MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Delk | 2025-10-16 16:36:44+00:00
It's hard to tell if there's much of a difference or not since I don't really know the US system (and I'm, in all likelihood, from yet another country different than GP).

The simplest cases, however, don't really require filing forms at all. The withholding process sounds similar, and when the time for filing taxes comes, you get a pre-filled return sheet with withheld taxes and your pre-calculated actual tax based on the information the tax office has.

Employers directly report income to the tax office, so that information is already included. Banks also automatically withhold taxes on the interest they pay and report it to the tax office. I think banks and broker companies usually report sales of stocks etc. made through them as well.

The same pre-filled return sheet includes national and local income taxes that have been automatically calculated based on your place of residence. (I assume this is more complex in the US due to different state legislations; here the tax legislation is the same everywhere even though local tax rates vary.)

If you don't want to add deductions (in addition to standard ones) and you don't have any corrections to make, you don't need to file any forms. The only things you need to do are to pay the difference if you owe something or to report your account number for a refund if they don't have it already. Otherwise filing in a simple case is a no-op.

If you do want to file for deductions or make corrections, you can do that with an online form.

And of course you still do want to check that the pre-calculated information is correct and whether there are any non-automatic deductions for which you're eligible.

More complex cases are, well, more complex. If you've got income from renting an apartment, for example, you do need to report that information yourself. But it's still a relatively simple online form.

Real estate tax is handled separately from income tax. You get sent a bill with a pre-calculated sum based on property registered in your name. If you have no corrections to make, you just pay the bill.

In contrast, I think even small businesses commonly hire accountants since for them the process is probably more complex with all the deductibles etc.

If the simple cases are similarly simple in the US and making corrections is a relatively straightforward form away, I wonder why there always seems to be such a big fuss in the US about filing taxes. Because of state/local differences in tax code? Just overall complex legislation? Or maybe it's just more common to have income from a variety of sources so more people need to deal with the more complex cases? Is the filing process paper-only and the only way to do simple online filing with automatic calculation to go through commercial tax-filing software?
by rdtsc | 2025-10-16 16:36:54+00:00
> The odds of the counter revolution deciding to go exactly back on their grandparents original course, out of what is honestly quite a large space is possibilities, seems quite low to me

Not if those are the only two known destinations known to support life! Then the choice is binary really - go to destination or go back.

> And the first generation of people born in the starship won't exactly be yearning for an Earth they've never known.

I think they would. I've seen this in second generation immigrants. One would expect they'd completely embrace the new country, culture, environment, but I often see them idealizing or yearning for some mythical version of their old country, even if the parents have already adapted and moved on in the current culture. There are two mechanisms at work there, I think, one is rebellion against the old generation, and also if things are not going perfectly well, yearning for an alternative ("the grass is always greener on the other planet" principle).
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-16 16:37:04+00:00
This has been said by enough people in the know to be considered true by now. Not just from oAI, but also Anthropic and Meta have said this before. You train the best of the best, and then use it to distill/curate/inform the next training run, on something that makes sense to serve at scale. That's how you get from GPT4 / o3 prices (80$/60$ /Mtok) to gpt5 prices (10$ /Mtok) to gpt5-mini (2$ /Mtok).

Then you use a combination of the best models to amplify your training set, and enhance it for the next iteration. And then repeat the process at gen n+1.
by bityard | 2025-10-16 16:37:08+00:00
From what I recall, misuse of "open source" started becoming popular around the time that every dev and their dog was writing a GUI REST client with the following playbook:

1. Code up a halfway decent product.

2. Call yourself the "open source alternative to X" where X is some well-known proprietary enterprise product.

3. Once you have a community and your product has gotten stable on the backs of thousands of unpaid volunteers, pull the rug and rake in millions of those sweet, sweet enterprise dollars.
by georgeburdell | 2025-10-16 16:37:12+00:00
20 years ago when I was an undergrad I was studying the effect of electric fields on the chemical vapor deposition growth of (material du jour). Electricity turned what was a natural, random process, into one where we could direct the growth this way and that way. We didn't measure whether the growth rate was enhanced, but it's not surprising to me that a similar effect might show up all over the place to help speed along a natural process, because at the boundary, progressive chemical reactions isn't like stacking legos, it's like adding some, then taking a few away, then adding some more, and so on.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-16 16:37:19+00:00
That's sort of the route Microsoft went with EdgeWebView2.

Swift itself is great and stable enoug now. I really like the language. SwiftUI though still needs work and is still missing functionality that you have to fall back on AppKit for so there's tons of bridges to embed AppKit views in your SwiftUI hierarchy (like NSTextView still relies on AppKit, as does some drag and drop functionality) so at a certain point you might as well just continue using AppKit.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-16 16:37:30+00:00
Sure, and users are annoyed they don't get to use their go-to "letmein" password as well.

But this is worth it for certain platforms, especially where your users have something real to lose when they get pwned by cred stuffing (e.g. bitcoin casino).

Personally, I'd go a step further and say it's also worth it anywhere an account takeover can impact other people like Reddit and Twitter where cred stuffing lets you take over high profile accounts and then post a crypto scam or something more targeted, for example.

Mild inconvenience on a /register form doesn't sound like a serious counterbalance to the large cost of trivial account takeovers.
by ameliaquining | 2025-10-16 16:38:02+00:00
Note that the community has somewhat soured on that particular proposal and it's probably not going to be enacted in its current form, precisely because it's so complicated. (https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2025h2/ergono...)

Complexity is not necessarily an automatic dealbreaker for a Rust language proposal—lots of Rust features are complicated because they solve problems that don't admit simple solutions—but the purpose of this particular feature is to make it easier to write code that uses reference-counted pointers and reduce how much stuff the programmer has to keep track of. It doesn't let you do anything you can't already do, it just makes it less clunky. So if people can't easily understand what it does, then that's bad.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-16 16:38:16+00:00
In America, google rating scores are straight up astroturfed to the point where the total number of ratings is far more important than their score.

When I travel to Japan, for example, I interpret a bad google maps review score for a location as a GOOD thing, because the average white tourists palette is incompatible with the local cuisine.

I can walk to basically any random place, anywhere in Japan, or France, or Singapore and get very high quality food that I don't have to worry about being full of bullshit. That's not true in America.
by v-w-v-w | 2025-10-16 16:38:43+00:00
They should have been already. I expect China to completely decimate all US legacy automotive brands as electric becomes the dominate car technology unless they somehow step it up big time. Tesla has a chance, Rivian and the other smaller electric brands have a chance, but I’m not optimistic. China is pulling away in battery technology and cost efficiencies.

If they try to rely on protectionism and tarrifs, it will fail. Consumers will demand access to superior products.
by nradov | 2025-10-16 16:39:16+00:00
The SF Bay Area is hardly an outlier. There may be more specialty grocery stores here, but the large supermarkets where most consumers buy most of their food are the same as anywhere else. If you compare a Safeway in Mountain View, CA to a Publix in Daytona Beach, FL or a Kroger in Toledo, OH there isn't much difference in the products available.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-16 16:39:30+00:00
I would expect so. Rust and Cargo don't consume C header files directly at all. They consume bindings generated by bindgen (or hand written if you prefer). So you could probably generate mulitple bindings if you needed multiple interpretations of a C header.

If the header files are consumed by C code that is then consumed by Rust then you'll have full support for what C supports because it will be compiled by a C compiler.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-16 16:39:31+00:00
Sure you can. Why not? “I understand this is completely untested and might be poison. My mental competence has been tested and certified by a professional. Being in right mind and having all the pertinent information before me, I still want to inject myself with this. Signed, -Patient”

Something is wrong with your definition of consent if it totally dismisses the patient’s autonomy and right to action.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-16 16:39:41+00:00
But thats not a discussion about free or not free software. That's a discussion about interoperability, standards and vendor lock-in.

Free software encurrage interoperability to a degree, but interoperability and free software are very separate things.

And hosting providers are not evil or bad for making highly coupled systems. Its a valuable service companies gladly pay for, and a compromise developers need to calculate in their plans.
by monkmartinez | 2025-10-16 16:39:52+00:00
I can not answer for GG, but the early days of llama.cpp were crazy and everything was so very hacky. Remember, Textgen-webui was 'the way' to run models at first because it supported so many different quant types and file extensions. At the time, most people were using multiple different quantization methods and it was really hard to figure out which were performing better or worse objectively.

GGUF/GGML was like the 4th iteration of file type quantization from llama.cpp and I remember that I had to consciously begin watching the bandwidth usage from my ISP. Up to that point, I had never received an email warning me about reaching limits of my 2TB connection. All for the same models just in different forms. TheBloke was pumping out models like he had unlimited time/effort.

I say all that to say, llama.cpp was still trying, dare I say 'inventing', all the things throughout these transitions. Ollama comes in to make the running part easier and less CLI flag dependent building off of llama.cpp. Awesome.

GG and company are down in the trenches of the models architecture with CUDA, Vulkan, CPU, ROCm, etc. They are working on perplexity, token processing/generation and just look at the 'bin' folder when you compile the project. There are so many different aspects to make the whole thing work as well at it does. It's amazing that we have llama-server at all with the amount of work that has gone into making llama.cpp.

All that to say, Ollama shit the bed on attribution. They were called out on r/localllama very early on for not really giving credit to llama.cpp. They have a soiled reputation with the people that participate in that sub-reddit at least. They were called out for not contributing back if I remember correctly as well, which further stained their reputation among the folks who hang in that sub-reddit.

So it's not a matter of "ease" to build what Ollama built... At least from the perspective of someone who has been paying close attention from r/localllama; the problem was/is simply the perception (right or wrong) of the meme; Person 2 to person 1: "You built this?" -> Person 2: takes item/thing -> person 2: Holds up item/thing -> "I built this". A simple act that really pissed off the community in general.
by Aloha | 2025-10-16 16:40:01+00:00
I've had an idea for wide format, high density, optically read, punched mylar (or other similar plastic) film - so something like a 5 foot roll of mylar punched at 12-16 dpi. Leading to storage in the 1-2k bytes per linear inch.

Mylar if stored properly could last a very very long time.
by hbn | 2025-10-16 16:40:06+00:00
The only example of that I can remember was "HD sunglasses" but I don't recall that ever being a widespread fad. I only saw people ever joke about that.

HD as far as I ever saw it used generally referred to 720p and soon after 1080p. Which is a pretty objective, non-marketing definition. And the timeframe of 2015-2020 seems way off. 1080p was pretty standard by like 2010. YouTube started streaming 4K in 2010.
by gregw2 | 2025-10-16 16:40:25+00:00
Thanks for the links and call out on the PCBs!

Regarding components, it's not like they are making chips in the same plant as a laptop plant in China either, are they?

I guess the question is which components function or cost benefit the most from tighter coupling, and which components (eg antenna) do you isolate to keep your secret sauce internally controlled.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-16 16:40:26+00:00
Not really no.

I'm not saying eating a bit of cow poop on your lettuce never gets anyone sick, but that's not the mechanism of concern.

One: poop is mostly bacteria, by mass. It isn't infected with ... it is. Some can be "pathogens" but that's what the last stage of digestion is, fermentation with mostly a wide array of bacteria.

The concern is these gut bacteria developing antibiotic resistance and bacterial infections in the animal developing resistance. Then infections are spread between animals and across species and the waste is reintroduced into the environment. Resistant bacteria in the environment share. Horizontal gene transfer between species of bacteria can lead to these resistance genes being popular and everywhere. It's not cow poop infecting you, its the genetics getting spread into the environment and eventually ending up in a human pathogen.

>animal waste is sometimes used as fertilizer

More or less all industrial farmed animal waste ends up as fertilizer. Also a major component of the kinds of soil we grow crops in is bacteria, much of which has been through the digestive system of an animal. Again I don't know what people think soil is. If you want "clean"(?) never been poop growth medium for your plants you have to go completely artificial. And manure isn't sterilized before it goes into fields, it's alive.
by filoleg | 2025-10-16 16:40:44+00:00
> Do people actually get in trouble for this?

Unless they willingly and provingly try to grift IRS on a continuous basis, no, people don't get in trouble for this.

If you mess something up or underpay on your taxes, and if (or when) IRS detects it, they will send you a letter explaining their concerns and provide you with remediation options (as well as an opportunity to dispute, of course). The remediation options provided by IRS typically include both "pay it now and we will go away as if it never happened" and "talk to us, and we can work out a payment plan with you (in case you aren't able to cover at the moment)".

So no, IRS isn't some boogeyman that is gonna get you in trouble over a mistake. If they catch a mistake, they will work with you to remediate it, and their terms are typically extremely reasonable, and have zero negative consequences for utilizing them (unless you are, beyond any reasonable doubt, trying to defraud them or refuse to cooperate entirely).
by Mathnerd314 | 2025-10-16 16:40:47+00:00
There was a whole experiment with this "Tab Candy" thing a few years ago. And it failed and Mozilla disabled it and it got silently removed, well, almost, because a fair amount of people complained. I wouldn't be surprised if today's tab groups go the same way. Browser innovation is hard and at this point most of the innovation is in forks of Firefox, rather than Firefox itself.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-16 16:40:52+00:00
The spirit of UBI isn't to bring in everyone around the world and try to pay for it. No nation can pay for the entire world, no matter what anyone thinks. The US may be effectively more wealthy than most of the world, but there are a lot of people in the world. If you increase the effective population without increasing the tax paying workforce, it simply doesn't math anymore.
by jopsen | 2025-10-16 16:41:40+00:00
Well, presumably electricity prices are relatively low when curtailment happens, and high when there is no curtailment.

So maybe storage can make some sense.

But before you go expand the grid or add batteries, it's probably fine to over build or curtail some more :)

Okay, I honestly don't know. Because this comes down to the numbers -- it's really just an economics exercise.

I guess my point is: scary absolute number of money spent on curtailment, makes a great headline, but doesn't mean anything.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-16 16:42:16+00:00
Original title: PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model

Direct link to PDF: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/publication/PaddleOCR-VL_Techni...

Baidu claims state of the art performance on their own OmniDocBench (although some recent models like GPT-5 and Qwen3 are not evaluated) and strong results on olmOCR-Bench and Ocean-OCR-Bench.
by leakycap | 2025-10-16 16:42:17+00:00
> I get fed up and move to a computer.

Big screens can be addicting, too - but not being portable helps it be less available 24x7 and makes the problem less visible to those around you.

Do you track your screen time using an accurate/unbiased method like an app? Big screen wasted time may be much higher than you assume.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-16 16:42:20+00:00
There's another category of things that aren't really modals but they still prevent you from accessing some important user interface element because they draw on top of it even if they don't block out all UI elements.

Toasts in Windows are a good example -- often I am trying to use the tray but a toast pops up and I have to wait for the toast to clear or a toast pops up that makes me use the tray icons that it covers up if I want to deal with the situation. Of course on Windows there is the problem that clicking on a toast doesn't seem to ever do anything (like take you to the app that made the toast) and there is not a good mechanism to see the toast once it's past, etc.

In the case of Firefox I was particularly annoyed by little panels that floated above bookmark items on the chrome at the top of the page because, I dunno, there is something new I can do with my bookmarks, I guess. What I do know is that I wanted to click on something that was at the top of the web page and that stupid panel was in the way -- it wouldn't have stopped me from clicking on something else, but it's predictable that you're going to load a web page and frequently click on a link on a navbar at the very top.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-16 16:42:27+00:00
I've become increasingly aggravated with a browser that has propagandized since its creation that it is meant to give its users control over their web experience that the processes/workers that tabs and extensions start are almost completely opaque, or only accessible through bizarre about:pages that are themselves inaccessible by extensions, and only give you often unintelligible information about random unidentified groups of processes at the thread level.

There is no technical reason that I can figure out that there can't be a commandline top-like for Firefox that keeps up with every worker started up by a tab or extension; or for that matter logs every use of a granted permission by an extension; or of course to manage cookies, local storage, and memory allocations, and allows you to set alerts for them, block them, kill them, etc..

I've been bullying AI into constructing a minimal architecture that would do just that, and not touch much in order to keep it easy to maintain the fork. If anybody else has or knows of an existing solution, I'm all ears. If the browser is supposed to be an OS now, why is the one that claims to be free also a monolith with no process control?

Firefox just decided around the time they got rid of the ability to easily disable js that they wanted the web to be impenetrable magic. I decided that their motive is that they didn't want you touching their bosses' ads, or their strange experiments.

I'm selfish. If firefox has been pinning a core at 100% for the last hour, I'm greedy enough to want to know what tab is doing it (especially if it is a long-closed tab that left behind a little gift, could it be?) I know it's not my place.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-10-16 16:42:53+00:00
EA is about as successful as it is possible for a videogame company to get. There's a finite number of gamers, hours in the day, and cash that those gamers can spend, and EA is getting a healthy chunk of it.

If the point of a corporation is profitability and good product, they had that.

But if the point is growth, then all that leaves is branching into other verticals, which leaves… movies and gambling?

loving that late stage capitalism!
by codebra | 2025-10-16 16:43:14+00:00
Apple’s experience has almost nothing to do with “harnessing” LLMs, and everything to do with their wildly misjudged assumption they could run a viable model on a phone. Useful LLMs require their own power plants and can only be feasibly run in the cloud, or in a limited manner on powerful equipment like a 5090. Apple seems to have misunderstood that the “large” in large language model isn’t just a metaphor.
by bpt3 | 2025-10-16 16:43:39+00:00
> We have enough technological advancement in America that given strict immigration controls we can ensure the median American is able to raise a family of at least 2 kids while holding an entry level job (of which their should be plenty).

What evidence is there to support this? Kids are expensive, and entry level jobs do not produce enough value to generate an income that can support several people.

> Anything else is morally wrong

Why?
by wat10000 | 2025-10-16 16:43:49+00:00
Looking at https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing, GPT 3.5 is $1.50-4 per million output tokens, and GPT 5 is $0.40-120, with plain "gpt-5" with no qualifiers going for $10/million.

GPT5 is probably cheaper in the sense that gpt5-nano is at least as capable as 3.5 while costing less, but the "normal" models are more expensive for the newer ones, and thats what people are generally going to be using.
by Bender | 2025-10-16 16:44:18+00:00
I have both a cattle prod and a TENS-7000. I assume there may be different voltages and pps that work best on different wounds and there must be a database that would be used to track results for everyone that self experiments. One study only applies to its small set of masochists. I would like to see the numbers evolve over time from more masochists so we can share each others pain, pleasure and recovery. Also the best places to stick it and results of different molecules to work in conjunction with the TazeMeBro-20000. e.g. Terrasil3X vs Max strength Desitin vs other off-label options and other supplements. Diabetics seem to prefer Terrasil3X. The step-by-step guide should have videos of unclothed people configuring and applying the TENS to every possible wound location.