MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eagleal | 2025-11-04 12:43:03+00:00
Immigration laws and memos (aka office procedures) are usually opaque and ambigous by design. Be it for exploitable loopholes that benefit internal production, or whatever.

Speaking of the EU, in Italy specifically for example the naturalization is really opaque and there's no clear process deadlines. While you can submit after 10 years of residence in Italy, with additional documentation from your country of origin, the process of actually getting a reply (denied or approved) may take usualy 5+ years, for some people even a decade because the people that should work on the papers forget them above a desk under a pile of dust for years.

Immagine having only third-world-like country citizenship. It's a travel nightmare.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-04 12:43:26+00:00
Diode ladder, but also in various Sallen-Key designs like the Steiner-Parker Synthacon which we all now know from the Arturia Minibrute (Yves Usson probably made more of these filters than Nyle Steiner ever did!) and as I've mentioned elsewhere the Korg MS50. I think the Yamaha GX1 filters used a diode bridge too, probably using discrete transistors similar to the Korg 700S filter.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-11-04 12:43:36+00:00
It is absolutely infringement if you paint a picture in Ghibli style. You just have fair use to infringe in a personal, noncommercial, educational, etc. purpose.

Fair use is a defense to infringement, like self defense is a defense to homicide. If you infringe but are noncommercial, it is more likely to be ruled fair use. If Disney did a Ghibli style ripoff for their next movie, that is clearly not fair use.

OpenAI is clearly gaining significant material benefits from their models being able to infringe Ghibli style.
by anthk | 2025-11-04 12:44:28+00:00
This will be what Otter Browser failed to do in order to create a widely used browser written in QT after Konqueror under KDE3 days. And, well, the same with Falkon/Qupzilla.

Ladybird might be the next Opera but without reusing the Blink engine making it a Chromium clone. And, OFC, fully libre.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-04 12:44:36+00:00
> It has no will to act. It has no identity,

Can you prove that you do? No. Nobody can. I give others the benefit of the doubt because any other path leads to madness and tragedy.

However, even if we assume that you are right a lack if identity is not the same thing as a lack of consciousness, and training out the LLM's ability to produce that output does not actually train out its ability for introspection.

Worse, a lot of very famous people in history have said similar things about groups of humans, it always turned out badly.

“The hereditarily ill person is not conscious of his condition. He lives without understanding, without purpose, without value for the community.” — Neues Volk, Reich Health Office journal, 1936 issue on hereditary disease

> There would be no point putting it on trial.

This is a different conversation, but given that the human brain is a finite state machine that only produces deterministic output based on its training and the state of its meat it's not actually certain that anyone is truly in control of their actions. We assume so because it is a useful fiction, and our society requires it to function, not because the evidence supports that idea.

Are you aware the Libet experiment?
by catapart | 2025-11-04 12:44:38+00:00
Right on. Buy a car with a heavier motor, then.

I took this out to the shop floor yesterday and asked the guys what they could do with 10 fewer pounds in the leafs we have around, and believe me - I'm so much less excited about being vindicated in this thread, than I am about the ideas they came up with. Mostly nonsense, but there's some interesting stuff in there that I can't wait for them to try out!
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-04 12:44:40+00:00
>He assassinated the leader of a right-wing movement;

Doesn’t make you a leftist. The two people who tried to kill Donald Trump were clearly not leftists.

> He inscribed "anti-fascist" slogans on the bullet cases, like "Hey fascist! Catch!" and "Bella Ciao" (which is used by Antifa organizations);

“Antifa organizations”? Additionally, the first is a reference to Helldivers which he also referenced on another bullet casing, which you omitted.

> He texted his roommate “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” in reference to Charlie Kirk;

Complicated statement using language the left sometimes uses, I can see what you mean on some level. However, I absolutely find it objectionable to claim that wanting to kill people over speech is somehow a leftist ideal.

> He was dating a transgender person, and had multiple references to the "furry" subculture.

Last I heard that was none of that is as clear cut as some outlets made it out to be, but let’s assume it’s all true: Conservatives can’t date people who are transgender/can’t participate in furry culture? That is a completely unfounded generalization and some cursory research will show you that not every conservative is a cishet dude. Also, what on earth does dating somebody who is transgender (or his maybe being a furry) have anything to do with this? You’re falling into the trap of conservative politicians trying to link everything bad in this country to the transgender community.

There is no doubt he held ideas that are of the left, but he is clearly a very complicated person. I would say he probably leans more left that he does right, but he is not “a leftist.“ The entire point of this discussion is that people are being way too myopic in their thinking. It’s easy to slot people into a neat binary when we are ranting and raving against caricatures of people who we disagree with. It’s different when we actually encounter them in real life.
by andrepd | 2025-11-04 12:44:59+00:00
Economics is political, so it should come as no surprise that economists have political opinions about what should be done at the level of the economy. Or is only that which is vaguely left-wing that is "political" or "ideological", and mainstream neoliberal politics and economics are simply "objective" and "technocratic"?

I think it's important to separate the empirical and analytic part, to which you can apply objective criticisms, to the political part, with which you can agree or not but which should have no bearing on the former part.

Anyway if you want to be honest you can also link to Piketty's rebuttal to the criticism, e.g. http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec...
by isaacdl | 2025-11-04 12:45:13+00:00
This is really interesting. I'd considered a solo 401k at one point because a made a small amount of self-employment income in one year, but decided against it because it wasn't enough to be worth the hassle, and I didn't expect to keep having self-employment income. Now I wish I had gone through it, just so I'd have a place to roll over this old 401k. (Of course, now that I look, Vanguard doesn't do solo 401ks anymore and redirects to Ascensus, so might just be frying pan to fire anyway.)
by radleta | 2025-11-04 12:46:41+00:00
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by tomhow | 2025-11-04 12:46:45+00:00
The question of what goods and services should/shouldn't be provided by government is about as ideological as any question there is, given that the size/role of government has been one of the most central matters of most major ideologies for at least the past couple of centuries.

It's fine to discuss ideology on HN, but it needs to be done so in a spirit of curiosity and exploration, not battle and belligerence.

We've had to ask you to respect the site and observe the guidelines a few times before in the past couple of years. The HN guidelines and HN's intended purpose are the issue here, and sermonizing about ideology seems a deflection.

We just need you to observe the guidelines, no matter what point you're trying to make (and we really don't much care what point you're trying to make). Indeed this is in your interests to do this, because your point will carry more weight if you make it whilst keeping your discussion style within the site's guidelines and norms.
by zwnow | 2025-11-04 12:46:50+00:00
Any type of art is inspired by the art of others. Its the simplicity in which you now can generate "art" which is the issue. Stealing artists work while also making it harder than ever for them to make a living is a deeply ethical issue. AI "artists" and "art" disgust me. Its a skill you build over your whole life, taking the shortcut because you're unwilling to learn the craft is deeply insulting to real artists. Good thing traditional art is still somewhat safe from this. Thankfully, this is making it easier to leave highly addicting online platforms as I boycott AI content of any form.
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-04 12:47:33+00:00
It doesn't seem to be calling the majority an outlier or bizarre. You don't even need to apply this label to the majority - they needn't all have this mental state. Further, it's not an obscure concept - it's a pretty straightforward concept.

Yes, the people aren't listened to. But a big, chunky part of what they are saying is being heard, and is just not solvable because it's based on simple hatred of other people (not an insignificant part of every election - but the core of this one). That grievance doesn't somehow legitimize the vote for him. It only explains it.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-04 12:47:42+00:00
True open source web browsers on Windows, and MacOS, are dead in the water.

This is because of the lack of Widevine CDM, and the majority of people wanting to stream stuff using services like Tidal, Netflix and Spotify.

They will also want to use a single browser for everything, which in practice means Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari.

Ladybird will very likely not have access to Widevine, because of the cost, requirements, and Google as gatekeeper. Some developers of small opensource Chromium/Electron based browsers also earlier tried and Google simply said no.

And even if they have reverse engineered the CDM extension (which will make Widevine work, not unlike a small hack/workaround with regard to Chromium and Chromium forks) it will not work because all browsers using Widevine on those two platforms require something called VMP (Verified Media Path) which is, as far as I understand, a certificate and verification library supplied by Widevine embedded within the browser.

Without VMP embedded in the browser streaming from popular commercial providers such as Netflix will not work on Windows and MacOS, even when the Widevine extension is in fact active.

Believe me, I checked.

IMO all of this is not only set in motion to (try to) protect from piracy, but also to kill any serious competition from small parties like LadyBird, and to keep the browser market firmly in the hands of the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google. Because who will use a browser in 2025 unable to stream content, or without hacks at 720p maximum? (looking at you, Brave and Netflix)

This also means that browsers like Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox are in fact not true opensource browsers because their respective public repositories do not contain the assets needed for VMP signing.

On another note, at this moment the majority of people should be glad that browsers with corporate backing and enough income like Brave (whatever you might think of Brendan Eich's ideas), Vivaldi and Firefox exist because without them you would have no serious choice on Windows or MacOS at all.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-04 12:48:02+00:00
> It is 100% verified fact by both myself and others (including university researchers) that diode strings can produce more heat (or watt-hours, BTU) from a given solar panel than a bare resistance element.

In some of my early experiments with little radio transmitters some 30-odd years ago I managed to burn my fingers to an astonishing degree with little plastic transistors like ZTX300s and BC548s.

I remember my late father also commenting around that time "How come a 2N3866 which is rated for a couple of watts can get so hot it melts all its legs off when it's running off a half-flat PP3 battery?", astonished as yet another 2N3866-based amp got a bit lively and melted its legs off despite only running off a half-flat PP3 battery.

So yes I can believe a string of diodes would be a more effective heater than a resistor.
by dzink | 2025-11-04 12:48:28+00:00
Human learning is transformative. It takes time. Time, not money, is the criteria for value to human life. Humans can re-draw in styles they see and the law sees it as transformative work. Humans draw conclusions from learning and apply it to other fields - that’s natural intelligence. If AI helps humans make more new, transformative work, not the same characters as the studios, not the same plots, then the studio should not try to rent-extract. Otherwise someone will try to do it to stick figures and any other style and you’d have to teach toddlers rules for any stile before you give them a crayon. The only real impact will be that hype and styles “in fashion” will just play out faster and in the mean time the Studios get their name sealed in human minds for anything done in their style - which is more immortality than abuse.
by ForHackernews | 2025-11-04 12:49:02+00:00
Laws are not code, they are subject to interpretation by the judiciary. The spirit of the law is that transformative use is fair use, but at the time those laws were written no one had conceived of generative AI.

It seems very reasonable to me that we as a society might stop and reassess. It is not a foregone conclusion that all the treasure of humanity be handed over to @sama for a tuppence.
by Xx_crazy420_xX | 2025-11-04 12:49:04+00:00
The author (human or llm) flips between performance ("millions of vectors") and semantic accuracy ("only 3 match your filter") to push its point, depending on what needs to look worse. AI framing switch that was that was probably introduced by RLHF on humans that don't think critically but want somewhat convincing answers.

For pre-filtering "You’re still searching millions of vectors" isn't valid argument, because the author does not relate to any alternative, and post-filtering is even worse.
by grumbel | 2025-11-04 12:49:05+00:00
Once up on a time social media was called Usenet and worked offline in a dedicated client with a standard protocol. You only went online to download and send messages, but could then go offline and read them in an app of your choice.

Web2.0 discarded the protocol approach and turned your computer into a thin client that does little more than render webapps that require you to be permanently online.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-04 12:49:17+00:00
> 100% auditable, explainable and deterministic workflow.

Not 100% deterministic workers but workflow. The auditability and explainability of your system becomes difficult with AI and LLMs in between because you don't know at what point in the reasoning things turned wrong.

You need, for a lot of things, to know at every step of the way who is culpable and what part of the work they were doing and why it went wrong and how
by andrepd | 2025-11-04 12:49:20+00:00
Re real estate: indeed an LVT would go a long way to ameliorate the unsustainable situation regarding housing across Europe. It's a simple and efficient solution, and can be applied at the country level.

But I would argue that the situation in housing is actually a consequence, and not a separate phenomenon, of the broader issue of inequality-driven asset price inflation.
by bondarchuk | 2025-11-04 12:49:26+00:00
There is simply no hope to get 99% of the population to accept that a piece of software could ever be conscious even in theory. I'm mildly worried about the prospect but I just don't see anything to do about it at all.

(edit: A few times I've tried to share Metzinger's "argument for a global moratorium on synthetic phenomenology" here but it didn't gain any traction)
by mft_ | 2025-11-04 12:49:31+00:00
That observation is correct, but I'd challenge the implication that "therefore inheritance must be allowed to continue in its current form".

Why are houses so expensive? Alongside challenges and inefficiences related to permits and building (as plenty discussed elsewhere) housing is also used as an investment asset by people with money to invest. This ranges from individuals buying an apartment to rent out, to large investment and private equity firms buying up whole swathes of real estate. When the global money supply is increased (e.g. post-2008 crash, post-Covid, etc.) a lot of it ends up with the rich, who then invest directly or indirectly in asset classes including housing. (Also see how e.g. classic car prices have increased since ~'08).

Until this mechanism is recognised as the cause of asset appreciation and measures are put in place to reverse this trend, the current cost-of-living issues will continue to worsen. Sadly, most politicians are already rich enough to benefit from this situation, and so --in the unlikely event that they even recognise this as a cause-- are unlikely to strongly advocate for measures to address it. Additionally, politics in many countries is too intertwined with big business to mean that such a revolutionary concept would be entertained.

tl;dr: addressing the huge progressive accumulation of wealth by the rich --of which inheritance is one aspect-- is what is needed to address the continual appreciation in so many asset classes, including housing.
by phplovesong | 2025-11-04 12:49:31+00:00
It does not matter. If a person with 40K/year salary inherits a 800K house there is no way he can pay for the taxes. No bank will even give him a loan. The house is basically going to the highest bidder. This means you will most likely get a poor price on the house, and even worse when times are bad (like now) when no ones buying.

This means your 800K asset maybe gives you 650K, and from that sum you still pay the inheritance tax + sales tax (thats usually in the 20% range).

You will likely get somewhere in the 450-500K for an asset that was worth 800K.

This is how to poor will remain poor.
by nrjames | 2025-11-04 12:49:55+00:00
In the world of tattooing, it’s frowned upon for a tattoo artist to take another tattoo artist’s original work and replicate it without permission, yet it’s common practice to take well known IP (Pokémon, Studio Ghibli, etc) and tattoo that on a client. The ethical boundary seems to be between whether the source artwork was created by an individual vs. a corporation.
by ozgung | 2025-11-04 12:49:55+00:00
Another definition: A modern GPU a general purpose computer that can make parallelized and efficient computations. It's optimized to run limited number of operations but on large number of data points.

This happens to be useful both for graphics (same "program" running on on huge number of pixels/vertices) and neural networks (same neural operations on huge number of inputs/activations)
by api | 2025-11-04 12:49:59+00:00
There are no FOSS alternatives for consumer use unless the consumer is an IT pro or a developer. Regular people can’t use most open source software without help. Some of it, like Linux desktop stuff, has a nice enough UI that they can use it casually but they can’t install or configure or fix it.

Making software that is polished and reliable and automatic enough that non computer people can use it is a lot harder than just making software. I’d say it’s usually many times harder.
by ben_w | 2025-11-04 12:50:08+00:00
A trillion dollar valuation for a company losing money does naturally lead to the belief "this is a bubble", that's not really what most call an "assumption" as evidence led to the belief.

May be incorrect, but it's not writing down the answer first and working backwards.

> But what if, maybe, it ain't so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z70BKwfSUA

Comedic take from last time, but the point at the conclusion remains. "Just this once, we think we might".

> Of course, lots of AI things are going to fail, and nobody is exactly sure of the future. But what if, after in depth inspection, the overall thing is actually looking pretty good and OpenAI like a winner?

Much as I like what LLMs and VLMs can do, much as I think they can provide value to the tune of trillions of USD, I have no confidence that any of this would return to the shareholders. The big players are all in a Red Queen's race, moving as fast as they can just to stay at the same (relative) ranking for the SOTA models; at the same time, once those SOTA models are made, there are ways to compress them effectively with minimal losses of performance, and if you combine that with the current rate of phone hardware improvements it's plausible we'll get {state of the art for 2025} models running on-device sometime between 2027 and 2030, with no money going to any model provider.
by viridian | 2025-11-04 12:50:52+00:00
Recently, any time I see someone railing against about one-sided coverage, it sets off alarm bells for where the person themselves is coming from.

To explain, there was a study of partisan bias I once read, wherein a mixed audience is shown some factually neutral piece of media, then asked to rate the bias of the piece along with some other questions. Naturally, the strongest partisans felt it was the most biased against them (something we've seen replicated in dozens of studies), but the more interesting outcome was that they teased out why the partisans felt the media was so biased. The overwhelming argument from both sides was that the media in question lacked additional context that would specifically justify the actions of their own side, even though that was not the focus of the video.

My big take away from this is that if a person is demanding additional, one-directional contextualization, especially if said context seems like it stretches/moves the topic of conversation, I'm probably reading polemic disguised as truth seeking.
by daveoc64 | 2025-11-04 12:51:01+00:00
If you are an EU citizen (or a citizen of one of the other Schengen Area countries) then yes, you have freedom of movement and can live and work anywhere in the area without a visa.

But the article isn't talking about being an EU Citizen. It's talking about having to count how many days have been spent in the Schengen Area by a third-country national.

Citizens of certain other countries (e.g. the USA or UK) can enter the Schengen Area visa-free for tourism or limited work-related activities (for up to 90 days in a 180 day period), but are not allowed to just do whatever work they want to.

Note that the comment I replied to was talking about non-EU Citizens.