MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timka | 2025-04-12 08:28:20+00:00
Looks like a last-ditch effort to salvage its crumbling technological sovereignty amid the EU's systemic crisis. Even if they invent something, production will happen in China or the US.

Germany wants to preserve Airbus and stay relevant in European space programs, but without cheap energy and raw materials this is a pipe dream. Quantum computing/hydrogen is theoretically promising, but they're already behind China and the US. Trying to catch up to Russia in drones and EW, but without energy independence or microelectronics it won't work.

Without Russian gas or nuclear power, high-tech manufacturing is unprofitable. Germany's best engineers are already in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. Russia/China/the US are sprinting ahead in hypersonics, AI, and 6G, while Germany is just forming a ministry.

Germany's move isn't a breakthrough, it's desperation. They're trying to save face, but they lack energy for advanced tech w/o Russia, have no military shield w/o the US, can’t manufacture at scale w/o China.
by KaiserPro | 2025-04-12 08:28:43+00:00
Think of it like “art”

You’re paying for time. Seiko make great watches with cnc machines under the orient brand. They cost about £150-300.

In terms of watch, it’s the same type of parts and accuracy as a base Rolex.

Rolex you are paying for the name. Yes, they are better quality than an orient, but not much. There is better QC, and more people looking at the watch before it’s sent out, but in terms of precision of manufacturing, or amount of cnc machine used, it’s mostly the same.

There is a thriving scene in small watch producers, spinnaker, holthinrich, de ryke and co, vortic, Weiss, lorier to name a few. Some are sub £300, others not.
by consumer451 | 2025-04-12 08:29:37+00:00
Personally, I would argue that the corruption afterburner kicked in with Citizens United v. FEC.

This was like giving a crack addict a feedback loop which gives them more crack. Of course it was going to end badly.

We could discuss many possible points of inflection, but I don't want to dilute the undeniable power of the phrase "trust is efficient."

However we got here, whatever one's politics, you cannot argue against that simple phrase, and the tragedy of the loss.

___

just to give credit, it was https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=the_snooze who turned me on to these three words that have stuck in my head
by Borg3 | 2025-04-12 08:29:57+00:00
As someone who still runs Win2003 R2 (32bit) on my desktop I can confirm. It was peak MS. System is very stable, UI (classic) is great. It is quick, snappy and good looking. For basic POSIX I have cygwin. For other stuff I use VMs. I have all tools needed to handle some mainmentance (compilers, DDK, docs, ...).

But there is problem.. HW.. The pool of old HW is shrinking, and one day I will not be able to run it anymore.. I guess I will move to Linux. There are few nice and lightweight distros...
by immibis | 2025-04-12 08:30:08+00:00
Multicast UDP is widely used - but not on the Internet.

We often forget there are networks other than the Internet. Understandable, since the Internet is most open. The Internet is just an overlay network over ISPs' private networks.

SCTP is used in cellphone networks and the interface between them and legacy POTS networks. And multicast UDP is used to stream TV and/or radio throughout a network or building. If you have a "cable TV" box that plugs into your fiber internet connection, it's probably receiving multicast UDP. The TV/internet company has end-to-end control of this network, so they use QoS to make sure these packets never get dropped. There was a write-up posted on Hacker News once about someone at a hotel discovering a multicast UDP stream of the elevator music.
by eastbound | 2025-04-12 08:30:27+00:00
I know I’ll be downvoted but, since we’re going straight for scorched land, I prefer to voice it.

I think most voters think like me “I still prefer Trump to a leftist government”:

- Was there any need to be so extreme in terms of wokeness on the left? I am directly threatened by their program. Was there really any need to go for such a degree of revolution, ensuring everyone sensical would vote Trump? Could the left imagine being a little more democratic and making a few more concessions towards… omg, white males? Is it such a bane? It’s concessions for white males, or we vote for Trump, so did the left win anything with their scorched earth policy?

- It is true that savings needed to be done. The left refused to do any, and went to raise the public programs, reaching a few trillion debt per semester. At one point this has to stop, and the left ain’t gonna stop by itself, so the left provokes the people into voting for the only one who will stop public spending and, yes, he comes in, and has the bad role of taking the US to the cleaners. You will say “It doesn’t even save money” and whatsnot, but would the left have saved the money by themselves? No. Never. So someone else came in and saved for them.

This entire movement is a reactionary movement to the left. The left makes no concessions. So both sides go for a scorched earth policy.

What have we learned? What have we won, on either sides?

Do we agree that, staying closed-minded as they are, the left will resume public spendings by the trillions the moment they step into power? Do we agree that the left is a direct threat to meritocracy, stability of government, men in marriage, men at work, a direct threat to men’s financial stability, and that no-one on the left cares even a little what others-than-them feel?
by wiradikusuma | 2025-04-12 08:30:36+00:00
I chat with Gemini Pro 2.5 Exp in Continue.dev IntelliJ plugin. I told it to "implement this method" and it even suggested improvements in other files (that were included in context). I feel like talking to a person.

BUT more often than not, it stopped halfway (the code, so it's unusable). I'm not sure if it's the plugin that cannot handle the response, but it never happens with Claude.
Ask HN: Sharing SMB via Internet
by p0w3n3d | 2025-04-12 08:31:47+00:00
So I went to the official sysinternals site the other day, and found a link to a network share with all the tools. I curiously entered it in my run window and the share appeared. I copied the tools I needed.

Now:

1. I wonder - was it some Microsoft hack to allow using SMB via internet? I always thought that SMB is only local

2. Was I compromised? I mean is SMB encrypted? Could anyone inject anything or override the share to a malicious one?

Also found it but it seems incorrect: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/15uvaa0/how_can_i_create_a_smb_share_that_i_can_access/
by vladvasiliu | 2025-04-12 08:31:53+00:00
> But I would never willingly spend my time or money engaging with AI "art." By that, I mean I would never attend a concert, watch a film, visit a museum, read a book, or even scroll through an Instagram profile if what I'm viewing is largely the output of AI. What would the point be?

Why not? The output of AI is usually produced at the request of a human. So if the human will then alter the request such that the result suits whatever the human's goal is, why would there be no point?

This, to me, sound like the debate of whether just pressing a button on a box to produce a photograph is actually art, compared to a painting. I wonder whether painters felt "threatened" when cameras became commonplace. AI seems just like a new, different way of producing images. Sure, it's based on prior forms of art, just like photography is heavily inspired by painting.

And just because most images are weird or soulless or whatever doesn't disqualify the whole approach. Are most photographs works of art? I don't think so. Ditto for paintings.

To your point about Instagram profiles, I actually do follow some dude who creates "AI art" and I find the images do have "soul" and I very much enjoy looking at them.
by ozgune | 2025-04-12 08:32:09+00:00
I feel the article presents the data selectively in some places. Two examples:

* The article compares Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental to DeepSeek-R1 in accuracy benchmarks. Then, when the comparison becomes about cost, it compares Gemini 2.0 Flash to DeepSeek-R1.

* In throughput numbers, DeepSeek-R1 is quoted at 24 tok/s. There are half a dozen providers, who give you easily 100+ tok/s and at scale.

There's no doubt that Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is a state of the art model. I just think it's very hard to win on every AI front these days.
by StormChaser_5 | 2025-04-12 08:32:22+00:00
Not sure that's true. America's military keeps peace for trade to happen in a lot of the world... Not always successfully but it's there. That works because they have the reserve currency and can therefore print money for free. Which benefits the US greatly in all sorts of ways. But everyone else also sees some good. If that goes away its going to have impacts on everyone else as well as America. Maybe not as much of an impact on the rest of the world but this is not good for anyone. I can get the anger at the way the US acts, particularly over the last couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean that them doing badly helps the rest of us
by dataflow | 2025-04-12 08:32:40+00:00
You completely missed the point. It had nothing to do with who is executing the trades.

>> If nothing else, doesn't it magnify the public's risk beyond whatever impact Buffet could have on his own?

I am saying that when you let others pull the same trick in addition to Buffet himself, they can now bring their own additional funds to play with -- meaning they can make more trades and cause even more damage than Buffet could inflict on his own. This clearly enlarges the blast radius and allows more harm to the public than Buffet could cause with his own funds. It is ludicrous to close your eyes and suggest the situation is no different, just like it is by suggesting that there's no difference between one country having nukes vs. N of them having them.

Heck, the fact that Warren Buffet is used as the example here instead of some random John Doe makes it clear how intentionally ridiculous the example is: for this to even pass the laugh test and obscure the reality of the situation, you have to pick one of richest people of all time, so that even aggregating a thousand other random strangers' funds together would still miss his purchasing power by multiple orders of magnitude.

Why don't you start with someone poor instead of Buffet, then add Buffet to the equation, then try to claim that bringing the billionaire into the equation makes no difference, rather than the other way around?
by n4r9 | 2025-04-12 08:32:53+00:00
I've given you lots of opportunity to offer a defense to the points I raised in my first reply to you. I've offered to go into more detail. I've contrasted Heinlein's work with contemporaneous works. Saying "you should go and read more" is not compelling, especially given the amount of effort you've expended to avoid saying anything of substance. I wonder if you feel insecure about whether such a defense is possible.
by gwd | 2025-04-12 08:33:29+00:00
Linux works because network effects pressure everyone to upstream their changes. There's no such upstreaming possible with the open-weight models, and new sets of base weights can only be generated with millions of dollars of compute. Companies could conceivably collaborate on architectures and data sets, but with the amount of compute and data involved, only a handful of organizations would ever have the resources to be able to contribute.

Unlike Linux, which was started by a cranky Finn on his home computer, and can still be built and improved by anyone who can afford a Raspberry Pi.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-12 08:33:48+00:00
Lets be honest for once -germany is deeply risk averse and conservative. Its leaders can try to cast that "we wamt that california culture" spell a million times and out hops another wirecard. You can not graft innovation cultures to conservation cultures . You would need to change the conservation culture at thr upbringing roots, by highlighting how pure conservation gets you into wars and other problems. By rewarding characters that want to go on a adventure .You can not tell the guy who wants to jump a mammoth with a pointy stick, that this is "toxic masculinity" and "the outstanding nail gets hammered" in kindergarden and open a ministry for elephant steak.
by Jensson | 2025-04-12 08:34:05+00:00
> If you analyze their trades, very few are suspect of timing. They just make a bunch of long term bets on tech.

But what about the ones that very obviously are? Why did they sell a lot of Visa stocks?

"On Tuesday, less than three months after the massive transaction, Visa was hit with a DOJ lawsuit alleging that the company illegally monopolized the debit card market."

Selling whenever a company gets into regulatory trouble means you avoid all the big downs but still get from all the long term ups. Its a very simple strategy as you say, but its still insider trading even though the ups are mostly the long term gains.
by sethammons | 2025-04-12 08:36:54+00:00
Better link? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-hhs-layoffs-cdc-lead-poi...

TL;DR: RFK has cut health programs including the division that deals with lead poisoning.

The first link is about that choice's fallout on school children exposed to lead.

Yay blanket federal cuts.
by codelion | 2025-04-12 08:38:06+00:00
It's interesting to hear your perspective as a former OpenAI employee. The point about the sustainability of subscription fees for chatbots is definitely something worth considering. Many developers mention the challenge of balancing user expectations for free services with the costs of maintaining sophisticated AI models. I think the ad-supported model might become more prevalent, but it also comes with its own set of challenges regarding user privacy and experience. And I agree that Google's situation is complex – they have the resources, but also the expectations that come with being a public company.
by atoav | 2025-04-12 08:38:33+00:00
Rejected is somewhat euphemistic, you might be:

- held for an indefinite time without due process and information what you did wrong

- stripped naked and spilled with cold water

- potentially worse, but that depends entirely on the way things are developing on a day-by-day basis

And if someone thinks that won't happen to them because they come from a western country and have a low eumelanin pigmentation level, recent examples show that this does not matter¹. Remember ICE also appears to want to police "illegal ideas" at the border now².

These arbitrary arrests, a disregard for the Rule of Law and the valuation of loyalty to the cause over predictable consequences fit the despotic style that is encouraged in the US from the top down lately. The world would be wise not continue betting all their cards on a crazy horse.

¹: Germany, Feb 2025 – Tourist held 16 days at border, deported without clear reason. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-immigration-detaining-europe... UK, Mar 2025 – Backpacker held 3 weeks at Canada border, no charges. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum... Germany, Mar 2025 – Visitor held 45 days under Visa Waiver, unclear why. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-detention-of-european... Canada, Mar 2025 – Woman with valid visa held 12 days at border. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-immigration-detaining-europe... UK, Mar 2025 – Punk band denied entry, detained at LAX. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum... Germany, Mar 2025 – Green card holder detained at Boston airport. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum... Multiple, Mar 2025 – ICE arrested 48 in NM; cause/details unclear. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-mystery-of-ices-...

²: ICE posted a very "unfortunate" marketing picture recently: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-ideas-border-security-s...
by nabla9 | 2025-04-12 08:38:39+00:00
Most analysts don't differentiate between:

1) AI research as science and

2) Productization and engineering that science into something to sell.

While Google DeepMind focused on things that won Hassabis and Jumper Nobel prize in Chemistry, OpenAI took transformers architecture (Google researchers invented), built the first big model, and engineered it into a product.

Google has the best researchers, and does most research. When they finally chose to jump into the business and pull Hassabis and others from doing more important stuff to moneymaking, obviously they win.
by audunw | 2025-04-12 08:38:57+00:00
It was the best for its time. But one of the reason why XP was "better" is that it had built-in support for WiFi. That ended up being a dealbreaker for 2k.

That's the issue.. every new OS has brought some features or stability improvements that are huge upgrades over the older OS.

WSL 2 is a must-have for me now, so Windows 10/11 is much better than anything that came before in that way. I may be alone in this, but I actually think Windows 11 has the best design of any Windows so far. The problem as usual, is that they haven't made the entire OS consistent. I wouldn't mind the new control panel if you could actually change every setting in windows in that one control panel.. and not have to dig through to find control panels that still date back to Win2k. And the new/old context menu in explorer is an absolute disaster. Then new design is fine.. but how the hell did they manage to not make it support all the options of the old context menu?
by falcor84 | 2025-04-12 08:40:14+00:00
> whatever Sony's version of Gamepass is called

Just mentioning that it's PS Plus, and the game was made available on their Extra & Premium tiers at launch [0], which is nice, as they typically release all the games on the same day in the middle of the month.

[0] https://blog.playstation.com/2025/04/09/playstation-plus-gam...

P.S. "Lost Records: Bloom & Rage", the second half of which is due to come out in a couple of days is very different, but highly recommended too, especially in its emotional vibes and how well they integrated the VHS camera into the gameplay.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-12 08:40:22+00:00
Yea this works for mp4 and HN seems confused about how.

The MOOV atom is how range requests are enabled, but the browser has to find it first. That's why it looks like it's going to download the whole file at first. It doesn't know the offset. Once it reads it, the request will be cancelled and targeted range requests will begin.
by HelloUsername | 2025-04-12 08:40:40+00:00
The article is also from 2023.

It's funny to see how topics on reddit (https://l.opnxng.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1jvhcme posted 2 days ago), 9gag (https://9gag.com/gag/aW4vpKd posted 1 day ago) and HN (posted today) are always connected.
by immibis | 2025-04-12 08:40:58+00:00
SQLite is absolutely not suitable if you need non-trivial amounts of write concurrency - SQLite locks the file when writing, and doesn't even notify the next writer when done - writers poll to see if it's unlocked yet. If you don't use WAL mode, then readers have to wait for writers to.

You can still back up your SQLite database file. You shouldn't do it in the middle of a write, or you should use the SQLite backup API to manage concurrency for you, or you can back it up in SQL dump format. This isn't one of the usual reasons you shouldn't use SQLite. If you need synchronous replication, then you shouldn't use SQLite.

SQLite is robust against process crashes and even operating system crashes if fsync works as it should (big if, if your data is important), but not against disk failure.

In most of the cases when you shouldn't use SQLite, you should still just upgrade one step to Postgres, not some random NoSQL thing or Google-scale thing.
by defrost | 2025-04-12 08:41:24+00:00
U.S. law requires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff of the Army, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the commandant of the Marine Corps, or the commander of a unified or specified combatant command. Just after 2:00 a.m. eastern time this morning, the Senate confirmed Retired Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan Caine, who goes by the nickname “Razin,” for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by a vote of 60–25. Although Caine has 34 years of military experience, he did not serve in any of the required positions. The law provides that the president can waive the requirement if “the President determines such action is necessary in the national interest,” and he has apparently done so for Caine. The politicization of the U.S. military by filling it with Trump loyalists is now, as Kendall writes, “indisputable.”

~ Letters from an American (April 11, 2025) Heather Cox Richardson - https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-11-2025
by guax | 2025-04-12 08:42:04+00:00
The engineering and craft is beyond reproach, beautiful, involved, unique.

The market in which it needs to exist is exclusive, arrogant and elitist. So there is a bittersweet response to it. Makes me think of Royal arts of the past, made to adorn the palaces and display wealth. beautiful, but they're better now at museums. I believe this watch shall too.
by breppp | 2025-04-12 08:42:19+00:00
The Israeli government allowed transfer of Qatari money to Hamas as a mean to buy quiet, stemmed from the belief Hamas is a rational organization that strives to improve Palestinian life through its government of the Gaza Strip, an awful mistake.

Qatar however is a supporter of the islamist Muslim Brotherhood ideology behind Hamas, financier and a host for most of its leadership.

Furthermore involved in other terror financing in the region such as the Taliban, IRGC and Al-Qaeda [1][2].

My point here is the HRW has shown before to be corrupted and flexible with their ethics in relation to the middle east, and there is evidence it took money from Qatar, a country deeply involved in this conflict and in the past used bribery in corruption to influence western politics [3]

[1] https://thearabweekly.com/ahmadinejad-reveals-qatar-paid-ran...

[2] https://www.iar-gwu.org/print-archive/an-analysis-of-qatari-...

[3] https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-qatargat...
by tirant | 2025-04-12 08:43:18+00:00
Do you have medical insurance ? Or car insurance? I guess you and I guess you find them useful.

All these worthless paperless money as you call it are precisely also instruments for companies and individuals to gain some economical stability during uncertain times by buying contracts and shifting the risk to someone else that has either more financial means or has worked to have a better view of future conditions.

So as an example, your medical insurer and your car insurer know pretty well the odds of you needing either medical treatment or suffering some type of car accident. And because they also have the financial means to risk being wrong, they offer you an insurance, because in the aggregated number they are usually right in their predictions.