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Because removing public content from the internet for profit is wrong and shouldn't be allowed. One man, or one company, should not be in charge of the free speech of half a billion people.

Ok, let's start a petition to remove the restrictions put on you to make a free public competitor. Oh wait, there are none. Nobody is stopping you!

Why do you think having a free public competitor would solve the problem? Did you think about the problem at all before posting this?

>>> Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance.

The hospital can be paid less without reducing their margin if they can remove a cost from their balance sheet. It does not make the system cheaper overall, but it means the hospital does not have to bear those costs directly. They may not have to bear them at all, because hospitals are not the only things in the system.


They are already playing as dirty as possible.


I assure you that is not true.


Nazi Germany?


Perhaps this is sufficient reason to connect my KOreader to the internet for the first time...


The only thing attracting me to KOReader for my PocketBook is OPDS. The few presentations I've seen show a UI so bloated (as in, the main view for reading pages crammed full of widgets on the bottom of the screen to display wifi signal, battery percentages, and progression counters) that it makes me wonder why some people use an ereader at all.

If my PocketBook had OPDS out of the box it would be the perfect device. What has your experience been? Why are you using KOReader?


I jailbroke my kindle and this was what the guide I followed installed. I don't know what else is available!

My experience has been "fine" - I don't use anything fancy like dictionary lookup or OCR, I just put epubs/pdfs on it and browse. I find the menu UI pretty good, it's a little unintuitive but there is a short guide that covers everything I need. There is no easy way to browse your library (there is a file browser but I don't like that). Ditto I don't find browsing through a book particularly intuitive, but it has page seeking and you can scroll through pages.

For casual reading, I think it's just fine.


> ethical approaches to model development, how humans interact with AI and debate over machine consciousness

So, pseudo-philosophical mumbo jumbo. There is of course no-one responsible for the ethical framework of the company's actions, because it is a company, and therefore amoral at best and immoral at worst.


I am not sure in what neighbourhood you live, but in my village there are hundreds of businesses with strong morals. From the local baker, to the electrician and the construction company. Many keep employees past their prime, they all invest heavily in local community events and sports. The owners don't do this because of money, but because in their view a fulfilled life is one where you serve your community. And yes they want to become rich and make money, but that is not all.

But it appears that is not how your world works. By default any company owner is a homo-sapiens, but a machine that only wants money. Tragically, your cynicism is creating the very world you hate.


Many people have strong morals, and might resist profit-maximising behaviours, but they will be outcompeted and replaced by less scrupulous people. There is actually no sharp difference between a person and a one-person-company, but: to the degree a company is really a company and not just a person, it is amoral. If you disagree, please point to a moral backstop that would prevent any company from taking immoral acts. A few exist, but they are invariably resisted by the most powerful companies. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


The people and procedures inside are the backstop.


How many leadership meetings have you been in where some profitable approach was refused on an ethical basis? (rather than the basis that behaving ethically is actually more profitable, which is totally different)

By contrast, how many conversations have you personally had with people working at a company believing a profitable action was firmly unethical, but felt forced to behave that way due to "business realities" or some other whitewashing?


I think in the end, could always reframe any moral decision as risk management but not sure that is ultimately helpful. I have certainly seen decisions that were taken because it didn't "sit" right to do something (profitable). I'd also say that I feel older (as in existing longer) businesses tend to be on average better there.

On the second point: my experience is rather that there is quite a variance in what is considered moral vs immortal and that often drives different decisions (in the same place, some do certain things, other don't and certain experise/people might not be available for X therefore). I cannot say that I have come across many situations where people did something they considered firmly immoral but felt they needed to go along with it (trying to recall some). Yes, finding justifications happens, too, but that isn't necessarily whitewashing as people do disagree to surprising levels.

(Changed to moral vs immoral, because that was the starting point.)


can be the backstop. The word "can" is doing some extremely heavy lifting here, against corporate practices which dilute and spread guilt and responsibility for immoral decisions so thin, nobody in the decision chain even realizes something immoral has been decided.


Have you ever been in committees approving new products or perhaps certain transactions? These chains aren't necessarily that long. But "can", sure, things could fail etc. and some places are better than others at it.


Is this the same argument as "please point to a moral backstop that would prevent any person from taking immoral acts"? We usually hope that people will be moral, but can't enforce this.


My point was that in big corporations, things are stacked against people wanting to act morally.


Nursing has been around for a long time and they have not yet had the ethics in their field crushed by some of the biggest forces in our corporate-friendly system. High school teachers too. I could probably come up with a dozen more given half an hour to think about it. Don't give up so easily. People fought hard to get us here.


Your neighborhood examples are on an incomparably smaller scale than Meta et al.

It’s much easier to disregard the human cost of decisions when you are separated from said humans by thousands of miles & billions of dollars.


I know people like that, you are not wrong.

The problem is that corporations completely subvert any individual morality that might indicate that generating money is the only moral thing to do. Typically in small businesses. I comaider small businesses owners in general are a lot closer to labor than to capital owners in general terms, especially when their labor is still a large part of what keeps the business going.

Corporations are not that, those are hyper optimized for generating profits, all else be damned. Preferably if all else is damned.


You're comparing small business to a corporation? Right.


I know. The local newspaper believes the same thing. And the local events are all sponsored by businesses. Who could question all of this evidence?

> But it appears that is not how your world works. By default any company owner is a homo-sapiens, but a machine that only wants money. Tragically, your cynicism is creating the very world you hate.

They said companies are amoral at best.


But what happens when one of those businesses in your village strikes it big and becomes a multi-national baking good company. They hire a lot of MBAs, take investor money and then need to stay profitable to meet those obligations. Add to the fact that the people now running the business live nowhere near the village. Will they still make the most ethical decisions about keeping employees past their prime?, paying them a fair wage?

History shows this is not the case.

I'm happy for you to live in a place where the local economy is so vibrant. This is what capitalism should have been. Instead we got WallMart.


Bet none of them have a chief ethicist tho.


So, concerning ethical approaches to model development, there are many things worth looking into: copyright is one, environmental cost is another, and whether there are any additional concerns worth taking into account. The list of these concerns can then be used for decision making, and we can ask things like "given what we want to build, can does picking a location that gives us lower environmental cost add so much time or cost that we can't go for that path?", things like that are't crrazy.

When it comes to how humans interact with AI we can ask things like "would it be better if people could detect AI output?" "how can we alleviate skill loss from excessive AI reliance?" Things like this can decide how the models behave. Imagine if taking concerns like this seriously leads to models that are easy to learn from. At the moment people seem to be moving away from that so as to make distillation difficult, worsening this concern.

I'm not going to try to talk about machine consciousness, but these other things are definitely important questions where someone digging into them could make models interact better with society.


I hate these companies as much as the next guy but this perspective is childish at best, and ignorant at worst.


Which perspective? I said two things.


This is how Ayn Rand's pseudo philosophical mambo jumbo continues to poison tech.


You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML.


Some commenters are missing that this is a reference to https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454.


> Locked. There are disputes about this answer’s content being resolved at this time [sic]

And also

> Nov, 2020

And then, StackOverflow asks itself why it looses users.


The answer is actually from 2009. As long as HTML/XML doesn’t suddenly become a regular language, I think it’s pretty timeless.


It's a 17 year old joke, maybe one of the most famous on stackoverflow for the aging engineers out there. No one wants new "funny" edits on it.


Good ol' appeal to emotion devoid of technical argument.


You can parse a subset of it though, like if you're in control of the html yourself and avoid certain structures


Parsing HTML with a regex is never a good option, but it's sometimes the only option.


In the example from the article it certainly is an option. In Python you could either use a "soup" library or you could play around with a tool like https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/man1/hxpipe.html.

The more fundamental question for me is why the author didn't decide to make make code blocks non-breaking by default, or just add the class annotations when he writes the HTML?


You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length. Every finite language is regular, hence can be parsed with regex's.


Zalgo and situational subset parsing aside:

> You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length

This isn't sufficient, unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying. It's not enough to have documents of finite length (all documents are finite in length), you need documents with a max length, so you have a finite number of possible documents to parse.


Do a web search for the parent of your comment, read the Stackoverflow answer. It's a classic. Learn about Zalgo and Tony the pony, he comes.


and you write your regex specifically for that document length, handling all possible nesting combinations. combinatoric explosion


Tony the pony, he comes.


What do you mean you can't. I do it all the time


As the saying goes: you can fool all people some of the time, and some people all of the time.

Actually, depending on what you're doing, it can be totally fine. Just be aware that you're losing some generality.


You do some parts all the time.


I do not count substitution as "parsing"


Excited to see the price of every other product they offer triple for no reason.


"no reason" like hardware prices going through the roof?


Hasn't that already happened?


yeah, but why would LLM inference now triple the price of the other products? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?


I am implying that they will subsidise the LLM inference product by increasing the prices of other products.


They wont, they are very public about never subsidising any products. I doubt they change that after 29 years now.


gestures broadly at ~$1T+ in AI capex spend


Not sure what you're getting at here. Hetzner has not spent 1 trillion dollars!


The exceptional capital investment is pushing up the cost of compute hardware, which is direct contributor into the costs of compute providers, pushing up their prices to customers.

Crucial Memory, historically a retail RAM provider, closed to focus on AI compute sales, for example.

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783 - December 2025 (392 comments)

> “The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology. “Thanks to a passionate community of consumers, the Crucial brand has become synonymous with technical leadership, quality and reliability of leading-edge memory and storage products. We would like to thank our millions of customers, hundreds of partners and all of the Micron team members who have supported the Crucial journey for the last 29 years.”

Micron is killing Crucial SSDs and memory in AI pivot to serve on AI companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152915 - December 2025 (0 comments)

> Secondly, the supply environment has changed permanently. AI infrastructure requires every single wafer with memory it can consume, something that has never happened with any industry megatrend previously. This means that every wafer Micron assigns to consumer parts is a wafer not going to a hyperscaler or enterprise contract. As a result, keeping a consumer line would directly limit Micron's ability to fulfill orders from its largest customers, which is a risk for profits and strategic relationships.

So! Until this AI capital investment exuberance ends, compute hardware manufacturing pipelines are committed for years into the future, we're all bidding up the limited supply of compute for rent/lease, which in turn is constrained by the limited supply of compute hardware available for purchase.

(at least in the scope of RAM, price fixing is also a potential component, but it'll take some time to determine how much of that is contributing to price inflation versus bona fide supply constraints: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/ram-crisis-one...)


> Karpathy described it as a form of coding where you "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists"

If that's not "turning your brain off", what is?


By that logic every appeal to the truth is a No True Scotsman fallacy.


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