MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway613745 | 2025-12-11 14:57:44+00:00
Seems @sama has stumbled onto a pretty good business strategy - unleash something that massively infringes on copyright into the world, then take it back and add “guardrails” and then ~~extort~~ sell it back to the person you infringed on their copyright in the first place.

absolutely disgusting behavior

I can't put into words how much I despise @sama, it would probably get me banned from every corner of the internet.

Also... f*ck Disney for falling for this.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-11 14:58:12+00:00
Zionism is when healthy information choices? I don’t trust infowars, sorry but that’s served me quite well over the years.

I did look, you’re being obtuse again, after all how else would I know it’s from an infowars adjacent account.

You strike me as the type of person who thinks e-safety commissioner is CIA, they also call me a zionist for doubting that- it’s the goto ad hominem for people embroiled with I/P conflict.

This sort of social media bs and the way it affects political discourse is why social media is so damaging, much of it is just political propaganda.

Tell me what do you take from the clip?
by lucasfdacunha | 2025-12-11 14:58:16+00:00
It’s honestly a bit of a pain. I’m using a library to help parse different formats, but there are many custom cases to handle. Dates are a good example. I’m parsing more than a dozen formats, and there’s no real pattern in how sites display their published dates. Some blogs even use unusual formats that aren’t common anywhere else.

I try to avoid altering the original content as much as possible. I do need to sanitize and adjust parts of it to produce clean text on my site, but I’m careful not to change anything in a way that misrepresents the source. Only a few short phrases appear on GreatReads, and users cannot read the full article without visiting the original source.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-11 14:58:33+00:00
> but they're absolutely going to be commoditized

I've been thinking the same since GPT3 too, and since ChatGPT, and since Claude and... But here I am, still paying for ChatGPT Pro because it's literally has the best model you can get access to for a fixed price each month, and none of the others so far come close. I still use Anthropic's and Google's models to compare/validate against, because I assumed at one point they'd surpass OpenAI, but so far they haven't. This all makes me believe less and less each day that it'll actually be commoditized.
by 9rx | 2025-12-11 14:58:35+00:00
> of course market cap of housing went down! individual houses fell down in price.

Traditionally, market cap only refers to companies. I accept your pet definition that includes any kind of market, but then we can apply it to the software development market just the same. Individual software developers have fallen in price. There was not a significant drop, but a slow decline.

> that didn't happen for tech stocks.

Nor gold. But what does that have to do with the software development market? Are you under the impression that stock certificates write code?
by simiones | 2025-12-11 14:58:45+00:00
The point the GP was making was that the following Go snippet:

func foo() { x := []int { 1 } //SNIP }

Could translate to C either as:

void foo() { int* x = malloc(1 * sizeof(int)); x[0] = 1; //... }

Or as

void foo() { int data[1] = {1}; int *x = data; //... }

Depending on the content of //SNIP. However, some people think that the semantics can also match the semantics of the second version in C - when in fact the semantics of the Go code always match the first version, even when the actual implementation is the second version.
by ottah | 2025-12-11 14:59:00+00:00
I would assume some good faith on their part. Verification would be valuable, but so would timely release of information. If the reports are true, an active harm to those organizations are being done, and it would be valuable for the public to know sooner than later. If you attempt to verify the information, but it's taking more time and resources than you have to do the job quickly, releasing the information with attribution to a reputable source is the least harmful option.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-12-11 14:59:13+00:00
> If the government wants that they can have the kids. What is my incentive to have children in that system?

You may not have the incentive, but the country population will decline if you don't. If you are a government, I'm sure there is a number of ways to make people have children, for example https://nhentai.net/g/609087/. If you are something like Russia or Ukraine, you can force women to have children, just like you force men to go to war.

> We have far more problems caused by governments doing a bad job than parents doing a bad job. In general parents do a far better job than government employees do.

But yes, if there is no way to make education workers do good job, then I guess this system will not work.
by eddieroger | 2025-12-11 14:59:15+00:00
If Disney could throw concepts at their properties like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Paw Patrol or any of their other CG shovel content (which my kid loves, of course) and have a new episode every day of the year, they would, and this lets them do that without employing the staff to make that happen. If all it took was a writer to put a pitch together and Sora to turn out an episode, that'd be a steal for $1B.
by deaddodo | 2025-12-11 14:59:16+00:00
A demake would be a reimagining of a modern game into the style and aesthetics of the time. E.g. taking God of War and turning it into a 2D Shinobi-style platformer for Sega Genesis. Or turning Gran Turismo into a Mode7-style racer on SNES.

In this case, the creator wrote a custom 3D renderer and recreated the models/meshes to get as close of an approximation of the N64 experience onto the GBA.

I wouldn't call it a port necessarily ("recreation" seems more apt), but it's closer to that than a demake.
by ericmay | 2025-12-11 14:59:21+00:00
Ok sure, delete Instagram and Facebook then. That seems easier to start, no?

But you're assuming these messaging apps are something we need and have to have and then solving backward from there.

While I certainly recognize that a society may have made the mistake of going all-in on a proprietary app in order to participate in society (whoops!), I can tell you for a fact that it's not required for any given society to function because I don't have any of these apps and just use SMS and e-mail and I am able to work, coordinate events with friends, make dinner reservations, and send funny videos. I can also vouch for the United States, specifically that such apps aren't required.

So we can clearly separate out that we don't need these apps to function as a society - we can go back to the question of morality. In the US if you are "against" Meta or Mark Zuckerberg or whatever, you can just delete the apps because you don't need them.
by qwm | 2025-12-11 15:00:11+00:00
What does this practically mean for Linux? Will core parts of it depend on Rust? How closely linked are drivers?

Rust in Linux always worried me because there is currently only one stable backend (LLVM) and only one compiler implementation that doesn't yet have a spec. I like that you can at least compile Linux with Clang and GCC, but there aren't even two options for Rust right now.
by josephwegner | 2025-12-11 15:00:29+00:00
This assumes there is no added benefit to being able to reach your kids/be reached by your kids easier than it was historically. While I agree it's probably not as critical as many parents might make it seem, there are tangible benefits. Off the top of my head:

- Before cell phones, we were also in an age of far less mass violence in American schools. I completely empathize with parents wanting their kids to have an emergency contact device, given the relative increase in violence at schools.

- There is a long history of kids being abused, sexually or otherwise, by authority figures in their school. Having a lifeline like a quick text to a parent can easily be the escape hatch from a predator convincing a kid to do something unsafe.
by tmtvl | 2025-12-11 15:00:30+00:00
> * What CL calls a system is roughly analogous to what most other languages call a package.*

Or a crate, or an artifact, or a module, or a gem, and there's probably other variations I can't remember off-hand.

> * What CL calls a package is what other languages call a namespace.*

Or a module, or a package, or... actually, I don't know what Perl or Ruby call it. I believe C calls it a header, but that's not quite the same thing as a package.

Turns out naming things is difficult (as well as cache invalidation, off-by-one errors concurrency, and).
by quitit | 2025-12-11 15:00:32+00:00
I opened this article expecting to read that OpenAI was somehow delivering cash or in-kind payment to Disney as a means of appeasing the copyright beast.

Colour me surprised to see that it's Disney that are handing out the cash in this arrangement.

However with further reading the answer seems clearer: Disney will certainly be using OpenAI's video technology to reduce their production costs, and for the amount of content Disney create this agreement seems mutually beneficial.
by crote | 2025-12-11 15:01:21+00:00
> That's the thing, you can only have that kind of number for so many years before you start really not wanting it to get down.

Why shouldn't this be classified as a mental illness? Imagine a monkey hoarding more food than they could possibly eat, to the point that it lies next to them rotting away, while members of their tribe are dying from starvation. We'd immediately say that there is something wrong with that money, but why do we feel it is normal that some humans hoard an insane amount of money?

Having a billionaire who believes they aren't rich enough and need to make more money is like an anorexia patient believing they aren't skinny enough and need to lose more weight.
by anovikov | 2025-12-11 15:01:26+00:00
No, 1MW/7.3 acres is about INSTALLED CAPACITY, that is, peak power. https://solarindustrymag.com/nrel-report-highlights-land-use...

>For direct land use requirements, the capacity-weighted average is 7.3 acres per MW, with 40% of power plants within 6 and 8 acres per MW.

And no, 280 GWh was literally a week ago: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

So we need to consume 10 TWH a week (consumption particularly for week 48, same one), and we produce 280 GWh with 100+ GW of installed capacity. Which means, we need 35x if only power is concerned, and 205x if all energy is concerned, not just electricity.
by SecretDreams | 2025-12-11 15:01:42+00:00
I'm an optimist, myself. But, I think the system can't be fixed until the ability for individuals/influencers to spread false narratives is heavily modified. The news literally cannot keep pace with the fake news. The latter takes a fraction of the time to generate and spreads using more guerilla like techniques.. and nobody is punished at all for enabling it.

We're asking credible news sources to fit a gun fit with sticks.
by heftig | 2025-12-11 15:02:11+00:00
The only wrong thing I've been throwing is the SOS Beacon instead of a Reinforce, which is just annoying, and not just once. It makes the game public if it was friends-only and gives it priority in the quick play queue. So that can't be it.

The dialing adds friction to tense situations, which is okay as a mechanic.
by perrygeo | 2025-12-11 15:02:16+00:00
Python discovers immutable data, and gets it wrong. Frozendict is a blunt instrument - instead of a mutable free-for-all, it just locks the data for the entire lifecycle. Brace for the wave of code littered with deep copies, proudly proclaiming how functional it all is.

If you want real immutable data structures, not a cheap imitation, check out pyrsistent.
by garaetjjte | 2025-12-11 15:02:18+00:00
>In fact, despite many minutes of bona fide web searching, I was unable to locate the C++ signature for IRibbonExtensibility.

Probably because the COM "intended" way is to generate them from type library. Type library for these interfaces is embedded in Office MSO.DLL. You can use oleview.exe from Windows SDK to convert them to IDL syntax. This yields such signature:

HRESULT GetCustomUI( [in] BSTR RibbonID, [out, retval] BSTR* RibbonXml);

And then you can use MIDL tool to generate C headers:

DECLSPEC_XFGVIRT(IRibbonExtensibility, GetCustomUI) /* [helpcontext][id] */ HRESULT ( STDMETHODCALLTYPE *GetCustomUI )( IRibbonExtensibility * This, /* [in] */ BSTR RibbonID, /* [retval][out] */ BSTR *RibbonXml);

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/how-deve...
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-11 15:03:10+00:00
I was in college when this really cool idea came out: a social network database which only college students could join, regulating access to students@*.edu emails, only [obviously: TheFaceBook]. When distant relatives began sending `friend request`s, just a few years later, I left that platform forever.

Seems like local school districts could reintroduce such a platform (perhaps one already exists) for class discussions to continue outside of the classroom... but without the temptations of the outside world [which these u16 bans rightfully seek to limit]. Hyper-walled gardens, actual community-based social spaces, sans predation.

As always, I imagine with the unlimited timelessness of childhood multiple clever work-arounds will persist, regardless of any law. May the cat-and-mouse be merry.
by eykanal | 2025-12-11 15:03:23+00:00
I read this as "Disney approached OpenAI and threatened to sue them into oblivion --> OpenAI negotiated that Disney will use OpenAI internally for free, and will buy $1B of equity to have an ownership stake in the company".

Disney comes out pretty good from this one; they're going to have a ton of people using the service to create all sorts of stuff that will—on the whole—increase brand awareness and engagement with Disney.

OpenAI comes out pretty good from this, with a customer who's probably not paying much (if anything), $1B additional runway, but reduced ownership of the company.

I think Disney is the winner here.
by neaden | 2025-12-11 15:03:34+00:00
She doesn't even talk to any poor people though. Her father is the richest man in town, there are no farmers, tradesmen, or clerks that she even speaks to in the book let alone someone who is actually part of the bottom 90% of England's economy at the time. Even with Wickham when they first meet and she likes him, she flirts with him but knows nothing serious can ever happen since he doesn't have enough money and knows he will want to marry an heiress. In chapter 26 her aunt cautions her against falling in love with Wickham and she assures her aunt that while she enjoys his company she doesn't view him as marriage material.
by ben_w | 2025-12-11 15:03:43+00:00
> You keep trying to take contrieved examples to prove your (odd) point but that does not work because you are trying to prove something that is false. I don't understand why you are doing that... Too much Kool-Aid is bad for health.

No, you are.

Your example was Afghanistan. The only Afghans coming to Europe in any quantities (small though they are) did so because of western intervention in Afghanistan, and even then a lot of those people were locals who worked with us in our attempts to change it and who had to flee because America didn't care any more.

America *used to be*, past tense, a friend of Europe. Now it's made it clear it thinks it is our suzerain, that we should bow to its will, for half us to be under its sphere of influence and throw the other half under the bus to Russia.

Even before Trump, American governance hates European social policy. We're "socialists", and "socialist" is akin to "communism", and "communism" means we must be living in dictatorships "just like Stalin", those comments pop up even here with enough frequency to make a pattern. That, plus Europe's lack of freedom to bear arms, and that we have such different perspectives on libel, that some of our nations even have (had until recently) blasphemy laws. Every time I see an issue in America that's uniquely American, where Europe doesn't have that problem, someone suggests America copies Europe, a whole bunch of Americans chime in to say that America is "special" and can't possibly, doesn't matter if that's school shootings or broadband access or trains, they're actively hostile to learning from our experiences.

The current US administration is *actively hostile* to us and our ways of life and arrogant enough to not care to learn from our successes. Their hostility is both as a trade issue (e.g. wanting us to give up car rules so US vehicles are allowed when they'd be physically unsafe on our roads), and in terms of our internal and external affairs, where the recent national security strategy document is essentially calling for regime change in Europe.

The EU values something very close to Westphalian sovereignty. The USA under Trump, does not.

Trump is to Canada and Greenland, and by extension their allies across NATO i.e. us, what Xi Jinping is to Taiwan and their allies: hostile.

And a "Kool-Aid" reference? That both dates you and tells me you're fairly American-centric. If you think the current form of the USA is a good system to be promoted across Europe, you're drinking the poison'd cup.
by sorenjan | 2025-12-11 15:04:03+00:00
> AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

> What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.

This is beyond satire by now, it reminds me of Idi Amin and his official title:

His full self-bestowed title ultimately became: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
by jemiluv8 | 2025-12-11 15:04:13+00:00
I suppose I can understand for accounting purposes to some extent. Once a purchase is done, they receive their cash immediately but perhaps actual revenue is deferred until actual usage since that will end up leading to the "actual" rendering of service by openai. Makes accounting sense.

Even though it gives me the vibes of something the fictional " Sirius Cybernetics Corporation", would do.
by adolph | 2025-12-11 15:04:28+00:00
This comment seems to be generating downvotes, but I find the questions fascinating. It is a stretch to say the fossil record rules out any evolutionary changes to anacondas. However, if anacondas represent another form of so-called "living fossils" [0], it is interesting to think about what makes them resistant to the change that seems to occur as a matter of course in many other organisms?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
by pixl97 | 2025-12-11 15:04:54+00:00
>they did absolutely zero benchmarking beforehand, just went with industry haresay, a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

It was a real issue in the past with hard drives and small media assets. It's still a real issue even with SSDs. HDD/SSD IOPS are still way slower than contiguous reads when you're dealing with a massive amount of files.

At the end of the day it requires testing which requires time at a time you don't have a lot of time.
by quietfox | 2025-12-11 15:05:10+00:00
That's interesting. I think besides the hard facts (like numnber of possible tokens before throtteling happens) the perceived quality differs from use case to use case. In that sense, ChatGPT is my daily driver, in terms of helping with coding problems or debugging Claude feels far superior to me. And when it comes to ideation and creativity (product idea validation, etc.) Gemini surpasses both of the other in my opinion.
by Hamuko | 2025-12-11 15:05:17+00:00
I have a feeling that the long-term economics of this don't really work. OpenAI is burning money and Altman has already gone out in public saying how Sora-generated content is being made in large volumes for little audience.

>People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences.

If OpenAI is going to pay Disney money for Winnie the Pooh smoking crack, I get the feeling that the money is going to come not from Sora profits but from companies that invested in OpenAI. Companies like Disney. Not that Sora is going to generate any profit if I can generate a video for free and I then post it on Discord instead.
by jsheard | 2025-12-11 15:05:19+00:00
> vigorously defended the use of AI (hilariously, by bragging about how many hours it took to make that ad).

Likewise with the Coca Cola ad, the agency said in their defense that they had to sift through 70,000 video generations to assemble the few dozen shots in the final ad. And after all that sifting they still couldn't get the one element of continuity (the Coke truck) to look consistent from shot to shot, and had to manually composite over all of the Coke logos since the model kept mangling them.
Show HN: Serif – a zero-dependency, DataFrame for Python
by TheAerius | 2025-12-11 15:05:20+00:00
OP here. I built this library out of frustration with messy, day-to-day data: CSVs with duplicated columns, APIs returning nested JSON, Excel sheets, and various ad-hoc ETL requests.

Tools like Polars and DuckDB are great for heavy analytical workloads, but sometimes I just want a lightweight, Pythonic table I can iterate over. I want the ability to for `row in table:` without surprising semantics.

Serif takes a vector-first, zero-dependency approach aimed at everyday data tasks.

https://github.com/CIG-GitHub/serif

This is an early release, so I'm looking for feedback on ergonomics and places where the API is either missing features or could be simpler.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-11 15:05:30+00:00
I think digital effects still rarely look as good as the peak of Hollywood practical effects (call it… idk, Alien in 1979 through Independence Day in ‘96 or so, roughly, and yes I know ID4 also had computer fx in addition to lots of miniatures and models)

Having to do things for-real also kept things grounded. Modern action movies are often cartoon-like with supposedly human characters stringing together super-human moves that’d leave a real person with dislocated shoulders, broken bones, and brain damage, because they’re actually just CG, no human involved.

[EDIT] OMG, or take Bullitt (1968) versus, say, the later Fast and the Furious sequels (everything past Tokyo Drift). The latter are basically Pixar's Cars with more-realistic textures. They're cartoons with live-action talking segments. Very little actual driving is depicted. Bullitt may have used the movie-magic of editing, but someone did have to actually drive a car, for every shot of a car driving. Or at least they had to set up a car with a dummy to convincingly crash. What you're seeing is heightened, but basically within the realm of reality.

Or take A Bridge Too Far. It's a bit of a mess! Make it CG and it'd be outright bad. But ho-lee-shit do they blow up a lot of stuff, like, you cannot even believe how much. And look at all those tanks and armored vehicles they got! And planes! And extras! Those are all 100% real! AND ALL THE KABOOMS! And it all looks better than CG, to boot. The spectacle of it (plus some solid performances) saves the movie. Make all the FX CG and it'd be crap.

Imagine a Jackie Chan movie with CG stunts. What is even the point. It'd be trash.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-11 15:05:33+00:00
But what could possibly be the secret sauce? Whatever it is, eventually enough engineers will move between orgs to get that stuff cross-pollinated.

Certainly there’s little to suggest that it has much to do with Altman’s leadership or a culture of engineering excellence/care that has been specifically fostered at OpenAI in a way that isn’t present at Facebook or especially at Google.