of patience with this, a kind of "lay anarchism" that is presently across the popular internet. Many are exhausted at the power which accrues to AI companies from the non-consensual theft of the online social commons. Others, at political censorship. Others, at the secruity state. And so on. But it's all directed towards the same privilege made possible by internet centralisation.

Who will channel this politically, where it will go -- of course -- isn't clear at the moment. The anger at this seems febrile, and its more than some fussy libertarians. The economic conditions of egregious rent-seeking and the political conditions of mass control are visible to the people. It all seems a little mid-19th C.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-06 17:13:31+00:00
>Most societies that we would consider worth living in hold up the principle that matters of justice should be decided by the impartial and uninvolved

Please, don't twist my words, I never said the victim should be the judge. I asked how would the victim feel if criminality had safe spaces where they could avoid justice because they feel like the law is unfair with them.

>If the victim's feelings should determine the punishment

In "most societies that we would consider worth living" as per your words, the victim's feelings are always taken into account in court that determines sentencing. Case in point, men and women get disproportionate sentences in the west for the exact same crime, like sexual abuse for instance.
by atmavatar | 2025-06-06 17:13:48+00:00
Obesity is much like poverty.

Telling someone that losing weight is as simple as calories in < calories out is about as useful as telling a homeless person that building wealth is as simple as money in > money out.

There are environmental, genetic, and cultural influences, and while you can always find a token individual who overcomes them all to become fit/wealthy, there's no denying that they have significant impact on outcomes at a population level.

For example, a tall, attractive person born in the US into a wealthy household who's introduced to other wealthy people throughout their lives and taught how to manage and increase their wealth is going to have it far easier becoming/staying wealthy than an ugly, smaller person born in South Sudan into a poverty-stricken household who's forced to struggle their entire lives.

Similarly, someone born to exceptionally fit parents in a country like Japan with a culture focused more on health is going to be far more likely to be themselves fit than someone born to a family with a history of obesity in a country like the US where it's harder and more expensive to buy and make healthy foods than unhealthy foods.

And yet, in classic US style, just like with wealth, we add a thick layer of moral valuation to being fit so that people can feel better about themselves by viewing and treating anyone less fit than themselves as lesser, evidenced quite strongly throughout these very comments.
by sschueller | 2025-06-06 17:13:53+00:00
Now worries, the US will try again to force Switzerland to change its copyright laws so we can no longer legally download movies. /s

All this to protect some industry that is falling appart because they can't produce decent films or music anymore. Everything is calculated for profit and creativity is out the door. Meanwhile the small actual talented creators aren't protected and ripped off by the same industry that wants all the protections.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-06-06 17:14:13+00:00
You are probably well aware, but always worth highlighting the risk of shallow water blackout and death if you do this wrong and unsupervised. Always have a dive buddy.

Someone I went to school with almost died from this. Was in a coma for 48h and spent a month in hospital afterwards. And that was in a public swimming pool where he was discovered quite quickly.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-06 17:14:31+00:00
>My unusual habit is: turn off the history file completely, by putting the command ‘unset HISTFILE’ in my .bashrc. [...] All the shell history I allow myself is localised and short-term.

I don't do this, but I do disable my browser history on my work laptop so that I'm forced to author things I, and presumably other people, can actually stumble their way to later on.

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/disable-your-...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-06-06 17:14:34+00:00
Well the point is that we don't want people forcing religious views on a mainly secular society. If people have strong views on abortion, then they should abide by those views themselves, but we don't want them harassing people using legal health services. It's fine to protest about abortion etc, but not in a specific buffer zone which has been set up (via a PSPO) to protect vulnerable people visiting the clinic.

I don't know what you're on about with Halloween costumes - I can't see the relevance. Are there PSPOs designed to prevent scary costumes and has anyone been prosecuted for deliberately flouting the PSPO?
by 1317 | 2025-06-06 17:14:39+00:00
from a quick google i think it's probably https://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-bang-bang/

ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/comedybangbang/comments/ueshca/how_... https://www.avclub.com/and-now-scott-aukerman-and-ben-schwar...
by MPSFounder | 2025-06-06 17:15:18+00:00
I am sorry but why do Thiel and Musk represent the Valley? They are outsiders who by all account are mentally ill and have more skeletons in their closets than a European monarch. I feel the Valley preceded these charlatans. Neither of them contribute much (SpaceX is unregulated nasa, thiel makes with palantir surveillance to target and maim children through drones). They are less technically savvy than an undergrad at CMU or Berkeley. Those who idolize them need a reality check
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-06-06 17:16:04+00:00
Reminds me of the story the other day, "Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook" with the STUN requests being sent from web pixels back to localhost Meta apps (FB/IG).

I just don't think anyone can be using Facebook/IG, especially persistent mobile apps, while have any real concern about tracking.

Does FB still run their Tor onion service? That seemed to be the only possible way to use these products in the past without being subject to extreme tracking.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 17:16:17+00:00
click. click. click-click-click-click-click-click-click.

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PROCTOR TEST SET PLEASE SELECT TEST

LINE TEST PRESS 2

COIN RETURN TEST PRESS 3

COIN READER TEST PRESS 4

TONE TEST PRESS 5

ADDITIONAL TESTS PRESS 6

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this isn't the one i referenced, but proves my memory is functional https://youtu.be/uOO9dFiwzGk - actually it has references to what i typed
by sarchertech | 2025-06-06 17:16:34+00:00
There’s something to that. Obesity rates do peak in middle age (but they drop after that).

But obesity rates don’t correlate well with average country age, and if you look at childhood obesity rates in Europe they have increased dramatically.

Most European countries have childhood obesity rates close to the US childhood obesity rates in the early 90, many are much higher.

The US has also increased in average age quite a bit as well.
by loeg | 2025-06-06 17:16:35+00:00
Not confident, no. But even running an interactive zsh manually and exiting as fast as humanly possible is within the same ballpark, modulo human reaction times.

$ time zsh $ ^D zsh 0.14s user 0.04s system 80% cpu 0.219 total

It's just not an obstacle to spawning a new shell and using it.
by bluGill | 2025-06-06 17:16:43+00:00
Replace internet with TV, radio, or any of many other things developed over the years and the rest of your rant can be brought back in time as far as you care to go. Historians can find rants back in the Roman times about how the younger generation was only interested in dopamine. (Dopamine wasn't known 2000 years ago, but that is what they were getting at).

Despite that we have been fine.
by strangattractor | 2025-06-06 17:17:33+00:00
In March 2020, an Arizona man died and his wife was hospitalized after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, a substance used in fish tanks to clean aquariums, in an attempt to prevent or treat COVID-19. They reportedly mixed the substance with liquid and drank it, experiencing immediate effects. The man's wife told NBC News she had seen televised briefings where President Trump discussed the potential benefits of chloroquine for COVID-19 and remembered using it for her koi fish. The Banner Health hospital system issued a warning against taking inappropriate medication and household products to treat or prevent COVID-19, emphasizing that chloroquine used for malaria should not be taken for this purpose.
by dingnuts | 2025-06-06 17:17:56+00:00
the author is grandstanding from an unprincipled stance. Israel can choose which families are harboring Hamas members and decide which houses to bomb or just bomb everything.

Hamas could also surrender after losing the war they started, at any time, and stand trial for starting a war. Hamas can choose to stop using their children as shields at any time. Hamas is to blame for everything.
by nickzelei | 2025-06-06 17:18:05+00:00
That is so interesting and is a point where GPT has failed me if this is true. My understanding was the stack was the choice due to having better ergonomics over cabal. Apparently that isn't true? I Found that stack init was pretty decent at setting up a project structure, but can't say I tried cabal init.

I initially installed ghcup via homebrew but found that did not set things up correctly and had to follow the install from their site, which made things work more smoothly.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-06 17:18:08+00:00
Right:

* When a bot farm spams ads for erectile dysfunction pills into every comment thread on your blog... That's "legal content"!

* When your model-train hobbyist site is invaded by posters sharing swastikas and planning neo-nazi rallies, that too is "legal content"--at least outside Germany.

All sorts of deceptive, off-topic, and horribly offensive things are "legal content."
by DamonHD | 2025-06-06 17:18:10+00:00
Here comes an unpopular nitpick: "... we traced the issue to a 15-year-old Git function with O(N²) complexity and fixed it with an algorithmic change, reducing backup times exponentially."

Uh no you didn't. Not possible. At most a polynomial reduction is possible else complexity theory needs a re-write.

(OK, yes, k could be doing some heavy lifting here, but I doubt it.)

If you are going to quote a maths formula then please don't use "exponetially" to mean "lots".

I stopped reading there: I don't want to have to read each word and wonder if they actually meant it, or it's just bad hype.
by marsten | 2025-06-06 17:18:14+00:00
The standard answer is that the US government broke up Ma Bell in the early 1980s to encourage competition. Hence the quid pro quo that had existed for decades – you let us have a monopoly, we'll do research in the public interest – vanished.

In short the fact that you can now make free long distance calls is why Bell Labs died.

I wonder if we'll see a similar change now that the DOJ is going after Google for antitrust violations. Google has been very open about publishing many of their innovations (like the Transformer architecture), not to mention DeepMind's work e.g. the protein folding work that got a Nobel prize.
by tromp | 2025-06-06 17:19:19+00:00
> Do you think there could be a universal combinator (like iota) and some binary encoding that would produce even smaller interpreters than BLC?

No; I don't think so. A iota based code (1 for application, and 0 for iota) loses out badly to the SK based code (1 for application, 00 for K, 01 for S). It would instead be better to pick slightly larger bases, picking up some elements like I,B,C, or W.

> So in theory, you could have a primitive combinator such that the interpreter is really short to express but the combinators for pair, true and false are rather long (when expressed in that primitive), thus hiding complexity in them.

Of course, we're not just optimizing for self-interpreter size, but for overall size across a large set of tasks, such as the important theorems of AIT, or such as the milestones in a busy beaver (surpassing Graham's Number / TREE(3) / Loader's Number [1]).

The terms you mention, namely pair, true and false are not tasks, but the tiniest of data structures that you commonly use in programming tasks. Optimizing just for those is not as effective as for larger tasks that need to balance lots of data types and control structures.

[1] https://oeis.org/A333479
by jorkingit | 2025-06-06 17:19:53+00:00
I did take some inspiration from Unlambda: the prefix application syntax is cool! I/O in Unlambda is super weird though! You get a read character instruction that puts it into a character register where the only thing you can do is compare it or print it out again; I don't think you can actually do any arithmetic on it.

I'm not sure if I would characterize Brainfuck as a stack language, but I suppose if you considered all the operators to be unary stack operations I could see it!
by bombela | 2025-06-06 17:20:30+00:00
> Be aware that even with these recommendations, syncing in this way has some risk since it bypasses Git’s normal integrity checking for repositories, so having backups is advised. You may also wish to do a git fsck to verify the integrity of your data on the destination system after syncing.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitfaq#_transfers

It doesn't tell you how to make a backup safely though.

On a personal scale, Syncthing and Btrfs snapshots work plenty good enough. It's as fast as the storage/network too.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-06 17:20:35+00:00
> There is data and it is being received, processed, and responded to.

And that is orthogonal to this thread. The argument to which I originally replied is this:

>>> For a current LLM time just "stops" when waiting from one prompt to the next. That very much prevents it from being proactive: you can't tell it to remind you of something in 5 minutes without an external agentic architecture. I don't think it is possible for an AI to achieve sentience without this either.

Summarizing, this user is doesn't believe that an an agent can achieve sentience if the agent processes data intermittently. Do you agree that is a fair summary?

Now, do you believe that it's a reasonable argument to make? Because if you agree with it then you believe that humans would not be sentient if they processed stimuli intermittently. Whether humans actually process sensory stimuli intermittently or not does not even matter in this discussion, a point that has still not stuck, apparently.

I am sorry if the way I have presented this argument from the beginning was not clear enough. It remains unchanged through the whole thread, so if you perceive it to be moving goalposts it just means either I didn't present it clearly enough or people have been unable to understand it for some other reason. Perhaps asking a non-sentient AI to explain it more clearly could be of help.
by cyberax | 2025-06-06 17:21:19+00:00
Be VERY careful about hyperventilating!

It effectively removes the normally leftover carbon dioxide from blood, but it does not oxygenate blood significantly more than normal.

The end result: if you hold your breath after hyperventilation and start doing physical activities, you can get dangerously deoxygenated blood. Without the usual feeling of asphyxiation that is normally triggered by high CO2 content.

Deoxygenated blood + brain = fainting. Which can be lethal when swimming.
by msgodel | 2025-06-06 17:21:46+00:00
I disagree. Misuse of the word "exponential" is a major pet peeve of mine. It's a particular case of the much more common "use mathematically precise phrasing to sound careful/precise" that you often find in less than honest writing.

Here they are actually using it to refer to growth functions (which is rare for this error) and being honest (which is also rare IMO) but it's still wrong. They should have written about quadratic or quadratic vs linear.

Regardless sloppy language leads to sloppy thought.
by acdha | 2025-06-06 17:22:11+00:00
> There hasn't been one of those in the best part of a century as I recall.

That’s just saying your media diet doesn’t cover it. Agencies adjust all the time (every year has a new budget and priorities from Congress), and there was a big Clinton effort which cut hundreds of thousands of jobs and restructured agencies.

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

That tends not to get mentioned because it wasn’t disruptive – they actually took time to plan it – and because it happened under a Democratic president, the Republicans aren’t going to acknowledge it.
by norir | 2025-06-06 17:22:23+00:00
I find the notion of kolmogorov complexity both interesting and potentially a bit misleading. The reason it is misleading is because of the extra implicit context that is not present in the artifact but is necessary for interpretation. Sure, it is possible to write a ray tracer on a business card, but you can't write the c compiler or runtime on a business card so I don't agree that it is a business card sized concept when stripped to its essence.

Now, you could take the Guy Steele "Growing a language route" and try to define a self-consistent program that defines every word that is used, but even then you will have to rely on some axioms that cannot be defined solely within the artifact. So then the question becomes what is the size of the axioms?

In other words, Kolmogorov complexity does point to a real thing -- and I strongly agree that smaller generally corresponds to lower complexity given the same set of axioms -- but the deeper sense of complexity seems inherently unmeasurable to me.

Or put yet another way, complexity can only measured relationally.
by kdamica | 2025-06-06 17:22:52+00:00
There are lots of different ways to do this. The important thing for anyone wanting to get started is just to get started and not get hung up on which one you're doing. Box breathing, Wim Hof method, etc, are all great and any breathwork is better than none.

For an intro to the topic, James Nestor's Breath is excellent.
by laserbeam | 2025-06-06 17:22:55+00:00
The correct way to recommend to the scientifically inclined to learn about breathwork “without the woo woo” is to point to a meta analysis. The first one I found suggests that yeah, breathwork can lead to lower stress but that most studies feel biased and can overhype most other benefits.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366645304_Effect_of...

To me, breathwork falls under that category of positive exercises that can give a boost in life. I would never overhype “the power of breathwork” to anyone. Just like going to the gym, yoga, dancing, and most other similar activities.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-06 17:22:59+00:00
> Without even the opportunity to make money, there's very little incentive for creators to spend time and effort making videos for these channels.

YouTube had plenty of content on it before the partner program was launched, and the content was better. Some kinds of high-production value content like Wendover Productions or Tom Scott’s channel would become less common, but it would also remove the incentive for the formulaic garbage that pervades in e.g. History-related content. There are end-to-end AI content generation systems now that don’t even involve a human operator; that content wouldn’t exist without a profit motive, but maybe it would be better if it didn’t.

> This is why most content which should be an article or even a podcast is instead posted as some guy talking in front of the camera on YouTube.

That’s part of it but the viewership is also way larger on YouTube, which is also really, really good at finding audiences in a way that a smaller service like substack could never compete with.