MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-18 20:14:13+00:00
I wonder how much of that is missing Bezos as an arbiter / dictator.

I'm pressed to come up with a scenario where AWS leads cloud AI without something like the infamous "no non-API internal calls" memo/mandate. And Amazon at this point seems to lack a centralized enough leader who can dictate in that way (and have her or his orders followed).
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-18 20:14:41+00:00
Apple doesn't need its own model--it can license Google's model; or if terms are inprofitable, license Anthropic's or OpenAI's or Mistral's etc. And eventually it can build its own model.

Think of how important it is for any AI model company to be the go-to model on the iPhone. Google pays Apple billions to be the default search engine on the iPhone.
by xg15 | 2025-08-18 20:15:26+00:00
Wouldn't this imply that most of the inference time storage and compute might be unnecessary?

If the hypothesis is true, it makes sense to scale up models as much as possible during training - but once the model is sufficiently trained for the task, wouldn't 99% of the weights be literal "dead weight" - because they represent the "failed lottery tickets", i.e. the subnetworks that did not have the right starting values to learn anything useful? So why do we keep them around and waste enormous amounts of storage and compute on them?
by lolive | 2025-08-18 20:15:38+00:00
Ok, there are not only obscure stuff. More blasts from the past, that really would deserve a better exposure. In term of non-Marvel/DC comics, things from Bernie Wrightson, P Craig Russel, George Besse, Alberto Breccia, Moebius, Druillet, Scuitten/Peeters, and others. In term of letters, once again the almight Lovecraft letters are really jaw-dropping ! For movies, I discovered Vincent Price, Sam Peckimpah, John Ford, Wim Wenders.

So nothing really out of the "normality", but they are no longer marketed and are slowly fading to grey.
by justin66 | 2025-08-18 20:15:42+00:00
Precisely. To be clear, I don't agree with a comment upthread saying the "shoutout" is what might potentially do harm to the IA in court. I think the actual act of having scraped all those books from the IA's lending system could potentially do harm to the IA in court. The publishers can now point to all the copies of the books in the wild that IA had in their lending system and argue that IA's system is not legally acceptable. It was on shaky enough ground already.
by chrisweekly | 2025-08-18 20:15:46+00:00
> "I think there should be an open-source, local-first version of every app, and I would like them all to work together. The idea of Epicenter is to store your data in a folder of plaintext and SQLite, and build a suite of interoperable, local-first tools on top of this shared memory. Everything is totally transparent, so you can trust it."

Yes! This. I have almost no experience w/ tts, but if/when I explore the space, I'll start w/ Whispering -- because of Epicenter. Starred the repo, and will give some thought to other apps that might make sense to contribute there. Bravo, thanks for publishing these and sharing, and congrats on getting into YC! :)
by leptons | 2025-08-18 20:15:57+00:00
They don't even have to say they are "behind". I'd like to see them admit that it isn't their focus or why AWS exists, and to leave "GenAI" up to companies that want to pour billions of investor money down the drain as a loss-leader to try to crush the competition.

Nobody in "GenAI" is actually making a profit due to the costs of running it. OpenAI is losing billions of dollars, not even they can see a path to profitability any time soon.

AWS would be wise to steer clear of all of it, for now, as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather they don't raise prices on everything else to try to pay for a GenAI offering that's marginally better or worse than everyone else doing it.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-18 20:16:05+00:00
The Supreme Court has held that retaliatory violations of the first amendment allow the victim to sue the offender personally. At least twice last year, the current members of the Supreme Court threw out lower court rulings that gave qualified immunity to government officials accused of arresting people for saying things they didn’t like.

So, you know, this may not be a “fizzling out” so much as a boomerang that comes back and knocks your teeth out.
by trinsic2 | 2025-08-18 20:16:06+00:00
It is unusual. We have been condition to believe that culture is created by shared values. But actually is guided and molded by authority to create the illusion that its driven by society. Obviously this isn't true in all cases, but for most, its my belief that it is.

People can exist out side of the constrains of a culture that is imposed on then by understanding their own human value and worth that they are born with instead of looking to institutions and governments to give it to them.

In a society that doesn't have a centralized governing factor where the powerful impose their will on the people, then yes, I agree that its created by a shared understanding by its people. But that's not the case for 95% percent of the worlds cultures.
by vsri | 2025-08-18 20:16:16+00:00
> I find it extremely hard to believe that most consumers have a strong enough moral compass to go out of their way to buy something they already have access to.

This is zero-sum thinking. Do you oppose libraries on the same principle?

Sometimes making a thing accessible can increase the overall market for the good, because it trains the behavior. The market for books requires readers, and readers are created by people reading.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-08-18 20:16:23+00:00
We could hold all the following thoughts simultaneously...

• Anna's Archive is a delightful resource for readers

• the more widely the public reads, the better for society

• copyright law should be changed

• it would be good if society made it easier for authors to make a living

• some authors will rightfully feel exploited to have free copies of their works distributed illegally and without their permission

...or we could collapse under the cognitive dissonance, and lash out at @brianstorms instead.
by connicpu | 2025-08-18 20:16:32+00:00
I think the biggest hurdle to just doing that is who pays for the electricity. Sure right now it's a nice perk you can provide your EV owning visitors that probably won't cost too much, but in a world where 10%+ of cars are EVs the costs will add up even at level 1, so you'll need to go for capital-C Chargers that come with payment infrastructure.
by lacoolj | 2025-08-18 20:16:49+00:00
> Maybe I'll come back in 9 years and see how my views have changed.

I'm in year 10. My views are pretty much how you've outlined here. Some differences based on my $ENTERPRISE vs yours, but overall not a wide gap.

And I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing. Once you've adapted and realize where to look for who and what and how to prioritize and estimate your time, you're pretty set. Company succeeds and you succeed.

Good luck, OP!
by tart-lemonade | 2025-08-18 20:16:57+00:00
I feel like this video ran too long for what it is. I was hoping for more information on server GPUs, as those are where the big bucks are (all the talk of price constraints seems to indicate a primarily consumer market) and you can't just have a guy posting on Craigslist "I'll buy your DGX" because nobody would have any to sell.

The RTX 4090 48GB mod was certainly interesting, and I really wish they could have dug deeper into the market for those mods (as I suspect it would be far less consumer-oriented), but it felt like more spectacle than anything because of the apparent dead-end.

I think there would be a much more powerful story to tell if they had insider information on the shell companies buying server & datacenter GPUs or companies who have reason to suspect they're selling to shell companies but turn a blind eye, and the companies who make use of them. Instead, we just get a short blurb that someone (off the record) said it happens, but no real detail.
by _pdp_ | 2025-08-18 20:17:45+00:00
The reason text works is because it has higher bit rate then speech. This is way many believe that CLI tools are still considered supreme in terms of getting things done quick.

While fun this game-like interface is too casual and it certainly has lower bit rate which impacts communicate exchange between an AI and the human operator.

It will be a fine abstraction if the goal is to have high-level overview though.
by taylodl | 2025-08-18 20:18:00+00:00
If a plurality of "insiders" have sold 50% of their stock then you can be sure the company is on shaky ground. What they've just done is cashed-in to cover any downside losses and perhaps make some money. They're still invested to make more money if there's an upside swing. What all this tells you is Tesla is not a 'Buy' stock.
by aquafox | 2025-08-18 20:18:01+00:00
The consensus here seems to be that Python is missing a pipe operator. That was one of the things I quickly learned to appreciate when transitioning from Mathematica to R. It makes writing data science code, where the data are transformed by a series of different steps, so much more readable and intuitive.

I know that Python is used for many more things than just data science, so I'd love to hear if in these other contexts, a pipe would also make sense. Just trying to understand why the pipe hasn't made it into Python already.
by TriangleEdge | 2025-08-18 20:18:12+00:00
I don't understand how the finances work here. Is the proposal that the US govt buys 10% of available stocks at some price from Intel to give them cash to operate? Why doesn't Intel just get some investors to do that? If Intel is no longer competitive from an investor standpoint, then what's the point?

A quick ChatGPT search tells me Intel owns none of it's own stock, so I'm confused. It tells me a company can sell newly created stocks and dilute the value of the old stocks. I didn't know this was possible. Is this the proposed case?
by imchillyb | 2025-08-18 20:18:31+00:00
It’s market manipulation, with the understanding that free beats every other metric.

Once the competition fails, the value extraction process can begin. This is where the toxicity of our city begins to manifest. Once there is no competition remaining we can begin eating seeds as a pastime activity.

The toxicity of our city; our city. How do you own the world? Disorder.

Disorder…
by zppln | 2025-08-18 20:18:42+00:00
The same Valve that one day decided to put ads in spawn on de_dust2? :) They pretty much refused to fix anything related to Counter-Strike until they realized they could use it to sell the equivalent of hats.

I'd argue that the only reason Steam survived when it came out was because Valve forced people to use to play Counter-Strike. They've done better in the past 15 years though, I'll give them that!
by mieubrisse | 2025-08-18 20:19:02+00:00
I had an epiphany that faulting myself, and my self-control, is exactly what these sites want you to do. "Oh, it's just your bad self-discipline"

No, this is full-on war for control of your mind. And the adversary spends millions to hire teams of the world's best psychologists and engineers to deploy technology that never sleeps with the sole purpose of grabbing and keeping your attention.

Once I realized this, I started treating doomscrolling and Youtube rabbit holes not as personal insufficiencies, but as systemic failures in my psychological defense system. I started installing my own tech to keep me safe, and I am much, much happier.

Predictably, companies like Google try to disable the defenses (e.g. with Manifest v3, which was a garbage excuse to disable many defensive extensions). And so the war goes.
by mft_ | 2025-08-18 20:19:06+00:00
IMO, Scihub and the ebook parts of AA should be considered differently and not conflated.

In particular, Scihub is in opposition to the parasitic international publishers who dominate and control scientific publishing for profit, mostly on the backs of science generated by academia and other not-in-it-for-the-profit folks.

In contrast, downloading ebooks may, in some cases, lead to individual authors being hit in the pocket, in a profession it’s already hard to make a living from.

(I wish we’d figured out a better way to organise book publishing without publishing companies getting in the way and taking their large slice, allowing authors to profit more directly.)
by nativeit | 2025-08-18 20:19:32+00:00
100% agreed. I got my undergraduate degree in Media Studies, and one of things I learned was how intentional even the smallest details are in major productions. They spend millions of dollars, and employ full-time specialists for things like wardrobe and makeup, and those are skilled professionals whose job is to convey a narrative through their specific medium (in this case, wardrobe and makeup).

The same applies when you get to the elite levels of any kind of endeavor--they have long since consumed all of the proverbial low-lying fruit, and so they pay skilled professionals a ton of money to carve out marginal advantages. No presumption of intentional action is too paranoid or unreasonable when you get to this point. Assume every word, comma, image, sound, etc. has been carefully chosen for maximal impact, conscious or otherwise.
by troupo | 2025-08-18 20:19:38+00:00
Music got commoditized.

In the 90s the good bands got lucky that their distributors picked them up and promoted them etc. You just don't remember the amount of crap that was on at any given point in time.

Today you have instant access to millions of songs around the world in every genre imaginable: https://everynoise.com/ And not just to the whatever few records your local store carried, or what the Big Four paid the radio stations to promote.
by leptons | 2025-08-18 20:20:09+00:00
I still use Fiddler. I prefer it to browser inspector network tab when I need to get into the weeds. It does so much, and I can write custom proxy tweaks with Javascript (actually JScript.NET, but works just like good old JS), and it works with other software, I use it with NodeJS all the time. It's like the Swiss army knife of HTTP.
by mgfist | 2025-08-18 20:20:17+00:00
Running a local model is not an apples comparison. Yes, if you run a small model 24/7 without a care for output latency and utilization is completely static with no bursts, then it can look cheap. But most people want output now, not in 10 hours. And they want it from the best models. And they want large context windows. And when you combine that with serving millions of users, it gets complicated and expensive.
by lazide | 2025-08-18 20:20:43+00:00
Because most of the younger generations didn’t have a chance to buy in at the lower prices, and hence haven’t owned much as a percentage at the same ages. Boomers own most of the real estate right now, and have for a very long time.

It’ll spread around more when they die.

At least as this quotes “Millennials own less than two-thirds of the real estate Baby Boomers did at the same age”.

[https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/ter01-real-estate-owners...]
by aeon_ai | 2025-08-18 20:20:50+00:00
Opt-out links by carrier:

ATT - https://www.att.com/consent/ccpa/dnsatt

T-Mobile: https://www.t-mobile.com/privacy-center --Access the Privacy Dashboard

Adjust the following privacy settings (toggle off as desired), per line/account: - Profiling and automated decisions (on by default) - Fraud and identity theft protection (shares account and usage info) - Sharing certain financial information (payment history, balances, etc.) - Analytics and reporting, Advertising options, and Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Verizon - Go to your MyVerizon Navigate to Account > Account Settings > Privacy Settings on the web; or tap the gear icon and choose Manage privacy settings in the app.

Locate the following tracking options: - Custom Experience - Custom Experience Plus - Business & Marketing Insights - CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) and Identity Verification programs -For each, select "Don't Use" or toggle off to opt out
by jjcm | 2025-08-18 20:21:18+00:00
Likewise for Dota 2 players. Some of those old / early cosmetics have shot up in price. A friend of mine I used to play with had a $500 item. Getting rid of them may fund your game purchases for a bit.

There are plenty of sites out there that can give you a value of your inventory. Just make sure your privacy settings for your inventory are set to "public": https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings (though I'd recommend changing it back to private after you use one of the tools, since scammers will try and target you if you have public high value items).
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 20:21:35+00:00
> Do you oppose libraries on the same principle?

No, because libraries have to buy the books! If lots of people check out a book, the library will have to buy more copies! Yes, maybe the authors loose out on some revenue, but there's a clear relationship between number of readers and the author getting paid for their work.

This is also why I thought the Internet Archive's lending lending library was great! I'm aware they got sued anyway, and I think that's a real shame.
by Kranar | 2025-08-18 20:22:15+00:00
No being honest does not mean that and had you said that I'd have no basis upon which to object to your comment.

You refuted an argument about being honest about accepting an award on the basis that the award pays a lot of money and grants one a great deal of popularity.

If your argument didn't involve money and popularity, then why did you choose those two specific criteria as the justification for accepting this award?

I want to be clear, I am not claiming that Dr. Hinton accepted the award in a dishonest manner or that he did it for money, I am simply refuting your position that money is a valid reason to disregard honesty for accepting a prestigious award.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-18 20:22:27+00:00
My understanding is that’s way at the upper end and there are other reputable studies (which you can search for) that put it down around 50% in twin studies, which doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be smart just because your parents are. But that’s irrelevant. The question being asked was: if IQ is genetic, why do we need teaching? This is like asking why you’d need ever need gas if you had extra-large fuel tank installed in your car.
by logifail | 2025-08-18 20:23:04+00:00
> it’s bad form to deadname someone even if you are referring to a period when they went by the deadname

I try really hard to avoid getting anywhere near these contentious things ... but I think Wikipedia's handling of this seems reasonable, at least for some value of reasonable.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sophie_Wilson
by linkjuice4all | 2025-08-18 20:23:12+00:00
At some point a new group of organized criminals has either replaced or partnered with the "Republican Party." It seems this is partially for the Trump-aligned group to draw in votes and presumably corrupt or pressure the remaining "good guys" in the various government and political organizations.

Many of these moves and strategies make sense when viewed through the lens of organized crime shaking down companies, governments, private organizations, and such.

As to why they still have supporters - I can't really explain that aside from "they're hurting the right people."
by 6gvONxR4sf7o | 2025-08-18 20:23:36+00:00
My favorite take on this is that yes, in fact it is just the chain rule. The usual argument goes that automatic and symbolic differentiation are fundamentally different, so anything particularly old (pre-computers, for example) doesn't count as inventing back prop. But here's my favorite take on equivalences between AD and symbolic diff [0]. I wish there wasn't such importance placed on who invented it for stuff like this. Clearly, someone codifying backprop wasn't a bottleneck in making ML progress, so why's it get so much attention?

[0] https://emilien.ca/Notes/Notes/notes/1904.02990v4.pdf
by necovek | 2025-08-18 20:23:38+00:00
That's where we somewhat disagree on "invest heavily".

I believe you can test well enough by focusing on the semantic value an external service is providing (eg. S3 as a special purpose object or file storage with only a few operations, not a generic object storage; SQS could be a very simple event framework for most use cases), implementing only the very narrow use cases you need covered, and having a test which confirms that the simulated, local-only version behaves exactly the same as the one backed by the real service.

And really, with a well structured codebase, this should really not be very expensive.

The complexity really comes in with configurability, but as most components will really only depend on a few other (or your architecture is not well encapsulated), it shouldn't be too hard to run any individual one fully locally.

I am not saying this is "easy", but once you wrap your head around this approach, it's surprisingly simple and cheap: it provides just enough tests to cover everything, without covering many things with multiple tests (which also slows down development in the mid- and long-term).

In short, I have yet to see a software architecture that's inherently testable at all levels without it simply being a good architecture.
by SpicyUme | 2025-08-18 20:23:48+00:00
I've daydreamed about building a house with one, maybe two, channel areas midway up every wall for easy access to wiring and such. Possibly pipes as well, but that might not be needed. I've lived in places with wainscotting, incorporating the covers into that would work for me. Seamless walls don't always stay seamless anyway, but maybe I'm just over my plaster walls and the little cracks that form.
by Phlogistique | 2025-08-18 20:24:14+00:00
The problem I have had with this type of app is that, on Instagram at least any video that a friend posts is considered a reel. And I want to watch videos that my friends post. What I don't want is swiping mindlessly through random videos. So really I would like a swipe blocker not a short video blocker. (And bonus points if I could make it work on Firefox)
by mieubrisse | 2025-08-18 20:24:20+00:00
In case you want that same functionality now, I use the following three extensions to tame Youtube dark patterns:

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/df-utube-distractio...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blocktube/bbeaicapb...
by nativeit | 2025-08-18 20:24:31+00:00
I setup a self-hosted FreshRSS + extensions for this very purpose. With a little effort, I can even pull in social media feeds and YouTube subscriptions. Now I have a very plain (but highly functional) UI with a chronological list of the sources I wish to follow. No recommendations, no algorithms, no infinite anything. For discovery, I can now go elsewhere and look for new content with intention, even if facilitated by algorithms. But I've successfully divorced that from the act of consumption.

I can tell you, it feels better. I have experienced what I consider to be a material improvement in consumption habits, and overall mental health.