MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iso1631 | 2025-11-27 14:01:49+00:00
If you don't like the license, then don't accept it.

You are then restricted by copyright just like with any other creation.

If I include the source code of Windows into my product, I can't simply choose to re-license it to say public domain and give it to someone else, the license that I have from Microsoft to allow me to use their code won't let me - it provides restrictions. It's just as "viral" as the GPL.
by niemandhier | 2025-11-27 14:01:59+00:00
Britain was a very repressed culture at the time and for a long time after this.

An Englishman’s proverbial “stiff upper lip” came to be a cliche for a reason.

“Boarding school syndrome” would be the term coined for the emotional damage that was an educational ideal for a long while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school#Psychological_...
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 14:02:13+00:00
Most people seek emotional support, resilience and trustworthiness from their partner, and being excessively "vulnerable" can definitely hinder you from playing that role effectively. This is what can sometimes be experienced as a loss of respect. What you really want is to show a mere modicum of emotional vulnerability that your partner can then have some opportunity to empathize with, and not view you as overly brittle. But not more than that.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-27 14:02:36+00:00
Yeah the way this goes is before the monarch enters the city of London, the Lord Mayor of London presents them with a sword as an act of swearing fealty. This ritual has been turned by urban myth into the monarch having to ask permission to enter (which is not true- they don't have to ask permission and they don't ask permission). The crown also doesn't own most of the UK or even London. The monarch is the Duke of Lancaster[1] so if you die without a will in some areas of the North the crown can actually get all your stuff and they own a bunch of castles and estates etc. The Duke of Westminster is one of the UK's richest people as he really does own most of the real estate in Mayfair and Westminster so everyone in a building owned by "Grosvenor Estates" is paying rent to that dude.[2]

What is true is if you go to London you can see the boundaries of the city of London which are a set of cast iron dragon markers you see around and about on all streets marking the ancient boundary between Westminster and London.[3]

[1] Weirdly this was true even when Queen Elizabeth was the monarch. She was the Duke of Lancaster, not the Duchess. Apparently a female spouse of a Duke is a Duchess but if it's you and you're female then you're the Duke. I don't make the rules. https://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grosvenor,_7th_Duke_of_We...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_boundary_mark
by gambiting | 2025-11-27 14:02:36+00:00
>>Seems like lot of people with high ego are not ready to accept the truth that a human has way less knowledge than a world encyclopedia.

Well, thank you for editing your own comment and adding that last bit, because it really is the crux of the issue and the reason why OP is being downvoted.

Having all of the worlds knowledge is not the same as being smart.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-27 14:03:17+00:00
It started with the paradox of women unhappiness. Which wasnt a paradox at all, fully understood. Yet for some reason 1 political side refused to understand. Ideological blindness.

Then a large amount of $, time, and effort was spent on women to solve this problem, but since they refused to understand the cause. It really was just a boost to women. This shifts men behind. Government intentionally caused this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/upshot/boys-falling-behin...

Then men needed a role model. Men would need to work extra hard to just come up to parity. But government didnt like the messaging of those role models, so they censored their speech and deplatformed them.

Creating the gap/shortage in role models; but men moved to beyond their control. This new role model became huge. He'd talk for hours upon hours with anyone who would listen.

The people who wanted to censor/deplatform but couldnt. So they publicly killed him.
by another-dave | 2025-11-27 14:03:18+00:00
You say that, but "mechanically" in the dictionary gives "In a mechanical manner."

"Mechnical" gives "Of or relating to machines or tools."

"Machine" gives "A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy and transmits it in a more useful form." and "A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment."

An ox & cart fits the bill for "machine" with that lens. Not sure it's a smart-alec workaround, any more than the likes of McVities arguing the biscuits vs cakes in court for Jaffa Cakes. Anything not defined is fair game.
by rantallion | 2025-11-27 14:03:30+00:00
Sheep on the Town Moor would be a new one. The Freeman of the city have herbage rights for cattle, which are a frequent sight.

> "herbage right" means the full right and benefit of herbage vested in the resident freemen and widows to graze cows on the Town Moor;

Source: [Newcastle-upon-Tyne Town Moor Act 1988](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1988/31/pdfs/ukla_198800...)
by rvnx | 2025-11-27 14:03:48+00:00
For text and image-based tasks they are infinitely better than a human.

What they lack are arms to interact with the physical world, but once this is done this is a giant leap forward (example: they will obviously be able to do experiments to discover new molecules by translating their steps-by-steps reasoning to physical actions, to build more optimized cars, etc).

For now human is smarter in some real-world or edge cases (e.g. super specialist in a specific science), but for any scientific task an average human is very very weak compared to the LLMs.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 14:04:15+00:00
I know it's not popular on HN to have anything but supportive statements around GPL, and I'm a big GPL supporter myself, but there is nuance in what is being said here.

That case was important, but it's not abojt the virality. There have been no concluded court cases involving the virality portion causing the rest of the code to also be GPL'd, but there are plenty involving enforcement of GPL on the GPL code itself.

The distinction is important because the article is about the virality causing the whole LLM model to be GPL'd, not just about the GPL'd code itself.

I'd like to think it wouldn't be a problem to enforce, but I've also never seen a court ruling truly about the virality portion to back that up either - which is all GP is saying.
by grumbelbart2 | 2025-11-27 14:04:18+00:00
I've read this multiple times and disagree.

If I had an AGI that designs me a safe, small and cheap fusion reactor, of course I would be interested in that.

My intelligence is intrinsically limited by my biology. The only way to really scale it up is to wire stuff into my brain, and I'd prefer an AGI over that every day.
by aswegs8 | 2025-11-27 14:04:40+00:00
There is actually an interesting scenario in this disconnect that we are experiencing. Maybe "real" AGI in the sense of intelligence that self-corrects effectively like a human is still a long way. Maybe we will be stuck with this kind of ever-improving but still kind of deficient LLM intelligence we have right now.

There are tons of use cases even for such a limited type of intelligence. No, it is not a million math PhDs at your disposal. It is a narrow intelligence that is still hugely useful and businesses will need a few years to adapt. The impact on topics like customer service with LLM+RAG+triggering actions is very close already and should transform the industry in the next years.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-27 14:06:22+00:00
> Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"?

It doesn't have device "drivers", it has device travellers.

When you go to shut it down it pops up an annoying dialogue box saying that its "First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated" that won't go away, even though it's made in Shoreditch which is nowhere near the US and therefore the US constitution is about as relevant as Kenya's.
by spurgu | 2025-11-27 14:06:34+00:00
> Or you could pass an EU Constitution that enshrines basic rights including privacy

That, and (somehow) enforce the basic principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, which they are supposed to do already. That would go a long way towards not misusing that centralized power.

I will have to read up on that 2005 event, sounds weird to me that countries would complain about there being constitutional rights at the EU level. Not sure how those rights would conflict with local ones. Unless there were positive rights, like "the right to internet" or the like, which would be ridiculous and not what I'm proposing (just basic negative rights).
by blibble | 2025-11-27 14:07:15+00:00
fair use only applies in the united states (and Poland, and a very limited set of others)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#/media/File:Fair_use_...

and it is certainly not part of the Berne Convention

in almost every country in the world even timeshifting using your VCR and ripping your own CDs is copyright infringement
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-11-27 14:07:17+00:00
There have been a number of of cases, which are linked from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Leg...) - most recently Entr’Ouvert v. Orange had a strong judgement (under French law) in favour of the GPL.

Conversely, to my knowledge there has been no court decision that indicates that the GPL is _not_ enforceable. I think you might want to be more familiar with the area before you decide if it's legally questionable or not.
by ogrisel | 2025-11-27 14:07:19+00:00
I think it would help to open an issue on github making explicit the following three points explicit in the report:

- steps to reproduce from scratch;

- what you expected to happen;

- what you actually observed (include the screenshot or video capture in addition to a textual description).

Otherwise, you might risk your report being ignored due to a silent misunderstanding about the mismatch between your expectations and the actual results.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-11-27 14:07:33+00:00
>Yes, and most with a background in linguistics or computer science have been saying the same since the inception of their disciplines

I'm not sure what authority linguists are supposed to have here. They have gotten approximately nowhere in the last 50 years. "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".

>Grammars are sets of rules on symbols and any form of encoding is very restrictive

But these rules can be arbitrarily complex. Hand-coded rules have a pretty severe complexity bounds. But LLMs show these are not in principle limitations. I'm not saying theory has nothing to add, but perhaps we should consider the track record when placing our bets.
by otikik | 2025-11-27 14:07:48+00:00
I don't think I get your point. Is it that the more someone is left-wing, the more they are likely to be killers? And extrapolating, the more right wing people are, the less likely they are? That is a wild take.

My point is that Democrats and Republicans disagree on social policies, but on the economical side they are very close to each other. They are two shades of capitalist policies. Other countries have parties that are simply non-capitalist - that is the "left".
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-11-27 14:08:11+00:00
It's not specific to open source but it's most clearly enforceable with open source as there will be many contributors from many jurisdictions with the one unifying factor being they all made their copyright available under the same license terms.

With proprietary or more importantly single-owner code, it's far easier for this to end up in a settlement rather than being drug out into an actual ruling, enforcement action, and establishment of precedence.

That's the key detail. It's not specific to GPL or open source but if you want to see these orgs held to account and some precedence established, focusing on GPL and FOSS licensed code is the clearest path to that.
by MotiBanana | 2025-11-27 14:08:53+00:00
I ChatGPT'd your claim, from recent years it seems correct.

Here's some basic analysis it did (AI, so take with grain of salt): https://shottr.cc/s/2zv5/SCR-20251127-fm6p.png

2016–2018 price spike

DRAM prices nearly tripled.

Driven by smartphone demand + server build-out + constrained supply expansion.

Resulted in the 2018 antitrust lawsuit accusing Samsung, Micron, SK hynix of coordinated output limits.

2019 oversupply crash

After the spike, memory makers over-invested capacity.

Demand softened; inventories built up.

Prices fell sharply — ~35–40% decline.

2020 mild recovery

COVID WFH / remote boom → PC sales up → DRAM demand rose slightly.

Prices recovered modestly.

2021 rebound

Data-center and cloud expansion returned.

DDR5 ramping begins.

Market in recovery — but not frothy.

2022–2023 bottom

Smartphone shipments declined globally.

PC demand dropped post-COVID.

OEMs had too much inventory → massive price declines.

Some DRAM sold below production cost.

2024–2025 AI/HBM super-cycle

AI training systems (NVIDIA, AMD, etc.) require large HBM arrays.

Fab capacity reallocated from commodity DRAM → HBM.

AI hyperscalers (OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla) created enormous DRAM draw.

Commodity DRAM restricted → price spike ≥170% YoY.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-27 14:09:02+00:00
There is conservation of energy, you're not going to gain mass without eating, but if you change nothing else and take a myostatin inhibitor or any other medication that inhibits myostatin (like growth hormones) it is guaranteed you will gain muscle.

There are many people and animals who have dysfunctional myostatin so we already know what happens when myostation is inhibited.

Growth hormones inhibit myostatin so any regular GH or GHRP will help build muscle and retain it and the effect of these have been extensively studied.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-27 14:09:13+00:00
No. For hundreds of years authors loved to use the em dash. It was a sign of quality writing. Only very recently has it stopped getting used and only because the - is on the wrong side of the keyboard and it's becoming more a hyphen instead.

When someone uses an em dash, it implies they arent using a normal keyboard; not even dvorak.
by kypro | 2025-11-27 14:09:40+00:00
It seems to me by most classical definitions we've basically already reached AGI.

If I were to show Gemini 3 Pro to anyone in tech 10 years ago they would probably say Gemini 3 is an AGI, even if they acknowledged there was some limitations there.

The definition has moved so much that I'm not convinced that even if we see further breakthroughs over the next 10 years people will say we've finally reached AGI because even at that point it's probable there might still be 0.5% of tasks it struggles to compete with humans on. And we're going to have similar endless debates about ASI and the consciousness of AI.

I think all that matters really is utility of AI systems broadly within society. While a self-driving car may not be an AGI, it will displace jobs and fundamentally change society.

The achievement of some technical definition of AGI on the other hand is probably not all that relevant. Even if goal posts stop moving from today and advancements are made such that we finally get 51% of experts agreeing that AGI has been reached there could still be 49% of expert who argue that it hasn't. On the other hand, one will be confused about whether their job has been replaced by an AI system.

I'm sorry - I know this is a bit of a meta comment. I do broadly agree with the article. I just struggle to see why anyone cares unless hitting that 51/49% threshold in opinion on AGI correlates to something tangible.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 14:09:50+00:00
I bet that people who advocate for showing "vulnerability" are modeling this as a facet of strong confidence, and not opposed to it. But the thing is, if you really have reached the level of effortless confidence where that's a realistic prospect, you won't need that advice! You'll just be able to intuitively calibrate how much "vulnerability" to allow others, as a direct outcome of that strong emotional stability. Most people would probably be better off being told to be a little bit more guarded about their emotions.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-27 14:09:53+00:00
I don't know either. I'm a developer, a very old grumpy beardy one at that. My "expert development workstation" since I began hacking on Linux almost 30 years ago has been "whatever's the fastest thing in the e-waste skip, crammed full of as much memory as I can pilfer from the rest of the scrap", and then with a brand new disk at the best price-per-gigabyte ratio I can get this afternoon from the totally-not-drug-money-laundering discount PC parts shop in town.

I don't think I've ever spent "real money" on a PC for my own use, and I doubt I ever will.

I suspect my experience mirrors that of about 50% of the folk on HN.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-27 14:09:55+00:00
Which part of the second link? Some of it is very accurately sourced, he 100% operates a loli bot which targetted subreddits banned by reddit for illegal content. Theres no walking around that. Near the end they also point out that Drew changes his TOS for SourceHut to align with banning projects he disagrees with, which makes GitHub look like paradise.
by tossandthrow | 2025-11-27 14:10:08+00:00
This is a valid take. But we need to apply it evenly on the entire society.

If we fill up the public discourse with the issues and wants of women and make the issues and wants of men a private matter this will skew the public understanding of the stance of women and men - we see this hardcore these days with boys and men being villainized, made invisible and made suspicious only due to their gender.

From here we have two ways forward: Either make sure that mens issues gain a proportionate part of the public discourse or argue that all issues are a private matter.
by rolandog | 2025-11-27 14:10:16+00:00
Perhaps the nuance is in the eye of the beholder? I don't think it's sustainable to go about our lives wearing blinders and averting our gaze from the misuse of technology because one might be afraid of unhappy feelings creeping in.

One must not be so cowardly as to deny that materials and technology can be misused or deny that their purpose is of oppression for fear of being attacked by group-thinkers.

"The unexamined life is not worth living" as Socrates put it. So, I invite you not play the usual game of narrowly looking at a single if statement and conclude "there's nothing political in this"; but rather look at the bigger picture... the asymmetry in access to information, resources, weapons, and how that impacts everyone's lives...

If we don't admit that there's a couple dozen people with immeasurable wealth and resources who have questionable intentions and opinions that affect our day-to-day lives, then we won't be able to prevent worse outcomes in a timely manner.
by delichon | 2025-11-27 14:11:04+00:00
> [Holmes] battles with drug addiction, loneliness and depression. His genius thrives in part because of these vulnerabilities, not despite them.

If there was a pill for that, how many masterpieces like the Sherlock Holmes books would never be made? The products of misery have always been the devil's advocate's best arguments. If Doyle had not sympathized with Holmes' afflictions, he could not have written him. Or if he had written Holmes as a Mary Sue we wouldn't have cared. (Though for some reason it worked for Harry Potter.)

An effective education requires a certain amount of torture, and it works better when self inflicted.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-27 14:11:18+00:00
On Android there a gotchya - google play services is capable of acting as a transparent proxy so remember you MUST also disables google services framework / play services internet access to truly block some apps from using the web (I learned this when a webcam app 'icsee' bypassed the VPN firewall by using play services proxy network access.

There is a bug in older android which allows data to leak past the VPN while the device is starting and if you disable/enable the VPN connection mid connection.

Facebook appears to have a caching component as it will send a large databurst when it's connection is restored.

Here's a typical article but the reason firewall isn't standard is you won't get ads and that juicy data stream stops. You will find some apps punish you for restrictions to their internet - learn which ones and uninstall them. https://www.airdroid.com/mdm/android-firewall-settings/
by input_sh | 2025-11-27 14:11:21+00:00
You don't have to miss any of that.

Most of my commits for the past five or so years are not on GitHub (both in professional and personal contexts), but that does not equal to me not having a GitHub account and occasionally using it to raise issues / submit PRs to someone else's project that happens to be on GitHub.

GitHub is just not my go-to platform anymore.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-27 14:11:52+00:00
Why would language restrict LLMs?

"Language" is an input/output interface. It doesn't define the internals that produce those inputs and outputs. And between those inputs and outputs sits a massive computational process that doesn't operate on symbols or words internally.

And, what "clearer milestones" do you want exactly?

To me, LLMs crushing NLU and CSR was the milestone. It was the "oh fuck" moment, the clear signal that old bets are off and AGI timelines are now compressed.
by epolanski | 2025-11-27 14:12:34+00:00
I absolutely don't care about how people generate code, but they are responsible for every single line they push for review or merge.

That's my policy in each of my clients and it works fine, if AI makes something simpler/faster, good for the author, but there's 0, none, excuses for pushing slop or code you haven't reviewed and tested yourself thoroughly.

If somebody thinks they can offset not just authoring or editing code, but also taking the responsibility for it and the impact it has on the whole codebase and the underlying business problem they should be jobless ASAP as they are de facto delegating the entirety of their job to a machine, they are not only providing 0 value, but negative value in fact.
by berkes | 2025-11-27 14:13:02+00:00
Maybe.

It's not common amongst any of the developers I see in my bubble. Could be my bubble. And it doesn't mean this practice of having one machine for all uses, is actually "good".

Though personally, i'd dislike the idea of having to maintain, update, etc multiple machines. And to sync data/logins/documents/tools between the two.

I like grepping through my "Administration/invoices". I prefer putting "Documents/contracts/" under git, eventhough all are pdfs and word. I need my todo-list to be a mix of work related and personal tasks.

Also, I listen spotify when I work. I check or answer work and personal mail when waiting for a meeting to start. I use my notes for work and private. Same for password manager, calendar.

In my case, the line is too blurred to be able to switch between machines. Theyll very much overlap, making having two a burden rather than a benefit.

But that's me.
by yabones | 2025-11-27 14:15:01+00:00
A NAS will use a network file protocol (SMB/NFS/AFP/SFTP etc) to access data rather than direct disk access, so the types of failures are different. Generally you don't really have to "eject" but disconnecting during a large transfer can cause incomplete writes.

The main risk with directly attached storage is that most kernels will do "buffered writes" where the data is written to memory before it's committed to disk. Yanking the drive before writes are synced properly will obviously cause data loss, so ejecting is always a good idea.

Generally, NAS is a bit safer for this type of storage because the protocols are built with the assumption that the network can and will be interrupted. As a result, things are a bit slower since you're dealing with network overhead. So, like everything, there are some trade-offs to be made.