MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-27 13:20:55+00:00
>It's not the age of printing presses anymore.

Actually printing presses are alive and well.

>It's the 21st century, the age of information, the age of globally networked pocket supercomputers. Copying is so trivial that it's become normal. It happens every day at massive scales. People do not even realize they are doing it.

This is a bunch of hand-waving. Information is still bought and sold, and protected by law. Dissemination by the Internet is not all that different from dissemination on paper or via radio waves. People who make illegal copies of media know what they are doing.

>We're discussing this in a thread about AI laundering of copyrighted works, for god's sake. If you keep believing this delusion, you'll eventually watch it shatter right before your eyes.

Again, the AI is doing something not all that different from what an intelligent human would do. The fact it is done by a machine is only marginally relevant, because we are getting into philosophical questions about how it works and so on. Even if AGI is achieved, I think copyright will be extended to include the output of the machines. But what might change is that the value of information goes down as it gets easier to produce.

>Let's not waste time comparing bits of infomation to physical objects either. We can revisit this discussion when Star Trek replicators are invented.

It's not a waste. Even in the case where replicators existed, the output of a replicator would cost something because energy is not free. I don't think it is free in Star Trek if memory serves me right. The replicator and the holodeck, being finite resources, must be allocated intelligently and fairly among the crew. Same for the physical space aboard the ship. If anyone was to be a pack rat with unlimited replicator access, they might flood an entire deck with trinkets.

Likewise, even though copying is easy, it still represents a theft from the producer of the information. We are only debating details of the mechanics of how it works, to decide whether AI actually copies enough to be infringing and what the damages might actually be. That is one big question. That's one line of questioning. The other is, can the output of an AI be copyrighted? I think the answer to that question is definitely yes.
by cubefox | 2025-10-27 13:21:26+00:00
> Not to mention the functions are also translated to the other language.

This makes a lot of sense when you recognize that Excel formulas, unlike proper programming languages, aren't necessarily written by people with a sufficient grasp of the English language, especially when it comes to more abstract mathematical concepts, which aren't taught in secondary English language classes at school, but it in their native language mathematics classes.
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-10-27 13:21:31+00:00
Another example of power resides where men believe it resides.

Americans are just very scared of Mossad. Tons of money goes into Holywood to make them appear invincible to the world. Fun fact, they aren't.

Intelligence agencies have great capabilities no doubt they get billions of $$$ and have utter immunity to do whatever they want in the name of national security. Why is only Mossad scary? I'd be more scared of the CIA and KGB than of Mossad.

US has never been in existential threat like Israel has been, if it were I wouldn't want to stand in their way.
by pandaman | 2025-10-27 13:21:48+00:00
Can you explain more how you reached the conclusion that the enforcement of immigration is meant to be resolved in courts? Parking is not a criminal issue, does it also mean that I need a court order to tow a car blocking my driveway? Building code is not a criminal issue, does it mean I need a court order to install a power outlet? What about car licensing, do you go to court for new tags or to DMV/whatever is your state agency for that? Insurance? Any regulation, really?

It's exactly because this is not a criminal issue, the due process in immigration does not require court hearing, bails etc. The immigration court is not an Article 3 court, it could as well be named "immigration adjudication department" because it's an Executive office. If you believe you had been wronged in the immigration process then you can try to sue the government for the damages in an actual civil court, but the law does not require the government to sue you in order to enforce the immigration laws.
by agentultra | 2025-10-27 13:21:52+00:00
It's bad in concept as well.

All of that data sent to a third party server is going to be public on the Internet at some point. Security? Don't make me laugh. Countries that required government IDs to participate online have already made this mistake and those IDs have been leaked. Just because it's open source or run by $NOT_MICROSOFT won't make it any safer.

The problem with other people consenting to it is that it makes every one else less safe. People get compromised and scammers can use that compromised data to work against people who didn't share their data with the, "Benevolent Open Source Recall Service."
by reactordev | 2025-10-27 13:21:58+00:00
Trying to update a field from a subclass and print the results doesn’t work.

class A { name { _name } name=(value){ _name=value } construct new () { _name = "hello" } thing() { System.print(name) } } class B is A { construct new () {} update(name){ super.name = name return this } } var b = B.new() b.update("world").thing()

If you change System.print(name) to System.print(_name) it works but it doesn’t when using the getter. You get null when System.print(name) is called.

Same if you use this.name
by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 13:22:10+00:00
> I don't see what advantage this gives

I believe it may "just" be faster link times. Which may seem minor, but link times can often dominate incremental compile times because it's a slow and (at least historically) serial step which is O(total code size) even if the actual compilation is incremental.

See mold's linking benchmarks: https://github.com/rui314/mold. It can be the difference between multiple 10s of seconds with traditional linkers vs <2s with newers ones.

There are few strategies for dealing with this:

1. Is just to use a faster multi-threaded linker. On Linux, lld, mold, and wild on Linux are all much faster than the traditional ld/gold (and the latter two another step above lld). On macOS, the new built-in ld64 is pretty good. Not sure what the state is on Windows: possibly lld is best?

2. Is dynamic linking as above. This seems to be faster even though the dynamic links need to resolved at runtime. I presume because at least the links wholly within the dynlib don't need to be resolved.

3. Is tools like Subsecond (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/main/packages/subs...) which effectively implement incremental linking by diffing the symbols in object files.
by jncfhnb | 2025-10-27 13:22:48+00:00
You’re reading it backwards. He is not praising that behavior, he is complaining about it. He is saying that bots _should_ parse smiling face emoji’s as smiling face emoji’s, but they don’t do that currently because as text they get passed as gross unicode that has a lot of ambiguity and just happens to ultimately get rendered as a face to end users.
by bborud | 2025-10-27 13:22:49+00:00
This is a double edged sword. Two good events that should make us think about this are the Charlie Kirk funeral and the No Kings protest.

The former was a relatively small event broadcast live. The latter was a huge protest involving more people than the populations of some small countries. However, their media footprint was very different.

The No Kings protest produced no iconic visuals and was rapidly forgotten by international media. It had considerably less staying power than, say, the arab spring. Arguably because there existed no compelling visuals. It might as well have been a small protest of 100k people for the footprint it occupies in international consciousness.

The Charlie Kirk funeral, on the other hand, produced half a dozen memorable images that circulated for weeks.

It bears thinking about.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 13:23:36+00:00
What?

Oh, you mean PEP 506. I wrote this program in 02012, and PEP 506 wasn't written until 02015, didn't ship in a released Python until 3.6 in 02016, and even then was only available in Python 3, which I didn't use because it basically didn't work at the time.

PEP 506 is just 22 lines of code wrapping SystemRandom. There's no advantage over just using SystemRandom directly.
by NBJack | 2025-10-27 13:23:38+00:00
Age of Empires got me into tinkering with content generation. The flexible map rules were fantastic in making this possible.

Minecraft is of course the poster child for very large worlds of interest these days.

Dwarf Fortress crafts an entire continent complete with a multi-century history, the results of which you can explore freely in adventure mode.

Most of the recent examples of 3D worlds like the post tend to do it through wave function collapse.
by alperenz | 2025-10-27 13:23:42+00:00
I built this app after realizing how much time I was losing to endless scrolling. SmartScroll replaces doomscrolling with short, educational content — so every scroll actually teaches you something.

It helped me and my friends break the brainrot habit — hope it does the same for you too.

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by Aurornis | 2025-10-27 13:24:14+00:00
> There is no technical requirement for an easy-to-use baby monitor to be cloud-connected.

A common use case for baby monitors is being able to wander short distances away and still listen in: Work in yard, talk to a neighbor, go out to the detached garage.

Having a baby monitor which is not tethered to the WiFi coverage is a selling point. Many cheap monitors are WiFi connected or use their own WiFi network and the range is limited.

A lot of people in this thread are also completely missing the selling points of Nanit which include breathing tracking and sleep tracking features. It’s a product that could technically be implemented locally with enough extra processing power and cloud servers for coordinating out of home access and bouncing notifications, but obviously the number of people who would pay extra for that (instead of trying to roll their own solution HN style) is not large.
by shiomiru | 2025-10-27 13:24:22+00:00
> It would greatly simplify browser code and HTML spec.

I doubt it would make a dent - e.g. in the "skipping <head>" case, you'd be replacing the error recovery mechanism of "jump to the next insertion mode" with "display an error", but a) you'd still need the code path to handle it, b) now you're in the business of producing good error messages which is notoriously difficult.

Something that would actually make the parser a lot simpler is removing document.write, which has been obsolete ever since the introduction of the DOM and whose main remaining real world use-case seems to be ad delivery. (If it's not clear why this would help, consider that document.write can write scripts that call document.write, etc.)
by whalesalad | 2025-10-27 13:25:00+00:00
These birds are really neat. I live in rural Michigan and they’re every where here.

- they’re the oldest enduring species of bird on our planet (been around for millions of years)

- they make a very unique call - it’s loud and prehistoric and definitely makes me think pterodactyl

- they’re often called the ribeye of the sky due to their meat (haven't tried it myself, yet)

- they fly in V patterns like geese

- they pair up and remain monogamous for their lives

I’d love to attend the migration one day and see them all together in one spot. The videos on YouTube are surreal.
by thesuitonym | 2025-10-27 13:25:08+00:00
This is something that's bugged me about BitLocker for ages: What's the point of encrypting your disks if the computer automatically decrypts them anyway? The only situation I can see where this helps you is if someone steals your disk but not your computer, but that seems very unlikely to me. Maybe if someone just clones the disk, but again, it seems much more likely to me that if you're a high enough value target to do that, a bad actor would just grab your device.
by some_furry | 2025-10-27 13:26:13+00:00
The trouble is, you can think you're dealing with a Bob, but you're actually dealing with an Alice, even after enduring multiple crises that didn't trigger their specific type of badness.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/03/how-i-...

But as fun as this line of thinking is, my initial charitable post was only asking for a kind of "superficial" indistinguishability. As long as you don't think about it too hard, y'know?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-27 13:26:26+00:00
Yeah, I remember, when I was at school and first learning HTML and this kind of stuff. When I stumbled upon XHTML, I right away adapted my approach to verify my page as valid XHTML. Guess I was always on this side of things. Maybe machine empathy? Or also human empathy, because someone needs to write those parsers and the logic to process this stuff.
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by everdrive | 2025-10-27 13:27:38+00:00
Certainly there was more authoritarianism in past times, but we haven't previously had authoritarian movements at the same time that we've the internet and ubiquitous computing. Authoritarianism isn't meant to be a scare word; in the US, you have the total fecklessness of Congress, the expansion of the executive under every single president in the 21st century. (it's still authoritarianism even if some people like what is being done unilaterally by the executive. eg: both Trump and Biden sought and acted with expanded executive powers. Even if you like the outcomes, it's still actually quite bad. Neither party seems capable of imagining that someone they disagree with could be elected and use those same powers. It's baffling.) You have a lot of governmental changes in parts of Europe, etc.

I think it's pretty uncontroversial that there is a global trend towards authoritarianism, but I'm happy to hear other opinions.
by ForHackernews | 2025-10-27 13:28:14+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-15/ope...

> There’s a famous Sam Altman interview from 2019 in which he explained OpenAI’s revenue model [1] :

>> The honest answer is we have no idea. We have never made any revenue. We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we’ve built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically, we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you. [audience laughter] It sounds like an episode of Silicon Valley, it really does, I get it. You can laugh, it’s all right. But it is what I actually believe is going to happen.

> It really is the greatest business plan in the history of capitalism: “We will create God and then ask it for money.” Perfect in its simplicity. As a connoisseur of financial shenanigans, I of course have my own hopes for what the artificial superintelligence will come up with. “I know what every stock price will be tomorrow, so let’s get to day-trading,” would be a good one. “I can tell people what stocks to buy, so let’s get to pump-and-dumping.” “I can destroy any company, so let’s get to short selling.” “I know what every corporate executive is thinking about, so let’s get to insider trading.” That sort of thing. As a matter of science fiction it seems pretty trivial for an omniscient superintelligence to find cool ways make money. “Charge retail customers $20 per month to access the superintelligence,” what, no, obviously that’s not the answer.

> On a pure science-fiction suspension-of-disbelief basis, this business plan is perfect and should not need any updating until they finish building the superintelligent AI. Paying one billion dollars for a 0.2% stake in whatever God comes up with is a good trade. But in the six years since announcing this perfect business plan, Sam Altman has learned [2] that it will cost at least a few trillion dollars to build the super-AI, and it turns out that the supply of science-fiction-suspension-of-disbelief capital is really quite large but not trillions of dollars.

> [1] At about 31:49 in the video. A bit later he approvingly cites the South Park “underpants gnome” meme.

> [2] Perhaps a better word is “decided.” I wrote the other day about Altman’s above-consensus capital spending plans: “'The deals have surprised some competitors who have far more modest projections of their computing costs,’ because he is better at this than they are. If you go around saying ‘I am going to build transformative AI efficiently,’ how transformative can it be? If you go around saying ‘I am going to need 1,000 new nuclear plants to build my product,’ everyone knows that it will be a big deal.”
by Aurornis | 2025-10-27 13:29:04+00:00
Yes, a parent is always around. The part you might be missing is that the parent doesn’t want to have to limit their movements to areas where WiFi coverage is good.

Many cheap baby monitors are WiFi connected. You have to haul the video unit around and keep it live to hear when it cuts out, then move back toward where WiFi coverage was good.

This won’t seem like a big deal to someone who lives in an apartment or who has a house with 7 Ubiquiti APs covering everywhere inside and out, but it is a big deal to a parent who has a single WiFi router and wants to be able to do something like pull weeds in the yard, have a conversation with the neighbor, or go to a detached garage and work on a project without having to worry about their exact WiFi coverage at every moment to check on the baby.
by wffurr | 2025-10-27 13:29:22+00:00
I really appreciate you having a full unlocked copy of the game with up front pricing and trying to solve this issue in a thoughtful way.

In the old days, the free version would be a limited preview of the game, and would direct users to purchase the full game. We called it a demo or shareware, as in you were intended to share and copy it widely.

You could also have the “in app purchase” be the full game unlock.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-27 13:29:57+00:00
All processors are inherently behind. First research comes out or standards are made, then much time later silicon is fabbed. For example, pcie gen 6 was ratified years ago, but there's nothing I've seen that uses it. Maybe you could argue that their silicon is behind others' but it's all about what their market is and what their customers are demanding.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-27 13:30:04+00:00
Can't say I generally agree with dropping TS for JS but I suppose it's easier to argue when you are working on smaller projects. But here is someone that agrees with you with less qualification than that https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701...

I was introduced to this decision from the Lex Fridman/DHH podcast. He talked a lot about typescript making meta programming very hard. I can see how that would be the case but I don't really understand what sort of meta programming you can do with JS. The general dynamic-ness of it I get.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-27 13:30:08+00:00
The problem with bifurcated trust is the ongoing efforts to force people into carrying a “trusted” pocket spy. Cashless payments, mobile train tickets, and digital ID are making it extremely difficult to live without a pocket spy in some places.

If my bank requires me to use a phone for transfers (mine doesn’t), it might be acceptable to leave one in a desk drawer powered off as you would do with a hardware authentication token. It’s a special device for occasionally accessing a service. Fine. But when governments and industry collude to force citizens to carry these devices in order to live life normally, that’s not OK.

My intent is to be as stubborn and obnoxious as possible in resisting this until they either give up and provide an alternate path or lock me away for noncompliance. Fortunately there is still an alternate path available for most things, primarily thanks to elders who have trouble with new tech. (Thank you elders!)
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-27 13:30:40+00:00
I'm not convinced there's that big a of a difference as you seem to imply.

Most politicians aren't independent: they are members of parties and, generally, push for the same kind of policies, "the party line".

The Paris mayor is a member of a left party, the Parti Socialiste (PS). The same people who tend to cry foul when plants close down and people are laid off. This party is also more or less in some form of alliance with the Green Party who's also very much against cars. In the lower chamber no party has an absolute majority, but through (shaky) alliances, "the left" has the most seats (still no absolute majority, though). Also, many members of the President's party used to be members of the PS (including President Macron).

So, I'm pretty confortable lumping all these people together, since, broadly-speaking, they defend the same policies, even though there may be the occasional difference.
by layer8 | 2025-10-27 13:30:44+00:00
Given that world is about evenly split on the decimal separator [0] (and correspondingly on the thousands grouping separator), it’s hard to avoid. You could standardize on “;” as the argument separator, but “1,000” would still remain ambiguous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...
by bamboozled | 2025-10-27 13:31:47+00:00
It is but you're mostly thinking of white asbestos, not blue or brown. If you go read about the history of asbestos and links to cancer you will find that while white asbestos isn't good, it's much much less likely to kill you as quickly as brown or blue.

Have a read about Wittenoom in Western Australia. It was a town on the outskirts of a blue asbestos mine, it's absolutely tragic what went on there, kids would be playing in mounds of blue asbestos, many of them tragically died.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-10-27 13:32:15+00:00
I am concerned about the public reacting aggressively agaisnt the lock company owner amd his family. The guy is definitely a toxic bully, but he was indeed violently harrassed by filing a lawsuit, however unjust it was.

The correct support for a just cause must have been constructive: providing financial support for the defendant, public manifestation campaign, professional lobbying, etc

Although this time I agree with the defendant cause, the response by the public was as toxic bullying as the plaintiff, only stronger.