MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-25 09:44:49+00:00
No. You are free to memorize any copyrighted work. You are just not free to distribute it.

The model itself does not constitute a copy. Its intention is clearly not to reproduce verbatim texts. There would be far cheaper and infinitly more accurate ways to do that if that was the goal.

Appart from the legalities, it would be horrifying if copyright reached into the AI realm to completely styfle progress for, lets be honest, mainly the profits of a few major IP corporations.

I do however understand some creatives are worried about revenue, just like the rest of us. But just like the rest of us, they to live in a world that can only exist because 99.99% of what it took to build that world was automated or tool enhanced, impacting someone's previous employment or business.

We are in a world of unprecedented change, only to be immediatly supassed by the next day's rate of change. This both scares and fascinates me.

But that change and its benefits being held only in the bowels of corporate/government symbiotic entities would scare me a hell of a lott more. Open Source/weights is the only way to have a small chance to keep this at bay.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-06-25 09:44:53+00:00
> Maybe a neat Easter egg in my iPhone that every time I activate it, it shows me a few people at random who played a role in development. I’d love it, but I imagine this would offend the high tastes of the Product People.

Be careful what you wish for, lest a special hotkey on a new Mac brings up a fullscreen portrait of Craig Federighi in his full mighty hairy-chested glory with “infinite” zoom into the chest (available as a 5GB download).
by dzhiurgis | 2025-06-25 09:44:53+00:00
Chinese cars in NZ cost about 5k USD less than Tesla, but you also generally get less car - slightly smaller, slightly worse specs and of course average software.

Weird exemption is Korean cars that cost far more. Go figure that out.

I agree Tesla's narrow range of options is probably THE issue. Like it or not, a lot of people's car buying is irrational. Flash looks, unrealistic range, tons of custom options, old habits (Korean EVs still ship a fricking engine start button). Tesla is the most rational car purchase out there (average looks, tons of features, tons of automation, mass produced so parts a dirt cheap). Most of rational buyers already got one.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-25 09:44:58+00:00
Can confirm - I'm looking at my Android phone now; the "Office Hub" app I knew as "Office" or "Microsoft 365" has, at some point, renamed itself to "M365 Copilot". To make things more obvious and less confusing, it's sitting right next to an app named "Copilot", which is their ChatGPT interface, and as far as I can tell, doesn't do anything copiloty with the Office suite.

Looking at the two side by side in an app manager, I see:

- Copilot - com.microsoft.copilot

- M365 Copilot - com.microsoft.office.officehubrow

And they both have identical icon, except the latter has a tiny black rectangle with tiny white "M365" label tucked in the corner.
by pjc50 | 2025-06-25 09:45:15+00:00
It was Exim on Debian; generally it would chug along fine for months and then incur some sort of regular sysadmin issue that nonetheless needs dealing with. Upgrades. Occasionally, breaking upgrades. Changes to anti-spam rules on other systems causing deliverability issues. ISP mandating IP migration. Earlier in the process it was an actual, physical rackmount server not a VPS, which incurred extra effort a couple of times to replace it.

And the big one: inbound anti-spam.

It's not that issues are frequent, it's just that there's no guarantee they won't be badly timed. There may come a point in your life where (a) you don't have a lot of free time and (b) you badly need a specific email.

I still have the mail domain, I just pay an ISP to handle it for me.
by kelnos | 2025-06-25 09:45:59+00:00
Regarding your issues around buyer's remorse, I just don't see this as a problem. If you're paying 25 cents for something, and it turns out to be garbage or full of ads or whatever, you shrug, eat the 25 cents, and never visit that website again. For such a small amount of money, I think a "no refunds" policy is reasonable.
by tewolde | 2025-06-25 09:47:08+00:00
A vue library inspired by how 3D engines only render what the camera sees. Applying that idea to the DOM lets us build UIs that are radically more efficient under load.

The library includes two components: - Ghost: Wrap heavy elements like images, video, or animations. It tracks their size and unloads them from the DOM when out of view — preserving layout without wasting memory. - InfiniteCarousel: A virtual scroller that renders only what's visible, but keeps your DOM layout intact. No absolute positioning tricks — just native scroll snapping and easy styling

- Code: https://github.com/isaact/vue-infinity

- Demo: https://tewolde.co/vueInfinity

- Background: https://tewolde.co/blog/vue-infinity
by rednafi | 2025-06-25 09:47:32+00:00
There is a lock file now.

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/pylock...

Issue is since there are no standardized build tool (pip, uv both are third party), there are a zillion ways of generating this lockfile unlike go.mod or cargo.toml. So it doesn't work in many scenarios and it's confusing as hell.
by account42 | 2025-06-25 09:48:02+00:00
> They usually don’t ask anything and if they do, it's just a basic "What's the purpose of your visit?" I’ve never had my bags searched or been sent to secondary inspection.

FWIW in the US you usually also don't get asked more than that (not including questions on you Visa / visa exempt application) and searches are not standard procedure that everyone goes through.
by auv1107 | 2025-06-25 09:48:52+00:00
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by rich_sasha | 2025-06-25 09:49:37+00:00
The problem is that they also built their whole story on Musk being the secret sauce and the magic sprinkle. He is the justification behind the PE ratio of (googles) 187x.

Toyota's PE ratio, for a random comparison, is 6.5. It is unfair in many ways, but still, it shows the scale of the valuation gap!
by everforward | 2025-06-25 09:49:41+00:00
Users don't want to manage it, and ISPs don't want the tickets.

Heuristic based systems would probably work in most homes, where devices are limited by their historical bandwidth. New devices are unthrottled, existing devices are limited by their historical bandwidth usage with some bursting.

I think most ISPs have apps to control your router now, you could have it trigger a push notification like "Device X is using more bandwidth than normal, and we're throttling it. Press SCARY BUTTON to unthrottle."
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-25 09:50:06+00:00
Start exercising hard. You're not going to go pro, but 40-50 is the best decade to get into peak shape and participate in some new recreational sports or activities.

I may get some flak for this, but start paying attention to skincare. Botox + anti-aging treatments, well applied, can do an awful lot of good.

Stay up-to-date on new tech, particularly AI. Tyler Cowen was talking about this last month, basically saying that the people who are now 40 are going to be the ones most at risk of being left behind. (http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/wha...)
by aurareturn | 2025-06-25 09:51:26+00:00
Cluely has since removed references to cheating on job interviews from its website. It still positions itself as an "undetectable" AI that sees its users' screens and feeds them answers in real time.

At the start of the mobile app revolution, I went to some startup event. One of the startups there got $1m funding for the idea that you can request anything on its app and get it delivered to you. Yes, anything.

That was the first and last time I heard of the app. I thought the idea was stupid and way too ambitious at the time. Mind you, Uber's business model was just starting and it was all the rage so many sharing economy ideas got funded.

This thing feels like another one of those stupid ideas.
by msgodel | 2025-06-25 09:51:42+00:00
You'd be surprised. A number of fairly technical people who are just not that familiar with ML I know got confused by this and believed the models were actually being tuned daily. I don't think that's universally understood at all.

That has actual practical implications and isn't just pedantry. People might like some model and avoid better dialog engines like perplexity believing they'd have to switch.
by reify | 2025-06-25 09:52:01+00:00
50% of your life is not gone.

you have lived 50% of your life.

we live the life that is in front of us, and that is it.

life has always been a struggle. we can always assume that the rich and powerful live wonderful lives, but again this is a fantasy to make us feel better while we struggle living our own lives.

The rich and powerful are not exempt from psychological distress and struggle.

A house is a house, a family is a family, a car is a car, it doesnt matter how much they cost or how valuable they are. It is the value that we as individuals put on those things that are important to us, that makes the difference.

Im nearly 70. I am in the final years of my life.

These days I reflect back on a life well lived.

that is all we can do.

There is nothing special about life, we live and then we die. it is what we do while we are here that is important.

40 for me was the beginning of a new adventure. Afer 4 years of study, I had just qualified as a therapeutic counsellor and started going to university to do my masters degree in psychotherapy.
by emptysongglass | 2025-06-25 09:52:55+00:00
Nothing about this invalidates any of our assumptions because time does, in fact, exist for us humans.

This sort of science is frustrating for me because we all know exactly what we mean when we reason about time together. Science saying, "time does not exist" doesn't do anything useful for us, because we already intuitively know this statement to be false conventionally.
by kelnos | 2025-06-25 09:54:56+00:00
Of course I don't pay for news. I had a WaPo subscription for a couple years, but I cancelled at some point once I felt Bezos was exercising too much editorial control.

Most of my news comes from aggregators, where every day I click through to many sites that I may have never visited before, and may never visit again. Even sites I will come back to, I might read 3 or 4 articles a month. That's not worth $15/month to me. Even if it was something more reasonable like $2/month (for that quantity of articles), I'm not going to subscribe to a news source (or lots of sources) when I don't actually visit their sites directly; it's like roulette through the aggregators.

If I hit a paywall, I'll mostly just close the tab. Occasionally I'll see if it's on archive.is, if it's a topic I'm really interested in, but if I'm clicking through from something like Google News, odds are there's another site without a paywall that is discussing the same thing.
by pu_pe | 2025-06-25 09:55:29+00:00
Interesting line in the article: "Bosch, which holds most of the AI patents in Europe, plans to invest an additional 2.5 billion euros ($2.90 billion) by the end of 2027 in the field".

I agree that over-regulation is a competitive concern, but so is the level of investments in Europe, which is shockingly low. If one of the European companies with the biggest investments in AI is spending $3B over several years, Europe will absolutely not be able to compete, regardless of regulations.
by andrewfromx | 2025-06-25 09:56:18+00:00
for this issue: https://www.pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github...

the warning is great but they could do more. Like auto remove them when you clone? or an option in settings for that. The fear is someone will send me some cool new AI repo and I'll not see that warning and just clone it and start using it.
Ask HN: Digitize a Library?
by ggeorgovassilis | 2025-06-25 09:56:26+00:00
My father, who was an homme des lettres, recently passed away, leaving us his huge collection of books. I'd like to make digital copies, but running them through a flatbed scanner would take too long. Are there faster ways? Eg. recording a video of flipping through the book's pages with a software extracting the individual pages from the book? OCR would be nice to have but not necessary. TIA!
by williamdclt | 2025-06-25 09:57:40+00:00
Even if LLMs get better at arithmetic, they don't seem like the right tool for the job.

LLMs might never be able to crunch numbers reliably, however I expect they should be very good at identifying the right formula and the inputs for a problem ("i need the answer to x*y, where x=12938762.3 and y=902832.2332"). Then they can call a math engine (calculator or wolfram alpha or whatever) to do the actual computation. That's what humans do anyway!
by robertlagrant | 2025-06-25 09:58:42+00:00
I think this would need to be integrated into web browsers as a standard or as an extension. You have a chunk of money you've prepaid to a service, and that service lets you pay (makes you pay?) $0.05 for viewing an article, and remembers that you did it, and the paywall gives you the option to instantly pay with PayService.

Of course then PayService will have surge pricing turned on. And that will be fun. But still - viable?
by xiphias2 | 2025-06-25 10:01:10+00:00
I don't see any problem with it, but this just means that Elon stepping down would be the worst decision for Tesla, probably halving it's market cap.

I just don't understand the reason, why any Tesla shareholder wouldn't like the 400% return in 5 years, just because BYD had even better return and forced some margin compression on Tesla.
by baalimago | 2025-06-25 10:01:14+00:00
I'm glad you asked (to be honest that was half the reason I posted the comment)

I use Clai[1] which I've written myself, so it fits my workflow the best. But I know llm [2] is a popular choice as well.

With both of these it's possible to have a 'vendor agnostic' version of both claude code and gemini CLI. Better yet: it's possible to very easily swap to the latest and greatest vendor by simply specifying their latest fancy new model.

[1]: https://github.com/baalimago/clai [2]: https://github.com/simonw/llm
by permalac | 2025-06-25 10:01:25+00:00
Honest question.

How does one write something like this?

I get the interest, and the review process. What I mean is, is this a hobby where someone is passionate about soothing, or does some employers allow people to work on side projects?

I feel my life is mostly about direct value, and I don't really understand where I went wrong in the path for meaningful knowledge.

Any philosophical help will be very welcome, as you correctly guest I'm a bit lost.
by theothertimcook | 2025-06-25 10:01:28+00:00
“ Microsoft 365 Appsi running on personal and commercial Windows 10 PCs will continue receiving security updates until Oct. 10, 2028, and feature updates through August 2026.ii These updates are intended to help ease customers’ transition to Windows 11 and will be delivered through standard update channels. These updates do not include technical support. Microsoft will continue to provide Security Intelligence Updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 through October 2028.”

To help maintain security while you transition to Windows 11, Microsoft will continue providing security updates for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 for three years after Windows 10 reaches end of support. These updates will be delivered through the standard update channels, ending on October 10, 2028. Devices running Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 will receive feature updates until Version 2608 is released on the following dates: August 2026 for Current Channel (including all versions for individuals and families) October 13, 2026 for Monthly Enterprise Channel January 12, 2027 for Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel Devices will remain on Version 2608, receiving only security updates until October 10, 2028
by remcob | 2025-06-25 10:01:31+00:00
Besides the data being signed as already mentioned, the protocol is interactive and custom to passport documents. So you can’t just put it on any programmable NFC tag. I also doubt you can buy programmable ones implementing the passport protocols. But maybe you can find general purpose programmable ones you can implement the protocol on.

There are also optional subprotocols that allow the chip to be authenticated (i.e. proof it knows a private key). These prevent copying valid signed data to a different chip.
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-25 10:01:41+00:00
It is technically systemically called an unstable equilibrium. Admitting even one person in a company that places carreer above all else, forces either a full austing by the rest of the company, incurring a coordination cost, or at an individual level facing untennable competition as you operate at a severe disadvantage in self promotion.

This is why, besides maybe a small time window at some startups, management will always on average consist of ruthless looking after number one personality types.

While in a small business their goals migght still by nescessity align with those if the actual company, in a more corporate setting the relation between actual company performance and personal activity is so detached that even those taking into account alignment to a certain degree are handicapped relative to those going 100% self promotion.

The systemic stable equilibrium is therefor a shark tank of rutheless egoists trying to exploit anything and everyone they can to climb over each other and pull each other down.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-25 10:03:11+00:00
This all sounds valid, but isn't there a significant portion of people who deliberately avoid treatment of their illnesses because they can't afford it?

Can a worker who does not earn six figures and who does not have large savings afford treatment for diabetes, cancer, heart disease, or proper time to heal after an accident?

Go to the dentist when they have a toothache, or to the general physician when they have a flu or even a severe cold?

There is no paid sick leave, right?

I'm asking this in earnest, because it is not clear to me what the minimum public healthcare currently covers in the US?

Being sick or even chronically ill when you are not wealthy is already likely to make you poor even in places with broad public healthcare in Europe, if you are in bad luck.

But if you aren't given a minimum life support when sick (1-room flat, money for food) and no treatment in such a situation, you'll likely to end up homeless or die from your disease while grinding in your low-paid job until the end, no?
by sneak | 2025-06-25 10:05:53+00:00
You can do this with a centralized service that offers redeemable bearer tokens for arbitrary amounts that transfers a predefined amount from requester’s account to the redeemer’s account.

The problem is that AML and KYC regulations around payments mean that only heavily regulated and licensed entities can process payments, and this is why the MC/Visa gross margins on processing transactions is like a billion percent or something (and why they have per-tx fee minimums which basically nuke the possibility of micropayments).

Regardless of intent, the government is protecting their revenue streams. It’s illegal to build a frictionless and anonymous microtransactions system.

They say it’s for AML purposes but I think the real reason the state wants 100% ID-based surveillance on all payments is because if you could make secret payments that they can’t observe, censor, and interdict, then you could raise and pay your own army, which is the main thing keeping the state the state - no other armies are allowed. Their monopoly on violence is anticompetitive. :)
by yreg | 2025-06-25 10:07:18+00:00
App Review Guidelines

> 4.5.4

> Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.

To be honest I would like to see Apple be more strict with this stuff in App Review. It's frustrating what some of the big apps get away with.
by mercury0100 | 2025-06-25 10:07:22+00:00
Current LLM tool use assumes compile-time bindings — every tool must be known in advance, added to the prompt, and hardcoded in.

We built Invoke, a lightweight framework that lets agents discover and invoke APIs dynamically at runtime using a simple agents.json descriptor — no plugins, no schemas, no registries.

The LLM uses a single universal function and discovers available tools just like a browser loading links.

whitepaper: https://blog.invoke.network/you-dont-know-what-you-want-unti... GitHub: https://github.com/mercury0100/invoke 1-minute demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQISrRpyigs

Would love feedback and ideas — especially if you’re working on LLM agents or LangChain-style tooling.