MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcranmer | 2025-10-04 03:48:25+00:00
As binary formats go, UTF-8 is extremely tame. Some of the complexities that binary formats love to throw at you:

* Things may be non-byte-aligned bitstreams.

* Arrays of structures that go "read until id is 5, but if id is 5, nothing else of the structure is emitted."

* Fields that may be optional if some parent of the current record has some weird value.

* Files may be composed of records at arbitrary, random offsets that essentially require seeking to make any sense of it.

* The metadata of your structure may depend on some early parameter (for example, is this field big-endian or little-endian?)

and so on.

File formats like ELF (supporting ELF32, ELF64, and both little-endian and big-endian, all in a single format definition) or Java class files (long and double entries in the constant pool take up two slots, not one) are a better guideline for how powerful the format is in handling weirder idiosyncracies.
by motorest | 2025-10-04 03:48:32+00:00
> I'm interested in... why? What are you building that loading data from disk is so lopsided vs CPu load from compiling (...)

This has been the basic pattern for ages, particularly with large C++ projects. C++ builds, specially with the introduction of multi-CPU and multi-core systems, turns builds into IO-bound workflows, specially during linking.

Creating RAM disks to speed up builds is one of the most basic and low effort strategies to improve build times, and I think it was the main driver for a few commercial RAM drive apps.
by th0ma5 | 2025-10-04 03:48:38+00:00
That reminds me of a complaint that I had with a visualization library that kept pushing the open source project to be tied into their hosting racket. I brought up how lots of security organizations at the time wouldn't understand how much of a massive problem it was for the end user to decide to make the data immediately available to the entire Internet. It feels wrong that such implications could be missed from a set of environment variables just being missing. Usually you want things to fail safely ...
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-04 03:48:39+00:00
Completely different problem, completely different solution.

Protobuf and its ilk (ASN.1, Cap’n Proto, etc.) have you describe a tree structure, then map that to bytes according to their own sensibilities. Kaitai and its ilk (Wireshark might be a more familliar member of the group) have you describe a bunch of data structures as well as somebody else’s pretty much arbitrary ideas as to how they are to map to bytes, then deal with the results.

You can’t use a Protobuf implementation to get EXIF data out of JPEGs, but then you can’t get format evolution guarantees out of Kaitai either.

(I hear ASN.1 can somewhat cross the gap using ECN, but as far as I can tell literally nobody uses that in public.)
by DennisP | 2025-10-04 03:50:05+00:00
I mean, it's been the standard personal finance advice for decades. Step one is to set aside six months of emergency expenses. If you have an above-average income, you're capable of doing that. It's not "judgmental" to point out that this is indeed an intelligent strategy, just as advisors have been suggesting for years and years.

You yourself said that for the people you know who bought a house without that, "a job loss would be devastating." So you seem to agree with me and the personal finance advisors.

I did not say they had "a spending issue" or that they were "wasteful with money." Those were your terms just now. I simply said they should have rethought. You're turning that into some moral judgement, when all I'm saying is that it's bad strategy.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-04 03:51:34+00:00
No, and I am not affiliated with the article or its author. Your attempt at gaslighting my point is noted.

It is plain wrong to make an unsubstantiated and unproven accusation, and even if were true, it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. Moreover, it demonstrates an unjustified anti-AI bias which is a separate problem.
by brandon272 | 2025-10-04 03:51:57+00:00
Obviously, OpenAI could have had copyright restrictions in place from the get-go with this, but instead made an intentional decision to allow people to generate everything ranging from Spongebob videos to Michael Jackson videos to South Park videos.

Today, Sora users on reddit are pretty much beside themselves because of newly enabled content restrictions. They are (apparently) no longer able to generate these types of videos and see no use for the service without that ability!

To me it raises two questions:

1) Was the initial "free for all" a marketing ploy?

2) Is it the case that people find these video generators a lot less interesting when they have to come up with original ideas for the videos and cannot use copyright characters, etc?
by renewiltord | 2025-10-04 03:52:27+00:00
Well, I'm only taking the notion of complicity to its logical conclusion. I disagree with the premise and a valid way to argue that is to show it reaches absurdity.

It's obvious what's actually happening. It's not so surprising that Apple-haters believe that Apple is complicit in everything. They'd say that about anything Apple. The fact that the argument concludes in 'bottom' is evidence.
by digianarchist | 2025-10-04 03:52:53+00:00
California has passed SB79 which is a minor step forward. The opposition it received was pretty high for such a limited Bill.

I don't have a huge amount of faith CA will get housing costs under control but doing so is clearly one of the prerequisites to get a handle on the homelessness crisis.

https://cayimby.org/legislation/sb-79/
by timschmidt | 2025-10-04 03:53:44+00:00
Absolutely. Though the smarter these things get, and the more layers of additional LLMs on top playing copyright police that there are, I do expect it to get more challenging.

My comment was intended more to point out that copyright cartels are a competitive liability for AI corps based in "the west". Groups who can train models on all available culture without limitation will produce more capable models with less friction for generating content that people want.

People have strong opinions about whether or not this is morally defensible. I'm not commenting on that either way. Just pointing out the reality of it.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-04 03:54:10+00:00
>Looking around, i think you're incorrect.

77,000 vacant lots in NYC: https://commongroundorwa.org/3019-2/

>There are taxes designed to decrease activity, like 90% income tax, yet they pretty rare, far from the "most".

How about an 85% income tax? 80%? 75%? Where do you draw the line? The truth is, it's a matter of degree. Even a 10% tax disincentivizes work a little bit.
by Pitskhela | 2025-10-04 03:55:37+00:00
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by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-04 03:55:47+00:00
> They've checked with their peers and lawyers, and decided it's a perfectly acceptable risk to have the founders and staff of a company they're already invested in do illegal things and potentially end up in jail ...

No legitimate business person I have ever met holds this position, if for no other reason than criminal acts pierce the corporate veil[0].

> ... so long as the investors and their staff are all insulated from the illegal behavior and jail time risks.

There is no such thing.

0 - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifi...
by antonvs | 2025-10-04 03:55:49+00:00
There’s no evidence that the universe is spinning. The observable universe is not a flat plane - we see galaxies in all directions and at all distances.

You may be thinking of our galaxy (the Milky Way) or even our solar system, which both rotate and as such are both somewhat flattened (the solar system much more so than the galaxy.)

But what’s happening here has little to do with that. If you imagine the closest distance that Earth gets to Mars as a yardstick, 3I/Atlas is about half that yardstick’s distance from Mars right now - much closer than Earth ever gets. It’s practically in Mars’ back yard.
by beeflet | 2025-10-04 03:56:05+00:00
I read this article the other day and I am not sure what the breakthrough is with AT/bsky. It seems like the functionality "This blurs the boundaries between apps. Every open social app can use, remix, link to, and riff on data from every other open social app." is already provided on the web through hyperlinks.

There is seemingly nothing in the AT protocol that prevents sites from defederating and enabling vendor lock-in, just like how every other social media site has switched to requiring you to log in to see links.

There is seemingly nothing usefully decentralized about it. There is some sort of psuedo-distribution where you can host on your own domain. But like email, I imagine these types of users will be effectively blocked due to spam filtering.

It's like P2P if it was invented by people who know nothing about P2P, but just want to create a version of twitter that is immune to the company being bought out by someone they don't like and instituting a different censorship regime.
by lkey | 2025-10-04 03:57:20+00:00
You could call it guilt by association, sure! But critically, the funders and speakers and membership that build a movement give life and shape to what that movement becomes. Not caring about 'means' only 'ends' or who profits strikes me as appallingly naive. You tell me, can these people build the houses you so desire?

From this page https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behind-the-growin...: compare your words: "take away is a rejection of neoliberalism"

to the following descriptions: "Mercatus Center, but without the libertarian brand that limits that think tank’s outreach to the left." "The group is currently headed by Julius Krein, the founder of pro-Trump publications The Journal Of American Greatness and its successor, American Affairs"

"gone so far as to posit that AI is the only possible solution to climate change and that it should be powered even by fossil fuel sources." "PI is a subsidiary of the The Third Way Foundation, and it proudly proclaims itself as the “intellectual birthplace of the New Democrat and ‘Third Way’ movements.”

"Chamber of Progress also used to be funded by Sam Bankman-Fried’s notorious FTX, Blockchain.com, Zillow, Twitter, and the investment firm behind WeWork, SoftBank. The group has launched a “Abundance & Affordability” project, is listed among Inclusive Abundance’s “Abundance Landscape,” and its employees are vocal in their support of the agenda."

"Manhattan employs conservative provocateur and Ron DeSantis ally Chris Rufo—the progenitor of the debate over “Critical Race Theory”"

"Stand Together’s Chairman and CEO, Brian Hooks, is also the President of the Charles Koch Foundation and previously served as the executive director and COO of the Mercatus Center"

one of the most prominent groups opposing the Obama administration’s two key domestic policy goals: health care reform and cap and trade

The philanthropy has funded “pension reform” work by right wing groups, school privatization efforts, Bari Weiss’ anti-woke university, the Niskanen Center, and sponsored both the 2024 abundance conference and the 2025 conference.

Do I need to go on? These people will decide what "Abundance 'progressiveism'" actually looks like if it continues forward.

They are not hiding the fact they are actually conservatives with new labels. They will republican even more if they are given voting positions.

Do you think these people are on your side? Its all oil and techoncratic billionaires top to bottom.
by card_zero | 2025-10-04 03:59:07+00:00
> Bob, however, isn’t technical. He doesn’t even know that there is a “repository” with his “data”. He got a repository behind the scenes when he signed up for his first open social app.

> Bob uses a free hosting service that came by default with his first open social app.

> If she owns alice.com, she can point at://alice.com at any server.

But does Bob own bob.com? That sounds beyond Bob's abilities and interest level. So Bob is stuck on one platform, in practice, and it's full other Bobs who are also stuck. The "free hosting service" (why is it free?) is now the gatekeeper. It may let him switch platforms.
by renhanxue | 2025-10-04 04:00:58+00:00
Credit card fraud is not nearly as common in Europe as it is in the US.

Additionally, and specifically in Sweden, the fees that banks charge businesses for handling cash (picking it up and depositing it at the end of each business day) have increased significantly in the last decade or two. This has been a significant factor in driving businesses away from cash - it's just expensive for them to deal with.
by fragmede | 2025-10-04 04:01:05+00:00
Moviepass had to close, but Uber's running a profit these days. The days of $1 Ubers was clearly unsustainable but unless you're inside OpenAI/Anthropic, we're all just guessing as to how much inference costs them to run. Some people have more detailed analysis than others. Most aren't quite so rude and angry as Mr Zitron though, preferring to let their work speak for itself rather than try and get you to go along with their analysis because he's telling you what you want to hear while yelling at you.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-04 04:01:40+00:00
> Then maybe a better NC license should be designed specifically for hardware? The Creative Commons license isn't fantastic, for all the reasons that you suggest.

I don't think it's specific to hardware, but yes, I personally think this is a poor choice of license. There are actual Open Source licenses designed for hardware, but this isn't it.

> Just because the hardware is licensed by default as NC, doesn't mean that there can not be other providers of parts, a dual licensed open source hardware project if you will.

Dual-licensing would be nice, but still isn't Open Source and is still awkward; if the original folks are gone, there's nobody to grant those commercial licenses. If you really must, I think the best option is a BSL-style arrangement where you release it under a restrictive license up front but it automatically becomes truly Open Source, including allowing commercialization, after a year or two.

> You get the GPL-like CC NC license for general use,

Point of order : GPL is absolutely not a NC license. You are free to make money off of GPL software, you just have to give code to anyone who gets binaries (possibly only if they ask, again this is general terms not legal advice).

> Someone who just carbon copies a design and makes a profit of it, without giving back anything to the community is hard to avoid in the open hardware space.

I'm kind of okay with that. Carbon copying and selling the design is giving something to the community: availability. I'm 100% on board with share-alike licenses, of course; anyone else selling it also being forced to share the source would be great. But a lot of my point is that as someone who wants open source printers to take over, I absolutely want these things to be ubiquitous, including by them being sold for pennies on the dollar by fly-by-night manufacturers and cloned and remixed and modified by companies that stand to make a fortune by doing so.
by freakynit | 2025-10-04 04:01:48+00:00
Lol.. you are reading what these judges say. Seriously, lol...

People of India are fed up with these judges. Recently an incident happened with a high court judge in India. He was caught with 50 crore INR worth of cash. You know what these judges did? Forget about jailing him, they just trnsferred it to a different court. He is still passing judgements there.

And remember, this was the case that became national news. Even then he got no punishment. Think about what goes on behind the scenes when they are not caught.

Indians have lost faith in all departments of governance. This is why I said: This country has become an absolute hell. An absolute living hell.

Our own leaders are the biggest parasites on this nation's progress and happiness of people. There is a reason why India ranks soooo low on happiness index. Inspite being 4th largest and fastest growing economy.
by Spivak | 2025-10-04 04:02:33+00:00
Which is why I think the ACM's code of ethics is good for someone looking to be introspective about right and wrong but would be terrible as the basis for a legal code of ethics.

The scope would necessarily be narrower and "permit" more unethical behavior but for violations to be enforced by peers it has to survive the eventual "oh you're making a big fuss over nothing, you won't lose your license" problem.
by AngryData | 2025-10-04 04:02:34+00:00
Or use any of the wonders of military technology invented in the last 200 years to take back society. These fuckers have lived in prosperity for so long that they don't even think it is possible. But so many people throughout history thought they were untouchable until the masses decided they had enough of their shit. Kings with professional armies, full plate knights, men with cannons, mens with guns, machine guns, bombs, planes, tanks, helicopters, and yet at the end of the day when enough random people are pissed off enough the mass of people with nothing to lose are the ones who "win" in the end with the powerful dead or hiding.
by Crespyl | 2025-10-04 04:07:05+00:00
I'm pretty sure that AI did take at least a few games off of the pros. IIRC the professional team only had one win, the last match.

I do agree that the game was terribly dumbed down to make it tractable. I keep hoping they'll revisit Dota 2 to see if they can find meaningful improvements and tackle the full game.
by flare_blitz | 2025-10-04 04:07:22+00:00
The issue is that some imports can be made lazy and some cannot. A binaristic all-or-nothing approach does not address the issue. (I also think that there is zero basis to claim that adding such a flag is trivial, since there’s no reference implementation of this flavor of lazy imports.)

What if we have a program where one feature works only when lazy imports are enabled and one feature only when lazy imports are disabled?

This is not a contrived concern. Let’s say I’m a maintainer of an open-source library and I choose to use lazy imports in my library. Because I’m volunteering my time, I don’t test whether my code works with eager imports.

Now, let’s say someone comes and builds an application on top of this library. It doesn’t work with lazy imports for some unknown reason. If they reach for a “force all imports” flag, their application might break in another mysterious way because the code they depend on is not built to work with eager imports. And even if my dependency doesn’t break, what about all the other packages the application may depend on?

The only solution here would be for the maintainer to ensure that their code works with both lazy and eager imports. However, this imposes a high maintenance cost and is part of the reason why PEP 690 was rejected. (And if your proposed solution was “don’t use libraries made by random strangers on the Internet”, boy do I have news for you...)

My point is that many things _will_ break if migrated to lazy imports. Whether they should have been written in Python in the first place is a separate question that isn’t relevant to this discussion.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-04 04:07:25+00:00
Forgive me for assuming you were American. That was my bad.

My argument was indeed around the late-capitialistic environment of the US. Talk of cultural barriers to your approach are in that context. (And i believe are valid.)

The European context is different. Socialism is better understood there, and indeed far more accepted in things like universal health care, unemployment support and so on.

And while wealth inequality exists in Europe (they basically invented aristocracy) there's a difference in flavor there compared to the US.

The release of capital to allow those without it to start a new business would be enormously valuable. I've worked with impoverished entrepreneurs and it often takes very little capital to bump them up a significant level.

I'm not convinced that simply allocating capital to people at birth, long before they need it to accomplish something, would be efficient. Perhaps making capital more accessible in later life would be more effective?

The need for dividends as income along the way is reduced somewhat as in a European context there are already social income streams in place (obvious locations vary and ymmv.)
by gamblor956 | 2025-10-04 04:07:30+00:00
Texas' official policy on homelessness and drug users for at least a decade was to buy them a bus ticket to California. Gov Rick Perry bragged about it in a presidential debate. His successor bragged about it in a gubernatorial debate.

When the LA Times tried to survey the homeless population two years ago, fewer than 25% of the homeless in Hollywood were from California and none of them were locals. Want to guess the #1 state of residence for LA's homeless (Hint: it's Texas.)

But this article is right: once LA started buying the non-local homeless bus tickets back to their real home cities, things started getting better in LA. It's now part of our current mayor's homeless strategy to convince people to go back home.

Also: California defines homelessness differently (more broadly) than most states. Using the California definition, Texas, North Dakota, Florida, New York, and Oklahoma all have almost as many homeless. But when those states redefine homelessness to mean something narrower, of course they're going to look better. If California were to limit the "homeless" population to just Californians who became homeless (meaning that they owned, rented, or otherwise had housing before losing it), it would have fewer homeless than Texas.
by t_mahmood | 2025-10-04 04:07:37+00:00
On Gnome + NVIDIA (RTX 2080) + Wayland + 3 Monitors [1DP 4K, 2HDMI (2K, FHD)]

Every time I try it, I am really impressed with the smoothness! But every time, two issues come up, which most likely due to NVIDIA, which are complete showstopper.

1. After inactivity period, monitors turns off. When I resume, one monitor won't come back up. I have to deactivate it on control panel, and cancel to get it back. Doing it many times a day, is extremely annoying. This does not happen on two monitors.

2. Monitors won't turn off ... yeah, after inactivity period the monitor's blanks, but, briefly turns off, and then turns back on. And then never turns off. This mostly happens after playing games.

I think both of the issues are due to NVIDIA.

Otherwise, Wayland has become really solid.

Using i3 now, it's not much, it's boring, and that's a good thing.
by motorest | 2025-10-04 04:08:54+00:00
> If you can make many replicators, money stops making much sense. You probably end up with energy (if these devices take a lot of energy to operate) as the new currency.

If you can make many replicators, you certainly won't be providing them to anyone else. You'd be using them to ensure that money starts funneling into your revenue stream, and use that as a cash cow to pursue other projects.
by MisterMower | 2025-10-04 04:10:41+00:00
Most public school districts in America spend north of $20,000 per student per year. That’s $400,000 a year for a classroom of 20 students.

Anyone who thinks money is the limiting factor in education is either delusional or is receiving a chunk of that money that never makes it into the classroom.

Countries all over the planet provide superior education to students for a tenth of the cost.

Your right wing friends are correctly but ambiguously stating that if we can’t have a gifted program at these funding levels, there will never be a gifted program at any funding level.