MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tanjablue | 2025-04-07 14:16:41+00:00
iwell (scale-up) | https://www.iwell.eu/ | Medior/senior data engineer | Utrecht, Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite/Hybrid

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We build software that uses real-time telemetry, forecasts, and battery solutions to optimize energy flows for businesses. My team handles data from thousands of devices to power customer facing products, analytics and ML. Aside from that, we love karaoke, pub quizzes and (board)games.

Relevant stack: GCP, Airflow, InfluxDB, Python, BigQuery

Full description and apply here: https://jobs.iwell.nl/o/data-engineer-medior-senior
by Bewelge | 2025-04-07 14:16:46+00:00
I agree that the process is unnecessarily complex, but I also think hiring someone for that would be the wise choice in most places anyway.

And even in Germany hiring someone for that would probably amount to paying 500-1000€ for the whole registration of the company instead of doing everything yourself and only paying the 100-200€ notary fees. It's not as bad as you might think.

> I will never try it in my home country.

May I ask, where would you try it? As I understand it, it's not really possible to found in a different European country while you're still living in Germany.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-07 14:16:59+00:00
It's just the usual HN sport: ask a low-end, obsolete or unspecified model, get a bad answer, brag about how you "proved" AI is pointless hype, collect karma.

Edit: Then again, maybe they have a point, going by an answer I just got from Google's best current model ( https://g.co/gemini/share/374ac006497d ) I haven't seen anything that ridiculous from a leading-edge model for a year or more.
by martin_a | 2025-04-07 14:17:24+00:00
> Most tech startups need a limited liability structure like GmbH (similar to LLC) or UG.

Meh, do they really? Only if they want to go the VC route. But in this topic we're talking about more healthy ways to build and grow a company and for that you don't need a GmbH or GbR to start.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-07 14:17:52+00:00
> We had no budget issues.

Depends on how one judges the state of equipment - I remember my private laptop having 4x the RAM than the city's computer... or my school's MuSiN computers running on win2k (!) until at the very least 2012. If that isn't a budget problem, I really really don't know what else could be one.

> There are even rumors that Dieter Reiter told someone that he regretted moving away from LiMux

Reiter regretting something, now that might be a first for him

Anyway nice to see (or rather: read) you again!
by crabbone | 2025-04-07 14:18:22+00:00
Nah. Not really. A lot of the useful data out there doesn't need ACL, precise (or any dates at all) etc.

Also, a lot of application-specific data formats already don't care about the "extra" attributes available in various filesystems because those aren't universally supported and implement them themselves in the file format they operate on. For example, DICOMs, or password-protected PDFs or Zip archives etc.
by Klonoar | 2025-04-07 14:18:36+00:00
> That's not a feature. Stickers is a feature. Calls are a feature. Messages are a feature. Group chats are a feature. Group video calls are a feature. Link thumbnails are a feature. Forwarding messages is a feature.

K, and? Every comment I've typed in this thread was surrounding how these things are implemented on the rendering layer. Whether or how those are encrypted is of no relation to my point. Badgering on about it more won't help you make a point.

> Signal might not have every bell and whistle like pinned messages, but when it eventually does, [...] > I'm saying the true beauty is with the ridiculously seamless and easy to use end-to-end encryption for everything Signal provides.

You seem to be under the impression that I am knocking Signal as a client, and I'm not. It is my primary messenger.

I just expect better of them and I do not believe for one moment that they couldn't have the UI/UX of Telegram. You are more than welcome to get all tied up in the crypto/privacy/security arguments - I have never argued those because they are (a) boringly obvious points and (b) not the fucking point of my comment chain.

Privacy and security have jack shit to do with how well an engineer implements rendering code, full stop. Telegram does it better and Signal/Element/etc need to do better.
by renox | 2025-04-07 14:19:12+00:00
>> imagine a world without advertising > I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable. > It's impossible. How do you even define advertising?

Yet, in some countries advertising for tobacco or alcohol is banned, if it's possible to ban these advertising for these product why would it be impossible to ban every advertising.

> And in all cases, you are self-imposing a restriction that will give other nations an economic advantage and jeopardizing long-term sovereignty.

Uh? You can advertise in these other nation but they also won't be able to advertise in your country, so I don't understand your point.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-07 14:19:16+00:00
>In communism, would you really want to extract the equivalent of $50m of labour and resources in order to provide one person with this test? I can't imagine how that would be affordable.

if it means me and all my people can one day not get STD's, yes. 50m is a steal. Medcine is one of the few fields like tech where the solution is very hard to come by, but extremely scalable once it is derived. It should be the most important aspect to focus on if you want future RoI. Even if it's the indirect cost of your citizens (or you) not dying of some disease.

we don't think of STDs as deadly, but apply it to cancer and the value is obvious.
by Zanfa | 2025-04-07 14:19:17+00:00
From my experience, companies taking months to get GDPR are ones that want to tick the box, but don't want to follow the law, so they have to go through the trouble of justifying gathering unnecessary data for themselves and their 873 trusted partners. They usually end up noncompliant anyway because GDPR is a pretty sensibly written law that you can't just work around with a crappy popup, but enforcement has unfortunately been lacking.
by johnecheck | 2025-04-07 14:20:00+00:00
Here's[0] a recent editorial about Colossal, the company behind this.

Basically, they make some flimsy claims about conservation and combating climate change to justify creating a poor imitation of Jurassic Park. Naturally, there's some real moral dilemmas that they gloss over in pursuit of the money a few wealthy people will pay to be able to say "I saw a Mammoth!"

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/editorial-mammoth-de...
by telotortium | 2025-04-07 14:20:34+00:00
IKEA in the US has a good fast-food restaurant as well (although I'd call it more of a cafeteria). On the other hand, in the US, IKEA doesn't value making it easy to navigate the store or developing a competent assembly service. I think the issue is that companies will generally either see something as a core competency, or at least central to brand identity, and therefore put more effort into it, or they'll see it as non-core, in which case it will go to the cheapest option.
by palata | 2025-04-07 14:20:39+00:00
> Whatever right wing cope you may have read

I haven't. I am just telling how I believe it is perceived from outside the US. It seems like Americans here find it a bit excessive for tourists to choose not to come to the US "just because of a mistake at the border". I'm trying to say that from the outside, the US is behaving at least like a big bully, sometimes like an enemy. You don't go on vacation in a country that threatens to attack you militarily.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-07 14:20:54+00:00
I believe that a significant portion of this is gender coding. The political parties in the US are segmenting by gender. Manufacturing is coded male and service jobs are coded female. Once you drill in things get more complex, since something like garment manufacturing would still be coded female, but this is correct at the largest levels. So a political movement that is soaked in a desire for a return to some idealized past of traditional masculinity concludes that manufacturing is virtuous while service roles are not, independent of whether manufacturing actually creates greater economic prosperity.

"Email jobs" are disdained as valueless. Hawley compares manufacturing to God's Creation in his book on masculinity and concludes that men must carry on this legacy of creation to fulfill their purpose. That's not an economic argument but a moral one, which concludes that it is better to be paid less pressing steel into sheets than to be paid more teaching undergraduates.
by toddmorey | 2025-04-07 14:21:05+00:00
As another commenter mentioned, LLMs tend to make these bad mistakes with enormous confidence. And because they represent SOTA technology (and can at times deliver incredible results), they have extra credence.

More than even filling the gaps in knowledge / skills, would be a huge advancement in AI for it to admit when it doesn't know the answer or is just wildly guessing.
by rickdeckard | 2025-04-07 14:21:19+00:00
The fact that both your sources are NOT the actual DNG license text should be sufficient to humble yourself from "This is not correct" to at least a question.

--> Your information source is incomplete. Please refer to the license of DNG [0].

The patent rights are only granted:

1. When used to make compliant implementations to the specification,

2. Adobe has the right to license at no cost every method used to create this DNG from the manufacturer, and

3. Adobe reserves the right to revoke the rights "in the event that such licensee or its affiliates brings any patent action against Adobe or its affiliates related to the reading or writing of files that comply with the DNG Specification"

--

None of this is trivial to a large company.

First of all, it requires involvement of a legal department for clearance,

Second, you are in risk of violation of the patent as soon as you are not compliant to the specification,

Third, you may have to open every IP to Adobe at no charge which is required in order to create a DNG from your sensor (which can be a significant risk and burden if you develop your own sensor) and

Fourth, in case the aforementioned IP is repurposed by Adobe and you take legal action, your patent-license for DNG is revoked.

--

--> If you are a vendor with a working RAW implementation and all the necessary tools for it in place, it's hard to make a case on why you should go through all that just to implement another specification.

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/digital-negative.html#dng
by MiddleEndian | 2025-04-07 14:21:31+00:00
ISO order is the correct order. 2025 April 7 or 2025-04-07 or whatever. Human-read numbers are big endian and dates should be big endian to maintain that consistency.

Also, America uses ISO order, we just use a comma. 2025 April 7 is the same as April 7, 2025. Just like Bill Gates is the same as Gates, Bill.
by Alifatisk | 2025-04-07 14:22:34+00:00
I’ve tried QVQ before, one issue I always stumbled upon is that it entered an endless loop of reasoning. It felt wrong letting it run for too long, I didn’t want to over consume Alibabas gpus.

I’ll try QVQ-Max when I get home. It’s kinda fascinating how these models can interpret an image and actually understand what is in it and reason around it. So cool.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-07 14:22:38+00:00
NYTimes, I don't care how much you pay photographer Christopher Payne and the rest of your photography staff (and contractors). No way is it enough. This is incredible work.

A quick internet search tells me Payne -- who shot the article -- specializes in large-format photography focusing on industry, and the samples on his website are breathtaking: https://www.chrispaynephoto.com/ Seems like the kind of thing that would be right up HN's alley.
by saghm | 2025-04-07 14:22:40+00:00
I think this one is already past the past the inflection point, to be honest. I see people using the word with the new meaning far more than the old one; hell, I see people complaining about how the word is used more than I see it used for the original meaning. My take is that the original meaning is so narrow that it's almost inevitable that any more broad usage that appeared would overtake it to the point of drowning out the original.
by joenot443 | 2025-04-07 14:22:48+00:00
I think in the very best case we _might_ see Apple/G adding an option into the OS to disable contact autosuggestion, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

When a feature is mildly useful 95% of the time and an awkward footgun 5%, I think it still remains a good addition, but one that can be turned off if necessary.

Double checking the recipients in a chat discussing national security is a super low bar and the parties involved are rightfully embarrassed by this one. I'm not letting them blame it on the product managers
by alxlaz | 2025-04-07 14:23:21+00:00
> So you genuinely think that if you go to the US you have a high risk of being imprisoned without due process even if you you don't break any US law?

I think that the risk of being imprisoned without due process is very low, but still substantially higher than in any other Western country, and certainly high enough not to justify the risk.

I also think that the risk of being temporarily imprisoned with due process, until they figure out that I haven't broken any law anywhere, is also very low, but still substantially higher than in most Western countries. And certainly high enough that it's not worth the risk.

I don't have an issue with border controls being a thing. I'm not a free travel idealist. I get why border controls exist, I think the premise of not letting people in unless they provably meet the host country's requirement is perfectly reasonable, and I certainly think that, even if someone did nothing wrong and just doesn't have their documentation in order, sending them back home on the first flight is an entirely reasonable thing to do. I just think that, in the current political climate, both the chances of being the victim of good old abuse and the chances of well-meaning ICE personnel screwing up are too high to be worth crossing the Atlantic for.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-07 14:24:00+00:00
is there something wrong with drinking? depends on your culture, if we're being honest. There's no obvious benefit to your body to drink in the 20 century or later.

unlike drinking, we have quite a few ways to enjoy sex without having babies.But some of those methods can still cause STDs. a vasectomy won't save you from herpes.
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-07 14:24:06+00:00
In a way. It does have a notebook component, but that's just one piece. It's the sum of all pieces that make it a different environment.

From our point of view, the interesting bit is that we show that we can use the idea of contextual tools for every development problem at any abstraction level. That's counter intuitive, but we worked like this for 10 years and we did not find a counter example yet :)
by rconti | 2025-04-07 14:24:08+00:00
The tech hate is bipartisan, however the tech companies got lucky that the Republican choice for President happens to be distinctly corrupt and easy to buy off with money and flattery. Additionally, his feelings are so easily hurt that Congress, which otherwise might implement bi-partisan tech legislation, is afraid of offending him for fear of being targets of his lashing out, so they're just sitting on the sidelines rather than legislating.

This is a unique set of circumstances; given any other combination of parties in power, with any different President, and they'd be in the bullseye right now.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-07 14:25:07+00:00
>What worries me is which side the US (government, not people) would choose to support if EU states send troops to Ukraine's front lines, which would absolutely instigate a Russian response.

Even the Biden administration was going out of its way to not push Russia too far. None of The Powers That Be in the US are interested in stumbling into WW3 with Russia, over Ukraine. Stumbling into WW3 with China, over Taiwan? Maybe. So I'd say Europe should approach such a decision from the assumption that you will receive no support from the US if you go down that road. If Europe wants to send its men to the killing fields of the Ostfront, it's on its own.

Assuming Europe, collectively, can even change the balance of power on the ground is also a stretch. Even some of the larger established militaries in Europe don't have the bodies to move the needle in this fight. The British Army, for example, has woefully understrength infantry battalions and is struggling with enlistment.[1][2] France claims they can put a division into the field [3] but I doubt that, probably more like a reinforced brigade (~5,000). I really don't get the impression European civil society is ready for hundreds or thousands of bodies to start coming back home either, but I could be wrong on that.

Meanwhile Russia inducted ~440,000 men last year, beating recruiting goals courtesy of MASSIVE cash enlistment bonuses, and still expects to grow their end strength this year as well.[4]

[1] https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1908330593005322480

[2] https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/27/can-the-british-military...

[3] https://www.ausa.org/articles/french-army-transforms-close-c...

[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-beating-military-recr...
by davidmurdoch | 2025-04-07 14:25:19+00:00
> implying that the commenter does think that, and that that thought is ignorant and absurd

It is a widely held view of the US by many foreigners; they don't conceptualize how big and diverse the US is.

I thought a perfectly reasonable and likely interpretation of their comment is that the later sentence, with the "also" does not connect their `value of being a tourism in the US` comment to the political climate. Other commenters here apparently do weigh the cost of travel with the risk the government of the country will detain them.
by const_cast | 2025-04-07 14:25:42+00:00
Nobody considers long term damage, particularly in a business sense.

If you look at the history of American company that have failed or are currently failing, there is one common denominator: short-term decision making.

As soon as business have even an ounce of success, they immediately give up on and start optimizing for the now, not the tomorrow. Take a look at Tesla. They invested a lot in the early days of their company and it paid off heavily. But as soon as they saw market success, they took a page from GM. Stop innovating immediately, start cutting quality. You’re safe now, no need to be competitive. No need to think about the future, it’s secured.

But it’s not secured, and this ambivalence is their downfall. Smarter, long-term thinking business will run Tesla into the ground, as history has shown with GM.
by tonnydourado | 2025-04-07 14:26:08+00:00
> It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you get paid for work because it’s important

Is it? Maybe I'm out of touch, or used to a different work culture (non-US, consultant), but that's kinda obvious, you're paid because you make money.

Also, no one that knows a single teacher or nurse would ever fall into the trap of thinking that salary is proportional to job importance.
by pasc1878 | 2025-04-07 14:26:14+00:00
I would be careful on dates not just before 1582 but before 1753.

Great Britain and its colonies (which included USA) did not change to Gregorian until 1752 and also to confuse more changed the date on when the year changed from March to 1st January.

If you are in Greece or Russia be even more aware as that will be around 1920 when they changed.
by Klonoar | 2025-04-07 14:26:20+00:00
> Signal uses Diffie-Hellman ratchet or SCIMP ratchet for every received message. That means there's X25519 and AES-CBC involved for every message. It is not, and will never be as fast as Telegram's insecure approach.

I'm aware.

That said, if Signal is able to render mostly fine in their current desktop app, then I've no reason to believe that the speed of decrypting messages is a blocker to optimizing the UI layer. Glossy-ness is a factor in why people still use shit like Telegram. Signal has no blocker to implementing it.

This has been my entire point for pretty much every comment in this chain.

> My desktop computer loads messages from my Signal history as fast as I can scroll my mouse. > My cheap smart phone loads messages from my Signal history as fast as I can swipe my fingers. > You can solve this with faster hardware.

Or they could write better UI/UX/frontend-specific code. That layer isn't rocket science.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-07 14:26:21+00:00
Even from a practical point of view. Now, however ill-advised, you're in the middle of a trade war. It's probably taking a huge toll on your economy. Are you gonna mess with what are likely the last pillars of what economic stability you have left? I think medical/healthcare will not be able to be touched for a while. Tech will not be able to be touched for a while. And so on. They just provide too many jobs in an environment where jobs in other sectors will likely be insecure at best and disappearing at worst.
by saghm | 2025-04-07 14:26:24+00:00
Using a word "correctly" isn't actually something everyone agrees on, though. As much as certain usages rub me the wrong way, it's hard for me not to fall on the side of descriptivism and that the issue is with my reaction rather than other people; words are all just made up sounds (and written symbols, of course) that we use to communicate, after all, and if enough people use them in a certain way, it doesn't really make sense to me that there would be some inherent meaning that overrides that. Language evolving isn't a new thing, and once a meaning reaches enough mindshare, there's no turning back.
by tfandango | 2025-04-07 14:27:47+00:00
Also, if fixing trade imbalances is the purpose of these tariffs, that brings into question the constitutionality of this. I know nothing matters anymore, but how quickly he forgets to say "fentanyl" when justifying these. Presumably, even if people supported this tariff strategy, they might still disagree that the president should be the one doing it.
by shireboy | 2025-04-07 14:28:20+00:00
Interesting article. I’m currently trying to justify “tech debt” to upper management. The way I try to communicate it: we can move faster and better on business requirements if we delete unused code/upgrade legacy dependencies/etc. Both need to happen at the same time, though, and that’s where it gets hard: “this feature request would be so much easier if I upgraded to Angular vlatest” runs the risk of always paying tech debt and never providing value.
by mywacaday | 2025-04-07 14:28:30+00:00
The administration has screwed the pooch here, all trust built between the EU and US since WWII is effectively gone forever. The trust that allowed the EU to assume that the US was largely aligned with European standards and goals and that the US could be trusted as a long term partner for trade, supply our weapons systems, fly our satellites into space, provide our network hardware, our business operating systems, store our documents in the cloud, give us satellite broadband, the dollar as a reserve currency, store our gold, provide our social media platforms, share intel etc. etc. is gone forever. The EU now has no choice but to look internally first for anything that is that even has a whiff of strategic importance. Even if the current administration rolled back everything today the damage is done and the EU has no choice in how they proceed in the long term and has to manage and mitigate the long term risk of being dependent for so much externally.