MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 14:48:23+00:00
GOG used to have a small selection of DRM-free movies that you could buy to download and that would then make all those things possible to do in a way that would be legal or at least able to do locally in a way that would have a zero risk of being discovered even if it violated some EULA. Announcement from 2014:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree...

Sadly http://www.gog.com/movies now redirects to http://www.gog.com/games and the movies link that used to be on the front page is gone. Based on a comment in that announcement thread it looks like the movies were silently removed already back in 2023. I only noticed it now. They never seemed to really add any new movies and the existing ones were mostly game-related documentaries.
by dyeje | 2025-08-15 14:48:42+00:00
“What kids told us about how to get off cigarettes”

While I agree there’s a problem with how helicopter-y society is with kids these days, I think it’s ridiculous to expect kids to resist a device that is designed to be addictive. Teams of tens of thousands of the most highly skilled people in the world are laser focused on squeezing every second of attention out of _adults_ let alone kids. We need regulation, full stop. I don’t know what that looks like, but if you’ve ever seen a toddler scrolling TikTok like a zombie you should know what’s at stake.
by phatskat | 2025-08-15 14:48:43+00:00
> Now that the rules that the US abused to stifle innovation are being used by someone else to protect their own investment, you suddenly cry foul?

I don’t know about the person you replied to, but I think a lot of us have watched US factories closing down and moving to other counties in the last couple decades and it’s just been a constantly disappointing train wreck. Auto manufacturing moving to Mexico and Canada, various factories shutting down because they can’t compete with foreign prices or volume, and politicians who happily didn’t care beyond lip service - the only reason it matters to any politician now is because trump brought attention to it (though accidentally) with the stupid tariff business.

The people who actually could’ve done something have sat here for the last few decades and been largely inactive other than giving deals to Big Tech to open data centers while making empty promises about “bringing jobs back” because no one was offering the kind of kickbacks that Bezos and Musk can throw around, and now they’re only making any stink because it looks better than not.
by captainmuon | 2025-08-15 14:49:03+00:00
Their business model might be dead, I don't know. But the latest Prusa printers are as far as I know not really open - I can't download the schematics for free and make a clone, can I? And also a truely open schematic that I could download that way wouldn't be affected by patents, as long as I'm not selling it. Granted, commercial development with open core might be in trouble.

But first, that is not a technical nor a business problem, that sounds like a political problem. Prusa is literally the leading european name in the 3D-printing industry. Surely they can get an appointment with some government officials, who are concerned about manufacturing capabilities and future technologies - who pull some strings, and then every patent clerk will receive a memo to double check the relevant patents when someone tries to register them.

Second, Chinese patents have a different weight than EU/US patents. As he writes, they are a dime a dozen. Probably not worth caring about, unless they are targeting the Chinese market. And if they are, the best defense would probably to register some patents their themselves.
by mschaef | 2025-08-15 14:49:13+00:00
> It feels like the industry quickly moved beyond the reach of the "hobbyist". There were no more "clever tricks" to be employed

It happened in a matter of a few years. The Apple II was built as a machine capable of running Breakout in software. Woz picked the 6502 (originally for the Apple One) because he could afford it.

It wasn't that long after that Commodore released the C64. They chose the 6502 because they'd bought the 6502 fab to protect their calculator business (and then they used it to assemble custom video and audio chips). From there, we were off to the races with respect to larger and larger engineering requirements.

Oddly, I wrote a bit about it a few days ago (in the context of John Gruber's recent discussion on the Apple and Commodore microcomputers): https://mschaef.com/c64
by pabs3 | 2025-08-15 14:49:33+00:00
> Finding the copyright notices buried ...

The GPL and BSD notices are usually in the same place, in the Settings -> About -> Legal notices dialog or similar.

> Also, who will dig and find that I have used a specific library if I conveniently forgot to add its copyright line to this already long wall of text?

People will still find out. The router I have violates both the BSD license, and the GPL. It simply has no copyright notices at all. The only indication it violates both is the web server 404 page links to the micro_httpd homepage, and the network filesystem feature uses the word samba. Thats probably more common than deliberately incomplete copyright notices. Even more common is wilful deliberate GPL violations.
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-15 14:49:35+00:00
Due to obvious reason only the period after Bretton Woods counts.

So 55 years. 1980 and 2001 was almost half of that and the real price of gold declined by 4-5x. If you take out the spike in the late it’s still almost 2x or so compared to the 70s (very volatile period).

This wasn’t lag. M2 supply grew continuously and increased by >3x during he two decades while even the nominal price of gold declined.

After the gold standard was abandoned it became a highly speculative volatile asset.
by itsalotoffun | 2025-08-15 14:49:56+00:00
Lots of chat about this:

> Inference APIs aren’t subsidised

This is hard to pin down. There are plenty of metal companies providing hosted inference at market rates (i.e. assumed profitably if heading towards some commodity price floor). The premise that every single one of these companies is operating at a loss is unlikely. The open question is about the "off-book" training costs for the models running on these servers: are your unit economics positive when factoring training costs. And if those training costs are truly off-book, it's not a meritless argument to say the model providers are "subsidizing" the inference industry. But it's not a clear cut argument either.

Anthropic and OpenAI are their own beasts. Are their unit economics negative? Depends on the time frame you're considering. In the mid-longer run, they're staking everything on "most decidedly not negative". But what are the rest of us paying on the day OpenAI posts 50% operating margins?
by gf000 | 2025-08-15 14:49:56+00:00
This is pretty much the holy grail, that would make the first person to crack it crazy rich.

So the quick answer is: no, not even close. Also, you would somehow have to measure a very low concentration of soluble chemical in a fluid with always changing composition of a bunch of chemically similar other constituents across relatively wide tissue layers that themselves have a lot of that same chemical..

It's absolutely sci-fi.
by cratermoon | 2025-08-15 14:50:48+00:00
Perhaps I missed it, could you help me see where specifically the paper acknowledges or asserts that LLMs do not have these capabilities? I see where the paper repeatedly mentions perceptions, but I also see right at the beginning, "Our research reveals that the socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents lead individuals to attribute a humanlike mind to these nonhuman entities" [emphasis added], and multiple places in the paper, for example in the section titled "Theoretical Background", subtitle 'Socio-emotional capabilities in autonomous agents increase “humanness”', LLMs are implied to have at least low levels of these capabilities, and contrasts it to the perception that they have high levels.

In brief, the paper consistently but implicitly regards these tools as having at least minimal socio-emotional capabilities, and that the problem is humans perceiving them as having higher levels.
by akudha | 2025-08-15 14:51:00+00:00
now adults are afraid to interact with kids because they might be seen as a baddy

This only applies to men though, as if all men are predators by default. There are cases where a single adult man was refused entry into a park, mom calling the cops on a single adult man in a park who was minding his own business etc. As you pointed out, this doesn't seem like an issue in Asia, at least not yet.

No wonder men do not want to become teachers. Why risk your freedom, reputation?

I'd blame the media (especially right wing media) whose entire business model is fear mongering about everything/everyone
by therouwboat | 2025-08-15 14:51:02+00:00
I have Creality Ender3 v3 and Prusa mk4s and they are not the same, you can get them to produce same quality, but ender requires more tinkering and I have had more failed prints.

Creality software is awful, you get no firmware updates for a year and then you get 4 on same day, like do they even test before release? Slicer is also buggy and default settings seem to be max everything, so its loud and fast and has print quality issues.

When I was building the prusa kit, I kept thinking that this is how you should make a product, the machine feels well thought out and documentation is great. Of course prusa is 3x the cost of ender.
by state_less | 2025-08-15 14:51:55+00:00
That's interesting! I'm supposing you've been really afraid before, and you'll know it's quite an agitated state to be in. So normally, without fear, folks will be more at peace, more at ease.

As far as sociopaths and egomaniacs go, my experience is that they are usually quite fearful, though they try to mask it with compensating measures. You might feel bad for them if they weren't so often spoiling other peoples fun with their antics.
by cdaringe | 2025-08-15 14:52:14+00:00
Rust v Go.

I was firmly in the Rust only camp, specifically in the business environment. I’m still strongly biased towards it, but I appreciate the nuance and needs for some teams and needs.

Writing this prompted me to check my https://cdaringe.github.io/programming-language-selector/, and it’s clear go’s dev ux scores are relatively underrated
by sobiolite | 2025-08-15 14:52:25+00:00
The article says that LLMs don't summarize, only shorten, because...

"A true summary, the kind a human makes, requires outside context and reference points. Shortening just reworks the information already in the text."

Then later says...

"LLMs operate in a similar way, trading what we would call intelligence for a vast memory of nearly everything humans have ever written. It’s nearly impossible to grasp how much context this gives them to play with"

So, they can't summarize, because they lack context... but they also have an almost ungraspably large amount of context?
by mtalantikite | 2025-08-15 14:52:27+00:00
> What would not be survivor bias is you telling us what happened to the kids around you.

Oh they all died because adults weren't around.

No but seriously, everyone was fine. Kids died drunk driving in high school, but not playing soccer at the local park.

Edit: I misremembered. The kid I'm thinking of who died drunk driving got into that accident our sophomore year of college. So he would have been around 19 or 20 at the time.
by 0xy | 2025-08-15 14:52:28+00:00
So when you create $10,000,000 of economic value you should be forced at gunpoint to stop contributing to society and creating jobs.

Jeff Bezos has created many, many millions of jobs while selling essential goods at margins sometimes below 1%. If his reward was stolen after $10m, why would he have bothered slaving away?

Aside the blatant jealousy factor, it's economic suicide and contains shadows of economic systems which have led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 14:52:30+00:00
Fair enough. I meant to type Democratic but I guess I typed Democrat by mistake and didn’t realize it had baggage. I was typing on a phone.

It does seem like a pretty easy mistake to make regardless and I don’t think it’s reasonable to call me “extremely conservative” for making it. It’s still pretty common to call these politicians “democrats”, so someone who isn’t terminally tuned into semantic games might not realize it.
by nradov | 2025-08-15 14:52:57+00:00
Not affected in the same way. The original M1911 design has a floating firing pin held back only by spring tension, so in theory it might be possible to get it to discharge without pressing the trigger by dropping it straight onto the muzzle from a sufficient height. This is so unlikely in practice that it's not a real concern. Some newer variants also incorporate an extra internal safety that blocks the firing pin from moving.
by acossta | 2025-08-15 14:53:07+00:00
You don’t often catch a star’s demise kicked off by its own companion.

In this case, a massive star and a comparable‑mass black hole were locked in a tight orbit. As they spiralled closer, the black hole distorted the star and threw off enough material to trigger a new kind of supernova.

The explosion released more energy in a second than our Sun will emit over its entire lifetime and was only spotted because an AI system flagged the early outburst. The finding hints that black holes can actively cause some supernovas.
by macintux | 2025-08-15 14:53:20+00:00
Link to the excellent Jim Gray paper that Joe repeatedly cites:

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/739/Fall2018/Papers...

I gave an Erlang talk many years ago where I used the Tandem architecture as a comparison point, and one of the attendees happened to have worked on them.

I really should chase down the other references for further reading.

RIP, Joe. You were one of a kind.
by martin-t | 2025-08-15 14:53:36+00:00
It's not a binary too string / too weak. It's that _copyright_:

- protects the wrong entities (corporations instead of individuals who did the real work) - IP should be collectively owned by the people who created it and selling it should be illegal,

- is too long, yes

- DMCA can be used to harass without actually owning the IP and there are no penalties

- the fair use exception can be used to allow clear cases of plagiarism where you mechanically transform an original work with barely any human input in such a way that it's hard or impossible to prove it was based on the original.

As for _patents_, they should simply require proof of work - basically they should only be for recovering research costs (with profit), not holding everyone hostage. They should also be subject to experts in the field verifying they are not trivial and how much work they would take to replicate.

And obviously China is a global parasite. We should apply to them the same standards they apply to us - none.

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More generally incentives matter. If trying something has (near) 0 cost but high reward, abusive actors will keep trying despite most of their attempts failing. Anybody who understands that incentives shape the world will immediately identify this pattern (any gamedevs here?). There must be punishments for provably bogus attempts to use IP - both copyright and patents.
by thefaux | 2025-08-15 14:53:58+00:00
I had a similar experience and sadly the culture seemed to shift during the 90s so that children were stripped of most of their autonomy. Having not experienced it themselves, many struggle to even imagine the possibilities or benefits.

I will also mention I experienced periods of absolutely crushing boredom at times during the summer when I did not have friends or parents around and had nothing to do but watch daytime television. But I learned from the boredom. It is sad to me that so many today are instead being fed from the drip of constant personalized entertainment that makes it harder to get to the place of complete boredom that ultimately can spark creativity instead of succumbing to learned helplessness.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-08-15 14:53:59+00:00
I guess I'm about your age, and I remember doing much of the same. Lots of time on my bike with friends, playing hockey or football in the street, "manhunt" at night around the neighborhood (we were too cool to call it hide-and-seek at that age). But I also remember playing video games indoors, and my mother reminding us about how her mother kicked her out of the house when she was young, and how they were outside until the streetlights came on.

Today, I hear a lot of complaining about kids being inside all the time as opposed to prior generations. However, this is anecdotal and maybe my neighborhood is unique, I always see kids out on bikes with basketballs, fishing rods, etc. We are slowly letting our kid on their bike around the neighborhood with friends, and my big fear is getting hit by a car, especially while in a group and everyone pays less attention.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-15 14:54:00+00:00
It became a thing with advertisements and the evening news prompting parents "Do you know where your children are?" from the late 60s to the 90s. It became the mission of television news and similar to make parents afraid because fear gets attention so horror stories about abducted and abused children were everywhere which resulted in the current situation in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_know_where_your_childre...
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-15 14:54:03+00:00
>Not sure about allowing for more control, what happens when a complex/exotic issue that an AI is not able to solve arises?

What happens when a complex piece of machinery breaks down at the factory? You call in an expensive mechanic to fix it. You also still have engineers overseeing the day to day operations and processes to make sure that doesn't happen, but the bulk of the work is carried out by semi-skilled labor. It's not hard to imagine software going this way, as it's inevitably what capital wants.
by rpcope1 | 2025-08-15 14:54:05+00:00
Sounds like modern neoliberalism, and it's proponents, are the big mistake here to me, and those shortsighted enough to offshore work of all sorts to countries that aren't close allies should get a big spanking.

Regardless of whether or not it's "fair" or "right" (not that our adversaries do any more than lip service to those concepts anyways), we've got to do something rather than just lay down and take it. If nothing else, there are a lot of people that need to answer as to why if you want all these labor and environmental laws and so on, why it's ok to buy and do things somewhere that's not aligned with those. If you wouldn't subject you and yours to something, it should be illegal to cheat and make someone else do it. "Comparative advantage" is bullshit excuses to offload labor and environmental abuse because it's poor vulnerable brown people somewhere else and I need my cheap shit now.
by ronnier | 2025-08-15 14:54:24+00:00
I love this product have used it for a long time now but more recently started getting worried about security. I hope the maintainers are doing their due diligence around securing their docker hub account (many of us run VW in docker) and are careful about libraries the project depends on. Some questionable coding practices were made that I'm not sure I agree with (calling a 3rd party sites in some scenarios). As more of us switch to self hosting VW it will become a juicer target for bad actors. Really hoping we don't wake up one day to find out that our database was uploaded by a BA
by s_dev | 2025-08-15 14:54:33+00:00
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/north-carolina-child-kil...

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrest...

The US is seeming more bonkers day after day. These sorts of stories just don't make sense to me. We have issues in Ireland with children and teenagers going around engaging in anti-social behaviour but there is a balance to be found between these two extremes.
by phatskat | 2025-08-15 14:54:35+00:00
The NRA has been insidious since its coup back in the day and then its subsequent commandeering by the right wing as a propaganda tool: at one point, there was a popular pistol type (I don’t recall the make/model) that was really good at accidentally discharging and the NRA helped not only to shield the manufacturer from liability, but also to keep the guns in circulation because there was a specific group of people (cough black cough) who disproportionately favored this gun due to iirc low price point. It was pretty obviously a case of “well hey, if these guns are accidentally firing and killing _black folk_ then it’s not really an issue”
by nonocycle | 2025-08-15 14:54:38+00:00
You can pretty much use it as a drop-in replacement for anything built on top of DINOv2. E.g. if you want to fine-tune a segmentation model you can use EoMT[0] which uses DINOv2 as backbone and replace the backbone with DINOv3. If you just want to run it you can give LightlyTrain a spin [1]. There should also be support in the original EoMT repo soon. The methods in the DINOv3 paper focus on frozen backbones which are usually faster to train but might have lower performance than full fine-tuning.

[0]: https://github.com/tue-mps/eomt [1]: https://docs.lightly.ai/train/stable/semantic_segmentation.h...
by righthand | 2025-08-15 14:54:58+00:00
I just tried to do this and Apple has obfuscated that there’s even a 16:10 option. You have to click deep into the Displays customization presets menu. They don’t even label the presets with a display ratio and have them labeled with some obscure Apple design lingo (Apple XDR (P3-1600 nits)).

To change it you have to first display the hidden list by enabling a “display resolutions list” toggle.

That is not something a “I love Apple because it just works” person can figure out.
by diwank | 2025-08-15 14:54:58+00:00
It's coming soon! I think this experiment has really taught me a lot about the limits of agentic code assistants, stuff that they're good at, they're insanely good at, and stuff that they're horrible at and cannot seem to overcome. I did write a little bit about how I use Claude Code [1] before I started this project a while back, and I'm planning to finish a sequel pretty soon.

^[1]: https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-wit...
by i_love_retros | 2025-08-15 14:55:00+00:00
Even if the ad is 5x5 px, I'd still use an ad blocker because I dont want shitty ad companies knowing every site I visit. I also don't want malware.

This world is becoming a fucking joke, ruled by crooked politicians who have their elections bought for them by corporations and billionaires.

I would hope that people will rise up and take back control since it's our planet not theirs, but everyone seems too fucking stupid and happy just watching marvel movies.