MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-11 08:43:04+00:00
This looks really cool. But I'm stuck on understanding the setup. I spawn at a known point defined as 32QAU04710542. I have a list of "given" points that I'm trying to reach, all beginning with 32QAU0 and then ranging from 3500715 to 5790531. And I have a map.

I assume I'm supposed to locate these points, including the known point, on the map. And I'm hoping the names of the points will help me do that. But I don't know what they mean or how to find them on the map.
by eknkc | 2025-04-11 08:43:18+00:00
I mean I don’t think these projects will be maintained by humans anyway because they are not structured by humans.

If the AI fucks up then its a lost cause. And maybe you’ll better off create a new version from scratch instead of trying to maintain one when LLM starts to fail. Just ask Gemini 3.5 this time around.

The AI can write obfuscated code. Name all variables from a to z. Even emit binaries directly. Who cares if it works?
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-04-11 08:44:14+00:00
> "Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice."

David Bendels has been threatened with prison time and sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme [0]. It is the harshest sentence ever handed down to a journalist for a speech crime in the Federal Republic of Germany.

This is the tweet, poking fun at the German minister of the interior Nancy Faeser (the sign says "I hate free speech"):

https://x.com/Deu_Kurier/status/1762895292075053348

[0] https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/deutschland/artic...
by never_inline | 2025-04-11 08:44:25+00:00
> Using ChatGPT doesn't dumb down your students. Not knowing how it works and where to use it does.

LLMs can't produce intellectual rigour. They get fine details wrong every time. So indeed using ChatGPT for doing your reasoning for you produces inferior results. By normalising non-rigorous yet correct sounding answers, we drive down the expectations.

To take a concrete example, if you tell a student to implement memcpy with chatgpt, and it will just give an answer which uses uint64 copying. The student has not thought from first principles (copy byte by byte? Improve performance? How to handle alignment?). This lack of insight in return to immediate gratification will bite later.

It's maybe not problem for non-STEM fields where this kind of rigor and insight is not required to excel. But in STEM fields, we write programs and prove theorems for insight. And that insight and the process of obtaining it is gone with AI.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-11 08:44:37+00:00
Yes, I agree: unicorns are, by and large, a failure of capitalism, not an example of success. They result from a system that doesn't value competition but values winning.

That's not to say that the European tech sector is doing fantastically. Still, as an end user, I'd rather have a thousand companies like Proton, Filen, Tutanota, Tresorit, Infomaniak, or DeepL than one Google.
by p4bl0 | 2025-04-11 08:44:43+00:00
Seems like the proper fix would be to introduce a <h> element with heading level dictated only by the number of <section> nesting. But it's too late for that now I guess.

Anyway, I'm quite surprised to learn all this about <h1> while I've always read everywhere up until today and including on MDN (Mozilla's documentation), that one should use only one <h1> per page.

Now I wonder if and how <section> nesting affects <h2>, <h3>, etc.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-11 08:44:44+00:00
This is the same difference irl between:

- a post box you can leave your application

- a filing tray at the registration desk next to the clerk

For the later they have a real time handling of how much registration are coming in, and from who. They don't have to look at it realtime, but they have full control of the input and can either shut it down if needed, or immediately react to errors or issues.

It was a long time ago, but I once had a school clerk phone me right after I submitted a request, to tell me their system is dead and they want me physically come fill out the papers. For them it was a straight equivalent to the tray at their office, except it's digital.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-04-11 08:45:20+00:00
>like re-armament and actually prosecuting politicians for their financial fraud. Not just Le Pen but previously things like Wirecard.

In the end, all those things can be traced to curbing Russia's direct and indirect warfare. Re-armament? Direct Russian threat. Le Pen? Financed by Russia. Marsalek? Part of a Russian spy-network that operated from Austria, where the FPÖ is not just financed by Russia but also has a literal cooperation contract with Putin. Similar story with the AfD in Germany.

The US used to be good at this as well. If they were as close to the war in Ukraine as Europe is, they might still be. But instead they have gone from being the biggest opponent of Russia to one of it's most subverted supporters.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-11 08:46:09+00:00
There're a few contradicting narratives going on:

1) Big companies actually don't innovate, they are slow and bureaucratic. It is startups that do innovation

2) Look at the top 10 companies by market cap, it's all the Chinese and American companies. Therefore USA is the pinnacle of innovation and Europe is falling behind(because of your favorite scapegoat)

3) Europe has many startups but they can't become huge because of excessive regulations. They end up moving to US, leaving Europe to lag behind

4) China has grew much more than the west, the west is lagging behind now. This is because the west has become socialist, we need to remove the taxes on the rich reduce regulations and protections to be able to compete with China.

Those all(and a few more actually) have some truth in them and a lot of wrong. A new narrative that captures the picture correctly is needed because at the current state those few camps are wedging wars where each ignore contradicting evidence instead of structuring it in a way that things fit.
by qsort | 2025-04-11 08:46:33+00:00
> As for unicorns and trillion dollars companies... some may say it's a feature, not a bug

Cope much?

As a European I'd rather not have half of our industries critically depend on AWS and Microsoft, especially now that the US has fully embraced governance by RNG. The choice isn't having or not having your own digital infrastructure, it's either having your own or having to depend on someone else.
by throwme_123 | 2025-04-11 08:46:34+00:00
It's hard to believe anything from the Economist these days.

They are basically sold to some circles of influence, such as Qatar and are merely propaganda.

Example, the world cup:

" The Economist

https://www.economist.com › leaders › 2022 › 11 › 17 › in-defence-of-qatars-hosting-of-the-world-cup

In defence of Qatar's hosting of the World Cup - The Economist The claim that Qatar is a den of homophobia is also misleading. "

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › middle-east-and-africa › 2022 › 11 › 02 › qatar-races-to-ready-itself-for-an-unusual-world-cup

Qatar races to ready itself for an unusual World Cup - The Economist

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › international › 2022 › 11 › 17 › the-qatar-world-cup-shows-how-football-is-changing

The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing - The Economist Much of a broader $300bn economic development plan called Qatar 2030

etc.
by rokbenko | 2025-04-11 08:46:41+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it since it's coming from someone who was in the industry for many years.

I see your biggest concern is AI hallucinations, right?

I'm not using just an LLM. I added a service to give LLM up-to-date knowledge from the web. That reduces hallucinations a lot. Can I guarantee no hallucinations at all? No, I can't.

Where I see value in PodcastPrepper the most is being able to process dozens of sources from the web in parallel and create a report on the guest in about 3 minutes.
by croes | 2025-04-11 08:46:49+00:00
"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable."

Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors.

The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.
by lorinab | 2025-04-11 08:47:56+00:00
With digital transformation accelerating, your organization’s control over its data and workflows is more critical than ever. While many collaborative platforms seem convenient, they often come at a steep price: vendor lock‑in, a one-size-fits-all approach where customization and deployment are limited, and data management practices remain unclear.

XWiki offers a different approach. It offers a flexible, open-source platform that you can shape to fit your company's specific workflows and security requirements. It puts you in control.
by ryao | 2025-04-11 08:48:09+00:00
Are there any alternatives to JLCPCB that are cheaper post tariffs for small order quantities of 5 to 25? I ask because I am not aware of any options that come close. If there are, I know people who would like to know.

By the way, I believe the de minimis exemption is still in effect until May 2, so until we get close enough to the deadline for shipments to arrive on May 2 or later, the tariff rate does not apply to small shipments.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-11 08:48:57+00:00
> The boring processes of rule by consensus can slow the EU to a crawl: it took four days and four nights of haggling to agree on the bloc’s latest seven-year budget, in 2020.

That's a weird complaint. 27 member states, manage to agree on a seven year budget, in less than a week. That's seems alright to me. I get that there have been weeks if not months of work done by bureaucrats leading up to that week, but still, seems reasonably fast.
by leoedin | 2025-04-11 08:49:01+00:00
I work in the embedded space. I'd absolutely love to have a tool to build immutable, signed distro images which I can push to devices with a/b style updates. I imagine you can do this with mkosi, but it doesn't quite feel like the intended use case.

Most immutable distros (this included) are developed with the idea that you'd run local commands on the machine, and update a single OS image in place. That gets pretty unwieldy to manage across a fleet of devices.

Right now the industry standard tooling for building truly immutable images for embedded devices is Yocto. It works well, but it's incredibly complicated and has ridiculous build times because it insists on building every single package from source. It's utter madness that building a Linux image for a common ARM64 processor requires me to compile the Rust compiler myself.
by graemep | 2025-04-11 08:49:13+00:00
I do not know about that but people have had police raids for calling the head of the german Green Party an idiot: https://www.ft.com/content/27626fa8-3379-4b69-891d-379401675...

The Online Safety Act in the UK has been discussed here before and it is part of a general trend to prevent "harmful" speech including specifically "legal but harmful speech".
by jabl | 2025-04-11 08:50:04+00:00
Modern European democracy is indeed not immune to fascism (or something resembling it, to stave of a quibble of what actually fascism means). Most prominently Orban in Hungary. Poland was well on their way towards something similar, but luckily a major electoral defeat caused a reversal of this development.

Most European countries do have their own far-right parties (like Le Pen in France, AFD in Germany, etc.). But with multi-winner districts and lots of other parties, they struggle to gain anything resembling a majority that would enable them to rule by fiat. Also politics in most European countries is much more parliament driven, with the prime minister having a lot less power and more oversight than e.g. the US president.
by luc4sdreyer | 2025-04-11 08:50:26+00:00
> the high velocities of steam locomotives might kill you

This obviously seems silly in hindsight. Warnings about radium watches or asbestos sound less silly, or even wise. But neither had any solid scientific studies showing clear hazard and risk. Just people being good Bayesian agents, trying to ride the middle of the exploration vs. exploitation curve.

Maybe it makes sense to spend some percentage of AI development resources on trying to understand how they work, and how they can fail.
by kubb | 2025-04-11 08:50:36+00:00
Anna Politkovskaya – Investigative journalist and critic of the Chechen war, shot in Moscow (2006).

Alexander Litvinenko – Ex-FSB officer poisoned with polonium in London (2006).

Stanislav Markelov & Anastasia Baburova – Human rights lawyer and journalist, shot in Moscow (2009).

Boris Nemtsov – Opposition leader, shot near the Kremlin (2015).

Denis Voronenkov – Former Russian MP, shot in Kyiv (2017).

Nikolai Andrushchenko – Journalist, beaten to death in St. Petersburg (2017).

Alexei Navalny – Opposition leader, died in prison after previous poisoning (2024).

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Maybe Europe isn't perfect, but the Russian morals are so low that no effort is requried to be better than them.
by teleforce | 2025-04-11 08:50:56+00:00
One of the best game I ever played is the text based souvenir game shopping game on Windows 3. I can't recall the name of the game now since it's more than 30 years ago, but it's about shopping souvenirs using London Underground Tube. You have a semi realistic time constraints like train schedules, your flight schedules and of course list of souvenirs items to shop. This is totally offline since there is no Internet available at the time but it's very engaging nonetheless.

My proposal for the modern version of the game is to use real-time train schedules (with delays, ticket discounts, etc) that are available publicly on the Internet for many metropolitan cities in the world for examples Tokyo, London and Berlin.

Imagine you can have a real-world realistic in-app in-game items purchases feature that you personally can buy in the game and delivered to you or anyone you fancy of giving souvenirs except that you only virtually went there.
by INTPenis | 2025-04-11 08:51:21+00:00
You sound disgruntled.

You keep saying it won't work, but it does work, but it won't work, but it does work. Make up your mind.

What I take away from this is that you had a bad experience and you're now giving up on the only large scale social media platform powered by the people, for the people, and instead going to bsky which keeps promising federation but in fact requires way too many resources for regular people to federate with.

That's the issue, resources. Who are we expecting to host these nodes? The fedi had a low entrance threshold. But you can't federate every single message, that drastically increases the entrance threshold.

Fediverse is in fact just a bunch of individual message boards with some federation between them. You can find an instance that becomes your home, your family, but you can still follow people on other nodes, you can still respond to people on other nodes.
by rcarmo | 2025-04-11 08:51:25+00:00
There were quite a few unicorns that (until now) quickly moved to establish a US foothold and hired some of their new C-levels there, because that's where the lobbying and money typically are.

Europe tends to have more established, "old" companies that do their own bit of innovation, and a few outliers like ASML that are crucial to many industries (besides silicon, there's pharma, media, retail, and of course a lot of manufacturing, each with their own innovation ecosystems, because many established companies have long figured out that it would be easier to sponsor local startups and then incorporate them than rebuild their orgs at random).
by pjc50 | 2025-04-11 08:52:01+00:00
This is going to be the whataboutery Olympics, isn't it.

That particular case seems egregious, especially the jail part (edit: oh, it's a suspended sentence, so zero jail time). On the other hand a world where news organizations can just photoshop any sign onto any politician and claim they support whatever doesn't seem great either.

But neither does using ICE to snatch people off the streets for making social media posts. (Someone will reply to this with some variant of "oh, but they're immigrants, they don't deserve the freedom to criticize the US", and then we're back at the whataboutery Olympics)

Perhaps it's only worth getting worked up about free speech when the speech is true, authentic and accurate?

(epilogue: this whole topic was at the top of HN for about a minute before it got flagged off, lol)
by mehwoot | 2025-04-11 08:52:15+00:00
He claims it was poking fun. The court found differently.

> Bendels claimed the meme, posted by his newspaper's X account, was satirical.

> But the judge in the case said during the verdict that Bendels published a 'deliberately untrue and contemptuous statement about Interior Minister Ms. Faeser (...) that would not be recognizable to the unbiased reader and is likely to significantly impair her public work'.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-11 08:53:09+00:00
> My definition of AGI is pretty much

Simon, intelligence exists (and unintelligence exists). When you write «I'm not claiming LLMs can invent new computer science», you imply intelligence exists.

We can implement it. And it is somehow urgent, because intelligence is very desirable wealth - there is definite scarcity. It is even more urgent after the recent hype has made some people perversely confused about the idea of intelligence.

We can and must go well beyond the current state.
by Daegalus | 2025-04-11 08:53:32+00:00
I really like Crystal, but I am too dependent on LSPs and such for productivity, and the Crystal LSP leaves a lot to be desired, even though it is fantastic work for what it is.

Can't rely on AI either, as it constantly confuses it with Ruby.

I did do a few backend/server code challenges and advent code in Crystal. It worked really well and was very powerful.

I would love to write my MMO server in it, but again, tooling is still a sore spot for me.
by ryao | 2025-04-11 08:55:03+00:00
GPUs reportedly will be immune to tariffs if assembly moves to Canada or Mexico, even if they incorporate Chinese components that would qualify for tariffs if directly imported into the U.S. for use in graphics card assembly:

https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/10/tariff-armageddon-gpu-lo...

If assembly moves to Canada or Mexico, their much lower tariffs on foreign components should apply, so their governments would have a share of GPU revenue from sales of GPUs in the US.

Finally, because the components will be tariffed if imported into the U.S. for assembly, the effect of U.S. tariffs makes it cheaper to build things in Mexico and Canada, which seems contrary to their purpose.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-11 08:55:08+00:00
I am with you regarding the Amiga, I was the only one in the gang that had stuck wiht a 8 bit machine, and when time came to get a 16 bit one, got a 386 SX PC. Everyone else had an Amiga when they moved into 16 bit.

Thus I did spent endless afternoons on friends places playing Amiga games, trying to do Protracker music sessions, trying to get our spot into the demoscene coding.

As such there is a special place for the Amiga on my heart, but it isn't the 1988 to 1992 on my case, and the context that made the Amiga special is no longer here.

I will argue though that Apple's survival, and the thin razor margins, is the reason why OEMs have went back to vertical integration as differention factor why buy X instead of Y, even if the underlying OS core might be the same, which is why you end up with all those OEM specific distributions from Linux, Android and co.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-11 08:55:17+00:00
> the west is lagging behind now. This is because the west has become socialist

The idea that the West is more socialist than Communist China, a one party state run by the Communist Party of China, just goes to show how completely useless ideological labelling is now. Just as "woke" has become a shorthand for "anything I don't like".
by jabl | 2025-04-11 08:56:00+00:00
Yes, it was a bad example. But the underlying issue is very real, in that many important decisions are made with unanimous votes. Which puts the entire EU at the whims of any single country, which could even be compromised by Putin (cough Orban). More decisions should be moved to qualified majority voting.

Oh, and the EU should PRONTO implement the suggestions in the 2024 Draghi and Letta reports.
by ratatoskrt | 2025-04-11 08:56:13+00:00
> It serves data from individual arrivals boards, which all spell stations differently

It doesn't, at least not for most lines. TfL's data is notoriously inconsistent, with multiple backends used for different purposes. For most lines, the dot matrix indicators are fed by the signalling system and timetables (more modern signaling systems are timetable-aware). Meanwhile, the online API relies on estimates from TfL's TrackerNet.
by rspoerri | 2025-04-11 08:56:42+00:00
The laws are different: "Incitement and defamation laws are far broader in Germany than in the United States, with some European legislation on the books that forbids defaming leaders and makes Holocaust denial a crime.".

You are not allowed hate speech on the internet in a lot of countries. You will be prosecuted for that.

But different to other countries, in a majority of the european countries (turkey, greece are currently problematic) people are not deported, put in jail or camps and forgotten, even without a sentence and hearing.
by gampleman | 2025-04-11 08:57:34+00:00
> Europe’s universities never became hotbeds of speech-policing by one breed of culture warrior or the other. You can express a controversial view on any European campus (outside Hungary, at least) without fear of losing your tenure or your grant.

Well, according to the Academic Freedom Index [1], there are 2 countries that have worse academic freedom than the US: Hungary (as mentioned) and Greece. The UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Serbia and North Macedonia are broadly comparable.

> No detention centres await foreign students who hold the wrong views on Gaza.

In the UK, we do have terror legislation that allows us to detain journalists who talk about Gaza for 48 hours and confiscate their devices indefinitely (and no, we don't have free speech protections allowing us to not divulge passwords to these devices) [2].

> news outfits are not sued for interviewing opposition politicians

We do like to put them into prison though [3].

[1]: https://academic-freedom-index.net [2]: https://scottishpen.org/statement-on-detention-of-author-and... [3]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/04/pers-a04.html
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-11 08:58:03+00:00
Hey you seem rattled by that. I'm just humorously, and therefore much more kindly pointing out something that could sound cruel if put plainly; that you have a naive and distorted understanding of human relations and offer really, really bad advice. But you seem stuck on appeasing tyranny, so good luck with that. It never worked. I'll be in my mom's basement if you need me :)
by tedeh | 2025-04-11 08:58:20+00:00
I can't see any reason why Google would send traffic anyones way in the future. "Search results" will turn into a "Citations" list at the bottom of the page for the excessively curious, and probably look like it does on a page like Wikipedia. Meanwhile 98 % of the "results" page will be AI-generated and ad-ridden. Ads will be inserted into the AI content as recommendations because why not?