MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-08-15 13:54:13+00:00
For a good to go from ~$0.15 to ~$1.50 from 1930 to 2025, the annual inflation rate would be...

...about 2.45% per year. And I'd probably take a 2025 hotdog over a 1930 hotdog, there's been a lot of food safety regulations passed since.
GitHub capture is real – time to fork the future of open source AI
by alexnewman | 2025-08-15 13:54:39+00:00
I’ve built open source my whole career. I’m not the smartest coder, but I’ve seen one thing clearly: when governments or corporations capture core infrastructure, everyone loses.

Their help is fine — until it isn’t. Mission-critical systems need to be run by communities with ethics, not quarterly earnings targets. Apache proved it could work. AI has nothing close. Hugging Face and GitHub are great, but they’re not enough.

Open source has always been global. Now GitHub is being captured, and it’s time to hit back. Imagine a TSX/SEV stack for source, models, and CI/CD — secure, verifiable, and open. Make it good enough, and people will move. I might just build it.

What would it take for you to switch?
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-15 13:54:58+00:00
My counterargument would be that before the typewriter literacy rates were much worse than they are now. So while it's true that laws were simpler, interpreting those laws was still out of reach for many at the bottom of the economic ladder. It would be interesting to try to compare legal complexity with the percentage of society that has a sufficient reading comprehension to meaningfully interact with those laws across various eras.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 13:55:27+00:00
No, that is not how copyright works, at least not in this country, but probably not in many countries. You buy a book, not a license. Copyright luckily isn't an unlimited right to dictate exactly how a work is used.

Ebooks sadly are different. I only buy DRM-free ebooks that grant me rights similar to what always exists for printed books, but that sadly limits what ebooks I can buy quite significantly.
by RankingMember | 2025-08-15 13:55:37+00:00
> I'd like to require that laws be written out by hand by the lawmaker(s) proposing them (NOT their staffers), and read aloud by them before a vote.

I could really get behind this sort of rate-limiting. It would also make the thinktank-written legislation a little less appealing for the lawmakers, as they'd still need to write everything out.
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-15 13:55:37+00:00
Not IP related, but I built a Voron printer a while ago, which is sort of the last word in DIY printers. It's not so much a printer as a parts list and set of instructions, but something that's not lost on me is that most of the core components are Chinese parts.

I don't just mean screws and bearings (though they are too), you might install a board like this [0] which is a Chinese designed board I'd describe as open-ish. You get the firmware and schematics, but not a BOM or board layout. But that doesn't really matter, because nobody is going to make this board themselves anyways, you're going to buy it assembled, from China. There are other boards, but they are more expensive.

The majority of Voron builds use Chinese hotends. There are a lot of custom "for Voron" kits and components being made and sold there. Can you find a PEI-coated spring steel bed that isn't made in China? So while it's definitely more open than a Bambu printer, it's not really any less dependent on China.

I guess it would be technically possible to do a "no China" build, which would be an interesting (but expensive) project.

0 - https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-OCTOPUS-V1.0
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-15 13:56:39+00:00
I've been beating this drum for a while and I'm going to keep doing it. If you run or make strategic decisions for a tech company in 2025, you need to understand that many if not most of your competitors are working hard to figure out how to wield the federal government in their favor. I wouldn't advise doing it yourself, unless you'd like to go to prison for bribery alongside Tim Cook in 2029, but any assumption that the current federal government will treat you fairly without taking their side in political battles is a grave strategic error.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-15 13:56:57+00:00
Yeah, I feel like something has got to give, maybe we don’t fund student loans for certain majors. Maybe we bring back certain types of book or social clubs to learn these materials instead. Online learning? I totally see the beauty in the humanities, it’s largely all I read for fun, But you can’t have a system that incentivizes people to take out bigger and bigger loans on investments that don’t pay back.
by 1a527dd5 | 2025-08-15 13:57:09+00:00
I mean at first glance, this doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. But ignoring my initial reaction; I don't think this is any different from lobby groups keeping tabs on what congressmen say vs do.

Just this time it's the government tracking which companies are pro-government currently.

It's not nice, but this government is transactional at best.

While I choose not to play games; it's hard not to play when the other side is the government.

This does explain all the random gifts the government is getting.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-15 13:57:54+00:00
No dont think that's their plan.

One of the key issues of cloud gaming that has failed a few times now is that the datacenter servers need to be damned close to get that sub 100ms. Google didnt have enough datacenters to do it and Stadia died.

In a way it's the same problem, they need to get the gpus within probably like 50-100kms of the users. That's plausible to do, but that's doubling or tripling the number of operated datacenters.

If you look at chatgpt's stargate. They essentially will have 2 of them worldwide?

Anthropic/claude is beholden to AWS compute which is us-east-1 and us-west-2 only. I think AWS plans to open in signapore soon?

Elon's Grok is in memphis only; and there's drama around their generators and such?

Far too centralized for all the major players and I dont see any even medium term chances of getting out there enough. It's too much power, you pretty much have to park it near major generation.

What I think they are still doing is training/research, processing current load. Working on energy efficiency. That tops/wattage ratio but also figuring out caching and other super compute limits and constraints. That was the brilliance of MOE; but a major player ought to have a mixture of mixture of experts.

Next big thing for AI is cheaper cost picture and video generation. This is Veo4 or Sora or comfyui.

I'm also expecting a better google home or echo type device. Something that's AI and not hard coded skills; and ideally all local and no built in government tap.
by tempest_ | 2025-08-15 13:58:44+00:00
I always think it is amusing that some people make the mistake of thinking that the Chinese can only make cheap crap(forgetting all their cell phones and apple laptops come from there).

The American market only wants to buy cheap crap so that is what is made and sent. Usually though the skills involved in making something cut-rate are just as applicable to making something top notch.

American manufacturing skills have atrophied as it has moved to a service economy while as you say the Chinese have been boosting manufacturing for 30 years.
by recursive | 2025-08-15 13:59:02+00:00
Are you referring to psychoacoustic effects? Something like perceived loudness is only determined by waveform amplitude, but also affected by frequencies present? Or maybe the vocal and bass parts have transients at different times causing the other to be attenuated when it was already relatively quiet?

Other than that I'm not sure what else you could mean. Maybe we've been using different compressors. I've used a small handful of hardware and software compressors and haven't found them to sensitive to spectral content when used "normally". Meaning no extra filters or side chain configuration.
by hyperbovine | 2025-08-15 13:59:10+00:00
I want so much to like Prusa ... but the Bambu printer at my local makerspace costs half as much and is better in every way than the MK3S+ sitting in my basement. I'm fully aware that this is the result of shrewdness on the part of the Chinese, plus incompetence in the West, and it's so frustrating.
by MrJohz | 2025-08-15 13:59:12+00:00
As I understand it, the issue currently is that there's not really a framework for justifying or balancing those costs. Right now, the bat conservation people point out that the route will potentially eradicate a particular subspecies of bat. That gets sent up to the planning team, who now attempt to figure out a solution that prevents that from happening, and figures out how much that will cost. But what you probably want in between those points is someone to decide how much is too much to spend on the bats.

We do this for other stuff - for example, the NHS in the UK has a system called QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) which represent how much a particular treatment will extend someone's life, adjusted by the quality of that life. You can then calculate a cost per QALY for a new treatment, and make a decision about what costs are worthwhile for the NHS to pay for, and what aren't.

Something like that that could apply to planning permission decisions would be very useful for national infrastructure projects.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-15 13:59:19+00:00
> openai giving it instructions before me?

Uhhh, yes. It's in the devblogs. They call it prompt adherence hierarchy or something, where system instructions (oAI) > dev instructions (you) > user requests. They've been training this way specifically, and test for it in their "safety" analysis. Same for their -oss versions, so tinkerers might look there for a tinker friendly environment where they could probably observe the same kinds of behaviour.
by morosoph | 2025-08-15 13:59:37+00:00
GitHub getting pulled deeper into Microsoft’s AI core — especially after the CEO exit — is a clear sign that centralised platforms will always tilt corporate. A TSX/SEV-style stack would be a massive leap forward: open-source infra that’s verifiable, self-sovereign, and global-first.

What would make me switch? Simple: a toolchain that’s not just open-source in license, but open in governance — built by people who actually use it, not just profit from it.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-15 13:59:41+00:00
No. The entire games and movie industry exists because a segment of people don’t pirate.

All the technology created to support those two industries mentioned above are supported by people who paid for their shit.

Your view point twists reality because the financial realities don’t pan out. Who the fuck pays for a triple A video game if it’s morally right to pirate things?

If you pirate you benefit off of millions of dollars used to create the game while you pay for nothing.

Call it what you want. If it’s not theft then it’s not theft. But the gravity of the moral infraction is equivalent to theft so I don’t see the point of the word play here.

The fact of the matter is your “morality” here cannot sustain the industry. Like as bad as law around copyrights have gotten, piracy in totality is fundamentally unsustainable. Ideas cost money to create and someone needs to pay. If not the consumer of the idea than the producer of the idea pays and functions as a charity to the consumer.
by kelipso | 2025-08-15 13:59:43+00:00
This is just being intentionally obtuse. Just looking at simple probabilistic thinking, a porn company is more likely to get more customers if they target teenagers, make porn more normalized, obviously make porn legal, etc. If they have these incentives, then these companies would do them. They are not exactly headed by moralists or ethically inclined people..

Specific to targeting teenagers, porn users are mostly under 30, so your statement about 14-18 being around the same as 18-80 is irrelevant. About not being able to pay at 14-17, sure, let's go with that, but they start paying after that. We are talking a few years here. Companies do have incentives to create customers just a few years down the line.

Let me ask a few rhetorical questions. How do you think social media became popular? How did tiktok, snapchat, facebook, instagram become popular? Even yikyak became popular because they targeted teens. Why has so much advertising been targeted to teenagers for decades now? Hell, how did onlyfans become popular? All these companies have massive incentives to target teenagers.

So your stance of these porn companies not targeting teenagers is just being willfully obtuse.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-08-15 13:59:46+00:00
Users of Eliza [1] could convince themselves that the programme was intelligent, much to the dismay of Weizenbaum. It is no surprise that people will claim that more complex (and poorly understood) applications are intelligent.

If our own salesbabble and technology can be used to bamboozle us and defeat our willingness to understand, we have fully regressed to credulity and Carl Sagan's state of captured idiocy. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

[2] If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. -- C.S. , Demon-Haunted World
by simcop2387 | 2025-08-15 14:00:37+00:00
Same usecase for myself too. One of the biggest advantages for me is that it lets me setup a single and easily tested place for the users to reset passwords from too for when they inevitably forget or lose the post-it note. That, along with me using all the apps and not wanting to have to change 30 passwords for everything when something happens too.

I went a bit more complicated myself with Keycloak instead of Authentik, simply because I knew keycloak a little better but setting up SSO for all the stuff I run has definitely been worth it.
by infecto | 2025-08-15 14:01:18+00:00
I agree that the ability to adapt, whether to flexible loads, partial failures, or cross-area balancing, is the real test of a grid design. Texas’s isolation means it inherently lacks some of the tools SPP or MISO can use, which makes resilience harder. That is not a “market” problem so much as a structural one. ERCOT’s ruleset was built to optimize for low-cost generation in-state, not multi-region contingency planning.

Where I think a Texas-like market could work better is if you layered competitive generation with enforceable capacity and resiliency standards, along with some interconnection flexibility. Right now, the market rewards generators for selling MWh in good weather, not for being ready in bad weather. That is the economic misalignment.

The EU freight analogy works in the sense that reliability is often a public-good investment. No private actor has the incentive to overbuild or maintain resources for rare events. Texas’s approach does not have to mean politics fully getting out of the way. It could mean using market signals to keep prices efficient while still mandating the backup, winterization, and grid-sharing capabilities that the economy needs.
by Anduia | 2025-08-15 14:01:18+00:00
The author decided to use Open Sans, which is a quite narrow font, and font weight 350, so my browser (and, I suspect, yours) renders it with "Open Sans Light" at a fixed 300 weight. That is hard to read with that gray #707070 over white.

I don't know Tailwind so perhaps it is not easy to fix.
by Vinnl | 2025-08-15 14:01:28+00:00
Actual answer from the blog post (tl;dr: maybe):

> The full impact of this latest development is still unclear. The BGH will issue a more detailed written ruling explaining its decision. Meanwhile, the case has now returned to the lower court for additional fact-finding. It could be a couple more years until we have a clear answer. We hope that the courts ultimately reach the same sensible conclusion and allow users to install ad blockers.
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-15 14:01:36+00:00
I'd never make justice to Need for Roots from Weil. What I'm saying is that while a very few can just detach from human contact and supposedly be fine with it, the majority if prevented from creating bonds with other human beings will develop severe psychosomatic problems. But it goes beyond just interacting and feeling like you belong. It's the need to have your identity, collective memory and ancestry preserved.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-08-15 14:01:49+00:00
I am talking about a Police visit over a sarcastic satirical tweet. There are other cases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/kent-police-20k-...

> Look, unless we get someone extreme in power, and they are uniquely competent, they we are mostly safe. What will change that is the steady drip drip drip, of both economic hardship, and a willing medium to blame that on minorities. So 2028 is around the time that jenrick will attempt to lock us all up.

Sigh, I was half expecting drivel like that.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-15 14:02:23+00:00
>have to be learned totally separately seems to be inherently cumbersome in some ways.

It also has quite big advantages. Because writing systems tend to be highly standardized meaning of most characters has changed relatively little, so Chinese people can read ancient texts with aid of a bit of classical Chinese. And this also works across space, China has a lot of mutually unintelligible spoken dialects but pretty much everyone can understand the meaning of written Chinese. And so can even Japanese or Korean people.

In contrast spoken language tends to change so quickly that phonetic writing systems can rapidly become completely unintelligible. Old English is practically a foreign language. Probably nobody understands that "Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum" means "Hey! We the Spear Danes, in years gone by".
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-15 14:03:00+00:00
Could you overcome a hungry body by asking for food in Gaza?

What I'm saying is that happiness doesn't hold on the extremes of the human experience, and no amount of positive thinking can make up for that.

> There's no such thing as an empty soul - just bad people.

Maybe we are talking about the same thing. For me an empty soul is that soul that doesn't have roots in reality and is boundless and thus meaningless.
by qznc | 2025-08-15 14:03:11+00:00
… TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET - Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point -’

MY POINT EXACTLY.

From Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-15 14:03:51+00:00
I'm curious how Mozilla is preventing their inference from being too greedy. Are they doing something with `nice`? If I ask it to translate or summarize, I obviously want it done pronto, but otherwise it's almost certainly the case that slower inference that doesn't interrupt anything else is preferable. Since inference is almost always intensive, this seems like table stakes so I can't imagine they did nothing.
by jchw | 2025-08-15 14:04:26+00:00
We can fix the extra-legal censorship problem. Hell, it might've already happened in the U.S. possibly, because of Donald Trump's "Fair Banking" executive order; I know it couldn't have been the intent, but as written it sure sounds like it unambiguously makes it illegal to deny banking access for legal activity, and sounds like it might even apply to payment processing. I guess the plan after that is probably to strongly regulate adult content as part of Project 2025, but still, it does show that we could actually regulate payment processing such that you can't just claim harm to brand image and block of legitimate customers. I especially agree with this if we're going to do nothing about the massive obvious monopolies in the space.
by alpaca128 | 2025-08-15 14:04:39+00:00
The claim was about efficiency, not just power draw.

In your comparison you talk about software compatibility, but the Mac can run Linux and many open source tools & apps found on it. So the Pi is only ahead if you arbitrarily limit the comparison to a specific distro that's not Asahi or an application like sxiv, and in addition are the kind of user who wants that software and doesn't care about Mac exclusive programs. Which is valid, but has nothing to do with a metric like power efficiency.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-15 14:04:53+00:00
He is not, nor am I, but I don’t see a reason you and I shouldn’t get the same legal protections as other groups. What about blind people who pipe the output of a screen through text-to-speech? Or people with epilepsy who can’t use flashy screens? Or someone who needs to enlarge print or change its contrast? There are plenty of medical reasons to need to alter their browser presentations.
by qualeed | 2025-08-15 14:05:04+00:00
While I understand each of the words you have written, I have no idea what you are trying to say. What would you suggest I do with this information?

I get the impression that you were trying for something cryptic and profound sounding, but went a little too overboard and lost the underlying message, leaving the reader trying to decipher a bunch of meaningless 2 to 4 word sentences.
by redwall_hp | 2025-08-15 14:05:40+00:00
It shouldn't be a surprise to people that quality isn't there if you buy a nameless thing at the cheapest possible price, regardless of where it's made.

On the other hand, China has major brands in many markets. DJI drones, Anker chargers and cords, Lenovo computers, Polestar cars. TCL TVs and Haier appliances (which I believe also owns the GE consumer brand) are also very common. Roborock vacuums seem to be considered a better value than Roomba now.

It's an interesting counterpoint to the old cliche about paying for brands. Clearly buying on price alone is foolish, as is not considering the reputation of the maker of a product.
by Meneth | 2025-08-15 14:06:07+00:00
Mozilla cites what appears to be an auto-translated abstract of a chinese science paper:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

"China takes a different approach to protect the ad-based business model under unfair competition law and bans ad blocking software directly by regulation. The Chinese courts held that providing ad blocking software is anti-competitive under a vague general principle of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law."
by thesuitonym | 2025-08-15 14:06:21+00:00
> (A number 4 would be to somehow have a front-facing camera that operates without needing to displace screen area. Not clear how this would work without some complicated mechanism to extend the camera out the top of the screen, which would come with its own problems.)

I don't know, Lenovo figured it out, and it's no more ridiculous than Apple's solution. Their notch just goes the other way. It's actually a little bit better, because it gives me a space to put my thumb when I'm opening the laptop to, you know, use it.

Sometimes it seems to me like Apple engineers do not use Apple products, because if they did, there's no way we'd have problems like disappearing icons without a way to get them back (Hell, Windows has had this ability for DECADES, why can't Apple "invent" this technology?). We wouldn't have edge-to-edge glass screens which seem to exist solely to get fingerprints on the screen. We wouldn't have closed lids touching the keyboard, leaving weird patterns on the smudgy glass.

The only other option is that design at Apple is not driven by designers or engineers, but by executives who have no clue. And that's worse.