MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by missedthecue | 2025-09-02 00:58:45+00:00
This is genuinely the only response I ever get - that wealth can be used to influence politics. In my view this is a poor argument for two reasons.

1. The amount wealth actually influences politics is hard to measure but likely much lower than most people assume. Trump was outspent significantly both times he won. Bloomberg dropped $1B in a couple months and won nowhere but American Somoa. Probably the two biggest boogiemen, Koch and Soros, have spent billions over the years on their causes, and the present administration and general overton window is actually something neither of them like! The nonelected king-makers in American and EU politics are not actually wealthy people at all, just those with a lot of accumulated political capital, for instance, Jim Clyburn who single-handedly gave the 2020 nomination to Biden.

2. The amount that it takes to finance initiatives is much lower than centibillionaire level. Is the original $20B OP mentioned not sufficient to finance some ballot initiative? Why is it the increase to $130B that causes concern? The truth is that even a wealthy non-billionaire can easily do that, or bankroll someone's run for congress, or fund a partisan thinktank. The maximum level of wealth you'd have to set your ban-limit at would be problematically low.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-09-02 00:58:52+00:00
Linux, or any other full OS is simply a waste of that hardware. It makes no sense at all.

It's a 5 gallon pail of compute which is all used up in OS overhead so you can do a cup of work.

If the job were that small that it fits in the remainder, then you could and should have just used 1 cent hardware instead of 1 dollar hardware.
by delichon | 2025-09-02 01:00:58+00:00
Please explain this to me, as I honestly don't understand it. I didn't claim knowledge, it's just speculation. I speculate about things all day long, why is this different? There really aren't many common conditions that look like Mr. Winston and I do. I'm just supposing horses instead of zebras.

Just via the Golden Rule, I would be happy if someone used my own bad example (I have the same condition that I attribute to Prof. Winston) to make the argument personal, if that motivated someone to pick up the apple instead. We lose too many years to high blood pressure, obesity, high glucose, neuropathy, etc., etc., to shut up about the donuts.
by greatgib | 2025-09-02 01:01:07+00:00
It's the end of an area, Linux used to be this thing that was running on quite anything and allowing to salvage old computers.

I think that there is a shitload of old desktop and laptop computers from 10 to 15 yrs that are still usable only with a linux distribution and that will not be true anymore.

Now Linux will be in the same lane as osx and windows running after the last shiny new things, and being like: if you want it, buy a new machine that will support it.
by bitwize | 2025-09-02 01:01:31+00:00
> Interesting how the world have changed. The so called GPL preference, or GPL > GPLv3 > AGPL among Open source crowd is a recent thing. Arguably in the last 15 to 20 years. Both BSD and MIT dates back before GPL. And you will see far more people prefer BSD and MIT in the 90s and 00s.

Back when I was getting started in the mid-90s, GPL and LGPL were kind of the default. BSD and MIT were used for certain projects, like the BSDs and X11 of course, but the goal back then was to build up a large library of open source (then, "free software") as viable alternatives to proprietary software, and the GPL was the easiest way to do that and ensure it remained free.

It was the rise of Rails, and the attracting of commercial programmers and startup bros to open source in the '00s, that motivated the historical preference for BSD and MIT licenses.
by tomrod | 2025-09-02 01:01:46+00:00
> A simple question: would you rather live in a world in which responsibility for AI action is dispersed to the point that individuals are not responsible for what their AI tools do, or would you rather live in a world of strict liability in which individuals are responsible for what AI under their control does

You promised a simple question, but this is a reductive question that ignores the legal and political frameworks within which people engage with and use AI, as well as how people behave generally and strategically.

Responsibility for technology and for short-sighted business policy is already dispersed to the point that individuals are not responsible for what their corporation does, and vice versa. And yet, following the logic, you propose as the alternative a watchtower approach that would be able to identify the culpability of any particular individual in their use of a tool (AI or non-AI) or business decision.

Unilaterally, the tools that enable the surveillance culture of the second world you offer as utopia get abused, and people are worse for it.
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by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-02 01:02:57+00:00
A pure LVT would basically put all low income housing (as older housing) in high value areas out of business very quickly: those properties would have to be redeveloped for higher income purposes way sooner than they would have under a normal property tax scheme. You also have to plan projects not only for current land values, but for land values predicted 20-40 years into the future (and your building isn’t going to depreciate, although that doesn’t happen much in property tax systems either).
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by tguvot | 2025-09-02 01:03:05+00:00
per a couple of articles [0][1]

- only 28% percent of members voted

- virtual discussion for resolution prior to voting was cancelled

- didn't allow dissenting opinions published on list serve

- The association has recently expanded its membership and there are little qualifications to become a member. The association had been mostly made up of scholars, but now includes figures like activists and artists,

- if somebody reads actual resolution, it reads like fine collection of tiktok videos.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-02-2025/#li...
by positron26 | 2025-09-02 01:04:11+00:00
I must say, amidst all this pretending, justifying, hand-waiving, and appealing, I was surprised to find the eugenics:

> and that those who can't are a small minority that should be culled anyways

Don't get me wrong, this doesn't invalidate everything else you wrote. It was mostly all completely invalid anyway.

You need to start from fundamentals. Logical argument is a DAG. Circular reasoning is trivially invalid. If there is a skill I would see becoming ubiquitous, it is that.
by jockm | 2025-09-02 01:04:26+00:00
Oof embarrassed I didn't proofread that, but I was saying "That is what the man is saying in that statement".

Stallman is like Humpty Dumpty (""When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less") and that masks some of his terrible beliefs. Also in his clarification (I refuse to call that an apology) why aren't we questioning why he needed to be told that sex with minors is bad? Why did he lack the skills to look up anything about consent and child development before saying that he though sex with >= 13 year olds was ok?
by WatchDog | 2025-09-02 01:04:49+00:00
> Amazon doesn't provide useful tools for building durable multi-AZ applications. Most customers are not going to implement Paxos

Don't really agree here, yes they screw you financially on cross-AZ bandwidth, but all of their popular services are built to work well across availability zones.

Most people don't need access to a low level consensus service like Paxos, instead they will be using one of amazons managed database services, or s3, that provides higher level abstractions, and automatically manages consensus behind the scenes.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-02 01:05:40+00:00
> The barrier to entry has never been lower; when you democratize coding, you democratize abuse.

You also democratize defense.

Besides: who gets to define "abuse"? You? Why?

Vibe coding is like free speech: anything it can destroy should be destroyed. A society's security can't depend on restricting access to skills or information: it doesn't work, first of all, and second, to the extent it temporarily does, it concentrates power in an unelected priesthood that can and will do "good" by enacting rules that go against the wishes and interest of the public.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-02 01:05:49+00:00
I can't really bring myself to watch recordings of speeches. I feel like, when you're making an actual speech or lecture, you benefit from slower pace because the audience can't rewind in case they miss something, probably they have lots of distractions, not to mention being physically uncomfortable in a slight but annoying manner for one reason or another. Meanwhile when making video content or even a podcast, it's better to be fast-paced, because there's a decent chance you have the audience's full undivided attention in a place where they feel most comfortable with zero distractions (sofa at night with maximum brightness TV), and even if they miss something, they can rewind, or pause, or whatever.
by jcuenod | 2025-09-02 01:06:19+00:00
My day job involves training language models (mostly seq2seq) for low-resource languages (with substantially less data than 2GB of data).

A few thoughts:

1. You can't cut off the embedding layer or discard the tokenizer without throwing out the model you're starting with. The attention matrices are applied to and trained with the token embedding layer.

2. Basically the same thing regarding the tokenizer. If you need to add some tokens, that can be done (or you can repurpose existing tokens) if your script is unique (a problem I face periodically). But if you are initializing weights for new tokens, that means those tokens are untrained. So if you do that for all your data, you're training a new model.

3. The Gemma model series sounds like a good fit for your use case. I'm not confident about Hebrew support, let alone Hasidic Yiddish, but it is relatively multilingual (more so than many other open models). Being multilingual means that the odds are greater than they have tokens relevant to your corpus that have been trained towards an optimal point for your dataset.

4. If you can generate synthetic data with synonyms or POS tags, then great. But this is a language model, so you need to think how you can usefully teach it natural sequences of text (not how to tag nouns or identify synonyms - I also did a bunch of classic NLP, and it's depressing how irrelevant all that work is these days). I suspect that repurposing this data will not be worth it. So, if anything, I'd recommend doing that as a second pass.

5. Take a look at unsloth notebooks for training a gemma3 model and load up your data. I reckon it'll surprise you how effective these models are...
by neya | 2025-09-02 01:06:46+00:00
It is not an iframe. It is just a background image set to the body tag. This is their actual CSS code for body:

body { font: 100%/1.3 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #666; background-image: url("https://offbeatoregon.com/assets-2010/1012b_gorge-highway-crown-point/crown-point-1800px.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; background-attachment: fixed; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #222; }

I can understand it may not be everyone's cup of tea, though.
by Anon1096 | 2025-09-02 01:07:07+00:00
That used to be the case but as of a couple years ago (maybe 2023?) pay packages got bumped and in terms of TC Amazon is very competitive now. You'll likely get a better offer than Google in cash value. But the non-TC benefits are really really bad (no free food, 5 day RTO, oncall policies, etc). For those reasons I think most would take a Meta or AI lab offer over Amazon right now if they're willing to grind.
by martin-t | 2025-09-02 01:07:31+00:00
One man's revenge is another man's punishment.

Popular media reveals people's true preferences. People like seeing rapists killed. Because that is people's natural morality. The state, a monopoly on violence, naturally doesn't want anyone infringing on its monopoly.

Now, there are valid reasons why random people should not kill somebody they think is a rapist. Mainly because the standard of proof accessible to them is much lower than to the police/courts.

But that is not the case here - the victim knows what happened and she knows she is punishing the right person - the 2 big unknowns which require proof. Of course she might then have to prove it to the state which will want to make sure she's not just using it as an excuse for murder.

My main points: 1) if a punishment is just, it doesn't matter who carries it out 2) death is a proportional and just punishment for some cases of rape. This is a question of morality; provability is another matter.
by zeristor | 2025-09-02 01:08:30+00:00
It would be interesting to read up on the economics of power storage.

As to what price points for the batteries equates to different usage patterns.

Peak shaving, morning and evening peaks, occasional discharge.

Batteries can make money also by taking negative price electricity.

Once gas has been run out of the market more battery power availability could support carbon free steel I imagine where it is just electrochemistry.

At each point they’d be ruptures in the market, where some forms of electricity just can’t compete.
by DoctorOW | 2025-09-02 01:09:54+00:00
I have the opposite experience. I was not able to reliably keep my website online until I bit the bullet and moved over to Cloudflare (pre-AI).

> They're just in it for the money and power.

I would wager it's impossible to buy a product from a company that is not in it for the money and/or power. Especially in comparison to Microsoft, Google, Meta, etc.? I'm trying really hard to empathize with your point of view but I can't relate at all.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-02 01:10:26+00:00
Good answer. It's all about incentives. I'm not sure I totally agree, but it's a reasonable answer.

To answer your problem in the last paragraph, we should recognize that the world is moving much faster now, and so 20 years for a patent in tech is ridiculously long. Even more ridiculous is 95-year-long copyrights. Those should revert to 14 years like they originally were.

That doesn't let you do something specifically for a mismanaged company, but I'm not sure there's much you can do under anything like our current legal system.

Also, it doesn't do anything about domain names, but those aren't exactly IP, are they? IP is patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Domain names can be related to a trademark, but they aren't exactly the same.
by mannyv | 2025-09-02 01:10:54+00:00
Amazon will reap the results of the talent war. Why?

Because Amazon will build services on top of the technologies that come out.

Just today on hn there was a guy that trained his tiny model and got better results than most of the big models. He wasn’t paid 200m.

The gold rush is here, but the results are still shaking out.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-02 01:11:01+00:00
Assuming that works for the determining of the standardized, publicized assessment method, I think it stops working as well when people look at the published assessment method and have huge incentives to find ways to boost the assessed value of improvements, thus reducing the value assigned to the land when they appeal based on the notion that the arms-length purchase for the combination was $X and the publicized value of the improvements calculates out to $Y, therefore leaving only $Z for the value of the unimproved land.

Actually, now that I think about it more, the output of the model would have to be a direct estimate of $Z (rather than an estimate of $Y, which is surely easier), making some of those concerns moot when the most recent sale was long ago (but not for new transactions).

I still can't figure out what the appeals process when the model gets it wrong (or is perceived to be wrong) is going to be based on. It seems like we're likely to end up right back at "human judgment", though perhaps that of an actual judge trying to interpret the parcel's value taking into account the model's output and the arguments of the plaintiff land owner instead of a city assessor trying to argue comparable sales with a land owner, which is a process most everyone can wrap their head around and have a pretty good feeling how they'd fare if they took it all the way to court.
by godelski | 2025-09-02 01:11:41+00:00
Switching from Android to iPhone caused lots of problems and this was one of the big ones.

But what pisses me off the most is when I've talked to other engineers/programmers about this (or similar issues) they just dismiss me with things like "you're not holding it right", "okay, but what's the value?", or "is it really a big deal?" (Yes, it is a big deal that I set something and then it undid itself! Yes it's a big deal, that's why I'm fucking late and we're having this conversation!)

Like come on guys, we're being paid north of $100k/yr (most well above that) and you can't just take the time to fix things? Earn your wage. Take some pride. Push back against your manager or just fucking fix it if it's quick.

I swear, there's so much added complexity in these systems created by people proclaiming we need to keep it simple. What's simple about the alarm clock and timer clock having different interfaces yet are visually identical? What's simple about duplicated calendar events that could be hidden with a regex? What's simple about a system that can't find contacts with identical names, hiding the process for users to manually merging them, and adding a new birthday event when they finally succeed?! (This literally happened to me. My partner had 2 contacts in my phone, 3 birthdays, and when I merged I ended up with 4 and 3 I couldn't delete because they weren't associated with a contact...)

We're making software worse. The AI isn't replacing jobs because we're getting more productive, it's replacing jobs because we pushed the bar so fucking low I'm more impressed to see that the code isn't written in Perl or Brainfuck
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by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-02 01:12:14+00:00
Desktops and laptops from 10 to 15 years ago are basically all 64 bit. By the time this removal happens, we'll be at 20 years of almost all that hardware being 64 bit. By the time hardware becomes "retro", you don't need the latest kernel version.

Lots of distros already dropped 32 bit kernel support and it didn't cause much fuss.
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by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-02 01:13:19+00:00
> I strongly recommend against putting a ">" in your prompt on Unix ...

Another reason against using ">" in the definition of PS1 is that this is a typical character used in the definition of PS2[0].

> The :; has the advantage that, if you unintentionally include the prompt in your copy and paste, it usually has no effect.

This is because colon (':') has a specific definition in POSIX shells[1], which is:

Do nothing beyond expanding arguments and performing redirections. The return status is zero.

Note that "performing redirections" can result in destructive file operations.

0 - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193659/in-which-sit...

1 - https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bourne-Sh...