skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, this sort of thing happens all the time, you just happened to notice this one. It's not only Musk-related posts, either. Negative submissions about Altman also get flagged and disappeared. The mods don't seem very interested in countering this behavior. Often it's weakly supported by claiming the discussion is low quality. (Which is often true, but not imho a good enough reason to suppress the topic rather than enforcing comment guidelines.)
Red flags: no "pricing" page, I wasn't able to find a price at all. Database doesn't seem to be open.

Perhaps I got the wrong impression, but I do not want to get locked into yet another product that will disappear in a few years.
It’s time to start penalizing these companies in a way that hurts. The real cost of asking hundreds of thousands of people to “monitor their accounts and credit” and the costs of resolving any fraud needs to be assessed, probably at treble damages.
I'm using the Awesome (tiling) WM (written and configurable using Lua) and lots of shortcuts. A toolbar-less / menubar-less Emacs. Terminals etc.

But for web browsing I still reach for the mouse.
I've added both :)
Perfect Headline: 'Meta Warns That It Will Fire Leakers in Leaked Memo'
> Every American service -- Netflix, Disney, Prime, Apple services -- need to have enormous tariffs applied.

No tariffs required, just suspend their copyright protection and spin up some free government-run streaming video servers.
Yes Charles W.

Would you be inclined to use a nickname?
> I fundamentally think if you build on other people's work, they deserve 1) credit 2) compensation according to what percentage of your work is based on theirs.

That’s not a naturally occurring principle—it’s a legal and social construct that people have come to see as an inherent entitlement. If the current system isn’t working, maybe that's the actual bit that's broken and needs reform?
A random thought that Might Work, Who Knows(tm): first compress long-ish repetitions in the input and store the copies separately from the literals (like zstd). Then run just blocks of literals through the BWT before entropy coding.

The idea is that the BWT can help take advantage of however much context remains after the copies are snipped out, whether that's one byte or a few, and shrinking the input with the LZ-ish step may make it faster. It might be strictly worse than using PPM or basic context modeling like Brotli's; either of those can be "aware" of the preceding bytes even when they come from copies rather than literals.

It's implied in "successor to bzip2" and a lot of the comments, but it's worth highlighting that high-compression algorithms, especially those that are also slow to decompress, are a pretty specialized niche now. Using zstd or brotli at low to medium settings sometimes speeds things up by reducing network or storage transfers more than their CPU use slows you down. (Especially when your storage transfers are network transfers.) Even when compressing isn't a net speedup, you pay fairly little time for the saved space. Even lowish levels of zstd and brotli often eke out decent compression ratios for big inputs since, with modern quantities of RAM, their MBs-long history windows let them take advantage of long-range matches.
If it were legal to download movies and music, Netflix and Spotify would absolutely not exist.

Steam is an unusual case, because games are running software and can't be trivially reproduced in their unencoded form. The publishers can include copy protection, network connection requirements, or even run essential parts of game logic on their own servers. So free downloads became a much worse experience over time.
You have a point but

1) I don't think being able to query them and reconstruct input 1:1 are requirements. If i build a shitty db with a buggy query language that retrieves incomplete data and occasionally mixes in data i didn't ask for, then it's still a db, just a shitty one.

If i populate it with copyrighted material and put it online, whether I am gonna get sued is likely based on how shitty it is, if it's good enough that people can get enough value from it that they don't buy the original works, then the original authors are not gonna be pleased.

2) Yes, comparisons to humans are not always useful though I'd say they don't reason or understand at all.

Either way the discussion should be about justice and fairness. The fact is LLMs are trained on data which took human work and effort to create. LLMs would not be possible without this data (or ML companies would train on just the public domain and avoid the risk of a massive lawsuit). The people who created the original training data deserve a fair share of the value produced by using their work.

So the real question to me is how much so they deserve?
The article is more about the values of writing poetry and what it could do for you, not about making a career out of it.
I still remember going crazy about bzip (the first one) and re-compressing all my data with it.

And then I remember discovering, several years later, that bzip (the first one) is an obsolete format that is now difficult to even decompress.

I learned my lesson and now use horribly sub-optimal formats that I'm sure will stick around for a long time, if not forever.
Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US
If your argument is that employees are not responsible for the results of their work - not legally accountable, but morally responsible - I strongly disagree with this. You are always morally responsible for the results of your actions. Always. There may be mitigating circumstances - you need health care for your child’s chronic medical condition, you were faced with an impossible choice and chose the lesser evil, someone literally held a gun to your head - in which case the full moral picture may absolve you, but you still performed the actions that led to the outcomes in question, and you are still responsible for your actions and their consequences.
> C wasn’t available—buying it would have been expensive as well!

On the subject of expensive mainframe software, I got to do the spit take once of "you are paying how much for a lousy ftp client? per month!" I think it was around $500 per month.

Man open source software really has us spoiled.
People spend a lot of time looking inside the great depression for causes to the great depression. It doesn't lead to very persuasive arguments and I'm pretty sure they're making a mistake. The cause was probably in the 1920s somewhere, well before the action. It'd be similar to today where if the US went into a great depression the cause would be the questionable economic strategy from 2007 to today.

The flailing during the depression itself was also not clever, but the best approach to economic crisises is to keep the focus on not enabling capital destructive people in the first place. Smoot-Hawley didn't help. No taxes help, all taxes make the economy worse off. We still have taxes though.
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Taylor Swift did make a few good pieces but many of her songs are too similar to each other IMO. I can acknowledge that 'Blank Space' is very good even though it's not my favorite genre of music though.

That said, I think there are a lot of great pieces that we've never heard of. Just because something isn't popular doesn't mean it's not great. Especially true nowadays when media is so centralized and people are drowning in content from a handful of celebrities; this is making it impossible for great pieces from non-celebrities to break through...

We live in a time of information and intelligence explosion and at the same time total media monopolization; the best pieces will never be heard. Also, the best work of humanity of the coming century will be ignored.
Eliezer was hyping AI back in the 1990s though. Really really hyping it. And by the time of the conversations with Sam and Elon in 2015, he had been employed full time as an AI researcher for 15 years.

Here is an example (written in year 2000) of Eliezer's hyping of AI:

>The Singularity holds out the possibility of winning the Grand Prize, the true Utopia, the best-of-all-possible-worlds - not just freedom from pain and stress or a sterile round of endless physical pleasures, but the prospect of endless growth for every human being - growth in mind, in intelligence, in strength of personality; life without bound, without end; experiencing everything we've dreamed of experiencing, becoming everything we've ever dreamed of being; not for a billion years, or ten-to-the-billionth years, but forever... or perhaps embarking together on some still greater adventure of which we cannot even conceive. That's the Apotheosis. If any utopia, any destiny, any happy ending is possible for the human species, it lies in the Singularity. There is no evil I have to accept because "there's nothing I can do about it". There is no abused child, no oppressed peasant, no starving beggar, no crack-addicted infant, no cancer patient, literally no one that I cannot look squarely in the eye. I'm working to save everybody, heal the planet, solve all the problems of the world.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010204095500/http://sysopmind.c...

Another example (written in 2001):

>The Plan to Singularity ("PtS" for short) is an attempt to describe the technologies and efforts needed to move from the current (2000) state of the world to the Singularity; that is, the technological creation of a smarter-than-human intelligence. The method assumed by this document is a seed AI, or self-improving Artificial Intelligence, which will successfully enhance itself to the level where it can decide what to do next.

>PtS is an interventionist timeline; that is, I am not projecting the course of the future, but describing how to change it. I believe the target date for the completion of the project should be set at 2010, with 2005 being preferable; again, this is not the most likely date, but is the probable deadline for beating other, more destructive technologies into play. (It is equally possible that progress in AI and nanotech will run at a more relaxed rate, rather than developing in "Internet time". We can't count on finishing by 2005. We also can't count on delaying until 2020.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20010213215810/http://sysopmind.c...

No longer is he hyping AI though: he's trying to get it shut down till (many decades from now) we become wise enough to handle it without killing ourselves.
Does it really count if the difference is "be removed from society for a while by being sent to prison" vs "be removed from society indefinitely by being sent to inpatient lockup"?
Sure. And it can also be "I don't like how his name was pronounced". What you suppose is a gutting of the law.
I am reading "Lords of Finance" and it alludes to how the gold trade helped trigger the Great Depression.

https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/...
(hat tip to HN as this was where this book was recommended to me)

Granted we don't have an official gold standard, but could todays gold exchange cause similar problems?

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-the-gold-standard-contr...
Since you asked for “all the feedback,” there’s a typo on your landing page:

“The Meha API utilizes it's home-grown” -> “its”

Also, I got a relay access denied error when I tried to email you at info@meha.ai
That was Google, not Oracle.
You can add a Chrome site shortcut whose URL is a bookmarklet, so it will run the bookmarklet when you type "bm" in the address bar (for example).

Taking it even further so it will run with just one keystroke, on my Mac I used Karabiner to run a terminal script that types the bookmarklet in the address bar for me:

tell application "System Events"
keystroke "l" using {command down} -- Select the address bar (Cmd+L)
keystroke "bm" -- Type "bm"
delay 0.2 # Let Chrome recognize the site shortcut
keystroke return -- Press Enter
end tell

In my script I open a new Chrome window before this because the bookmarklet submits a nag screen from my job, but for stickies you could have it just switch back to the window you're reading instead.
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
your view is not in line with cultural norms, though. if nytimes best selling book titles regularly use "pseudo cussing" (as you call it), no reasonable person would see this as disrespectful, especially given the much more casual context it was used.
Same. I pass through a QSFP+ nic that I bought for 15$ or something and I have been very happy with the VLAN set up.

Now if i can find a soundproof server rack so i can put my noisy servers without noise seeping through the house.
really looking forward to four more years of astute political commentary like this
the website has a massive, undismissing sticky header on top on mobile with js disabled. it's also the useless kind. rather ironic.
> Suspension of disbelief is the act of temporarily accepting something as true, even if it's not, in order to enjoy a piece of fiction. This suspension can only go so far. Ask me to suspend too much and I snap back to reality, pulled out of the story.

Sure. They fly around and shoot laser beams out of their eyes, but the lack of sweating really wrecked it for me.

> Even so, I still want to see someone in a cape sweat.

That's Batman. He's just a guy in a cape.
This isn't on Society: the is massively unpopular, was well-foretold, repeatedly, and the argument for ignoring it always relied on excuse-making.

We will all reap what a few sowed through their own obstinate choice, and it goes beyond a one off issue with understanding tariffs.

Is this just some ignorance we have to relearn as a group?

No, plenty of smart people, right here, right now, talked themselves into it, and from here, they'll never, ever, admit they were wrong on it. Even though they, daily, reap the benefits of free markets and extol the benefits of them. We'll just always have insufficiently tried relying on ourselves.

The site we're commenting on, the CEO retweeted some long fact-free nonsense on the subject, that when you're done reading it 10 minutes later, amounts to "juche will make us more powerful than ever before, and btw, the elites will be owned in this existential battle. dig in for war!!!" Sickening lack of self-awareness.

The elites who bray about "elites" are nihilist and a destructive force, necessarily, and always have been.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/670089.The_Fourth_Turnin...

The Fourth Turning is a well-known book that discussed this idea exactly, that one generation learns lessons that the next generation forgets. There's a little more to it, but that's the simple idea.
Can data, or AI, tell me definitively who the MVP of the NFL was this season? Allen, Lamar, Saquon? The numbers certainly help when making comparisons, but they aren't the entire story, different people will come to different conclusions based on the exact same set of facts.
Leverage, stopping payments for Medicare, Social Security and all other transactions until Congress does what Musk wants, probably running government like he did X.
I will give you a little thing to read that might shed another light on the issue, which runs deeper than just doing what you are told https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/why/radica...

This is why people actually speaking out about swooping changes in their administration is important.

I find it very odd that you find that upholding democracy matters, even if it means to enact and act on behalf on people that are actively dismantling it or have a proven track record at effectively ignoring the popular vote, which since you are a fervent democratic believer, I am guessing you are also against various different problems such as: gerrymandering, purging voters of certain groups from the ballots, attempting to manipulate election results and even in some case ignoring the popular vote altogether in a more than dodgy manner (see this description of the 2000 election https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/pomper.htm )

This is without counting that an important number of members of the current administration, refused to acknowledge January 6 or admit that the previous administration was indeed legitimate...

So yes people should do their jobs, but should be held to standards, even a soldier is bound by the oath to the constitution, as does everyone appointed to a Federal position:

"An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: “I, ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

Again you pledge not to the administration but to the institution and the constitution, so I do not think your point do really stand here.
It's author's life plus 70 years, if you meant that. And TBH I am mostly interested in the author's life part anyway.

If it was possible to train AI models on just the public domain, them I am sure ML companies would have because it's less effort than lobbying and risking lawsuits (though I am surprised how well creators have accepted that their work is used by others to profit without any compensation, I expected way more outrage).

Virtually all code relevant to training code-completion LLMs is written by people still alive or dead for way less than 70 years. We can try to come up with a better system over the next decades but those people's rights are being violated right now.
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, at what age do you plan to retire, what funds to you plan to use to cover the living expenses, and what skill set are you trying to pass to your kids so they will be able to afford moving out and staring their own families?

I'm asking because things things are getting harder every year and the media has a permanent blind eye on them.
More and more I see articles and videos about programmable SFP modules which can be used to directly connect devices like UDM to GPON/XG(S)-PON networks, completely bypassing the ISP provided ONT.

You may well find something that fits your situation with a little searching.
I think you do still have to have the ROCm drivers installed, but it's not very hard to do from AMD's website.
I would say true purism only comes from loading individual bits into memory with toggle switches...
I definitely remember using Windows 3.1 near mouseless -- when did Microsoft remove the underscore under menu items? It probably wasn't optimal like some of the modern incarnations, but it was ubiquitous and pretty fast.

In this regard I agree with apple about no touchscreens. Switching tasks/input devices have a cost -- you aren't getting rid of the mouse because touchscreens lack precision, so you now have 3 things to juggle for input.
This seems to be the best way to prevent it from even installing on MacOS, e.g. works with SIP as well.
You'll note the parent didn't cite any examples of the criminality of the Biden family, despite demanding examples of things on the front page of news today.
I think astral codex ten did a survey recently and the majority of respondents were politically left
Andrei Codrescu is spinning in place right about now.
I think the lesson we're going to need to learn this time is a different one, unfortunately.

We're ruled by oligarchs that are, effectively, a doomsday cult of personality [1]. They've realized that neither money nor fame can buy happiness, so they've gone all in on both pseudoscience and burning down the world for excitement. That's why Elon Musk and his cronies are tearing down the government and gaining access to sensitive systems under the hood [2] and why he bought Twitter. It's all a deranged game by people far wealthier than they should be, and far stupider than people think they are. But money is power and money buys propaganda.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/tech-righ....

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk...
We are fucking doomed.

We cannot even agree on the basics any more.
Don't know if whoever voted thought this through! We are undoing years of good governance, like Data.gov and this, now!
Remember that they are all controlled by one party, so everyone is willing to look the other way (and cynically, probably cheerleading it)
Great thank you for the information. I've held off on getting a half decent router as there is so much to know. I've always wanted to get one I can put my own firmware and the benefits they have but just not sure the best route. I also have lots of people in the house so want something that can handle many connections at once like 10 devices says. The isp router only has 4 Ethernet ports which a couple more would be handy so that is also a wish list. Anyways thank you I will look into it a bit more.
This system is squarely in the hands of the executive. The elected executive handed access to DOGE, as he advertised in his campaign. This is so squarely and fairly a democratic action it defies logic this is even worth taking note of. This is what the people, who the government is beholden to, explicitly asked for. Tyranny would be NOT handing it over.
Does anyone know why the Smoot-Hawley Tariff had to go through the Senate, but Trump can just sign an executive order? It's been a while since my high school government class
No you don't. Civil servants disagreeing with stupid policy or malicious policy is a feature. It says the policy is bad, full stop. Civil servants generally have more knowledge about what they do and are doing than elected leaders. It's just a consequence of working in it. Blind yes men is corrosive to democracy.
Thinkpad running voidlinux

Very well supported h/w, for decades. True user controlled distribution...
Capitalism != corpocracy
Enjoy this poem:

I dwell in Possibility – (466)

By Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –
AI just regurgitates what it learned from non experts.
Encouraging talented people from underrepresented or marginalised groups to apply, for example through DEI programs, will help find the best candidates to ensure safe and efficient operation.
Whats the difference between RLHF and distillation?
Taxing the rich 1.wont happen and 2. wont solve it.

Taxes are for the middle class to keep them working. They are not there to pay for stuff that we all use and share.

If they were there to pay for stuff that we share they would be voluntary to pay based on wether or not you want to participate in the shared thing.

Taxes are not optional, for the middle class, not even in the "I'm going to live by myself in the woods kind of way".

Taxes don't exist for the wealthy.

This is by design, it will not change, do not believe politicians who say that they will.

(For the US, Idk about other countries)
Yet another GeoHash implementation written in Swift
I developed yet another GeoHash library also shipping util methods such as
- a method to get bounds of GeoHash
- a method to get neighbors of GeoHash

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This library can facilitate to clustering coordinates in MapView like GoogleMaps.

If you prefer this library please give it a star!