MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-04-08 09:27:15+00:00
My Asus 1215B netbook from 2009 has served me well, until it died last year.

There was nothing in 2025 laptops that I would have replaced it for, the use cases haven't changed from my 2009 requirements in computing on the go with a cheap laptop like device.

Its replacement is now Samsung tablet with DEX capabilities, which I will likewise use until it dies.
by kfk | 2025-04-08 09:27:21+00:00
Because in the industries I have experience in IT has typically very little to do with the type of efficiency that matters in manufacturing. For instance, moving a factory from Germany to Romania is going to give you faster and more predictable savings than, say, optimizing production with IT and automation (obviously take this example with a grain of salt and the usual "it depends").

The theory was that Industry 4.0 should somehow change that, at least in Europe, by adding more automation and tech to production. I have seen only 1 factory built that way and, let me say, it was a complete mess IT wise. There is also the issue that the same people that were building factories in the 90s are now also building the "new" factories.
by msravi | 2025-04-08 09:27:42+00:00
Yeah.. but if he didn't actually work exactly on it, but took the effort to learn from coworkers (or LLMs or google or wherever) and is able to answer my questions on what he did, and more importantly on why he decided to do something a certain way and not some other way, then he/she must have spent considerable amount of time actually learning about it and figuring things out. So I'd still hire him/her. The trouble is most people who embellish are either not competent to go deep enough to learn, or think that they can get away with some superficial knowledge of it.
by greener_grass | 2025-04-08 09:28:20+00:00
My experience is that the less done in GitHub actions the better.

I tend to prefer either:

- Using a build-system (e.g. Make) to encode logic and just invoke that from GitHub Actions; or

- Writing a small CLI program and then invoke that from GitHub Actions

It's so much easier to debug this stuff locally than in CI.

So an interesting trick, but I don't see where it would be useful.
by ohgr | 2025-04-08 09:28:30+00:00
I think you vastly misunderstand or are oversimplifying the problem here. They actually spoke up against a government mandated privacy violation.

What I am worried about really is Google, Meta etc did not speak up against it and likely have had the same requests. So I am worried about some foreign companies complying with my government. And very surprised that one particular foreign company gives more of a shit about me as an end user than my own government.
by AstralStorm | 2025-04-08 09:28:57+00:00
There is a class of exploits that can read the browser UI without breaking into the OS, but that wouldn't usually get you the password from the manager itself, but on use. And the session cookies.

Session cookie exfil is the more common, so it's a good idea to log-in on demand especially to secure critical sites, and preferably wipe those cookies too. And use separate profiles or browsers.

Normally at that point the browser is sufficiently compromised it would be able to capture passwords put into it, so it doesn't matter which password manager is used with it. Unless you clicked one of those phishing grabber links exploiting poor security settings of a site or outright entered the password. This is actually easier to fall prey to with an external manager as it's easier to fool as to which domain is being accessed.

I'd like to hear of that exploit that doesn't also void all other managers. Maybe if you had the browser in a VM and the exploit was not persistent... (Browser sandboxes were notoriously weak. They're getting better though.)
by jkhanlar | 2025-04-08 09:29:12+00:00
I was sharing this story and responding to various comments (here) in my conversations elsewhere on the Internet, and as part of my statements I questioned about quoting/paraphrasing the "word gets around" to determine if this is best way to reference the point, and thought I may as well share it here too. https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_c0378709-b716-48af-8996-a0e4...
by metalman | 2025-04-08 09:29:13+00:00
As to black hole theorising, it is fair game for silliness , so, keeping in line with the joke they would be smoking "shatter", which is held in a kind of awe, even by the most hard core smokers as the densist and most refined form of cannabis availible, and casual observation of the effects and fall out from it's use suggests that it can precipitate life altering situations, also these days it would be very advisable for anyone trying such substsances to exercise extream caution, as 1 the actual stuff is powerfull, and 2 there are many reports of other things bieng added, that are outright deadly bieng thrown in. 3 hence the people I know who were indulging, made there own. And personaly I dont smoke anything, or, even though I do theorise about ,gravity, and black hole, I never expound upon those things, lest I realy get a greater reputation for oddity, and speculations as to what I am smoking.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-08 09:29:33+00:00
I have used htmx just a little bit; but I have found htmx + solid.js for some small reactive components to be ... very, very pleasant and very much else of what this blog post says to be accurate.

I've written a lot more html than I have in the past and it just ... feels good? html has upgraded quite a bit in the last decades since I learned it.
by palata | 2025-04-08 09:31:05+00:00
> Almost certainly not.

Trump created a cryptocurrency, didn't he? I don't see why he wouldn't think about doing that.

> a better move would have been to target China with 100% tariffs then ...

Not saying it's a good move, even though if you are already rich and manage to make more billions by screwing the rest of the world, I think it's individually a good move. Which is why it should be highly illegal.

I could imagine someone doing that if they were rich, narcissistic and incompetent: they don't care about the recession because they are rich, they don't know the "better move" because they are incompetent, and they believe they are right because they are narcissistic. :-)
by spwa4 | 2025-04-08 09:31:26+00:00
This is a similar sentiment you're seeing everywhere. Operating a business, and just living in America, and to a lesser extent Europe, has risen to the level that anything with a market smaller than 100s of millions of dollars isn't worth making a company for.

Unfortunately there is a genuine need/demand for a lot of these products, just not enough to justify what it would cost to produce them here, or in Europe. Even non-luxury smartphones fall into that category.

China, and to a lesser extent a number of Asian countries, are doing it anyway. And, I'll give Trump this one: through unfair means. That can mean state subsidies, preferential tax treatment, ... But that's the reason those products exist at all, not the reason they're made in Asia. The only way to fix that is self-defeating.

You could make Americans (and Europeans) as poor as Chinese/Vietnamese/Bangladeshi. Back to the time where a working-class, even a middle class family has essentially no hope to even afford an apartment without sharing with another family. You know what you can't do? You cannot do that and have people like that buy those products. People will give up games, give up internet, give up tv, ... before they give up housing by themselves, for example, and that goes for everything we buy. The specific comparison doesn't even really matter. If you make people poor, of course, they'll stop buying, at which point there's no point to the economic activity they are now cheap enough to work at: there are no buyers. And we'll lose a lot, like those lives we now have.

The problem is that this makes essentially all republican-style policies (all supply-side economics) impotent. The problem is not supply. The problem is demand: people have close to the maximum they'll pay for, and increasing production will simply not find buyers.

Which leaves having the government buy more.

Of course, on the other side there's problems too, an extreme socialist could ask why Americans and/or Europeans deserve to be richer than Chinese/Vietnamese/Bangladeshi, and make an argument for just burning the world down because then everyone will be equal (someone's "pride" will be restored) ... but sane people will quickly say "no, thanks".

And, yes, maybe there's countries that like to pretend they have a history of self-sufficiency and think they would fare better in a burned-down world, ie. Russia.
by kmacdough | 2025-04-08 09:31:45+00:00
> I'm wondering if it is something like they can track mouse movement

Yes, this is a big signal they use.

> adding some more human like noise to the mouse

Yes, this is a standard avoidance strategy. Easier said than done. For every new noise generation method, they work on detection. They also detect more global usage patterns and other signals, so you'd need to immitate the entire workflow of being human. At least within the noise of their current models.
by slt2021 | 2025-04-08 09:32:28+00:00
there is no such thing as Korean race, so your whole premise is wrong.

NK and SK constitute separate ethno-states (due to different culture, socio-political env, upbringing), despite being very close genetically.

It got to the point that each nation's name is different, South Koreans are Hanguk, while North Koreans are Chosun
by red75prime | 2025-04-08 09:33:06+00:00
> The agents do not play, or meaningfully explore, really

As others already pointed it's not an intrinsic limitation of RL agents.

> In fact, it can't even have a definition of those words, because they are defined in the space between beings.

In fact an agent doesn't need to know definitions to act. A bacterium don't know what it means to reproduce, but reproduces anyway.
by jemmyw | 2025-04-08 09:33:30+00:00
The US is powerful, but it isn't all powerful. If this were the 1950s then the US could dictate and the world would fall into line. I think even if the US had been strategic about this then the outcome could be much more under its control - as per your example the US could have taken on China, especially with the support of its allies. Instead the US has applied tariffs to every country based on a bullshit formula.

So I would argue that the power imbalance is not as one sided as you think. It's not just about which economy is bigger, but who is more willing to bear pain to get the outcome they want. Polling in the US was already against tariffs prior to these new ones. Support for retaliation is high in Europe. The US has some critical imports, and because of the way this bizarre formula has been calculated tariffs are higher against the poorer countries providing those - so it will be a pure tax on Americans. And if costs and inflation start rising then we'll see if Trump really can persuade the US population its worth waiting on the nebulous results he's hoping for.
by vladms | 2025-04-08 09:33:40+00:00
All tech or all physical tech? For now software managed to somehow go in the opposite direction. In the '90s many / lots of operating systems / tools / libraries were paid / hard to access, today we have lots of (open-source) stuff for people to tinker with.

Tinkering with physical stuff is also good and should be encouraged / supported, but let's also be careful not to loose the software tinkering (for example by not permitting in any shape rooting mobile devices).
by HPsquared | 2025-04-08 09:33:40+00:00
We've fallen quite far from the tradition of policing by consent as developed by Sir Robert Peel:

- Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime.

- An effective authority figure knows trust and accountability are paramount. Hence, "The police are the public and the public are the police."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

Edit: another choice quote from that article, from the Home Office itself in 2012:

"The Home Office defined the legitimacy of policing, in the eyes of the public, as based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so."
by guillaume8375 | 2025-04-08 09:33:53+00:00
I’m a Kagi subscriber; I like it but I use it less and less.

The more times goes by, the more I use both ChatGPT and Claude to search (at the same time, to cross-check the results) with Kagi used to either check the results when I know strictly nothing of the subject or for specific searches (restaurants, movie showings…).

I’ve almost completely stopped using Google.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-08 09:34:21+00:00
Perhaps I misremembered. Seems difficult to find some written sources on this.

In my quest I stumbled upon this[1] article where they discuss composite connecting rods for Fop Fuel dragsters:

Designed for Top Fuel engines, this connecting rod is half the weight of a conventional aluminum rod, yet is projected by company engineers to last an entire season instead of just 12 to 15 races.

Seems they're still at it, perhaps it'll be the next thing?

[1]: https://www.performanceracing.com/magazine/featured/08-01-20...
by leereeves | 2025-04-08 09:35:17+00:00
> China "occupies" Tibet to the same degree that USA occupies California Republic, or Texas Republic.

You've got some facts wrong. The "California Republic" was a tiny rebellion against Mexico whose goal was to join the US. The Texas Republic also asked to join the US (and was turned down the first time).

But if your point is that the US is as much an empire as China, I agree.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-08 09:36:19+00:00
Yes exactly. I think it’s because it is easy and cheap to find someone with your opinion and it requires no effort if that opinion is disliking something. If you like model trains you have to build them, run their routes, talk to others if you want to build a larger town or whatever, it’s very involved and you can spend your time and money pursuing the hobby. If you hate model trains you only need to find someone on the internet who will comment back to you and already you have completed your hate and can move on to the next train to hate.

This is all why I have come to the conclusion that no matter what my thoughts are about something I should mostly keep them to myself if I’m unwilling to do things related to those thoughts. This has helped me find a lot of time I spent disliking things and discussing those dislikes and now I spend that time either trying to fix what I dislike or focus on something I do like.

Also that stoop coffee post is a great post.
by lurking_swe | 2025-04-08 09:36:37+00:00
That’s an uncharitable interpretation. But if that is what it ends up meaning then i do agree, that’s bigotry.

A more charitable interpretation might mean “the candidate is able to clearly explain (through some medium: orally, typing, etc) how their code works, and why they picked that solution. They were also able to correctly answer follow up questions”. If _that_ is what is meant, then that’s not bigotry IMO.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-08 09:37:53+00:00
Technically you're of course correct.

Though my point was that as someone who's moved into a EU country, it might not be entirely clear that it's not inside EU, given it's proximity and that they might have read about it in an EU context given its status.

Heck I'm in Norway and had to check to make sure I was right.

Of course, second time around there's no excuse.
by redeeman | 2025-04-08 09:39:39+00:00
not really, RAW is NOT just a raw sensor dump straight from the hw into a file.

its a full fledged format, that contains the extensive metadata already in the exif formats including vendor blocks etc, and then its the sensor readout, which is relatively similar between nearly all sensors, theres certainly not many types, considering you can express the bayer pattern. This can all be expressed in DNG, and would NOT need to be an "extra" on top of "raw".

and indeed, some camera vendors do in fact do this.
by nottorp | 2025-04-08 09:39:45+00:00
> I've got the impression that you knew a little about German corporations

I did, about the GmBH, from other discussions on HN. As I said, now I know more, thanks.

> have at least a simple personal liability corporation, which is easy and cheap to establish, and a basic limited liability corporation, which is a little bit more involved and expensive to establish

Yes, but in RO where I am the minimum capital for a LLC is like 100 EUR not 25k :)

That's barely enough to pay a cheap accountant for a month ofc.
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-08 09:39:58+00:00
>>Google's carbon footprint jumped by 48% from 2019, amounting to 14.3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions for 2023. According to the company's Environment Report 2024, 24% of its total emissions, or over 3.4 million tons, comes from market-based sources, i.e., purchased electricity

published July 3, 2024:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-reveals-48...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-08 09:40:25+00:00
In most countries, you have trial periods where you can terminate without too much hassle. Here in Germany, that's usually six months and I know of people in pretty senior positions that got screwed over and terminated towards the end of that period.

The problem with hiring in IT is that it's a bit of a broken system. On one hand you have companies that are overly picky and are alienating good candidates with their convoluted/mildy unfair hiring processes. Being overly picky when it's hard to get good candidates to show any interest because they are in demand is of course counter productive. This has been the default for the last decades. Lots of demand, not a lot of supply of great candidates.

And then on the other hand you have the recruiter / bodies for hire market with candidates that are maybe not that great being lined up with opportunities that are a bit ambitious for their skills. There you need good filters.

I've been on both sides of the table.

My process for hiring is:

- Pre-screen CVs and look for smells (job hopping, a string of meh employers, poor technical skill match, lack of seniority, etc.). You can read a lot from a CV. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt here. But given 20 CVs, I'm not talking to 20 people.

- Quick phone interview either with myself or somebody I trust to have good judgment. This is a critical call. Mostly this is to confirm the basics line up (availability, expectations, skills).

- Interviews in person (ideally). At this point I either like the person or I really don't. Yes this is subjective. But initial impressions seem to have a strong correlation to long term outcomes. Again benefit of the doubt here. But I'm not going to pretend it's not influencing the outcome.

- Decision to proceed with negotiations or not.

Note I don't do any coding interviews whatsoever. I hate those with a passion. They don't tell me anything. I prefer portfolios (e.g. Github) or having candiates talk about something they did. I'm not going to probe them for encylopedic knowledge of algorithms, doing some shitty IQ test, or whatever.
by t-writescode | 2025-04-08 09:40:31+00:00
htmx gets rid of the "bit of vanilla js" and replaces it with "a couple very, very short tags" and then the backend returns partial html, making the experience seamless.

It's written in Javascript, so yes, some vanilla JS can do the same thing; but this library makes that experience easier for the masses, and likely well-tested to the point where more trust can be given to it to be correct.
by wink | 2025-04-08 09:41:16+00:00
It's always hard to describe the minutiae of things happening in the span of just a couple of years, but I think you're overly broad here.

Wikipedia tells me the initial release of Subversion was in late 2000, and for git it was 2005 - but although those were kinda just smack in the middle of my first years online, learning to code, starting with FLOSS work, and so on - I think those years were pretty important with the shift to the WWW and then web 2.0.

I basically don't remember a world without SVN, but that's probably because I just missed the cutoff and projects and companies were migrating from CVS from 2002 on or so, because the model was very similar and while it wasn't drop in, it made sense.

For git I want to say it took just a little longer, and the decentralized model was so different that people were hesitant, and before github in 2009 (I know it was founded in 2008, but my user id is below 50000 and it felt very much new and not at all widespread in non-rails circles before that) I would have called it a bit niche, actually - so it's more like a 7year span. But of course I was living in my bubble of university, and working for 2 small companies and as a freelancer in that time. I think bigger FLOSS projects only started migrating in droves after 2010/2011. But of course my timeline could be just as wrong :D
by dagw | 2025-04-08 09:41:44+00:00
First impressions do count but I think the above poster has a point, a suit can actually harm your chances in an environment where no one wears suits.

There are many ways to wear a suit. If you walking in wearing a suit that doesn't fit, doesn't suite (no pun intended) you, and it obviously makes you feel uncomfortable then that could count against you. But you walk in wearing a suit that fits, makes you look good, and that you are comfortable wearing, then I have a hard time seeing how it will count against you.
by Tade0 | 2025-04-08 09:42:02+00:00
I'm going more for "screw just old people". Nowhere in my parenting there's even a mention of family being a burden - well, the younger part at least.

Anyway, again, half-joking here - I'm not actively pursuing this approach, just not nudging them towards the traditional one.

I spent some years in Italy, where the younger generations are absolutely squeezed by the presence of a huge population of elderly. It went to such bizarre extremes where my one Italian friend not only doesn't own a home being in his 40s now, whereas both of his divorced parents each have their own properties, his salary is lower than his father's pension. Kids are of course out of the question.

My country is speedrunning this same scenario and the only thing preventing it from happening now is considerably lower life expectancy compared to Italy.
by arajnoha | 2025-04-08 09:42:22+00:00
So I got, like many others, caught into the productivity cycle, trying to find the best app for this and that. Notetaking, todo lists, calendars. And all are extremely bloated or paid. I fell in love with the todo.txt CLI program and simply made a web equivalent, so I can perform those simple actions on the go from iOS as well. I initially made a robust PWA, but then started to question every part until i got to 100 LOC. Im considering a box listing the overdue stuff, but that will be the last overhead.
by cometapi | 2025-04-08 09:42:59+00:00
The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) art generation has seen remarkable advancements, with tools like [Grok 3](https://x.ai/) and [Midjourney](https://www.midjourney.com/) at the forefront of this creative revolution. Both platforms offer unique features and capabilities, catering to diverse artistic needs. This article provides an in-depth comparison of Grok 3 and Midjourney, examining their functionalities, user experiences, content moderation policies, and pricing models to determine which AI art generator stands out in the current market.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-08 09:43:54+00:00
Does it suck? Yes, absolutely. Should CF continuously work to reduce false positives? Yes, absolutely.

I've never failed the CF bot test so don't know how that feels. Though I have managed to get to level 8 or 9 on Google's ReCaptcha in recent times, and actually given up a couple of times.

Though my point was just it's gonna boil down to a duck test, so if you walk like a duck and quack like a duck, CF might just think you're a duck.