MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2025-12-29 10:04:41+00:00
My thinking is that China does not want to cause a regional arms race and so will want a very short decisive action(hours), and then quickly dismantle the whole aparatus and then leave taiwan as a "semi indipendent"
territory with integration of military, customs and courts to the mainland.

When mainland China resumes full control of
taiwan it will be a , sudden, vast, utterly overwhelming , and almost bloodless take over.
To put things in perspective, mainland China has an excess male population of military service age, larger than the total population of taiwan.
So staffing is not a problem.
China is working on building a fully modular shipping container based ultra high tech missle and surface warfare systems package, to instantly convert a container ship, into a full on bad ass navy ship, so will have full spectrum area dominance.
China OWNS drone production, and will have military liasons embeded in the Russian forces fighting in the ukrain.
It goes on and on, China is HUGE, and taiwan is smol, and taiwan made the mistake of claiming ALL of mainland china as there property,, and will soon have that claim, tested, all in acordance with international law, or whatever passes for that.
And again, china's concern is to make this a blip in the media cycle that gets no real traction and is gone overnight.
The current drills are a signal that if the US goes into Venezuela or other countrys, China may do it the messy(er), way, now, but would prefer another scenario.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-29 10:05:05+00:00
> Rare earth metals are in the dirt around the world.

They are. The problem is, the machinery to extract and refine them, and especially to make them into chips, takes years to build. We're looking at a time horizon of almost a decade if you include planning, permits and R&D.

And given that almost everyone but the AI bros expects the AI bubble to burst rather sooner than later (given that the interweb of funding and deals more resembles the Habsburg family tree than anything healthy) and the semiconductor industry is infamous for pretty toxic supply/demand boom-bust cycles, they are all preferring to err on the side of caution - particularly as we're not talking about single billion dollar amounts any more. TSMC Arizona is projected to cost 165 billion dollars [1] - other than the US government and cash-flush Apple, I don't even know anyone willing to finance such a project under the current conditions.

[1] https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm
by likelyMostYes | 2025-12-29 10:05:09+00:00
> reliably communicate some of the nested arboreal complexities

Text/Subtext, text/'direct' and implied meaning, maybe?

I don't think 2D refers to conventional dimensions but to a dimensional structure implicit to text as an object made of objects, nested and nesting all the way up and down.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/thebrainsong...
by businessmate | 2025-12-29 10:06:51+00:00
This case study examines a class of AI risk that is already operational, externally generated, and materially ungoverned: decision-shaped AI output produced under correct facts.

The core finding is not that AI systems hallucinate, misstate evidence, or violate explicit rules. The finding is that they assemble accurate claims into authoritative, decision-ready narratives in regulated healthcare contexts, without accountability, auditability, or enforceable role boundaries.
by ben_w | 2025-12-29 10:07:31+00:00
Much as I take a dim view of the laws and politics of England & Wales*, those numbers include "indecent" and "obscene" messages, i.e. dick picks could be mixed up in these totals.

I suspect the actual number of un-asked-for dick picks sent each year is significantly (multiple orders of magnitude) higher than that, while also suspecting that most of those pics don't lead to arrests and what people are arrested for is in fact hate speech or threats that at first glance seem like they might be terrorist in nature, but so far as I can tell this distinction is not actually recorded in any official statistics so we just don't know.

* I left the UK in 2018 due to the overreach and incompetence shown in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, plus the people in charge during Brexit all hating on international human rights obligations; I would've left a year sooner but for family stuff.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-29 10:07:59+00:00
> Couldn't you do the the same thing with react native components and logic in C++? (You could) Why is this any better than just writing a react native UI? Or a flutter UI?

The tooling, that is why.

Having QtCreator, Qt Design Studio, compiling QML to native code, debugging experience.

React Native has all the gotchas from JavaScript and poor tooling for developers that never left the CLI world.

Flutter depends on Dart, a programming language that was rescued from oblivion thanks to Flutter, and is pretty much useless everywhere else.
by pas | 2025-12-29 10:08:13+00:00
The usual answer is that there are other people who also need things and cannot pay, so then how should the provider pick between them fairly? (And likely some have a "free clinic", and as you mentioned there are options.)

Still almost all of the responsibility is on the patient, which is a terrible situation to be in for mental health patients. And even if the courts will find that the termination was wrongful it's unlikely that matters, because employers are not responsible for keeping employees alive and happy, they are responsible for making the usual safety precautions (see OSHA) and disability accommodations.

All the great perks of our cherished individualism suck when you have no one to enjoy them with.
by rurban | 2025-12-29 10:08:20+00:00
I am talking about gradual typing here. Types are optional, if not given or implied they default to any. No need to annotate anything. If given they are enforced, and lead to optimized op codes and errors if violated. Some at compile-time, some at run-time. If fully typed, all errors are caught at compile-time already.

Duck typing as done with python is the worst of both worlds. No optimizations, no enforcement. Just optional external typechecks.

Of course untyped code (ie runtime types in each var) is to write faster. You only need to add types to some vars or args, and gradually improve from there. Eg ints only, because they are optimized the easiest. No need to check for strings, bigint, floats,....
Or arrays to check for overflows at compile-time and restrict to ints or strings. Massive improvements possible, in size and runtime.

Or object fields. Hash lookups vs static offsets.
by curtisblaine | 2025-12-29 10:09:12+00:00
> demands for more taxations

That would be "eat the rich"? It looks like more demand for homicide and cannibalism, at least at a face value.

> free speech is a liberal value

That is a really nice definition that allows your side to say whatever they want, but the other side to have their speech restricted. It looks like "free speech" because you say it is, but of course it is not.

> but calling for genocide is and should be punished

And that is the usual strawman. "Calling for genocide" is incredibly vague. Is repatriation of immigrants genocide? Is CECOT genocide? Is advocating bombing Gaza genocide? Is "from the river to the sea" a coded call for genocide? Is, God help us, saying that trans women are men advocating for "trans genocide"? (apparently that's a thing)

I have this feeling you don't want to establish a line in the sand for free speech to be free - you just want to pick and choose the examples that you deem acceptable.
by sdoering | 2025-12-29 10:09:47+00:00
I once stumbled upon the idea of calculating the signal to noise ration of "news". Say you consume 30 pieces of "news" a day, you are roughly at 10k "news" pieces a year. How many of those influence a decision you make. Like which job to take, whom to propose to, where to move.

The author, Hans Rosling by the way, showed with this little thought experiment, how little signal for our personal lives and our important decisions lies in "news".

I also worked in publishing for a while as my first job out of university. Ever since I left that industry I am so happy to be out of that drama generating machine.
by rahen | 2025-12-29 10:09:59+00:00
I love it, instant Github star.
I wrote an MLP in Fortran IV for a punched card machine from the sixties (https://github.com/dbrll/Xortran), so this really speaks to me.

The interaction is surprisingly good despite the lack of attention mechanism and the limitation of the "context" to trigrams from the last sentence.

This could have worked on 60s-era hardware and would have completely changed the world (and science fiction) back then. Great job.
by verisimi | 2025-12-29 10:10:05+00:00
It makes sense.

But, imagine the case where I do not think serving the social structure is good. And I make what sound like cynical jokes about serving the social structure. For those that believe in serving the social structure, that cynicism only had negative connotations. But for those who don't believe all that, the bitter joke might accurately reflect their understanding according to reality.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-29 10:11:54+00:00
I'm getting fed up of people posting these figures. Especially with a misleading description like "arrests for comments on social media". They cover a very broad range of offences, many of which the public would want to keep as an offence. It includes cases like pedophiles grooming and blackmailing children, stalking, harrassment, even people emailing photos of aborted foetuses to pharmacies.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-12-29 10:13:36+00:00
As far as I can tell, none of the companies producing memory chips are increasing production because they don't know if the current demand is sustainable.

Increasing memory production capacity is a multi-year project, but in a few years, the LLM companies creating the current demand might all have run out of money. If demand craters just as supply increases, prices will drastically decrease, which none of these companies want.
by 3uler | 2025-12-29 10:13:46+00:00
The fakes vs mocks distinction here feels like a terminology debate masking violent agreement. What you’re describing as a “fake” is just a well-designed mock. The problem isn’t mocks as a concept, it’s mocking at the wrong layer.
The rule: mock what you own, at the boundaries you control.
The chaos you describe comes from mocking infrastructure directly. Verifying “deleteUserById was called exactly once with these params” is testing implementation, not behavior. Your HashMap-backed fake tests the right thing: is the user gone after the operation? Who cares how. The issue is finding the correct layers to validate behavior, not the implementation detail of mocks or fakes… that’s like complaining a hammer smashed a hole in the wall.
by lucidnonsense | 2025-12-29 10:13:57+00:00
I can't comment on Eduroam as I have no experience working in the Edu space, but in general, EAP-TLS is considered to be the gold standard for WiFi/LAN authentication, as alternatives like EAP-TTLS and PEAP-MSCHAPv2 are all flawed in one way or another and rely on username/password auth, which is a weaker form of authentication than relying on asymmetric cryptography (mTLS). Passwords can be shared and phished, if you're not properly enforcing server cert validation, you will be susceptible to evil twin attacks, etc.

Of course, implementing EAP-TLS usually requires a robust way for distributing client certificates to the clients. If all your devices are managed, this is often done using the SCEP protocol. The CA can be either AD CS, your NAC solution, or a cloud PKI solution like SecureW2.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-29 10:15:14+00:00
Rational actors in game know that this demand spike is most likely temporary. So investing in more production only to face glut in future dropping margins to nearly nothing is not rational move.

This has been played out before so it is only natural that they are careful with increasing the supply. And while they don't response they are netting larger margins than before.

Obvious end result is that demand will drop as price goes up. The other natural part of supply-demand curve.
by wtallis | 2025-12-29 10:15:35+00:00
I think both the Meshcore and Meshtastic communities have a problem with people being passive aggressive instead of being direct and upfront about the different tradeoffs chosen by those projects, and their consequences for various use cases. Unless those attitudes improve, keeping the forums separated is unfortunately one of the more straightforward ways to avoid flamewars and repetitive, circular arguments.

There are significant downsides to the changes Meshcore made to achieve more reliability in some use cases; it's absolutely not an all-around improvement that Meshtastic necessarily needs to "catch up" to, and downplaying or hiding the downsides doesn't help anyone. At the same time, Meshtastic proponents should be more honest about the scalability limitations of their approach.
by elorant | 2025-12-29 10:16:27+00:00
Affordable computing is what created the economy. If you take that away people in poorer countries can no longer afford a phone. Without a phone a lot things that we consider a given will not be functional anymore. The gaming industry alone including phones is a whooping $300bn. This will take a significant hit if people have to pay a fortune to build a rig, or if their phones are so under-powered that they can't even play a decent arcade game. Fiber is not universal so that all of this to be transferred to the cloud. We tend to forget that computing is universal and it's not just PCs.
by SunlitCat | 2025-12-29 10:16:42+00:00
I really wonder when the point will be reached at which the South Korean government steps in and starts to take a closer look at the growing long-term supply commitments that companies like OpenAI are indirectly driving with major memory manufacturers such as SK hynix and Samsung Electronics.

Allocating a very large share of advanced memory production, especially HBM and high-end DRAM, which are critical for almost all modern technology (and even many non-tech products like household appliances) to a small number of U.S. centric AI players risks distorting the global market and limiting availability for other industries.

Even within Samsung itself, the Mobile eXperience (MX) Business (smartphones) is not guaranteed preferential access to memory from Samsung’s Device Solutions (DS) Division, which includes the Memory Business. If internal customers are forced to source DRAM elsewhere due to pricing or capacity constraints, this could eventually become economically problematic for a country that relies very heavily on semiconductor and technology exports.
by jsiepkes | 2025-12-29 10:17:36+00:00
Competitors will appear? You can't build a DRAM production facility in a year. You probably even can't in two years.

Also, "price-compete down to capture market-share"? Prices are going up because all future production capacity has been sold. It makes no sense to lower prices if you don't have the capacity to full fill those orders.
by rockskon | 2025-12-29 10:17:44+00:00
Wow. Great. Which term is our President on again and can you confirm that time flows linearly and cannot, in fact, flow backwards to undo the election?

The public has no ability to affect change on the policy this Presidency makes. Especially not the public that is predisposed to dislike the President.

This is sadistic and selfish to believe the public must be relentlessly informed of these individual policies that they cannot do anything about. Anything they are informed about present day will almost certainly be forgotten years down the line.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-29 10:18:15+00:00
I think one of these fab compaies have already invested/talked about investing 700 BILLION dollars (I think it was micron? but I am not sure)

I have heard that in the fab making industry, things moves in cycles and this cycle has been repeated so many times and the reason that ram is so expensive was that at one time during covid there was shortage so they built more factories and they built so so many that these companies took a hit in stocks so they then went and closed and at just the bottom of their factory production levels, the AI bubble started to pop in and need their ram's and now they are once again increasing factory levels

And after the supply due to AI gets closed with the additional compute etc., I doubt it

I think that within 2-3 or maybe 4 years of timeframe ram will get cheaper imo.

The problem is, if someone can fill the market till that time.
by ben_w | 2025-12-29 10:19:14+00:00
It is really difficult to define what hate speech is, it certainly can be used as a cudgel to silence the opposition though I'm not sure about "more often than not" and bluntly everything can be used that way: my previous commute took me across the lines of what was officially known as (translated) an "anti-fascist protection rampart"* to keep people from leaving a country that put "Demokratische" in its name.

For the UK, it's not even clear what Starmer doesn't want to hear, he's got the charisma of the 10th-worst-in-class GCSE-level presentation on a topic not of his own choice. This can be observed in the poll ratings which are both amusing and the kind of thing that should only be found in a farce and not reality.

I'd instead point to Musk, who has openly said that "cis" is "hate speech" on Twitter now he owns the site. Starmer may or may not have such examples, but it's just too hard to figure out what they even are 'cause he lacks presence even as PM with all the cameras pointed at him.

* And to English speakers, "the Berlin Wall"
by n4r9 | 2025-12-29 10:19:22+00:00
Re Norwood vs UK:

> the poster in question contained a photograph of the Twin Towers in flame, the words “Islam out of Britain – Protect the British People” and a symbol of a crescent and star in a prohibition sign. The assessment made by the domestic courts was that the words and the images amounted to an attack on all Muslims in the UK. The ECtHR largely agreed with the assessment, and stated that such a general, vehement attack against a religious group, implying the group as a whole was guilty of a grave act of terrorism, is incompatible with the values proclaimed and guaranteed by the Convention, notably tolerance, social peace and non-discrimination

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/norwood...

Re Melia:

> Melia was the head of the Telegram Messenger group Hundred Handers, a social media channel that generated racist and anti-immigration stickers that were printed off and displayed in public places.

> The stickers contained "ethnic slurs" about minority communities which displayed a "deep-seated antipathy to those groups", the court heard.

> The judge told Melia: "I am quite sure that your mindset is that of a racist and a white supremacist.

> "You hold Nazi sympathies and you are an antisemite."

> Melia, who was also found guilty of encouraging racially-aggravated criminal damage, was sentenced to two years for each charge to run concurrently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867

Interesting that the cases that spring to mind for you are literal neo-Nazis.
by elevation | 2025-12-29 10:20:26+00:00
The Electoral College strengthens democracy by enabling local-election-observation to be a highly effective safeguard against fraud and voter demoralization.

At my neighborhood polling place, poll watchers (including local professors, blue collar neighbors, and even occasional UN election observers) volunteer to quietly monitor the election process, verifying that no registered voter is rejected or harassed. With a day off work, any citizen can audit their precinct to verify that end-of-day machine totals match the state's certified results, and could alert the news of any discrepancy. Any motivated citizen can trace their vote's impact up to the state level.

This matters because the Electoral College locks in your vote at the state level by using it to secure electoral college votes. Should fraud occur in some far away state, the Electoral College prevents it from numerically overturning the electoral college votes your state has secured. This federated system is more resilient against local failures.

By contrast, adopting a nationwide popular vote means that votes don't count until they're tallied at the national level. At the national level, a firmware flaw in a poll machine in Hawaii, or a lazy Secretary of State in Arkansas can cause the system to accept fraudulent votes that numerically overwhelm the national tally without ever presenting itself in a way I could observe or report. Without the Electoral College, Democracy loses a lot of its "go see for yourself" and becomes too much "just trust us."
by motbus3 | 2025-12-29 10:20:39+00:00
For me, there is concerning a flag about all of this.

I know this is not always true, but on this case, crucial folks say the margins for end user are too low and they have demand for AI.

I suppose they do not intend to bring a new AI focused unit because it is not worth it or they believe the hype might be gone before it they are done.
But what intrigues me is why they would allow other competitors to step up in a segment they dominate?
They could raise the prices for the consumers if they are not worried about competition...

There is a whole "not-exactly" ai industry labeled as AI that received a capital t of money. Is that what they are going for?
by pbalau | 2025-12-29 10:21:01+00:00
> Something that surprised me is that very little of the computation photography magic that has been developed for mobile phones has been applied to larger DSLRs. Perhaps it's because it's not as desperately needed, or because prior to the current AI madness nobody had sufficient GPU power lying around for such a purpose.

Sony Alpha 6000 had face detection in 2014.
by Vespasian | 2025-12-29 10:21:42+00:00
If it bundles them together into one parcel (while staying under 150€) I read the announcement such that the entire package would get taxed by 3€.

If I recall correctly some of the goals of this are

- to relieve the load on the custom s enforcement agencies by motivating sellers to import and declare goods in bulk.

- to make sure there is someone domestic who is legally responsible for liabilities and other regulations (e.g. for waste and EC compliance). It's easier to force a big company to do something than a 2 person shop in China. There are already laws in the book where the marketplace becomes liable if the actual seller cannot be found.

I believe AliExpress bulk imports much of its wares to EU warehouses already (at least popular stuff). It's not possible for everything but for popular items it's happening more and more frequently.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-12-29 10:22:24+00:00
> And with all of this money being injected into the economy, we are absolutely going to get an enormous amount of inflation... eventually. You could see it as already happening with the valuation of the stock market.

To be fair when I read this I assumed you took issue with the actions of both the government and the fed since both were injecting money into the economy. The invocation of Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act also blurred the line between the actions of Government and the fed.

Still I find it odd that you would attribute the inflation solely to the money that was injected into the economy via senate bills but ignore the trillions the fed was injecting into the economy and supply chain disruptions or rising energy costs due to the war in Ukraine.
by supermatt | 2025-12-29 10:23:00+00:00
Totally agree. Although that 0.99 with free shipping is exactly because of the backwards way international postage works - and that is what needs to change.

It should be changed so any necessary handling fees for consumer purchases are fully included in the shipping price.

It will mean no free shipping from temu on a 0.99 item, but those zero/low shipment items are literally what has prompted this €3 levy in the first place.