MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qchris | 2025-06-28 23:23:56+00:00
My personal opinion is that System76 isn't really targeting personal users with their desktop line, though, but instead is more focused on professional users. For example, I built my own desktop computer at home, but if I needed one for work for doing ML or just to have the increased compute over my company-issued laptop, there's no way that my organization would sign-off on letting me spec out my own parts from Newegg and spend a day or two building and testing the system, then trying to install NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu.

What they would (and do) sign-off on is a one-time purchase of a desktop from an approved vendor for that desktop, which comes with out-of-the-box support for the NVIDIA GPU I've selected. That's more the niche that I feel System76 is really filling.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-28 23:24:00+00:00
> A model does not "read" a book - an algorithm updates weights which are _based on_ (therefore derivative work) existing training data. Basing them on more work performed by other people does not make it less derivative.

This isn't really how derivative works operate.

If you read Harry Potter and you decide you want to write a book about how Harry and Hermione grow up and become professors at Hogwarts, that's probably going to be a derivative work.

If you read Harry Potter and decide you want to write a book about a little Korean girl who lives with abusive parents but has a knack for science and crawls her way out of that family by inventing things for an eccentric businessman, is that a derivative of Harry Potter? Probably not, even if that was the inspiration for it.

To be a derivative work it has to be pretty similar to the original. That's actually the test, it's based on similarity. Causing it to not be one is done exactly by mixing it with so many other things that it's no longer sufficiently like any of them.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-28 23:24:22+00:00
> Gotta a friend who’s 52 and has all his teeth rot out 10 years ago.

FTR, meth mouth has no overlap with ADHD meds. I specifically looked into this, way back when.

> He goes to Wegmans every month and comes back with a pill bottle the size of a small trashcan.

If he took that many ADHD meds he'd be dead on day one. Three tabs/day is a heavy dose.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-28 23:25:28+00:00
That's such a Microsoft move. Corporate users under managed machines will never see that popup so it won't be an issue, so it's mainly heckling the users that probably installed Windows themselves or have a direct access to the someone who can perform the update.

On OS updates I'm willing to give them a pass, but that kind of split and "foot in the door" pushiness is so typical.
by Jensson | 2025-06-28 23:25:58+00:00
> We could equally rely on feats of strength, or games of chess, or rolling dice for all I care.

Those aren't very productive, our current system makes people produce value for others in their chase for status. Older systems people destroyed value for others in that chase, creating wars or other miseries, we have much less of that today.

I'd much rather have another billionaire than another authoritarian warmongering dictator.
by acdha | 2025-06-28 23:26:10+00:00
The one which got me was the time I had music playing, a large C++ build going, and transferring video from a FireWire card with a tiny buffer simultaneously … and everything not only worked but the UI responsiveness didn’t change at all.

For reference, on that same PC I installed Win98 to play Baldur’s Gate. It bluescreened when I plugged in a Microsoft USB mouse. This was a representative experience.
by jackcosgrove | 2025-06-28 23:26:26+00:00
There was a theory that autism and schizophrenia were opposite ends of a spectrum, but it's fallen into disfavor. The theory went that autism produces mechanical, rigid thought patterns while schizophrenia takes free association too far.

I think it is possible to be diagnosed with both schizophrenia and autism which is why the theory is not considered anymore.
by gdubs | 2025-06-28 23:27:57+00:00
The Star Trek computer – I grew up with TNG – is the example I always think of. They ask it in human language to pull up some data, create a visualization, run an analysis. You get the sense that people also still write programs in the future in a more manual way – but, done well these LLMs are the building blocks for that more conversational way of getting the computer to do what you want it to do.

A lot of the complaints that come up on Hacker News are around the idea that a piece of code needs to be elegantly crafted "Just so" for a particular purpose. An efficient algorithm, a perfectly correct program. (Which, sorry but – have you seen most of the software in the world?)

And that's all well and good – I like the craft too. I'm proud of some very elegant code I've written.

But, the writing is on the wall – this is another turning point in computing similar to the personal computer. People scoffed at that too. "Why would regular people want a computer? Their programs will be awful!"
by cardanome | 2025-06-28 23:28:25+00:00
> Stanford Prison Experiment

Just a heads up, the experiment was complete fraud and could never be replicated.[1]

I agree with you that outside investment can work as a strong accelerator for these things. It enables founders to externalize responsibility.

However, it is not the main reason. Exploitative companies have existed long before venture capital was invented. In the end every company exists to make money and so is inherently immoral. That is why the state is needed to regulate the market so companies don't hurt society too much.

Those founders didn't get corrupted by evil venture capital, they didn't have that strong of a morality to begin with.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
by mandmandam | 2025-06-28 23:29:10+00:00
... That's not remotely true. Hypocrisy on the issue of human rights doesn't negate their existence in frameworks or as ideals that have motivated real progress. And, ignorance of human rights work outside of Europe doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Finally, Europe doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to human rights hypocrisy either, even if they're some of the best of a bad lot.
by tootie | 2025-06-28 23:30:48+00:00
You're misreading. The civilian casualties are very much intentional. They are being ordered to fire on unarmed people seeking food. There are verified reports of IDF targeting journalists and EMTs. I am also Jewish American and I am 100% convinced that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. I find it utterly reprehensible that this opinion can ever be considered antisemitic since the actions of the Israeli government are so incontrovertibly at odds with Jewish ideology. They shame us all.
by whstl | 2025-06-28 23:31:06+00:00
We will start thinking about jobs when the tech feudal lords find out there's no more growth, because consumers to their products are being replaced by AI.

Some are already worried: https://fortune.com/europe/2025/06/09/bnpl-loans-klarna-ceo-...

"How many jobs there should be for X" is not a question that can be answered by people whose main intent in the last few years has been to put others out of a job while claiming they're making the world a better place. Aka, us in tech.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-28 23:31:08+00:00
I don’t mean to suggest that everyone living under a bad government is bad. Just that you don’t have a situation where the entire populace is good but can’t get their government under control. There may be minority rule. Maybe as low as 1/4th of the population supports the government and its actions. But that is still a lot. Far too many for me to say that “the nation” is against it.
by layer8 | 2025-06-28 23:32:45+00:00
You’re probably referring to a state where all parts of the complete representation exist at the same time. Because if they don’t have to exist at the same time, then it might be possible to “write it down” if the universe has unbounded duration (“might” because I don’t know how the heat death plays into that). However, “at the same” time isn’t well-defined in relativistic spacetime. The sibling comments are definitely right with respect to the reference frame implied by the CMB. But I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be possible to slice spacetime in a way that actually makes a representation possible “at the same time” in some reference frame?
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-28 23:32:51+00:00
The huge number of them who smoke cigarettes prior to their first episode - a different form of self medication. 90% of people with it smoke and there is research indicating a greater likelhood prior to first episode. I’ll have to look up those numbers though. (Edit, seems about 60% at a time when the average US population was at 20%)
by charcircuit | 2025-06-28 23:33:36+00:00
A big thing missing is swapping out dependencies in unsafe languages for ones written in safe languages.

Usually there are only a couple places that actually deal with user controlled data, so switching to safe dependencies for things like making thumbnails for pdf files can be effective.

Edit: One more thing is compiling unsafe code to web assembly or other forms of sandboxing it was not mentioned.
by zmgsabst | 2025-06-28 23:33:52+00:00
You’d know the value in a more powerful system than ZFC (as it includes such an oracle) — but you can already reason about ZFC in a more powerful system.

We already have more powerful systems, but what causes the inability to self-reason is exactly that power: only first order logic can prove its own consistency. Once you get powerful enough to model arithmetic, you can build statements with self-referential weirdness.

I don’t see it as a paradox, but as growth: a sufficiently rich system can pose questions which suggest a richer system — and thereby scaffold up the universe hierarchy.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-06-28 23:33:53+00:00
That 2nd example is a pretty bad example of JavaScript being used as a Oracle trademark.

Id argue the opposite. The wording makes no reference to oracles ownership of the product or name that is JavaScript. And ECMA is reffered to as the "maker" of the standard.

If anything, this is an example by Oracle themselves using the trademark in a generic context.

Its like cocacola calling themselves "a producer of fanta" and referring to a the food and drug administration to define what that means.

I doubt the writer of that doc was aware that Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark.
by edanm | 2025-06-28 23:34:20+00:00
> There is zero chance that happens as long as Netanyahu, Likud, Trump, or the Reupublicans are in power. Trump would immediately offer asylum in the US to anybody accused of such a thing.

This is untrue - Israel has investigated war crimes, e.g. famously things like what happened at the Sde Teiman prison.

> So if you want accountability, drive that internally with your politicians and get Netanyahu/Likud out of office

Many have been trying for years. It's not trivial. (About half of Americans dislike {current_president}, whomever that is, but there's very little they can do about it in between elections.)
by YZF | 2025-06-28 23:35:08+00:00
The ICC is a political circus and Israel is not a signatory. It has no jurisdiction.

Even if Israel was a signatory the ICC should only intervene after Israel has done its own investigation and if it failed to hold the relevant standards.

If there were war crimes committed then people need to be held accountable.

The scale of the alleged war crimes is totally different than the crimes persecuted in Nuremberg.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-06-28 23:35:35+00:00
I think Europe is moving g toward digital independence even more. They've still got Instagram and WhatsApp and everything, but I can see them moving more aggressively toward Facebooks core business model (ie, programmatic adverising) and essentially creating a European internet bubble. Would be nice for Europeans to be able to have their own social media sites which operate less aggressively on your attention span - like Facebook circa 2009 or even MySpace. Chronological feeds, less invasive advertising practices.
by Hilift | 2025-06-28 23:36:14+00:00
IBM was big on Rexx when OS/2 2.x was released in ~1993.

"IBM also once engaged in a technology transfer with Commodore, licensing Amiga technology for OS/2 2.0 and above, in exchange for the REXX scripting language. This means that OS/2 may have some code that was not written by IBM, which can therefore prevent the OS from being re-announced as open-sourced in the future. On the other hand, IBM donated Object REXX for Windows and OS/2 to the Open Object REXX project maintained by the REXX Language Association on SourceForge."

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Petitions_for_open_source

https://www.oorexx.org/status/index.rsp
by ankitsultana | 2025-06-28 23:36:35+00:00
Was building something for a personal project using Clickhouse Keeper and wondered how hard it would be to build a Zookeeper UI using AI. Tried Lovable and Claude, and found that it's extremely easy (Lovable for Frontend. Claude for the HTTP Proxy). Lovable supports Remixing projects so you can always customize and tune it to your requirements.
by avidphantasm | 2025-06-28 23:36:50+00:00
Windows NT had the ability do away with drive letters since maybe the beginning; I was certainly running NT 4 and Windows 2000 like this. The problem I think is that every legacy app would instantly break if they couldn’t use drive letters and Microsoft doesn’t care enough to prioritize migrating away from drive letters. This, I believe, is a great example of MS having no taste (as Steve Jobs pointed out).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-28 23:37:48+00:00
That would be too impractical. The fact of the matter is that the only effective way is basically how the GHF is doing it already. It's sad that the UN and western media are running with the pro hamas anti GHF narrative. They are giving hamas every incentive to disrupt aid distribution as much as possible. At the very least the shocking fact that UNWRA are against Gazans getting aid when it's not done through them exposes the lie that they care about palestinians.

The GHF undermines Hamas and UNWRA like nothing else has. It terrifies them and they are pulling all the propoganda stops to delegitimise them.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-28 23:38:32+00:00
>how are they supposed to work in neural nets?

It can be as simple as "you cannot train on someone's work for commercial uses without a license", It can be as complex as setting up some sort of model like Spotify based on the numbers of time the LLM references those works for what it's generating. The devil's in the details, but the problem itself isn't new.

>Dividing equal share based on inputs would require the company to potentially expose proprietary information.

I find this defense ironic, given the fact that a lot of this debate revolves around defining copyright infringement. The works being trained on are infringed upon, but we might give too many details about the tech used to siphon all these IP's? Tragic.

>Do you know if the openAI lawsuits have laid this out?

IANAL, but my understanding of high profile cases is going more towards the "you can't train on this" litigation over the "how do we setup a payment model" sorts. If that's correct, we're pretty far out from considering that.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-06-28 23:39:19+00:00
No problem, there's \b.

echo "one two three four five" | awk '{$3="\b"; print}'

Inserts the backspace character (^H), which you can then remove with [global] substitution:

awk '{$3="\b"; sub(/\32\b/, ""); print}'

You can, of course, use an arbitrary sentinel value for the field to be deleted. Should work in gawk and BWK awk.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-28 23:40:19+00:00
> I guess, what I'm wondering is if I asked the average person on the street these questions, would they know at all what I'm talking about?

They would, yes, but mostly because South Korea won’t shut up about it nearly a century and several ‘final’ sets of reparations later. It seems to be about as popular a political crutch in SK as it is to kill Palestinians in Israel.

I don’t know. It is about as relevant to current Japanese as the Dutch colonial past is to me. I’m sure we did plenty of bad stuff, but feeling remorse for it now is just bizarre. People several generations before me committed those crimes.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-28 23:41:13+00:00
Even that very limited study didn't link stim use to poor teeth - at all. As far as study went, this was it.

• Stimulant ADHD medication use in adults is associated with decreased bone mineral in the skull and thoracic spine. • No other areas of axial or appendicular skeleton showed significant differences. • There was no dose-response effect between stimulant medication use and bone mineral density. • The overall effect of stimulant medications on adult bone health is unclear.

ref: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9062265/
by carefulfungi | 2025-06-28 23:41:45+00:00
Palestinian militants have destabilized every host country they’ve inhabited. I say this with sympathy for the displaced. Who wouldn’t consider taking up arms if forced from home, stripped of citizenship, corralled into camps, condemned to generations of refugee status.

But it is also obvious, historically, why Arab countries aren’t welcoming masses of Palestinians into their countries even in these dire moments.
by II2II | 2025-06-28 23:42:39+00:00
There were reasons for drive letters. It was common to have floppy-only systems back in the day, so you were switching out floppies for everything from running software to accessing your data. The drive letter was the most meaningful way to identify where you were looking for that data.

Later on, when hard drives were common, people still used things like floppies and optical media. Drive letters were still more meaningful in that context. Drive letters started losing their relevance with USB mass storage (especially when the media was the device), and are minimally relevant today (when external storage is far more likely to be on the network).

The lack of proper abstraction sucks when you have multiple hard drives, but I'm pretty sure that Windows has taken care of that from several angles. Those features simply aren't used often. (And, since I'm not a Windows user, take that bit with a grain of salt.)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-28 23:43:41+00:00
Those things work against hobbyists, sometimes, temporarily, if the hobbyists are busy with other things or not very enterprising.

Do they work against Red Hat or Intel or Google or Mozilla, once those organizations can openly distribute the reconstructed code they've assigned full-time people to decompile? For that matter, what stops any government from doing it to any foreign company?

Which hardware company is going to build your DRM if there is no law you can use to stop the same company from also selling circumvention tools, or stopping anyone else (including major corporations) from extracting keys and selling them openly?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-28 23:43:43+00:00
I'm not certain, but, in the case of my family member, their "certainty" is that everyone is conspiring to kill them. As I am one of the "conspirators," I can assure you that they are dead wrong.

Also, in my days of yute, I was fairly profligate in the use of ... mind-enhancing chemicals, shall we say. They basically gave me the same exact certainty and "insight."

Once, I decided to write down the marvelous insight that I experienced, while tripping. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff in a notebook, and then read it, a couple of days later.

It was pure gibberish. Made no sense at all.

[EDITED TO ADD] I should say that I had the luxury of having two distinct states of mind, including a "control state," in which to review the ramblings in the "enhanced" state. This is not a luxury that someone suffering from schizoaffective disorder has. They have no idea that their thinking is off.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-28 23:43:49+00:00
Maybe maybe not but i see no major movement in Gaza towards surrendering. Of course seeing how the UN and most media outlets are working so well to supress any anti hamas narratives in Gaza (it's either that, or everyone in Gaza supports hamas, an absurd suggestion but one which would ironically fully vindicate Israel. The dishonesty of the UN upsets me) , even if there was we would be unlikely to hear about it.
by rcxdude | 2025-06-28 23:44:05+00:00
What's the purpose of the author just listing these on their site instead of reporting the bugs to LLVM? They even seem to be actively hostile to their proposed fixes being used, given the copyright notices on pretty trivial functions and the 'terms of service' at the bottom of the page (i.e. it might be a bad idea for an LLVM contributer to read this page).
by amarait | 2025-06-28 23:44:44+00:00
This is an idealized version of real life. If youre autistic you know the pains of having to feign every time in order to not stand out because of your inexpressions or how you dont find what others say very interesting. On top of that, most things youre interested on are in some small forum on the internet where its the only small space where you find your peace. I agree with some things especially about how we spend so much time on unreal things but lets not idealize real life where if you dont talk about something, youre boring. And that something is most of the time about critisizing others all the time. We truly prefer being angry or very sad rather than alone. Thats basically why the algorithm works. It exploits our solitude. But its being built exponentially, its just the natural step on books, radio, tv , each medium more summarised, quick and polarising and monolithic than the previous one.
by YZF | 2025-06-28 23:45:28+00:00
What is you definition of "genocide against the Palestinians"?

Are you including Palestinians that are Israeli citizens? The West Bank? Those living outside the region?

Word choice matters here.

Is Israel executing a plan to kill all Gazans?

I am 100% convinced Israel is not actually committing a genocide against Palestinians. That claim has no factual support. Do I agree with everything Israel is doing? No. Are there war crimes being committed by the IDF? Possibly yes, not necessarily different than any other modern war waged ever.

What would you suggest, based on Jewish ideology, should have been the proper response to Oct 7th? Would you go to war? Would you wage it differently? How would you deal with the realities on the ground?

Firing on people seeking food is not right.

The use of the word genocide, coined to describe the systemic murder of 6 million Jews for no reason, in this context, is very clearly meant as a form of diminishing/denying the Holocaust. There is just no other way to look at it. If Hamas was to surrender and return the hostages would Israel be sending all Palestinians to gas chambers?

"The word "genocide" was coined in 1944 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin. He combined the Greek word "genos" (meaning race or tribe) with the Latin word "cide" (meaning killing) to create the term. Lemkin used the word to describe the systematic destruction of groups of people, specifically referencing the Nazi's actions during the Holocaust"
by Dumblydorr | 2025-06-28 23:45:43+00:00
Most musicians who can make it now are only middle class, with a handful of superstars and a huge legion of poor artists.

I’ve played many gigs for $20-100, which is once a month or week and tough work relative to typing some code from home. I played for 25 mins in front of 1000 people and spent 8+ hours total all-in to make 200 bucks. Way harder money than coding.

Really, think back through history. Musicians were needed for dance, parties, all occasions. Now hit play on your phone connected to a speaker, GG musicians.
by kleiba | 2025-06-28 23:46:45+00:00
I hear music all the time, when I commute, when I drive kids to various clubs, friends, and events, when they put music on at home, when I watch a TV show or a movie - all that music was produced by somebody.

I like art but I cannot remember the last time I went to an exhibition. Certainly not since my wife and I became parents.