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PL/Haskell (Postgres Extension)

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1•dewey•14s ago•0 comments

Pirating the Pirates

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Oblivious Compute: Still Consensus?

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Datapuddle: A native Mac client for DuckDB

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Notes on long-running LLM tasks

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2•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

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2•jonbaer•8m ago•0 comments

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2•derangedHorse•8m ago•0 comments

AI agent firm Instinct raises $1B in latest funding round

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2•tomrose•14m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html
58•cramer4next•59m ago

Comments

verdverm•55m ago
Sandy Monroe would likely agree, he tears down cars and sells what he learns, all the big auto companies buy info about competitor cars

Why should Ai be different?

Fortunately open weights are likely to dominate and it becomes a permissionless ecosystem

allears•47m ago
The remarks of a CEO are self-serving by definition. Otherwise he would be vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits.
aabhay•29m ago
Don’t know why this is down voted. Jensen Huang has literally made this comment on stage when asked critical questions.

His company has been public longer than you’ve been solvent.

parineum•24m ago
Because it's a nothing statement. Everything everyone says can be categorized that way.

The shareholder part is also not correct in they way it's being implied.

Uehreka•21m ago
No. If a CEO makes self-serving comments that are in their interests, but not the company’s interests, that could be fiduciary misconduct. With that being said, CEOs have a fair amount of latitude in what they can say, since it’s difficult to tell what the “optimal” thing to say at any point would be (see: Tim Cook telling an activist investor to “get out of the stock” if he didn’t like Apple’s environmental initiatives).

The idea that CEOs’ hands are tied, and that they are kept on some sort of short legal leash, is largely (though not entirely) a fiction.

bennettpompi1•41m ago
I think that Jensen's position as the guy selling the proverbial shovels incentivizes him to take a lot of irresponsible positions (namely around safety) but imo he's fundamentally correct here.
verdverm•27m ago
the worst thing I heard him say is that he doesn't think kids should learn their multiplication tables anymore on the Ezra podcast

while I generally agree on his open weight stances, I lost all respect in that moment, everyone of these people are so out of touch

ks2048•14m ago
He comes off bad in this interview. Out of touch is correct - "I had to pump gas once a few years ago ..." and panicked because he didn't know his address or zip code.
stevenwoo•14m ago
AFAIK he was outright lying when he said he forgot his zip code. It hasn’t been possible to buy gas in Bay Area for decades without inputting your zip code for credit card purchases. That smelled of some bad speechwriting.
rafram•11m ago
You think he drives himself and pumps his own gas? With like $200 billion in Nvidia shares to his name?
innocent_name•12m ago
>he doesn't think kids should learn their multiplication tables

He said „The majority of the kids shouldn't learn”, not everybody. I listened to that pod and was under the impression that he wants to be portrayed as a "grounded" person and i didn't find his takes to be out of touch.

Papazsazsa•37m ago
Competition? It's just fair play.
next_xibalba•33m ago
'Fair play' is a dimension of competition. They aren't orthogonal attributes.

You can compete fairly or unfairly.

In any event, distillation seems to be in a grey enough area that reasonable people can disagree (IMO). It strikes me as more akin to theft than to fair competition, but it doesn't seem like it should be treated as criminal. Rather, I think the onus should be on the labs to defend themselves against it.

All that said, Jensen's take is clearly quite biased.

prodigycorp•36m ago
Can someone answer this: if anthropic cares so much, why don't they meganerf their thinking summaries (edit: in Claude Code) the way OpenAI does? OpenAI's thinking traces so much that the Codex app doesnt even show them.
aqfamnzc•34m ago
Haven't they already? (at least in the regular chat UI)
prodigycorp•32m ago
It's not there in the chatui but claude code shows more reasoning than they need to.

im not suggesting that they should, but it's so much more than the garbage both antigravity and codex show to users. seems like a thing a company paranoid about distillation would reign in.

Catloafdev•31m ago
Thinking traces aren't in the Claude app (at least, not visibly). I assumed it's only available (if at all) via API.
prodigycorp•26m ago
they dont show thoughts in chat, but they do in code mode.
Catloafdev•18m ago
Which version are you using? Using code mode in the desktop Claude app, I do not see thinking traces at all, and I don't see any way to toggle it.
captainbland•33m ago
I think it would be totally incoherent to say that copyrighted information is essentially fair game to include in your model but the outputs of your model are privileged against being included in other models.

I'm not sure "competition" is necessarily the right word but I don't think that model creators and their political backers have a leg to stand on when complaining about distillation.

ncr100•25m ago
Edit: I realize I can't justify this and it's an irresponsible comment. Please ignore it.

Original:

Smells like a CEO justifying theft. It is reasonable to believe Wong thinks differently about law breaking, given this article.

Something something legal liabilities something something?

captainbland•21m ago
Which one? Seems like there's a lot of it going about.
ncr100•18m ago
I'm not sure I can defend my comment. So I'm feeling like taking it back.

Regarding CEOs - it looks pretty common yes.

I think rule breaking is a quality I've seen in entrepreneurs, thinking differently to use that euphemism. Challenging the dominant paradigm, to be tongue-in-cheek.

I imagine it's a quality engendered by business leadership schools or maybe Market economics? To Find a need and fill it, but taken to the extreme. Can be figuring out where the illegal line is and walking it.

Next, Commenting on the actual article again ..

China, the Chinese government has a known history of stealing technology from other nations. (Aside: I assume all governments do this, State-Sponsored espionage/industrial or whatever.) So that is actual theft. China is also supporting industries that it considers strategically important to success. I am ignorant at the difference between, or limitation of reach of a Chinese government supported influence of theft activities, versus a business that happens to be in China and exhibits theft behavior All on its own.

The area that I'm puzzling about is noticing how this business leader is in a position, through extraordinary concentration of wealth and power, to influence the efficacy of state-sponsored industrial espionage by helping to propose state-level policies by the United States and internationally. I don't know if the word oligarchy is the right word, but, it's like a corporation can author international financial and political policy. Pretty wild considering Nvidia was just like a $80 stock back in in the late '90s.

feverzsj•25m ago
Of course. China buys shit tons of his cards for distillation.
nicce•18m ago
Expect that the best chips are still banned.
_imnothere•25m ago
It's mostly stolen goods anyway, who are they to complain about "distillation"?
motoboi•21m ago
Jensen is borderline comical on his instances of high GPU usage. OpenClaw? "let's do it, it's amazing!", selling GPUs to china "it's of uttermost importance, USA can't afford not selling GPUs to china because other will do", chinese firms burning GPU cycles like hell on american datacenters from openai and anthropic? "this is just competition, let's do this, this is amazing".
simonw•21m ago
Jensen Huang sells GPUs to the highest bidder.
rsx88•16m ago
Given that AI training is pure theft, I don't think this guy has the morals to talk about that.
utopiah•14m ago
Guy who sells shovels says there is gold everywhere, go figure.
RunSet•4m ago
He is selling shovels and piling manure so that he always comes out on top.
chrsw•14m ago
Would a 100% compatible and open source CUDA stack be “competition” too?
innocent_name•11m ago
Yes, see ROCm.
bobajeff•11m ago
As sometime who's memorized but also forgotten their timetables while still managing to go through Algebra I. I don't understand the importance for memorizing times tables (or any other tables for that matter).
verdverm•6m ago
There are basic skills that everyone should learn, being able to do simple math in your head is a building block for more complex reasoning.

I once had a roommate who I encouraged to divide our grocery bill by 2 in his head for splitting the bill, by the end of the year he was quick and accurate.

soulofmischief•4m ago
Quick math. Basic financial literacy. Times tables are for arithmetic, the working man's math. Algebra is an entirely different math which solves different problems and deals more in the abstract.

You can definitely get past algebra without knowing your times tables, but algebra isn't going to help you in the checkout line to make sure you received the correct amount of change and bought the correct number of goods.

abdullahkhalids•2m ago
Most people on a budget (i.e. the vast majority of people) are constantly using exact or approximate multiplication while shopping. And they are rarely whipping out their calculator for this purpose.
dabinat•6m ago
Personally I think multiplication tables aren’t that useful because they’re just rote memorization. I think it’s better to teach kids to memorize a few such as x * 2, x * 5, x * 10 and teach them how to extrapolate from there. Extrapolation is a more useful skill than memorization.
verdverm•3m ago
The tables have normally only gone to {12}x{12} and most young children have no issue. Why would we cut back on this?
prodigycorp•13m ago
latest. click on the down caret next to the session title. hover over transcript view and click on 'thinking'
dualarte•10m ago
I have no comment one way or the other, other than to say that I really respect this kind of attitude in discourse. Realizing you can’t defend an argument, and choosing not to just dig in and fight, is exactly the kind of thing that makes us better as a society. I hope I can be more like you!
thih9•12m ago
And this stance isn’t new - AI output is already considered public domain.
SR2Z•9m ago
This is not true and there have not been any court cases which decided it.

It's entirely possible for AI output to be copyrighted if it meets the requirements; prompting an AI takes some skill.

behringer•6m ago
As of right now it's true and court decisions on other intelligences creating output is considered public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

Acquiring and setting up a camera for the right shot takes some skill. That does not matter.

dabinat•11m ago
And building a tool that can reverse-engineer other people’s products but going out of your way to prevent yours being reverse-engineered.
CodingJeebus•9m ago
The accusation of theft by anyone is really only as strong as their financial capability to enforce it. The leg that the model companies stand on is their bank account, which is increasingly becoming the only force that moves the needle in this economic and political environment.
Alex3917•7m ago
> I think it would be totally incoherent to say that copyrighted information is essentially fair game to include in your model but the outputs of your model are privileged against being included in other models.

IANAL, but going from copyrighted texts to an AI model likely constitutes a new original creation, not a slavish reproduction. Whereas going from one AI model to another is more likely to be considered a slavish reproduction reproduction, although arguably AI models are not copyrightable to the extent that the weights are objective facts, like entries in a phone book.

general_reveal•6m ago
If your recommendation algorithm always recommends B when it sees A, and I derive this information from exfiltrating your masked data , is it not theft simply because I didn’t unmask the true identity of A and B?

Stole all other important information embedded in the relationship (the essence of the relationship itself).

This is not seen as theft to only two types of people:

1) Technically ignorant

2) Or Technically ignorant and morally bankrupt

3) Truly evil, a combination of technically capable, and morally bankrupt. (An “Abomination” is also possible, unaware and unable to perceive morality , not just mere ignorance )

zugi•4m ago
Exactly. AI companies distilled the whole internet into AI weights, now other AI companies are distilling their work to generate new AI weights. Nothing wrong with that, and the world gets open weights AI models.