MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tokioyoyo | 2025-08-28 20:19:27+00:00
The sea was not calm in 2010s, and certainly not in 2020s. Predictions to China’s collapse has been circulating for the past 15 years, and it just never panned out.

Unsurprisingly, when you have authoritarianism that’s at least mildly supported by the citizens, you can do wonders with 1.4B people. At some point, we have to give them credit where it’s due.
by geerlingguy | 2025-08-28 20:19:35+00:00
I've run a Pi NAS as my 2nd onsite replica for over a year without a hiccup, it's using a Radxa Penta SATA HAT with 4x SATA SSDs, and a 2.5 Gbps USB dongle for faster Ethernet[1].

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxas-sata-hat-makes...
by sasha7-offical | 2025-08-28 20:19:44+00:00
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by tracker1 | 2025-08-28 20:20:11+00:00
I'm mixed... I've spent the time to create installers and docker images for a couple things, mostly because I wanted them to exist for myself, that others found them useful was a cool side effect. Nothing to the breadth or scope of Bitnami though.

That said, it seems to be a side effect of their business model that they don't feel they can offer for free, or otherwise choose not to in order to convince people to move. It seems there's nothing stopping someone from forking and/or continuing the packaging for apps they use based on where Bitnami is today. Cool.

I'd personally like to see a lot of these hardening efforts upstream anyway... separating base images for build vs. runtime and more so with the "official" app images themselves. People do and should have different expectations from a lot of applications when packaged in a container vs. installed on a system.
by cb321 | 2025-08-28 20:20:19+00:00
If you are in an even more "approximate" mindset (as opposed to propagating by simulation to get real world re-sampled skewed distributions, as often happens in experimental physics labs, or at least their undergraduate courses), there is an error propagation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty) simplification for "small" errors thing you can do. Then translating "root" errors to "downstream errors" is just simple chain rule calculus stuff. (There is a Nim library for that at https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer that I use at least every week or two - whenever I'm timing anything.)

It usually takes some "finesse" to get your data / measurements into territory where the errors are even small in the first place. So, I think it is probably better to do things like this Uncertain<T> for the kinds of long/fat/heavy tailed and oddly shaped distributions that occur in real world data { IF the expense doesn't get in your way some other way, that is, as per Senior Engineer in the article }.
by elric | 2025-08-28 20:21:15+00:00
The final paragraphs were the more interesting ones IMO. Especially the closing sentence:

> The tragedy isn’t that China is winning, it’s that the West stopped imagining better futures.

This one hits close to home. I saw an improvement in quality of life between the 90s and maybe 2005, but not so much since then. Not to say that there hasn't been progress, I mean tablets and pervasive internet & smartphone usage was unthinkable back then. But my life isn't any better for them. Cities feel worse, more congested, less money for public transport, more littering. Nature is disappearing all around me. Energy is WAY more expensive. Food quality is worse. Pollution seems worse. Hell, people seem worse, somehow?

Maybe this is all the disenchantment of middle age (or slumbering depression). But I haven't seen any political projects that fill me with joy in a very long time. Only dread. From shitty "free" trade agreements to Chat Control. Pouring more concrete and reducing train services. Endless austerity because we can no longer afford healthcare and/or pensions.

Yet at the same time, economic growth has mostly kept going, but it isn't translating to improved quality of life for Average Joe.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-28 20:22:11+00:00
> Conveniently you dont mention any of the mass executions caused by capitalism?

Such as? Oh wait, this is where you blame a communist massacre, like say the many ones committed in Cuba, on the pressure a capitalist state put on those poor, defenseless, communist warlords. Che Guevara!

It's like saying Iranian revolution was caused by capitalism (the oil companies), when of course the actual organizing, the starting of the revolution itself, and even a few massacres were executed by communists (yes, the most famous one was khomeini, however, that does not mean there were no others). Those poor massacring communists had no choice! They were forced to massacre by the pressure of the oil companies, who had a party in the desert! That just left them no choice at all. And then they just happened to bring a dictator to power, completely by accident! Victims!

(btw: in the Iranian case, if you kill to bring a dictator to power, that this dictator then proceeds to kill you does not make you innocent, or any less of a murderer, it just makes you a stupid dead murderer, who allied himself with a better murderer, and you dragged yourself into death and 10s of millions of people into 50 years of misery out of, let's face it, jealousy. THAT is what communism brought to Iran. Oh and Afghanistan was worse)

> You know well I do not advocate for mass murder.

Yes you do. That's what communism is: you replace money with a threat "do what the state plans for you to do or ..."

Since it is in almost everyone's best interest to NOT do what the state planned (because otherwise there would be no difference between capitalism and communism) you need to actually apply the threat. And any threat devolves into killing, after X steps, in some percentage of cases. X differs, the percentage differs, but not the end result. And because the threat needs to be universal in communism, the percentage is going to be large in practice.

> I am advocating for progress and for an end of using base material needs for profits.

No you are advocating for a planned economy and are refusing to think about any practical aspects of that. You are no different from an inquisitor or a taliban executioner who "protects" the people, but you can't see it because your cause is righteous.
by fakedang | 2025-08-28 20:22:12+00:00
China has a number of social programmes for its citizens. Granted, they are all very recent and party politics has often come in the way of delivery. Most of these programmes were even only started in the last decade or so, and nearly all of them were started only from the 1990s onwards.

But the Chinese are going in the direction of massively expanding these programmes (ranging from medical care to education to housing to elderly and disability care), while the USA is actively gutting their own.
by simne | 2025-08-28 20:22:49+00:00
Example, how Intel could use their superiority and fast feedback.

Semiconductor fabs usually not make ultraclean materials themselves, but bought from many smaller specialized entities. As example exist few companies, producing ultraclean silicone as crystal cylinders. When fab bought such crystal they could slice from it few wafers and made test runs with their product line designs. For example, they could try i7-7700, i7-7700hq and i7-7700k. If they seen good output with 7700k, it is best possible, as these chips have very similar die size, but 7700k is most expensive; if they seen moderate output with 7700k, but good output with 7700, it's also ok, for them also good demand; but if only 7700hq have good output, things are not good, because notebook chip is not so easy to sell, so have to do some marketing (usually these seen as some exceptionally high prices for some chips, because of low silicone output).

Unfortunately, semiconductors have limits on how large could be one die. Companies like Cerebras use some tricks, usually they just disable parts of die with jumpers, as I know, same tricks used Nvidia before 30th series, but approx same time appeared whole industry movement for chiplets standards, and looks like Nvidia used 2.5D technology to avoid trap with too large die.
by th0ma5 | 2025-08-28 20:23:39+00:00
The marketing pushes which allude to vaguely seeming to assert capabilities of these products, and then the greater community calling skeptics of the technology crazy such as a prominent article previously discussed on HN some time ago, certainly don't help anyone. The sheer amount of money justifying any and all uses and preventing honest discussion of the problems is a kind of crazy making for sure, and even now just about any argument cannot gain purchase without thought terminating allusions to imagined capabilities or implications of potential capabilities, etc.
by delfinom | 2025-08-28 20:23:43+00:00
>How hard can it be to automate that?

Self checkout has been a thing for ages. Heck in Japan the 711s have cashiers but you put the money into a machine that counts and distributes change for them.

Supermarkets are actually getting rid of self checkouts due to crime. Surprise surprise, having less visible "supervision" in a store results in more shoplifting than having employees who won't stop it anyway.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-28 20:23:50+00:00
Also even things like cable news I'd say cause comparable symptoms.

I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't so negative... but how are people such profound followers that they can put themselves into a feedback loop that results is psychosis?

I think it's an education problem, not as in people are missing facts but by the missing basic brain development to be critical of incoming information.
by billm950 | 2025-08-28 20:24:04+00:00
TLDR: DIY Smart Locks vs Pro Security Installation Quick Numbers:

DIY Smart Lock: $150-500, 1 hour install, 5-7 years lifespan Pro Security System: $600-1,200+ upfront, $25-50/month monitoring, 10+ years lifespan

DIY Makes Sense When:

You need 1-2 doors secured Budget under $500 You're renting or testing smart home features No electrical work required

Go Pro When:

You want whole-home security (cameras, alarms, monitoring) Multiple entry points or outbuildings You're staying long-term Insurance discounts matter (5-10% savings possible)
by cogman10 | 2025-08-28 20:24:16+00:00
Absolutely. Intel was also keeping up the tick-tock processing. I could be misremembering, but it seemed like every tock intel was getting something like 20% improvements over the last tock. It really wasn't until ~Haswell that that slowed down and continued to slow down to basically nothing. I think Kaby Lake IIRC was the last major performance jump from intel. Everything else has just been incremental changes.
by ryao | 2025-08-28 20:24:42+00:00
Let’s say I have ClassA::Foobar() and ClassB::Foobar(), and ClassB inherits from ClassA. Now let’s say I want to use ClassA::Foobar(), and I access it from the object because this pointer is in the vtable and the object is of type ClassB. Now ClassB::Foobar() executed, which is wrong. This is why static functions are not put into vtables. What Linux is doing is not a vtable, even if it shares similarities. Perhaps you would understand this if I said all thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs.
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-28 20:24:43+00:00
Promising users that your platform is "open" when you create it and market it to consumers -- only to break those promises later -- is the reason why Google keeps being found guilty of antitrust violations in jurisdictions around the world.

Meanwhile, walled gardens remain perfectly legal, unless you explicitly change the law.

Look at Microsoft, which created and marketed Xbox as a walled garden with no legal repercussions in the decades since.

However, Microsoft created Windows as an open platform, and then used anticompetitive tactics to retain control (just as Google did) and was found just as guilty as Google in the courts.

When Apple created iOS it was a closed platform. When they added the ability to create third party native apps they were clear that the platform would be a walled garden.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-28 20:24:52+00:00
Is anyone arguing that the Fed is responsible for "total price levels"?

The fed funds rate is used as the foundation for nearly all lending that occurs in the US, and setting it is a key tool for regulating credit (the only job they have per this paper).

The paper also lays out how credit/money creation and destruction impacts the overall economy, so I can see how the Fed's actions related to regulating credit impact overall prices, but it's a second order effect at best and there doesn't seem to be any reasonable alternative?

I guess the issue is that the paper keeps talking about inflation caused by "supply-side issues", as if the cause of inflation can be clearly discerned at any point in time or that whatever inflation is caused by supply-side issues isn't tightly linked to the amount of credit available and therefore would fall under the purview of the Fed?
by jameslk | 2025-08-28 20:25:00+00:00
> We were told that democracy and development go together. That free markets require free politics. That our system was the "end of history."

People and development go together. The more people you have, the more development you can have. India is experiencing a similar early growth trajectory (from a GDP and energy use perspective), because like China, they have over a billion people. Comparatively, the US for example, has a few hundred million people.

Historically, this has always been the case. China and India were the most populated places and biggest economies for much of the past several millennia

What held China and India back the past few centuries? The west, through its Opium wars and colonialism. Globalization accelerated a reversion to the mean

The takeaway here shouldn't be to end democracy and turn to state capitalism or mercantilism. For the US to keep up, it will need more people. Or AGI I guess
by bgnn | 2025-08-28 20:25:09+00:00
Apart from nothing lasts forever.. This is a speculative take too, as the OP. We don't know what will happen in China in the future. One thing is true: at the moment their change is towards more democracy and personal rights, and it's the exact opposite in the West. My theorty, a counter-theory to yours if you will, is that the wealth growth for the lower and middle classes declined or reversed in the West (US, Europe, Canada etc) since 70s, which coincides with the West divesting from industrial production and embracing the financialization of the economy. Today EU is officially applying censorship on media and trying hard on controlling the personal communications of persons, similar trends in US. We think we are better than China, but from the non-Western countries the difference isn't that big anymore.
by thefourthchime | 2025-08-28 20:25:17+00:00
The thing I keep coming back to with China is that it's (mostly) mono-ethnic and that ethnicity is rapidly aging, such as South Korea and Japan. The birth rate is tragic, and soon they're going to have a lot of infrastructure and old people and no one around to support it.

The other shoe that is waiting to drop is the amount of spending and shadowy debts that to prop up the real estate industry. The vast majority of Chinese have invested their life savings into what looks like a mirage.

Thirdly, they've become the world's factory. But now now they've priced themselves out and it's moving to places like Vietnam and India. So now what's left? Consumer spending? High tech? It looks like they need to reinvent themselves again.
by runako | 2025-08-28 20:25:21+00:00
> new models to date have cost more than the previous ones to create

This largely was the case in software in the '80s-'10s (when versions largely disappeared) and still is the case in hardware. iPhone 17 will certainly cost far more to develop than did iPhone 10 or 5. iPhone 5 cost far more than 3G, etc.
by fair_enough | 2025-08-28 20:25:54+00:00
I don't see how Google employees can stomach all the bureaucracy and internal drama of publicly-traded corporate politics for more than about 2 years before taking their "fuck you" money and retiring.

I'm under the impression this is not a popular opinion around these parts, but the barrage of internal-use acronyms for job titles and gleeful posts pedantically explaining their meaning makes working there sound like absolute hell.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-28 20:26:02+00:00
Thumbing through the comments here really smacks of denial and desperation, like ideology somehow on its own will win out in the end. That the ideals of democracy, and free speech, and liberty will inevitably win out over authoritarianism just because, well, they will.

What ideologues often forget is that their beliefs don’t pay rent. They don’t feed the hungry, they don’t create economic growth, they don’t solve problems. Yes, democracy is phenomenal and I think that direct democracy is the current peak governance model out there, but look at how easily Western Democracies have been captured by capital, how western economies lost the plot of the long game and failed to solve problems because they’re so myopically focused on next quarter growth at all costs and shareholder returns. We point our fingers at the abuse of the Uyghurs by China and prison labor, but conveniently ignore the migrants crossing the Mediterranean that our countries let drown, or the immigrants being kidnapped by governments, or the American prison industrial complex’s outsized impact on non-white communities, or NATO’s abuse of and complicity in the genocide of Muslims and Arabs. We crow about Chinese mass surveillance while feeding Meta, Google, Palantir, and the NSA with all our data.

Which is to say, we actually aren’t that different.

And when you begrudgingly swallow that uncomfortable truth, you begin to see how we’re objectively worse off now and in the near future than our Chinese peers. Our infrastructure crumbles because we allowed Capital to neglect it, while China’s whisks its citizenry around quickly and efficiently using EVs and HSR. Our employment markets are similar in struggles for the youth and the cost of living crisis, yet China at least acknowledges the issue and attempts to support its people while Western governments embrace austerity and blame labor for being robbed by Capital. Whilst Capital decries over-regulation as hindering its prosperity here, Chinese firms flourish under a far more strict regime because they understand politics is a fool’s errand for entities designed to make goods or provide services.

I love what China has done, even if I’m disgusted with the horrors it has wrought on others to achieve it. Where I differ from others is that I’m not naive enough to believe we’re assured victory simply based on ideology, morals, or ethics alone, nor do I engage in the denialism so many worship when cheerleading anti-DEI, anti-science, and anti-labor talking points in a vain attempt to boost personal worth at the expense of others.

This is the last real chance for Western governments to establish, at the very least, a balance with China in the century ahead. China still needs western R&D, western technologies, western patents, and western money, at least for the time being.

Once they have a competitive navy? Once they’ve transitioned to renewables? Once they’ve closed their supply chains and can recycle their waste into new products? Once they’ve solved the hard problems Capital never can, because they’re not immediately profitable to do so?

Then we’re cooked.
by tocs3 | 2025-08-28 20:27:15+00:00
I think it is more like a double standard. If you are useful in someway you demographic/beliefs are less important, breakdown of the "rule of law". Also, when you start being more problematic than useful you could be hung out to dry. How many time has Trump appointed someone saying something like "This guy is the greatest." and later fired them saying "I barely even knew the guy'?
by xdennis | 2025-08-28 20:27:57+00:00
This is the exact same issues Facebook/YouTube/etc had with ads. In the end, ads won.

Google used to segregate ads very clearly in the beginning. Now they look almost the same as results. I've switched to DDG since then, but have the majority of users? Nope. Even if they're not using ad blockers, most people seem to not mind the ads.

With LLMs, the ads will be even more harder to tell apart from non-ads.
by farceSpherule | 2025-08-28 20:28:00+00:00
AI today reminds me of two big tech revolutions we have already lived through: the Internet in the 90s and social media in the 2000s.

When the Internet arrived, it opened up the floodgates of information. Suddenly any Joe Six Pack could publish. Truth and noise sat side by side, and most people could not tell the difference, nor did they care to tell the difference.

When social media arrived, it gave every Joe Six Pack a megaphone. That meant experts and thoughtful people had new reach but so did the loudest, least informed voices. The result? An army of Joe Six Packs who would never have been heard before now had a platform, and they shaped public discourse in ways we are still trying to recover.

AI is following the same pattern.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-28 20:28:31+00:00
NB: Attestation has no security value here because if the phone isn't compromised then the owner having root isn't a security problem and if the phone is compromised then the user is entering their bank login into a fake scam app that doesn't require attestation regardless of what the real one does.

But because the banks that require this are cargo culting some nonsense, they require iOS or Google Android but don't really care how old the phone is. Which means you can transfer your cellular plan to the phone you actually want to use and then just keep your existing phone indefinitely to run the bank app over WiFi or tethering.
by password4321 | 2025-08-28 20:28:56+00:00
Yes, if you need someone else to work on securing your Docker base images for free, you can get more info about the US Air Force Platform One IronBank at https://docs-ironbank.dso.mil/faq

> Currently there is no cost to contributors or users for Iron Bank. It is a service currently funded by the US Department of Defense.

You can poke around for their public Dockerfile's to build yourself at https://repo1.dso.mil/explore (for example: https://repo1.dso.mil/dsop/opensource/debian/debian12.x/debi...) but to do much useful you'll need an account.

Another organization in Platform One, Big Bang uses IronBank containers to implement a reference DevSecOps CI/CD architecture; I mention them because they maintain a mirror at https://github.com/DoD-Platform-One/bigbang