MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
China Will Win at AI Because of Elsevier
by markallenbattey | 2025-06-09 17:49:33+00:00
AI models don’t just need raw text—they need deep, structured, peer-reviewed knowledge to reason about science, medicine, engineering, and more. But most of that knowledge in the West is locked behind paywalls run by publishers like Elsevier.

Elsevier doesn’t just sell access to human readers. It aggressively enforces licenses that prohibit text and data mining for machine learning. Even universities that pay for journal access often find their AI research groups barred from using that content to train models. The terms are clear: you can read the paper—but your model can’t.

Meanwhile, China ignores these restrictions. Its researchers operate with centralized access to nearly every major Western journal. In many cases, they use institutional mirrors, semi-legal repositories, or just direct scraping. Tools like Sci-Hub are quietly tolerated or integrated into internal systems. Whether legal or not, the outcome is clear: China’s models are learning from the full scientific corpus.

In the West, researchers are stuck paying Elsevier for access, and still told they can't use it for machine learning unless they strike special deals—which are expensive, limited, or flatly denied.

Everyone talks about compute. But the real long-term advantage lies in training data. If China is feeding its models every scientific paper ever published, and Western models are trained on Reddit, Wikipedia, and scraped blogs—who's really ahead?

We’ve put up massive walls around our most valuable content and then told our own researchers to innovate with scraps. Elsevier’s copyright model was designed for print-era publishing—but it now acts as a national AI tax.

If AI is the new electricity, Elsevier is the dam. And China built a bypass.

p.s. I changed the text, after seeing how the formatting here gets stripped.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-09 17:49:35+00:00
The point is that its not socially optimal. The socially optimal solution would optimize global utility, as in it would not be influenced by the starting wealth of each person. If you allow starting wealth to influence things, their needs will be optimized for more at the expense of people who do not.

Yes, that goes against the idea that "money has utility" but the point the article was making was that its not socially optimal anymore not that is regressive compared to whatever other strategy, like straight matching funds. There's no math claim that straight matching funds is optimal either.

I think maybe we're speaking past eachother? Because yea totally I'd rather there be a multiplier based on the # of people than not given either that or a straight match. And your other options sound good too: "always fix non-optional things" and "do things democraticly (so 1 person 1 vote, not 1 dollar)"

But the article is making a very specific point about a claim of QF being mathematically socially optimal that isn't being met.
by leakycap | 2025-06-09 17:49:49+00:00
I felt they telegraphed this information by declining their annual "The Talk Show Live" where Gruber would have pressed them on this.

Apple has let the control of the narrative slip through their fingers today, and it will continue from here.

Giving WWDC a typical smarmy marketing video was not what developers wanted. This was Apple's chance to step up, take accountability and show initiative. Instead, we got another 'liquid' marketing name and an overproduced video.
by amluto | 2025-06-09 17:50:08+00:00
> This year, App Intents gains support for visual intelligence. This enables apps to provide visual search results within the visual intelligence experience, allowing users to go directly into the app from those results.

How about starting with reliably, deterministically, and instantly (say <50ms) finding obvious things like installed apps when searching by a prefix of their name? As a second criterion, I would like to find files by substrings of their name.

Spotlight is unbelievably bad and has been unbelievably bad for quite a few years. It seems to return things slowly, in erratic order (the same search does not consistently give the same results) and unreliably (items that are definitely there regularly fail to appear in search results).
by codethief | 2025-06-09 17:50:16+00:00
> The U1 line in Berlin was constructed between 1902 and 1926.

There's also the S1 line, large parts of which date back to 1874[0] or even 1838[1], depending on how you count: The train back in 1838 established most of the path today's S1 takes through southwestern Berlin. The S1 runs on a second pair of rails, constructed in 1874, that run in parallel to the 1838 line and diverge from it near the city border. The old 1838 line is set to be rebuilt by 2038.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Railway

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%E2%80%93Magdeburg_rai...
by davidcbc | 2025-06-09 17:50:17+00:00
You are still selling a product that says it can count calories when fundamentally it cannot. The fact that people believe you and pay you money for it doesn't change that fact. You are lying to people.

> SnapCalorie is the first app where you can take a picture of any meal and get an accurate calorie count and nutrition in seconds

This is from your website. It is pure fiction. You admit as much in your first post
by io84 | 2025-06-09 17:50:34+00:00
Cheap hack I use for transcribing in-person customer sessions:

1. record the audio on your phone audio recorder

2. send the mp3 to yourself in Slack

3. a few minutes later the transcription will appear on Slack

I then feed that to an LLM for summary and actions. Quality has been great for this workflow, all in English.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-06-09 17:50:53+00:00
I recently moved away from the midwest (for global folks, that's roughly in the middle of the United States) and one of the primary reasons for leaving was there simply not being much to do other than eating, drinking and dealing with what could be way too often grueling weather. Folks in my new, western state seemingly never have a lack of plans for their week or even month. There are lots of outdoor activities to take part in, tons of events come through town and I've talked to several folks here that barely watch tv. Comparatively, far less people here talk about having kids and many are not planning to have them. Growing up in the midwest, it always seemed like everyone just expected to have kids one day and didn't think much about the alternative, but people here are vocally fine with not having children. I'd even go as far as to say people in the midwest would sometimes act offended that my partner and I were on the fence and leaning "no kids".

Clearly my view is anecdotal, but folks who feel fulfilled by means other than children do not seem to view having children as a priority. Nothing wrong with either direction, but quite striking how everyone I knew but two couples still living in the midwest have had kids vs my new lively city where not many seem interested at all.
by armchairhacker | 2025-06-09 17:51:15+00:00
Many people don’t have money. Moreover, many people are careful what they spend money on, because there are many seemingly-useful services; while a news subscription doesn’t cost much, if they spent money on everything that seemed as useful, it would be a lot.

Presumably many people want others to be informed (and want local news to exist in general), some of whom do have money. Maybe the news could introduce a way for those people to pay extra, where the extra proportionally lowers the price for everyone else. If enough people pay enough extra, the baseline price would $0, then the news would be freely available online and maybe distributed in paper. Also make it a trend to post gift codes to social media for people who are desperate or thrifty.
by tobr | 2025-06-09 17:51:19+00:00
It didn’t seem like it ever referred to documentation? So, obviously if it’s only going to draw on its ”instinctual” knowledge of Tailwind, it’s more likely to fallback on a version that’s been around for longer, leading to incompatibilities with the version that’s actually installed. A human doing the same task would probably have the setup guide on the website at hand if they realized they were feeling confused.
by bn-l | 2025-06-09 17:51:24+00:00
> Live Translation is integrated into Messages, FaceTime, and Phone to help users communicate across languages, translating text and audio on the fly.1 Live Translation is enabled by Apple-built models that run entirely on device, so users’ personal conversations stay personal.

That’s very cool but pretty ambitious.

Also with the “liquid glass” is aero coming back around into fashion?
by levocardia | 2025-06-09 17:51:30+00:00
I have used whisperX with success in a variety of languages, but not with diarization. If the goal is to use the transcript for something else, you can often feed the transcript into a text LLM and say "this is an audio transcript and might have some mistakes, please correct them." I played around with transcribing in original language vs. having whisper translate it, and it seems to work better transcribing in the original language, then feeding into an LLM and having that model do the translation. At least for french, spanish, italian, and norwegian. I imagine a text-based LLM could also clean up any diarization weirdness.
by xohails | 2025-06-09 17:51:49+00:00
I recently launched https://www.picbolt.co, a minimal, fast screenshot editor with built-in AI tools (e.g. captioning, cleanup, annotations).

To kickstart usage, I ran an experiment: I connected my own API key with ~$3,000 of AI credits (normally gated for paid users), so early visitors could try the AI tools without api key.

Results in the first 24 hours:

~1500 visitors (boosted by a mention in the Superhuman AI newsletter)

10+ paying users

70+ free users

Also launched on Product Hunt to test how it performs with zero ads

A few takeaways:

Removing friction (no login/paywall) drastically increased usage

Offering real value first made upselling easier

API-based AI credit pooling can be a useful early growth lever (though risky)

Niche tools with excellent UX still resonate if they solve a boring problem well

Stack: React, Tailwind, Vercel, OpenAI API Would love feedback or thoughts. You can try the tool here: https://www.picbolt.co
by hn_acker | 2025-06-09 17:52:16+00:00
The National Guard is managed by states, so states can use the National Guard to enforce state laws [1]. However, when the president calls on National Guard members, the members become part of the Army and Air Force [2]. Trump is violating the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits anyone from using the Army or Air Force for law enforcement [3][4]. Exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act include authorization from Congress and the Insurrection Act (which Trump has not invoked yet) [3][4].

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/poss...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385

[4] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in-l...
by elictronic | 2025-06-09 17:52:49+00:00
Reducing taxes on businesses by 30%+ and high earners and the middle class by a smaller percentage. It’s a direct effect of the 2017 Republican tax reforms.

If you want to pass something using only 50% of our representatives you have to pay for it with something else to balance the change. 60% of the vote and you don’t care what the Congressional budget office says. The primary software development hubs are not Republican leaning. The same reason SALT was changed. Voting matters.
by bscphil | 2025-06-09 17:53:06+00:00
I'd be rather surprised if IPv6 hasn't done some damage to the idea of IP blocking on the whole. It's possible, even as a residential Internet user, to request a /56 or /48 automatically with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation. I have a /56 with Comcast. That's potentially up to 65536 /64 blocks, just from a residential user, so if you're going to attempt IP filtering for IPv6, it's got to be a lot smarter than swapping out your single-IP blocking for /64 blocking.
by cromka | 2025-06-09 17:53:19+00:00
I just can't watch these Apple keynotes without cringing constantly anymore. This is no longer the "... and we think you will like it!" cringe, I think Apple is seriously out of touch by now. Just the opening video screamed "enormous egos" and I have no idea who is this supposed to serve? That might have been maybe remotely funny a year or five ago, but in 2025 when Musk is faking game scores, Bezos marrying bimbo at their 300m wedding and Zuck wearing gold chaine, while they all play god with geopolitics, seeing Apple CTO and CEO using the platform to pretend they're tough F1 guys is seriously just tacky to say the least...

The fact they keep doubling down at gen/memojis, now with extra ChatGPT cringe, or the AI generated pep talk makes me wonder what kind of echo chamber do they have there, because there's no remote chance any 20-25 year old would bless any of this as 'cool'.

Do bear in mind that the Apple growth in 2010-2020 could easily be attributed to how kids needed Apple products to be cool. To the social pressure, with the Green Bubble Shaming being just one of its manifestations.

But the social pressure can quickly turn against them, as soon as some other business manages to show something cooler, call out Apple's cringe and the next gen collectively decides to dump Apple.

And I can personally see at least company aiming at doing exactly that: Nothing Tech. No cringe, they embraced modern, post-pandemic, deconstructionist trends and are actually properly cool, design-wise.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-09 17:53:30+00:00
Reading through it and how it's applied (mostly with crypto). I have to say that the biggest flaw I see isn't theoretical, it's practical.

QF assumes that you can know for sure who is an individual. Yet how would you know that with crypto funding?

Let's say I'm malicious and I want to pillage a QF. What stops me from setting up a bogus social project/company, registering it, and then taking my $1000 and splitting it into 1000 wallets with $1 a piece which all contribute to my scam project?

If I know a QF fund is getting setup, it'd be pretty easy to create 1000s of wallets, vary the money in them, and have them all fund my scam. I can even automate some trading between these wallets to make the source of the funds look somewhat organic.

Pillaging these funds seems like it's almost a trivial endeavor assuming you can get your own scam company associate with them. And the more money you have, the easier it'd be to pillage.
by kamikaz1k | 2025-06-09 17:53:41+00:00
> High concurrency

> Share memory by communicating

> Centralized cancellation mechanism with context.Context

> Expansive standard library

> Profiling

> Bonus: LLMs are good at writing Go code

I think profiling is probably the lowest value good here, but would be willing to hear out stories of AI middleware applications that found value in that.

Cancelling tasks is probably the highest value good here, but I think the contending runtimes (TS/Python) all prefer using 3P libraries to handle this kind of stuff, so probably not the biggest deal.

Being able to write good Go code is pretty cool though; I don't write enough to make a judgement there.
by kristianc | 2025-06-09 17:53:55+00:00
It’s ironic as static typing exists precisely because developers don’t trust their instincts?

It’s a formal acknowledgement that humans make mistakes, implicit assumptions are dangerous and that code should be validated before it runs. That’s literally the whole point, and if developers by type were YOLO I’ll push it anyway, TS wouldn’t have got anywhere near the traction it has. Static typing is a monument to distrust.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-09 17:53:59+00:00
The problem is entirely that you cannot tell a baseless threat from a real one from just the forum post.

Just like for credit card fraud, you can only improve your heuristics so far. At some point, you either treat every single possible as real for investigative purposes, or you accept that you find a threat, ignored it, and people die as a result.

Plenty of real world crazy terrorist bullshit had a pointless online threat component!

More importantly, depending on the threat, it's probably a crime itself. Bomb threats are criminal even if it's clear that it wasn't a realistic threat.

So no, that screenshot is not "total weaksauce", for law enforcement. Hell, even here, that screenshot was demonstrably from a guy running a criminal enterprise!
by lern_too_spel | 2025-06-09 17:54:24+00:00
> Idk, the Wikipedia link said he approved the patriot act including warrantless wire taps. "As of 2015 the administration's proposals have not been implemented and the NSA retains the authority to collect and store telephone record metadata"

You originally said he expanded warrantless NSA surveillance. He did not. He contracted it in 2010 by stopping email metadata collection, as Snowden's leaks showed, and again in 2015 by stopping phone metadata collection.

> The companies who put their money in the bank uninsured were taking a risk and rather than face any consequence the government decided to swoop in and bail them out.

> Imagine this happening to an individual who had any sort of uninsured catastrophe.

Every company with more than $250k in deposits has uninsured deposits, and any company with Silicon Valley software engineers on its payroll is going to need more than $250k in deposits. The Fed did exactly what you suggested they do in the 2008 case. They guaranteed all deposits. The exact same reasoning for why you supported it in the first case applies to the second (the employees of these startups have to get paid), and there is no complexity from debts being repackaged and sold back and forth because it was all in Treasury bills. An individual with money at SVB would also have their deposits guaranteed.

> My memory of the TPP at the time was that it forced countries to extend copyright to match our draconian measures and let companies sue countries if their laws caused lost profits.

Standardizing on life+70 copyright was a very small part of the agreement. The main thing was that it cut thousands of tariffs. It also required signatories to criminalize bribery of public officials and enforce anti-corruptipn laws, putting US companies on even footing with companies in countries that don't have an FCPA equivalent, and generally improving governance in many countries. It also prohibited child labor and employment discrimination and ensured the right to collective bargaining. ISDS was an enforcement mechanism for all of these, not just IP protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Cont...

> But I don't remember there being any sort of big comeuppance. Obamas financed by the same billionaires as everyone else.

Different billionaires. The healthcare billionaires didn't like the public option.

> For the public option they did have the votes if they were willing to get rid of the filibuster.

No, they did not. Moderate Democrats were against it. Electing a few more Democrats from places without a big health insurance industry presence would have made the public option possible.

> if the problem was the courts, the Democrats had a way to change that but they decided not to and refused to ever even speculate about doing so

They did not have the votes to rewrite the constitution.
by leakycap | 2025-06-09 17:54:32+00:00
Apple's image search on shipping platforms is really good, but I still have weekly instanced where Finder, Notes, and Mail all independently fail to find plaintext in the items I'm looking for. The content is there, Apple's search implementation just won't find it.

An example, from Notes: I was to meet a client at a coffee shop. I searched "starbuck" in Apple Notes, where I'd saved the address. Apple Notes could not find the note, because I'd actually typed "Starbuck's" into the note and for whatever reason, that's not a match.

One Apple app that seems to have decent search is Reminders. The developer must use some better form of fuzzy search and actually just searching rather than using a cached index.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-09 17:54:32+00:00
> We also did not model the SERDES (serializer-deserializer) circuits that would be required to interface the superconductor components with the room-temperature components, which would have an impact on the performance of the workloads. Instead, we assumed that the interconnect is unchanged from CMOS.

I had a little chuckle when I got to this. I/O is the hard part. Getting the information from A to B.

IBM is probably pushing the practical limits with 5.5GHz base clock on every core. When you can chew through 10+ gigabytes of data per second per core, it becomes a lot less about what the CPU can do and more about what everything around it can do.

The software is usually the weak link in all of this. Disrespect the NUMA and nothing will matter. The layers of abstraction can make it really easy to screw this up.
by kvikshaug | 2025-06-09 17:54:50+00:00
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Hey HN, I'm Ali, a full-stack generalist software engineer with 10+ years of experience. For the last 5 years, I've been the CIO and co-founder of a biotechnology startup. I've worn most of the available SE hats, and one of my strengths has been to get things done by coming up with simple, reliable software solutions that aim the business in achieving its goals. The startup has grown into a thriving company, and I'm moving on to new challenges.

I'm first and foremost looking for a full-time senior technical role in a remote-first company that excels in online communication and collaboration. I hope to hear from you if you're looking for a profile like mine.
by 9d | 2025-06-09 17:54:52+00:00
> It doesn't give me any of the same kind of intellectual satisfaction that I get out of actually writing code.

Writing code is a really fun creative process:

1. Conceive an exciting and useful idea

2. Comprehend the idea fully from its top to its bottom

3. Translate the idea into specific instructions utilizing known mechanics

4. Find the beautiful middleground between instruction and abstraction

5. Write lots and lots of code!

6. Find where your conception was flawed and fix it as necessary.

7. Repeat steps 2-6 until the thing works just as you dreamed or you give up.

It's maybe the most fun and exciting mixture of art and technology ever.
by cloverich | 2025-06-09 17:54:56+00:00
Can you elaborate on the "assign PR's" bit?

I use Cursor / ChatGPT extensively and am ready to dip into more of an issue / PR flow but not sure what people are doing here exactly. Specifically for side projects, I tend to think through high level features, then break it down into sub-items much like a PM. But I can easily take it a step further and give each sub issue technical direction, e.g. "Allow font customization: Refactor tailwind font configuration to use CSS variables. Expose those CSS variables via settings module, and add a section to the Preferences UI to let the user pick fonts for Y categories via dropdown; default to X Y Z font for A B C types of text".

Usually I spend a few minutes discussing w/ ChatGPT first, e.g. "What are some typical idioms for font configuration in a typical web / desktop application". Once I get that idea solidified I'd normally start coding, but could just as easily hand this part off for simple-ish stuff and start ironing out he next feature. In the time I'd usually have planned the next 1-2 months of side project work (which happens, say, in 90 minute increments 2x a week), the Agent could knock out maybe half of them. For a project i'm familiar with, I expect I can comfortably review and comment on a PR with much less mental energy than it would take to re-open my code editor for my side project, after an entire day of coding for work + caring for my kids. Personally I'm pretty excited about this.