MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-04-01 09:15:37+00:00
> prompting Germany, the UK, Denmark, Finland and Portugal to issue travel warnings and advisories for the country

I'm glad they posted links, that is a lot better sourced than many media groups. But the links suggest that the UK's updated advice [0] is "follow US law while in the US, the form you want is an ESTA". That is something of a non-statement. In fact there is a lot in this article that on close inspection doesn't say anything. Like the rather generic Soligo quote for example.

[0] Bizarrely the source trail is via The Hill; I would have thought the BBC could go straight to a UK government website.
by belter | 2025-04-01 09:15:41+00:00
Lets continue the comparisons, instead of attacking the credibility of French courts, who have a fantastic reputation of making politicians of all sides of the political spectrum accountable...

"Nicolas Sarkozy's trial: Prosecutors request 7-year prison sentence for the former president" - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/03/27/nicolas-...

"Former French Prime Minister François Fillon sentenced to five years" - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/europe/france-franois-fil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_politicians_co...
by nougati | 2025-04-01 09:15:46+00:00
For me, the main interest would be to switch the interface for one language to another in ideally 1-2 clicks; so if there was an interface element that captured the languages I was 'working on' that would be neat. Then I'd be happy to peruse the full list whenever curiosity spikes.

Otherwise, great work on a good use of existing technologies to provide meaningful educational benefit for yourself and others!
by greatgib | 2025-04-01 09:15:46+00:00
Decorators in the usage example looks useless, and more to show off than being a real convenience.

In real life program, I don't think that you will have hundreds of calls to LLM or agent in your app so much that you have any code gains to decorator but at the opposite the decorator will make it very hard to have parametric values or values not hard coded but from config that you don't set up upfront at application startup like globals. That is a bad practice...
by Aardwolf | 2025-04-01 09:16:07+00:00
I would love to know how multiplication and division work in modern chips to have such low cycle count compared to addition, since in theory the addition complexity is linear in the amount of bits but multiplication and division are quadratic, or loglinear for large inputs. Part of that is solved by surface area rather than time I guess, but that's also true for the adders already with the carry logic
by MartijnHols | 2025-04-01 09:16:57+00:00
There is no such things as a true apples to apples comparison for libraries such as this. They all cherry pick something and ignore a ton of things such as:

- accessibility - amount of libraries with plug-and-play solutions to common problems - security - scalability - rendering performance - maintainability - browser support - browser extension interference - hundreds of other niche edge-cases that someone will eventually run into but are non-obvious until it's widely used

React is really well-thought out and well made by hundreds of professional contributors that have worked on it for years. The premise that hobbyists can make a better overall solution in less than 8 months is strange. At best they can make a smaller solution, but it will have to sacrifice in other areas.
by dkh | 2025-04-01 09:17:21+00:00
The technical requirements always seem to increase at the same rate as the technical advances. I've found this especially true in film/TV. Sure, by 2014ish we were shooting on solid state and had giant RAIDs on set and storage was cheaper than it ever had been, but we easily negated all of that by shooting on multiple RED cameras in raw at resolutions of 6.5k+. Terabytes of new data each day, even duplicating it before leaving took a lot of time! And then storing it at the office while letting more than 1 editor work with it at the time meant building a 36-disk ZFS server with 10GbE to each client. Just playing the footage back on a computer required a dedicated PCIe card
by allyally | 2025-04-01 09:17:28+00:00
1. Trend trading strategy. Determine the trend of the market by using technical analysis tools such as moving averages, Bollingbands, etc. 2. Range trading strategy. If the market is in a sideways range, buy and sell points can be set at the upper and lower boundaries of the range. 3. Message plane-driven strategy. Follow the news, policies and regulations, project progress and other news of the cryptocurrency industry.
by gwd | 2025-04-01 09:17:58+00:00
I love having real sentences -- so much more engaging than the random things made up by Duolingo!

What are your long-term plans with this? I'd love at some point to be able to combine something like this with an algorithm I'm working on called Guided Immersion.

Basically, the system tracks what words you know and don't know, and so could tell you how hard a given sentence is for you. And it also tracks what words it would be useful to review and/or learn (spaced repetition and frequency analysis), to tell you how valuable a sentence would be for you.

The algorithm is generic and can be adapted to any language; right now it's been adapted to Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and New Testament Greek. (Which unfortunately so far doesn't seem to overlap with any of your available languages.) I'm working on an API to allow any content providers to use the algorithm.

Adding this to your system could help focus the content you're showing people to things that they're likely to be able to understand without having to look up most words, and helping them incrementally grow and solidify their vocabulary using the built-in spaced repetition.

Drop me a line if you want to chat at some point -- my email is in my about.
by gf000 | 2025-04-01 09:18:22+00:00
How is it different than pre-generic Java?

Map/List<T> etc are erased to basically an array of Objects (or a more specific supertype) at compile-time, but you can still use the non-generic version (with a warning) if you want and put any object into a map/list, and get it out as any other type, you having to cast it as the correct type.
by anovikov | 2025-04-01 09:18:57+00:00
Well, nice story, sadly it is a lie.

Hungary enjoyed good GDP growth rates recently. It stumbled in the last two years because it's energy dependence on Russia used to be higher than that of other EU countries - so gaining bigger benefits from it earlier (cheap energy), it had higher losses recently when this dependence is being slowly broken.

https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/full-year-gdp-growth - 2.7% average growth in the last 12 years, or 3% per capita corrected for population decline.

By comparison, U.S. GDP growth in the same period averaged only 1.75% per year per capita (which isn't bad, about average actually), so there's 15.9% accumulated catch-up over these years (while Hungary is still 1.8+x poorer so that is expectable).

It's neither poor nor there is mass political terror. There can't be because borders are open, everyone is free to emigrate and find employment in any nearby EU country having full rights as EU citizens. So the government is very, very limited in what it can do to it's people as voting with one's feet is way too easy and that is the untimate form of democracy.

Only way in which Hungary is different from other Eastern European states is major territory and population loss after WWI. Other Eastern European countries did not have any sort of statehood before WWI and then not until after 1989 when they were Nazi and then Commie colonies. Many of them don't even have history of their own, just ethnography - say Slovakia (ok there was Principality of Nitra that one can count for Slovak state but it was 1000 years ago and lasted one generation), they were owned by other countries/cultures and not even as a whole but piecemeal. By contrast, Hungary was a very real nation all the way from ~1000AD. Which then, lost 2/3 of it's territory and population, to the nations they consider their inferiors, and still can't get over it. It's sort of natural that they are kinda resentful and far right, they naturally feel that they have been historically wronged and have a much lower international position and weight than they naturally deserve.

Of course, there is another "very real" East European nation - Poland - but it currently enjoys a very prominent international political and economical position which probably matches their expectation, so while their politics is kinda right wing, it is so to a much lower degree. One could also name Lithuania, but GDL wasn't a nation of Lithuanians.
by alexdoesstuff | 2025-04-01 09:19:11+00:00
Full agree!

Being close to the edge of AI usage, it's important to realize that most AI use cases are not "fully autonomous AI software engineer" or "deep research into a niche topic" but way more innocuous: Improve my blog post, what's the capital of France, what are some nice tourist sites to see around my next vacation destination.

For those non-edge use cases, costs are an issue, but so are inertia and switching costs. A big reason OpenAI and ChatGPT are so huge is that it's still their go-to model for all of these non-edge use cases as it's well known, well adopted, and quite frankly very efficiently priced.
by ctippett | 2025-04-01 09:19:46+00:00
My wife and I recently flew to New Zealand from London, we opted to avoid a transit via the US. Not just because of the political situation in the country, which isn't ideal, but because our bags wouldn't be checked all the way through. Having to offload our bags and re-check them in either JFK or LAX is a huge pain – travelling via China, Singapore or any of the middle eastern countries is so much more convenient in comparison.
by bambax | 2025-04-01 09:20:15+00:00
The real question is, do we actually need "frameworks"? Pure JS works pretty well, and no JS at all even better.

I recently worked on an SAP project where there was a whole Java layer in front of SAP, and then a huge Angular app on top of it all; but since the point of the application was to manage b2b sales of physical things and it mattered very much whether those things were in stock, almost every screen did a full request to the SAP layer. The need for a thick "rich" client was unclear, and PHP would probably have worked much better.

Hype aside, it seems big organizations are using frameworks as a mean to ensure uniform coding practices and make developers more easily replaceable; but surely there are better ways to achieve that.
by vbarrielle | 2025-04-01 09:20:58+00:00
In France the inheritance tax is only applied above 100 000€, so it's really not 40% flat. What's more, it's possible to make donations before the death, 100 000€ every 15 years, without taxes, meaning most of the time no taxes are payed at all below 200 000€ or even 300 000€.

These amounts are per-child, which means you can double them up if there are two children.

Median patrimony in France is 175 000€ per household, so your typical middle class family with two children ends up paying no inheritance tax, without having done donations in advance.
by berkes | 2025-04-01 09:21:06+00:00
At least on Android it's possible to dissect an app. You won't get the original java code, but static analysis is possible. And indeed, it's possible to capture it's network traffic and even often decrypt that traffic (with root access to the device). Now, I, or you may not research at this level, but someone looking into wether they may use WhatsApp to discuss attack plans on, say, Jemen, might find such weaknesses.

People find exploits in proprietary code, or even SaaS (where researchers cannot even access the software) every day.

People at Meta might leak this information too.

"Information wants to be free"

My point is: the risk of this becoming known is real.
by Jataman606 | 2025-04-01 09:22:29+00:00
Very good online resource (and free!) is JustinGuitar guitar course[1]. It begins from absolute nothing, no prior knowledge required. And it works for both acoustic and electric guitars. Also Justin is great, understanding and aproachable teacher (even though course is online). Only downside is you will need a lot of self discipline to go through it, but it definetly worked for me.

[1] https://www.justinguitar.com/
by mirzap | 2025-04-01 09:22:30+00:00
Honestly, after playing around with your example and tweaking a JavaScript example, I feel that my plain JS example is faster than the one with WASM/Rust on Nue (possibly due to the animations). Please disable animations; I think they make your WASM example feel slower than it probably is.

Here is a 1 million rows table in JS with filtering, sorting, and pagination: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubuserconten...
by jumski | 2025-04-01 09:23:09+00:00
I'm not sure if this would scratch your itch, but I'm building a Postgres-native workflow engine that separates orchestration from execution. I want to be able to start my flows from within db triggers.

It just exposes set of functions to propagate the DAG through states and queues tasks for a task worker to perform the actual work and acknowledge completion or failure back to the sql orchestrator.

I was working on it for last few months and it will be ready in upcoming weeks, first version is dedicated to work on Supabase but I plan to make it agnostic.

If you want to learn more, check out the SQL Core readme which explains the whole concept (https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow/tree/main/pkgs/core#rea...) or my Twitter for updates and some demos (https://x.com/pgflow_dev).
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-01 09:23:21+00:00
> And why shouldn’t you be able to use EU funds for that? It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if a political organisation that is pro EU gets funding, the opponents should be funded as well. What is beneficial to the EU as a organisation shouldn’t be a parameter at all, that’s not how democracy works.

I fundamentally disagree with that. It would be like using public funds to run for presidency in a country while campaigning for that country to cease to exist.

Note that they didn't forbid her to campaign on a platform that is against the EU - which I think they should - they only forbid her to use public EU funds to do so.

That you want to paint this as undemocratic is very bizarre.

> But that doesn’t make EU a particularly democratic organisation.

To the opposite, EU fragments power quite a lot. It is one of the main reasons why it is slow to act sometimes, many changes requires unanimous approval from all member countries (which is why Orban gets to veto any initiative while he is gurgling on Putin's balls).

> In my opinion, it is rare to find politicians who try to increase democracy.

I don't even know if we would agree what a perfectly functioning democracy even is.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-04-01 09:23:36+00:00
Under Trump doctrine, IIRC, Vance could simply kill Trump as an official Presidential act, and the legal presumption would be that it's A-OK.

Actually, that's an interesting question: does the VP share that same presumption of immunity? If so, then Vance could just do the deed right now and get off Scott free.
by ben_w | 2025-04-01 09:23:57+00:00
> the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Just the other day I was appalled by a new record, 1604.

I'm increasingly of the opinion this stuff needs to just be banned outright by law. None of the businesses I've talked to seem to be aware of how dishonest it looks to say "we value your privacy" while trying to get users to agree to get more companies than there were pupils in my secondary school to analyse them.
by geocar | 2025-04-01 09:24:41+00:00
> I see a lot of people angry at "Nue" in various ways

Interesting. I see people making overlay-broad claims without evidence or justification.

> I deal as DevOps/SRE daily with these services, and finding one that will do a first load under 10s is close to impossible

Nobody is going to call in for your help unless something is wrong, so don't be surprised you haven't seen anything right. That just means people are keeping the good stuff secret (and/or they don't work for your company)

> I can't help but think these are people heavily relying on React and missing the overall issue.

That's too bad.

I think that everyone who works on a slow project knows it's ultimately Management's fault, and when a codebase gets so big that nobody feels like they can fix it anymore, that's Management's fault too.

Maybe you can think if Management called you in earlier you could've designed a better thing, but guess what: I think that would be Management's fault too.

> but I can at least root for them

Can you imagine if any of what you said was really True, everybody believed you, and everybody actually stopped using these "huge frameworks [that] have made the web a horrible slow mess", and that actually solved "the overall issue" so that all software is perfect and reliable? What exactly do you think a SRE does in this case? Do you think that's even a job?

I really suggest trying to look at things differently, because I think for your skills there's a huge opportunity sitting right in front of you if you can see it.
by cometapi | 2025-04-01 09:25:20+00:00
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, two models have recently captured significant attention: OpenAI's GPT-4.5 and xAI's Grok 3. Both promise groundbreaking advancements, but how do they truly compare? This article delves into their features, performance, and overall value to determine which stands out as the superior AI model.
by jumski | 2025-04-01 09:26:16+00:00
Nice to see some workflow engine action on Hacker News! :-)

I'm currently building pgflow, which is a simple, postgres-first engine that uses task queues to perform real work.

Have explicit DAG approach, strong typesafety, nice DSL in TypeScript and a dedicated task queue worker that allows it to run solely on Supabase without any external tools.

I'm super close to the alpha release, if you guys want more info, check out the readme for SQL core (https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow/tree/main/pkgs/core#rea...) or my Twitter (https://x.com/pgflow_dev).

Hope that grabs someone attention :-) Cheers
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-01 09:26:51+00:00
Yeah, take it from me, NYC and Boston are far more relaxed and friendly than Cape Town for walking or driving around.

But I find the airport border security in CPT Airport much more pleasant. The worst that happens is that they sometimes go through your stuff thoroughly, hoping to ding you some money for "importing" e.g. that second bottle of booze.

In all of these cities, there is crime and violence. Less so in NYC and Boston. In all of them, there are safer places and times, and less safe areas. If you know what they are.

You can't say "USA crime and poverty rates are terrible, therefore Manhattan will be very dangerous" - it just doesn't work that way.
by defrost | 2025-04-01 09:26:59+00:00
Trump cannot run as VP as he's no longer a valid backup POTUS having already served two terms. VP candidates have to be "valid" (birth citizenship, age, not have served two terms).

The back door third term via VP trick only cleanly works for candidates before they've been elected twice.

Any attempt by Trump to run as VP will almost immediately be locked up in chaos.

It's another dead cat on table smoke 'n mirrors distraction play.

To quote another:

The reason Donald Trump is talking about this third term ridiculousness is very plain. Second-term American presidents are lame ducks. That’s just how it is. And if they are unpopular lame ducks, after awhile their allies may start to look past them toward the future. Trump is undoubtedly terrified of this—of becoming irrelevant before his term even ends, particularly once the race to succeed him heats up. The way for him to keep the specter of lame-duckishness at bay is to tease the idea that just maybe, who knows, he just sorta might run for a third term. That’s the play, and the media is being played.

~ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/old-man-dons-cross-to-b...

Addendum:

The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President of the United States to two terms, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

The interaction with the twelfth has not been tested in any Supreme Court:

It has been argued that the 22nd Amendment and 12th Amendment bar any two-term president from later serving as vice president as well as from succeeding to the presidency from any point in the presidential line of succession. Others contend that the original intent of the 12th Amendment concerns qualification for service (age, residence, and citizenship), while the 22nd Amendment concerns qualifications for election, and thus a former two-term president is still eligible to serve as vice president. Neither amendment restricts the number of times someone can be elected to the vice presidency and then succeed to the presidency to serve out the balance of the term, although the person could be prohibited from running for election to an additional term.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the...
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-01 09:27:04+00:00
> There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom. The same will be true of AI art copycats.

True, but this was also during a time when it was incredibly hard to make a video game. It wasn't like anyone could spin up a Doom clone in 2 minutes. Competition vs. commoditization at massive scale are different things.
by freehorse | 2025-04-01 09:27:04+00:00
The fact that EU uses it for protectionist reasons does not make it wrong or untrue, though. And frankly, if cost reduction is based on destruction of earth and slavery-like working conditions in cartel-controlled lands, it makes sense to disincentivise these at least, if not boycott completely. The problem with EU doing it for protectionist reasons is that it does not apply similar standards for what is happening inside the EU, eg re:working conditions in strawberry production.

For the military industry part, I completely agree. This applies already to certain war situations that were and keep being encouraged.
by gwd | 2025-04-01 09:27:05+00:00
> Vance runs, Trump as VP on the ticket, Vance resigns after winning and voila.

I dunno man; Vance is ambitious, but doesn't seem like such a sycophant. I'd say there'd be a non-negligible chance that instead of resigning, Vance has him "accidentally extradited" to an El Salvadorian prison.
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-01 09:27:22+00:00
Agents introduce causality, reflection, necessity and various other sub-components never to be found in purely stochastic completion engines. This is an improvement, but it does require breaking down what each "agent" needs to do. What are the "core components" of cognition?

That's why I claim that any sufficiently complicated cognitive architecture contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Immanuel Kant's work.
by walrus01 | 2025-04-01 09:27:28+00:00
I think that's unlikely, but also, Musk is much younger than Trump and planning the long game from his own point of view.

MAGA as a movement (and the people who prop it up) will need a successor. Musk knows trump will eventually go fully senile or have a stroke or just keel over dead from old age, and Vance is a good logical next person to step in and take the reigns.

Trump would be 82 in 4 years.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-01 09:27:29+00:00
> They don't want normal people to do this

That's the root of the problem. That's precisely why computers are not the "bicycles for the minds" they were imagined to be.

It's not a conspiracy theory, either. Most of the tech industry makes money inserting themselves between you and your problem and trying to make sure you're stuck with them.