MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by data-ottawa | 2025-11-04 13:10:20+00:00
That is a huge oversimplification.

In the tattoo case, tattooing pikachu on a person does not harm Nintendo’s business, but copying another tattoo artist’s work or style directly takes their business. Tattoo art is an industry where your art style largely defines your career.

I can see the argument LLMs are transformative, but when you set up specific evaluation of copying a company/artist and then advertise that you clone that specific studio’s work, that’s harming them and in my opinion crossing a line.

This isn’t an individual vs corporation thing, (though people are very selfish).

There’s so much more here than just corporate vs individual. There’s the sheer scale of it, the enforcement double standards, questions of consent, and taking advantage of the commons (artists public work) etc. To characterize it as people not liking business is plain wrong.
by candiddevmike | 2025-11-04 13:10:29+00:00
As someone with hours of time in Factorio pre-space age update, I've really struggled to get back into the game. I really want to build out a mega base with the new train logic, but every time I try to get into it it just feels like work. Space age seems like it had a pretty lukewarm reception, and some of the tech tree changes seem like artificial padding (cliff explosives).
by snthpy | 2025-11-04 13:10:34+00:00
I've held similar opinions in the past and debated them with friends. It's a tricky issue.

Why do need a licence to drive but not to vote? Except non-birth citizens effectively had to acquire a licence.

Philosophers have probably thought about this and can provide an answer. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with their literature.

I like Rawls' Veil of Ignorance as a principle for thinking about issues of fairness. Would I choose to live in a society where only informed citizens could vote even if that might preclude me? Probably. Hard to honestly put oneself behind that veil though.
by rcxdude | 2025-11-04 13:10:53+00:00
They are clearly getting to useful and meaningful results with at a rate significantly better than chance (for example, the fact that ChatGPT can play chess well even though it sometimes tries to make illegal moves shows that there is a lot more happening there than just picking moves uniformly at random). Demanding perfection here seems to be odd given that humans also can make bizarre errors in reasoning (of course, generally at a lower rate and in a distribution of kinds of errors we are more used to dealing with).
by tow21 | 2025-11-04 13:11:19+00:00
Only if you're only talking about income from work. If you own property in country A which you rent out while you live & work in country B, then you probably still owe tax on that rental income in country A. (but it will depend on the exact wording of the relevant DTA if one exists)

And since you are now filling in two tax returns for different countries, with different tax allowances across rental income and work income which interact in decidedly non-linear fashion, you probably need to make sure both country A and B have no confusion about where your work income was earned.

Having spent the last 8 years obsessively counting days across the UK and Finland (and every other country I have visited) exactly to account for this scenario, I am very sympathetic to attempts to solve this problem space!
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-04 13:12:39+00:00
> More so than ever, I think, people are more aware of optimising monetisation in all aspects of their lives, and that sort of results in more things being the same or only having minor deviation from what "works".

This infiltration of monetization is insidious. Even in my own idle thoughts I find myself wondering how I might profit off of something I threw together for fun. Or make a great cake and people say you should open a bakery. It's hard for people to imagine doing something for its own sake, let alone for no financial gain.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-04 13:13:14+00:00
It took me a while to realize that the cringe AI hype bro is just wearing a tie this time. Unsubstantiated fluff with anonymous sources that wants to disguise itself as legitimate research.

Maybe at least these charts are based on real data - albeit self-reported by AI startups likely talking to their investors.

Either way it's useless unless hopping on this train is a past time of yours or you make a living taking investors - to poor to fund an OpenAI, but just rich enough to fund someone eating OpenAI's scraps - for their money.

It has been how many years of people trying to create businesses around chatgpt prompts? I think we need to bring bullying back. This is getting ridiculous.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-04 13:13:41+00:00
> I do find it ironic, however, that someone as far right as him (and his extremest daughter) are still seen as DINOs by Trumpers.

IIRC, his _other_ daughter is gay, leading him to be noticeably silent during the period when passing anti-gay-marriage legislation was a core issue of the GOP, which explains a great deal of the RINO accusation (I assume you actually meant RINO, not DINO :) )
by boxed | 2025-11-04 13:14:00+00:00
> The benefits of wealth are exercised long before the inheritance can be applied.

Agreed.

But isn't that an argument FOR a strong inheritance tax? Because inheritance doesn't actually help your children anyway? That seems like it was your argument.

With that argument taking 100% of the inheritance as tax and taking 0% is exactly the same, as the wealth transfer was done before anyway.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-04 13:14:52+00:00
I live in the urban west. Most of the people I know have to wait weeks for pretty much anything.

When I had a serious accident involving multiple broken bones and the need for orthopedic surgery, I had to wait two weeks to get an MRI, although I did get a basic X-ray in the emergency room. Then another month (while being unable to move much, let alone work, and being in a great deal of pain) to get the surgery. That was me getting expedited scheduling. It also cost me a fortune out of pocket.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-04 13:15:12+00:00
But that is totally unreasonable ... what would you do if I accuse you of child molesting? Let's say I make a video focusing on that. Obviously it's not true, but that doesn't prevent anyone from making such a video.

I think you'll be insisting on additional context and moving the topic of conversation away from child molesting and your involvement therein to, oh, perhaps "fake news".

The sad truth is that it's fundamentally true that the reality on the ground is not a compromise between both sides. There is an actual reality.
by mafuy | 2025-11-04 13:15:31+00:00
I don't like or condone what Hamas did at all. Their crimes should not be ignored and I never said so. They should all be in prison and stay there.

But that someone did something horrendous against my people does not make it right for my people to kill them, at an extend far, far greater than what Hamas has caused Israelis to suffer under. You cannot in a sane mind propose that genocide is ever justified. If you do, then you must also believe that all the Germans should have been killed after what they did to the jews. Do you propose that?

You are explicitly advocating for ignoring law and order. You prefer lawless lynching without order. My ethic values do not allow this and I find it stupid and disturbing.
by Gravityloss | 2025-11-04 13:16:10+00:00
We do see the same in physical engineering too. At some point some products have plateaued, there's no more development. But still you need to sell more, the designers need to get paid and they are used as status symbols and so on.

One example is skirt length. You have fashion and the only thing about it is change. If everybody's wearing short skirts, then longer skirts will need to be launched in fashion magazines and manufactured and sent to shops in order to sell more. The actual products have not functionally changed in centuries.
Show HN: I made a lightweight way to send tasks to others
by mox-1 | 2025-11-04 13:16:21+00:00
I noticed that when onboarding new employees, a common approach is to send a Notion doc with a list of setup steps. But what if you want to know exactly where a new employee is at with their onboarding journey?

It's like you want to be able to configure a checklist, and map it 1:many onto different instances per-recipient, each with their own progress state.

I built TasksList as a way to address this general problem. Feedback encouraged!
by aprdm | 2025-11-04 13:16:39+00:00
In 2014 I landed on either Heathrow or another London airport I don’t remember coming from Spain after a vacation

I read on a sign “travellers from Europe this way” and I thought ok my flight came from Spain I’m going that way … when I saw I was out of the airport with no immigration whatsoever

In hindsight it obviously meant if you’re European (which I’m not), I was in shock how easy someone could get in the UK !
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-04 13:17:22+00:00
Oh I am very much catching up. I am suing Claude Code primarily, and also have been playing a bit with all the latest API goodies from OpenAI and Anthropic, like custom tools, memory use, creating my own continuous compaction algorithm for a specific workflow I tried. There is a lot happening here very fast.

One thing that struck me: models are all trained starting 1-2 years ago. I think the training cutoff for Sonnet 4.5 is like May 2024. So I can only imagine with is being trained and tested currently. And also these models are just so ahead of things like Qwen and Llama for the types of semi-complex non-coding tasks I have tried (like interpreting my calendar events), that it isn’t even close.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-04 13:17:44+00:00
It's possible that they purchased the movies (although definitely without the proper licensing; buying a DVD allows for personal use, not training a commercial model), or maybe they simply pirated them.

It's also possible that models' entire understanding of the aesthetic comes from screenshots of the movie. Even if OpenAI didn't feed in each frame of the movie, they definitely fed in lots of images from the web, some of which were almost certainly movie screenshots.
by javier_e06 | 2025-11-04 13:17:55+00:00
I would request in the PR references to the unit test with 100% coverage. Once I run it and if it passes I would do a spot check and look for glaring errors. Nothing deep. Perhaps I would run lint or some static analysis tool on the code. If the analysis tools come out squeaky clean and the unit test passes? Well, what's not to like? One or more problems? Reject the whole thing.
by tjpnz | 2025-11-04 13:17:58+00:00
Not illegal where? If you're in Japan here's a fun thing to try:

1. Ask ChatGPT to generate some Ghibli-likes for you.

2. Find a local photo printing store prepared to print and blockmount them for you (this is actually the hardest part - most will politely tell you to piss off).

3. List them on Mercari or Rakuma.

4. Regularly relist them as they're periodically removed for violating local counterfeiting laws.

5. Eventually explain yourself to a judge and maybe go to prison for a year.

Technically you only need to do 1 and some of 2 to be committing a crime in Japan.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-04 13:17:59+00:00
The tooling remains so so. Opam is okay but it's not cargo. Dune is weird. Dune is actually very weird. I don't like Dune. It does work fine however.

Onboarding can be complicated. I'm complaining about new comers not reading the documentation before writting articles but objectively some concepts are so foreign, it's a bit difficult to see what you are missing. Module level programming for exemple is key to writing good Ocaml and it's quite a step if you are entirely new to functional programming. Effects are great but conceptually it's quite hard to get your head around them. Some fairly common libraries use Haskell influenced monadic interface. Yet another hurdle.

Traits have their flaws but I have to agree that having to be explicit all the time can be annoying. Modular implicit would be nice.

Concurrency is soon to be a lot better now that the effect system is mostly there and eio is landing.

The standard library is in the best shape it has ever been. I would still like more.
by lausingh | 2025-11-04 13:18:40+00:00
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by JAlexoid | 2025-11-04 13:18:54+00:00
We have to reframe how taxes are viewed, by the wealthy.

There should be no wealth tax, but above a certain threshold - there should be a maintenance fee associated with the wealth. I get charged maintenance fee by my mutual funds, for example.

One of the purposes of the government is to protect and secure property... and that is what ultra wealthy are getting for a fraction of what they should be paying.
by blitzar | 2025-11-04 13:19:27+00:00
Wages havent kept up with the cost of a bag of rice either, I wouldnt suggest that rice has transfered wealth from the young to the old.

The underlying problem for the UK is wages - workers make less in real terms and pensions paid to the older generation go up by the highest of all the rates.

Taxation is the transfer of wealth from the younger generation to the older generation - the older generation paid less in and are getting more out.
by kakacik | 2025-11-04 13:19:43+00:00
OK thats a good development. But overall difference in quality of meat is even visible - farmed salmon looks like a completely different fish than wild one (if you even can get one) - akin to difference between say boar and domesticated pig (lean muscle vs tons of fatty wobbly tissue). It doesn't scream 'healthy' but that may be just emotions playing old tune.

Also what I wrote about shrimp from any 3rd world country is valid - I've seen such place this summer in Indonesia, and from what I've heard whole south east Asia is exactly like that, or worse. Getting shrimp from some western democracy with strong consumer protection rights ain't possible in many parts of Europe, not sure about other places
by messe | 2025-11-04 13:19:59+00:00
Mine was similar actually, just in Ireland.

I had started in a theoretical physics degree which was jointly taught by the maths and physics department. By my final year I had changed into an ostensibly pure maths degree, although I did it mainly to take more advanced theoretical/mathematical physics courses (which were taught by the maths department), and avoid having to do any lab work—a torsion pendulum experiment was my final straw on that one, I don't know what caused it to fuck up, but fuck that.

In the end I took on more TP courses than the TP students, nearly burnt out by the end of the year, and... didn't exactly come out with the best exam results.
Show HN: Gaggle – A DuckDB extension for working with Kaggle datasets
by habedi0 | 2025-11-04 13:20:05+00:00
I've created a DuckDB extension that allows you to work with Kaggle datasets directly inside DuckDB. It's called Gaggle and is implemented in Rust. It's not published on DuckDB's community extensions repository yet, but you can download the latest pre-built binaries from here: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/gaggle/releases

Project's GitHub repository: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/gaggle
by philipallstar | 2025-11-04 13:20:06+00:00
Wealth inequality is not an intrinsic bad, and it's not even worth striving to reduce. The only thing that matters is the average (pick your average) standard of living.

There's no point paying a fortune to have all the people who created the most value leave your country just so you can reduce a pointless metric, especially when all it does is get the state more money to spend on itself rather than reduce your costs or increase what you get for your costs.
by tamani_karim | 2025-11-04 13:20:07+00:00
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by killerstorm | 2025-11-04 13:20:40+00:00
1. Not true. People have been trying to analyze whether mechanical/formal processes can "think" since at least 18th century. E.g. Leibniz wrote:

> if we could find characters or signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts as definitely and as exactly as arithmetic expresses numbers or geometric analysis expresses lines, we could in all subjects in so far as they are amenable to reasoning accomplish what is done in arithmetic and geometry

2. You're missing the fact that meaning of words is defined through their use. It's an obvious fact that if people call certain phenomenon "thinking" then they call that "thinking".

3. The normal process is to introduce more specific terms and keep more general terms general. E.g. people doing psychometrics were not satisfied with "thinking", so they introduced e.g. "fluid intelligence" and "crystallized intelligence" as different kinds of abilities. They didn't have to redefine what "thinking" means.
by archell | 2025-11-04 13:20:56+00:00
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by patapong | 2025-11-04 13:21:36+00:00
I'm not sure this is true anymore. Anthropic e.g. claims that each model is profitable, seen over its lifetime. There are also a ton of providers of open-source models that are popping up that are hosting models for very cheap prices per token - hard to say how subsidised they are, of course, but I would be surprised if they are all burning cash.

Open-source models are also constantly getting better, with new architectures and training processes that make 30b models perform like previous SOTA models, lowering the prices for many use-cases.

So I don't think the current level AI will get more expensive, I would expect it to stay at the same price or fall. But, I think the AI companies will continue pushing more higher-priced premium models that deliver better performance for higher prices and with more tokens consumed.
by whynotmakealt | 2025-11-04 13:21:37+00:00
Yes, I can agree that the words I use can be redundant sometimes, I am a human and I have its flaws, I really like to type long essays, Yeah.

To be really honest, I can understand your view-point even if it conflicts with mine if you aren't being offensive, since personally, I think that there is no point of this offense-defense thing.

Off topic but How's your day going man?

Listen, I will tell you why I write in the way I write, You might say this authenticity but I believe it being honest, I want to give someone access to the thoughts I am thinking the way they come, so I would consider it raw.

Usually its not for them but for me, for knowing how far or backwards I would go in life. I write this because I anticipate reading it in the future but I sure haven't read as much in other places.

HN does feel like a place where someone could write 3 paragraphs to some basic question and still feel accepted or read , to be really honest.

> Nobody wants to read pages of repetitive human generated slop, either.

You raise a good point, I have been a bit selfish in writing these posts, I write it for myself and not for the other person, I thought the other person would appreciate my honesty of typing what I write but the point of it being human slop might make sense too lol

> And no, readers can't just ask the LLM to reproduce the same slop, because they don't have the verbose, redundant (there I go again) original source text that it's condensing. And even if they did, they would not bother reading it, because it's tl;dr and full of typos.

Sorry but either its me but I can't seem to understand what you mean by this? Like, do you mean nobody would bother pasting human slop to get tldr's ?

I don't know what to say since I am not getting what you are trying to tell me here but I am curious for sure.

> Since you asked for somebody to point it out:

I didn't really ask but sure, I will take it. I guess I make less mistakes overall though so that's nice. I am not perfect and I am comfortable knowing that yet I think that my writing could be sharpened, yes. There is no denying in that.

> Full disclosure, in case you can't tell: the paragraph above was LLM generated. Did you find it helpful, was it tl;dr, or did you dislike "its" style?

I would still would've preferred your real message even if it could've been choppy to be really honest.

I feel like If I might not leave an imprint on the world, might as well leave the fingerprint saying I was there and this is a way which helps me feel that way. It is (theraptic?) even to write long sentences, they sooth me. I do it for myself. I wasn't trying to virtue signal though, personally its more that even after anything, I still feel like using LLM's in article formations etc. is just a cheap shortcut to what?? , to me its the fact that I can point to this article and be decently comfortable knowing that I wrote it and not an LLM.

I just can't trust LLM texts that much and the only reason I am giving yours so much is because I would appreciate the opportunity to grow and I am willing to read any criticism you provide me if I can meaningfully work on.