MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by homefree | 2025-06-02 20:02:31+00:00
Just because a good is non-rival does not mean it therefore should be free.

For a similar example, drug discovery often takes billions of dollars of investment - but once discovered is very inexpensive to copy. Does that mean once discovered it should be (nearly) free for anyone to manufacture?

What would you consider the second order incentives of that kind of societal structure?

These arguments when given a tiny bit of thought to the incentives they create fall apart instantly. It's a good way to end up in a communist type of social failure where nothing is created and everything is scarce.

The goal of these laws is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" - it's about creating incentives that benefit the creator and the society. That's the purpose.
by b8 | 2025-06-02 20:02:36+00:00
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by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-02 20:03:24+00:00
LLMs are a legitimate technology with legitimate applications. However in a desperate bid for a new iPhone moment to assure Wall Street that the fantasy of infinite growth in a finite world is possible, they have utterly lost the plot regarding what statistical analysis of words at scale is capable of doing. Useless? Far from it. The basis for a 300 billion company with no meaningful products after almost a decade working on it? I have doubts.

I can't fathom a future where OpenAI for sure doesn't eat dirt, with Anthropic likely not far behind it. nVidia will likely come out fine, since it still has gamers to disappoint, and the infrastructure build out that did occur will crater the cost of GPUs at scale for smaller, smarter companies to take advantage of. So it will likely still kick around, but as another technology, not the second coming of Cyber Christ as it's been hyped to be.
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by mokulanis | 2025-06-02 20:04:22+00:00
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Ask HN: Is offering a one-time payment stupid?
by bigscrankus | 2025-06-02 20:04:26+00:00
A one-time payment for an offline version.

I operate a low-cost SaaS that does about $500,000 a year. Churn is quite low, and LTV is about $250 per user.

Would it be totally stupid to offer a one-time purchase equal to LTV for an offline-only version of our application?

I’ve actually built my application local-first; it works offline just fine. My business model is SaaS because it’s easy and we do have online-only features, but I wonder if a dual model would get more money on the table? Many users have emailed us asking for a one-time, offline option.

Does a dual model work? SaaS for app + online features, and a one-time payment option for offline usage and one year of updates?

Thoughts?
by mjr00 | 2025-06-02 20:04:43+00:00
I disagree that it doesn't save time for some classes of problems.

As a concrete recent example, I had to write a Python script which checked for any postgres tables where the primary key was of type 'INT' and print out the max value of the ID for each table. I know broadly how to do this, but I'd have to double check which information_schema table to use, the right names of the columns to use, etc. Plus a refresher on direct use of psycopg2 and the cursor API. Plus the typing itself. I just put that query into an LLM and it gave me exactly what I needed, took about 30-60 seconds total. Between the research and typing that's easily 10 minutes saved, maybe closer to 20 really.

And I mean, no, this example isn't worth the $10 trillion or whatever the economy thinks AI is worth, but given that it exists, I'm happy to take advantage of it.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-02 20:05:16+00:00
> Mind you, I achieved 80% of what I wanted after iterating and "telling" the chat that their answers were wrong, and going over the code to double-check if everything was okay

I very often read things like this, and I'm surprised how often the person estimates "around 80%" of the work was good. It feels so perfectly tailored to the Pareto Principal

The LLM does the easy 80% (which we usually say takes 20% of the time anyways). Then the human has to go do the harder remaining 20%, only with a much smaller mental model of how the original 80% is fitting together
by victorantos | 2025-06-02 20:05:23+00:00
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by speerer | 2025-06-02 20:05:56+00:00
I'm happy to be wrong about this, but it strikes me that the fallacy of this argument is that it says that some bugs would be ignored because of namung confusion. But that's already the status quo for all bugs!

I have a secondary reservation which is that people don't really browse for bugs by name in the way that this argument suggests.

Also, both of them could be solved just by replacing Antelope with a serial number.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-06-02 20:06:37+00:00
I never said IR35 was about fairness.

It was because they really didn't like contractors using tax avoidance schemes to pay a much lower rate of tax than other people in the same position. Pay low, pay no income tax, national insurance or employers national insurance, and take the rest in dividends.

The fact that large multi-nationals do a lot worse tax wise in other areas of business is irrelevant to IR35. They are much harder to get under control than individuals. Although I still maintain that if they paid their workers the same way most contractors did, HMRC would clamp down on that very quickly. Because they can easily go after people's personal tax affairs; big corporations with expensive lawyers not so much.

It's really not classism either. It has nothing to do with being working class.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-02 20:06:48+00:00
It works great if all you're looking for is an output, with not a care for what it is. So if you're trying to generate slop children's books to shit onto Amazon, it's awesome. If you want to give your boss a huge bloated report on your daily activities, works great. If you want to phone in an assignment that doesn't add value to your education, LLM will do that. If you want a header image for your LinkedIn post that you don't want to pay for, generate it. Who cares.

This isn't even an indictment, not really. I'm just reading between the lines here regarding when/how it's used. Nobody with intentionality uses these things. Nobody who CARES what they're making uses these things. And again, I want to emphasize, this is not an attack. There are tons of things I do in my work life that I utterly do not give a shit about, and LLMs have been a blessing for it. Not my code, fuck no. But all the ancillary crap, absolutely.
by TonyTrapp | 2025-06-02 20:07:35+00:00
CVEs are always filed against a specific product. If it's in a library, then it's typically the library and not all of its user. All of that information is already in the CVE database: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31200

What OP wanted to stress is that just the CVE number on its own is not very helpful as a title. It would be helpful to at least mention the type of vulnerability and the affected product according to the CVE database entry.
by ar813 | 2025-06-02 20:07:40+00:00
If I take a step back and think back to say a few (or 5) years ago, what LLMs can do is amazing. One has to acknowledge that (or at least, I do). But as a scientist it's been rather interesting to probe the jagged edge and unreliability, including using deep research tools, on any topic I know well.

If I read through the reports and summaries it generates, it seems at first glance correct - the jargon is used correctly, and physical phenomena referred to mostly accurately. But very quickly I realize that, even with the deep research features and citations, it's making a bunch of incorrect inferences that likely arise from certain concepts (words, really) co-occurring in documents but are actually physically not causally linked or otherwise fundamentally connected. In addition to some strange leading sentences and arguments made, this often ends up creating entirely inappropriate topic headings/ sections connecting things that really shouldn't be together.

One small example of course, but this type of error (usually multiple errors) shows up in both Gemini and OpenAI models, and even with some very specific prompts and multiple turns. And keeps happening for topics in the fields I work in in the physical sciences and engineering. I'm not sure one could RL hard enough to correct this sort of thing (and it is not likely worth the time and money), but perhaps my imagination is limited.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-02 20:07:43+00:00
>My brother for example built a thing with Microsoft copilot that helped automate more in his manufacturing facility (used to be paper).

I have harped on this endlessly as a non-programmer working a non-tech job, with 7 "vibe-coded" programs now being used daily by people at my company.

I am sorry, but the tech world is completely missing the forest for the trees here. LLM's are talked about purely as tools that were created to help devs. Some love them, some hate them, but pretty much all of them seem unaware that LLMs allow non-tech people to automate tasks with a computer without having to go through a 3rd-party-created interface.

So yea, maybe Claude is useless troubleshooting your cloud platform. But it certainly isn't useless in helping me forgo a cloud platform by setting up a simple local database to use instead.
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by nezaj | 2025-06-02 20:09:28+00:00
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by fellowniusmonk | 2025-06-02 20:09:37+00:00
I appreciate you're incredulity and snark! Dismissing without engagement is a fun ability to exercise. I look forward to talking past each other going forward :-)

HackerNews typically doesn't appreciate and will ban accounts for that type of engagement as it is just personal and not a factual wrestling with the point of discussion, I see you are new here and I would encourage you to not continue to engage in the patterns you show.

At core, I think perhaps we have a different interpretation of what 20% of a Sr. Engineer can accomplish and what Jr. Devs are capable of accomplishing.

To be fair to your point, I think one of the enablers is that I actually enjoy working longer hours now so my net time engaging with code has gone up as well.

But I'm from the old school and I've always preferred time in code vs having outside hobbies, that's been true since the 90s.

I find code reviews relaxing and enjoyable and not particularly mentally taxing for 90% of what a decent jr. dev writes. I find it a nice little break from working on problems that can actually be classified as "hard".

Coincidentally, I've worked in human in the loop automation for quite a long time, making Sr. individuals more efficient with their time and removing busy work has been a big focus.

There is a lot in that space to consider from a human factors perspective, the intersection of creation vs editing is a big one, decomposing problems for sure, each individual seems to have different capabilities and natural bents in that regard. I've long been a thought dump and edit person and that's part of what I attribute my high personal productivity to.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-06-02 20:09:42+00:00
>Have the WiFi Access Point, or some other gateway, act as the broker for all information, and the default is each device sees nothing until given permission. *

Not everywhere is going to have WiFi. A SIM can use a private APN that selects the PGW/IP/Network range and from the ISP usually has a VPN to your network. Does not go "over the internet" at all.

This is (usually) how industrial IoT, connected cars etc work. Shipping containers cant rely on WiFi.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-02 20:10:13+00:00
I think I'm settling on a "Gell-mann Amnesia" explanation of why people are so rabidly committed to the "acceptable veracity" of LLM output. When you don't know the facts, you're easily mislead by plausible-sounding analysis, and having been mislead -- a certain default prejudice to existing beliefs takes over. There's a significant asymmetry of effort in belief change vs. acquisition. I think there's also an ego-protection effect here too: if I have to change my belief then I was wrong.

There a socratically-minded people who are more addicted to that moment of belief change, and hence overall vastly more sceptical -- but I think this attitude is extremely marginal. And probably requires a lot of self-training to be properly inculcated into it.

In any case, with LLMs, people really seem to hate the idea that their beliefs about AI and their reliance of LLM output could be systematically mistaken. All the while, when shown output in an area of their expertise, realising immediately that its full of mistakes.

This, of course, makes LLMs a uniquely dangerous force in the health of our social knowledge-conductive processes.
by thih9 | 2025-06-02 20:10:21+00:00
The question is so common that it has its own section in the FAA’s drone FAQ

> Can you shoot down drones above your property?

> It’s illegal under federal law to shoot at an aircraft. A private citizen shooting at any aircraft – including unmanned aircraft – poses a significant safety hazard. An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air. Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in a civil penalty from the FAA and/or criminal charges from federal, state or local law enforcement.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/what-know-about-drones
by aurizon | 2025-06-02 20:10:29+00:00
Mosquitos are very abundant in the North. Canada, Russia, Siberia and Scandinavia all have huge numbers of them, as well as long spring summer days. Many British soldiers died as they had zero tolerance, and many died with the only wounds being mosquito bites and the systemic infections that followed - there was zero medication of any kind against infections. Some may have lost so much blood that they died from that alone. Having been in Northern Ontario's(Canada) temperate jungles, I have experienced these swarms. Of course I had DEET and screened hats/clothes. Black flies are even worse because they are a lot smaller and they crawl into small crevices at ankles/neck and gnaw away a piece of flesh to take away = lay an egg. Their cutters are sharp and have a numbing saliva so you can not feel the bites and you notice the bite when the blood suns down = it does not clot because it has anti-clot chemicals along with the numbing chemicals also in their saliva. Again good clothes/hats work well with velcro snugged all around all ankles/wrists/neck. Nets can not be near the skin, as mosquitos can reach across about 1/4" air gaps and get you. Get a hole in the net = they find it. Now try and work at 90 degrees and 100% humidity = a sweatshop.
by y-curious | 2025-06-02 20:10:30+00:00
I think the cost here is that conducting this examination for a small cohort of law students is much easier than a huge CS class. 300-person class sizes would mean you optimistically would spend 150 hours examining every student, notwithstanding scheduling conflicts.

I do like the idea, though. My parents from the former Soviet Union had oral examinations for their entire schooling.
by username223 | 2025-06-02 20:10:50+00:00
True, the article is talking about Ireland, and I don't know what the current laws are there. But for the States, normal aircraft are supposed to stay 500 ft away: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

That's not true for helicopters and UAVs within sight of their controllers, but I feel sorry for the people who bought a house not near and airport, and now have to deal with a buzzing swarm overhead.
Ask HN: Where do you store SQL and does it cut down "can you pull this?" pings?
by garrettwolfe | 2025-06-02 20:10:55+00:00
We keep seeing the same two problems:

1. *Saving & sharing* – queries end up everywhere (Slack, Git repos, BI folders, Notion pages…).

2. *Endless requests* – because nobody knows what exists, engineers and data folks still get hammered with “please run this query / build this dashboard” tickets.

How is your team handling both sides?

- Do you have a single, searchable library? - Can non-devs discover and trust queries without bugging you? - What’s failed, what’s stuck?

---

We got frustrated enough to build *Galaxy*:

- *Cursor-style editor* → fast, modern, context-aware AI copilot for querying. - *Collections* → shared, version-controlled query library (like Postman). - *Endorsements* → mark a query as “Endorsed” so the next person stops asking.

Tiny pre-alpha opens tonight — brutal feedback welcome. We are excited to reimagine the SQL editor from the ground up and bring Datagrip, Dbeaver, Tableplus, etc into the modern age.

- Reddit threads that sparked this: - https://www.reddit.com/r/SQL/comments/1kzdn2p/does_your_team_have_a_sql_library_or_just_chaos/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/1l049w2/how_do_you_push_back_on_endless_urgent_data/

• Feature overview: https://getgalaxy.io/features/collaboration

Would love to hear your war stories (and see if our approach actually helps).