skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to some of the replies in this discussion, even "artist trying to paint from memory" is guilty of infringement, as long as the subject matter can be linked in any way to someone's "IP". Im not legally trained to evaluate these claims, but some of them seem outlandish!
Thanks, I appreciate the additional data point. They do have a tech support method so I can use this to start a ticket. It could be the same situation as the other commenter, where the underlying service is delaying outbound emails.
T420 has most of that (or can be upgraded to a lot of that) while still retaining the classic keyboard and tank like build.
Generic doesn't help. I was using the new image generator to try and make images for my Mutants and Masterminds game (it's basically D&D with superheroes instead of high fantasy), and it refuses to make most things citing that they are too close to existing IP, or that the ideas are dangerous.

So I asked it to make 4 random and generic superheroes. It created Batman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman. Then at about 90% finished it deleted the image and said I was violating copyright.

https://imgur.com/a/eG6kmqu

I doubt the model you interact with actually knows why the babysitter model rejects images, but it claims to know why and leads to some funny responses. Here is it's response to me asking for a superhero with a dark bodysuit, a purple cape, a mouse logo on their chest, and a spooky mouse mask on their face.

> I couldn't generate the image you requested because the prompt involved content that may violate policy regarding realistic human-animal hybrid masks in a serious context.
Move Fast and Fix Things (2015)
Any idea how reliable those motherboards are ?
No, the exception they are asking for (we can train on copyrighted material and the image produced is non-copyright infringing) is copyright infringing in the most basic sense.

I'll prove it by induction: Imagine that I have a service where I "train" a model on a single image of Indiana Jones. Now you prompt it, and my model "generates" the same image. I sell you this service, and no money goes to the copyright holder of the original image. This is obviously infringment.

There's no reason why training on a billion images is any different, besides the fact that the lines are blurred by the model weights not being parseable
Thank you for your kind words and feedback. The search should be better now, and is much better in-app with additional local caching.

I can assure you that you are not overthinking it in terms of figuring that information out. The search experience tries to make it as clear and helpful as possible. If you encounter any situations where it could be more clear, I would love to see them. My contact info is in my bio, or there is a feedback prompt on the site/in-app. Thanks again for checking the project out and your feedback.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739129
Climate Crisis on Track to Destroy Capitalism, Warns Top Insurer
This is also assuming no one along the supply chain will take advantage of the situation to put some more money in their pocket above the tariff (be it out of greed or uncertainty)
Batman Forever: Restored (Fan Edit of Val Kilmer Batman)
Interesting, so basically no growth since 2007 if you exclude computers, even with increased productivity. And the drop in employment is insane and it's no wonder that there is a huge political movement with fixing that as a pillar. Not even to mention regional problems that have been going on longer in the Rust Belt. Yeah I find it pretty disgusting when workers in service based industries like here have no sympathy for the workers in these industries.
> The integrative cases I noted are something different. For example, the Continuity support between Mac and iPad/iPhone/Apple Watch.

I own a Mac, and I've owned an iPhone too. There isn't a single good Continuity feature that I used that isn't covered by KDE Connect. The few missing features aren't a big enough convenience to really matter, Linux users are never going to come together to replace Find My or Apple Music.

> So, someone could do exactly what I'm advocating for in the article and not detract from the Linux experience

Then by all means, they should. I read these articles on a regular basis and nothing seems to change besides the argument. People are always discontent with Linux, they always express a solemn hope for commercial operating systems, then they go back to using the desktop system they hate. This feels like exactly the sort of tribalism that emerged from the competition of the early 2000s.
Those are the exceptions that confirm the rule, as they say.
The simplicity of the statement "If we don't do it, someone else will." and thinking behind it eventually means someone will do just that unless otherwise prevented by some regulatory function.

Simply put, with the ever increasing hardware speeds we were dumping out for other purposes this day would have come sooner than later. We're talking about only a year or two really.
Actually LLMs help me to start coding at all, where without it I would procrastinate to not even start. I don't enjoy project bootstraping, and they help greatly with setup. Once a project gets a nice and quick development feedback loop I can drop LLMs and as they slow me down really, esp with deeper or newer abstractions.
I may have undiagnosed ADHD.
Are Tariffs an Emergency Power?
> The agenda that gets the most resources is faithful chain of thought: force individual AI systems to “think in English” like the AIs of 2025, and don’t optimize the “thoughts” to look nice. The result is a new model, Safer-1.

Oh hey, it's the errant thought I had in my head this morning when I read the paper from Anthropic about CoT models lying about their thought processes.

While I'm on my soapbox, I will point out that if your goal is preservation of democracy (itself an instrumental goal for human control), then you want to decentralize and distribute as much as possible. Centralization is the path to dictatorship. A significant tension in the Slowdown ending is the fact that, while we've avoided AI coups, we've given a handful of people the ability to do a perfectly ordinary human coup, and humans are very, very good at coups.

Your best bet is smaller models that don't have as many unused weights to hide misalignment in; along with interperability and faithful CoT research. Make a model that satisfies your safety criteria and then make sure everyone gets a copy so subgroups of humans get no advantage from hoarding it.
The Chinese Electric Vehicle Founder Who Wants in on Trump's America
Agreed. However, source curation and agents are two different parts of Deep Research. What if you provided that textbook to a reliable agent?

Plug: We built https://RadPod.ai to allow you to do that, i.e. Deep Research on your data.
https://archive.ph/q0wJp
If you're going to resort to Constitutional arguments, you shouldn't gloss over the fact that the federal government is supposed to be one of enumerated powers, and there's no 'bribing universities to do what you want' federal power.
I don't really care.

Either enforce the current copyright regime and sue the AI companies to dust.

Or abolish copyright and let us all go hog wild.

But this halfway house where you can ignore the law as long as you've got enough money is disgusting.
> According to some of the replies in this discussion, even "artist trying to paint from memory" is guilty of infringement

Yes, making a copy or derivative work of something under copyright from memory is infringement, unless it falls under an exception in copyright law such as fair use (which does not categorically apply to everything with "memory" as an intermediary between the original work and the copy/derivative, otherwise, copyright law would never have had any effect other than on mechanical duplication.)
Defensive driving.
Yeah... so much for that hope on my end! Thanks for testing.

(hard to formulate why I was too lazy to test myself :) )
Similar criticisms that outsiders need to do their own research to acquire foundational-level understanding before they start on the topic can be made about other popular topics on Hn that frequently use abbreviations, such as TLS, BSDs, URL and MCP, but somehow those get a pass.

Is it unfair to make such demands for the inclusion of 101-level stuff in non-programming content, or is it unfair to give IT topics a pass? Which approach fosters a community of winners and which one does the opposite? I'm confident that you can work it out.
I'm not sure I buy it, but this is one theory:

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3llu...
I don't see it as lock-in as you don't have to keep buying games from Steam - you can just buy games from other places if you want and then have multiple libraries.
> To be more precise: I think the solution is small, community-run servers.

That was the normal way to do things. Essentially all modern games go out of their way to prevent you from doing this.
Ah that's a good idea, should add that. Also I appreciate your phrasing of "you guys" when, as a solo developer, if someone thinks your efforts are the product of a larger team, it's always appreciated :)
Same but with my desktop computer. Its going on 16 years and still runs like new.
That was an interesting read, thank you for the link
> I feel like the less advanced generations, maybe even because of their limitations in terms of size, were better at coming up with something that at least feels new.

Ironically that's probably because the errors and flaws in those generations at least made them different from what they were attempting to rip off.
Doesn't this depend on the number of servers, crash rates and recovery times? I wouldn't feel confident running 3 servers running at 80% capacity in ultra low latency scenarios. A single crash would overwhelm the other 2 servers in no time.
Well I have had to replace hinges, upgrade RAM, replace the battery, change HDD to SSD, replace a broken keyboard, an entire enclosure and finally a dying motherboard after 11 years of use. The laptop is still working but it could have really used a screen upgrade.

Maybe standard screen definition is now good enough, RAM big enough, SSD more durable, shell more durable (although I have to say that's a disappointment with the fw) and hinges longer lasting, and maybe Framework is fighting the last war but that's the reason I went for one anyways.

This is a long run bet and if it doesn't pan out to be an amazing deal, it will still a better experience than the previous one.

It costed more than my previous laptop but no more or less what I have had to pay to maintain the previous one. If it had been a framework, it would still be my workhorse.

Future will tell
Broadly speaking, all existentialism was leftist in character because its core tenet was a rejection of old ways. Definitionally, you cannot reject the old order without being liberal/progressive/leftist/etc. Which, again, was in response to the 15-20 million killed during WWI, the most deadly 4 years in Europe since the plague years.

Again, I think you're inverting causality by blaming Marxism for post-modernism, when they are instead related results of the same overall trend, that was simply catalyzed by WWI (there's definitely a read on e.g. the 1917 Russian Revolution that it happens at least wildly differently without Tsarist Russia entering the war).
There's nothing wrong with nullable fields when it's appropriate. When kids are born they don't have names. Not all users want to tell you their names. A null value is data too.
Indeed. Vancouver Carpenter got me through a minor drywall repair job.
Giving your anecdotal experience is only useful if you include anecdotal context: seniority, years of experience, technology, project size, sprint goal complexity…
Not at all - I'm not really taking a solid stance one way or another because I'm not an economist.

My only point was that Philco was being used as an unknown crappy Brazilian brand example. It used to be an American company that actually made quality things, and through outsourcing and general 'physical and financial enshittification' is pretty much an unknown to Americans now.

If you're in favor of quality things being made in the US, it's an argument for said policy.
I didn't think so. I think parent has just misunderstood what chain of thought is and does.
> Does the author not know other nations have been engaged in charging tariffs for a very long time?

And, unlike the US, none of them the envy of the world because of it. It is fascinating that the US has decided it wants to give up what it has to be become like them. It is akin to watching a supermodel get surgery to make themselves uglier because everyone they saw around them wasn't nearly as beautiful as they were. Likewise, we no doubt would come up with some kind of catchphrase to recognize that surprising event.
The idea of open sourcing everything and nullifying patents would benefit corporations like Disney and OpenAI vastly more than it would benefit the people. The first thing that would happen is that BigCorp would eat up every interesting or useful piece of art, technology, and culture that has ever been created and monetize the life out of it.

These legal protections are needed by the people. To the Pirate Party's credit, undoing corporate personhood would be a good first step, so that we can focus on enforcing protections for the works of humans. Still, attributing those works to CEOs instead of corporations wouldn't result in much change.
Where are we on the AI Agent value journey?
The tech-right of musk, thiel, vance, andreessen etc are enacting the "reboot" envisioned by curtis yarvin, he wrote about it calling it "the butterfly revolution" iirc. The rest are just trying to roll back 80 years of social change along with reestablishing segregation but as national policy this time.

And yeah I think your read on how they'll manage the fallout of this is correct.
Because it's self indulgent wankery. If I, as writer and an artist, have just the most absolutely brilliant thoughts, and write them down into a book or draw the most beautiful artwork, I can earn money off that well into my afterlife with copyright. Meanwhile the carpenter who is no less bright, can only sell the chair he's built once. In order to make money off of it, he must labor to produce a second or even a third chair. Why does one person have to work harder than the other because of the medium they chose?

Meanwhile in China, just because you invented a thing, you don't get to sit back and rest on your laurels. sipping champagne in hot tubs, because your competitor isn't staying put. He's grinding and innovating off your innovation so you'd also better keep innovating.
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover by Ryan Holiday
Glad you like it! I was considering taking some form of payment for some cosmetics, but it just felt out of character for me.
This is similar to my experience trying to get Stable Diffusion to denoise a photo for me. (AIUI, under the hood they're trained to turn noise into an image that matches the prompt.) It would either do nothing (with settings turned way down) or take massive creative liberties (such as replacing my friend's face with a cartoon caricature while leaving the rest of the photo looking realistic).

I've had much better luck with models specifically trained for denoising. For denoising, the SCUNet model run via chaiNNer works well for me most of the time. (Occasionally SCUNet likes to leave noise alone in areas that are full of background blur, which I assume has to do with the way the image gets processed as tiles. It would make sense for the model to get confused with a tile that only has background blur, like maybe it assumes that the input image should contain nonzero high-frequency data.)

For your use case, you might want to use something like Real-ESRGAN or another superresolution / image restoration model, but I haven't played much in that space so I can't make concrete recommendations.
Can you talk through specifically what sprint goals you’ve completed in an afternoon? Hopefully multiple examples.

Grounding these conversations in an actual reality affords more context for people to evaluate your claims. Otherwise it’s just “trust me bro”.

And I say this as a Senior SWE who’s successfully worked with ChatGPT to code up some prototype stuff, but haven’t been able to dedicate 100+ hours to work through all the minutia of learning how to drive daily with it.
Being a super wealthy alum is a prerequisite for being a Trustee, and University Trustees are the group that University Presidents report to.
> The companies to blame here are solely the ones employing these fingerprinting techniques,

Let's not go blaming vulnerabilities on those exploiting them. Exploitation is also bad but being exploitable is a problem in and of itself.
This reminds me that Monoprice used to have a "knowledge base" for many of their products. I don't remember if they were just written directly on an item's page, or if there was a link to the relevant article, but it was very informative.
Data goes in, AI emits hawking radiation out, in fancy patterns. Apt enough metaphor I guess.
This has nothing to do with stifling innovation.

I am yet to meet a writer who doesn't even attempt to write for fear that whatever they write will be found to be in violation of copyright (unless they are the type of writer that is always finding excuses not to write).

Several people have made successful careers out of fan fiction...
Wait what?

Android phones are more open than ever with the recent EU laws and Google anti-trust rulings. Android and iOS are not at all comparable in that aspect.

Android phones receive longer updates than ever.

Android phones are more innovative than ever with all these foldables.

Android phones consistently have better specs than iPhones at the same price point.
> Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least

I'm considering that as well, if only to calm my database down a bit

> Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.

Second time I've heard that! I have no iOS devices so I can't fix it too easily, but I'll take another look.
I agree that’s why Musk should driven out of society
Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get, so I fail to see the contradiction with advocating higher taxes on the wealthy.
All things considered, the younger generations would likely consider this to be, excuse the language, a "boomer take".

Disregarding that the most popular game genres today are exactly the things you are saying need to be annihilated is wild to even consider. Some (well most) people enjoy it, some (less) people don't.
The article is all about that oversight. It ends with a ten point checklist with items such as "Did I treat GenAI as a thought partner—not a source of truth?".
Or treat AI training as within the coverage of the current fair use regime (which is certainly defensible within the current copyright regime), while prosecuting the use of AI models to create infringing copies and derivative works that do not themselves have permission or a reasonable claim to be within the scope of fair use as a violation (and prosecuted hosted AI firms for contributory infringement where their actions with regard to such created infringements fit the existing law on that.)
Microsoft got its start by Bill Gates doing some dumpster diving. Back then software wasn't seen as valuable thing, only hardware was. Source code wasn't something to be protected, so printouts of code would be thrown in trash. And that's where Bill Gates found the source code for Basic interpreter, which he ported and it became the first Microsoft product.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm

https://paulallen.com/Futurist/Microsoft.aspx
The source code is linked at the end (warning: it's a 100 MB PDF).

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542...
Four minutes for roughing after you punch somebody in the face? Sign me up!
Please edit swipes out of comments. It's fine to state why you disagree with or dislike a post, but please keep within the HN guidelines, particularly to be kind and to avoid snark. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It could just be me running a CPU that's too old or an unconventional browser (Microsoft Edge), but the website is extremely laggy (less than 1 update per second) and the tab immediately starts using 80% of my CPU with fans blaring. Got an 8th gen Intel i7 if it matters.
For me power draw is about battery life. If you occasionally need to work without a power plug, or carrying your laptop from meeting to meeting all over the office, you really appreciate when the power lasts all day. My T14s battery draw of ~6.5W on the 57Wh battery will last me ~8 hours, good enough for a day unplugged at the office. (I'd love a bigger battery, but it is what it is...)
>searches the documentation from this repo (llms.txt, llms-full.txt, readme.md, etc)

What does etc include? Does this operate on a single content file from the specified GitHub repo?
Even if we did keep the tariffs long enough to reshore there's so many problems:

1) The resulting industries are only viable under the tariff regime so we have to keep it forever or until the production costs somehow equalize.

2) Who's going to work all these new jobs with the plan of reducing immigration drastically or practically eliminating it? We're only at 4.1% unemployment today. Are we supposed to baby boom our way to enough workers? While costs are jacked through the roof due to the tariffs?
A different way of looking at it: AI, by design, defaults to regurgitating the poppiest of pop culture content. Every whip-wielding archaeologist is now Harrison Ford. Every suave British spy is now Daniel Craig. With the power of AI, creativity is dead and buried.
So weak! No matter how good a model gets it will always present information with confidence regardless of whether or not it's correct. Anyone that has spent five minutes with the tools I knows this.
> Similarly, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi commented, “If Houdini had been a spy that would have gotten out. He never would have been able to sit on it.”

If Josephine Baker was a spy, why not Houdini?
A highly motivated team usually leads to a high performing team. And that usually means the team members can see their daily work leading to their career goals.
They very much did not for me. I beat things into shape with sbctl but it was very much an uphill battle.

idk why Arch seems allergic to packaging shim-signed (it's an AUR, why would I trust such a key component to essentialy a stranger?), but here we are I guess.
> You should have declarative schemas but inferring migrations is crazy. Only pain will follow.

Inferring migrations isn't crazy. Automagically applying those migrations without review is crazy.
Some request headers are more trustworthy than others
Anyone using these tools would do well to take this article to heart.
I’ve realized while reading these comments my opinions on LLMs being intelligent has significantly increased. Rather than argue any specific test, I believe no one can come up with a text-based intelligence test that 90% of literate adults can pass but the top LLMs fail.

This would mean there’s no definition of intelligence you could tie to a test where humans would be intelligent but LLMs wouldn’t.

A maybe more palatable idea is that having “intelligence” as a binary is insufficient. I think it’s more of an extremely skewed distribution. With how humans are above the rest, you didn’t have to nail the cutoff point to get us on one side and everything else on the other. Maybe chimpanzees and dolphins slip in. But now, the LLMs are much closer to humans. That line is harder to draw. Actually not possible to draw it so people are on one side and LLMs on the other.