MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duskwuff | 2025-11-14 04:12:32+00:00
> You hear people saying that a trained model can’t be a violation because humans can recite poetry, etc

Also worth noting that, if a person performs a copyrighted work from memory - like a poem, a play, or a piece of music - that can still be a copyright violation. "I didn't copy anything, I just memorized it" isn't the get-out-of-jail-free card some people think it is.
by Reason077 | 2025-11-14 04:12:36+00:00
> "Also TGV is nice, but it doesn't explain why TER and Intercité (the two slower-speed regional networks) also experienced an influx of passengers during the period."

I don't entirely disagree with you, but rail lines don't function in isolation. If you introduce a new high speed main line, there is a network effect: connecting services will also see a boost in traffic from people travelling on other lines to reach the new one.
by skydhash | 2025-11-14 04:12:39+00:00
The nice aspect of these text driven tools is in the name. Being text driven means they are nearly universal. There's nothing more versatile than text on a computer. When I think on anything that operate on text, it feels more like having a set of workflow that act on my data, that the computer doing (and someone else) doing obscure incantation.

> I don't want to do SSL setup so I can have my tasks on two computers.

I use to think that way, then I found that I never use two computers at the same time. At most it would be using one to remote on another, or using one to do stuff I can't do on another (like browsing the web when installing an OS). So I just use my laptop as my main computer. I have some files on my home server and mostly use my phone for HN reading and communication. If I really want to sync something, I just share files using sftp/smb/http/....
by dev1ycan | 2025-11-14 04:13:28+00:00
"AI" keeps destroying free sources of information.

First it was library genesis and z-lib when meta torrented 70TB of books and then pulled off the ladder, recently it was Anna's archive and how they are coming for it (google and others), weird behaviors with some other torrent sites, now also Wikipedia is being used as a tool to defend LLMs breaking any semblance of copyright "law" unpunished.

All these actions will end up with very bad repercusions once the bubble bursts, there will be a lot of explaining to do.
by a-ve | 2025-11-14 04:13:29+00:00
I've wanted to try something like this before, but I was under the impression that providers like MaxMind might use other techniques to figure out the "real" location of a server.

ipinfo.io uses a probe network for this[1], but even then a server physically located in the Netherlands with an IP announced as being from, say, Seychelles would still respond to pings faster from a European location than from somewhere like Singapore (unless you go out of your way to induce latency to ICMP responses).

[1] https://ipinfo.io/blog/probe-network-how-we-make-sure-our-da...
by varenc | 2025-11-14 04:14:10+00:00
The ruling never said summaries are infringing. It just said the authors’ claims about some AI outputs were "plausible" enough to get past a motion to dismiss, which is basically the lowest hurdle. The judge isn’t deciding what actually counts as infringement, just that the case can move forward. IMHO the title of the article is reading more into the opinion than what the judge actually decided.
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by ivanramos | 2025-11-14 04:14:33+00:00
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by manquer | 2025-11-14 04:15:09+00:00
You get lot more data when running real world experiments .

For off world missions, the best examples are the Soviet Venus missions of how iterating and sticking with the goals helped do some incredible research which would be hard to replicate even today .

The benefit of not doing quick and dirty is why we got out The longevity of voyager or some of the mars rovers or ingenuity.

It is matter of tradeoffs and what you want
by mindslight | 2025-11-14 04:15:20+00:00
Do you see the ability to grow your own food as being a strong check on grocery prices? To me, it's the many competing grocery stores, a few or even many different brands in each, and prices labeled up front. If anything, healthcare seems easier to go your own way - simply by going without.

Also can we agree that one of the main reasons doctors go to work every day is for the paycheck? That's a form of profit, right?

(And I'm certainly not making this argument to inductively argue that all profit is good! In fact, like bacteria, outsized profits call attention to where the system has problems. But we do need to get the boundary conditions correct)
by bawolff | 2025-11-14 04:15:37+00:00
Honestly, i always thought this was how it always worked. A summary is by neccesisty a derrivative of the thing being summarized, but it is also very vert clearly fair use. Its transformational, its for an educational purpose, it contains only a tiny portion of the original work and it does not compete with the original work. I can't imagine anything more fair use then that.

Personally i'm not worried.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 04:16:06+00:00
They're very separate in terms of what seems to have happened in this case. This lawsuit isn't about memory or LLMs being archival/compression software (imho, a very far reach) or anything like that. The plaintiffs took a bit of text that was generated by ChatGPT and accused OpenAI of violating their IP rights, using the output as proof. As far as I understand, the method at which ChatGPT arrived to the output or how Game of Thrones is "stored" within it is irrelevant, the authors allege that the output text itself is infringing regardless of circumstance and therefore OpenAI should pay up. If it's eventually found that the short summary is indeed infringing on the copyright of the full work, there is absolutely nothing preventing the authors (or someone else who could later refer to this case) from suing someone else who wrote a similar summary, with or without the use of AI.
Binary Prediction and Artificial Intelligence = Automation for Businesses
by ZekeV | 2025-11-14 04:16:20+00:00
Hi! I recently came across the thought while building and Artificial Intelligence Operating System to automate Business & Employees that I believe businesses at any scale should be using binary Prediction systems in there software. We are seeing a huge scale in these systems right now as Polymarket and Kashi are growing at a very exponential rate. If you are unfamiliar with the methods of these Binary prediction systems let me explain. Polymarket uses as on a scale from 0 to 1, so 0-0.5-1, 0=false or no, 1=true or Yes. See each "Question" In polymarket starts at .5 or .50 or 50% right in the middle of 0 and 1 and when you vote and give your money to them for say I vote yes it sways that value to say 65% or .65 depending on the volume of voting and swaying obviously.

Now i'm sure your asking why and how is it possible for these company's to integrate these systems or Bayesian Formula into there software and why does Artificial Intelligence matter. This system with the right amount of volume allows us like never before to guess the future to an extensive rate like we have never seen before, and its pretty accurate. Now image you are using Polymarket and you have the option for a person who has 10x the intelligence as you to replace you and place your inputs for you. Surely you would take this option right? It makes the most sense?! Right!? Right.

I have taken Binary Prediction method and Combined it with an intelligent learning system. Users, Business Owners, Employees like you can join this application and connect your integrations like Gmail, Stripe, Shopify, Asana, Slack, Google Calendar and allow the environment to catch events from those integrations - for example A Shopify order comes in "Order #1004" as soon as it is caught the system checks other integrations connected and paves a route of the Event "Order #1004", When you the user click this Order it shows you the route like "Fulfill Order", "Compose Email to User being thankful for order", "Update the Team in Slack about Order", "Create Calendar event to fulfill order later", among various things. And in one button you can complete all the Actions per the Event and integrations. This Environment uses Binary Prediction to intelligently pre-fill these Actions off of the Event Context and it learns and adapts to you the longer you use it. My hope is in the future, this environment along with enough data can guess where and when future payments, orders, tasks, anything you can think of business wise, and work on them before they even arrive so you can focus on the things that matter.

I hope you found this interesting-- I built this in my dorm room so check it out, Build Something Great- Zeke, https://harmonized-ai.com
by daemonologist | 2025-11-14 04:16:33+00:00
Yeah I haven't seen a really good/stable video of the landing; there's slightly better footage a bit later when they replay it though: https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1I?si=V2kfTlvUA2PuZP39...

Back in the day SpaceX used to struggle with this during drone ship landings as well. All the vibration and heat and whatnot is rough on the transmission. Usually they'd upload better (stored) footage a couple days after the fact, and I'd expect something similar from Blue Origin.

Today's airborne tracking shot (from downrange) all the way from space to the clouds was amazing though. Never seen anything like that before.
by ryandv | 2025-11-14 04:16:37+00:00
> Fundamentally what AGI is trying to do is to encode ability to logic and reason.

No? The Wason selection task has shown that logic and reason are not really core nor essential to human cognition.

It's really verging on speculation, but see chapter 2 of Jaynes 1976 - in particular the section on spatialization and the features of consciousness.
by yorwba | 2025-11-14 04:18:21+00:00
A jpeg of a copyrighted image can be copyright infringement, but isn't necessarily. A trained model can be copyright infringement, but isn't necessarily. A human reciting poetry can be copyright infringement, but isn't necessarily.

The means of reproduction are immaterial; what matters is whether a specific use is permitted or not. That a reproduction of a work is found to be infringing in one context doesn't mean it is always infringing in all contexts; conversely, that a reproduction is considered fair use doesn't mean all uses of that reproduction will be considered fair.
by 3ln00b | 2025-11-14 04:19:24+00:00
How do you people even keep up with this? I'm going back to cybersecurity after trying DevOps for a year, it's not for me. I miss my sysadmin days, things were simple back then and worked. Maybe I'm just getting old and my cognitive abilities are declining. It seems to me that the current tech scene doesn't reward simple.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 04:19:26+00:00
The author already fully addressed this in the article. They just think that even the fact that this was allowed to move forward is a worrying sign:

> Judge Stein’s order doesn’t resolve the authors’ claims, not by a long shot. And he was careful to point out that he was only considering the plausibility of the infringement allegation and not any potential fair use defenses. Nonetheless, I think this is a troubling decision that sets the bar on substantial similarity far too low.
by mint5 | 2025-11-14 04:19:40+00:00
From inside the USA, I don’t know. It’s baffling how even in 2015 people expected anything different from the crassest man alive.

Perhaps they thought the grift and corruption would benefit them, and not harm them and thus were okay with it? Like how from the first term someone was quoted saying something along the lines of “they’re not hurting the right people”
by TheDong | 2025-11-14 04:20:38+00:00
To me the key difference is that Wikipedia summaries are written by a human, and so creativity imbues them with new copyright.

OpenAI outputs are an algorithm compressing text.

A jpeg thumbnail of an image is smaller but copyright-wise identical.

An OpenAI summary is a mechanically generated smaller version, so new creative copyright does not have a chance to enter in
by jamesgeck0 | 2025-11-14 04:22:14+00:00
No, this is a thing where the text is honest to God blurry on non-4K displays. The macOS version of Zed on a low DPI display has the worst font rendering of any application I've ever seen, and I used desktop Linux twenty years ago.

It's like they're rendering a high resolution font at low resolution using the simplest possible algorithm without lining it up with the pixel grid. It's very fuzzy. Characters have this weird sort of additive color intensity where strokes intersect that reminds me of Geometry Wars. It's broken.

They are working on it; the Windows build has decent rendering, and apparently the Linux version substantially improved recently. But they haven't gotten to macOS quite yet. I've been checking in on Zed every few weeks since it went public waiting for a fix.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-11-14 04:22:41+00:00
These weird trump hagiographies need to go. Its clear he's a failure and a conman and an incredible bigot and awful human being way before 2016, VERY clear in 2016-2020 and inexcusable to vote for him in 2024 or support him in any way, shape, or form in 2025.
by k310 | 2025-11-14 04:22:55+00:00
Almost!

A while back, when there was after-school education money, I was interested in creating labs for students to go out and measure things and reduce the data in class/lab and/or do so at home with a live linux distro or remotely on a class server.

The idea was to take real measurements and use open source tools, this being their introduction to them, to analyze.

Fact is that most run cross-platform, but are at last glance, included in most linux distros other than the smallest ones. Knoppix was being updated regularly at the time and was my choice. If it ran at all, it was easier than downloading those apps. Boot and run. (or run remotely)

That program (i.e. the money) wound down. Computers AND exercise. If it involved trips to the marsh, a chance to photograph some shorebirds, as well.

not sure if it involved actually building simple instruments, though that would have been fun. I was always intrigued by the "Amateur Scientist" sections in old Sci-Am magazines.

Education is really interesting, because everything is new to kids, and people in this community know that growth and real innovation come from facing new, undocumented, challenges and "finding a way". I tried to automate (some but not all) tasks via scripts rather than one-off tinkering, and what I gained was skill at scripting, especially when "Mr. Internet" didn't have a ready-made solution ...

for the next unknown challenge.
by areoform | 2025-11-14 04:24:05+00:00
The push to expand repressive copyright laws because machines can learn from human produced text, code and art is going to hurt us all in the long run.

People usually say contemporary media sucks because of commercial pressures, but those commercial pressures and conditions wouldn't exist without the expansion of copyright.

Yes, giant studios are struggling to introduce new ideas like 1993's Jurassic Park. But that doesn't mean Shane Carruth (of Primer fame) can't. And he could have if Jurassic Park had been released any time between 1790 and 1900.

Our stilted media landscape is directly downstream of prior legislation expanding copyright.

Expanding copyright even more so that text / art that looks stylistically similar to another work is counted as infringing will, in the long run, give Disney's lawyers the power to punish folks for making content that even looks anything like Disney's many, many, many IP assets.

Even though Steamboat Willie has entered the public domain, Disney has been going after folks using the IP, https://mickeyblog.com/2025/07/17/disney-is-suing-a-hong-kon... / https://mickeyblog.com/2025/07/17/disney-is-suing-a-hong-kon...

The "infringement" in this case was a diamond encrusted Steamboat Willie style Mickey pendant.

Questionable taste aside, I think it's good for society if people are able to make diamond encrusted miniature sculptures of characters from a 1928 movie in 2025. But Disney clearly disagrees.

Disney (and other giant corps) will use every tool in their belt to go after anyone who comes close to their money makers. There has been a long history of tension between artists and media corps. But that's water under the bridge now. AI art is apparently so bad that artists are willing to hand them the keys to their castle.
by ripe | 2025-11-14 04:24:10+00:00
And the pendulum swings back toward representation. It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence:

Between us and human-level intelligence lie many problems. They can be summarized as that of succeeding in the "common-sense informatic situation". [1]

And the search continues...

[1] https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/human.pdf
by godelski | 2025-11-14 04:25:07+00:00
Mathematics is not the study of numbers, but the relationships between them - Henry Poincaré

I want to stress this because I think you have too rigid of a definition of math. Your talk about optimization sounds odd to me as someone who starts with math first. Optimization is done with a profiler. Sure, I'll also use math to find that solution but I don't start with optimization nor do I optimize by big O.

Elegance is not first. First is rough. Solving by math sounds much like what you describe. I find my structures, put them together, and find the interactions. Elegance comes after cleaning things up. It's towards the end of the process, not the beginning. We don't divine math just as you don't divine code. I'm just not sure how you get elegance from the get go.

So I find it weird that you criticize a math first approach because your description of a math approach doesn't feel all that accurate to me.

Edit: I do also want to mention that there's a correspondence between math and code. They aren't completely isomorphic because math can do a lot more and can be much more arbitrarily constructed, but the correspondence is key to understanding how these techniques are not so different.
by llbbdd | 2025-11-14 04:27:13+00:00
This keeps coming up, and I am not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell none of that matters. I can pay someone to draw Mickey Mouse for me and hang it up in my house. If I invite people to visit my Mickey Mouse House and charge them for the privilege, I'm in violation. Maybe the artist I paid to draw the mouse is also in some smaller violation but it all comes back to distribution and impact. I don't think it devalues Mickey Mouse in any way if I have a slot machine that spits out pictures of Mickey Mouse. If it does devalue it, maybe it doesn't have much value to begin with.

Reproduction (again, IANAL) seems to consist of a lot more than "I made it", it consists of how you use it and whether that usage constitutes infringement.

EDIT: To add, genuine question, what does "asking" come down to? I can ask Photoshop to draw Mickey Mouse through a series of clever Mickey-Mouse-shaped brush strokes. I can ask Microsoft Word to reproduce lyrics by typing them in. At what gradient between those actions and text prompting am I (or OpenAI, or Adobe) committing copyright infringement?
by jscheel | 2025-11-14 04:28:42+00:00
We are a happy user of DBOS. I’ve been building out a lightweight TUI for managing our DBOS application internally, since we have workflows with tens of thousands of steps. I know the team is working on improving conductor for this use-case, but our internal TUI handles it pretty well for now. Hoping to open source it, but the code is a wreck atm. Anyways, I say all this to say, DBOS has a good client that can communicate with the instance easily, so building out a UI that fits your specific needs should be fairly simple.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-14 04:31:55+00:00
Yeah, it does matter, though the issue is not exactly just monetary profit. The fundamental problem is OpenAI has made the GPT model weights artificially scarce. But at the same time they claim that other artificially scarce information such as books should not be scarce and instead belong to the intellectual commons. The latter part which I agree with, but they took from the commons and are claiming what they took as exclusively their own. That is just evil.

There would be no problem if they open-sourced everything including the model weights. That was their original mission which they have abandoned.
by tomhow | 2025-11-14 04:32:51+00:00
We've banned this account. It's a repeat offender when it comes to breaching the guidelines, with several warnings over the years, and there's no way we can let a vile slur like this pass without consequence.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922815 and marked it off topic.
by _chse_ | 2025-11-14 04:32:54+00:00
How's this?

Sept 2025: https://file.kiwi/25eb6dab#z6CSL-2JqYMO9VYa12n0ZA

Oct 2025: https://file.kiwi/7d2254b1#kYSlZMbEJczuTlMrk-Bo0g
by o11c | 2025-11-14 04:32:57+00:00
The part you're missing is that a very large number of voters (on both political sides) expect nothing but outright grift and corruption from both parties. And they're not wrong to do so.

Remember, Trump won both times against a candidate who was anointed by the powers that be, not chosen by the people. (Hillary Clinton at least went through the motions of holding primaries, but Kamala Harris didn't even have that).

So people say - out of the two corrupt parties, I might as well vote for the one that isn't actively attacking me.

Keep in mind that Democrats will declare you an outcast if you disagree with any single line of the party agenda - and they're currently pushing at least 3 ideas each of which is strongly rejected by some (independent) fraction of the voterbase.
by the_gastropod | 2025-11-14 04:33:14+00:00
Yes. Along party lines. Why do you think every Republican voted against the conservative think-tank produced healthcare bill? I certainly have my theory...

Yes. Carson introduced that "plan" in 2015, right? Why do you reckon Republicans have not pushed it forward once in over the past 10 years despite twice controlling all parts of the federal government? Because it's D.O.A. flawed.

It does what basically every other non-starter contemporary Republican health insurance idea does: willfully misunderstands how health insurance works to appeal to rich healthy folks whose costs will be reduced at the expense of the poor sick saps who inevitably will die as a result. It's a straightforwardly eugenicist plan that would make Ebenezer Scrooge blush.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 04:33:27+00:00
Just because Wikipedia has persisted for 20+ years doesn't mean that a key decision later down the line can't make it into an open season for all IP owners. AI-related lawsuits are a great opportunity for copyright owners to greatly shake up the status quo under the (fairly legitimate) guise of protecting themselves from LLM copying. Even if Wikipedia in particular could skirt it through fair use, the fact that hundred-word long summaries would be found "similar" to full novels would represent a large encroachment of copyright that would allow many other lawsuits to open up with entities who may not be as lucky as Wikipedia. Changing the answer to "Is something as brief as this notably similar to a full work?" from "what? Of course not" to "well... do you have a fair use reason?" would mean that many people will need to start looking both ways and triple-checking whatever they create/summarize/report on as to avoid tipping off anyone hungry for some settlement money.