MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bjt | 2025-08-05 23:16:14+00:00
A few thoughts...

First, where are you seeing that? And where does the "head here" link point? I'm not seeing it on the linked page or on https://elevenlabs.io/music-terms.

Second, that language is not saying "we got permission to use all the music we trained on". It seems more directly addressed at the rights they're giving you, as opposed to the rights they have to the training material. It could just as well be based on an opinion from their general counsel that it's fair use to train on all the music they downloaded, so it's "legal enough".

Third, and as I tried to emphasize above, legal is not the same as ethical. Even if they win the legal argument about fair use, it would still be shitty to take someone else's work and use it to train a model that put them out of business.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-05 23:16:16+00:00
Lede:

what the oligarchs [and fascists] don’t want you to understand: the same underlying technologies enabling this power concentration can be architected to resist it. The key isn’t begging for better billionaires or smarter regulations—it’s recognizing that decentralization isn’t a technical preference. Decentralization is a democratic necessity.

Backstory:

fascists are winning because they’ve built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to concentrated political power. This isn’t about technology being inherently dangerous—it’s about how distorted Wall Street incentives drove us toward digital infrastructure that mirrors authoritarian power structures. [fascists] discovered that when digital platforms become centralized and authoritarian, democratic institutions will follow.

cont:

The same authoritarian capture that took over centralized social media is already threatening AI systems as well. Just as we’ve watched [a fascist] morph Twitter’s algorithms into X’s non-stop amplification of his personal political preferences, we’re seeing AI systems designed to reflect the biases and political agendas of their corporate owners. But this pattern isn’t inevitable. We need to understand that AI doesn’t have to be another tool of oppression. Designed correctly, it can be a weapon of liberation.
by brap | 2025-08-05 23:16:38+00:00
I imagine a future where the “high level” stuff in the environment is pre defined by a human (with or without assistance from AI), and then AI sort of fills in the blanks on the fly.

So for example, a game designer might tell the AI the floor is made of mud, but won’t tell the AI what it looks like if the player decides to dig a 10 ft hole in the mud, or how difficult it is to dig, or what the mud sounds like when thrown out of the hole, or what a certain NPC might say when thrown down the hole, etc.
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-05 23:17:05+00:00
I'm not talking about time saving. AI seems to speed up my searching a bit since I can get results quicker without having to find the right query then find a site that actually answers my question, but that's minor, as nice as it is.

I use AI in my personal life to learn about things I never would have without it because it makes the cost of finding any basic knowledge basically 0. Diet improvement ideas based on several quick questions about gut functioning, etc, recently learning how to gauge tsunami severity, and tons of other things. Once you have several fundamental terms and phrases for new topics it's easy to then validate the information with some quick googling too.

How much have you actually tried using LLMs and did you just use normal chat or some big grand complex tool? I mostly just use chat and prefer to enter my code in artisanally.
by NoDoo | 2025-08-05 23:17:26+00:00
Do you think someone will distill this or quantize it further than the current 4-bit from OpenAI so it could run on less than 16gb RAM? (The 20b version). To me, something like 7-8B with 1-3B active would be nice as I'm new to local AI and don't have 16gb RAM.
by kalleboo | 2025-08-05 23:17:33+00:00
When I used DDG, the results were worse than Google, and I kept going back to Google when I couldn't find something, always second-guessing the results. And it seems every time someone recommends DDG the first thing they point out is "you can just type !g to get google results!", so I assume this is still the case.

With Kagi, the results are better than Google, and the first couple times I couldn't find something with Kagi and went back to Google, the Google results were even worse.
by asciident | 2025-08-05 23:17:48+00:00
Or cheating in other ways, like collusion rings [1], reviewers using LLMs to review, or authors putting text in their papers so reviewers using LLMs to review will give them a favorable review [2]

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/collusion-rings-threaten-the-in...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/scientist...
by ninkendo | 2025-08-05 23:17:55+00:00
The 10 trillion FPS number comes from the fact that they’re taking advantage of a strobing effect in the light they’re filming, such that if the strobe is happening at (for example) 1000Hz, they can get a frame at time T, then a frame at time T + 1.00000000001ms, then T + 2.00000000002ms, and so on. Then you stitch it together and it looks like they’re a 10-trillionth of a second apart.

No camera is taking in 10 trillion frames of data per second.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 23:18:07+00:00
Data will travel at the speed of light within a margin of error, so "a few light seconds" means "a few seconds".

There will be some lag as each satellite would need to cache the data before retransmitting, and it would need to store that data for a short period as well in case of failure, so assume that it would double the time for each stop under ideal locations, so to get information 4 light seconds away would take approx 8 seconds, and a minimum of 16 seconds for a response assuming they started replying the instant they received.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-08-05 23:18:24+00:00
That is irrelevant. The payment processors are enforcing Mastercard’s rules, and explicitly state as much. Mastercard don’t need to ‘interact’ with anyone if they have intermediaries willing to do so on their behalf. Mastercard’s own rule 5.12.7 /is/ conflicting news. It states that they have sole discretion, so there is little chance of any partner invoking it against Mastercard’s wishes. Just in a non-interactive way that only ends up with a few turbulent priests getting put to the sword.
by caseysoftware | 2025-08-05 23:19:20+00:00
Maliciousness, incompetence, and accidents all look EXACTLY THE SAME from a replication perspective. We can't tell the researchers' intent.

Until the "industry" (defined vaguely as scientists, their institutions, universities, funding entities, etc, etc) cleans house and punishes those researchers, we're quickly approaching a time where we'll have to take EVERY study skeptically until it can be replicated.

* Punishment could range from "no, we won't publish your stuff without data+methodology" to ratcheting back funding to "we publicly document your lying/incompetence" (hardest and riskiest) to a variety of other things.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-05 23:19:26+00:00
The '~' is important: composites are in general very difficult to predict, and under compression even more so.

(To build some intuition: carbon fibre, is just that, i.e. a fabric. No-one expects to be able to push on the edges of a sheet of fabric get any real resistance at all. If you then embed that it a plastic, i.e. make a composite, the plastic is mainly what makes it hold its shape. It's only really made stronger in tension by the fibers in it, why would you expect the compression to be better?)
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-05 23:20:37+00:00
I almost always validate what I get back from LLMs and it's usually right. Even when it isn't it still usually gets me closer to my goal (e.g maybe some UX has changed where a setting I'm looking for in an app has changed, etc).

IDK where you're getting the idea that it's fading out. So many people are using the "slightly better chatbots" every single day.

Btw if you only think chat GPT is slightly better than what we had a decade ago then I do not believe that you have used any chat bots at all, either 10 years ago or recently because that's actually a completely insane take.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 23:20:52+00:00
Just because someone has a different point of view than yours does not make them stupid. I know plenty of people that have different views of mine that are much smarter than I am, and engaging with them leads to interesting conversations. I can still think they are "wrong" at the end of these conversations, but I'd never call them stupid. Hell, the lottery is often described as a tax on poor people. Yet the vast majority of lottery players would never call it a tax. The vast majority of people that I've talked to that don't understand tariffs are not incapable of understanding the concept. They've only ever heard their information from one source that does not discuss tariffs in this manner. Once they hear other viewpoints not from a single source, they typically admit they are taxes and do not argue against it. It does not change their mind that they are still a good idea.
by ineedasername | 2025-08-05 23:21:15+00:00
A local laptop of the past few years without a discrete GPU can run, at practical speeds depending on task, a gemma/llama model if it's (ime) under 4GB.

For practical RAG processes of narrow scope and an even minimal amount of scaffolding a very usable speed for automating tasks, especially as the last-mile/edge device portion of a more complex process with better models in use upstream. Classification tasks, reasonay intelligent decisions between traditional workflow processes, other use cases-- a of them extremely valuable in enterprise, being built and deployed right now.
by samtp | 2025-08-05 23:21:22+00:00
Sorry if I came of as prickly, but it wasn't exactly like your parent comment was much kinder.

I mean it's pretty simple - there are a lot of big claims that I read but very few tangible examples that people share where the project has consequences for failure. Someone else replied with some helpful examples in another thread. If you want to add another one feel free, if not that's cool too.
by cassianoleal | 2025-08-05 23:21:24+00:00
You don't. The existing providers only deal with spinning up VMs and containers.

Most of the operations and configurations that exist in Proxmox are not present in the providers, like SDN, firewall and the various storage options. The reason is that the API is all over the place and really badly documented.

Note that I still quite like the product. I have a 2- (soon to be 3-) node cluster at home and at this moment I have no plans to migrate away from it.

I looked into Incus but it's also far from mature, with an API and general data structure being full of inconsistencies, and again the documentation is not quite there.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-08-05 23:22:45+00:00
Sorry to ask what is possibly a dumb question, but is this effectively the whole kit and kaboodle, for free, downloadable without any guardrails?

I often thought that a worrying vector was how well LLMs could answer downright terrifying questions very effectively. However the guardrails existed with the big online services to prevent those questions being asked. I guess they were always unleashed with other open source offerings but I just wanted to understand how close we are to the horrors that yesterday's idiot terrorist might have an extremely knowledgable (if not slightly hallucinatory) digital accomplice to temper most of their incompetence.
by arbitrary_name | 2025-08-05 23:23:16+00:00
Google, what's a "college level vocabulary word"?

For crying out loud, information is so accessible. The inability to find and discern at least some level of truth (or at least gather multiple contrasting perspectives) is laziness, AND stupidity.

I'm all for better schools, a better information ecosystem, and more tolerance, but why are we bending over backwards to tell malignantly underinformed people it's not their fault? It is! It is their fault.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-08-05 23:23:34+00:00
I have an Adderall prescription, although I rarely use it. Adderall lets me focus on things longer, with distractions staying in the background. If anything, Adderall makes me too focused on a task.

If I were doom scrolling when Adderall kicked in, the risk is I'd continue doing it for hours.
by elliottkember | 2025-08-05 23:24:27+00:00
Moving to the US, the traffic light system was a big culture shock for me. No major/minor dendritic road system laid out like a tree like I was used to — more like right angles everywhere and so many delays. Traffic lights on every single intersection. So inefficient.

And when you mention it, a surprising number of people say “that would never work here. People don’t know how to drive”. So little faith!
by shreezus | 2025-08-05 23:24:33+00:00
University research grants that have the word "mRNA" present are currently being flagged and frozen, even though mRNA technology has been used for things like cancer vaccine research for years. Politicizing a technology is incredibly absurd and will have long-term repercussions on science & medicine.

I know of a professor at one university that had grants frozen due to being flagged as "woke" gender discourse. His lab researches...(wait for it)... immunotherapy treatments for breast cancer in women.
by 47282847 | 2025-08-05 23:24:58+00:00
> You need Claude Pro or Max.

Actually, to try it out, prepaid token billing is fine. You are not required to have a subscription for claude code cli. Even just $5 gave me enough breathing room to get a feeling for its potential, personally. I do not touch code often these days so I was relieved not to have to subscribe and cancel again just to play around a little and have it write some basic scripts for me.
by apex3stoker | 2025-08-05 23:25:15+00:00
That was an illegal move done by Trump. Biden administration proposed regulations for the conditions of the funding and allow states to apply for it. The regulations went through the necessary process to become final and the states went through the work to fulfill the requirements and the fundings were approved to go out of the door based on the trenches.

Trump administration illegally impounded the funding. This has been disallowed for decades but sadly the republican political appointees at the supreme court is allowing him.
by hobobaggins | 2025-08-05 23:25:18+00:00
> Is “don’t buy stuff with TSMC chips” really a valid option we have?

Not sure that TSMC would want to do that either! We're probably their biggest market, even allowing for China.

> Isn’t that basically “stop buying high technology” to a large degree?

I think you're right, to an extent, at leastt in the near term.

However, we do have (and especially used to have) various fabbing here in the States, from Samsung to Intel. Especially the latter has been neglected, but these changes would probably accelerate on-shoring and perhaps bring some of it back here.

Don't forget that TSMC is in a country that is probably going to go through some significant instability in the next few years. From a business continuity perspective, we'd need to consider availability and supply chain management with the strong possibility of a major vendor being located in the middle of a hot warzone.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 23:26:37+00:00
Looking at the agenda of the party currently in charge, the system isn't failing people. It's performing as intended. When you do not want the masses to be educated, you defund those that are in charge of educating to the point it has no other outcome than to come to a grinding halt. As intended. After all, the numbers stop going up when you stop counting.

I'm often reminded of a conversation my arrogant younger self had with an Englishman I was having a bit of back and forth banter about Yanks vs the sun setting on the English empire. I asked if the Empire was so great, why did all of the colonies end up revolting? His answer was simply, "we taught them how to read." Once the masses can read and think for themselves in an educated manner, they tend to no longer put up with being trodden over for much longer. So the answer is clearly simple to stop educating the masses.
by NoDoo | 2025-08-05 23:27:34+00:00
I've run qwen3 4B on my phone, it's not the best but it's better than old gpt-3.5. It also does have a reasoning mode, and in reasoning mode it's better than the original gpt-4 and rhe original gpt-4o, but not the latest gpt-4o. I get usable speed, but it's not really comparable to most cloud hosted models.
by qilo | 2025-08-05 23:27:34+00:00
It's not working for me anymore, after upgrade to 139.

chrome://policy/ shows policy status error:

Policy name Policy value Source Applies to Level Status ExtensionManifestV2Availability 2 Platform Machine Mandatory Error Value 2 Error Unknown policy.

Update: Add these options to the chrome executable to make it work again:

--enable-features=AllowLegacyMV2Extensions,UnexpireFlagsM136,UnexpireFlagsM137 --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported

Actually, these are enough:

--enable-features=AllowLegacyMV2Extensions --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported
by fwip | 2025-08-05 23:28:15+00:00
No, that's even worse. Now you're paying more money for a worse solution. Imagine A) the per sale loss and B) the amount of lost sales from non-porn-buying customers that rightfully don't want to do that.

The right solution is what they're doing - finding a sane payment processor to work with.

Edit for clarity:

Stripe came over to them and said "if you have NSFW stuff for sale, we will not process any of your payments." The majority of revenue for itch is SFW content. If they start selling them for gift cards or points or whatever, Stripe will cut their revenue to 0.

It makes no sense to rush development of an alternative stopgap measure that is worse financially for you than the status quo.
by bartman | 2025-08-05 23:28:40+00:00
These cuts have been in progress for months, and it’s a sad state of the world when scientific research and its products are called unscientific and not evidence based without any substantiation.

I’m reminded of this quote from Carl Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, as we creep closer and closer to future he describes.

> We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
by infecto | 2025-08-05 23:29:14+00:00
Sorry you took offense. I believe in a thread about initialism that some forms are expected based on the nature of the content. And specifically in this case, I am not sure what a video professional has to do with someone who works in security. So no I don’t need to stop and to be frank if you don’t know what a NVR is Frigate is most likely not a great solution but it also might be and you will learn a lot!
by aurumque | 2025-08-05 23:30:01+00:00
When I was a younger man, I fought long and hard and spent many late nights on the phone with the lawyers abroad, to convince my company to open source a tool that I was proud of and thought would help our brand and attract new developers. They finally granted approval, but I was not allowed to accept features or updates, customer service, spend time on fixes, accept pull requests, etc. Unfortunately my name was all over it, and I came to hate the fact that I had championed this, forced to watch the code rot and interest wane because the company couldn't fathom anything OSS besides lobbing some dead code over the wall periodically.

After I left I would still receive emails from frustrated users, but I had no access anymore. I could have forked it, but it just seemed too messy. I made some suggestions and wished them luck.

There is a lesson here, somewhere, but mainly it just convinced me to not rock the boat for the next decade, and to seek out smaller companies for employment.
by sohkamyung | 2025-08-05 23:31:21+00:00
The observable universe is finite, though [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon ].

"A cosmological horizon is a measure of the distance from which one could possibly retrieve information. This observable constraint is due to various properties of general relativity, the expanding universe, and the physics of Big Bang cosmology. Cosmological horizons set the size and scale of the observable universe."
by rcxdude | 2025-08-05 23:31:32+00:00
>Why waste time and resources building, designing, and most importantly lifetime testing something that you can buy off the shelf for $30 US?

That's fine, but you would think they would buy a high quality one (like $70), use a wired one, and maybe have a spare? I think that's a lot of where the ire comes from. It's the cheapest and easiest part of the system and still they skimped out (and it's memable for gamers, given how common the experience of 'third party controller the little brother/least favored friend has to use' is). I worked on a self-funded student project making an autonomous underwater vehicle and we still used a better controller than they did (the xbox 360 controller is the obvious choice for such things. It's ubiquitously understood, trivial to interface to, reasonably priced, and pretty damn solid)
by gruez | 2025-08-05 23:31:45+00:00
>One of the major reasons there’s such a shortage of homes in the US is the extensive permit process required. Pivoting from data centers to home construction is not a straightforward process.

Right, I'm not suggesting that all of the datacenter construction will seamlessly switch over to building homes, just that some of the labor/materials freed would be allocated to other sorts construction. That could be homes, amazon distribution centers, or grid connections for renewable power projects.

>A resilient economy has multiple growth areas; an unstable one has one or two.

>[...] it would undoubtedly get worse for the reasons I listed above,

No disagreement there. My point is that if AI somehow evaporated, the hit to GDP would be less than $10 (total size of the sector in the toy example above), because the resources would be allocated to do something else, rather than sitting idle entirely.

>Regarding the economics, the reason it’s a big deal that AI is powering growth numbers is because if the bubble pops, jobs go poof and stock prices with it as everyone tries to salvage their positions. While we still create jobs, on net we’ll be losing them. This has many secondary and tertiary effects, such as less money in the economy, less consumer confidence, less investment, fewer businesses causing fewer jobs, and so on.

That's a fair point, although to be fair the federal government is pretty good at stimulus after the GFC and covid that any credit crunch would be short lived.
by ars | 2025-08-05 23:31:51+00:00
COVID harmed most industries that rely on manual labor. Suggested reasons vary, one is that people discovered they could do mental-work, and preferred it (and apparently it never occurred to them before). Another reason is many retirements and a gap in knowledge transfer to the next generation. Another is a huge increase in demand for non-physical work during COVID that never went away, leaving other industries short handed (and it's not a pay thing, there's not enough people for all demand in all industries, someone must run short).
by infecto | 2025-08-05 23:31:53+00:00
Please take a breath and step away. I am pointing out that if you don’t know what an NVR is you most likely don’t want to mess with Frigate. It’s possible you do and you will learn a lot but in a thread about initialism, knowing what an NVR is tablestakes knowledge to running a Frigate deployment. It’s ok we disagree! Don’t degrade yourself to the level of a childish argument.