MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattigames | 2025-06-27 07:43:36+00:00
Copyright was build to protect the artist from unauthorized copy by a human not by a machine (a machine wildly beyond their imagination at the time I mean), so the input and output limitations of humans were absolutely taken into account when writing such laws, if LLMs were treated in similar fashion authors would have had a say in wether their works can be used as inputs in such models or if they forbid it.
by thisisnotauser | 2025-06-27 07:44:22+00:00
I think a lot of doomerism over AI making everyone stupid is really overestimating how many people have good critical thinking skills today. I've worked in high skill engineering domains for nearly twenty years now and even well-accomplished people are often pretty unimpressive when it comes to really understanding complex concepts.

I anticipate smart people will not suffer some handicap simply because easy answers are now readily available for the vast bulk of people who were never going to think critically in the first place.
by Propelloni | 2025-06-27 07:44:57+00:00
Person A will have the rights to their image, person B to theirs. If person A looks like person B, person B still has no say in what person A does with their image and vice versa. Seems obvious to me.

I guess you worry about stuff like person A looks like celebrity person B and sells their image for, say, frosty frootloop commercials. As long as A is not impersonating B, ie. claiming to be B, I can't see a problem. "Hi, my name is Troy McClure, you may know me for looking like Serena Williams." I guess it will be the decade of the doppelgänger agencies, like in Double Trouble ;) [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087481/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8...
by joegibbs | 2025-06-27 07:45:04+00:00
I don’t understand why people use international law as their reasoning for why something is wrong or right.

Law and morality are only indirectly connected - something can be entirely lawful yet completely immoral, or illegal yet moral.

And international law isn’t like national law because there’s no world police - break international law and you get some angry open letters from legal experts, countries that don’t like what you did complain (which they would do regardless of legality), countries that do like it don’t complain. If you’re a world power there’s nothing they can do about it.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-06-27 07:45:14+00:00
however when you have a high latency connection, the "thick client" json-filled webapp will only have its advantages if the most of the business logic happens on the browser. I.e. Google Docs - great and much better than it used to be in 2000s design style. Application that searches the apartments to rent? Not really I would say.

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by the way in 2005 I programmed using very funny PHP framework PRADO that was sending every change in the UI to the server. Boy it was slow and server heavy. This was the direction we should have never gone...
by gspetr | 2025-06-27 07:45:18+00:00
>that you can also solve via better polices and incentives if you want to

Nobody can. And it's not like they don't want to. Neither the very traditional and religious Arabic countries like Saudi Arabia (2.14, barely above replacement, and trending down), nor a country like Norway, which can afford the best social program in the world. All have fertility troubles. Urban lifestyle just does fertility in.
by riffraff | 2025-06-27 07:45:19+00:00
I bet you a beer nobody will go to jail for not captioning an onlyfans video, because that is not how regulations work.

There is a range of fines, and a minor non-repeat infringement will obviously not get you the maximum penalty.

But consider the case where a person cannot book a medical appointment, or ask a refund, or claim insurance. The company will be fined, and if the offense does not get fixed than _at some point_ the responsible person may face jail time.
by safety1st | 2025-06-27 07:45:21+00:00
Without writing a book about it I'll just say that I think the most important thing is people shouldn't look at this info and conclude that their body's going to fall apart no matter what.

I'm in my mid 40s and in the best shape of my life, lots of energy, aches and pains from my late 30s have all disappeared, to get there it took diet and exercise changes that were surprisingly modest. For me it was mostly weights, a little bit of cardio, and cutting back on my worst episodes of caloric excess.

I have friends who didn't do any diet and exercise interventions, and are starting to look like hell and complain about the "inevitable" consequences of aging.

And then there are those jacked dudes in their 70s who are hitting the gym 5 times a week, I can only aspire to be as healthy as them at their age.

Use it (with proper care and feeding) or lose it.
by andrepd | 2025-06-27 07:45:48+00:00
On the contrary, the history of the last 20 years of capitalism has been that of nobody in charge going to jail no matter what they do. 2008 meltdown, billions of people suffered but not one administrator, trader, or CEO went to jail. Big companies from oil to tech also routinely get caught in fraud or anticompetitive behaviour and—again—nobody gets jailed, the company merely gets fined a fraction of what they earned due to their behaviour, which obviously is no deterrent.
by anovikov | 2025-06-27 07:46:27+00:00
How many artillery shells one needs to expend to hit anything? I bet more than 10. And they are pricier AND endanger people who use them, more.

Mortar shells (80mm class) are cheaper, but mortars need to be compared to drone-dropped munitions, not artillery shells - because mortars' range is way shorter than that of an FPV drone and is comparable to the artillery - a good FPV drone - although not the $500 one - can cover about the median artillery firing range of this war (16km).

Drones bring about more casualties and are used wider exactly because they are more cost-efficient.
by sim7c00 | 2025-06-27 07:47:59+00:00
its so weird to me to report a bug to open source but not atleast suggest a fix :/. especially around security bugs. to prove it u need to reliably trigger and exploit it so it should be plainly obvious in most cases what the fix is :/.

this is why i never report stuff to open source. if you wanna play bug bounty and cve hoarder its better to stick with bug bounty programs.

why? there the security researcher can be depressed about the process himself rather than some volunteer coder. gotta not make your issues other ppls issues.
by treetalker | 2025-06-27 07:48:27+00:00
The most-difficult parts of projects are starting them and ending them.

In my experience, the culprits are lacking a clear rubric for completion; activity inertia; fear of failure; and perfectionism (which I find is closely related to the fear of failure).

LATER ADDITION: By "rubric for completion", I mean the answer to the question When and how will I know it's done and ready to ship?
by bawolff | 2025-06-27 07:48:39+00:00
> The word transformative was put there in a time of manual transformative processes, like when you paint something similar to what you saw in a painting by another artist

Do you have any citation that that is how the word "transformation" was understood historically? Because what your suggesting seems to be the opposite of what i've read.

My understanding is even back in the 1800s (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_v._Marsh ) your example would not be considered transformative, if your intention was to make a similar painting to serve a similar purpose.
by aeonfox | 2025-06-27 07:49:08+00:00
I've fallen for this trap a few times before. It's a collision of pareto principle and nirvana fallacy. Diminishing returns dominate the last 20%, causing burnout, and you're held in the tension between sunk cost fallacy and perfectionism. The former turning burning ambition into an anchor around one's neck, and the latter slowly decimating any hope of release with perpetual scope creep.

The best strategy to avert this the next time around is to vastly undershoot on goal size. The scope creep will still happen because we can't change our nature, but the project has a much better chance of reaching completion.
by edent | 2025-06-27 07:49:26+00:00
Do you understand how laws work?

Laws are not computer code. They're not run, unthinkingly, by a judge acting as a CPU.

We have humans (like juries) looking to see whether an offence was committed. Are they going to find someone guilty of an offence like this?

Then we have judges who look at the whole facts of a case to determine a sentence[0]. Would they think it proportionate for a first-time offender to be imprisoned for this?

On the other hand, if a large content creator has been repeatedly warned not to break the law and they've ignored those warnings, why shouldn't they be punished?

[0] Yes, some jurisdictions have sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums.
by tonis2 | 2025-06-27 07:49:33+00:00
I'm all for making the apps / websites that are essential for disabled people accessible.

But for smaller companies, getting the website/app up to the rules for European Accessibility act can be over their limits, cause it's not an easy task, depending on the type of UI your app is using.

So their only option is just to avoid Europen market, if they don't want to go to jail.

And European Software marked will be left behind even more.

Europe has 0 power in online world and they keep it like that by making dumb rules everyday.
by bboygravity | 2025-06-27 07:49:44+00:00
Look up the meaning of "failures to deliver" in the stock market. In short: it means stocks sold by market makers and never delivered. AKA: they take your money when you buy a stock, it appears in your account, but they didn't actually deliver anything.

Then look up how many of those happen daily in any US stock.

Or read up here: Naked, Short and Greedy: Wall Street's Failure to Deliver by Susanne Trimbath
by JimDabell | 2025-06-27 07:50:00+00:00
I saw the same problem in the Mac App Store build. I don’t have any `static_themes` directory in the app bundle at all.

There’s also something really weird going on with the window. When I have your application open and I hit ⌘Q to quit, it minimises. Bringing it back to the foreground doesn’t have a menu bar; the Finder menu bar is visible. Then after a while, the window goes away but I see it’s in the menubar. Don’t play silly games like this please.

When I chose to download the Mac universal build from your website using Safari, a new blank tab opened and nothing happened. I closed the tab, returned to the original page, and saw a permission prompt asking to download from your website.

The manual download version does have the `static_themes` directory.

For what it’s worth, I don’t like downloading DMGs manually. In order of preference: Mac App Store Homebrew manual download.
by rekoil | 2025-06-27 07:50:15+00:00
No I meant like APNS, which is what iOS uses to send notifications to iOS devices. It's the only way to get iOS to display a notification currently, and it isn't possible to register your own backend for it, so if you want notifications shipped to your users (as in, alerts that happen while users do not have your app open) then you must (to my knowledge) go through Apple.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-27 07:50:30+00:00
I love XSLT, that is what I ported my site to after the CGI phase.

Unfortunately it is not a sentiment that is shared by many, and many developers always had issues understanding the FP approach of its design, looking beyond the XML.

25 years later we have JSON and YAML formats reinventing the wheel, mostly badly, for that we already had nicely available on the XML ecosystem.

Schemas, validation, graphical transformation tools, structured editors, comments, plugins, namespaces,...
by reconnecting | 2025-06-27 07:51:02+00:00
It seems to me that the article does not correctly define who this law targets. The actual regulation is about [1]:

- computers and operating systems

- ATMs, ticketing and check-in machines

- smartphones

- TV equipment related to digital television services

- telephony services and related equipment

- access to audio-visual media services such as television broadcast and related consumer equipment

- services related to air, bus, rail and waterborne passenger transport

- banking services

- e-books

- e-commerce

For my part, I would dream of this regulation mandating backward support for browsers at least seven years back to stop the nowadays framework madness. As a great example, my bank login page is 10MB.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/ju...
by thoughtpeddler | 2025-06-27 07:51:17+00:00
In some narrow sense, this headline reminds me of this Alex Murrell blog post from 2023 called "The Age of Average": https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average (HN discussion from that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703). Covers the strange phenomenon of cultural homogenization, with all designs (cars, buildings, brand logos, websites, etc) reverting to a mean. In some sense, I'm not surprised now that AI (or 'thought' more generally) is doing the same.
by maccard | 2025-06-27 07:52:52+00:00
I use unity builds day in day out. The speed up is an order of magnitude on a 2m+ LOC project.

If you want to see the difference download unreal engine and compile the editor with and without unity builds enabled.

My experience has been the polar opposite of yours - similar size rust projects are an order of magnitude slower than C++ ones. Could you share an example of a project to compare with?
by sebiol | 2025-06-27 07:53:30+00:00
You can certainly use AI to tick boxes.

Need a caption on an image or video? AI will generte it for you! But the quality is a different question. Is the caption correct? Is the caption usefull? In my test with images it was roughly 60/40 on the correctness.

On the other hand. If you force a company to provide those captions. They might use the cheapest provider. If they do a better job is anyones guess.
by viraptor | 2025-06-27 07:53:51+00:00
That timeline doesn't sound right to me. JS was rarely used to standardise behaviour - we had lots of user agent detection and relying on quirks ordering to force the right layout. JS really was for the interactivity at the beginning - DHTML and later AJAX. I don't think it even had easy access to layout related things? (I may be mistaken though) CSS didn't really make things more consistent either - once it became capable it was still a mess. Sure, CSS garden was great and everyone was so impressed with semantic markup while coding tables everywhere. It took ages for anything to actually pass first two ACIDs. I'm not sure frameworks ever really impacted the "consistent looks" side of things - by the time we grew out of jQuery, CSS was the looks thing.

Then again, it was a long time. Maybe it's me misremembering.
by Liquidor | 2025-06-27 07:54:18+00:00
Uhm hasn't this been the case since 2019-2022 or somewhere close to those years?

In Denmark we had a year to make government/public apps fully accessible and the same for websites and documents presented on websites.

We also had to create accessibility certificates and dedicated pages on the websites to prove and clarify the state of the accessibility (or lack of, together with a statement of what's being done to remedy the issues).

Are these "new" EU laws for a different sector (private?) or something else? I can't find any references in the article. I may be blind (pun intended).
by kergonath | 2025-06-27 07:54:42+00:00
> But for smaller companies, getting the website/app up to the rules for European Accessibility act can be over their limits, cause it's not an easy task, depending on the type of UI your app is using.

If this leads to better accessibility in the common frameworks or the emergence of more accessible frameworks, it will be a win for every Internet user in the world, though. This is a technical issue that can be fixed.
by adastra22 | 2025-06-27 07:54:58+00:00
Slow compared to what? I’m still scraping my head at this. My cargo builds are insanely fast, never taking more than a minute or two even on large projects. The only ahead of time compiled language I’ve used with faster compilation speed is Go, and that is a language specifically designed around (and arguably crippled by) the requirement for fast compilation. Rust is comparable to C compilation, and definitely faster than C++, Haskell, Java, Fortran, Algol, and Common Lisp.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-06-27 07:55:10+00:00
ADA lawsuits in the US are frequent and often somewhat frivolous, and they probably cost way more than European fines, so I don't think the regulation puts the European software market at a disadvantage. I admit it's bad for small companies, though, when they want to or need to use alternative GUI frameworks (usually, for technical or licensing-related reasons). For instance, I was planning to use Fyne with Go for some small apps, but it has zero accessibility support and is therefore out of question.
by fracus | 2025-06-27 07:56:04+00:00
This happens to me often with my hobbies. I believe when I start a project I can see the finish line and my project is in an ideal state. When I get near the end I think I'm afraid I won't reach that ideal or I'm somehow afraid to reach it. I think it also has to do with learning a ton of stuff and that ideal I had at the beginning has changed and grown in scope so I'm stuck with finishing a lesser ideal or starting over.

For example, I wanted to write a book. Now, I'm not a seasoned writer. I learned so much while writing that by the time I was half way through, I was a better writer, and I looked at my older chapters with disappointment. I wanted to start over. But with more writing, will I always be looking back in disappointment?
by bilekas | 2025-06-27 07:56:07+00:00
> Why would it? That isn't really how copyright works. Its about the right to "copy" (or not to), not about distribution methods.

Okay, but if there was no permission to "copy" the content by the owners. I wish I knew more about it all, but seems to me that quoting a snippet from a book while offering comment on it would be classic fair use. Consuming the entire collection for free to charge for transformative services really doesn't feel 'fair'.

And again I can't shake the feeling that if I did this, was brought to court. I would be laughed at for claiming fair use.
by ihagen | 2025-06-27 07:56:28+00:00
Don't forget that drones are evolving very fast and their potential is frightening. What about swarm of unmanned AI and computer vision capable drones spreaded across fields and forests waiting for their prey? You can make antipersonnel drones much smaller as you don't need even to kill the enemy - just to wound. You can place a big batteries across that zones so drones could go recharge theirselves and continue serving. Eventually you can just drop thousands of such killers above the territory or even some city and they will kill every human they find. Ok, then we can make unmanned drone hunters and human killer bots will start to enhance their defense capabilities. That will start another round in evolution where humans on the battlefield are just spectators. Or prey if they unlucky.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-27 07:56:39+00:00
I'm sure this will freak out many indie developers, but relax this doesn't affect you.

Just yesterday I stumbled upon a developer video from Germany who was trying to build some AI RAG SaaS for small businesses and was completely overwhelmed with the EU Privacy and data protection regulations and was stuttering when was talking about going to jail for using OpenAI API the wrong way.

Just Wow. These things are not for you, nobody is going to jail for their app or paying life ruining fines in Europe as long as they don't actually cause real harm. All those rules and regulations are intended for large companies who abuse their power or harm large parts of the society by ignoring stuff when not making them profit.
by bawolff | 2025-06-27 07:56:55+00:00
> Maybe I'm mistaken but shouldn't the source come from a legal source

There is no such thing as a legal or illegal source, only legal or illegal uses.

If the use was legal, then it doesn't matter where you got the material from. Similary if you got the material via more conventional means it would still be copyright infringement if you used it in an illegal way.

> Again if I download the entire works of HBO tv shows, then make a "transformative" version on my iphone, how can that be considered fair use?

That wouldn't be considered transformative. In this context "transformative" means you transformed it into something with a different purpose than the original.

However if you for example made a video essay for youtube talking about the themes (or whatever) of the tv show including clips from it, that would be transformative and probably fine.
by gostsamo | 2025-06-27 07:57:27+00:00
I'm blind - ai can help with some stuff, not with other. my favorite is the lack of labels on buttons or text that is supposed to be a table but is not marked as such. the ai should be able to get inside the page code and rewrite it into something usable which is let's say a heavy ask for most ai-s nowadays. the thing must get an enormous context of react js and apply surgical changes on the regular. maybe possible, but heavy, slow, and expensive, and every blind person will have to do it separately.

The better option is for the ai to review the code during development and suggest suitable accessibility measures compared to the spec and common guidelines.
by drakonka | 2025-06-27 07:57:52+00:00
I think I am relatively smart and I can feel myself getting dumber when I over-rely on AI for certain things. I've had to carefully observe the effect and choose what I "allow" myself to use it for.

Example: when I use it for prose for fiction or my personal blog, I can feel my own imagination for constructing good sentences and my own vocabulary deteriorate much faster than I would've expected. But when I used it purely for brainstorming plot points _or_ doing a quick proofreading pass on a set of notes I already took myself that I want to post, I feel no sudden negative effects.

Feeling that sudden difference in competency is jarring - in a good way. It's very useful information. I wonder whether people growing up with these tools from the beginning won't get that benefit - they won't have a "before AI" and "after AI" brain to "jar" them into awareness and adjustment. Then again... maybe the skills I am trying to preserve will be seen as entirely irrelevant to them regardless.
by gylterud | 2025-06-27 07:57:55+00:00
Like you I have kids, and it really takes a toll, and I definitely see myself aging in the mirror. But I cannot recommend training enough. I started working out regularly three years ago, after a long hiatus due to kids. And I feel stronger and fitter than ever as I approach 40.

The kids still need lots of care (they are 5–9 years old), so finding time and motivation is still a challenge. For me the trick is to do training I really like. That helps so much with motivation. So, find something you like!

What I happen to like is bouldering and hiking. I have a fixed day of the week for bouldering, just after work, and I never miss it, because I know if I start skipping I might fall off my training habit.

Then the rest of the training is motivated by getting better at what I love. I do pull ups to better my climbing etc…

I will fight hard to keep at it through my 40s, because it is such a quality of life improvement. I also attribute the fact that I haven’t been really sick the last few years to my exercise.