MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-10 06:06:34+00:00
> there's no point of rote memorization as you can just do a Google search. That's more or less accepted today.

It's not true even though it's accepted. Rote memorization has a place in an education. It does strengthen learning and allow one to make connections between the things seen presently and things remembered, among other things.
by fhd2 | 2025-04-10 06:06:34+00:00
It's a good move. Cash flow is king in most businesses, so pretty universally, if you increase the risk or even just the timeline of cash payouts, you get more. It's an excellent negotiation dimension for anything involving money in my experience.

For my agency/consultancy, if a client wants a discount on the total investment, they can book a larger chunk of hours or pay upfront. More risk for them, less cash for us in total, but more reliable cash sooner, that's worth the discount. Cashback for quick payments is another common and simple example of this.

On the other end of the spectrum, if a client wants to delay payments to a later point in time to improve their short term cashflow, that will cost them more in the long run. Company shares, VSOP, revenue share agreements, success based fees and delayed payments with interest are some of the ways to implement this.

It all comes down to how you distribute the risks and rewards between both parties. Any good negotiation isn't haggling between two hard positions, but a shared venture to find a win win model. What you did there is renegotiate a deal that didn't work for one party to find one that worked for both.
by moi2388 | 2025-04-10 06:07:03+00:00
Indeed. The problem however, is that they write papers with AI (and will also do so when working for a company), but it’s riddled with falsehoods.

So you make them take exams in-class, and you check their papers for mistakes and irresponsible AI use and punish this severely.

But actually using AI ought not to be punished.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-10 06:07:31+00:00
>I’m once again struck by the fact that none of the people in these images are still with us. If any of them somehow returned to the land of the living, I’m not sure they’d recognise the Japan of today.

On the other hand, if someone sees one of this pictures without any explanation, he will recognize it's made in Japan.

I think Japan changed, but not so much.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-10 06:09:59+00:00
Its prussian restorationism, it oozes out of berlin since the reunification and with it and its disciples (AFD) comes that idea that you can ignore the small countries if you are a big country. There are people not falling for it, but real-imperialists like Steinmeier, Schröder or Gauland are ready to send other smaller nations to the slaughter for their own benefits .
by c0redump | 2025-04-10 06:10:10+00:00
The evangelical angle certainly applies to a subset of the republicans, but not all of them.

The difficult and uncomfortable truth is that ardent supporters of Israel wield immense power and influence, and they are able to significantly damage the careers of politicians that do not align with their interests.

The fact that many repugnant racists, antisemites, and holocaust deniers make a comically exaggerated conspiracy theory out of this core truth makes it impossible to discuss it rationally.
by wiktor-k | 2025-04-10 06:12:02+00:00
> now deprecated javascript `with` statement where `with foo; bar` will resolve to `bar` if it is in scope, otherwise it will resolve to `foo.bar`.

Technically, in JavaScript it's `with (foo) bar`.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
by anon373839 | 2025-04-10 06:12:08+00:00
I have a few theories. One is that Washington has been looking to knock Silicon Valley down a peg, for various reasons. Another is that big tech incumbents prefer this arrangement because it blunts the competitive bite of scrappy upstarts. A third is that Republicans are too busy sucking up to Trump, and Democrats are too busy rage tweeting, for any of them to do anything useful.
by metaphor | 2025-04-10 06:14:07+00:00
The exploit struck me as exceptionally nasty given screen mirroring[1] is one of Supernote's attractive features.

Am I correct in understanding that the public debug key firmware signing faux pas was plugged in Chauvet 3.21.31 [2], while the unsolicited/unauthenticated P2P file transfer hole was plugged in the most recent Chauvet 3.23.32 [3]?

The changelog doesn't list any updates released circa December 2024 despite disclosure timeline noting that Supernote "...plan[ned] to address the issues in the December update."

[1] https://support.supernote.com/en_US/Tools-Features/1791924-s...

[2] https://support.supernote.com/en_US/change-log/changelog-for...

[System] Enhanced security for system upgrade verification.

[3] https://support.supernote.com/en_US/change-log/changelog-for...

[Supernote Linking] Enhanced the security of transferring files through the Supernote Linking feature.
by kergonath | 2025-04-10 06:15:02+00:00
> I can't imagine any 2 pin plug being as mechanically stable as a 3 pin.

In absolute terms, yes. But in 30 years I have never seen a 2-pins europlug fall from a socket on its own. I still prefer the French plugs with the Earth pin (and I quite like the British one as well), but europlugs are fine and really not comparable to American plugs.
by dmoy | 2025-04-10 06:15:59+00:00
Depends on the field. Yea generally a bad idea. In tech, absolutely don't take an unpaid internship. In some fields (at least in locales where it's still legal, not California), it's a filter for rich kids who can afford to go unpaid.

So yea, probably don't take an unpaid internship if you're not already a rich kid and don't have a family member telling you it's a good idea.
by kleiba | 2025-04-10 06:19:17+00:00
Of course you could also pull out the good old Chomsky hierarchy and make an argument against regexes based on whatever the nature of your data is.

But the thing is: the beauty of regexes lies in their compactness (which, in turn, can make them quite difficult to debug). So, of course, if you want to optimize for some other measure, you'd use an alternative approach (e.g. a parser). And there are a number of worthwhile measures, such as e.g. the already mentioned debuggability, appropriateness for the problem at hand in terms of complexity, processing speed, ease of using the match result, the ability to get multiple alternative matches, support of regexes in your language of choice, etc.

But simply stating "X beats regexes" without saying in what respect leaves something to be desired.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-04-10 06:19:35+00:00
Indeed. There are many options on the table.

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-brussels-amazon-goog...

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-bazooka-anti-coerci...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/france-singles-ou...
by ggm | 2025-04-10 06:21:08+00:00
Can't answer this because not in the problem space but my partner is a (retired)professional proofreader and from discussions in the past I would observe interpreting proof marks is not solely about the mark, you scan the line independently (or semi independently) and so they derive meaning contextually as well as from "reading" so this demands both OCR and semantic understanding, as well as syntax.

I would be interested if LLM can intuit the corrections needed including at the level of M or N mark which is semantic, or the Oxford comma. Basically can they correct unproofed input to a similar or converging sense as a person would? Can they write the marks as well as read them?
by dmoy | 2025-04-10 06:21:50+00:00
Lego may run the factories, but the factory will run extra and sell the excess off books. Maybe less so nowadays that (1) they can charge a 20-30% premium over US Lego prices in China, and (2) competitor off-brand Lego have caught up in quality

I don't think the official Lego China factory products get sold to the US, only Asia?
by dis-mushroom | 2025-04-10 06:23:18+00:00
Science education isn’t just outdated — it’s speaking the wrong language entirely.

I wrote a long-form essay exploring why modern science education can't grasp the logic of generative AI.

It argues that our dominant scientific language — still based on Newtonian object-logic and hylomorphism — is functionally incapable of explaining the probabilistic, self-organizing nature of deep learning, diffusion models, or transformers.

Drawing from Simondon and Stiegler, I propose a structural overhaul of science education that moves from object-based teaching to a generative, process-oriented paradigm — one that embraces information as ontological keystone.

Would love thoughts, critiques, or counterpoints from the HN community.

Full essay: https://medium.com/@muushroomking/functional-aphasia-why-sci...
by Nemo_bis | 2025-04-10 06:23:29+00:00
For hyperscalers, to some EU subsidiary first. Then it depends on the transfer pricing applied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing

You can tax the "intellectual property" payments that the subsidiaries make to the USA parent, or you can pick some other criterion. Or you can just create a new sales tax for any one part of the transactions you want. It's tricky but it can be done.
by petepete | 2025-04-10 06:24:44+00:00
Obviously niche, but the GOV.UK Design System is very well supported in Rails.

There's a form builder and library of components (built and maintained by me) which, between them, provide full coverage. Most new Rails services use them.

It's a good match because accessibility is one of the Design Systems' primary concerns so JavaScript is used very sparingly and only to enhance.

They're not official, only Nunjucks is supported by the Design System team.

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

https://govuk-form-builder.netlify.app/

https://govuk-components.netlify.app/
by robocat | 2025-04-10 06:24:46+00:00
Unsurprising given China's previous bullshit towards Australia:

In early 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison endorsed an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19, which angered China Following this, China started imposing import tariffs on some Australian exports. China gave a range of reasons for the tariffs. China denied that the tariffs were related to Scott Morrison's actions
by casey2 | 2025-04-10 06:25:19+00:00
It's more about people who don't know jack trying to tell everyone else how to live their lives because of some irrational politics like wanting to destroy trillion dollar industry because it's "bad for the environment" when the culmination of such industries is the entire purpose for their lives.

They rage against a machine that they made from their own blood.

If society will collapse without regulated shower head then why don't you let it?
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-10 06:25:40+00:00
Australia doesn’t trade a lot with the USA anyways, so they are shrugging even if you forget the penguins on McDonald island. Australia exports a lot of stuff to China though, primarily raw resources, and are trying to diversify away from China (and trade with Europe, the Middle East, Africa), but I get the feeling, unless they actually decide to make stuff in Australia again, China will remain the biggest market for their natural resources.
by WilTheFarmer | 2025-04-10 06:25:45+00:00
I have not heard that saying before... as of 10 April 2025 W3Techs.com rankings Nginx - 33.8% Apache - 26.4% Cloudflare Server - 23.4% LiteSpeed - 14.7% Node.js - 4.3% Microsoft-IIS - 4.0% Envoy - 1.3% Google Servers - 0.8% Caddy - 0.3% IdeaWebServer - 0.1% Percentages of websites using various web servers Note: a website may use more than one web server

5 months using Apache Echarts and watch GitHub repository https://github.com/apache/echarts for all activities. The developer team enthusiasm and unity is impressive. It is flexible, powerful, constantly improved and plenty of examples.
by barney100 | 2025-04-10 06:25:49+00:00
currently not, there are only a handful of controls. try to play around with it (most of the settings have a direct visual feedback / reaction, should therefore be self-explanatory. at the bottom, there are indicators which properties are being used to generate the visual. if the need arises, we will create a demo-view. let me know if you are interested.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-04-10 06:25:57+00:00
You don't need to hit a huge number of service providers because the USA market is highly concentrated.

That's why you read things like «The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), a nuclear option that has yet to be deployed, would empower the EU executive to hit U.S. service industries such as tech and banking». https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-bazooka-anti-coerci...

You can just pick the top 10 biggest financial and tech firms and be done with it.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-10 06:26:11+00:00
The tutorial is from 2010. At the time people were much more enthusiastic about Haiku and other alternative operating systems.

Now we only have Windows and Unix like.

I still wonder what would have happened had Jean-Louis Gassée been less greedy and Apple acquired BeOs instead of Next.

I discovered BeOs in 2000 and it seemed to me much more interesting at that moment than either Windows or Linux. Not only it looked and felt better but it introduced other ideas and concepts.

I had hopes it's adoption will increase but it soon withered and died.

I still wonder why we can't do better than Unix and Windows. Unix is 50 years old and Windows is old, too. There should be better concepts out there waiting to be discovered and implemented.

At some point there were many companies, universities, groups and individuals involved in researching and implementing operating systems.

At that point I was following OsNews website daily and each day there were news about some new and exciting developments.

Not anymore.

I miss the days when I read about BeOS, Syllable, AROS, MorphOS, AtheOS, SkyOS, Plan 9, Inferno, Singularity. And there were a ton of interesting kernels, too.
by nneonneo | 2025-04-10 06:26:34+00:00
That's brilliant!

I mean, arithmetic is the same way, right? Nobody should do the arithmetic by hand, as you say. Kindergarten teachers really ought to just hand their kids calculators, tell them they should push these buttons like this, and write down the answers. No need to teach them how to do routine arithmetics like 3+4 when a calculator can do it for them.
by bjornsing | 2025-04-10 06:26:42+00:00
> Is there a serious steelman argument for why it makes sense to reflexively call protests against Israel anti-Semitic?

Probably not. I grew up with extreme left-wing parents deeply involved with the Palestinian cause (but don’t sympathize with their views myself). I’ve heard them and their friends express a vicarial, seemingly irrational distaste for the US and Israel infinitely many times. I’ve also heard a lot of terror romanticism, not just for Palestinian terrorists but also the IRA, etc. But I’ve never heard anyone express any animosity towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group.

I think I can understand where the misunderstanding comes from though: These are very ideological people with deep seated feelings (hate mostly) connected to those ideological views. Most people don’t think or feel that way, and the closest thing they can relate to is racial hatred. So that’s the inference they make. In Swedish there’s a saying that roughly translates to “as you understand yourself you understand others”. I think that’s mostly what we’re seeing here.
by smrxx | 2025-04-10 06:27:53+00:00
I want to take an exception to the term cheat. Because it is only cheating the student in the end. I didn’t learn my times tables in elementary school. Sure, I can work out the answer to any multiplication problem, but that’s the point, I have to work it out. This slows me down compared to others who learned the patterns, where they can do the multiplication in their fast automatic cognitive system and possibly the downstream processing for what they need the multiplication for. I have to think through the problem. I only cheated myself.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-10 06:29:44+00:00
Wow, that's an amazing take; thanks for that. I really feel that is on track with reality. Because didn't they formerly have chain-gangs breaking rocks in the hot sun, and making license plates and other manual labor jobs? There are indeed still prison-based industries. I've heard entire call-centers are staffed by prisoners and many on work-release are at normal restaurants and the like.

As for construction, yeah. I worked day-labor for 2-3 days total in my entire life, and it was hell. I have always been groomed as an intellectual knowledge-worker in offices. Assigned by a day-labor office, the contractors set me to working machinery I was totally unfamiliar with. Every day laborer was required to own our attire and safety equipment at own-expense. There was no way anyone could move up without specialized training and experience with the machines they put us on. I had to ride the bus around to time-sensitive jobs at random sites. Then blew the paycheck on a hotel with a shower. I was never gonna learn that heavy-equipment stuff if I had a bunch of computer savvy and risking injury. I literally couldn't operate the machine without my glasses falling off!

It's interesting how you allude to the Irish and Chinese rail workers, and dockworkers/longshoremen of bygone days. It's sort of amazing to think that my able-bodied ancestors could just throw themselves into some milieu and get paid for sweaty physical work. That doesn't seem possible in today's mechanized economy. President Kennedy warned us all from Butler County. Here we remain.
by hackyhacky | 2025-04-10 06:29:53+00:00
> The bulk of the people in this thread should be disproportionally inclined to be self-motivated and self-taught in multiple domains, and having this sort of feature available makes worlds of difference

I agree that AI could be an enormous educational aid to those who want to learn. The problem is that if any human task can be performed by a computer, there is very little incentive to learn anything. I imagine that a minority of people will learn stuff as a hobby, much in the way that people today write poetry or develop film for fun; but without an economic incentive to learn a skill or trade, having a personal Socratic teacher will be a benefit lost on the majority of people.
by dmoy | 2025-04-10 06:29:56+00:00
10-20 years ago, sure. Nowadays you can get basically the same product from LEGO compatible competitors for way cheaper. Dunno how many modern sets of the variety of competitor stuff you've assembled recently, there's huge variance. Some of it definitely has crap QC. Some of it is really, really good now. My wife put together some knockoff 8000+ piece set the other year and the pieces were basically flawless.
by coolestguy | 2025-04-10 06:30:40+00:00
How does deducting R&D in software equal magic money? Isn't it just making the deduction timeframe the same timeframe as the actual expense/money paid?

It's weirder that you spend money on R&D today & then get a 20% for 5 years in a row, no? You've spend money, but also can't deduct it from your profit so you're both spending money and paying taxes on that money as if you had it.
by SCdF | 2025-04-10 06:32:11+00:00
I use my (work) computer entirely with my voice, and it takes a lot of effort to work out what to actually write and to not ramble. Like you I've found that it's better to throw out words in sort of half sentence chunks, to give your brain time to work out what the next chunk is.

It's very hard, and I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to.

(which is why I'm always perplexed by these apps which allow voice dictation or voice control, but not as a complete accessibility package. I wouldn't be using my voice if my hands worked!)

It's also critically important (and after 3-4 years of this I still regularly fail at this) to actually read what you've written, and edit it before send, because those chunks don't always line up into something that I'd consider acceptably coherent. Even for a one sentence slack message.

(also, I have a kiwi accent, and the dictation software I use is not always perfect at getting what I wanted to say on the page)
by foogazi | 2025-04-10 06:32:12+00:00
> completely different to if basic income was actually universal and expected to continue in the long-term

If we were in a “long term UBI situation” how would people really trust that the cash would keep flowing?

If current benefit programs (Medicare, social security, ACA, food stamps) are under attack how would it work with UBI ?

It would be fine for older workers to step back, but what about young adults coming into the workforce - would they just skip learning?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-10 06:32:35+00:00
Just because companies say they have skilled shortage doesn't make it true. They're mostly just picky and want to put pressure on wages. I also have a Ferrari shortage, so we need to make more Ferraris.

Plus, EU visas are basically just rubber stamps anyway compared to how hard getting an H1B is.

Actually here's another unused pressure point, the EU can retaliate by making it as difficult for Americans to work in the EU as it is for EU citizens to work in the US. Why isn't it already reciprocal?
by raducu | 2025-04-10 06:34:22+00:00
> Why should singles and childless people subsidise people with children?

My point was mainly that that kind of first tier city would attract those kind of people, not specifically that they should be targeted.

If you lived in a 2nd tier zone you shouldn't pay extra in taxes even if you're childless.

But specifically to your question, I do think that it's fair that childless people should pay more taxes, because having a stable population is a requirement for a stable society and single/childless people aren't doing their part.

That duty can be offloaded to parents with more children, but they should be compensated for that.

You can frame it whatever you want -- they pay more taxes, parents pay less taxes, parents get tax rebates, parents get higher UBI per child, the outcome is the same.

I do think that first tier cities leach and profit from the work of the parents, educators of the people who migrate there (and generally the whole area -- it takes a village to raise a child), profit from exorbitant property taxes so, I think the only way to solve this curse is higher taxes (if it's required) on those areas and subsidized living in less desirable places -- provided that those 2nd tier places produce competent citizens.
by dan_can_code | 2025-04-10 06:34:54+00:00
British-born here. Standing on a plug is somewhat a rite of passage that each kid goes through at least once. It's a meme in the UK.

The flat back of most plugs increased the risk of standing on this type of plug. It's similar to the experience of standing on Lego, except it will dig much deeper into your foot, and falling over is better than putting all of your weight on it.

It can be a common occurrence, because using an extension cord or an appliance you don't always need to have plugged in can just be laying around. And kids aren't known for being tidy. If you managed to get past being a clumsy kid and had the self awareness to avoid it, props to you.
by tomasol | 2025-04-10 06:37:09+00:00
The structured concurrency paradigm in workflows is stricter to what I'm reading here [1]. The whole execution model is different from the Task [2], as workflows are transparently unloaded and replayed.

Obelisk has a concept called join sets [3], where child executions are submitted and awaited. In the future I plan on adding cancellation and allow custom cleanup functions.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[3] https://obeli.sk/docs/latest/concepts/workflows/join-sets/