MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tpmoney | 2025-11-04 23:37:45+00:00
At what point do you cross the line from "legitimate use of a work" to illegitimate use?

If I take my legally purchased epub of book and pipe it through `wc` and release the outputs, is that a violation of copyright? What about 10 books? 100? How many books would I have to pipe through `wc` before the outputs become a violation of copyright?

What if I take those same books and generate a spreadsheet of all the words and how frequently they're used? Again, same question, where is the line between "fine" and "copyright violation"?

What if I take that spreadsheet, load it into a website and make a javascript program that weights every word by count and then generates random text strings based on those weights? Is that not essentially an LLM in all but usefulness? Is that a violation of copyright now that I'm generating new content based on statistical information about copyright content? If I let such a program run long enough and run on enough machines, I'm sure those programs would generate strings of text from the works that went into the models. Is that what makes this a copyright violation?

If that's not a violation, how many other statistical transformation and weighting models would I have to add to my javascript program before it's a violation of copyright? I don't think it's reasonable to say any part of this is "clearly not" fair use, no matter how many books I pump into that original set of statistics. And at least so far, the US courts agree with that.
by Marazan | 2025-11-04 23:37:57+00:00
It was not a CPU hog - this is a myth that needs to die The flash runtime was pretty modest.

Now, the code people wrote was CPU hogs, because lots of non coders were writing code and they would do anything to make it work. The Flash runtime was not causing the Punch the Monkey and to peg your CPU, it was because the punch the monkey ad was fucking awful code.

All those Flash programmer went on to write the first wave of HTML5 stuff which, shock horror, where vastly CPU inefficient.
by righthand | 2025-11-04 23:39:49+00:00
My coworker is supposed to translate React webpage with 100% text and links into html and put in the WYSIWYG editor of the CMS. These are legal pages.

Q: What did he do to solve the problem?

A: pasted the raw react code and asked an Llm to translate it to html.

The Llm did a terrible job. For example, it converted unordered lists to paragraphs with break tags. When I asked why he didn’t just copy the rendered output from the browser, he didn’t know how to do that.

When he was shown how to do that, he said it would be too much work because the rendered output still contained css tags. So he would have to get the Llm to remove the tags for him.

This is an engineer who’s been developing software for at least 10 years, well before Llms even existed. Yet he cannot figure out how to do a simple regex find + replace. He has no clue that he’s wasted a huge amount of time fiddling with Llms.

Everyone thinks AI is a cheat code to their employment video game and I’m looking for a new job now because I’m surrounded by the downfall of humanity.
by majke | 2025-11-04 23:39:51+00:00
Falsehoods programmers think about addresses:

- parsing addresses is well defined (try parsing ::1%3)

- since 127.0.0.2 is on loopback, ::2 surely also would be

- interface number on Linux is unique

- unix domain socket names are zero-terminated (abstract are not)

- sin6_flowinfo matters (it doens;t unless you opt-in with setsockopt)

- sin6_scope_id matters (it doesn't unless on site-local range)

(I wonder if scope_id would work on ipv4-mapped-IPv6, but if I remember right I checked and it didn't)

- In ipv4, scope_id doesnt exist (true but it can be achieved by binding to interface)

and so on...

Years ago I tried to document all the quirks I knew about https://idea.popcount.org/2019-12-06-addressing/
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-04 23:39:52+00:00
It is the wrong category error.

The proper category error in the context of the discussion would be to say the photocopier is drawing a picture.

It doesn't matter how well or not the photocopier recreates an image. To say the photocopier is drawing a picture is just nonsense and has no meaning.

The same category error as to say the LLM is "thinking".

Of course, the category error could be well exploited for marketing purposes if you are in the business of selling photocopiers or language models.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-04 23:39:59+00:00
In the general sense that people are using ways to give money to others when they die instead of spreading the weskth, yes. I'm sure there's dozens of methods used to harbor wealth but I'm more talking on the general concept.

>Like what exactly?

In the very brodest sense, anything that involves turning I realizing gains into liquidity will be taxed. Investing it into assets like property will have that taxed, unless you choose to go to very specific areas. Throwing it into a business will jabr capital taxes.

Exceptions are disproportionatly utilized, but there are in fact more ways to be taxed on your money than not. That's why a lot of the current mechanisms lie less in "grab money, get taxed, use it" and more "point to money, get loans, stay in 'debt' and use not your money make money".
by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-04 23:40:16+00:00
Seems like nowadays people seem less concerned with vendor lockin than they were 15 years ago. One of the reason to want to avoid lockin is to be able to move when the price gouging gets just a little bit too greedy that the move is worth the cost. One of the drawbacks of all these built in services at AWS is the expense of trying to recreate the architecture elsewhere.
by tbeseda | 2025-11-04 23:40:32+00:00
> But the cloud is not too expensive - you're paying for stuff you don't need. That's an entirely different kind of error.

Agreed. These sort of takedowns usually point to a gap in the author's experience. Which is totally fine! Missing knowledge is an opportunity. But it's not a good look when the opportunity is used for ragebait, hustlr.
by roughly | 2025-11-04 23:40:41+00:00
I mean, there’s risk and there’s risk. If someone comes in asking “how do I mod my phone/ebike/toaster”, sure, caveat commentor and all that. If someone comes in asking “how do I make dioxygen difluoride,” that’s a different category of risk. OP can do whatever they want, but I’m not in the habit of giving guns to people who don’t know what they are without making sure they know which risk category they’re in.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-04 23:40:44+00:00
> Is there a magic toggle we missed to unlock this creativity or am I being realistic by being skeptical that limiting important resources just leads to harsher inequality.

Creativity has been unlocked but it's not the magic kind, it's the rather mundane Robber Barron kind, where the robbers occupy the sources and hoard a bunch of goods to resell or rent at higher profits. It's true for housing, GPUs, RAM, etc. [1]

[1] Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
by tomhow | 2025-11-04 23:40:47+00:00
Please don't fulminate on HN. You can make these points without the rage; the guidelines require that if we're going to participate here. They also ask us to avoid generic tangents. This post is about an open-source firmware to run on devices, not people's motivation to buy the devices in the first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by alephnerd | 2025-11-04 23:40:47+00:00
1. A significant portion of that ONG infrastructure is in the Russian Far East - especially those that are furnishing the Asian market

2. Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and South Korean companies and SOEs all have significant stakes and investments in Russia's ONG infrastructure, such as Sakhalin-I (Japan's Mitsui Group and India's ONGC), Sakhalin-II (Korea's KOGAS and Japan's Tohoku Electric), and Power of Siberia (China's CNPC), so any attack on Japanese, Chinese, Indian, or Korean ONG infrastructure in Russia is viewed as a red line by these countries.

3. Saudi Arabia remains a competitor against Shale, and would continue it's price war against American Shale.
by mvijaykarthik | 2025-11-04 23:40:54+00:00
1. We store high cardinality metrics in object storage and only keep most recent data in memory. We use serverless functions (lambdas) for querying these objects which helps us scale.

2. We do not have a global index - each hour of metrics have their own index. This helps with ephemeral labels as size of the index remains small
by observationist | 2025-11-04 23:41:22+00:00
Just get a raspberry pi and run it from your own home internet. You should already be paying for a VPN service and your regular internet service, so you should be able to trivially work out a self-hosted solution. You'll recover your costs inside of two years and come out the other end better off for it.

Don't give the big cloud companies an inch if you don't absolutely have to. The internet needs and deserves the participation of independent people putting up their own services and systems.

Amazon really doesn't care if your $10,000 bed folds up on you like a sandwich and cooks you when AWS us-east-1 goes down, or stops your smart toilet from flushing, or sets bucket defaults that allow trivial public access to information you assume to be secure, because nobody in their right mind would just leave things wide open.

Each and every instance of someone doing something independently takes money and control away from big corporations that don't deserve it, and it makes your life better. You could run pihole and a slew of other useful utilities on your self-hosted server that benefit anyone connected to your network.

AI can trivially walk you through building your own self-hosted setups (or even set things up for you if you entrust it with an automation MCP.)

Oracle and AWS and Alphabet and the rest shouldn't profit from eating the internet - the whole world becomes a better place every time you deny them your participation in the endless enshittification of everything.
by labrador | 2025-11-04 23:41:59+00:00
> Was he vindicated in some sense?

No. He's still saying AGI will demand political rights in 2029. Like Geoffrey Hinton, Kurzweil gets a pass because he's brilliant and acomplished. But also like Hinton, he's wrong about this one issue. With Hinton it appears to be fear driving his fantasies. With Kurzwel it's probably over-confidence.
by legitster | 2025-11-04 23:42:11+00:00
> Federal prosecutors failed to secure a felony indictment from a grand jury in Washington in the immediate aftermath of the incident, and instead charged Dunn with a federal misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with a federal officer.

"A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, if that's what you wanted,"- Sol Wachtler.

FYI - felony charges would have been up to 10 years, misdemeanor is much more in line with the actual "crime" and would only be 6 months.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-11-04 23:42:12+00:00
I don't know why you would think that the model can't create new language. That is a trivial activity. For example, I asked GPT5 to read the news and make a new word.

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by hypeatei | 2025-11-04 23:44:04+00:00
The article doesn't mention it but they sent like 30 federal agents to knock on this guys door, arrested him, and filmed it all for social media. The amount of unhinged behavior from this admin that goes unnoticed is crazy.

EDIT: It was 20... https://old.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1mr2gc4/white_...
by free_bip | 2025-11-04 23:44:36+00:00
I think your analogy is a massive stretch. `wc` is neither generative nor capable of having market effect.

Your second construction is generative, but likely worse than a Markov chain model, which also did not have any market effect.

We're talking about the models that have convinced every VC it can make a trillion dollars from replacing millions of creative jobs.
by _djo_ | 2025-11-04 23:44:48+00:00
Honestly, getting on those blocklists is a benefit in and of itself, it means anyone who is radical enough to follow blocklists that block people just because of whom they follow won’t cross your path.

There is an extremely toxic component to Bluesky’s user base, unfortunately, with the many attacks on the CEO for not banning Jesse Singal being testament to that. But for what it’s worth in the circles I’ve cultivated there I now see very little of those toxic people, and I don’t see any support for their behaviour. So I hope in time a more open culture will win out.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-04 23:45:25+00:00
Its a skillset that is out of favour at the moment as well but having someone who has done serverops and devops and can develop as well is a bit of a money saver generally because they open up possibilities that don't exist otherwise. I think its a skillset that no one really hired for past about 2010 when cloud was mostly taking off and got replaced with cloud engineers or pure devops or ops people but there used to be people with this mixed skillset in most teams.
by jameslk | 2025-11-04 23:45:29+00:00
It hasn’t kept up with inflation and the price of hard metal commodities so it’s more like the price keeps going down:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...

https://www.macrotrends.net/1380/gold-to-oil-ratio-historica...

Given the sharp rise in production since 2010, it seems the flat price has more to do with increasing supply and less to do with waning demand:

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/leafhandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-production-by-country
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-04 23:46:13+00:00
> The returns on wealth after it is inherited isn't going to be higher then the returns that same wealth would have gotten prior to it being inherited. Its still the same amount of money.

You're right. But the point of the article, and Piketty, is that inheritance policies -- by not taxing (through large loopholes) -- allow the inequality to continue to grow (by virtue of those returns continuing to outperform growth). Estate tax is the opportunity to counter that trend, but we (well, governments at the behest of the wealthy) choose not to.

But you're right in that the title could be more accurately worded; if the wealthy didn't die and continued to hold their assets, inequality would also continue to increase.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-04 23:46:17+00:00
Lots of anti-kickback / fraud regulations don't require an immediate exchange in order for it to still be a violation, just that you are getting special treatment for having / being part of the group covered by the regulation. Walgreens will get in trouble with the feds for giving you a $10 gift card to switch your prescriptions over to them as a Medicare patient, regardless of whether or not you actually have Medicare part D or whether you actually have Walgreens fill your scripts. It's likely going to be a similar thing here.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-04 23:46:31+00:00
>Ukraine’s ballistic missile defense intercept rates had dropped from around 37 percent in August to just six percent in October

Israel must by now have intercepted more missiles of all kinds then the rest of the world combined, and more ballistic missiles too. They managed to shrug off 4 to 5 rounds of saturation attacks from iran with almost no major hits. Something like a 95% successful intercept rate. That's not even discussing short range Iron Dome interceptions.

I can only guess the difference is more sophisticated missiles, a larger area to defend and fewer resources to do so. I still feel i'm missing something here.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-04 23:48:19+00:00
It’s a possible scenario, google ‘exploding refrigerator’. [0]

Also, there wouldn’t be fire code [1] and insurance requirements for refrigerant detection systems in rooms containing mechanical equipment with refrigerant in them unless it was an actual danger. Building codes are written in blood, as they say.

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/blew-across-home-appliance-expert...

[1] https://codes.iccsafe.org/s/IFC2021P1/chapter-6-building-ser...
by Arainach | 2025-11-04 23:49:28+00:00
The same financial world whose rationality has led companies[1][3] and economies[2] to ruin over and over?

Rational doesn't mean sustainable or wise.

[1]: https://bhc3.com/2009/05/11/when-being-rational-kills-your-b...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_financial_crisis

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745382
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-04 23:49:39+00:00
> but some people can connect people so efficiently that its mind blowing.

People don't connect people, money do. It's the golden rule and more...

> Why is this reasonable?

Because that's where work stops and corruption starts. Anyone who's seen companies prepared for acquisitions by board-installed, "connected" outsiders, knows that side of the story. Or companies sank on purpose by the same method.
by orangebread | 2025-11-04 23:51:11+00:00
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by ericbarrett | 2025-11-04 23:51:14+00:00
> which was often red tape hell

Seconded. I was working for a storage vendor when AWS was first ascendant. After we delivered hardware, it was typically 6-12 weeks to even get it powered up, and often a few weeks longer to complete deployment. This is with professional services, e.g. us handling the setup once we had wires to plug in. Similar lead time for ordering, racking, and provisioning standard servers.

The paperwork was massive, too. Order forms, expense justifications, conversations with Legal, invoices, etc. etc.

And when I say 6-12 weeks, I mean that was a standard time - there were outliers measured in months.
by cubefox | 2025-11-04 23:51:34+00:00
> This gimped viewer in the browser is not what I want.

The previous comment was not talking about the browser viewer, it was talking about various website viewers, like the one by Jira.

I agree website viewers are pointless. But most of the time I actually like the browser viewer better, if it opens links directly, than offline viewers. Because I regard PDFs as websites (similar to jpeg files), and I normally don't want to accumulate them in my download folder.

I agree though that the browser viewers are often too bare-bones.
by supern0va | 2025-11-04 23:51:42+00:00
>I can for example iterate on the sequence in my initial post and make it novel by writing down more and more disparate concepts and deleting the concepts that are closely associated. This will in the end create a more novel sequence that is not associated in my brain I think.

This seems like something that LLMs can do pretty easily via CoT.

As a fun test, I asked ChatGPT to reflexively given me four random words that are not connected to each other without thinking. It provided: lantern, pistachio, orbit, thimble

I then asked it to think carefully about whether there were any hidden relations between them, and to make any changes or substitutions to improve the randomness.

The result: fjord, xylophone, quasar, baklava
by _djo_ | 2025-11-04 23:51:44+00:00
The major different factor is that Russia is sending these drone & missile strikes just about every single night, learning from the data they gather to use less predictable routes and more countermeasures.

Ukraine does the same too, obviously, but missile/drone defence is harder than attack, and there’s a numbers disparity in terms of interceptors and being able to place them in the right places.

Iran got just a couple of goes at Israel and didn’t get a similar chance to learn from and adapt to what it learned in the process.
by paulcole | 2025-11-04 23:52:31+00:00
> It is a bit sad to see where we have landed after all that.

For a comically small amount of money I can listen to any song I want to, read any book I want to, watch any movie/TV show I want to. Then there’s the ad-supported videos and images and text. Then there’s the AIs that I use every day!

I’m in awe at how amazing where we have landed at is. Sure some stuff isn’t perfect but what fun is it to be sad about what is pretty cool?
by Terr_ | 2025-11-04 23:52:58+00:00
> > Kurzweil’s brand of AGI, which is about merging with machines

> With Kurzwel it's probably over-confidence.

It's his fear of mortality, which also helps explain the "merging" emphasis.

Every new Kurzweil "prediction" involves technologies that are just amazing-enough and the timeline just aggressive-enough that they converge into a future where a guy of Ray Kurzweil's age just manages to hop onto the first departure of the train to immortality.

If y'all have seen any exception to that pattern, please let me know, I'm genuinely curious.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-11-04 23:53:27+00:00
That's unreasonably large. Depending on the content, PRs tend to get harder and harder to read with every line of code.

1k added lines is imo already pushing it.

9k and 63 files is astronomical and very difficult to review.

A proper review means being able to understand the system and what's being changed, how, and why in order to be able to judge if it was done properly and includes everything it should and nothing it shouldn't.

9k lines is just too much to be able to do this properly.
by estearum | 2025-11-04 23:53:37+00:00
Just to clarify for anyone inundated by the wall of... ahem... suspiciously verbose? text here:

The reason standing was denied in Murthy v Missouri is that the plaintiffs could not show any evidence whatsoever that their speech was curtailed due to any pressure whatsoever from the government.

In fact, their allegedly cancelled speech had been cancelled prior to any interaction at all between the administration and the platforms. It was cancelled because it violated the terms of service which the platforms developed and enforced well before the Biden administration even took office.

Twitter's own lawyers testified under oath that the government's requests played no role in their content moderation decisions and that requests were frequently denied with no repercussions.
by piva00 | 2025-11-04 23:53:50+00:00
What would that cap do then? It's almost like that right now, most executive compensation comes from stock packages.

Distribute that across all employees as well, relative to their position, just like any profit-sharing system should work: all workers were part of increasing value, without them no CEO/C-level would generate any value.

Doesn't management always want loyal people? That's how you make people loyal, paying them for what they achieved, having a stake in the company's future.
by duxup | 2025-11-04 23:54:55+00:00
>In early August, soon after joining the FDA, Tidmarsh announced actions that would effectively remove from the market a drug ingredient made by a company associated with Tang. Tidmarsh’s lawyer then sent a letter to Tang proposing that he extend a “service agreement” for “another 10 years,” which would see Tang making payments to a Tidmarsh-associated entity until 2044. The email was seen as attempted extortion, with such payments being in exchange for Tidmarsh rolling back the FDA’s regulatory change.

Straight up extortion.