MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2025-12-04 11:38:04+00:00
This perspective is pretty silly. If you don't know the price you set it up for auction. The Ebay auction prices in German are in the $400 range for 2x16GB. The retailers aren't particularly expensive. Maybe $10 to $20 more.

>I'd rather reward diligence and personal responsibility - if you monitor market trends, anticipate needs, and act quickly, such as buying RAM ahead of a known upcoming supply crunch, you're rewarded with access at the original price. Rather than passive reliance on wealth to solve problems. First come first served values effort and foresight. Scarcity is managed through time and effort rather than money.

Are you really going to discount the effort made by the manufacturers to produce the product? You know, giving them money is the best way for them to produce more products. A lucrative DRAM market will also make it easier for new competitors to enter the market.

Also, if everyone does what you suggest, then all that will happen is that the price will rise extremely rapidly before the actual supply crunch even happened. That sounds like what is currently happening.
by K0nserv | 2025-12-04 11:39:07+00:00
I haven't played a while so I cannot comment. When I last played I spun up a server for my friend group to play on. This is the beauty of old school games like these, no need to rely on a company to keep servers running. In a way Warsow is the perfect LAN game: everyone can run it and it's easy to host a server.
by ben_w | 2025-12-04 11:39:29+00:00
> Some enterprising entrepreneur in the EU would establish a company in the country having the least US tariffs and resell Acme DRAM to US companies. Surely this would make money hand-over-fist.

Re-badging is a thing that some companies do actually do, despite what the DoJ says.

> Importers of goods into the U.S. should expect criminal enforcement to accelerate in the coming months and years.

I am absolutely not a lawyer, but wouldn't "importers" be the USA residents, not the EU businesses doing the exporting?
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-12-04 11:40:34+00:00
Everyone disagreeing with this poster, are you okay with living in a society where anything goes? Do we give up trying to minimise harms because it is hard to do? The effort to regulate this sort of access has to start in some shape or form and then improved.

Come up with a better solution, provide a proof of concept and yes regulatory agencies / governments will take notice. People like us work in these agencies. Let's propose better ways of achieving the same goal of reducing porn exposure to minors - not keep bashing the initiative taken.
by homebrewer | 2025-12-04 11:41:35+00:00
You're lucky then. Hardware availability has increased by orders of magnitude for me — not an exaggeration. Even 10-15 years ago I'd be happy to have access to two motherboards, three CPUs, three video cards — all of them at least a generation old, and Intel + nvidia, nothing else — and cheap noname RAM/SSDs. Over the past 5-8 years I've mostly been able to get access to the same hardware y'all are buying, thanks only to increased pervasiveness of online shopping.

Brick and mortar stores are as useless as they've always been. Even now they're selling old hardware (couple of generations old or older) for more than it was ever worth. For example, one such store not far from me has been trying to offload a 12-year old LCD monitor for several years now, for two times of its original price. I wonder why.
by dust42 | 2025-12-04 11:42:34+00:00
To play the devils advocate: TLS on websites where you are not logged in is the greatest security hogwash of all times.

For example the cookies of the NYT:

- Store and/or access information on a device 178 vendors - Use limited data to select advertising 111 vendors - Create profiles for personalised advertising 135 vendors - Use profiles to select personalised advertising - Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 92 vendors

There is no way to escape any of this unless you spend several hours per week to click through these dialogs and to adjust adblockers.

And even if you block all cookies, ever-cookies and fingerprinting, then there are still cloudflare, amazon, gcp and azure who know your cross-site visits.

The NSA is no longer listening because there is TLS everywhere? Sure, and the earth is flat.
by morserer | 2025-12-04 11:42:43+00:00
Your criticism is fair, however, not everyone keeps their Android phones configured thus. A growing minority of users--whom are the target audience of software like this, I suspect--maintain sole root access over their phone, or otherwise restrict privileged access from other software on the device. There do exist Android devices where no-one but the user have control, even without custom roms or 3rd parties at play. (Firmware is a separate issue, but that goes well beyond smartphones, and even then some phones perform hardware isolation by way of iommu.)

But aside from this, hidden services aren't exclusively used for the clandestine nor the malicious. It's a way of port forwarding on any network, even through a NAT, while also anonymizing traffic on both ends, for free. That functionality alone goes well beyond the purpose of simply hiding data. See Briar[0] for a particularly well-executed example of this.

[0]: https://briarproject.org/
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 11:43:07+00:00
JavaScript is an easy-to-use object scripting language designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers. While Java is used by programmers to create new objects and applets, JavaScript is designed for use by HTML page authors and enterprise application developers to dynamically script the behavior of objects running on either the client or the server. JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications. JavaScript's design represents the next generation of software designed specifically for the Internet
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-12-04 11:43:18+00:00
So assuming that the gross margin is GAAP (which it probably isn't), then this would suggest that the costs of training are covered by inference sales this year (which is definitely good).

However, I'm still a little sceptical around this as the cost to train new models is going up super-linearly (apparently) which means that the revenue from inference needs to also go up along side this.

Interesting to think about though, thanks for the source!
by jdougan | 2025-12-04 11:44:19+00:00
Wow, just what I wanted for Christmas. Back in the day I found VisiOn's approach fascinating since almost everything at the time was either more tightly integrated or completely unintegrated.

Maybe someone could do the the old Reason software bus based system next? As detailed in Jan 1984 Byte magazine. Lord only knows if there are surviving copies anywhere in the world.
by vintermann | 2025-12-04 11:45:17+00:00
> People don't know they are being manipulated.

You can see other people falling for manipulation in a handful of specific ways that you aren't (buying new, having a bad cell phone subscription, blaming immigrants). Doesn't it seem likely then, that you're being manipulated in ways which are equally obvious to others?We realize that, that's part of why we get mad.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-04 11:45:59+00:00
That's a pretty typical middle-brow dismissal but it entirely misses the point of TFA: you don't need AI for this, but AI makes it so much cheaper to do this that it becomes a qualitative change rather than a quantitative one.

Compared to that 'russian troll army' you can do this by your lonesome spending a tiny fraction of what that troll army would cost you and it would require zero effort in organization compared to that. This is a real problem and for you to dismiss it out of hand is a bit of a short-cut.
by HatchedLake721 | 2025-12-04 11:46:50+00:00
> They can fine all they want, if the company doesn't have any entity in said territory they can just ignore it.

Try running an online poker site abroad and serve US players and find out how that'll work out for you.

Didn't work out well for Lithuanian/Canadian/Israeli Isai Scheinberg founder of Poker Stars, nor Calvin Ayre, the founder of the Bodog, who ended up on the FBI's top 10 list. United States reportedly sought* to seize around $3 billion worth of assets from 3 major online poker companies at the time.

https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/457/is-online-poke...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
by keyringlight | 2025-12-04 11:47:20+00:00
I'd wonder how much Valve has agreed to buy other parts and tooling/manfacturing services. Then they could have scenarios where they have a pile of AMD chips and the rest of the parts, but limited or no VRAM/RAM/NAND to complete the systems so they can be sold, or they've spent a pile of money designing and working with a manufacturer to get to the stage where they can start making batches, but can't get the volume to bring in a real benefit.

Being pragmatic, I wonder if Valve benefit from the health of the PC market, whether they'll also put efforts into helping people get more life out of their existing machines, or individuals/businesses refurbishing to sell on the used market with more confidence. There's already an angle for reducing e-waste with the win10 end of life if it can be tied into installing linux.
by mcny | 2025-12-04 11:47:38+00:00
> But ultimately it is up to a judge to decide. Right?

I think we are getting a rude awakening about what is legal versus what is actually right are not always the same thing. There are some the horrible, horrible things here and the laws need updating, as opposed to us simply saying this is for a judge to decide and there is nothing else we can do.

I am ok with ditching the JavaScript name. I understand this cuts the problem entirely. However, there are other problems we have that we can't bypass so easily.

We need copyright terms to be much reduced. We need CFAA fully repealed and not replaced by anything. We need to abolish software patents. There is a lot we need to do that will likely take a century to accomplish and that's likely being too optimistic.

What we can't do is leave everything up to the judges because clearly even if we get a favorable ruling today, the precedent can be removed by another stroke of a pen.
by gnfargbl | 2025-12-04 11:48:34+00:00
Be aware of threat actors, too: you're giving them an easy data exfil route without the hassle and risk of them having to set up their own infrastructure.

Back in the day you could have stood up something like this and worried about abuse later. Unfortunately, now, a decent proportion early users of services like this do tend to be those looking to misuse it.
by ben_w | 2025-12-04 11:48:54+00:00
> Sounds good in theory, but in practice those same few companies can set prices for markets outside the US to be at/near US prices. It doesn't take much effort for manufacturers to set their prices at or near those of their competitors and rely on an implicit mutually assured destruction[0] understanding.

If a company in A sells a widget W to both the EU and the USA, such that a consumer in the EU and the USA pay the same prices even though the USA has a tariff and Europe doesn't, then the company will make a lot more profit per unit selling all their W in the EU and none in the USA.

I'm not at all sure what's happening at any given moment with the USA's tariffs on anything, given the chaos over there. But let's say W is the set of all things relevant to AI data centres. What this means is that all the data centres are now much cheaper to build in Europe rather than in the USA. Data centres can be put just about anywhere, given they're used over the internet anyway. This means that the companies selling W would have all the demand they want for W in the EU, so they could sell all of their supply of W in the EU, so they could get a higher profit margin on all of it.

I'm not sure how much DC investment money is going to which parts of the world, but I am sure that if all the suppliers stopped shipping to the USA because they could sell as much as they could make everywhere else in the world for more profit (and the same purchaser price after tariffs), I would have heard about it.
by jalapenos | 2025-12-04 11:49:03+00:00
Friendly reminder that all of this crap, basically the vast majority or all crap happening south of the US border, and even as far afield as North Korea, is specifically and intentionally created and pushed by all three branches of the US federal government, through illegalizing narcotics.

They rely on the fact that most people are too stupid to understand that being anti-prohibition does not mean pro-drugs, which allows them to continue a policy that ends and ruins thousands of lives each year, just so they can sit on a narcissistic moral high horse.
by K0balt | 2025-12-04 11:49:22+00:00
I think the price increases we are seeing are a direct result of the skepticism about AI scale viability. The big dram houses aren’t increasing capacity, due to the risks you mention.

So demand from other sources has to be suppressed through being priced out in order to meet those supply promises made to OAI in ignorance of their true scale.

This is OAI doing suppliers dirty by making economy distorting moves without transparency, intentionally distorting the market in an effort to hurt competitors.

Yet another example of the “free market” creating destruction for the general public.

As a thought experiment, replace “dram” with “rice” or another essential food stock. Market manipulation such as this is wildly irresponsible, anti-humanity and antithetical to public good. Wars are started over less.

This is an excellent example of the actual alignment of OpenAI as an organization. Yet we are to trust them with leading the way in the alignment of our manque oracles of truth and power?
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-04 11:49:34+00:00
That's what HBM is actually. The memory dies are directly next to the GPU die, on the same substrate. The main difference between Apple SoC and GPUs is the former use regular LPDDR while GPUs use HBM.

One of the key points of HBM is that dies are stacked up with many, MANY, more signals and channels. That's how NVIDIA has a memory bandwidth an order of magnitude higher than M4: 550GB/s for the M4 Max, 4.6TB/s for H200. And yes, that's bytes per second, not bits per second.
by broken-kebab | 2025-12-04 11:49:45+00:00
These things are not comparable. Alcohol is so old a thing we not only built plenty of stable cultural norms around it but we even developed genetic adaptations.

And speaking of culture, as an Eastern European I would argue our rules regarding alcohol are not soft. Yes, we drink, even expected to drink on some ritualized occasions. But contrary to Hollywood depictions, it's not cool to be a non-functional alco in our lands. When society decides you can't manage yourself, it builds harsh zone of exclusion around you. Imagine you have an uncle Jim who is constantly doomscrolling and for that he has no chances with a good reliable woman, his job opportunities are limited to something non-prestigious, people talk about him like he's a dimwit, even kids look down at him. He's recognized as a failure of a man and parents don't miss a chance to remind about the bad example to their kids. That would be "not-hard" rules EE style.
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by Lio | 2025-12-04 11:51:10+00:00
Sorry but I'm going to keep bashing the initiative because:

1. It doesn't stop kids from accessing porn because kids know about or can learn about free VPNs.

2. I think it exposes lots of adults to identity theft on non-porn websites by normalising compulsory ID checks. e.g. on Spotify, Bluesky, Reddit, etc. I think it's a matter of time before phishing sites start making use of this.

I think the implementors of this law either knew about these issues or are hopelessly naive.

Given that and the push for digital IDs at the same time I think they are bad actors and I question their motivation.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-04 11:51:53+00:00
Your logic that OpenAI can by proxy afford to buy out the entire world's supply of RAM because consumers value OpenAI products more than other RAM-dependent things assumes that OpenAI's money comes from selling goods or services to those consumers. It doesn't. The overwhelming majority of people pay zero dollars per year on AI services, while almost everyone spends at least a few hundred a year on gadgets that need RAM and other services that run on servers that need it as well.

The money OpenAI is using to starve the rest of us of RAM is coming from pumped up valuation through circular investments, investor FOMO, cheap debt and often straight up gambling. Rich bastards know that they can pump money into the bubble to grow it and hopefully cash out before it bursts. Nowhere in that process did any regular person value AI datacenters over other uses of RAM.
by urtie | 2025-12-04 11:52:09+00:00
There are projects such as https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-java and https://wasmtime.dev/ that extend this embeddability to Java, .net, C, C++, rust, Python, Ruby and Go. Wouldn't want to call those 'JS et al'.

Ofcourse, that ignores the fact that for many of these languages there are existing libraries and drivers to connect to databases that would not work with this embedded one, but still.
by somat | 2025-12-04 11:52:24+00:00
It only matters if you don't have the source to your programs. So yes, there is a huge corpus of programs where this matters. But there is also a large library of programs where the source is available and backwards compatibility does not matter nearly as much.

As a concrete example, the source to quake is available, this has allowed quake to run on so many platforms and windows infamous backwards compatibility has little effect in keeping quake running, windows could have broken backwards compatibility and quake would still run on it.
by eviks | 2025-12-04 11:52:55+00:00
> Bugs exist, and they're sometimes fixed more slowly than we'd like, but given the size of the GitHub ecosystem this is probably just one of many outstanding bugs.

Sorry to be blunt, but you've said nothing of substance. To address the actual criticism you need to explain why these specific "inexcusable bugs" they cite are excusable from your perspective. Otherwise if the whole website doesn't function for months your statement "bugs exist, fixed slower than we'd like" would also apply and be just as meaningless
by pityJuke | 2025-12-04 11:53:00+00:00
ok lucky you but that doesn’t mean that the verge doesn’t have a paywall [0]

> Our original reporting, reviews, and features will be behind a dynamic metered paywall — many of you will never hit the paywall, but if you read us a lot, we’ll ask you to pay

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24306571/verge-subscripti...
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-04 11:53:52+00:00
If you take as a given that consenting adults should have access to sexually explicit material generated by other consenting adults; the potential for harm to adults is huge with the current implementations.

Can't wait for the headlines when the entire watch history of some famous person is released after someone recognises them in their "age verification scan".

It's about the only good thing which could come out of digital ID. Being able to proved proof of age in a double blind way.
by karel-3d | 2025-12-04 11:54:23+00:00
They now have GoFundMe where they are soliciting donations for a discovery phase of a <strike>patent</strike> trademark cancellation request.

They have just 50k USD out of 200k USD they are raising. (No idea if that's appropriate; from the outside, it seems like a lot of money, but also they are fighting Oracle which has unlimited money, so, yeah)

For some reason it's not linked in the page itself.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-challenge-oracles-javascr...

https://deno.com/blog/javascript-tm-gofundme
by Zenst | 2025-12-04 11:54:51+00:00
Well, OFCOM lost all credibility with me and many on how they failed to fix the Vectone UK mess. Vectone UK was a virtual operator, however they owned the number range they allocated(Most MVNO's get a block from the provider they use for their network, Vectone behind the scene would shop around and by owning the number range, could made switching core network easier I presume). So even when you ported to another network, as they owned the number, they would set up routing to the new provider(This is how number porting works, of which I was unaware as I'm sure many are not). Issue is that if the provider goes bust, all those numbers go with them. So anyone who had a number that originated from them, even if they ported it to another network, suddenly lost not only their number, but any way shape or form of getting it back. The impact was devastating for many, including myself. All 2FA, or any account ties to that number you found yourself unable to control. Even if you had access to the account, to change the number would see them use best practice security to send a verification code to the old number. THis created a right nightmare as you can imagine with all the automated support we now have. So months of fun and games, with the odd gotcha popping up overlooked from time to time.

OFCOM failed to do anything, they could have forced them to sell the number range, taken over control of the umber range, or proactively thought out such situations due to the way they port numbers being that the new provider gets control of that number and not at the mercy of the previous provider, which in this case went bust.

Many other stories on this here: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/vectone-is-dead.406...

But like many, I myself contacted OFCOM and found a chocolate teapot far more comforting and with better results.

What with the UK pushing digital ID, funny anecdote there - I did jury service recently and they do not accept a digital ID as proof of ID, nor do they accept a selfie either as proof of age or ID ( we all had a good laugh as was done in the best possible taste ).
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-04 11:54:58+00:00
It is also right in their military strategy text that you can read yourself.

Even beyond that, why would an adversarial nation state to the US not do this? It is extremely asymmetrical, effective and cheap.

The parent comment shows how easy it is to manipulate smart people away from their common sense into believing obvious nonsense if you use your brain for 2 seconds.
by raesene9 | 2025-12-04 11:55:46+00:00
So if you could get Google/Apple/MS on board, then you could embed controls onto most people's endpoints, and actually that'd work more than trying to put the burden on websites/controlling the network. The trick is those are all US corporations who may or may not want to be responsible for that level of control.

While we still have alternate operating systems, that won't be a universal control of course. You'd have to stop people owning general purpose computing devices for that to be fully effective.