skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anybody know a directory of free no-login in-browser apps?

Occasionally I search for something simple like character counter, text editor, etc. but google keeps giving me only ads-ridden login requiring options. I feel like you have to know the URL, they tend to do poorly with SEO as they have no marketing/SEO behind them.
First, I agree with nearly everything that you wrote. Very thoughtful post! However, I have some issues with the last sentence.

> Collateralised Copyright Liability

Is this a real legal / finance term or did you make it up?

Also, I do not follow you leap to compare LLMs to CDOs (collateralised debt obligations). And, do you specifically mean CDO or any kind of mortgage / commercial loan structured finance deal?
Can you get that book out of an LLM?

Because that's the distinction being argued here: it's "a handful"[0] of probabilities, not the complete work.

[0] I'm not sold on the phrasing "a handful", but I don't care enough to argue terminology; the term "handful" feels like it's being used in a sorites paradox kind of way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
My home internet connection is VDSL2 and I see very consistent 100Mbps+ over the original phone cables of my house, which is built in 1933.
What is a good way to edit plain text files on a phone?

Do iOS and Android ship the tools to open/edit/save plain text files these days?

Edit: My question is not about third party apps. It is about what ships with iOS and plain Android.
Yes, because the first three pages are justifications and reasoning for the law to exist.

Which means that you clearly did not read the law. Truly, you can lead horse to water...

Now quote the actual regulation. You can post the entirety of Article 7, for example
The Steamdeck does this thats why it doesn't suffer from stutters.

For normal PC's, realistically Valve/Steam are the only people who could solve or implement this for PC games as they have the tech and platform to distribute it all. Even with all that its a crazy task to try and solve due to all of the variations and new patches for games that require the shaders to be recompiled again.
Humans do that too, ie research institutes.
Yeah, I remember about that. It works well for Objective-C.

But since C doesn't have objects or messages, the best equivalent thing I can think of is for the C compiler to emit some type of signal on assignments and variables going out of scope.

I don't claim to know what's the best solution for adding automatic memory management to C, but I'm pretty sure a good one exists. And it would need compiler support for it to work.
Incredibly poor analogy. If an LLM were able to regurgitate Harry Potter on demand like xz can, the copyright situation would be much more black and white. But they can’t, and it’s not even close.
Apologies from me as well. I've been unnecessarily aggressive in my comments. Seeing very uninformed but smug takes on AI here over the last year has made me very wary of interactions like this, but you've been very calm in your replies and I should have been so as well.
You've just almost literally said "yup, we should continue ingesting whatever data, it's totally fine" instead of "yes, we should upgrade our systems not to send and not to receive/store that data"
I’m actually not so sure they will be gradual. It’ll be like with LLMs themselves where we went from shit to gold in the span of a month when GPT 3.5 came out.
I use Obsidian myself, which simply stores text in Markdown files. It essentially shares all the pros of plain text: it'll be readable in the future, I'm not stuck with a single platform, I can sync and sort them into directories.
It's close enough to counting for the purposes of a magazine article like uuids are close enough to being unique for the purposes of programming.
You raise an interesting point. If more professional lawyers agreed with you, then why have we not seen a lawsuit from publishers against OpenAI?
Could you use this to make sure users uploading files to your website are correct (i.e only jpegs and valid image data)? But in a fast and safe way, or is this overkill?
But they can, just look at AirBnB, Uber, etc.
i use this regularly now. highly recommend over zoom.
The healthcare system in the USA is designed to make the people bankrupt first due to medical debt
Google listicles are not research.

> why do people drink mocktails

Because they taste good. Does this gel taste good? Probably not. It is fundamentally unpleasant, pointless, and strange. It solves a problem that has better solutions everyone is familiar with. It offers people nothing but discomfort and abnormality, and worse most people don't even understand what it does. It is perhaps the epitome of an unmarketable product.
You see a similar attitude in the NRO’s mission patches, some of which approach blatant trolling [1].

[1] https://www.nro.gov/news-media-featured-stories/NRO-Patch-Ma...
Isn't window 10 support ending in 2025?
Addicts are easiest spotted by their rationalization
Would people really be willing to use this to expose their services to the internet?

Given it’s small and focused on home users, I’d be afraid of any potential security issues. I’d much rather use tools that get a lot more frequent security scanning (like nginx)
When I was younger, I was told that the album from Beastie Boys called Paul's Boutique was the straw that broke the camel's back! I have no idea if this true, but that album has a batshit crazy amount of recognizable samples. I doubt very much that Beastie paid anything for the rights to sample.
According to her lawyer:

> She’s a great mother and a good person.

As total bullshit statements go, that's pretty high ranking.

As "a great mother", what kind of example is she setting, and as "a good person" like WTF? She's just literally been convicted for serious crime and she didn't bother to even try hiding it.

The statement should probably have been something like "For a smart person, my client is a complete moron that should never have done any of this.".
It's not a deliberate sabotage.

It's more like the author subtly set things up for a failure. In this case, the guy knew his people really well, and understood that any external team would have certain weaknesses relative to the internal one: understanding business context, requiring clear goal setting, etc. And he worked from there.

I've seen similar things happen within a relatively large org. And that one time it was not about in-house vs offshore, it was more about "this branch of the org" vs "the other branch of the org". In particular, a C++ team was suggested working with a new Erlang team on a project they though of as something they should be delivering.

To be honest, the C++ team was really good, just as the in-house team in the story was described as very efficient. And they won this one round.
But if they were not yet passed off as real, is it pre-crime? If I create a satirical fictional work about someone, is it "extreme slander" because a portion can be taken out of context and presented as real? Should my work be preemptively censored?
Thoughts on Tom Alrich's "Global Vulnerability Database"
> anyone working on the latter is doing it as a closed, proprietary, commercial system.

But that's exactly the point of the article. It doesn't matter which app you use, or whether that specific app goes out of business or enshittifies - text files are portable to any other app. Sync it with rsync or git, they're just text.

That's why so many people on this site love Obsidian despite it being closed-source - the files it uses all exist in the most open file format of all.
It’s all about freedom from government tyranny and censorship. Freedom from corporate tyranny is another matter entirely, and generally relies on individuals being careful about what they agree to.
> government involvement only causes prices to go up

This is so hilariously wrong I'm not even going to address it.
So someone will just hide it's AI generated and gets the patent.
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I have a similar experience in the 3ds subreddit asking about tje hinge. My post got deleted saying that my answer was in the wiki. It wasn't.

I tried to ask the same in the gbatemp. This time my post was just ignored by the community, which I guess is better than being deleted immediately.

3ds Discord community and iFixit communities did interacted with me.

There are tought times if you want to be part of a community that is more than memes.
To be fair, OP raises an important question that I hope smart legal minds are pondering. In my view, they aren't looking for a "programmer answers about legal issue" response. Probably the right court might agree with their premise. What the damages or restrictions might be, I cannot speculate. Any IP lawyers here who want to share some thoughts?
I wonder if employees rallying for Altman when the board was trying to fire him were obligated to do it by some secret agreement.
It is the same scale argument that allows you to publish a photo of a procession without written consent from every participant.
You can't get Harry Potter out of the LLM, that's the difference
If you're really committed to having lots of text file notes, Obsidian is probably the way to go nowadays. Sync it to a git repo (termux on Android, Working Copy on iOS) or use the first party option (or iCloud if you're in the Apple ecosystem)
I use Emacs as my daily driver but I also have Obsidian and I use that from time to on the Mac to do things like generate PDFs or work with some of the great Obsidian extensions.

To your point about editing in the phone, Obsidian has great iOS and iPadOS versions that work as well as the desktop version (albeit with some wackiness with some extensions that only work on the desktop version).

In combination, this gives me a seamless setup that is all text files (.md) and that works really well across all three form factors.
Originally the comment to which that comment responded said something about free speech rather than anything about legality, and it was in that context which I responded, so the comment to which I responded must have also been written in that context.
that's the evilest thing I can imagine - fighting with them with their own weapon
So someone who looks indistinguishably like you (such cases do exist) would not be allowed to film porn without your consent? What if someone generates a likeness of this person (which is indistinguishable from you) with their consent but not yours?
You can write patents and uncover things by using AI but you get the patent, not the AI. Like the way the typewriter or the computer don't get the patent instead of you just because you used them.
The article doesn't say that AI generated content cannot be copyrighted.
Very interesting post! Can you share more about your teacher's reasoning?
For the Windows side of things, AtlasOS (it's an OSS project) works impressively well:

https://atlasos.net

No advertising when using that. :)

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That being said, I'm a Linux user (KDE generally) and was only mucking around with Windows/AtlasOS in VMs recently to try out virtual gpu stuff in Proxmox.
Rogue 1 Lethal Unmanned Aerial System [video]
That’s a relief for the rest of us.
But then training a commercial model is done with the intent to not pay the original authors, how is that different?
Two-time founder here. I think this naivety reflects more unrealistic founder expectations raised by the bubbly fundraising environment of the ZIRP (zero interest rate phenomenon) than any fundamental change in VC.
And bonus: Obsidian-like apps are their own subcategory now. Once you start using one, you can usually just open the root folder in any of the other apps and give them a spin with very little setup.
> debugging Linus desktop environment everyday.

Sounds like a poor choice of Linux distro then. :(
No, lots of jurisdictions outside the US fought back against those shady practices.
earth has leap seconds
My analogy is based on the fact that nobody could see what was inside CDOs nor did they want to see, all they wanted to do was pass them on to the next sucker. It was all fun until it all blew up. LLM operators behave in the same way with copyrighted material. For context, read https://nymag.com/news/business/55687/
Everyone? What about the board that fired him, and all of those who’ve left the company? It seems to me more like those people are leaving who are rightly concerned about the direction things are going, and those people are staying who think that getting rich outweighs ethical – and possibly existential – concerns. Plus maybe those who still believe they can effect a positive change within the company. With regard to the letter – it’s difficult to say how many of the undersigned simply signed because of social pressure.
For Windows consider this:

- Bloatware and pre-installed software

- Vulnerability to malware and viruses

- Disruptive updates and restarts

- Privacy concerns

- Performance slowdowns over time

- Ads (yes, fucking ads)

- Forces OneDrive

- Begs for OneDrive subscription

- Without email, no user account
The point being made is that it isn’t all or nothing, you can buy half the vested options and forfeit the rest, should you want to.
Use SyncThing, there’s an iOS app. I use it with iA Writer with great success.
> Sexualizing someone without consent is a crime

It is not, "sexualizing" isn't even well defined, and it isn't even enforceable without mind reading technology.
What a shame, another work on early medicine history with total disregard of Arabs, Moors, Persians and Muslim scientists' and doctors' contributions.

I don't think these historians naively believe and innocently presumed that the very limited knowledge, and most of the time incomplete/wrong diagnostic/treatment of the ancient Greek doctors for example Galen just randomly reappeared corrected and improved to early Renaissance time circa 15th century AD within more than a thousand years of vacuum.

For the love of God, in the era of Google Scholar and ChatGPT just perform a proper review in the field of ancient medicine, there's no excuse of ignorance on the great contributions of but Al-Razi (Rhazes), Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), Ibn al-Nafis, Zuhr (Avenzoar), and many others that contributed significantly to humanity not only in medicine.
> Rate limits don't really protect against backend capacity issues

Yes and no, there's a little more nuance here. You're correct that the business signing up X new users, each with new rate ~limits~ allocations, does not in and of itself scale up your backend resources, i.e. it's not naively going to vertically scale a Postgres database you rely on. But having a hardware rate limiter in front is like setting the value on the "max" setting on your autoscaler - it prevents autoscaling cost from skyrocketing out of control when the source of the traffic is malicious/result of a bug/"bad"; instead a human is put in the loop to guage that the traffic is "good" and therefore the rate limit should be increased.

> Rate limits that will be lifted when someone complains might as well be advisory-only and not actually return a 429

How does one set an "advisory-only" rate limit that's not a 429? You can still return a body with a 429 with directions on how to ask for a rate limit increase. I don't think of 4xx as meaning that the URL will never return something other than a 4xx, rather that the URL will continue to return 4xx without human intervention. For example, if you're going to write blog.example.com/new-blog-entry, before you publish it, it's a 404, then after the blog post is published, it will return a 200 instead.
I see a lot of people commenting that have only read the title and misinterpreted it.

The article state that AI cannot be the owner of a patent, it have to be a human.
Show HN: I built an Android app to find, explore, and download movies
There are a bazillion Markdown editors out there. iA Writer, Textastic, a-Shell gives you vim and other UNIX tools, etc.
So step one is "be American so everything you want to write fits in American Standard Code for Information Interchange"?
I completely believe in evolution ........ but sometimes I find myself wondering how did evolution allow for something so intentionally diabolical to come around at the MOLECULAR level.
SyncThing. Even on iOS.
Growth is actually one of the few things where it's permissible to remove 0 from a scale. For instance with asset prices, the dollar value doesn't matter, only the magnitude of the change.
Except Obsidian doesn't use Markdown syntax for internal links to other Obsidian files, but (some variation of) Wiki-Syntax. This is something which I had to write my own parser for when converting Obsidian files to Org-Mode files using Pandoc https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Obs2Org
I use Markdown a lot, but for casual everyday stuff... I really like having sync. Keep opens instantly, has Android widgets(Less important now that Google Tasks has taken over some of what I used to do with Keep), and fast search.

But if I'm doing a Real Project, Markdown files in a git repo are perfect.

Luckily it's very easy to just copy from Keep to plan text.
I don’t think you’re missing anything. Some have found the comments on this video to be more thoughtful than the content of that presentation.

I was hoping when he mentioned other projects that he’d found on GitHub and Google that he’d talk a little about them too but alas he shared that he just clicked search and then did nothing with the results. A big missed opportunity in my opinion.

Still, at least the comments on HN were largely worthwhile.
Legally, copyright is only concerned with the specific end work. A unique or not so unique standalone object that is being scrutinized, if this analogy helps.

The process involved in obtaining that end work is completely irrelevant to any copyright case. It can be a claim against the models weights (not possible as it's fair use), or it's against the specific once off output end work (less clear), but it can't be looked at as a whole.
Remember 20 years ago, when getters and setters were all the rage?

Reaching in to access variables was bad, but if you used a getter instead, then that was somehow good because you were doing encapsulation?

IDEs gained the ability to generate your getters and setters for you, C# had properties which streamlined things and made Java look boilerplatey in comparison, and Java got Lombok.

But it was all bullshit. If making fields private is 'locking the door', then adding getters and setters is 'leaving the key on top of the doormat'.

Show me a logic bug caused by a global variable, I'll slap some getters and setters onto it, give it back to you, and it will still have the same logic bug.

What's my point?

It's not that FP has some competing definition of 'global variables' that somehow makes FP look good and imperative look bad, it's that FP actually followed the idea through to its logical conclusion and generalised it as 'shared mutable state', rather than slapping "encapsulation" on it and calling it a day.

> Anyway, nodes are only public if the calling code makes them public by leaking a reference or something.

This is true. However people commonly leak things by putting 'export' in front of them. Otherwise how can callers access them?
FWIW I agree with almost everything you said, but I think there's a few things that HN has that Reddit doesn't. Reddit's larger American user base tends to dominate most subs with American perspectives but HN seems to have a decently large EU population, especially during EU daytime. Reddit also has a pretty strong anti-capitalist bias in most medium sized subreddits that HN doesn't have, and I perceive that Reddit's average user age is in university while HN's average user age is probably approaching middle age (which probably contributes to the political differences.) I generally think your criticism is spot on.
As much as I love it, people are fair to criticize Linux for the time it takes from you. The freedom comes at a cost.

It can be overstated in a sense, but it comes down to the individual/experiment. I've been lucky with mentors. I've saved a lot of time, frustration, and effort that could've otherwise been expelled had things gone differently.

Don't spend too much time bikeshedding is my one piece of advice
Yeah. It's a real shame there's only a single PCIe slot (PCIe v2 x8) in them.

Ideally I'd like to put both a sas controller + 10GbE+ network card in the things, but it's just not possible. :(

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Actually, it might be possible after all:

• https://www.ebay.com/itm/184105150543

• https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/unique-oem...

This could be a fun experiment. :)
Troll detected.
Hackernews talking architecture always gives me the shivers.
I do the same in org-mode, simply because pure-textual access (like grep) it's nice but limited, clickable links, attachments, executable links (elisp: but also various over link types like notmuch: for mail) are really a thing.

The issue it's that they are desktop-bound, no matter what you do. You can also run Emacs on Android but such platforms are meant just to consume content and munge data from users, not to produce, so it's not a matter of UI or mere bits availability. For sharing there are a bit of limitations but that's still easy if needed.

Beside that the most IT-frustration is the current state of development done to suck out all power to the user: we have IPv6 since decades, oh yes it's not perfect, but we perfectly can have a global per device and we can buy personal domain names and have subdomains on them. Unfortunately even if NOT having that is hyper-costly and challenging (NAT just to say) that's not there. FLOSS available to uncomfortable self-host is damn limited, we miss things like:

- damn simple desktop screen sharing NO THIRD PARTY, no need for special configs, not need to circumvent NAT and so on

- damn simple VoIP with or without video, P2P or with a personal server, but one, not to be configured with a gazzilion of things (yes we have GNU SIPWitch, Mumble, but still they are not a thing you deploy in a snap)

- damn simple internet-wide file sharing (we have gazillion of options, none simple and effective)

From a technological standpoint, those are perfectly possible, not done because "we need to been able to surveil users", "nobody is interested" (blatantly false, seen the popularity of crappy surveilling proprietary services we all know) and so on.

Long story short: yes we can do some thing to use computers effectively, taking notes is a good example, but we potentially can do MUCH MUCH MUCH more and we could not because of some "interests". That's a real shame simply because we lose decades of evolution and we only have one life, no respawn in the IRL game.
Apparently I have chosen a very un-obvious piece of cover.
How Many Atoms Are in the World?
That's some random rambling from a guy on the internet, not a proper explanation or a deep dive with what's objectively wrong with it.
Former Post Office General Counsel Refuses to Cooperate with Inquiry
It's a bit like advocating not wearing a seatbelt because You've never been in an accident.

Pretty short sighted
Maybe it's two blokes in a leopard costume.
It’s not done with the intent to infringe copyright.