skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re not using something like Cline or Cursor you should give them a try.

I haven’t found any OpenAI models good for agentic coding. o3-mini and 4o were both worse than 3.5 Sonnet. 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 Pro both seem be better than 3.5. I still use 4o with search as my primary reference model though.
There are a few stages involved in delivering the output of a LLM or text-to-image model:

1. acquire training data

2. train on training data

3. run inference on trained model

4. deliver outputs of inference

One can subdivide the above however one likes.

My understanding is that most lawsuits are targeting 4. deliver outputs of inference.

This is presumably because it has the best chance of resulting in a verdict favorable to the plaintiff.

The issue of whether or not it's legal to train on training data to which one does not hold copyright is probably moot - businesses don't care too much about what you do unless you're making money off it.
History shows it's a self-defeating victory. If one provider were to "win" and stop innovating, they'll become ripe for disruption by the likes of Deepseek, and the second someone like that has a better model, I'll switch.
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The next step up from this would be to simulate all the internal mechanisms as 3D models that interact with each other...
> A dystopia in which ill look for a new career.

What makes you think that will be necessary?
TPUs (short for Tensor Processing Units) are Google’s custom AI accelerator hardware which are completely separate from GPUs. I remember that introduced them in 2015ish but I imagine that they’re really starting to pay off with Gemini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
“If humans were somehow required to have an explicit license to learn from work, it would be the end of individual creativity as we know it“

What about text books, in order to train on a textbook, I have to pay a licensing fee.
Sadly it’s become common for many mediocre employees in corporate environments to defer to ChatGPT, receive erroneous output and accept it as truth.

There are now commonly corporate goon squads whose job is to drive AI adoption without care for actual impact to results. Usage of AI is the KR.
They are still FAR in the red. Technically have never turned a profit. Among other famous companies.
Yup, I prefer Lightroom to Capture One, especially for film-related workflows.

But I just can't go back to their predatory pricing practices, and the absolute malware of a programme that creative cloud is.
Vacheron is part of Richemont, a watchmaking conglomerate/holding company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richemont

It works like any other luxury company, charge an arm and a leg, control the supply so you don’t overproduce, spend a ton on marketing.

Almost all Swiss watch brands (by volume) are owned by either Richemont, Swatch Group, or LVMH. Rolex, Patek, Audemars Piguet, Breitling, and Chopard are the last of the big Swiss independents, but there are smaller ones like Czapek and Cie, H Moser & Cie, Gruebel Forsey, Richard Mille.
No - it's the reproduction, not the memorization.
I think it's disgusting hypocrisy. We're talking about the USA, aren't we? A country that has started many, many wars, a country that massacred innocent Vietnamese, Afghans, Iraqis. Even at this very moment, the US is participating in the killing of honest, decent, innocent Palestinians and Russians. But that's okay, not worth mentioning.

But deporting lawful residents? How dare you, America? This is definitely the beginning of the end.
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I agree you can't just say it's learning and be done with it, but I think there is a discussion to be had about what training a model is.

When they made the MP3 format, for example, they took a lot of music and used that to create algorithms that are effective for reproducing real-world music using less data. Is that a copyright violation? I think the answer is obviously no, so there is a way to use copyrighted material to produce something new based on it, that isn't reproduction.

The obvious answer is that MP3 doesn't replace the music itself commercially, it doesn't damage the market, while the things produced by an AI model can, but by that logic, is it a copyright violation for an instrument manufacturer to go and use a bunch of music to tailor an instrument to be better, if that instrument could be used to create music that competes with it? Again, no, but clearly there is a difference in how much that instrument would have drawn from the works. AI Models have the potential to spit out very similar works which makes them much more harmful to the original works' value.

I think looking at it through the lens of copyright just isn't useful: it's not exactly the same thing, and the rules around copyright aren't good for managing it. Rather, we should be asking what we want from models and what they provide to society. As I see it, we should be asking how we can address the artists having their work fed into something that may reduce the value of their work, it's clearly a problem, and I don't think pushing the onus onto the person using the model not to create anything that infringes is a strategy that will actually work.

I do think the author correctly calls out gatekeeping as a huge potential issue. I think a reasonable route is that models shouldn't be copyrightable/patentable themselves, companies should not be allowed to rent-seek on something largely based on other people's work, they should be inherently in the public domain like recipes. Of course, legislating something like that is hard at the best of times, and the current environment is hostile to passing anything, let alone something pro-consumer.
Memory? No.

Reproduction? Yes.

If you write down a sizeable quote, that can be a copyright violation.
Another one : ConvertX
https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX

Images, videos, documents, etc.
OP here: I played it on Steam Deck for 20 hours, it was fine. No performance issues; a very small minority of art was hard to see because it was small, but using the Steam Deck's built-in magnifier tool (Steam + L1) was easy enough.
I have a friend who works at Palantir, I have no clue what he does, we've never talked about his work, he's not interested in talking about it, no clue anything about anything in their stack, they really just don't talk. I guess this is the value of Palantir?
In my opinion, the year of the Linux desktop happened more than 2 decades ago, when the last kinds of applications that were previously available only on Windows became also available on Linux, e.g. movie players and device drivers for some less common hardware, e.g. TV tuners.

That is when I have converted all my computers, desktops and laptops, from dual-booting Windows and Linux, to Linux-only. For some servers I have continued to use FreeBSD and I have continued to use Microsoft Office Professional, but on Linux with CrossOver, where it worked much better than on Windows XP (!).

I agree that installing and configuring in the right way Linux remains a job for someone with decent computer management skills.

However, I have also installed Windows professionally, and on less common hardware, like embedded computers, I have encountered far more problems and far more difficult to solve than when installing Linux on the same hardware. Moreover, the solution for most Windows installation problems was not using some menu in a graphic tool, but using some obscure Windows command in a CLI window, with some very cryptic and undocumented command-line options, which I typically found by searching Internet forums where Windows users complained about the same problem.

Therefore the only real reason why Windows is more user-friendly is because it comes pre-installed on most computers, after professionals have solved any compatibility problems.

For whomever has a friend or relative that is knowledgeable about Linux, Linux can be more "user-friendly" than Windows.

My parents, older than 80 years, have been using Linux (Gentoo!) on their desktops for many years, without any problems, for reading/writing documents, Internet browsing, movie watching, music listening, TV watching, e-mail using, and so on, despite the fact that they do not even know what is "Linux".
Good idea. Let’s make it a minefield of copyright infringement for the user so they never know whether it’s emitting something novel or it’s emitting AGPL code.
This doesn’t seem true. I mean, it might be true if memory could be seen or manipulated, but what would you bring into a court of law to prove that I remembered something too clearly?
I don't see that point in the original comment. Remembering copyrighted content ≠ reproducing a verbatim of it.
Wow, that is extremely weird. I feel like we must be missing something, I just can't imagine this is possibly actually the case
What's stopping me from paraphrasing movies by peppering the least significant color bits? Would that make copying them legal?
I don't think you have the facts of the matter or the context right here. The government absolutely does not have the right to expel legal permanent residents without due process. And 'keeping their mouths shut' and pretending otherwise is not even remotely, feasibly "reasonable". The Supreme Court literally just ruled that residents with much less legal status than this person must be given due process -- an entirely obvious statement. But one which apparently needs to be reaffirmed by the highest court in the land because of how casually this administration seems to discard basic tenets of U.S. law. So you're just outright wrong.

The government absolutely did prevent this person from 'saying whatever he wants' -- he was essentially abducted from New Jersey and sent to detention in Louisiana without the ability to contact his family or his lawyer, or get any sort of hearing. It's only after the fact, due to the work of his lawyers and the public outcry, that he was able to submit a habeas petition. You seem to be downplaying how violent and seemingly corrupt the government's actions were in this case (I guess because you ultimately disagree with whatever you imagine this person did). Just because one Louisiana DoJ immigration judge sided with their own branch of government doesn't really lend plausibility to the government's case.
SVG doesn’t require JS.
Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
> edit2: networking, signal processing, automotive, learning about industry protocols and devices of any sort...

I admit there is many great products that are written in C that aren’t going anywhere any time soon, notably SQLite, but there is no reason to write new software in C or C++.
Thank you. I will explore.
Oh my... Are you serious? I'm almost triggered by this. A book about algorithms or data structures from 20 years ago has nothing more to teach? 3D game engine design from 20 years ago has nothing more to teach? No point in looking at the source code of Quake, reading k&r, and Knuth's TAOCP Volume 1 was published in 1968 so it's obviously irrelevant garbage!

I could spurr into an essay of what kind of lack of understanding you just portrayed about the world, but I won't.... I won't...
It's true, hallucinations in LLM's can be so consistent that I warn the LLM up front about stuff like "do not use NSCacheDefault, it does not exist, and there is no default value" and then keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't find a roundabout way to introduce it anyway.

Can't really remember what is was exactly anymore, something in Apple's Vision libraries that just kept popping up if I didn't explicitly say to not use it.
Used to.
There’s a Gemini app on mobile but if you’re on desktop use https://aistudio.google.com. They are behind in this aspect, hopefully they release a desktop app with MCP.
That might explain why Apple's stock was leading the rally yesterday...
With the recent findings [0] that some of the “free file converter” websites in the wild were actually injecting malware into the results as the first stage of various attacks, I’ve wanted to stand something like this up on a server for my family.

This looks like exactly what I’ve been looking for.

- [0] https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi...
MCP, as a bridge connecting AI models with development environments, certainly faces complex security challenges. The permission model mentioned in the article needs detailed design, requiring thorough consideration of protocol layer security, transport layer encryption, and permission boundary control. For developers looking to implement MCP, understanding existing server implementations can be very helpful. This MCP servers directory https://www.claudemcp.com/servers collects various implementation options, allowing you to compare different security models and choose an implementation that fits your specific needs.
The security audit points discussed in the article are on target, but I believe we should also add dynamic filtering of model outputs and pre-execution validation. Developers need to find the balance between convenience and security, as excessive restrictions affect development experience, while loose policies may introduce security vulnerabilities.

How should we define the security interaction boundary between LLMs and development environments? This question has different best practices in various application scenarios, and is worth our continued exploration.
Right, but no one has been able to just download Google and run it locally. The tech comes with a built in adblocker.
Disclaimer: As it turns out, predicting the future is somewhat difficult.

However, in isolationist MAGA, the US military is just a jobs program. This is plain facts, is it not?

The other major power of the USA, post-WWII, was "soft power." That has now been cancelled. So, I am really not sure what is happening.

I once thought that "may you live in interesting times" was a blessing. I now believe that this saying is a curse.
It can be a little bit creepy in an empty-house way, but I haven’t seen any gore or ghosts
No, because you don’t actually violate copyright law until you produce and distribute copies.

It’s perfectly legal to memorize a book, type up a copy from memory, and to even print out a copy that you keep for yourself. But as soon as you start trying to sell or distribute copies, even for free, now you’re breaking the law as written.
You can't apply all of the hacks C programmers apply, like calling private methods, because Rust's internal ABI is different in some annoying spots.

Of course you shouldn't do that, but it's a problem rust-to-c conversion would solve.

Another reason I could think of is the desire to take something licensed in a way you don't like, written in Rust, for which you'd like to call into the private API in your production code, but don't want the legal obligations that come with modifying the source code to expose the methods the normal way.

I don't think either use case is worth the trouble, but there are theoretically some use cases where this makes sense.

It's also something I might expect someone who doesn't know much about Rust or FFIs outside of their own language might do. Not every language supports exporting methods to the C FFI, and if you're coming from one of those and looking to integrate Rust into your C you might think that translation is the only way to do it.

Most likely, it's a way rust haters can use rust code without feeling like the "other side" has won.
At least having good integrated support in the package manager for an allow-list of packages would be good. Then one could maintain such lists in a company or project. And we could have community efforts to develop shared curated lists that could be starting points.
If that really catches on, one could consider designating one of them as a default.

Might also want to support multiple allow lists, so one can add to a standard list in a project (after review). And also deny, so one can remove a few without exiting completely from common lists.
Copyright reserves most rights to the author by default. And copyright laws thought about future changes.

Copyright laws (in the US) added fair use, which has four tests. Not all of the tests need to fail for fair use to disappear. Usually two are enough.

The one courts love the most is if the copy is used to create something commercial that competes with the original work.

From near the top of the article:

> I agree that the dynamic of corporations making for-profit tools using previously published material to directly compete with the original authors, especially when that work was published freely, is “bad.”

So essentially, the author admits that AI fails this test.

Thus, if authors can show the AI fails another test (and AI usually fails the substantive difference test), AI is copyright infringement. Period.

The fact that the article gives up that point so early makes me feel I would be wasting time reading more, but I will still do it.

Edit: still reading, but the author talks about enumerated rights. Most lawsuits target the distribution of model outputs because that is reproduction, an enumerated right.

Edit 2: the author talks about sunstantive differences, admits they happen aboit 2% of the time, but then seems to argue that means they are not infringing at all. No, they are infringing in those instances.

Edit 3: the author claims that model users are the infringing ones, but at least one AI company (Microsoft?) had agreed to indemnify users, so plaintiffs have full right to go after the company instead.
the tailwind-esque ergonomics are appealing, especially considering how painful the current meta (chart.js spaghetti) can be to maintain.
Oh I fully understand the incentives from the bottom up. I'm just calling a spade a spade, even if we know the why.
Disagree. I think when people are that busy they don't have time to find and attack a corporation on BlueSky.
AI will drive surging electricity demand while transforming the energy sector
Caring about truth is indeed obsolete. I'm dropping out of this century.
They also removed outlook features from the 'classic' edition.
Apache ECharts + Leaflet + shadcn for data viz
Your strongly held belief that flies in the face of the dominant belief among today's leading linguists
That was actually the case in music until a decade ago or so. Led to ridiculous lawsuits (for example Ed Sheeran’s).

Previously, artists needed to prove they hadn’t heard the song that they were accused of infringing. That was virtually possible because there’s a lot of music you could hear anywhere, even just a car driving by. Artists continuously lost these court cases.

Nowadays the burden of proof is luckily no longer on the defendant. But I think that only changed a decade ago or so, thanks to some efforts by music industry lawyer Damien Riehl. I know, ridiculous.
There are plenty more puzzles than that. Some of them sort of metapuzzles
Look at moneybags over here paying $30 for a watch. /s
Wasn’t Howard Lutnick on TV recently explicitly saying they wanted to bring iPhone assembly here? How is one to understand the union of these two perspectives?

https://fortune.com/2025/04/07/howard-lutnick-iphones-americ...
It's cool the source code really is open and available:

https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT

AGPL licensed, which seems perfect for this kind of product:

The AGPL (Affero General Public License) is a type of free software license developed by the Free Software Foundation. It is similar to the GPL (General Public License) but with one key difference:

Network Use Clause: If you modify AGPL-licensed software and use it over a network (like a web app or API), you must also release your source code to the users who interact with it.

In other words, with GPL, you have to share your code only when you distribute the software. With AGPL, you have to share your code even if users are just accessing it over the internet (like using a SaaS product). AGPL was created to close the "SaaS loophole" in the GPL.

Further reading: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/7578/what-are...
When talking about fundamental rights (like say, the freedom of speech or the freedom of religion or ...), I don't understand the thinking that only some people should have them based on some legal criteria. I'm talking out of my ass here but it feels like the kind of legacy that is carried by having stuff like slavery and the like where humans were not equals.

I guess this is why in France we call those fundamental rights human rights and not citizens rights.

My point being: I don't see how the difference you give provides anything other that than the ability to abuse some groups, I don't see any advantage from it.
> - Fan spinning on my laptop with no easy way to figure out what process is consuming CPU

Huh? Ctrl+Shift+Escape will bring up task manager. Is that not enough?
This is akin to re-implementing the complete language.

Writing programming languages before AI was bit of a daunting task ; now it's way easier to grasp a first good principles and dive trough ; would still take time to get something production ready ; but that's definitely something that could happen
Interesting! And in this supposed 77 year long genocide, did the population size of Palestinians decrease?
> not Singapore or Australia

These only have 10% reciprocal tariffs applied so I used it as the example. Paying 10% is a lot easier than dealing with the Canada and Mexico deal, which is more likely to change.

> It is unclear how removing U.S. components from products would reduce U.S. tariffs.

US components need to pay tariffs since the US cannot produce that component whole in the US completely. Removing them makes it cheaper.

> it is clear to me that China is losing in such a scenario, since they cannot tariff the non-Chinese components anymore

Why do they want that? Who wants tariffs? Every economist says that random use of tariffs has an adverse impact.

China hasn't been paying tariffs to the US either. Most proper engagements have been re-routing. Only US small businesses suffer (since re-routing is harder for small businesses).
>On your second point, undocumented immigrants also count in the census

Except immigrants choose where they want to live.

The prisoners are where they are because the party in power (usually Republican, borderline neo-Confederate) creates laws that lead to extensive incarceration (such as "three strikes") and is the one which decides where to build prisons, which results in biased elections in their favor. Which reeks of the pre-civil war rules that slaves count for political weight.
It's reproduced in the memorizer's neural connectome.
There clearly is a point when a compressed jpeg becomes a transformation, even if the precise point is ambiguous.

Take 'The Bee Movie at 3000% speed except when they say "bee"', for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apltfVJBwU. It hasn't been taken down for over 5 years so I'm going to assume it's considered acceptable/transformational use.

Personally, I'd say what matters is whether you'd plausibly use the transformed/compressed version as a drop-in substitute for the original. ChatGPT can probably reproduce the complete works of shakespeare verbatim if prompted appropriately, but is anyone seriously going to read it that way?
It verifies bytecode for bytecode rules violations, not that it matches original Java source code or whether original source code is safe.
So many good packages made it into Debian relatively recently! Eg: fzf, fd-find, ripgrep, jq, exa, nvim, ...
Even if we define “AI” as lossy storage with random error insertions, it still amounts to unlicensed reproduction.
Like you can with deep seek? Or will it be more complicated and expensive. I don't know who would actually want that.
I disagree. The game is not meant to be played looking for one specific item/room. It drip-feeds you clues and progress. Every run pretty much I get something that helps. If you’re beelining for just one thing it doesn’t really work.

Also, for your example, I think you missed that you get a major permanent bonus when you got the room after using the other room.