MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tpmoney | 2025-11-07 01:29:11+00:00
> But that's the issue, isn't it? Someone has bought a legitimate copy and put it on Napster with the intention of providing copies to people when it's fair use.

To the best of my understanding of the law, making whole copies of a work for other people to then make fair use of is generally not considered fair use. There are some narrow cases where it has been; the two that come to mind are a case (whose name escapes me) that found reproducing an entire editorial for commentary and discussion on a discussion forum was fair use and a handful of cases regarding whether a print shop is liable for copyright infringements if a customer orders a copy made of a work.

Likewise the person downloading it can't be making fair use of the work unless they already have a copy of the work they have legally obtained. This was a key point of the Anthropic case, the use of legally purchased or acquired books was fair use, the use of the copies obtained only via piracy were not. I don't recall if Alsup addressed it specifically in his ruling, and to the best of my knowledge otherwise no rulings have ever been made on the legality of "I own a legal copy of this work, and I am acquiring a copy made from someone else's legal copy for fair use purposes" (this is often the theory behind why downloading ROMs if you own the game already could be legal).

> How is it unlike borrowing a book from the library and quoting an excerpt from it in your criticism?

Libraries have been something publishers have hated for a long long while. They routinely try to extort massive amounts of money out of them (see separate pricing for "library" copies of media, maximum lending count limits on "library" ebooks etc). One of the reasons is that a library as you point out sort of puts a big dent in the "fair use derives from ownership / first sale doctrine" idea. Again, to the best of my knowledge, cases involving using library copies just tend to get their own set of rules, and are also probably just fewer and farther between because it's unlikely you can convince a library to let you just scan all of their books regardless of the legality of you doing so.

As for the partnership thing, my point was mostly that any legal entity that can jointly own property would have to be the owner of a work for people within that entity to distribute copies between each other, and that once a person leaves the legal entity they could no longer keep or obtain copies of works owned by the entity.
by atonse | 2025-11-07 01:29:48+00:00
My problem with all this is that Tesla depends too much on one person, Musk.

I shudder to think about what would happen to the stock valuation if he were somehow not able to perform his duties anymore.

That’s why it just feels precarious. I don’t know any other stock that has a bus number of 1.

Maybe Berkshire Hathaway?

Apart from that, the goals/milestones are so huge that the pay package doesn’t seem too crazy.
by lmm | 2025-11-07 01:30:21+00:00
> The C (or other "old" lang) programs typically have very few dependencies apart from the OS, with absolutely glacial release cycles.

Very few by number, but that's more an artifact of C's poor package management than a true reflection of how much third-party code you're actually pulling in. Something like APR is the equivalent of hundreds of Rust packages, and comes with a similar security risk. Sure, maybe there's someone who signs off on each release, but do you think they personally know and validate each of the dozen or more mostly-independent projects that actually make up their library? No, they delegate to separate maintainers - that information just isn't surfaced in the package management system.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-07 01:31:10+00:00
Not just series, but I seem to mostly get a list of other books from the same authors.

The recommendations from other authors are good, but as far as I can tell I’ve read every single one of them.

Continuing to aggressively add everything it recommends eventually does seem to result in some interesting books I wasn’t familiar with, but I also end up with more and more books that are of zero interest to me.

For what it’s worth, I started with:

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Europe Central William T. Vollmann Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon White Noise Don DeLillo One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez

It is possible that there simply aren’t many books like these in existence, so the pool of relevant recommendations gets exhausted fairly quickly. I’d guess trending towards unrelated popular books is also just a feature of the source data, that largely sums up my experience with goodreads anyway.

Very cool project though. I did end up ordering a couple of new books, so thank you very much.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-07 01:31:58+00:00
Bad take IMO. Cutscenes are fine. Many are beloved, even.

Taking agency away from the player is usually a bad thing, so its not something you want to do when the player has other goals to work on. They are a fine tool to break up the action and games are also about the story and world building so expositional sections are a natural thing.

Its important to not mess with the game pacing, though.

After a heavy boss fight where the player doesn't even know what their next goal is anyway? Perfectly fine time for some exposition.

Running past an NPC on the way to do something? That's a horrible time to whip around the camera and tell the player something.

AAAs have huge momentum so you'll often see plot points and exposition that needs to be shoehorned in to fix some writing issue or what have you. Of course, you also just have game directors making bad decisions.
by keeda | 2025-11-07 01:34:12+00:00
Holy crap, this should be higher. One AI figured out it could cheat by exploiting the other AI's with a prompt injection attack!

This is reminiscent of that time agents "cheated" on coding benchmarks where the solution was leaked in the git log: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670 -- Except that was somewhat accidental. I mean, nobody expects to be given a problem to solve with a solution right there if you looked, and indeed, the LLMs seemed to stumble upon this.

This is downright diabolical because it's an intentional prompt injection attack.
by jldl805 | 2025-11-07 01:34:36+00:00
>I'm a bit skeptic

Out of curiosity, what data are you drawing or what qualifications do you have that support your skepticism over three different modes of analysis (as well as pretty much every recent development in the field) supporting this claim:

"Remarkably, this agrees with what is independently predicted from BAO-only or BAO+CMB analyses, though this fact has received little attention so far.""
by glenstein | 2025-11-07 01:36:30+00:00
Lots of great points here, but I think there's a bit more cause for optimism. For one, generation ships I think are the long-term project for space travel that successfully gets humans somewhere. No easy feat by any means in terms of time, engineering, and risk, but not running up against a wall of physical impossibility.

And nuclear physics is still a wide open frontier. We don't yet have fusion, and there's a lot we don't yet know about quark and gluon plasma and nuclear behavior on astrophysical scales. And if we're talking about technological possibilities against time scales of forever, there's lots of interesting electromagnetic possibilities in the context of superconductivity and metamaterials that we haven't yet exploited and I'm probably not even beginning to do justice to it in its totality as an open ended frontier full of fertile (e.g. vacuum polarization is a poorly understood frontier that might turn out to have interestingly exploitable properties).

You did a great job outlining some devastatingly serious physical limits but I think, again against the timeline of forever, you may be perhaps underselling the possibilities of important and newly exploitable properties of electromagnetism and the nuclear force being brought into application.
by pxc | 2025-11-07 01:36:33+00:00
I thought your comment was too dismissive at first, but then I read the whole article, and I fully agree with it.

The article gives useful theoretical tools for understanding and critiquing such shallow games, actually. Its examples are drawn from many genres, and it's thoughtful and insightful about many kinds and aspects of games.

The comment you call out with your question is indeed a low-effort and low-quality dismissal. I struggle to describe it without being more insulting than that.
by ehnto | 2025-11-07 01:37:09+00:00
Oh wow it was SWG?

It truly was ahead of its time, I don't think any one game has come close to implementing such a rewarding group of systems and economy in an MMORPG, except maybe EVE but that is a very different game and admittedly I did not find EVE fun.

The most exciting systems to me had very little to do with combat, but especially as it pertains to this article, also couldn't be as rewarding without it. It was all the player run economies, homsteads, towns and cities, player shops, craftsman and markets. The fact that materials mined had quality which impacted item stats, on and on.

To get good gear, you had to know a guy who made it, they had to know a guy who'd mined good quality minerals, and that person may have found the minerals through another player who had prospected it.

It made sense to be part of a player city, so you could put your house in a known market area for people to visit.

It all mattered because people needed the equipment to go do the quests, and so it was a really symbiotic set of systems that made crafting and economy matter.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 01:37:49+00:00
"Agents use Apis that I will need to pay for"

Not if you run them against local models, which are free to download and free to run. The Qwen 3 4B models only need a couple of GBs of available RAM and will run happily on CPU as opposed to GPU. Cost isn't a reason not to explore this stuff.
by oceansweep | 2025-11-07 01:38:20+00:00
Epyc Genoa CPU/Mobo + 700GB of DDR5 ram. The model is a MoE, so you don't need to stuff it all into VRAM, you can use a single 3090/5090 to hold the activated weights, and hold the remaining weights in DDR5 ram. Can see their deployment guide for reference here: https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/blob/main/doc/en...
by boothby | 2025-11-07 01:38:27+00:00
Well part of the point is that I detest the function call overhead of CPython but yes what I described is precisely how lispers roll their linked lists! And several years later I am writing about as much lisp as I am Python (and making people's eyes bleed with macros and functional approaches to problems if I let my worst instincts take over, but alas)
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-07 01:38:54+00:00
> You seem to have a very limited understanding of mathematics. You're welcome to stick to it but I'd recommend learning what mathematics is actually about

You'd think I'd know what mathematics is about since I have a Ph.D. in it...

> fixed finite axiomatic system

ZFC is not a finite axiomatic system. nowhere did we specify that axiomatic systems have to be finite

> single...fixed

As I said above, there are people who study different logics. However the topic of conversation is individual problems. An individual problem does not switch logics mid stream and anyone working on a problem works in the context of a logic.
by windsurfer | 2025-11-07 01:39:07+00:00
You can download the entire dataset using curl (will be 40+ GB)

curl -s --retry 10 --retry-all-errors --remote-name-all --parallel --parallel-max 150 "https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}"
by vel0city | 2025-11-07 01:40:01+00:00
Practically everything is something you will need to pay for in the end. You probably spent money on an internet connection, electricity, and computing equipment to write this comment. Are you intending to make a profit from commenting here?

You don't need to run something like this against a paid API provider. You could easily rework this to run against a local agent hosted on hardware you own. A number of not-stupid-expensive consumer GPUs can run some smaller models locally at home for not a lot of money. You can even play videogames with those cards after.

Get this: sometimes people write code and tinker with things for fun. Crazy, I know.
by sipofwater | 2025-11-07 01:40:31+00:00
* Mirror: https://archive.ph/uGSpl

* "Guam's first advanced manufacturing hub breaks ground in Dededo" by kuamnews: https://www.youtube.com/@kuamnews): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3s8Mi7LOTU

* "My 1st Time In Guam, USA’s Most Isolated Territory [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731295
by antonvs | 2025-11-07 01:40:35+00:00
> AFAIK the previous models that all assumed that Type 1a supernovae were not affected by the age of the progenitor stars had no actual analysis to back that up; it was just the simplest assumption.

Why would you assume this? It's not correct.

Type 1a supernovae aren't even assumed to be "standard candles" as is often claimed: rather, they're standardizable, i.e. with cross-checks and statistical analysis, they can be used as an important part of a cosmological distance ladder.

A great deal of analysis has gone into the development of that distance ladder, with cross-checks being used wherever it's possible to use them.

They look at surface brightness fluctuations in the same galaxies, Tully-Fisher distances[1], tip of the red giant branch distances[2], and even baryon acoustic oscillations[3]

Is it possible that this one single paper has upended all that? Theoretically. Is it likely? No.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully%E2%80%93Fisher_relation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_red-giant_branch

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_acoustic_oscillations
by tpmoney | 2025-11-07 01:40:47+00:00
That's certainly an argument often made about counterfeit goods, and it can certainly be true in cases (and counterfeiting has other problems, namely confusing the origin of a specific good when that matters to the consumer), but it's also not a universal truth either. Were it a universal truth, that would imply generally that open source can't work because anyone can make and distribute copies of the open material, but also it implies that Windows and macOS should not exist because of all the innumerable Linux clones.

Also instructive would be the IBM BIOS clone, it is perhaps true that the "IBM Compatibles" killed the market that existed for IBM machines at that moment in time, but it's also true that it opened whole new markets, both to the clone makers and the ancillary businesses, but also arguably IBM themselves.

3d printing and Arduino are probably other examples where "counterfeits" might have shrunk the market for the originals (Prusa is notably reducing how open their designs are, and Arduino themselves are not the healthiest, modulo being owned by Qualcom now), but the market for Aruduino projects and ancillary supplies and certainly the market for 3d printers is massively healthy, and arguably both are healthier than if Arduino or Prusa (or really Reprap) were the single and sole providers of their products.

And I think art has an even stronger bulwark in that a lot of the value of a given "art" comes not from the art itself, but from the artist. It's very possible many famous artist's works were actually made by their apprentices, but until someone proves that, the art will continue to have value as an original work of the artist. But art is also a dime a dozen (or less). The internet is full of free or dirt cheap art and today you can go on fiver or mechanical turk and commission any number of artworks for probably less than your day's wages. But no one is buying tickets to your Fiver concert. No one buys $1k per plate dinners at Deviant Art gallery showings. But they will pay many thousands of dollars for a piece of artwork that might destroy itself because the person who produced that artwork is named Banksy.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 01:41:01+00:00
The interesting companies to look at here are the ones that sell inference against open weight models that were trained by other companies - Fireworks, Cloudflare, DeepInfra, Together AI etc.

They need to cover their serving costs but are not spending money on training models. Are they profitable? Probably not yet, because they're investing a lot of cash in competing with each other to R&D more efficient ways of serving etc, but they're a lot closer to profitability than the labs that are spending millions of dollars on training runs.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 01:41:53+00:00
> When comparing the cost of an H100 GPU per hour and calculating cost of tokens, it seems the OpenAI offering for the latest model is 5 times cheaper than renting the hardware.

How did you come to that conclusion? That would be a very notable result if it did turn out OpenAI were selling tokens for 5x the cost it took to serve them.
by kevstev | 2025-11-07 01:42:45+00:00
If you have a nas, I highly recommend you set up a VPN back to your network. It's been a bit of a game changer for me. I don't fiddle around with Dropbox or gdrive anymore, it's just on my nas and it just works. I was even mounting /home from it but that was a bit of overkill and still caused some hassles when I was completely offline- like on an airplane. Vpn has other advantages as well like no longer really having to worry about sketchy wifi networks. It felt annoying and like overkill at first, but I'm never going back to relying on any sync apps again.
by billconan | 2025-11-07 01:45:41+00:00
I have a question, how do you reliably find the original code line and apply the ai generated code?

I'm not building a coding agent, I'm building an English writing improvement agent.

I ask the agent to generate things like:

{ original_sentence: xxxx, improved_sentence: yyyy }

and I use the original_sentence to locate the original content, and replace it with the improved_sentence.

but, the thing is, ai would hallucinate the original_sentence. in some cases, the generated original_sentence doesn't match the actual original sentence.

How does a coding agent solve it?
by cyberax | 2025-11-07 01:45:52+00:00
Again, I don't see any upsides for me compared to a blank page. Skeletons in the best case just show a useless intermediate state, and in the worst case just force me to pay attention to a non-functional page for an indefinite amount of time.

A blank page does not try to keep grabbing my attention.

Skeletons also have a toxic effect on web developers by letting them get sloppier.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 01:46:30+00:00
I don't think "insane to not believe in vibe coding" is a fair summary of https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ - that post wasn't about vibe coding (at least by its I-think-correct definition of prompt-driven coding where you don't pay any attention to the code that's being written), it was about AI-assisted engineering by professional software developers.

It did have some swear words in - as did many of the previous posts on the Fly.io corporate blog.
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by lu794377 | 2025-11-07 01:47:08+00:00
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by mmooss | 2025-11-07 01:47:26+00:00
> I can promise you this guy regrets the throw with every ounce of his soul, even if he doesn’t admit it publicly

It's possible he regrets it, but I wouldn't be sure at all. It could be the proudest moment of his life. He could have PTSD. There are many possibilities.

I expect there will be some interviews soon ...
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-07 01:48:24+00:00
> Despite all of these issues you mention, std::simd is perfectly usable in the state it is in today in nightly Rust.

Absolutely! It seems to work for many people. The point of my comment was not that there's anything necessarily wrong with it. It's a huge API and it's hard and slow to stabilize huge things when you only get one shot.
by burnte | 2025-11-07 01:48:49+00:00
Indeed. I feel for this guy. I volunteered with Mozilla for a long time and I have a lot of love for the org, but there are cultural/institutional problems it inherited from Netscape that are still there today. I think people of good conscience can't help but state why they're quitting in situations like this. We still want the problem fixed even if we can't fix it.
by davidsainez | 2025-11-07 01:48:56+00:00
Saw this post. clicked on pricing. "Run up to 20,000 requests for free", ok lets try it. sign up for an account. click on playground. try a query -> balance is insufficient. then I clicked on "pricing" tab inside of the dashboard (https://platform.parallel.ai/pricing), no mention of any free requests.

I pay for a lot of tools, but patterns like this leave me with a really bad impression.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 01:49:03+00:00
You can prototype this without writing any code at all.

Fire up "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" in a fresh directory (ideally in a Docker container if you want to limit the chance of it breaking anything else) and prompt this:

> Use Playwright to fetch ten reviews from http://www.example.com/ then run sentiment analysis on them and write the results out as JSON files. Install any missing dependencies.

Watch what it does. Be careful not to let it spider the site in a way that would justifiably upset the site owners.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-07 01:49:39+00:00
In NSW it was limited to 5kW. That wasn't the limit in Queensland. Granted, there is was "only" 44c, but 44c at 30kW isn't something to be sniffed at. The 50kW of panels was to ensure you got that full 30kW for most of the day. You also got the 15c the retailer paid you, so for a while you were easily earning $40k/yr on something that cost of the order of $200k to set up.