MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-01 06:45:14+00:00
> LLM’s may even get superseded by something else, but whatever form AI takes training it is going to require work from other people outside the company in question.

It's going to require training data, but no incremental work is actually being done; it's being trained on things that were written for an independent purpose and would still have been written whether they were used as training data or not.

If something was actually written for the sole purpose of being training data, it probably wouldn't even be very good for that.

> Attribution is solvable both at a technical and legal level.

Based on how this stuff works, it's actually really hard. It's a statistical model, so the output generally isn't based on any single thing, it's based a fraction of a percent each on thousands of different things and the models can't even tell you which ones.

When they cite sources I suspect it's not even the model choosing the sources from training data, it's a search engine providing the sources as context. Run a local LLM and see what proportion of the time you can get it to generate a URL with a path you can actually load.

> Presumably the best solution for finding value is let the open market decide the rough negotiations.

That's exactly the thing that doesn't work here because of the transaction costs. If you write a blog, are you supposed to negotiate with Google so they can pay you half a french fry for using it as training data? Neither party has any use for that; the cost of performing the negotiations is more than the value of the transaction. But the aggregate value being lost if it can't be used as a result of that is significant, because it's a tiny amount each but multiplied by a billion.

And then what would happen in practice? Google says that in exchange for providing you with video hosting, you agree to let them use anything you upload to YouTube as training data. And then only huge conglomerates can do AI stuff because nobody else is in a position to get millions of people to agree to that term, but still none of the little guys are getting paid.

Restricting everyone but massive conglomerates from doing AI training in order to get them to maybe transfer some money exclusively to some other massive conglomerates is a bad trade off. It's even a bad trade off for the media companies who do not benefit from stamping out competitors to Google and the incumbent social media giants that already have them by the neck in terms of access to user traffic.
by ksynwa | 2025-10-01 06:46:27+00:00
The common thread I am seeing with replacing creative work with AI is that of lowering the bar of acceptability and counterbalancing that with the (potential) savings from taking human labour out of the equation. The cost of labour is not just the raw cost but also the bargaining power that they can exercise by going on strikes etc. From my limited understanding, creatives seem to have more unions than programmers given that I have heard of at least two strikes from voice actors and writers and none from the tech sector. So it should be a win-lose for those who profit off of videos without taking part in the labour process of making one and lose-lose for everyone else.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-01 06:46:40+00:00
The phrase "most people mean the wrong thing by this phrase" makes no sense. A phrase means what most people mean by saying it, or understand by hearing it. So, "the exception that proves the rule" is, as its main modern meaning, a joking way of admitting that a rule (especially one that the speaker had argued for) is not actually a universal rule, while maintaining that it generally holds true.

The examples of legal signs and so on are a more specific, technical, meaning that is only used in certain contexts, such as actual legal proceedings or at least informal discussions about laws or contract terms.

When /u/flkiwi above said this phrase, they obviously meant it in the joking sense I gave, and which they had actually explained above. They agree that, in general, lawyers make bad CEOs, but they also personally know of exceptions. This is not "wrong usage", as proven by the fact that everyone who read the comment understood exactly what they meant.

This whole thing reminds me of the people who complain about the use of literally as an amplifier instead of for its primary meaning as "wrong", with seemingly no understanding of how flourishes and rhetoric work (nor even of the history of words like "very", which used to be quite similar to "literally" a long time ago).
by teiferer | 2025-10-01 06:47:31+00:00
Depends what you compare it with.

Having a Spanish-speaking language buddy or actually living in Spain or Mexico is much better than Duolingo for learning Spanish. (xx)

Watching hours of brainrot youtube doomscroll is much worse than something like Duolingo.

The niche for Duolingo is the latter. Obviously it can't compete with the former. You don't need an opinionated blog post to realize that.

(xx) unless perhaps it's spanish youtube.
by candseven | 2025-10-01 06:48:12+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-10-01 06:49:16+00:00
The BBB doesn't cut shit. The biggest cut is $1 trillion in Medicaid over 10 years. Medicaid spending was $894 billion in 2023, up from $721 billion (CPI adjusted) in 2015: https://www.statista.com/statistics/245348/total-medicaid-ex.... We're not even cutting it back halfway to what it was in Obama's last year, when everything was peachy.
by cwillu | 2025-10-01 06:50:05+00:00
That is correct answer to a data eating bug on a stable filesystem uncovered during RC, but the correct answer is also to then perform a thorough and public soul-searching for how such a bug got introduced to the development tree from which the pull request to linus was created. Losing files for a stable filesystem is a critical bug. In an experimental filesystem, not so much, and if you're going to claim sufficient priority to break the rc convention because of the criticality of the bug, the soul-searching is going to come along with it. And in this case, the result of the soul-searching was “the combination of the technology and the community responsible for it is not ready for mainline.”
by anovikov | 2025-10-01 06:51:36+00:00
Problem with these small things is that they don't scale thus can't exit. It means you will have to just milk them for profit over many years and they never get big.

If a SaaS has a 6x revenue multiple as it does now, it doesn't mean that you can sell a thing that fetches 5K per month for 400K. You can only keep milking it. A thing that fetches 5M per month, for 400M? sure, but it will never get there.
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-10-01 06:51:50+00:00
Herein we find a fundamental flaw in the way society today treats gluten-based grains, bread, pasta, rice, etc.

Pasta that is not married to its sauce has not done its job. The point of putting a bunch of wheat-based filler into a food is that the flavors of the sauce and other liquids are absorbed and adopted by that bread/pasta/sponge type stuff. Then when you reach the end of the sauce, you still have pasta that is infused with its very essence.

I die a little inside, every time someone slaps some breadsticks on my plate and not enough sauce to soak up. The whole point of a breadstick is wiping that stuff up and sponging it out of the dish!

I die a little inside, every time I see a frozen "TV dinner" that has a little sauce on top of dried-out rice. You mean I am supposed to heat this up and it will magically be delicious?

I've been ordering rice bowls from a fun "healthy foods" restaurant in the college area. They dump a bunch of cooked Jasmine rice into a bowl and then whisper a curry sauce over the top. I gave up after 3 extra sauce orders didn't cover all the rice. And you can't "resuscitate" a dish by applying sauce afterwards: that is what the cooking in the pot is for. Marry the sauce to the rice or dump it in the rubbish.

One time, America's Test Kitchen published a photo of how to rescue old stale bread by dumping pasta sauce over it, while it's frozen. I told them, that's the dumbest thing I ever saw.

The whole reason for leavening bread is so that it becomes like a sponge! For God's sake, the whole reason for inventing the sandwich, the pita, and the Cornish pasty were to save the hands while the sauces absorbed into the bread! That you actually had good-tasting bread in the end, or for a tin miner, bread you could toss in the rubbish!

At this stage, I am convinced that 95% of "gluten intolerance/sensitivity/allergy" is induced by people who are improperly eating all these grains, just dry, just no sauces or liquids inside it. It's fundamentally stupid and ignorance of cuisine, and it's all based on industrial-scale food production and cost-cutting even in the nicest kitchens.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-01 06:52:27+00:00
> For what? For the critical service of big commercial sports event?

Thank you, TIL. For some reason I assumed that those big sport events bring money to hosts. Your question reminded me of this and I went to check and was surprised to find out that it's not true.

"Studies conducted to assess the impact on employment, tourism, and growth have been inconclusive at best." - https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documen...
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 06:53:37+00:00
It's literally ragebait to make you post this exact comment without doing any Googling. There are always thousands of "top researchers" leaving America, anyone can cite a civil engineer, nuclear scientist or aviation major and prove you wrong.

If your response is "we don't need them anyways" without even identifying a single person in specific, you are (once again) speaking purely from bias. You do not understand the situation and just want to defend pre-established beliefs from popular scrutiny.
by panta | 2025-10-01 06:54:09+00:00
I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The difference with social media sized alternatives is that with the latter the "consumer" is much more passive, at most it's expected to react emotionally without thinking. On the other hand with the former there is an interaction between the work and the reader/viewer. Some books have the ability to make you re-evaluate your beliefs and your values, without being manipulative. Art is not necessarily entertaining.
by gyomu | 2025-10-01 06:54:26+00:00
> humans will work on better problems than performing repeated tasks on an assembly line or flipping burgers.

Haha. The current wave of “careers we couldn’t think of” that tech companies have created include being Uber/Doordash/Amazon delivery drivers, data labelers for training AIs, moderator to prevent horrific content spreading on social networks,… with way weaker social benefits & protections than the blue collar jobs of old they replaced.

So yeah, I have a hard time buying this fantasy of everyone doing some magical fulfilling work while AI does all the ugly work, especially when every executive out there is plainly stating that their ideal outcome is replacing 90% of their workforce with AI.

With the way things are headed, AI will take over large economic niches, and humans will fill in at the edges doing the grimy things AI can’t do, with ever diminishing social mobility and safety nets while AI company executives become trillionaires.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-01 06:54:28+00:00
There have been credible rumors that Valve is experimenting with an ARM-based SteamOS for the next Steam Deck which would bring quite a lot of games to mobile.

You can already do this with tools like Winlator of course, but Valve's performance patches would probably make the whole process a lot easier to get working easily.

Any such feature would come to Apple hardware last because of Apple's arbitrary software limitations (maybe it'll work in the EU?), of course, but once Proton goes full ARM, it's only a matter of time.
by procaryote | 2025-10-01 06:55:07+00:00
The real issue is, what do you use instead that you can make the non-technical users accept?

You can certainly move to google and get an overall improvement in track record and end user experience, but the fundamental issue raised in the article is still there

You can move to proton and get a pretty nice experience for mail and calendar, but it adds limitations regular users will be upset by. Their equivalent to word is very beta and they have nothing similar to excel.

You can move to nextcloud, and fix the fundamental issue, but every single piece of the solution will be even worse to use than microsoft's stack, and users will hate you.

If I could solve this, I could drop microsoft and google both
by hatmatrix | 2025-10-01 06:56:08+00:00
True, actually they are good in following up on numerical correctness, so I should be rephrase 'correctness in computation' to 'correctness in composition' - the types of bugs that arise from mashing a lot of modules together. On the one hand it's not a Julia issue but a package ecosystem issue.

I think you're actually even more active in the Julia community so maybe I don't have to summarize the debate but these are the types of traits and interface packages being developed that are meant to formalize how modules can be used and extended by others.

https://github.com/rafaqz/Interfaces.jl

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/interfaces-traits-in-julia...
by TomK32 | 2025-10-01 06:57:02+00:00
In the limitations it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw
by somenameforme | 2025-10-01 06:57:13+00:00
> "Trump's decision to hide the list was the first time that I've seen MAGA anything split with Trump."

There's a lot of diversity of views among those who might have voted for Trump. For instance his nonstop backing of Israel and decision to continue the war in Ukraine have been divisive, as was his decision to bomb Iran. In general Republican views are not like the equal but opposite of Democrat views. There tends to be much more diversity on most topics.

For instance you probably think the average Republican is pro-gun and anti-abortion. In reality only 24% of Republicans completely oppose abortion [1] and only 27% think gun laws should be less strict. [2] The party has become extremely heterogeneous. I suspect this is largely because of people like me. I do not consider myself conservative, but am highly supportive of equality of opportunity, freedom of speech, opposed to political correctness and war, and so on. In other words a pretty much typical liberal of 20 years ago, but one who no longer really fits in the modern Democrat demographic.

I think it's fairly obvious that nobody is ever going to be prosecuted over the Epstein stuff. He seemed to have had dirt on basically everybody. So I suspect everybody will finger point and imply things to score political points, but in the end it's the pot calling the kettle black, and so I doubt anybody would have the gall to escalate it to the point of prosecutions.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/246278/abortion-trends-party.as...

[2] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts...
by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 06:58:17+00:00
Most likely you (wisely) have something blocking the Javascript they're using.

There's a big black bar across the top of the homepage, with a message that changes depending on the time, ex:

<a id="announcement-bar" href="https://whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/" class="announcement-bar--link"> <span class="announcement-bar__text" style="display: none;">Democrat Shutdown is Imminent</span> <span class="announcement-bar__end-text" style="">Democrats Have Shut Down the Government</span> <span class="announcement-bar__countdown">3h 2m 21s</span> </a>

Clicking the link opens another page that claims:

> Democrats Have Shut Down the Government

> Americans Don’t Agree with Democrats’ Actions
by asmor | 2025-10-01 06:58:28+00:00
It's a shame that virtual / headless displays are such a mess on both Linux and Windows. I use a 32:9 ultrawide and stream to 16:9/16:10 devices, and even with hours of messing around with an HDMI dummy and kscreen-doctor[1] it was still an unreliable mess. Sometimes it wouldn't work when the machine was locked, and sometimes Sunshine wouldn't restore the resolution on the physical monitor (and there's no session timeout either).

Artemis is a bit better, but it still requires per-device setup of displays since it somehow doesn't disable the physical output next to the virtual one. Those drivers also add latency to the capture (the author of looking glass really dislikes them because they undo all the hard work of near-zero latency).

[1]: https://github.com/acuteaura/universe/blob/main/systems/_mod...
by gyulai | 2025-10-01 06:58:59+00:00
Kind of funny, these mutually escalating accusations of being a member of an out-of-touch elite.

All it takes for BYOD to become difficult is having to handle personally identifiable information under the rules of the GDPR, or having some kind of professional indemnity insurance with cybersecurity provisions, perhaps having quality management certification, being in certain highly-regulated professions like law or medicine, being in the public sector, working government contracts, etc. etc. (the list goes on and on) -- I'm just finding it hard to believe that this list doesn't capture most companies.

But then again, maybe, I am a member of an out-of-touch elite.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-01 06:59:29+00:00
> You can easily download unsigned binaries and run them

It's definitely becoming less easy over time. First you had to click approve in a dialog box, then you had to right-click -> open -> approve, now you have to attempt (and fail) to run the app -> then go into System Settings -> Security -> Approve.

I wanted to install a 3rd party kernel extension recently, and I had to reboot into the safety partition, and disable some portion of system integrity protection.

I don't think we're all that far from MacOS being as locked-down as iOS on the software installation front...
by kelnos | 2025-10-01 06:59:40+00:00
Cynicism usually doesn't help you, no matter how trendy it might be to be a cynic.

The more likely outcome is that you'll (intentionally or unconsciously) perform poorly, have a bad attitude, and always act like your employer is out to get you. Your managers will notice this and not like working with you. Eventually you'll get managed out or fired, and then your cynical opinion will be reinforced by this experience, even though it was avoidable.

I'm not saying you should think your company is your friend or your family (they're not!), and I'm not saying you should work uncompensated overtime, or buy into the whole company "mission" and "values" and stuff. But do go in with a healthy attitude, get your work done to the best of your ability, and act professionally and, sure, be friendly toward your coworkers, and develop relationships with them and your managers (professional ones, not personal ones, if that's not your thing). If your management still treats you poorly, then yes, absolutely, get out of there. But going in with a bad attitude isn't going to set anyone up for success.
by ggm | 2025-10-01 06:59:48+00:00
I very much hope they don't. Purely personal opinion, but I find carry-it-on authors attempts I've read trite, and bad. Nobody could do Christie, or Sayers.

I had some hope a belief that Lynn Pratchett had been collaborating with Terry might mean she carried on, and I see that as a distinction with meaning: there could be a continuity of witticisms.

But overall, I think this is a bad idea. Cornwall (his real name) was damaged goods from a highly distorted childhood, and exposed aspects of his own frailties in the books by inversion: his many eponymous heroes Smiley included suffer the fate of mistakes in relationships made by women, he was a serial filanderer himself.

How could we expect another author to carry on the evasive, self denying complex moral frauds without the qualifications of experience?

This is a silly naieve idea to make money. To cap it all, the son did not want (sir) Gary Oldman to make more films because he didn't like his characterisation. I watched the Alec Guinness bbc series, the Richard Burton film of "the spy who came in from the cold" and read all the books, biography included. And the wonderfully dingy, sad, thatcherist britain of the new one. Oldman and the entire cast, music, colour grading, set dressing, it all was perfect.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 06:59:49+00:00
Hypothetically that is what is supposed to happen, but in action, politics has become so polarized, that swing electorates are almost non-existent.

At this point elections are won based on whether or not subsegments of the population can be rallied to show up or not show up to vote in elections.

This is becuase in most elections, most voters simply do not follow the news, and if they do it tends to be a quick video or a listicle.

Thus, the voters that can swing an election are those that are part of organized voting blocs (eg. A specific union or a local PTA), and cultivating those local groups and ties matters more.
by lazyeye | 2025-10-01 07:00:02+00:00
"There isn't any substantive reason why there ought to be a government shutdown. This is something that has been done routinely, as I said, 13 different times when the Democrats had the majority. But we are not going to be held hostage for over $1 trillion in new spending on a continuing resolution," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said ahead of the vote.
by TomK32 | 2025-10-01 07:01:30+00:00
In the study's Limitations sections it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw
by apexalpha | 2025-10-01 07:01:57+00:00
>As someone who actually worked for the Federal government when it shutdown in the past, people are exaggerating the implications for narrative purposes. This happens semi-routinely, there is a boring reality that goes along with it.

You seem to have normalised Government shutdowns in a way to cope with it.

But this is not normal, this does not happen in a normal government process.
by fsfod | 2025-10-01 07:02:05+00:00
Someone already created that[1] using custom kernel driver and there own CDN, but they seem to of abandoned it[2], maybe because they would of attracted Valve's wrath trying to monetized it.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250517130138/https://venusoft....

[2] https://venusoft.net/#home