MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krainboltgreene | 2025-08-28 19:21:45+00:00
> All major technological advances have come with economic bubbles, from canals and railroads to the internet.

Is this actually correct? I don't see any evidence for a "airflight bubble" or a "car bubble" or a "loom bubble" at the technologies' invention. Also the "canal bubble" wasn't about the technology, it was about the speculation on a series of big canals but we had been making canals for a long time. More importantly, even if it was correct, there are plenty of bubbles (if not significantly more) around things that didn't have value or tech that didn't matter.
by jrm4 | 2025-08-28 19:21:46+00:00
Oh sure. But it doesn't need to be everyone; my go-to analogy is how we used to do "cars" vs a lot of them now?

50 years ago, you don't have to be a car guy, but if you know one, that's all you need to save a LOT of money and headache.

Today, that kind of works -- unless you own e.g. a Tesla.
by alessandru | 2025-08-28 19:21:56+00:00
drivel.

yunnan is rural historic farm area, next to tibet, it's not supposed to have mcdo. did author cry he couldn't get shake shack in tibet?

Are they leading in solar panels? wow ... almost like cheap labor and non-existent pollution control makes manufacturing real cheap. Did you hear they're also mining and burning more coal than ever, despite the west's alleged 150 year advantage. But let's forget that. we can totally trust china to remove coal by 2030 like promised.

we call china "emerging" because most (numbers, not the average) of its people make less than 10k per year. most of its rich people aren't investing in stocks or bonds. the government still needs to direct investment in large swaths of society, that is why china earns its "developing" label.

do you think china's courts are developed? we call them emerging or developing, because they haven't shown to be independent yet and they issue political rulings like in some ... developing ... banana republic. that's why it's called developing. their institutions aren't particularly ... instituted.

misleading calling china leader in heat pumps ... yes cheap heat pumps. good for them. but volume doesn't mean good, everyone likes cheap stuff.

china makes 5 year government plans public, what is this 20 year plan he talks about? what is the success rate of these public plans? remember, they promised to control coal and reduce usage by 2030.

small countries like singapore becoming more authoritarian by copying chinese politics isn't the bragging win you think it is.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-28 19:21:57+00:00
For my money, I used this analogy at work:

Before AI, we were trying to save money, but through a different technique: Prompting (overseas) humans.

After over a decade of trying that, we learned that had... flaws. So round 2: Prompting (smart) robots.

The job losses? This is just Offshoring 2.0; complete with everyone getting to re-learn the lessons of Offshoring 1.0.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-28 19:21:58+00:00
Honestly the company is kind of a nightmare. When I ordered mine, they shipped it with no packaging from Hong Kong. Obviously it arrived broken, and when I told them they said I could pay to have someone fix it in CA. It ended up taking 2 months for my chargeback to go through, and they were threatening me the whole time. It was only after they lost (which of course they would, it's like they've never worked with a credit card processor before) they got really sweet and sent me a return label.

Just a terribly run company. I'm sure it's better if you're buying bulk boards from them but after my experience I wouldn't work with them again.
by stickfigure | 2025-08-28 19:22:42+00:00
I think the wrong lesson is being taken here. China, like Russia, started from an incredibly low baseline - largely caused by authoritarian power. A new authoritarian power revitalized the economy and genuinely improved people's lives. People are generally grateful, and they have reason to be.

The fast pace of economic growth didn't necessarily come from authoritarianism (though I'll accept it helped in some ways) but from the fast catch-up. That isn't going to last forever. Growth will slow - it's slowing already. And when it does, a generation of people (who grew up wealthy) will start to think about corruption, human rights, and having a say in what goes on.

My thesis is something like "any authoritarian can sail a ship in calm seas". The government of China's hard times are ahead of it. It's too early to write an epitaph for democracy.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-28 19:22:56+00:00
Having a solid product is important, but very far from the only important thing. That's why you see some bad products achieve success and some good products fail. There are a whole lot of other, equally important, factors such as timing, running a solid business, marketing, etc.

But one that people tend to discount that is just as important is just plain luck. Having a great product improves your odds but is no guarantee of success. It just gets you in the game. Literally everyone I know that has achieved success has a string of failed attempts behind them before they finally hit.

The real key to success is simple: you try again after each failure, applying lessons learned, until the dice come up good for you.
by taminka | 2025-08-28 19:23:04+00:00
nah, vless is the protocol, reality is a newer obfuscation method that works over vless

edit: op, protonvpn has a free tier that works in russia, so likely works everywhere, or if you're comfortable with buying a vps, sshing into it and running some commands, look up x-ray, and use on of their gui panels
by GiorgioG | 2025-08-28 19:23:12+00:00
I don't know what it was about the writing style, but I couldn't make it through than a few paragraphs before giving up. One thing that LLMs seem reasonably good at is summarizing things. So here's your 200 word summary:

Two high‑school quarterbacks, decades apart, met the same fate. Jay Kutner, 18, Holy Trinity (NY), suffered a broken neck during a scrimmage in 1972 on a routine play. He became paralyzed, eventually passing away months later. His teammates dedicated their season to him and won a game he’d always meant to play in. His memory endured through field dedications and the stories of classmates and family.

Caden Tellier, 16, Morgan Academy (AL), collapsed during a game in August 2024 after being tackled. He fell ill, was hospitalized, declared brain‑dead, and donated his organs per his wishes. His school and community held a revival and memorials. Coaches, teammates, and townspeople gathered in grief and reflection .

The article draws parallels across time and place: both boys were promising athletes, kind leaders, beloved in their schools. Each death sent ripples through their communities, triggering reflections on football’s dangers and the weight of memory. Their stories affirm that some lives, however brief, outlast time itself ([espn.com][2]).
by drob518 | 2025-08-28 19:23:34+00:00
It’s splitting a hair, but a pretty important hair. Does anyone think that models won’t need continuous retraining? Does anyone think models won’t continue to try to scale? Personally, I think we’re reaching diminishing returns with scaling, which is probably good because we’ve basically run out of content to train on, and so perhaps that does stop or at least slow down drastically. But I don’t see a scenario where constant retraining isn’t the norm, even if the rough amount of content we’re using for it grows only slightly.
by lovich | 2025-08-28 19:23:37+00:00
The doctors cannot send in men with guns, the government can if it feels that’s against the law, and you’re not going to be killed for just “resisting”.

In the software world we also take on zero fucking liability for just building software on the street or is your circle full of people who commonly carry Software Malpractice Insurance?

FYI, the men with guns come for software engineers as well if the rich want it. Look up Sergey Aleynikov
by int_19h | 2025-08-28 19:24:32+00:00
It's not obvious to me from looking at Gnome that it is the way it is to "benefit the enterprise customers". If anything, I'd expect the DE that does that to be much more conservative about its UX choices, and sticking more closely to established industry standards (i.e. "what Windows does") to minimize the need for retraining and such.
by nomilk | 2025-08-28 19:25:06+00:00
Both the major Australian parties (Liberal and Labor) seem as spineless as each other.

They're being pushed by media conglomerates News Corp and Nine Entertainment [0] to crush competition (social media apps). With the soon-to-be-introduced 'internet licence' (euphemism: 'age verification'), and it's working. If they ban VPN's, it will make social media apps even more burdensome to access and use.

[0] News Corp and Nine Entertainment together own 90% of Australian print media, and are hugely influential in radio, digital and paid and free-to-air TV. They have a lot to gain by removing access to social media apps, where many (especially young) people get their information now days.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-28 19:25:16+00:00
> If I had a tinfoil hat...

If? You can believe what you want, but dang and the other mods have said repeatedly that their owners are completely hands off. If you want to argue that the mods know where their bread is buttered and act accordingly, have at it, but don't pretend you aren't creating a (meaningless in the grand scheme of things) conspiracy theory.

> I am also amused at the glut of anons happy to say I’m wrong in how something works, yet conveniently neglect to explain how I’m wrong or provide the “correct” perspective to have. At this point in my eTenure, I just assume that anyone saying I’m wrong but refusing to articulate the how/what/when/where/why of it are, themselves, actually wrong.

It's a waste of time to argue with someone who is convinced they are right about something with zero evidence supporting their position. So again, believe what you want, but be aware of what you're doing.
by mikestorrent | 2025-08-28 19:25:19+00:00
Well, think about it - almost every other interaction you can have with an individual in another country is mediated by government. Physical interaction? You need to get through a border and customs. Phone call? Going through their exchanges, could be blocked, easy to spy on with wiretaps. Letter mail? Many cases historically of all letters being opened before being forwarded along.

We lived through the golden age of the Internet where anyone was allowed to open a raw socket connection to anyone else, anywhere. That age is fading, now, and time may come where even sending an email to someone in Russia or China will be fraught with difficulty. Certainly encryption will be blocked.

We're going to need steganographic tech that uses AI-hallucinated content as a carrier, or something.
by citizenpaul | 2025-08-28 19:25:22+00:00
This sounds great in theory but my my experience is that non tech people make horrible SE's. Even if they don't do the coding only participating in the spec. They simply don't even know what they don't know. Which is why SE exists and why these type of projects always fail to gain traction.

In my life of the thousands of non tech people I've worked with I can count in the low double digits that were capable of working in SE without exp/edu in it. Even then they were all up and coming driven people that still often missed what to me were obvious things, because its not their area of expertise. (They were all brilliant in their own area)
by SirMaster | 2025-08-28 19:25:37+00:00
Well I am not talking specifically about reading and writing. I am talking about the concept in general.

People who only and constantly use AI to take a shortcut to reach some outcome rather than learn to do it themselves will likely fall behind in the long run and perhaps learn a lesson from having chose that route, and then have to spend some time actually learning the thing if they want to catch back up.
by hinkley | 2025-08-28 19:26:15+00:00
It seems that the powers that be decided lactobacillus was getting a bit crowded and decided to split it into separate genuses.

From the article we are talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactiplantibacillus_plantarum and it’s apparently the most common fermenting bacteria for silage, and shows up in sauerkraut and kimchi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacticaseibacillus_casei is another interesting one that got split into a separate genus. No direct action has so far been found for this genus of bacteria, but it makes the GI tract more hospitable for a large number of probiotic species and less hospitable for others like C. difficile, which is one of the nastiest post-antibiotic infections one can get. So nasty it has the French word for “difficult” in its name.

Found in cheddar cheese and yogurt. Any time I have problems or have to take antibiotics I make sure to line up some of both for recovery.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-28 19:26:20+00:00
An easy home experiment is to get a gas flame, like in the stovetop that is blue and sprink a little of table salt. The important part is the sodium that gives the flame a very strong yellow color.

Salts without sodium give other colors. IIRC cooper gives a green color. This is used by firecrackers makers to get nice colors, and also in the chemistry lab to detect the composition of some salts.

After studding this king of stuff for a few centuries, we have a very good idea of how each element changes the color of the flame, or absorbs some colors of the light that pass trough the mist.
by Booktrope | 2025-08-28 19:26:54+00:00
Except, all its rulings are reviewable by the courts. In judicial type cases, results can be reviewed by US Court of Appeals, and appeals courts do overrule the NLRB not infrequently. Rule making is reviewed by courts under the Administrative Procedure Act. This has been standard in the US court system historically for administrative actions at all levels, from school boards making the rules and also deciding cases involving employees and students, to the FDA and SEC for example.

Also the president has always had some power to remove board members for cause, not Congress. Congress can change the enabling statutes but only if the President signs the law (or they override the President's Veto). I'm not aware of how Congress can intercede in specific cases.

So I don't think it's actually so that the NLRB not answerable to anything but Congress.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-28 19:27:01+00:00
I don't blame them for the prices given how unique the product was, but the company was always kind of a mess. Lots of broken devices and they had/have an outrageously hostile return policy, forcing people to do charge backs. I agree on the build it and they will come philosophy, it felt like they were riding the popularity of linux phones while not contributing a lot to their future.
by jacobgkau | 2025-08-28 19:27:22+00:00
> And not tech-illiterate people, either.

Yeah, again, probably because tech-literate (not tech-illiterate) people are more likely to know the history of the organization beyond when they started using the software. My point was pretty much that the know-nothing user learning about the software today/recently knows it's called Firefox and might never have heard of Mozilla. The branding is clear about Firefox and the Mozilla name is essentially background knowledge.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-28 19:27:26+00:00
That seemed amazing to me because it would’ve meant Google found the comment, integrated it into thier index, and then made that index available, all within three hours. I know Google is good but are they that good?

I googled “xml startup business example” their AI summarized an “xml startup” as “a business using XML as a core technology” and gave the business below as an example startup.

https://databridgesolutions.io/

I didn’t see any reference to the hacker news comment.

Most of the links google provided below the AI summary were about how to configure various XML tools to… startup. Standard link farm stuff. :)
by VortexLain | 2025-08-28 19:27:39+00:00
The most effective solution is to use X-ray/V2ray with VLESS, or VMESS, or Trojan as a protocol.

Another obfuscated solution is Amnezia

If you are not ready to set up your own VPN server and need any kind of connection right now, try Psiphon, but it's a proprietary centralized service and it's not the best solution.
by transpute | 2025-08-28 19:28:04+00:00
QNAP TS-435XeU is a $600 1U short-depth (11") case with quad hotswap SATA, dual NVME, dual 10GbE copper, dual 2.5GbE, 4-32GB DDR4 SODIMM Arm NAS that would benefit from OSS community attention. Includes hardware support for ZFS encryption.

Based on a Marvell/Armada CN9130 SoC which supports ECC, it has mainline Linux support, and public-but-non-upstream code for uboot. With local serial console and a bit of effort, the QNAP OS can be replaced by Arm Debian/Devuan with ZFS.

Rare combo of low power, small size, fast network, ECC memory and upstream-friendly Linux. QNAP also sell a 10GbE router based on the same SoC, which is a successor to the Armada 388 in Helios4 NAS (RIP), https://kobol.io/helios4/

No UEFI support, so TrueNAS for Arm won't work out of the box.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-28 19:28:05+00:00
> some people are going to be rendered completely helpless,

This I don't have any hope about. Tech companies have been trying to make their customers ignorant (and terrified) of the functioning of their own computers as a moat to prevent them from touching anything, and to convince them to allow every violation or imposition. They've convinced many that their phones aren't even computers, and must operate by different, more intrusive and corporate-friendly guidelines. Now, they're being taught that their computers are actually phones, that mere customers aren't responsible enough to control those as well, and that the people who should have control are the noble tech CEOs and the government. The companies can not be shamed out of doing this, they genuinely think people are just crops to be harvested. You being dumber means that you have to pay them as a necessity rather than a convenience.

In 1985, they would teach children who could barely tie their shoes what files and directories were on computers, and we'd get to program in LOGO. These days? The panicked look I often see on normal people's faces when I ask them where they saved the file that their life depends on and is missing or broken makes me very sad. "Better to trick them into saving to OneDrive," the witches cackle. "Then if they miss a monthly payment, we can take their files away!"
by dotancohen | 2025-08-28 19:28:08+00:00
For what it's worth, I don't have a single one of the apps GP mentions installed on my phone. No Netflix, no Facebook, no WhatsApp.

I am aware that I am an outlier, though. I need either Anki or AnkiDroid. I need a somewhat decent text reader, preferably one that properly highlights and folds Org mode files. I need a voice recorder that timestamps the file name. I don't think I know anybody else who needs any of those three, other than those I've introduced to Anki.
by mikestorrent | 2025-08-28 19:28:57+00:00
Yes, it's also dystopian to pin one's future on such hopes. People need to stick it to the government and demand their freedoms. Far too many things are being forced on us in the West that go against fundamental values that have been established for centuries.

Somehow, things that could be unifying protests where the working class of every political stripe are able to overlook their differences and push back against government never seem to happen. It is always polarized so that it's only ever one side at a time, and the other side is against them. How does that work?
by oblio | 2025-08-28 19:29:15+00:00
Amazon was very frugal. If you look at Amazon losses for the first 10 years, they were all basically under 5% of revenue and many years were break even or slightly net positive.

Uber burnt through a lot of money and even now I'm not sure their lifetime revenue is positive (it's possible that since their foundation they've lost more money than they've made).
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-28 19:29:18+00:00
> Japan wasn't even on many people's radar until social media because the West likes to pretend the East Asia doesn't exist unless it serves their narrative.

You're joking right? Like Japan has been a central part of American culture since at least the 80s. I grew up on Nintendo, Mario is more famous than Mickey Mouse at this point. Everyone had Sony Walkmans long before social media came out. Toyota and Honda won the passenger car market many decades ago. There's always in my lifetime been a huge constituency of Japan fans in the U.S., praising everything from anime to sushi to video games to Tokyo markets.

Japan is getting a huge influx of tourism from the west right now because their economy has been on a 3 decade slog after rapid growth from the 50s through the 90s. Their population is in decline and their currency has gotten very weak. Thus, it's cheaper for westerners to visit than it has been in the past.
by usernamed7 | 2025-08-28 19:29:28+00:00
This is... not going to happen. China and Japan are very different countries. Comparing them is nothing short of a false equivalence.

> ordinary people still think it is just a smog filled industrial dump

China regularly has the most polluted air quality in the world, and the water is undrinkable due to heavy metals and chemicals. Both are observable and well documented. Not to mention the crumbling infrastructure, the flooding, the extremely low trust society...

Japan and China could not be any more different.
by HelloUsername | 2025-08-28 19:29:48+00:00
> Get a Synology Intel model with QSV if you plan to transcode video

How about if you _don't_ plan to transcode video? For example, this years models DS425+ uses the (six year old) Intel Celeron J4125, while the DS925+ uses the (seven year old) AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B. Why choose one over the other?
by jajuuka | 2025-08-28 19:29:55+00:00
I think a lot of that dissonance comes from the adversarial framing that is always pushed about China. That it's China vs the US or China vs the west. Americans especially have grown up with the idea that communist china is terrible and capitalist America is good for many decades. The reality demands a far more nuanced view of government and economy. As well as facing hard truths about values like freedom. Not to mention reckoning with the western individualist mindset.

If anything this should open our eyes that there are more paths in front of us to take than a simple dichotomy.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-28 19:30:03+00:00
What's the error? I'd hyphenate "poorly-composed" (most wouldn't these days, but they can go to hell) and I think it's a bit too wordy for what it's communicating, but I don't see what I'd call an actual error.

I would personally avoid writing that "poorly composed sentences" have an "affect"—rather than the writer having or presenting an affect, or the sentences' tone being affected—as I find an implied anthropomorphizing of "sentences" in that usage, which anthropomorphizing isn't serving enough useful purpose, to my eye, that I'd want it in my writing, but I'm not sure I'd call that an error either.

What did you mean?

> Commas and parentheses can do it all, and an excess of either is a sign of poorly edited prose.

This attitude, however, is a disease of modern English literacy.