MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2025-06-06 04:51:51+00:00
>Why do you care so much about 'regressive'?

Why do want to do everything in your power to ignore it? Stop trying to use your ignorance to selectively ignore arguments.

Regressive taxes hurt people which is why progressive taxation exists.

>So you are also arguing conversely that giving landowners some free gifts will lead to a drop in rents?

No, to drop rents you need both an increase in supply and a reduced costs for suppliers.

>Prices are set by demand and supply. For a cost to be passed on, supply must shrink.

This is a bonkers statement. "For a cost to be passed on supply must shrink". Only in a perfectly elastic supply/demand market is this true, and only if I sneak "relative to demand" in there. We have been around and around on this point. But its been demonstrated false over and over again.

Whats worse, is the other outcome identified, is supply shrinking. So not only are you wrong about prices, your statement is already inclusive of the effects of LVT.

>There's nothing in the LVT that would cause supply to shrink.

Ok you have to be a religious zealot to still be spouting this.

If the cost of supply houses to the rental market becomes higher than the income expected from supplying houses to the rental market, supply to the rental market will shrink.

LVT is a regressive tax, in that it doesn't care about income. So landlords with tight margins are going to be just as affected as landords with good margins. Any landlord making 1 dollar more than rental income, faced with a new 100 dollar LVT, is going to either withdraw their property or raise rent at least as far as 99 dollars to make it worthwhile to hold the asset.

Simply repeating your religious mantra does not change this obvious fact.
by jsnell | 2025-06-06 04:52:20+00:00
I don't think I was ignoring your points. I thought I was replying very specifically to them, to be honest, and providing very specific arguments. Arguments that you, by the way, did not respond to in any way here, beyond calling them "[you] don't even know what". That seems quite rude, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe if you could name one of those potential opportunities, it'd help ground the discussion in the way that you seem to want?

Like, let's say that additional volume means one can do more efficient batching within a given latency envelope. That's an obvious scale-based efficiency. But a fuller batch isn't actually valuable in itself: it's only valuable because it allows you to serve more queries.

But why? In the world you're positing where these queries are sold at negative margins and don't provide any other tangible benefit (i.e. cannot be used for training), the provider would be even better off not serving those queries. Or, more likely, they'd raise prices such that this traffic has positive margins, and they receive just enough for optimal batching.

> You can claim these opportunities aren't enough, but you don't seem to be willing to do so.

Why I would claim that? I'm not saying that scaling is useless. I think it's incredibly valuable. But scale from these specific workloads is only valuable because these workloads are already profitable. If it wasn't, the scarce compute would be better off being spent on one of the other compute sinks I listed.

(As an example, getting more volume to more efficiently utilize the demand troughs is pretty obviously why basically all the major providers have some sort of batch/off-peak pricing plans at very substantial discounts. But it's not something you'd see if their normal pricing had negative margins.)

> Engineering opportunities at volume and high skill allow changing the margin in ways low volume and low capitalization provider cannot.

My point is that not all volume is the same. Additional volume from users whose data cannot be used to improve the system and who are unprofitable doesn't actually provide any economies of scale.

> 2. Again, even if tokens are unprofitable at scale (which I doubt),

If you doubt they're unprofitable at scale, it seems you're saying that they're profitable at scale? In that case I'd think we're actually in violent agreement. Scaling in that situation will provide a lot of leverage.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-06 04:52:59+00:00
That's the point, you called.

I block advertising wherever I can. If ads can't be blocked, I stop visiting that site.

I'm not subscribing at a monthly fee, too. I just don't want to do it. You can cry, but I won't even look.

But:

- I would pay a small fee for reading an article I want to read. That is most of the time not possible OR is on purpose done ridiculous expensive to lurk one into subscribing. NO! THANK YOU.

The reason for this is: I engage in the site's well-being by visiting it and actively writing comments or getting involved into discussions - that's work I do (kind of community-glu'er) and don't get anything for that. So, if I don't get anything, no one can force me to do everything including watching ads, paying subscription, etc...
by Caelus9 | 2025-06-06 04:54:09+00:00
Honestly, this incident makes me feel that it is really difficult to draw a clear line between “protecting privacy” and “obeying the law”. On the one hand, I am very relieved that OpenAI stood up and said “no”. After all, we all know that these systems collect everything by default, which makes people a little panic. But on the other hand, it sounds very strange that the court can directly say “give me all the data”, even those that users explicitly delete. Moreover, this also shows that everyone actually cares about their information and privacy now. No one wants to be used for anything casually.
by wand3r | 2025-06-06 04:55:16+00:00
Does anyone know how this can be enforced?

The ruling and situation aside, to what degree is it possible to enforce something like this and what are the penalties? Even in GDPR and other data protection cases, it seems super hard to enforce. Directives to keep or delete data basically require system level access, because the company can always CRUD their data whenever they want and whatever is in their best interest. Data can ask to be produced to a court periodically and audited which could maybe catch an individual case, I guess. There is basically no way to know without literally seizing the servers in an extreme case. Also, the consequences in most cases are a fine.
by Uehreka | 2025-06-06 04:55:37+00:00
Love the attention to detail, I can tell this was a lot of work to put together and I hope it helps people new to PC building.

I will note though, 12GB of VRAM and 32GB of system RAM is a ceiling you’re going to hit pretty quickly if you’re into messing with LLMs. There’s basically no way to do a better job at the budget you’re working with though.

One thing I hear about a lot is people using things like RunPod to briefly get access to powerful GPUs/servers when they need one. If you spend $2/hr you can get access to an H100. If you have a budget of $1300 that could get you about 600 hours of compute time, which (unless you’re doing training runs) should last you several months.

In several months time the specs required to run good models will be different again in ways that are hard to predict, so this approach can help save on the heartbreak of buying an RTX 5090 only to find that even that doesn’t help much with LLM inference and we’re all gonna need the cheaper-but-more-VRAM Intel Arc B60s.
by Grimblewald | 2025-06-06 04:58:26+00:00
If i support my brothers / sisters children, but have no children of my own, genetic data of mine survives into future generations, after all I share half my genetic data with my siblings.

If my helping these children gives them a competitive advantage in further reproduction, where the total reproductive strength of these well supported kids is greater than the total reproductive strength my family would have if I had my own children as well and split our resources, then this behaviour outcompetes simple reproduction, and if this behaviour is genetically encoded, becomes a dominant trait over time.
by protocolture | 2025-06-06 04:59:46+00:00
>You can borrow to pay the taxes. Or you can 'realise' your gains via a sale to pay the taxes. That avoids the leverage that you point out.

Thats insane, you know that right? You may have invented a worse financial instrument than the subprime mortgage crisis.

Taxation is an ongoing cost. you pay it every year.

Under LVT, the LVT price is entirely subjective.

If I am a bank, and joe blo has a 200k tax bill, and 20k income, I am already disinclined to lend him money to cover that tax bill because of his income. I think this is where you fall over, and the rest of this is just making fun of your nonsense.

The great thing about joe is he is going to get another tax bill next year, even if he parts with 95% of his land portfolio, I have no idea what the value of the remainder is going to be, subjectively, next year. Its an open ended liability. If I was a good banker who wanted to be nice to Joe I would ask him to leave.

However a normal bank might lend him the money just to receive his land as collateral to take it on when he inevitably defaults. But I thought LVT was about the reduction of land banking, not shifting ownership of land to the banks?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 05:00:33+00:00
Entirely agreed that it's nothing but more noise, but isn't that exactly how BF is? Why ----- instead of 5-? Well, because BF of course. The point of the exercise (IMO) is having the bare minimum in parsed characters to achieve the turing tarpit.

I quite like the movable register idea but as you say that's no longer a "BF except lambda calculus" it's some other esolang at that point.

I think my objection about the lack of continuations was misplaced given that appears to be a BF take on the lambda calculus rather than a BF take on scheme.
by gricardo99 | 2025-06-06 05:00:41+00:00
since you work on pytorch, what would you say is the best place to ask questions about general usage, trouble shooting? I’ve been struggling with a, what I would consider, a simple torchrun elastic training example, and haven’t found any good resources online. I’ve been spelunking through pytorch but have a feeling a little back and forth with someone familiar with these features would immensely clear things up.
by neilv | 2025-06-06 05:00:47+00:00
Yeah, this is mostly an interview prep thing. It's not nearly as bad and soul-sucking as Leetcode, but they both mostly answer the question of, "How much time did you spend preparing for interviews?"

For those of us who sometimes have trouble with "tell me about a time..." interview questions, but have no trouble recalling relevant examples when discussing an actual real-world question... I wonder whether part of the problem is the interview context is activating different thinking, and maybe you just need to trick yourself with a mental prompt, like:

"The interview is a colleague who is having trouble with a situation like this, and what advice would you give them, and what relevant supporting examples pop into mind? Great, now change gears, remember you're in a bad interview for some company that apparently does bad interviews, but don't tell the interviewer that, and instead carefully speak the most straightforward and uncontroversial example you thought of, in unhelpful STAR format. So that the interviewer can checkbox that you used STAR format. Bonus points if you can twist it to hit a Leadership Principle, and you should mention the Leadership Principle by name, so the interviewer doesn't miss it."
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-06 05:00:49+00:00
One of the issues we had with implementing a SCIM handler was that our client's didn't use the bulk processing. This meant that when they added <insert large number> of people to our system, we'd be hit with a large amount of individual POSTs, and they literally all came together.

In hindsight we could've done many things differently, but the usage of this service is generally very spiky, so hard to scale, but wasteful to have additional servers just idling.
by jorkingit | 2025-06-06 05:01:44+00:00
You can always write it in continuation-passing style if you really want continuations! It's not pleasant but none of this is supposed to be ;-)

Agreed on having too many characters though, I don't like that having numerical indices makes the syntax whitespace-sensitive, too.

And once I figure out how to write hello world, those character literals are gone!
by metta2uall | 2025-06-06 05:04:47+00:00
We're stuffed because of a broken economic system where these companies can get away without paying for the externality costs of damaging our environment.. If only "Conservative" politicians would actually care about conserving our environment!

And of course the costs do not affect everyone equally, especially in the short term - the people living in these areas tend to already be poor - like in Memphis were Musk's xAI seems to have turned on gas power without permits & controls.[0] Conveniently for xAI, Musk has also enthusiastically gutted the EPA.

[0]: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-06 05:05:55+00:00
The quote you made is not from me. The Y has substantially more trunk space both with the back seats up and down. If you value a HUD more than range, trunk space, and software, more power to you. I don’t. CarPlay only controls the entertainment and navigation. There are many controls hidden behind a crappy UX in the Ioniq.
by philipisik | 2025-06-06 05:06:02+00:00
Great question! We've created a page explaining what counts as a cloud document: https://tiptap.dev/knowledge/what-counts-as-a-document. As long as you don't sync editor documents to our cloud services, you're good to go. The AI extensions can only work on the client side. Hope that helps :-)

From the page:

What does not increase your limit:

Some of Tiptap’s features and common usage patterns do not create new documents. Here are a few scenarios that do not increment your overall count:

Integrating the Editor without Collaboration: You can embed Tiptap’s Editor in your application for local or front-end use without creating any Tiptap Cloud documents. As long as you don’t store documents in the Tiptap Cloud, your count remains unchanged.

Using Content AI without Collaboration: Content AI features, such as autocomplete or content generation, do not require collaboration. If you don’t create new documents or store your AI-generated content in the Tiptap Cloud, you avoid increasing your document total.

Importing other file formats: You can import any number of files in formats like DOCX or MD. This action alone doesn’t raise your count. You only add to the count once you save them as Tiptap documents in the Tiptap Cloud.

Comments and Revisions: Comments and revisions live in the document’s metadata. They never raise your document count, but you must sync the document to the Tiptap Cloud to use them.
by gigatexal | 2025-06-06 05:06:42+00:00
Datadog is expensive this is true. But I have never felt it be slow. Speed is not its killer feature. It’s everything you can do with it once you have logs and or metrics flowing into it.

The dashboards and their creation are intuitive. Creating alerts and things from airflow logs is easy using their DSL. Connecting and sending notifications to things like slack just works tm.

So this is how we justify the datadog costs because of all the engineering time (engineers are still expensive, ai hasn’t replaced us yet) it saves and how quickly we can move from raw logs and metrics to useful insights.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-06 05:07:32+00:00
The GP wasn't referring to DRM or DMCA type "copyright protection" as the phrase is typically used. Nobody in this thread has mentioned any of that.

The GP is referring to legal protections, and guess what?

Linux is legally protected by copyright!

Linux is legally protected by copyright!

Linux is legally protected by copyright!

Nearly every GPL license--every one that we could name--protects a copyrighted work! Nearly every GFDL, AGPL, LGPL protects works by means of copyright law!

Can you imagine that? So do the Apache license, the BSD licenses, the MIT license! Creative Commons (except for CC0) these licenses are legally protecting copyrighted works. Thank you!

Now everyone who proposes to draw down limits on copyright coverage and reduce the length of terms and limit Disney from their Mouse rights, y'all are also proposing the same limits on GPL software, such as Linux, and nearly every work with a license from the above list -- all of Wikimedia Commons, much of Flickr.com, all your beloved F/OSS software will be subject to the same limitations and the same restrictions you want to put on Paramount and the RIAA's labels.
by yowlingcat | 2025-06-06 05:08:09+00:00
I think that the only reason guess-and-check fails is when you don't know enough to actually check.

Maybe this is why we disagreed on a previous comment. I think guess and check is generally the best way to solve problems, so long as your checks well-designed (which to be fair, does require understanding the problem) and you incorporate the results from the check back into further guesses, and you can afford to brute force it (which is statistically the most common problems big and small I've had to solve).

In a lot of ways, there's nothing fancy about that, it's just the scientific method -- the whole point which is that you don't really need to "know" about the problem a priori to get to the truth, and that you can recompile all dependent knowledge from scratch through experimentation to get to it.

In practice it feels really expensive but it's also where the best insights come from -- experimentally re-deriving common knowledge often exposes where its fractures and exceptions are in clear enough detail to translate it into novel discovery.
by komali2 | 2025-06-06 05:09:40+00:00
I'm happy for people that they're able to make some money off of this, but god almighty it makes me sad how much garbage there is in the world. Between amazon, walmart, target, aliexpress, and whatever that new chinese one everyone talks about, there's just so much trash. I was somewhat insulated from it living in Taiwan where it feels like people don't go in for the online shopping as much, until my parents moved here too and brought the habit with them from the States. They figured out the online shops here when I never did after 4 years. Every day new boxes of crap are showing up at their house... I just don't understand how this much plastic could possibly exist on this earth!

This year I'm trying a thing where I only buy secondhand things, if I buy anything at all. Obviously excluding, like, underwear or batteries or bandaids or whatever.

It's been so fun. My e-reader broke on a backpacking trip when I fell backwards against a boulder, so I hopped on facebook marketplace and got a used-once new kobo for like 80% retail, and had a fun conversation with the guy who sold it to me, and he invited me to a mandarin-language reading group, which is something I've been looking for for years as a way to practice in a fun way. I picked up some used books from a different guy who also befriended me and invited me to a philosophy discussion group, another thing I'd been looking for for ages. I happened to spot a modded gameboy color the other day, and bought it when I shouldn't have (I don't particularly need that and I'm trying to just not buy stuff cause it's kinda cool), so that was naughty, BUT I'm now plugged into the local retro console modding scene, another passion of mine. The upsides are so cool.

On a recent trip to Japan, I found a cross street with something like 15 resale shops within the same 400 square meters. Shelves lined with phones, easily half of which are no more than 2 years old, all in of course perfect condition (Japanese secondhand market is phenomenal), many with boxes. I even saw pixel folds, the new model. I can't imagine ever buying a new phone for the rest of my life now that I've seen that. I got a pair of great IEMs that sold at retail for 400$, for 90$, perfect condition in box with all the accessories.

I think we could all stop buying new things tomorrow and feed even the most degenerate shopping addictions for at least 5 years with used goods before we ran out of stuff.
by bobrenjc93 | 2025-06-06 05:10:02+00:00
PyTorch Dev Discuss is a fantastic forum where many core devs actively participate and answer questions: https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org

In addition to Dev Discuss, a number of core contributors are also active on Twitter. Two particularly helpful and prolific voices are @ezyang and @cHHillee.

Finally, don’t overlook GitHub issues—they’re a surprisingly effective way to start conversations. If you’ve found a bug or have ideas on how to improve the APIs, opening an issue is always welcome.
by delusional | 2025-06-06 05:10:17+00:00
I have no time for this circus.

The technology anarchists in this thread need perspective. This is fundamentally a case about the legality of this product. In the extreme case, this will render the whole product category of "llm trained on copyrighted content" illegal. In that case, you will have been part of a copyright infringement on a truly massive scale. The users of these tools do NOT deserve privacy in the light of the crimes alleged.

You do not get to claim to protect the privacy of the customers of your illegal venture.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 05:10:38+00:00
Note that I don't take issue with the UAE banning home distillation.

If marijuana is fully legalized in a given jurisdiction yet it remains illegal to grow small quantities of it I would feel similarly. Still, I don't think it's quite as culturally ubiquitous throughout history as alcohol is, at least in the west.

LSD is an entirely different ballpark. I don't personally think US drug law makes much sense but I will acknowledge that something like LSD lacks the broad historical acceptance that alcohol enjoys in the west. Mushrooms would be a much better example if you want to take the discussion in that direction.
by ncallaway | 2025-06-06 05:11:01+00:00
The trademark on characters is related to selling goods, if the character is used as a way of identifying an authentic seller.

So, if Disney is using mickey mouse on t-shirts to identify it as a Disney manufactured t-shirt, you wouldn't be allowed to use mickey mouse on t-shirts in a similar fashion in a way that might cause consumer confusion about who manufactured the t-shirt.

If Wolverine was in the public domain, then they couldn't use a Wolverine trademark to stop you from selling a Wolverine comic book. However, if they used a _specific_ Wolverine mark to identify it as a Disney Wolverine book, then you'd be restricted from using that.

Basically, trademark exists to prevent consumer confusion about who is the creator that is selling a good.
by miriam_catira | 2025-06-06 05:12:20+00:00
I had the same setup in school- alternating schedules- and had to keep my schedule printed out in my bag to reference between almost every class, every day. I still have dreams (nightmares?) to this day about not knowing which class I was supposed to be going to next and ending up in the wrong place without the work done.

I have to keep a list of everything in a doc of some sort or I can't remember anything I've "accomplished"... and I when I tell my coworkers that my memory resets every weekend and half of Monday is spent rediscovering what it is I'm supposed to be doing all week, they think I'm joking.
by foobarchu | 2025-06-06 05:13:21+00:00
Yeah I describe my imagination to people as kinetic. Even if I'm trying to "see" a static object, it's in a form like a sparkler drawing.

Similarly, I can't hear a particular song in my head even if it's an earworm. Instead, I hear a rough approximation of it as if I were trying to describe it to someone else (instruments as mouth sounds, bad falsetto, and so on)