MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GeneralMaximus | 2026-02-03 17:37:16+00:00
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by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-03 17:37:27+00:00
> If even WWII-era documents are still under copyright, building a model respecting that would be impossible.

"We can't do this legally, so we should be allowed to ignore the law."

If you can't build a model while respecting licenses, don't build a model.

I don't want copyright to exist, at any duration, and I certainly think it should be much shorter than it is. However, as long as it exists, AI should not get any exception to it; such an exception inherently privileges massive entities over small entities or individuals.
by parsimo2010 | 2026-02-03 17:37:47+00:00
You might have written software that is "done" if you compile it with a single compiler version and don't use any OS hooks/APIs and don't care if future changes breaks your software. I.e. it's done if you think that people will stop needing to use it at some point in the future.

A tool like sudo can never be done because it integrates with the constantly updating OS and will always need maintenance.
by bri3d | 2026-02-03 17:37:54+00:00
They have two products:

* Subscription plans, which are (probably) subsidized and definitely oversubscribed (ie, 100% of subscribers could not use 100% of their tokens 100% of the time).

* Wholesale tokens, which are (probably) profitable.

If you try to use one product as the other product, it breaks their assumptions and business model.

I don't really see how this is weaponized malaise; capacity planning and some form of over-subscription is a widely accepted thing in every industry and product in the universe?
by appfplatcomms | 2026-02-03 17:37:57+00:00
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by bevr1337 | 2026-02-03 17:38:15+00:00
That's a great hypothetical, but it's not supported by the article. There are claims that NIMBYs are doing this or that, but follow the links to the supplementary articles and it's baseless. I only find evidence that students and homeless protested. Those aren't NIMBY homeowners.

To me, it seems UC wants to bulldoze a park famous for homeless camps and replace it with student housing. Pro-development is trying to cast the UC expansion in the same light as folks asking for affordable housing. But, UC is not providing useful housing for residents of Berkley.
Shopify checkout changes broke purchase tracking for many stores
by ty-bridge | 2026-02-03 17:38:20+00:00
After Shopify’s checkout extensibility rollout, a lot of stores lost reliable purchase tracking on the order status / thank-you step.

What surprised me wasn’t that things broke, but how hard it became to tell what was actually “truth” anymore — duplicated events, missing purchases, client-side scripts no longer firing, and a lot of guesswork to patch it.

I’ve been digging into how Shopify’s official Web Pixel surface behaves under these constraints and what can (and can’t) be trusted now.

Curious how others here are handling checkout-level purchase verification post-extensibility, especially across GA4 / Meta / server-side setups.
by at1as | 2026-02-03 17:38:29+00:00
> Basically a rage bait. If the law was bad, does it make it okay to violate it? In fact Anthropic is literally paying $1.5B on the copyright settlement, that indicates its completely a settled issue that AI companies have been violating this law. Some have been caught and fined, others are been lucky or that influence over the government.

Yes, but they were found not liable for copying the books they purchased. They were found liable for the books they torrented.

The former is something publishers still want to address
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-02-03 17:38:53+00:00
Yeah i'm deffinetly not suggesting it's easy.

The problem simply put is as difficult as:

Given a human running your system how do you prevent them damaging it. AI is effectively thr same problem.

Outsourcing has a lot of interesting solutions around this. They already focus heavily on "not entirely trusted agent" with secure systems. They aren't perfect but it's a good place to learn.
by bri3d | 2026-02-03 17:38:59+00:00
The subscription services have assumptions baked in about the usage patterns; they're oversubscribed and subsidized. If 100% of subscriber customers use 100% of their tokens 100% of the time, their business model breaks. That's what wholesale / API tokens are for.

> hitting that limit is within the terms of the agreement with Anthropic

It's not, because the agreement says you can only use CC.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-03 17:39:00+00:00
The article presents wishful thinking. The wish is for "kilobyte" to have one meaning. For the majority of its existence, it had only one meaning - 1024 bytes. Now it has an ambiguous meaning. People wish for an unambiguous term for 1000 bits, however that word does not exist. People also might wish that others use kibibyte any time they reference 1024 bytes, but that is also wishful thinking.

The author's wishful thinking is falsely presented as fact.

I think kilobyte was the wrong word to ever use for 1024 bytes, and I'd love to go back in time to tell computer scientists that they needed to invent a new prefix to mean "1,024" / "2^10" of something, which kilo- never meant before kilobit / kilobyte were invented. Kibi- is fine, the phonetics sound slightly silly to native English speakers, but the 'bi' indicates binary and I think that's reasonable.

I'm just not going to fool myself with wishful thinking. If, in arrogance or self-righteousness, one simply assumes that every time they see "kilobyte" it means 1,000 bytes - then they will make many, many failures. We will always have to take care to verify whether "kilobyte" means 1,000 or 1,024 bytes before implementing something which relies on that for correctness.
by HowardStark | 2026-02-03 17:39:11+00:00
CEQA itself is a mixed bag. I want to be clear that there are very important things the CEQA does to improve our environmental conditions[0]! The very real issue of CEQA being “weaponized”[1] stems from how environmental complaints have to be re-litigated in their entirety every time one is filed.
Say there’s a coalition of neighbors who do not want something built. They can each file a lawsuit alleging environmental issues and each will have to be handled in isolation

*I am not going into immense detail here. It is admittedly a bit more complex than this, but this is a reasonable summary

[0] https://youtu.be/TKN7Cl6finE?si=CR4SjVK5_ojk-OKq
[1] https://www.planningreport.com/2015/12/21/new-ceqa-study-rev...
by jayd16 | 2026-02-03 17:39:20+00:00
I think really they just need to implement some kind of plug-in or extension framework. Extensions are just not first class citizens but they really should be.

There should be a .gitextensions in the repo that the repo owners maintain just like .gitignores and . gitattributes etc etc. Everything can still be opt in by every user but at least all git clients would be able to know about, pull down, and install per user discretion.

It seems pretty basic in this day and age but it's still a gaping hole. You still need to manually call LFS install for goodness sake.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-03 17:39:21+00:00
I think pre-canned "skills" are an anti-pattern with the frontier models. Arguably, these skills already exist within the LLM. We don't need to explain how to do things they already know how to do.

I prefer to completely invert this problem and provoke the model into surfacing whatever desired behavior & capability by having the environment push back on it over time.

You get way more interesting behavior from agents when you allow them to probe their environment for a few turns and feed them errors about how their actions are inappropriate. It doesn't take very long for the model to "lock on" to the expected behavior if you are detailed in your tool feedback. I can get high quality outcomes using blank system prompts with good tool feedback.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-03 17:39:22+00:00
It is almost never reasonable to assume normality and make calculations like this. This is particularly the case when you are dealing with lifespan, which isn't normally-distributed even in the slightest. The actual ranges are likely smaller than you are stating here, and variance is just not a very practical or interpretable metric to use when dealing with such a skewed distribution.

We should be stating something like a probability density interval (i.e. what is the actual range / interval that 95% of age-related deaths occur within), and then re-framing how much genetic variation can explain within that range, or something like it. As it is presented in the headline / takeaway, the heritability estimate is almost impossible to translate into anything properly interpretable.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/87850/why-isnt-l...
by slowmovintarget | 2026-02-03 17:39:24+00:00
"The government has been notified that you are attempting to 3D print a copyrighted Door Wedge™ without a license. Local law enforcement has been notified, please prepare to be arrested."

or worse...

"You are trying to print a design that is 87% similar to Egg Cup™. Acquire a limited run license for $3000 for ten runs which expires in six months? Y/N"
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 17:39:27+00:00
This sounds nice, but in the context of actual politics it's completely meaningless.

It's like saying that some people are dangerous criminals who need to be locked up, and other people are upstanding citizens who should be free to live their lives. Everybody would agree with this. The disagreement is in how you sort people. What category encompasses someone who belongs to the opposing political party? That sort of thing.

Regulation should definitely be justified by scientific data. Who gets to determine what's enough? Who gets to determine what counts? Leaded gasoline is a great example. It was pretty well understood when it was introduced that lead was hazardous and dumping a bunch of it into the atmosphere was unwise. But this was evaded, denied, and suppressed for decades.

Even today, it's not settled. Lead is still used in aviation gasoline in the US. It's being phased out, but it's been in the process of phasing out for a couple of decades and there seems to be no urgency in it.

You'll find plenty of people disagreeing with pretty clearly beneficial environmental regulations because in their view those regulations are not supported by the data. They would completely agree with your statement, while saying that pollution from coal power plants is no big deal, climate change is a myth, etc.
by seewhat | 2026-02-03 17:39:30+00:00
> “The hypothesis is that estrogen can be protective, so that women may develop risk for heart disease later, by about 10 years, but then after menopause, it catches up,” Khan said. “After menopause, and particularly during that perimenopause period for women, that risk can accelerate.”

> By contrast, the researchers found no meaningful sex difference in stroke risk; men and women reached similar stroke incidence at nearly the same ages. Heart failure also showed little difference early on, but men had a slightly higher incidence rate by age 65.
by pc86 | 2026-02-03 17:39:44+00:00
Asking the wrong question IMO. Even if the "follow-through" happens at a higher rate that doesn't necessarily influence whether this data should be hidden or not. You have to look at why the data is public in the first place - "I pay this person's salary, so I am entitled to know how much their salary is (among other things you typically know about an employee)."

Whether or not violence committed against public servants happens at a higher rate than the private citizenry doesn't impact the truthfulness of that statement. So if the article wants to make a coherent argument for hiding this type of information about public servants from the public, it needs to attack that point.
by tim333 | 2026-02-03 17:39:52+00:00
Google never came up with a sentient sun.

There's also a YC startup "Starcloud trains first AI model in space using Nvidia hardware" https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1084176/st...

>the satellite successfully ran Google’s open large language model Gemma and trained NanoGPT on Shakespeare’s works, generating responses in the style of the playwright.
by econ | 2026-02-03 17:39:58+00:00
As someone who is exceptionally funny even when no one else is laughing and by nature not nurture I do need to suggest using the many books breaking down the art for custom reassembly. To quote the only thing I remember: The difference between someone who is funny and a professional comedian is that the later adds additional puns to their joke and finds ways to sort them so that the funniest comes last. If you bombard the human with puns and plot twists a state of funny may be accomplished that no lone joke can approach.

Out of all ways ai can kill humans this is easily the funniest.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 17:40:45+00:00
Well, if we are going hardcore nothing prevents to write a Ferrocene compliant Rust compiler in Assembly.

Or even better, lets follow the hype, use bootstrap strategies from the 1960's, and use WebAssembly instead, like many bytecode based compilers on those days, having written a macro Assembler instead, thus mapping the bytecodes into macros for the specific home made CPU.
by epistasis | 2026-02-03 17:40:46+00:00
> In my opinion it is obvious and should be uncontroversial that some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated.

This would be a reasonable centrist opinion, if there existed environmental regulations that do more harm than good!

Actually, I do know of one, in California, that does both harm and good and the harmful parts need to be reigned in. CEQA in California was expanded by courts after it was passed to cover all sorts of things that weren't intended by the authors. CEQA is not so much an "environmental" law as it is a "perform some massive studies law" as it doesn't really regulate anything in particular.

Mostly it serves as a route to use the courts to delay projects, largely housing in already-built-out areas. By delaying a project's approval with a court lawsuit for 2-3 years, the preliminary financing runs out, the cost of owning land without doing anything with it runs out, so projects can be scuttled without the validity of the lawsuit every being evaluated by courts.

Instead of this sort of legal courtroom process that takes long and indeterminate amounts of time, CEQA should be replaced with strict and very clear definitions of harm, or at least move the more subjective parts into a science-based regulatory body that provides answers an a short timeline that can not be dragged on indefinitely.

> Regulations are not people, and they don't have rights.

This is a very weird turn of the phrase "corporations aren't people," because there actually are highly influential politicians that made the case that corporations are people. Nobody is saying that regulations are people. That's silly.

The regulations we need to get rid of are not "environmental" regulations, they are "rent seeking" regulations that allow entrenched interests to prevent disruption by smaller interests. CEQA is not a problem because its an environmental regulation, it's a problem because it's a tool NIMBYs use to get results that are worse for the environment.
by anentropic | 2026-02-03 17:41:03+00:00
I am a big fan of prek and have converted a couple of projects over from pre-commit

The main advantage for me is that prek has support for monorepo/workspaces, while staying compatible with existing pre-commit hooks.

So you can have additional .pre-commit-config.yaml files in each workspace under the root, and prek will find and run them all when you commit. The results are collated nicely. Just works.

Having the default hooks reimplemented in Rust is minor bonus (3rd party hooks won't be any faster) and also using uv as the package manager speeds up hook updates for python hooks.
by kmm | 2026-02-03 17:41:38+00:00
And a megabyte is depending on the context precisely 1000x1000=1,000,000 or 1024x1024=1,048,576 bytes*, except when you're talking about the classic 3.5 inch floppy disks, where "1.44 MB" stands for 1440x1024 bytes, or about 1.47 true MB or 1.41 MiB.

* Yeah, I read the article. Regardless of the IEC's noble attempt, in all my years of working with people and computers I've never heard anyone actually pronounce MiB (or write it out in full) as "mebibyte".
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 17:41:39+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=proven

Here's the Query that I ran on play.clickhouse.com (Please note that both the queries that I am about to give are AI generated)

SELECT
id,
argMax(karma, update_time) AS current_karma
FROM hackernews_changes_profiles
GROUP BY id
ORDER BY current_karma ASC
LIMIT 5

№ id current_karma1
1 Proven -247

2 VentureHawk -89

3 adamyormark -50

4 oldpersonintx2 -45

5 sevenstar -35

So proven has the lowest karma.

While at it, Here's the query for the most upvoted (karma) people on hackernews

SELECT
id,
argMax(karma, update_time) AS current_karma
FROM hackernews_changes_profiles
GROUP BY id
ORDER BY current_karma DESC
LIMIT 5

id current_karma
1 tptacek 414947

2 jacquesm 235042

3 ingve 214146

4 todsacerdoti 204814

5 rbanffy 184030

I remember tptacek because he is the second person of all the people (behind dragonwriter) and he has written 14.37 Volumes worth of game of thrones.

Hope this helps. I just ran the query because I was curious to find the results :D

I can add this query to the website, but one of my worries (even with this post) is that people might try to now benchmark it which wasn't my intention & it will fail to be a good measure (someone mentioned the goodhart's law which is correct/apt here)
by Viper117 | 2026-02-03 17:41:43+00:00
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by jonjacky | 2026-02-03 17:41:45+00:00
With a slide rule you always have to estimate the expected answer in your head before you begin any calculation. So you develop a feel for how quantities scale with multiplication.

With a slide rule you can only multiply the significant digits, not the magnitudes -- which you have to do in your head. So you do exactly the same thing with the slide rule to multiply 123 and 987, 1.23 and 9.87, and 1,230 and 9,870. In all three cases, you get exactly the same answer: 121 or maybe just 120 (you only get 3 digits of precision at best). You still have to multiply the powers of ten in your head, to get the answers 121,000, 12.1, and 12,100,000.

I am just old enough to belong to the last generation of slide rule users. I used them in high school and college, then scientific calculators came along.
by burningChrome | 2026-02-03 17:41:50+00:00
>>> Such a shame that so many U.S. citizens do not see the ramifications of their political decisions.

Most US Citizens are not voting on what you think they're voting on. Most are worried about things that affect their day-to-day life like cost of eggs, the cost of gas, taxes going up, my 401K going in the dumpster.

I live and breathe tech everyday. I see the dangers of it all around me. Day in and day out. You try and talk to people about how dangerous some of this stuff is. Unless people feel it somehow like having their identity stolen and they spend three years trying to fix it all? Nothing will ever change.

People are 100% immune to this stuff now. Its the old frog in boiler water analogy.
by Permit | 2026-02-03 17:41:53+00:00
> Copyright infringement use to be the absolute worst crime imaginable if you asked the tech industry

Every day hundreds of links to archive.is are posted[1] to this website to get around paywalls. Technologists built file sharing tools to subvert copyright. It has never been one of the worst crimes imaginable in tech circles.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru... (85 instances in the last week)