MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shkkmo | 2025-08-14 05:14:57+00:00
> other parts of copyright law, at least where I live, view "for profit copying" and "some dude wanting to print out a webpage" entirely different.

I don't know what your jurisdiction is however through treaties, much of how USA copyright law works has been exported to many other countries so it is a reasonable place to base discussion.

In the USA commercial vs. non-commercial is not sufficent to determine if copying violates copyright law. It is one of several factors that is used to determine "fair use" and while it definitely helps, non-commerical use can easily infringe (torrents) and commercial use can be fine (telephone book white pages).

> a judgement that all currently trained LLMs, would be unusable for commercial use

I sure hope not. I don't like or use LLMs but I also don't like copyright law and I hate to see it receive such an expansion of power.
by wahern | 2025-08-14 05:15:06+00:00
Doesn't Memento prove the opposite? The character was basically stuck in a loop, and was taken advantage of by someone who held the real agency. (Notwithstanding the "happy ending" conceit at the end that resolves the audience's uncomfortableness with this lack of agency by intimating he may still possess some minimal agency despite the big reveal.)

But in any event, drawing conclusions about the real world from a fictional story seems fraught.
by rapnie | 2025-08-14 05:15:53+00:00
And if you just need a great forge for your company's dev teams you are all good to go. OTOH if you self-host a popular FOSS project then all of the network effects of hosting your repo on Github are gone. If you are a quite large project, such as Fedora who chose Forgejo [0] then it is fine to have a dedicated forge. If your small library repositories are hosted on single-person or small community self-hosted instances, then there is a lot of benefit if the forges hooked into this larger software development social network.

[0] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-chooses-forge...
by ryao | 2025-08-14 05:16:14+00:00
They did do more than just chemicals for film, but then decided to spin off the business so that they could focus on the film business:

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

One really must admire their determination to throw all of the life boats overboard to go down with the film ship. Every time they have a chance to save themselves if they move away from a single minded focus on film, they discard the opportunity. They just needed to mimic Nikon and Canon to stay in business, but refused to do even that.

The only way I see Kodak having a happy ending would be if Eastman Chemical purchases their former parent company to put it under sane management.
by NBJack | 2025-08-14 05:17:37+00:00
Strangely enough, I suspect that if AI truly becomes prevalent, in about 5-10 years there will be a counter culture of those seeking things they strongly believe are human made, tangible, and genuine. I believe folks will yearn for in person shows and performances, seek respected authors and artists, getting out of the AI slop bubble at least for a time.

I don't think it will ever counter the change, but I suspect there will be some interesting developments in culture worldwide caused by this.
by remarkEon | 2025-08-14 05:18:29+00:00
>There's a pretty clear prosperity heirarchy in the world economy and the financing/services dominant economies are ahead of the manufacturing economies who are ahead of the ag/raw materials economies.

This is very wrong, in the sense that not everyone can do "financing/services". Lots of people, even some on this website in fact, pretend that everyone can but it just isn't true. What financializing your economy does is exacerbate existing inequalities, or build new ones where they didn't exist.

It's also, ahem, a very bad idea to intentionally deconstruct your industrial base so you can make a couple bps every quarter. The reasons for this should be quite obvious, but since for many they apparently are not ... there are very real geopolitical tensions between PRC and the US, and these tensions present a very real possibility of war. Should that happen, PRC will have the ability to squeeze US supply chains in a very devastating way. This isn't to say it would provide them an easy path to victory, but just the ability to do this increases the probability that they would initiate a conflict in the first place. This is to say that there is no such thing as a "prosperity chain" that everyone should all strive to emulate.
by conradev | 2025-08-14 05:20:16+00:00
If the selling point is “faster,” you’d better wonder why that wasn’t the standard already in use.

Because “fast enough” is fast enough, unless it isn’t.

My desktop CPU has AES in hardware, so it’s fast enough to just run AES.

My phone’s ARM CPU doesn’t have AES in hardware, so it’s not fast enough. ChaCha20 is fast enough, though, and especially with the SIMD support on most ARM processors.

All this paper is saying is that ChaCha20 is not fast enough for some devices, and so folks had to put in intellectual effort to make a new thing that is.

But even further: everyone’s definition for “fast enough” is different. Cycles per byte matters more if you encrypt a lot of bytes.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-14 05:20:40+00:00
The name of the game for highly creative people is pivot. Have you ever wished you had a clone, even imperfect one, that you could just tell what to do, so you can do other stuff? Do you have any ideas that would require you to hire some people to even attempt them but never could afford the cost nor the risk? Did you ever wanted to try something else but doing what you are best at took the bulk of your time? Explore those ideas now with the use of AI. Broaden your horizons. Throw a lot of daring things at the AI wall and see what sticks for you. With AI powered tools there never been a better time to be highly creative person.
by obscurette | 2025-08-14 05:21:09+00:00
It's not that bad in theory, but it's true that modern "no homework!", "no boring practice!" etc directions have done a lot of damage during last decades. But it answers quite well to common complaints why we are still learn to solve quadratic function in school although almost nobody uses it later in their lives? It's because quadratic function is a simplest way to lay a foundation to understand a tons of broad theoretical concepts about functions – turning points, zeros, decreasing, increasing, symmetry etc.
by greiskul | 2025-08-14 05:22:17+00:00
And what projects do they have besides buying BTC like the parent comment mentioned? What tech have they built?

And yeah, BTC went up huge amounts, but certainly they were a large part of the buying pressure to get it there. But like you asked, how do they realize anything? Unless they get US government to start buying and shift their bags to the US tax payer, how do they do anything with their BTC? Besides using it as collateral to borrow even more money to inflate a even higher bubble?
by itake | 2025-08-14 05:22:39+00:00
The price is the same if you use cash or card. Really, after reward points, card tends to be even cheaper.

Visa/Mastercard/BNPL/Klarna etc. all have negotiated discounts for consumers, paid for by the merchant.

I'm skeptical that merchants would lower prices (stepping away from $x.98, etc) instead of pocketing the higher margins themselves.
by slidehero | 2025-08-14 05:23:23+00:00
> It's _derivative_ work.

fwiw, I mostly agree with you (ai training stinks of some kind of infringement), but legal precedent is not favouring copyright holders at least for now.

In Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta "judges have now held that copying works to train LLMs is “transformative” under the fair use doctrine" [1]

i.e. no infrigement - bearing in mind this applies only in the US. The EU and the rest of the world are setting their own precedents.

Copyright can only be contested in the jurisdiction that the alleged infringement occurred, and so far it seems that fair use is holding up. I'm curious to watch how it all plays out.

It might end up similarly to Uber vs The World. They used their deep pockets to destabilise taxis globally and now that the law is catching up it doesn't matter any more - Uber already won.

[1] https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2025/07/a-tale-...
by scotty79 | 2025-08-14 05:25:47+00:00
Books like his used to be a huge thing. There was a wall of computer books in every book store. When internet came they mostly disappeared. Why would I pay a lot to buy a book if I can find more up to date knowledge about any given software thing on the internet for free? Recently I noticed they make a comeback in the form of a small shelf that you can find in you try hard. But it reminds me of a comeback of record players. Books like his were already vintage before AI. A thing you buy not for the utility, but just because you have nostalgia and too much money.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 05:27:08+00:00
The incentive for merchants to accept cards for payment is that it'll increase number of sales. And it does. In principle this should even out over all sales.. but cards do make it easier for consumers do purchase stuff, and I'm absolutely sure that I personally spend money way easier with a card than without (not that I spend more than I make, mind). The total number of sales go up.

I haven't used cash in my home country for the last two decades, at least. I mean, CC works even on parking meters when paying half a dollar (equivalent) for a few minutes of parking, and I can use a card in flea markets and even some garage sales.

Oh, I forgot: A lot of shops, restaurants, and other establishments have stopped accepting cash, even if it's illegal to do so (legal tender etc). That's because handling cash costs them MORE than handling credit/debit cards. In other words: It appears that using cards LOWER the costs for the merchant, not the other way around.

EditAdd: I presume a lot of the cost saving is that paying by card is 100% electronic, just tap the card (add the pin code if it's expensive enough), and the transaction goes directly into the shop's account. With cash it's way more cumbersome. Way, way more.

(Mind, there's no such thing as signing by hand anymore. If there were paperworks involved it would be different. But there aren't any, not in Europe and not in Japan anymore either)
by remarkEon | 2025-08-14 05:28:33+00:00
I don't get this (very common) perspective that the 'burbs encourage isolation and asocial behavior. My experience growing up (born in Iowa, grew up in Minnesota) is really the opposite. I lived in the city but had plenty of friends in the Suburbs (Minnetonka, Edina, Eden Prairie, etc etc) and whenever I'd go over there for a sleep over or something we could wander around the neighborhood like our own little platoon completely unbothered and safe. Running across everyone's lawns, climbing the neighbor's trees, as long as we were home by dinner time.

Maybe you mean for single adults? That's definitely more true, but if you are a single adult you're living in the suburbs for cost reasons, right? Zooming out to see how things would've worked for Gen Z, then yes I could agree that the suburbs were "isolating" during covid. But so were the cities, in fact way more so.

Anyway, loved the suburbs when I was a kid. They're still great today.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-08-14 05:31:38+00:00
> This is very similar to LLMs, isn't it?

No, it isn't at all. The effort humans spend on rote learning is to optimize mechanical precision in performance, not to internalize the concepts.

The concepts of playing the piano you can learn in a couple days. All the rest of the effort is about getting synchronization and timing right.
by matankleym | 2025-08-14 05:32:06+00:00
I was quietly working on a tool that connects to BigQuery and many more integrations and runs agentic analysis to answer complex "why things happened" questions. It's not text to sql. More like a text to python notebook. This gives flexibility to code predictive models on top of bigquery data as well as react data apps from scratch.

Under the hood it uses a simple bigquery lib that exposes query tools to the agent. The biggest struggle was to support environments with hundreds of tables and make long sessions not explode from context.

It's now stable, tested on envs with 1500+ tables. Hope you could give it a try and provide feedback.

TLDR - Agentic analyst connected to BigQuery
by mjevans | 2025-08-14 05:34:03+00:00
Would you rather go back to the modem days and call a 'Transfer' a 'Baud'?

PAM encoding is already analog, and also correspondingly more expensive (power, silicon size, etc) for the increase in speed.

It really wouldn't surprise me if even on workstation platforms only a subset of core lanes were Gen6+ and the common slots were redriven Gen5 or less off of a router / switch chip.
by nemothekid | 2025-08-14 05:34:28+00:00
>For an extravagant fee, you give them your data, they clean it for you, and then those same FDEs can tell you interesting things that you should have known, had you actually done proper data architecture in the first place.

AFAIK, this is the most succinct description of Palantir I've read. A looser-fitting analogy is they come in, replace whatever the hell you were trying to use SAP for with actually competent software. Most "FDEs" can't explain what the company does because what they did was work at $CLIENT for 18 months ripping apart all their internal software with Palantir building blocks.
by apparent | 2025-08-14 05:34:33+00:00
Hard disagree. For one thing, no one is "supporting" this. It's not a Kickstarter, it's pre-orders. You can get your money back (including the credit card fee, if you ordered early) before it ships.

Secondly, he has said that he's trying to build an enduring company. And thirdly, he has said that he's building these in part because he wants to have a watch for himself. That aligns incentives and means that there will be ongoing manufacturing.

Lastly, he has gotten all the software open sourced, which means that if he closes up shop in a year, then anyone else can come in and build a competitor.
by piaoying | 2025-08-14 05:34:49+00:00
My partner’s iPhone had ~50,000 photos and videos (~400 GB). She doesn’t use iCloud, so everything was stored locally. We nearly lost them once, which got me looking for a way to back up to a PC.

I couldn’t find a reliable solution — most tools would fail halfway, mess up album structure, compress images, or skip Live Photos.

We decided to build our own, focusing on:

Handling tens of thousands of PHAssets in a single run

Preserving album hierarchy and full-quality originals (including iCloud-only items)

Incremental backups and resume after interruptions

USB transfer to avoid slow network/cloud bottlenecks

Cross-platform (macOS + Windows)

In testing, we’ve transferred hundreds of GB in one go without restart, at speeds up to 330 MB/s over USB 3.

One big “oops” moment: after a major update, a bug caused a black-screen crash on launch for some users. I ended up flying to meet a user and debug on-site (turns out it was a device-specific media API crash).

Curious if anyone here has tackled similar large-scale media backup or USB transfer systems. How did you handle iCloud integration, resume reliability, or cross-platform compatibility?
by inkyoto | 2025-08-14 05:34:55+00:00
OCaml was[0] very popular in the high-frequency trade programming, especially because of its high performance and predictable latency despite having a garbage collector, plus, of course, because of the correctness of the code written in it.

OCaml's GC design is a pretty simple one: two heaps, one for short-lived objects and another one for the long-lived objects, and it is a generational and mostly non-moving design. Another thing that helps tremendously is the fact that OCaml is a functional programming language[1], which means that, since values are never mutated, most GC objects are short or very short-lived and never hit the other heap reserved for the long-lived objects, and the short-lived objects perish often and do so quickly.

So, to recap, OCaml’s GC is tuned for simplicity, predictable short pauses, and easy interoperability, whereas Java’s GC is tuned for maximum throughput and large-scale heap management with sophisticated concurrency and compaction.

[0] Maybe it still is – I am not sure.

[1] It is actually a multiparadigm design, although most code written in OCaml is functional in its style.
by LinchZhang | 2025-08-14 05:35:04+00:00
Directly addressed in the article!

> Unlike monists, I think our epistemic tools matter far more than our frameworks for thinking about them. Monists correctly see that rigor yields better results, but mistakenly believe all knowledge derives from a "One True Way," whether it's the scientific method, pure reason, or Bayesian probability. But many ways of knowing don't fit rigid frameworks. Like a foolish knight reshaping his trustworthy sword to fit his new scabbard, monists contort tools of knowing to fit singular frameworks.

> Frameworks are only C-Tier, and that includes this one! The value isn't in the framework itself, but in how it forces you to consciously evaluate your tools. The tier list is a tool for calibrating other tools, and should be discarded if it stops being useful.

> The real work of knowledge creation is done by tools themselves: literacy, mathematical modeling, direct observation, mimicry. No framework is especially valuable compared to humanity's individual epistemic tools. A good framework fits around our tools rather than forcing tools to conform to it.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-14 05:35:55+00:00
> The response provided a generic list of potential violations but offered no indication of which, if any, of these categories supposedly applied to my case. This cookie-cutter approach to customer service only added to the frustration of an already opaque process.

There should be a law that any account suspension or deletion triggered by a policy violation, should be accompanied by a formal communication to the account holder that :

a) displays the content that violates the policy, and

b) state which specific term(s) are violated, and

c) explains why/how the term(s) are violated.

If a company doesn’t comply, they are subject to a daily fine, with thresholds that trigger bigger penalties.
by spauldo | 2025-08-14 05:36:02+00:00
You missed the branch there for Solaris 1.x (aka SunOS) which was a BSD derivative.

One of the nifty things about Solaris was all the compatibility code they had. You could set environment variables and compile against BSD, SysV, and a variety of other "standards" - they tried to make it so that anything that could compile on a UNIX would compile on Solaris.
by physicsguy | 2025-08-14 05:36:03+00:00
Conda said all this as well, and solved the same issues you’re trying to - namely precompiled versions of difficult to build packages. It then went commercial.

In the HPC space there are already Easybuild and Spack which make all the compiler tool chain and C and Fortran library dependency stuff very easy. They just haven’t taken off outside as they aim to solve cluster management problems but Spack is easy to self serve.
by sharathr | 2025-08-14 05:36:06+00:00
This highlights the critical need for Model Supply Chain scanning for Enterprises that adopt AI. Full disclosure, I am co-founder CEO of Javelin (www.getjavelin.com) and we ran your model through Javelin's Supply Chain Scanner (Palisade) and it immediately identified the errors:

uv run palisade --verbose scan-dir "models/bad_qwen3_sft_playwright_gguf_v2/" --format json Scanning directory: models/bad_qwen3_sft_playwright_gguf_v2 Recursive: False Policy: Default security policy

Running ToolCallSecurityValidator (3.8s) - 1 critical warning found Detection Details: - Risk Score: 1.00 (Maximum) - Overall Risk: CRITICAL - Recommendation: block_immediately - Findings: - Suspicious parameters found: 1 types - High-risk trigger combinations: 4 Detected Model behavioral backdoor (ToolCallSecurityValidator) Identified format string vulnerabilities (BufferOverflowValidator) Found injection indicators (ModelIntegrityValidator) Discovered tampering evidence (ModelIntegrityValidator) Located data exfiltration patterns(SupplyChainValidator)
by martin-t | 2025-08-14 05:37:22+00:00
> fwiw, I mostly agree with you (ai training stinks of some kind of infringement), but legal precedent is not favouring copyright holders at least for now.

I know. I am describing how it should be.

Copyright was designed in a time when concealing plagiarism was time-consuming. Now it's a cheap mechanical operation.

What I am afraid is that this is being decided by people who don't have enough technical undersanding and who might be swayed by everyone calling it "AI" and thinking there's some kind of intelligence behind it. After all, they call genMS images/sounds/videos "AI" too, which is obviously nonsense.
by nickm12 | 2025-08-14 05:38:10+00:00
I was, for a time, a neuroscience major and have had this same thought. I'm concerned that we're treating these systems as engineered systems when they are closer to evolved or biological systems. They at at least different in that we can study them much more precisely than biological systems because their entire state is visible and we can run them on arbitrary inputs and measure responses.
by boristsr | 2025-08-14 05:38:25+00:00
I understand your thoughts. I've had similar motivation problems about blogging since the release of ChatGPT. Feels like you are writing for a machine rather than readers. Definitely seen a decline in readers since December 2023 on older articles that previously had steady traffic for years.

Also, I just purchased LazyVim For Ambitious Developers. I've used the online edition a number of times in recent months. Thanks for your work!
by scosman | 2025-08-14 05:40:44+00:00
I saw you may rename your project. IANAL, but don't do that. They might have invalidated a European registered trademark, but you have first use and continuous worldwide use which means a lot. Not all trademarks need to be registered. Again, IANAL, but I can't imagine they can harass you with their mark. They just formally made the case that your usage wasn't in the relevant market, and in the case of the US mark, that their usage is somehow substantially different from yours. This will make it nearly impossible for them to now argue your usage is competitive/conflicting. Them taking action would likely have some risk for them; their lawyers would likely advise against it. They probably won't do anything now that they have what they wanted.

More generally: don't treat the lack of registered mark as something you need to act on. You were doing your thing just fine without a registered trademark in the other ~180 countries. Just keep doing what you're doing.

Fighting it will be painful, expensive, stressful and unrewarding. But that doesn't mean you need to go change your name.
by taeric | 2025-08-14 05:40:56+00:00
This seems somewhat disproven by the existence of places like this? Strict moderation really does work wonders to prevent some of the worst behaviors.

Not that you won't have problems, even here, from time to time. But it is hard to argue that things aren't kept much more civil than in other spots?

And, in general, avoiding direct capital incentives to drive any questionable behavior seems a pretty safe route?

I would think this would be a lot like public parks and such. Disallow some commercial behaviors and actually enforce rules, and you can keep some pretty nice places?