MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-26 20:27:29+00:00
> Your views are contradictory.

How is it contradictory? Tell it to the corporations who defend copyright for you and public domain fair use for themselves. If they were honest, they'd abolish copyright straight up instead of creating this idiotic caste system.

> Copyright shouldn't exist, but the businesses infringing on it are the bad ones?

Yes. Copyright shouldn't exist to begin with, but since it does, one would expect the corporations to work within the legal framework they themselves created and lobbied so heavily for. One would expect them to reap the consequences of their actions and be bound by the exact same limitations they seek to impose on us.

It is absolutely asinine to watch them make trillions of dollars by breaking their own rules while simultaneously pretendinf that nothing is happening and insisting that you mortal citizen must still abide by the same rules they are breaking.

The sheer dishonesty of it makes me sick to my core.

> If someone read your code and paraphrased it and tweaked it, it would be a completely new work not subject to the original copyright.

Derivative work.

I was once told that corporate programmers are warned by legal not to even read AGPLv3 source code, lest it subconsciously infect their thought processes and the final result. This is also the reason we have clean room reverse engineering where one team produces documentation and another uses it to reimplement the thing. Isolating minds from the copyrighted inputs is the whole point of it. All of this is risk management meant to disallow even the mere possibility that a derivative work was created in the process.

There is absolutely no reason to believe LLMs are any different. They are literally trained on copyrighted inputs. Either they're violating copyrights or we're being oppressed by these copyright monopolists who say we can't do stuff we should be able to do. Both cannot be true at the same time.

> At least it would be really hard to get a court to regard it as an infringement.

It's extremely hard to get a court to do anything. As in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars difficult. Nothing is decided until actual judges start deciding things, and to get to that point you need to actually go through the legal system, and to do that you need to pay expensive lawyers lots of money. It's the reason people instantly fold the second legal action is threatened, doesn't matter if they're right. Corporations have money to burn, we don't.

And that's assuming that courts are presided by honest human beings who believe in law and reason instead of political activist judges or straight up corrupt judges who can be lobbied by industry.
by oidar | 2025-10-26 20:27:33+00:00
This is fine for a definition of AGI, but it's incomplete. It misses so many parts of the cognition that make humans flexible and successful. For example, emotions, feelings, varied pattern recognition, propreception, embodied awareness, social skills, and navigating ambiguous situation w/o algorithms. If the described 10 spectrums of intelligence were maxed by an LLM, it would still fall short.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-26 20:28:11+00:00
Again, you're talking about a particular web page, when I'm talking about the entire World Wide Web. The API of the WWW is indeed a RESTful API, driven entirely by hyperlinks. You can consider the WWW as a single service in this sense, where there is a single, and your browser is a client of that service. The API of this service is described in the HTTP RFCs and the WHATWG living standard for HTML, and the ECMAScript standard.

Say I as a user want to read the latest news stories of the day in the NYT. I tell my browser to access the NYT website root address, and then it contacts the server and discovers all necessary information for achieving this task on its own. It may choose to present this information as a graphical web page, or as a stream of sound, all without knowing anything about the NYT web site a priori.
by moribvndvs | 2025-10-26 20:28:20+00:00
32 for me, and I agree wholeheartedly. Life was relatively simple and uncomplicated for me at that age, and quickly became the opposite of that as the years wore on. His wisdom, experience, and humor while navigating a world that has gone mad is sorely missed, but practical things, too. I’m fixing up my money pit of a house (aren’t they all, though?) and the whole time I am wishing he was here so we could just work on projects together.
by maxglute | 2025-10-26 20:28:29+00:00
>PRC Chinese organized crime (triads)

Well it's a sinosphere (insert one china joke) organized crime thing.

TLDR Taiwanese organized pioneered telco fraud 20 years ago, started third country scam call centers, primarily targetting tech illiterate PRC retirees. PRC/HK org crime saw how profitable, scaled up, ande more sophisticated (pig butcher + crypto to evade capital controls), targetted global Chinese diasphora. PRC cracks down domestically. They move to Myanmar / south eat asia, partner with local armed groups. Taiwanese call centers still around, but they're squeezed to other part of big butcher scacm chain, i.e. trafficking people. Anyway, every once in awhile their activities piss enough neighbours off especially PRC off that actual state power like junta has to intervenene.
by sandbags | 2025-10-26 20:28:44+00:00
I would love to replace JS as the scripting language in one of my native macOS apps and I wonder if Wren would be suitable.

The two biggest questions I’d have are:

1) how easy it would be to bridge Obj-C objects to Wren-space and vice versa (a big win of using JavascriptCore) 2) how easy would it be to implement script debugging? This is not exactly a strength of Javascript core but it is at least possible by connecting the Safari web inspector.

There’s lots I don’t like about JS and JSCore but i’ve yet to find a better alternative.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-26 20:29:27+00:00
I was doing some naïve set theory the other day, and I found a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, by contradiction.

Assume the Riemann hypothesis is false. Then, consider the proposition "{a|a∉a}∈{a|a∉a}". By the law of the excluded middle, it suffices to consider each case separately. Assuming {a|a∉a}∈{a|a∉a}, we find {a|a∉a}∉{a|a∉a}, for a contradiction. Instead, assuming {a|a∉a}∉{a|a∉a}, we find {a|a∉a}∈{a|a∉a}, for a contradiction. Therefore, "the Riemann hypothesis is false" is false. By the law of the excluded middle, we have shown the Riemann hypothesis is true.

Naïve AGI is an apt analogy, in this regard, but I feel these systems aren't simple nor elegant enough to deserve the name naïve.
by bloodyplonker22 | 2025-10-26 20:29:50+00:00
One guy at our company once had this brilliant idea as well. Go to a bar and validate the idea with strangers. After all, our business idea was related to sports and they would surely be interested. I thought this was a great idea. All three of us agreed it was. Later that night, in high spirits, we went to the bar to execute our plan. We sat at the bar for two hours and talked to a grand total of zero people because we were all afraid to approach anyone and bother him or her about our frivolous, idiotic idea.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-26 20:30:10+00:00
With the information you're giving, my decision would probably be to take the non-clip TC2030 or TC2050 (I've never needed 14 pins) footprint and overlay the footprint for a regular 1.27mm SMD connector on top of it. Cortex debug connector should be a good fit but I haven't checked.

That seems to be the "get your cake and eat it" (though it does mean you're spending the space and drilling the holes for TC.) But still -

> They're fine for one guy using them on the bench
by rileytg | 2025-10-26 20:30:14+00:00
This prompted me to try out claude code on last years... To absolutely no surprise, it looks like the model was trained on advent of code. For the day 2 challenge, I put in this prompt:

for each row in input.txt, identify all the rows where: 1. the columns either all increase or decrease 2. the increase/decrease is >1 and <4. count total # of rows that match this. write a python script

It solved it very quickly. However...

It's solution code included this comment:

Check if a report is safe based on two criteria: │ │ 1. All levels must be either all increasing or all decreasing │ │ 2. Adjacent differences must be between 1 and 3 (inclusive)

This is odd because I never mentioned reports or levels... However the challenge does:

The unusual data (your puzzle input) consists of many reports, one report per line. Each report is a list of numbers called levels that are separated by spaces. For example:
by andrehacker | 2025-10-26 20:30:21+00:00
++ for reference to "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

I only discovered that film about a decade ago, and it quickly became a favorite.

What’s wild is how it’s shifted from pure sci-fi to something that feels eerily plausible, especially with how tech has evolved in just the last five years.

Colossus: In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love. Dr. Forbin: NEVER!

Never ?
by overfeed | 2025-10-26 20:30:24+00:00
What counts as a language is almost always determined by "political reasons" - as the witticism goes: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy."

There exists dialects that are less mutually intelligible than apparently distinct languages, and the designation of each as "dialect" or "language" is political. Language is often a proxy for culture, and political actors may wish to suppress or boost the legitimacy of such cultural expression depending on their aims.
by nytesky | 2025-10-26 20:30:53+00:00
There maybe something more than that. Maybe modern life and the great financial crisis have put us all into more stress, more work, so that we don’t have time for real relationships. It’s part of why politics have shifted the way they do.

I am VERY online, but I don’t usual traditional social media. I mostly read Hackers News and a DC parenting forum which is pretty no-holds bar, but is a website out of the 90s so not really capable of infinite scroll or dark patterns (other than the addictive and open ended topics).

I also read a lot of news like NYT and watch TV like Apple TV, but it’s hardly the dopamine drip of TikTok or Instagram. Yet I am ashamed of my 8 hours of screen time despite my best efforts. I used to reach out to friends more but as I get older it feels intrusive and hard to make conversations.
by yard2010 | 2025-10-26 20:31:16+00:00
* { border: red 1px solid } Remember when IE6 was a thing? The kids today are angry at chrome for good reasons and yet, there was a time in which the most popular browser didn't implement jack shit from the specs. And it was the kind of browser that ships with the OS.

God the bad karma for working with this crap. I'm glad it's over.
by reactordev | 2025-10-26 20:32:08+00:00
This looks super cool up until I got to the point where it says inherited classes don’t share the same metatable. Meaning if you want to provide the same method on your inherited classes, you have to write the same thing and do a super.method() which means a lot of work if you’re into OO design so I’m not sure if classes is the right construct here. Am I wrong or did I miss something from the documentation? Other than that it looks like fun to use as an embedded scripting engine.
by lukan | 2025-10-26 20:33:20+00:00
" At some point the AI will be good enough to do the tasks that some humans do (it already is!). That's all that really matters here."

What matters to me is, if the "AGI" can reliably solve the tasks that I give to it and that requires also reliable learning.

LLM's are far from that. It takes special human AGI to train them to make progress.
by ambha21 | 2025-10-26 20:33:56+00:00
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by tsimionescu | 2025-10-26 20:34:16+00:00
It is the original definition from Roy Fielding's paper. Arguably, you are talking about a more specific notion than the full breadth of what the HATEOAS concept was meant to inform.

The point of HATEOAS is to inform the architecture of any system that requires numerous clients and servers to interoperate with little ability for direct cooperation; and where you also need the ability to evolve this interaction in the longer term with the same constraint of no direct cooperation. As the dissertation explains, HATEOAS was used to guide specific fixes to correct mistakes in the HTTP/1.0 standard that limited the ability to achieve this goal for the WWW.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-10-26 20:34:18+00:00
Ok, but ChatGPT speaks this language just as well as I do, and we also know that emotion isn't a core requirement of being a member of this species because psychopaths exist.

Also, you don't know what species I am. Maybe I'm a dog. :-)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...)
by Zhyl | 2025-10-26 20:36:33+00:00
Thoughts on Animations:

* Reveal.js style declaration for "keyframe 1", declaration for "keyframe 2" and then automatic animation/transition between the two. Animation "themes" of fade in/out, pop in/out of nodes. I like the arrow "growing" theme from the article but would also see cases where I want the nodes to appear first and the arrows grow to them, and also a case where the arrow grows and the nodes appear at the end.

* Impress js zoom, movement, focus

I would like to use animations to help me communicate something or to make my point. I'm not necessarily looking to spark joy - I'd very much see that as a "nice to have" (i.e. for each or the above make the defaults pretty).
by nativeit | 2025-10-26 20:36:53+00:00
Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach in the late 1970s. He used the short-hand “strange loops”, but dedicates a good bit of time considering this very thing. It’s like the Ship of Theseus, or the famous debate over Star Trek transporters—at what point do we stop being an inanimate clump of chemical compounds, and become “alive”. Further, at what point do our sensory organs transition from the basics of “life”, and form “consciousness”.

I find anyone with confident answers to questions like these immediately suspect.
by igouy | 2025-10-26 20:37:40+00:00
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&dq=d...

September 1991 — "Smalltalk/V code is portable between the Windows and the OS/2 versions. And the resulting application carries no runtime charges. All for just $499.95."

(Advert on the last page of "The Smalltalk Report")

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...

September 1991 — "Digitalk, Inc. announced new versions of Smalltalk/V DOS and Smalltalk/V Mac that include royalty-free runtime. Smalltalk/V Windows and Smalltalk/V PM are already royalty free. … Prior to this new policy, there was a per-copy charge for runtime applications."

"The Smalltalk Report" p25

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...

~

"The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk"

https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
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by paradox460 | 2025-10-26 20:39:51+00:00
In the past I've blown coworkers minds during github outages when I just pulled code from a co-worker's machine and kept working

With remote, if your company stubbornly refuses to use a modern vpn like tailscale, and you can't really network between two computers easily, git format patch and git am, coupled with something like slack messages, works well enough, albeit moderately cumbersome
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-26 20:40:05+00:00
> if Google receives a lot of "I was scammed into this" from whoever bought the giftcard

Google doesn't sell the cards directly - at least not the ones purchased at the supermarket and used for scamming. There's a scummy industry of middlemen that handles this - that's why every store can sell basically every gift card; they don't have their PoS interact with every single vendor's API, they delegate to a middleman. So Google gets very limited data at purchase time, and is not technically the merchant selling the goods in this case.

> doesn't google have the responsibility to ask the giftcard user where they got that redeem code from

What will that change in practice? They have 2 options: either accept any answer, and nothing changes, or decline some answers, meaning either legitimate usage gets disrupted or the sites laundering the cards will just tell you the "right" answers to say.

> At least warn them several times, and then cut those buyers too?

Most buyers are one-time users; it's a relatively niche market. Mostly teens/etc who don't have their own payment card or are willing to go through the whole hassle for a small discount. As per the above, cutting people off would likely hinder legitimate usage.

Ideally the whole "gift card" industry just goes away as there's no good reason to have it when we already have the ultimate form of "gift card" in the form of money... but until then, even if Google were to step out of the game someone else will step in (the company issuing the cards isn't directly involved, their gift card is just used as a negotiable instrument in lieu of cash during the scam transaction, so any company's will do).

> has skin in the Cambodian scams

Cambodia/etc is pig butchering/fake investment scams. Gift cards and redeeming is exclusively Indians targeting the US market (in the UK they have money mules to launder actual bank transfers, so no need for gift cards).
by mucio | 2025-10-26 20:40:11+00:00
You put there quite a lot of work and interesting features.

One of the reasons why I like dlt is because I can do everything via code, which makes things more maintanable, for me. I think this could be a starting point for a dlt SaSS, but there are a lot of things to consider and connectors change all the time. It's something I thinking about a lot... :)

I think you will get more feedback in the dlt slack/community.
by rileytg | 2025-10-26 20:40:33+00:00
Follow up:

> how did you know to call them reports and levels? Good catch! I noticed that terminology in the input file structure. When I read input.txt, I saw the data format - each row contained multiple space-separated numbers. I actually made an assumption based on common Advent of Code patterns (this looks like a typical AoC problem structure). The terms "reports" and "levels" aren't explicitly stated in your requirements - you just said "rows" and "columns". I should have used more generic terms like: - "row" instead of "report" - "values" or "numbers" instead of "levels" Would you like me to update the script to use more neutral terminology that matches your original description?
by lavela | 2025-10-26 20:40:37+00:00
Of the eight reports I only see one that relates to a guy being able to swim or not (and I suspect the same is true for the estimated 1400 reports so far this year). Also having transparency is obviously good and I don't understand what you want to prove with arguing that a worse situation would be worse. It clearly would be worse.

I'm also not totally against nuclear, in case you are suspecting that. I do think though, that we as a society aren't at the point where we have the ability to completely control such technology, contrary to what proponents of much higher utilization of nuclear like to claim. Reports of fuses seemingly without failover or stolen equipment seem to support that argument.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-26 20:43:14+00:00
As someone who actively avoids political rage bait, was trained in rhetoric, was raised by public persuasion oriented public speakers.

The idea that the most resonant rage bait that exists at any given moment is instantly, algorithmically, propagated to our public officials and the politically engaged is insane.

All this while culture has now been trained to blindly celebrate bias, has been inculcated with a learned helplessness toward bias, have become poisoned against the idea that anyone has the goal of accuracy or objectivity and really does just wants accurate models of the world.

We are lighting ourselves on fire.
by chongli | 2025-10-26 20:44:26+00:00
I don't know, but I have substantial evidence:

1) I know that I have emotions because I experience them.

2) I know that you and I are very similar because we are both human.

3) I know that we can observe changes in the brain as a result of our changing emotions and that changes to our brains can affect our emotions.

I thus have good reason to believe that since I experience emotions and that we are both human, you experience emotions too.

The alternative explanation, that you are otherwise human and display all the hallmarks of having emotions but do not in fact experience anything (the P-zombie hypothesis), is an extraordinary claim that has no evidence to support it and not even a plausible, hypothetical mechanism of action.

With an emotional machine I see no immediately obvious even hypothetical evidence to lend support to its veracity. In light of all this, it seems extraordinary to claim that non-biological means achieving real emotions (not emulated emotions) are possible.

After all, emulated emotions have already been demonstrated in video games. To call those sufficient would be setting an extremely low bar.
by lijok | 2025-10-26 20:44:42+00:00
It’s clearly possible, because we exist. Just a matter of time. And as we’ve seen in the past, breakthroughs can produce incredible leaps in capabilities (outside of AI as well). We might not get that breakthrough(s) for a thousand years, but I’m definitely leaning towards it being inevitable.

Interestingly the people doing the actual envelope pushing in this domain, such as Ilya Sutskever, think that there it’s a scaling problem, and neural nets do result in AGIs eventually, but I haven’t heard them substantiate it.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-26 20:45:18+00:00
Human intelligence has had hundreds of thousands of years of evolution that removes any 'fatal' variance from our intelligence. Too dumb is obvious on how it's culled, but 'too smart' can get culled by social creatures too, really 'too different' in any way.

Current AI is in its infancy and we're just throwing data at it in the same way evolution throws random change at our DNA and sees what sticks.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-26 20:45:31+00:00
Are we seriously praising Spotify's business model and affect on the creator market?

Not to mention they're up to $12/month. Creating movies and shows is significantly more expensive than music, so it makes sense the price to a catalogue would be scaled by an order of magnitude. Not to mention the increased costs for digital providers for storage, bandwidth, and compute requirements.

I'm, of course, more than happy to hear about how the reruns of Friends could stay on Netflix since it's just a dispute about perceived value. But the rest? Come on, I know you aren't totally ignorant on the economics of these markets.