MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oulipo2 | 2025-11-04 12:58:08+00:00
I'd argue that if an art piece is famous enough, then it ought to become "public". In the sense that, yes, the artist made it and it became famous, but once it reaches a certain scale of fame, it means that the public itself made the work famous. So it's a kind of co-creation (eg for instance the fact that people were writing fan-fiction about Harry Potter or whatever, contributing to the fame of the book, etc). So in this case, after it has reached a sufficient level of fame, it should become public work
by jqpabc123 | 2025-11-04 12:58:31+00:00
Surprise! Tariffs don't fix the problem.

US manufacturing jobs are still declining. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 80,000 have been lost in 2025 alone. Trump's solution --- fire the head of the bureau.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-seeks-to-fire-bu...

All tariffs are doing is raising prices paid by US consumers --- to help pay for the tax cuts in the big ugly bill.
by fukka42 | 2025-11-04 12:58:54+00:00
Sure, it's just really funny to worry about people having to wear helmets ona bicycle when you have so many mass shootings per year it's been normalized to the degree that they don't even make the news anymore.

Apparently, just this year, a total of 366 people have been killed and 1,668 people have been wounded in 374 shootings, as of October 31, 2025.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-04 12:58:55+00:00
It varies per country, for example in the Netherlands as a software engineer and other "highly skilled" [1] roles you can get an HSM visa / work permit. I believe Germany, Denmark and others have similar programs.

This is how it works: you interview[2], get a job offer, sign it, then your employer applies for a work permit on your behalf. The only complicated part is collecting your own paperwork. You wait a few weeks/months for approval and move in. It's a lot easier than most people think. The permit is tied to your employment, though it can be transferred, but you cannot get a 'free employment' permit until after five years in the country.

For the EU as a whole, the Blue Card serves a similar purpose but is significantly more difficult to obtain.

[1] There is no skill/merit assessment like the USA, it's solely based on the salary threshold - basically delegates the skill assessment to the employer. Not every company has access to this program, the job must be advertised as including visa sponsorship.

[2] online. Flying over for a final round was common before COVID, I miss those days
by ghaff | 2025-11-04 12:59:13+00:00
At one point, probably when I got a new computer, I spent a bunch of time cleaning out both music and photo libraries. Things had just gotten into a real mess over time with various merges, software changes, etc. to get the stuff I actually care about in some semblance of order. At some point, I probably need to do another pass but it hasn't been a priority.
by psychoslave | 2025-11-04 12:59:21+00:00
It makes wonder what will happen when robots will really take care of everything unpleasant there might be to do in life. All these laws and social systems designed to pretend merit and hard effort is why there are ridiculously disparate of wealth among humans, it's not going to accept that wage slavery is actually not only irrelevant but far more inefficient. It's not going to stop without change resistance for sure.
by sonicvroooom | 2025-11-04 12:59:24+00:00
depends, they definitely didn't build "the streets" they plaster with ads but if it's their channel or their website, it's up us to pay for blockers, put effort into doing ourselves or using one of the tools build by generous contributors who crave user-defined spaces instead of 'enforced and conform' ("VC"-)demand-based spaces
by hulitu | 2025-11-04 12:59:26+00:00
> The Louvre's CCTV password was "Louvre"

Well, it is a "medium" password. Not "strong", not "weak", but "medium". It has 6 characters (instead of 8-11), it has big letters, small letters, the only thing missing being numbers and special signs. /s

Make security hard for users and the users will skip it entirely.
by knorker | 2025-11-04 13:00:37+00:00
To add to the reasons others gave: It needs to be correct.

Engineers are working the problem. They have a pretty good understanding of the impact of the outage. Then an external comms person asks for an engineer to proof read the external outage comms. Which triggers rounds of "no, this part is not technically correct" and "I know the internal system scope impact, but not how that maps to external product names you want to communicate".

Sure, it'd be nice if the message "we are investigating an issue with… uh… some products" would come up faster.
by vladms | 2025-11-04 13:01:12+00:00
> Its a skill you build over your whole life, taking the shortcut because

Doesn't this apply to the printing press?

For me the core issue is not that OpenAI can generate some copies if the art, the issue is that some artists can not earn an honest living and that people do not care about artists generally. I wonder how many of the people commenting here have bought themselves art from an artist.

I personally doubt that AI can do a movie similar to studio Ghibli (of which I seen a lot and I love and paid for) and I also wonder how much of the issue here is some corporate profit rather than some poor artists (do you know who owns studio Ghibli without looking?)

It's fine to boycott AI content, but you could also decide to boycott content produced by large corporations for profit.
by logifail | 2025-11-04 13:01:58+00:00
> The open border treaty was put in place because the alternative was either giving the territory back, or nonstop terrorism (look up the Irish Republican Army) until they gave the territory back.

The Common Travel Area's origins are in the the period 1923-1925[0], although it wasn't called that back then...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area
by b3lvedere | 2025-11-04 13:03:23+00:00
Why not go straight for the goal and just download the Lambo?

Copyright/Patent/Intellectual Property for more than 25 years is illogical in my personal weird opinion. I think it grinds innovation to a halt and only serves to generate money. In other news i would glady recieve a lot of money forever just because i invented some thing ages ago. I'm only a humble capitalist human. :)

OpenAI will just fork out a bunch of money and settle everything, because that is how money works.
by mopedtimo | 2025-11-04 13:03:49+00:00
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by eXpl0it3r | 2025-11-04 13:03:55+00:00
It seems the PDFSharp rabbit hole goes even deeper than I've realized!

Latest MigraDoc & PDFSharp seem to have been updated and ported to .NET 6 after a lot of the forks happened, so it was unclear to me whether there's merits in looking at other, mostly abandoned forks.

I might add PdfSharpCore, though the use of SixLabors.ImageSharp and SixLabors.Fonts leads to a disqualification from the "quest", given their custom split license [1]

Edit: Actually, the license seems to turn into an Apache 2.0 license, when used with an open source licensed project and also as transitive dependency. Certainly a confusing license.

[1] https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/LICENSE
by DebtDeflation | 2025-11-04 13:03:58+00:00
>But if you add a feedback loop where it can use tools, investigate external files or processes, and then autocomplete on the results, you get to see something that is (close to) thinking

It's still just information retrieval. You're just dividing it into internal information (the compressed representation of the training data) and external information (web search, API calls to systems, etc). There is a lot of hidden knowledge embedded in language and LLMs do a good job of teasing it out that resembles reasoning/thinking but really isn't.
by blitzar | 2025-11-04 13:04:17+00:00
> the average house price in London was £70k. Now it's >£700k. It doesn't have to be this way. It shouldn't be this way (for a healthy society)

10x in 35 years is compounded rate of return of under 7%, which is not far off the average mortgage rate over that period of time. Add in some maintenance and that might even represent a loss in real terms over that period of time.
by bdunks | 2025-11-04 13:04:25+00:00
I agree. I started using Foot based on a recommendation from the notcurses library author, who has deep expertise in terminal emulation and collaborates with maintainers.

A tip for new users: The default theme is a bit harsh. I was able to port my Alacritty theme and other config by feeding the config file to an LLM (along with the Foot documentation). It generated a configuration that was 80-90% correct and only required about five minutes of manual fixes.

The result is now visually identical to my Alacritty setup, but Foot feels faster.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-04 13:04:26+00:00
Actions aren’t models, symbols, icons, indexes, even referents. They’re not statistically resolvable as they are specific.

The problem is the chasm between specific/arbitrary, grammar (which is code) and syntax. Only a non binary, analog system reaches there.

In a task demands vary realm that’s overseen by evolution (a psychological, neuro or cog sci definition won’t hack it) where any idea of causality is placed ends up looking like a clown show. It’s like stupid apes pretending “it happens here” in a Rube Goldberg monstrosity of possibility.
by dzaima | 2025-11-04 13:04:28+00:00
But that doesn't go into clipboard history. And severely restricts what you can do between copying and pasting in general (very importantly makes it a pain to do replace (i.e. select+(implicit-delete+)paste)) as any intermediate selection before pasting destroys your Primary Selection. And if you realize you did that, recopying takes manually reselecting the text, or the otherwise-never-used ctrl+insert to recopy, instead of just repeating the same old ctrl+c as you always do with the clipboard in any sane application.

Of course still a nice option (esp. in terminals where the proper copy/paste are nerfed and selecting for editing is annoyingly not a thing), but far from a replacement for the proper clipboard.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-04 13:05:13+00:00
For me it wasnt driver issues, moreso “you need glibc to be a version that Debian / Ubuntu cant upgrade without it being potentially problematic” just to run 3D printer slicer software. I said screw this give me bleeding edge and give it to me now. I had been itching to try something slightly more bleeding edge, Fedora was on my mind but it did not work out as I wanted it to.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-11-04 13:05:27+00:00
I'm absolutely with you on that. I'm not saying that every contribution deserves equal attention and that rejecting contributions is a bad/impolite thing.

There has to be a better reason than "your PR is too big" as it's likely just a symptom, also very much context sensitive. If it is a 5kLOC PR that adds a compiler backend for a new architecture then it probably deserves attention because of its significance.

But if it's obviously low quality code than my response would be that it is low quality code. Long story short, it's you (submitter) problem, not me (reviewer, BDFL) problem.
by zulban | 2025-11-04 13:05:36+00:00
"but nobody seems worried of that implication that"

Clearly millions of people are worried about that, and every form of media is talking about it. Your hyperbole means it's so easy to dismiss everything else you wrote.

Incredible when people say "nobody is talking about X aspect of AI" these days. Like, are you living under a rock? Did you Google it?
by mkl | 2025-11-04 13:06:07+00:00
Dial-up modems reached their full 56kbps potential in 1997, and going further required something completely different. It happened naturally to satisfy demand, and was done by many of the same companies and people; the change was technological, not sociological.

I think we're probably still far from the full potential of LLMs, but I don't see any obstacles to developing and switching to something better.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-04 13:06:09+00:00
This video [1] touches on the same theme. Its opening comparison of historic and modern lampposts is illustrative of the greater shift in culture.

In the modern day, when the public has the opportunity to create something dedicated to the public, the opportunity is squandered and used for trolling (like boaty mcboatface or the stick figure euro coin).

[1]: https://youtu.be/tWYxrowovts
by DuLR10 | 2025-11-04 13:06:11+00:00
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by Telemakhos | 2025-11-04 13:06:22+00:00
Starmer addressed this a while back, accusing the Tories of campaigning on reducing immigration while actually running an experiment in open borders. Having made this statement, he then proceeded to do nothing about immigration himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/nov/28/keir-...

It seems to be a bipartisan thing in the UK to recognize that the electorate really doesn’t want immigration, and then not to fulfill the will of the electorate. Instead, the politicians use that will to accomplish unrelated goals like imposing a national digital ID.
by SaaSDesigner | 2025-11-04 13:06:42+00:00
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by tomhow | 2025-11-04 13:06:47+00:00
We need you to avoid perpetuating or escalating flamewars on HN. Energy/climate topics are among the most predictable flamebait topics, and as a longtime user we need to see you being circumspect and making your contributions de-escalatory rather than escalatory. We've had to ask you several times before respect the site's guidelines and purpose. Please try harder.
by vladms | 2025-11-04 13:07:02+00:00
Did Microsoft say that OpenOffice/Libreoffice's interface was directly copyright infringement? I know people that could not make a distinction 10 years ago (now with the ribbons is simpler to distinguish).

Ofc Microsoft tried to limit the use of OpenOffice/LibreOffice using file format quirks and other strategies, so they are no angel, but still I don't know of a clear parallel.
by moritonal | 2025-11-04 13:07:18+00:00
I believe the case is that you're welcome to paint a picture perfectly copying Studio Ghibli, but you cannot sell it. You're welcome to even take the style and add enough personal creativity that it becomes a different work and sell that, but only if a random on the street doesn't look at it and say "wow, what Studio Ghibli film is that from?".

That's the problem here, there's no creative input apart from the prompt, so obviously the source is blatant (and often in the prompt).
by simon-inta | 2025-11-04 13:07:40+00:00
The data is open : https://huggingface.co/ministere-culture Colab notebook to reproduce the calculations : https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1j5AfStT3h-IK8V6FSJY...

Note on Mistral Medium's great performance : there is no style control on compar:IA, and the majority of questions are not focused on code, thus explaining the great performance of the model.
by rcxdude | 2025-11-04 13:07:43+00:00
Indeed, and it seems like they would really struggle to output coherent text at all if there was not some kind of pre-planning involved (see how even humans struggle with it in games where you have to construct a sentance by having each person shout out one word at a time). Even GPT-2 likely had at least some kind of planning for the next few words in order to be as coherent as it was.
by dilawar | 2025-11-04 13:07:44+00:00
The podcast 'in our time' (bbc) has an episode on 'copyright': https://pca.st/episode/928a7b98-18c0-4c70-8558-8ef982ce08de

From its title

"In 1710, the British Parliament passed a piece of legislation entitled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning. It became known as the Statute of Anne, and it was the world’s first copyright law. Copyright protects and regulates a piece of work - whether that's a book, a painting, a piece of music or a software programme. It emerged as a way of balancing the interests of authors, artists, publishers, and the public in the context of evolving technologies and the rise of mechanical reproduction. Writers and artists such as Alexander Pope, William Hogarth and Charles Dickens became involved in heated debates about ownership and originality that continue to this day - especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence. With:

Lionel Bently, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge

Will Slauter, Professor of History at Sorbonne University, Paris

Katie McGettigan, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-04 13:09:06+00:00
Yes, it's an example of domain-specific thinking. "The tool helps me write code, and my job is hard so I believe this tool is a genius!"

The Roomba vacuumed the room. Maybe it vacuumed the whole apartment. This is good and useful. Let us not diminish the value of the tool. But it's a tool.

The tool may have other features, such as being self-documenting/self-announcing. Maybe it will frighten the cats less. This is also good and useful. But it's a tool.

Humans are credulous. A tool is not a human. Meaningful thinking and ideation is not just "a series of steps" that I will declaim as I go merrily thinking. There is not just a vast training set ("Reality"), but also our complex adaptability that enables us to test our hypotheses.

We should consider what it is in human ideation that leads people to claim that a Roomba, a chess programme, Weizenbaum's Eliza script, the IBM's Jeopardy system Watson, or an LLM trained on human-vetted data is thinking.

Train such a system on the erroneous statements of a madman and suddenly the Roomba, Eliza, IBM Watson (and these other systems) lose our confidence.

As it is today, the confidence we have in these systems is very conditional. It doesn't matter terribly if code is wrong... until it does.

Computers are not humans. Computers can do things that humans cannot do. Computers can do these things fast and consistently. But fundamentally, algorithms are tools.
by bberenberg | 2025-11-04 13:09:16+00:00
Alert fatigue. Down Detector will show an outage with a service when the intermediate network is down. Companies have to triage alerts and once they’re validated they are posted on a status page. Some companies abuse this to hide their outages. Others delay in a reasonable manner.

I have considered building something to address this and even own honeststatuspage.com to eventually host it on. But it’s a complex problem without an obviously correct answer.
by davidhunter | 2025-11-04 13:09:24+00:00
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by throwacct | 2025-11-04 13:09:25+00:00
I agree with this. I don't know how to create artistic styles by hand or using any creative software for that matter. All the LLM tools out there gave me the "ability" and "talent" to create something "good enough" and, in some cases, pretty close to the original art.

I rarely use these tools (I'm not in marketing, game design, or any related field), but I can see the problem these tools are causing to artists, etc.

Any LLM company offering these services needs to pay the piper.
by dzink | 2025-11-04 13:09:45+00:00
Exploring the scenarios and corner cases is how rules should be written, just like any code.

In this case producing anything commercial and anything with AI period should always be disclosed.

Since at this stage we can often tell when something is AI (though not everyone and not always), especially food images at a restaurant, for me that immediately downgrades the quality or value of a product That’s going to be the natural human response. And users of the tech will likely be lumped in with very poor attempts, downgrading the value of anyone who uses it. That is natural payback for trying to go commercial.

However in the hobbyist space - the space where humans learn what AI attempts will also do is expand the creative space massively - people will get to iterate much faster with their own styles and new styles will emerge. Just like the invention of writing and publishing - the original writers were people with tremendous time and resource privilege on their hands, but the art of writing would have never ever bloomed if it didn’t become available to anyone over time. Humans then draw higher order conclusions and insights from the abundance, even if it takes energy for filtering.

That said, abuse in the form of pretending something generated is real or taking credit for generated work as real should be illegal. If you teach the moral compass along with the book or you built the identification along with the work you will get a lot more authentic novelty even with AI tools.
by fourteenrhinos | 2025-11-04 13:09:52+00:00
Relevant here is the relatively unknown(by modern standards) Hugo Award winner The Terminal Experiment by Robert Sawyer.

Man invents a high resolution brain scanner and is able to identify the exact moment of death. Book largely explores the implications of that and the existence of this tech, all wrapped up with a murder mystery.

Not the best cyberpunk I’ve ever read but a solid read if you find this premise interesting.
by 2gremlin181 | 2025-11-04 13:10:11+00:00
I totally get that, but how hard would it be to actually make calls to your own API from the status page? If it fails, display a vague message saying there might be issues and that you are looking into it. Clearly these metrics and alerts exist internally too.

I'm not asking for an instant RCA or confirmation of the scope of the outage. Just stop gaslighting me.