MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by churchill | 2025-08-28 16:37:06+00:00
Funny how much stuff you can build when you're not spending insane amounts of money bombing farmers in the Hindu Kush, achieving full-spectrum dominance over everyone, or catering to entrenched interests.

Brown University's Costs of War project estimated that by 2021, all post-9/11 wars had cost $8T. When you factor in inflation since then, it easily exceeds $10T spent murdering farmers making $2/day in the Middle East. With nothing to show for it.

That's roughly a third of America's GDP/current debt wasted on making the world a measurably worse place.
by megaloblasto | 2025-08-28 16:37:41+00:00
The math for the $20,000 is in my first post. $60 a paper times 365 days a year is $21,900 and I rounded down.

I don't have an example of a $60 paper (I don't keep a list) but below is a $42 paper and a $35 paper that I came across very recently.

https://library.seg.org/doi/epub/10.1190/geo2023-0525.1

https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/52034eb04b657aea,442...

This is prohibitively expensive for the majority of the world.

Remember that the global average annual salary is around $18,000 (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040).

These people cannot access science that is behind a paywall. The fact that they cannot is a failure. Whether its a moral failure, or an economic or a societal one, I'm not sure, but I do believe that providing free access to scientific advancements it the right thing to do.
by bigcat12345678 | 2025-08-28 16:38:06+00:00
Surface level?

What are depths you look?

Are you not familiar with China's relentless obsession with education and excellence? The cutthroat competition in business, the insane persistence in long-term planning and execution, the vast land of rich treasure underground, the emoumous long history of singular view of history and ancestry?

All these are traits of greatness.

And they have the brutal struggle from external invasion and internal turmoil since 1800s, those hard time breed generations of strong man, men who not only endure physical hardership, intellectual struggles, and spiritual torment, they embrace it, treat them as enjoyable and rewarding. They not only are instant in action, they are also ruthless in reflection. They dire to challenge the strongest coalition of power when they were just gained independence, they are also totally ok to subdue to the same super power when they decide so, without much of a mental conflicting, while still maintaining a unwavering commitment to greatness beyond anyone else's imagination.

China is bound to be the overlord of the nations on earth. That or it vanquish itself in its pursuit of that destiny.

What else do you need to know?
by drivers99 | 2025-08-28 16:38:26+00:00
> I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later.

I pulled up an old bookmark file that I had backed up on CD-R and pretty much every single link was dead. So at best, it was just a memory of something that I thought was worth saving at one point and might go back to someday. So more like what you said: "history of things I've found that are interesting" but not being able to use them to get the website (unless it's in Wayback Machine perhaps).
by limagnolia | 2025-08-28 16:38:40+00:00
JumpCrisscross's reply was really good, and I would like to add additionally that US congress representatives and senators usually maintain local offices in cities in their constituency, and a visit to these offices (usually you can make an appointment by calling them) to discuss issues in person is a very powerful way to be heard. If you aren't in the US, you'll need to find out if your government has anything similar.
by thwarted | 2025-08-28 16:39:12+00:00
> lay out the skeleton of a game and tell an AI to do the rest, give it pointers and occasional original art to work into the system, and ship a completed playable game in days

"But, think of the indie game designer!" is getting to be quite the take.

We have a machine that produces slop and the selling point is how fast it produces it? And how more people should be using it to spend less time on creative aspects? Would the world be a better place if GRRM "finished" his most well-known work sooner rather than never?

Something about the phrase "tell an AI to do the rest, give it pointers" reminds me of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Fantasia. Not in the surface level dire-warning about laziness, automation, and losing control that story is telling but in that Mickey didn't spend any time thinking about what he was doing and the Wizard's disappointment at the end.
by brandall10 | 2025-08-28 16:39:16+00:00
Just to be clear, I'm comparing it to the linked research and any notions of naturally induced states.

To me, it's similar to that early part of the trip where you get tired and feel like you want to take a nap, only to find that impossible upon closing your eyes and seeing the images dance around. Eventually that part of the trip ends as the energy builds.
by iryndin | 2025-08-28 16:39:37+00:00
Continue working on https://AllZonefiles.io. New features in August 2025:

- daily download only new domains: https://allzonefiles.io/new-domain-lists

- daily download only expired domains: https://allzonefiles.io/expired-domain-lists

- download all latest domain lists as one ZIP file: https://allzonefiles.io/all-zones-zip

Not much, but these features were requested by users a lot.
by lylo | 2025-08-28 16:40:09+00:00
Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time.

If you want to try out my app Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) I'd happily try and help you migrate over.

Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...
by xixixao | 2025-08-28 16:40:25+00:00
What worries me more than “authoritarian model works”, is the isolation. Absolutely seriously: What enabled the terrors of collonialism was the lack of understanding of shared humanity between the sides. What happens when China is big, strong, different, ultra-nationalist and some factor kicks it out of the “peace is the most advantageous path forward” mode? Imagine the military and economic dominance of US, but with Chinese superiority ideals instead of liberal-democratic ones (and even with those plenty of harm has been caused).
by munificent | 2025-08-28 16:40:49+00:00
> The challenge is that these communication networks are informal, fluid, and nearly impossible to map.

I bet most large tech companies could have a fairly accurate map of the network in less than a week if they really wanted it. Simply look at every email and chat reply between two people and build a graph whose nodes are people and with edges whose strength is the number of those interactions. Done.

Of course, there are a lot of scary privacy implications and I'm sure there are a few execs who wouldn't want anyone to discover that, wow dude_in_power_x sure does sent a lot of chats to cute_indirect_subordinate_they_have_no_reason_to_interact_with.

But if and organization really did want a better sociological understanding of their workforce, they could build it.
Why do most product launches fail even when the product is solid?
by anthonyot | 2025-08-28 16:41:01+00:00
Hackernews help me out. I've been watching a lot of talented builders create great products that just don't get traction at launch. The technical execution is solid, but something goes wrong between 'we built it' and 'people are using it.' Agencies want $15k/month and give generic playbooks. Consultants disappear after the strategy session. But I keep seeing the same pattern, founders who are amazing at building are failing not one, sometimes multiple launches. This made me think - what if instead of hiring agencies, you could work directly with someone who's successfully launched a similar product? Or is the problem product, ie it really just ins't a good product (not sure this can always be the case?) Has anyone tried this approach? How did you get to successful launch/traction? did you wing it, hire help, or find someone with launch experience? Curious what's actually worked for people here
by saidinesh5 | 2025-08-28 16:41:12+00:00
I think the convergence concept still makes sense in big corporations where most of your work happens on a VM in the cloud, while you just use your device as a thin client. Especially in places they don't even let you use a thirdparty browser >.>.

Earlier this year, I was actually tried to replace my bulky 16" MBP with a Pixel 9 for work. Android's desktop mode just wasn't there.. Maybe I will try it again next year...

All I really need was a browser and a drop down terminal anyway.
by mediaman | 2025-08-28 16:41:44+00:00
It's interesting to see software engineers realize that AI can be useful in the hands of competent engineers, but that LLMs tend to produce a mess in the hands of those with little software engineering knowledge. Then they're confused why generative AI asset creation doesn't look that good in the hands of people who have no art training.

I know someone creating a game, and she is using AI in asset creation. But she's also a highly skilled environment technical artist from the industry, and so the use of AI looks totally different than all these demos from non-artists: different types of narrow AI get injected into different little parts of the asset creation pipeline, and the result is a mix of traditional tools (Substance Designer + Painter, Blender, Maya) with AI support in moodboarding, geometry creation and some parts of texture creation. The result is a 2-5x speedup, but instead of looking like slop it looks like a stylistically distinctive, cohesive world with consistent art direction.

The common pattern is that people think AI will automate "other people," because they see its shortcomings in their own field. But because they don't understand the technical skill required in other fields, they assume AI will just "do it." Instead, it seems like AI can be a force multiplier for technically skilled people, but that it begins showing its weakness when asked to take over entire pipelines normally produced by technically skilled people, whether they be engineers or artists.
by pstuart | 2025-08-28 16:43:22+00:00
The case was based on Trump's former attorney mentioning criminal acts his client had done -- it was an attempt to hold Trump accountable for those crimes.

The reason a democrat would be involved in such prosecution is because every GOP member has effectively sworn fealty to Trump and they will fiercely protect him from any accountability.

Biden was many things, but not corrupt in the sense that Trump is. Yes, his son did business trading on his relationship but that was legal (albeit distasteful).

Most dem voters dislike corruption, even if it's one of their team; I don't see that on the other side of the aisle. Disclaimer: I am not a dem.
by bradstewart | 2025-08-28 16:43:53+00:00
Interesting, thanks. I've always been a fairly "heavy" (vs other people) user of the emdash after a high school english teacher made us use one in every paper to learn how they worked (along with a colon), and I've been a fan ever sense.

The "it's not ... it's" phrasing though definitely stands out as a bit odd when repeated.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-28 16:44:03+00:00
It is good that people are paying attention to this problem, but unfortunately not in time to correct the problem before consequences get bad.

Hysteresis is a bitch.

This study showed that early career workers of which they only focused on the 22-25 range had a ~20% drop in employment between 2022 and now. If you include the 26-30 range which includes most early-career that's roughly ~30% less jobs, from the Payment Processors perspective.

The study doesn't seek to cover other impactors such higher costs on the labor pool, and interference in employment matching, which are also of great concern.

30% after shock normalization is well beyond statistical significance. This is happening, people said it would happen, and no one acted to stop it because they listened to evil people seeking short-term profit; blind to all else.

Sad and dark times are ahead. There are things that can be reasonably predicted ahead-of-time, but the moment you give preferential treatment to liars is the moment you lock in losses. Sure the data proving the prediction will come, but not in time to take corrective action; such is the structured cascading failures involving hysteresis.
by linsomniac | 2025-08-28 16:44:05+00:00
Mosh is excellent, but I've mostly switched to wezterm for similar functionality. It doesn't really persist as well over network changes, but it does allow reconnecting to a terminal session on another box, and it gives some of the type-ahead functionality. What I really like about it is the reconnect and that I have remote, first-class terminal experience, compared to tmux/screen.
by davidb_ | 2025-08-28 16:44:36+00:00
Great list that sparked my memory. The tmux scroll back issue was very frustrating for me, and ultimately what made me stop using it. What got me hooked on trying to use it - I do remember being amazed I could close my laptop, go home, and just reopen my laptop and immediately start typing away on my remote terminal without issue most of the time.

A few other issues I do remember running into (probably 10 years ago?):

1. Because it was udp, sometimes a captive portal, work, or hotel firewall blocked it.

2. It was also not installed by default anywhere, so sometimes sysadmins at work were unwilling to install it for me.

3. I sometimes ran into issues with color handling and utf8. I honestly don't remember if it was mosh or my terminal, though. It seemed to happen more often when I used mosh, but I could be misremembering.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-28 16:46:09+00:00
As someone who is autistic and bipolar, I've been told my words often come across as unnecessarily aggressive even though I mean them in a neutral way, so I sometimes use LLMs to try and mediate my tone when I'm talking to an unknown audience. I suspect the author has been told he is acerbic and might be self-conscious of using his own words.
by pjdesno | 2025-08-28 16:46:30+00:00
One of the Japanese sites has a list of SSDs that people have observed the problem on - most of them seem to be dramless, especially if "Phison PS5012-E12" is an error. (PS5012-E12S is the dramless version)

Then again, I think dramless SSDs represent a large fraction of the consumer SSD market, so they'd probably be well-represented no matter what causes the issue.

Finally, I'll point out that there's a lot of nonsense about DRAMless SSDs on the internet - e.g. Google shows this snippet from r/hardware: "Top answer: DRAM on the drive benefits writes, not reads. Gaming is extremely read-heavy, and reads are..."

FTL stands for flash TRANSLATION layer - it needs to translate from a logical disk address to a real location on the flash chip, and every time you write a logical block that real location changes, because you can't overwrite data in flash. (you have to wait and then erase a huge group of blocks - i.e. garbage collection)

If you put the translation table in on-SSD DRAM, it's real fast, but gets huge for a modern SSD (1+GB per TB of SSD). If you put all of it on flash - well, that's one reason thumb drives are so slow. I believe most DRAM-full consumer SSDs nowadays keep their translation tables in flash, but use a bunch of DRAM to cache as much as they can, and use the rest of their DRAM for write buffering.

DRAMless controllers put those tables in host memory, although I'd bet they still treat it as a cache and put the full table in flash. I can't imagine them using it as a write buffer; instead I'm guessing when they DMA a block from the host, they buffer 512B or so on-chip to compute ECC, then send those chunks directly to the flash chips.

There's a lot of guesswork here - I don't have engineering-level access to SSD vendors, and it's been a decade since I've put a logic analyzer on an SSD and done any reverse-engineering; SSDs are far more complicated today. If anyone has some hard facts they can share, I'd appreciate it.
by saltcured | 2025-08-28 16:46:37+00:00
Sometimes I try to imagine a future societal split akin to the Amish. Not as a religious group, but as a social movement eschewing these overbearing IT products and services. A rejection of this "attention" or "dopamine" exploitation market.

It is hard not to take a cynical view, that such dissenters will be pursued aggressively by a system that demands conformity. I do recognize the quasi-fascist leanings in modern consumer IT products and their backers.

But, even if tolerated by this larger IT-bound society, can this sort of IT abstention be carried on long enough and made feasible for different age groups and personality types? Can it be the basis for a sustainable, multi-generation subculture? Or is it more ephemeral, a phase someone might go through, like retirement to a quiet cottage...
by kennethreitz | 2025-08-28 16:46:53+00:00
FYI, I updated the post to acknowledge the public criticisms of my previous behavior:

> I need to be clear about something. I'm not claiming innocence in every workplace conflict or community dispute. I've made mistakes, handled situations poorly, and there's been legitimate criticism of my behavior in some cases. The Requests 3 fundraising situation, in particular, was handled badly - I took on commitments I couldn't deliver and didn't communicate well about the problems. I've apologized for this, though I understand the damage was already done. Mental illness doesn't excuse harmful behavior, and I'm not asking it to.

Thanks for the feedback!
by willlma | 2025-08-28 16:47:06+00:00
This is not recycling. Recycling implies that you can produce the same product again many times; it's a sustainable practice. This is repurposing or upcycling. It's cool they're getting a second life, but they won't get a 3rd, 4th, Nth life unless the batteries are actually recycled into their component materials at end-of-life. It's kind of like the plastic brick companies: cool that plastic is being turned into a construction material, but it doesn't mean we can stop mining for the primary source material any time soon.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-28 16:47:26+00:00
I think they still need us to buy their stuff, though maybe less so than in the past. Many of the points the article is making are basically that they don't need to buy our stuff, but hasn't that always been the case? With a massive population and manufacturing base, and significant linguistic and technical barriers between them and the West, it's hardly surprising that they would build their own Google rather than importing ours.

I don't think of China as producing cheap crap, I think of it as producing everything. A lot of that stuff is cheap crap, I know because I bought it. But clearly they also produce high tech and high value goods.

I also don't think it's surprising or new that an authoritarian country can deliver material progress for its people. I think the same was true for the early Soviet Union and the fascist countries of 20th century Europe. Democracy's main selling point was never that it made us rich.
by keiferski | 2025-08-28 16:47:55+00:00
China has built its own enormous internal market—its own tourism, its own brands, its own everything. They've turned inward not from isolation but from self-sufficiency.

Not sure how the title matches with this line at all.

In any case, these kinds of analyses always seem really shallow and historically ignorant to me. I can totally buy the idea that China will become a dominant economic player in the world, if it isn't already. This seems like an obvious, borderline mundane observation to make.

What would be more insightful is an analysis of China and the West that factors in three big things:

1. How the unique aspects of America basically make it impossible for the the country to be in the position China was in during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which is to say, a total disaster, beset by civil wars, colonial acquisitions, invasions, on and on. No matter how much China outcompetes America, I don't think it will ever be in that sort of situation. The military and national security state, plus the sheer amount of personal firearms, pretty much guarantees IMO that the US is basically impregnable from outside military interventions. 19th century China had neither of these things. And so I think you're inevitably going to have, at worst, a multipolar world, if not a directly bipolar one.

2. More broadly, how the cultural dynamics of the West led to the Reformation, Wars of Religion, Renaissance, and Industrial Revolution and to the West being the dominant power in the first place. And more importantly, if those cultural trends are still active, even if they are somehow dormant. If you don't factor these in, your picture of history is extremely short-term and basically dependent on contemporary predictions of the future. (See: predictions of Japan in the 1980s.)

3. And more recently, how the "enemy" of the Soviet Union prompted the US to behave more competitively and feel pressured to perform. See, for example, the Space Race. I don't really get the sense that China is anywhere near occupying the same place in the American imagination right now, and so there isn't much of a competitive spirit. There seem to be rumblings of one developing in the last decade, but it's still not quite there. If it ever develops, certainly it's going to be a factor.
by specproc | 2025-08-28 16:48:02+00:00
> California approved high-speed rail in 2008 to link LA and San Francisco for $33 billion. Costs ballooned; there’s still no service. The U.K. canceled HS2’s northern leg after years of overruns. Berlin’s new airport opened almost a decade late and billions over budget. Meanwhile, China built 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail that runs at 350 km/h.

Communism works.
by churchill | 2025-08-28 16:48:31+00:00
The purpose of a thing is what it does. If Western ideals condone and actively fund atrocities like what's happening in Gaza, while failing to match the infrastructural pace of auth. regimes like China, it's only logical that people will gravitate towards the model that works.

For instance, California's Intercity High-Speed Rail Commission was created by the California legislature in 1993 (before my parents got married) to develop a plan that was to begin construction in 2000.

32 years later, it's still not done, yet China has built nearly 50,000 km of HSR in less than 20 years. The differences are as blatant as that between oranges and orangutans.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-08-28 16:48:35+00:00
> Singapore, Dubai, Rwanda—they're all copying the Chinese model: authoritarian capitalism with good PR.

The author got one city in this list backward. China copied Singapore, through and through. Deng Xiaoping's state visit to Singapore was the catalyst and model for China's subsequent opening up and 'state capitalism'[1][2][3], where the party in power would have leverage and possibly ownership over both state- and privately-owned enterprises.

Singapore calls them 'GLCs', or government-linked companies, and they form the overwhelming majority of its GDP.

[1]: https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=6c7cb559-... [2]: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/s... [3]: https://thediplomat.com/2023/12/looking-back-on-deng-xiaopin...
by casey2 | 2025-08-28 16:49:00+00:00
>China went from burning coal directly to becoming the world's solar panel factory.

You're phrasing make it sound like they aren't the largest coal consumer in the world. If they managed to genuinely leapfrog the west their manufacturing industry would be mostly electric. They are using the same unsustainable tech as the rest of us.

The same global pressures that affect every country will hollow out their supply and talent pyramids and there is no way around that short of just saying NO to slave labor