MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rednafi | 2025-05-10 07:53:32+00:00
Europe really needs to fix the funding issue and language fragmentation. Otherwise there's no "luring people in." Every time someone brings this up, a bunch of people are like, "Have you ever worked in the EU? They all speak English at work." Yes, I have, and also on three other continents. Europe hasn’t adopted English at work that much, and no one I know is excited about dealing with racism, picking up the local language while doing high-octane white-collar jobs or research.

Europe keeps a ton of jobs gated behind language requirements. Sure, you'll get the most desperate people who need a visa this way, but Europe isn’t attracting top of the crop like the US this way.

Also, the red tape is brutal and everything requires six layers of bureaucracy. Even Amazon orders and customer service suck, but that's beside the point. It's way easier to get into a great US university and get funding for research. It's also easier to get a job afterward. The sheer number of opportunities, combined with the lack of a language barrier and less bureaucracy, makes the US better than all the other alternatives despite the poor transportation, weak social safety net, and terrible healthcare.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-10 07:54:36+00:00
And from Internals discussion (https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/add-some-form-of-precompil...) it seems this causes more problems than it solves.

It requires huge storage, for each combination of targets, and even if it is was solved some members of Rust community would see it as a step back.

Me included. They are hard to audit and are step back to OSS nature of Rust.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-10 07:56:19+00:00
I think their first point is different than just free markets. It was about shifting the locus of control from the government, to the individuals.

1) Instead of having the money taken from you and begging the administration to do what you want, let people decide what they want, and voluntarily collaborate using the tools and organizations they choose.

This may be the government or another organization, but the individual would have the power to withdraw their support unilaterally. Essentially make more social investment and participation voluntary.

This would be a shifting of the power downwards and a decentralization.

Switzerland is an interesting case study for this. Approximately 70% of all taxes go to the Canton or lower levels (comparable to a US state county). This means the vast majority of tax spending and oversight occurs locally.

This makes a lot of sense to me. If I want social investment, a new school, or transportation, my money goes all the way to the capital, and then I have to fight to have my voice heard among 350 million Americans fighting for attention. I'm arguing against another citizen 2 thousand miles away through dozens of proxies and bureaucrats.

I recognize that some activities benefit from economies of scale, but many don't, or suffer diseconomies of scale.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-10 07:56:50+00:00
> But the pavement looked familiar to me, I’m specialised in Europe during the 1920s-40s and have worked on a project about daily life in Berlin in the 1920s and I’ve seen that pavement in other old footage and in countless photos.

I visited Jerusalem yesterday, and was struck by the fact that there are places in the world where people have been continuously walking for millennia, putting their feet on the same stones. I had a mental image of a historian who specializes in a single paving stone, putting a lifetime of effort into studying just this one large brick.

This part of the article felt like such a weird echo of that thought!
by noosphr | 2025-05-10 07:57:07+00:00
There should be a name for the phenomenon where people upset about some injustice pick the least plausible example to use as the cause celebre of the injustice.

For a more modern take I can't understand why Daniel Shaver is not the face of police murder in the US. The video is on YouTube, you can find the unedited version with a Google search. There is no benefit of the doubt to give. It was straight up murder done on live cam. The more you read the worse it gets.

But it got buried in a week and no one remembers it.
by maxglute | 2025-05-10 07:57:39+00:00
The idea is what level of ship building is possible if a country prioritizes it by building the relevant workforce and industrial policy. Cursory research suggest US and SKR both ~120k employment... which kind of makes disparity even more ridiculous. Almost unbelievable, I'll have to check numbers again when I have time.

Otherwise my understanding is US shipbuilding incompetence is labour - attrition rate at 20-30%, can't develop mature workforce if turnover every 3 years. Because work conditions shit and pay comparable to fast food and retail. IIRC result is a ddg that should take 6 years to build is taking 9 because constant retraining and reworking. There's actually plenty of orders / backlog, but the workforce conditions sucks.
by kirici | 2025-05-10 07:57:43+00:00
> This whole fiasco led me tho think .... do I even need this crate at all? 35 lines later I had the parts of dotenv I needed.

"A little copying is better than a little dependency." - grab the parts that you need and then include the library only in a test to ensure alignment down the line, an idea I liked a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s
by kelnos | 2025-05-10 07:58:10+00:00
I'm skeptical. For nearly any definition of "rich", someone can afford to take an Uber/Lyft/taxi everywhere, at least.

I think the real reason your average rich person would take transit is because in some places, at some times of day, it's significantly faster than driving. But I do believe there's some -- probably fairly small -- subset of rich people who ride public transit simply because they prefer to.
by tabbott | 2025-05-10 07:59:58+00:00
We're very actively working on end-to-end encryption for notifications; it'll be in the Zulip 11.0 release this summer if at all possible.

While I'm here, the Flutter rewrite of the mobile app is launching next month, and while the initial launch won't add much functionality over the previous React Native apps, the rewrite is way faster, less buggy, and a lot more pleasant to add new features to.
by roenxi | 2025-05-10 08:02:05+00:00
The US has been pouring military aid into Ukraine since 2014 and the net result is that the Russian army mobilised and despite terrible losses is marching across Ukraine. If the US had poured more resources in, the mobilisation would only have happened faster.

The chain of events you seem to be suggesting is something like Russia has good relations with their neighbour, then that neighbour's government collapses in a highly suspicious coup and then, presumably, the US military starts to overtly move in and set up military bases. If you think that is the path to peace I'm not sure what lessons to even try to draw from WWII, it doesn't look comparable to me apart from a common thread of strategic lunacy. But it is remarkably aggressive and would just have accelerated the timeline for Russia's invasion. I don't know what you expect Russia would do, but given their actual response to NATO's involvement in Ukraine it would be aggressive and undiplomatic if NATO had been more visibly involved.

I suppose we wouldn't have to worry about escalating to nukes today, since we'd have answered that question some time in the 2010s and the rivers of blood shed would be congealing by now.
by kelnos | 2025-05-10 08:02:24+00:00
If the ferry+F commute is only 20 minutes longer than your car commute, why don't you do it more often?! If I was in that situation, I would never drive!

The last time I had a long car commute, it was 45-60 minutes driving, or 2+ hours via various transit options, so driving was unfortunately the only reasonable choice. But 20 minutes extra to avoid driving? I'd do that in a heartbeat.

(Hell, I do that often enough just inside SF, taking a bus or train instead of an Uber/Lyft or driving myself... sadly it's not uncommon for a 15-minute car ride to be the equivalent of a 40 minute transit ride.)
by voidnap | 2025-05-10 08:03:30+00:00
I'm thankful argparse exists in pythons stdlib. But argument parsing is not that hard especially for simpler programs. programmers should be able to think for a minute and figure it out instead of always reaching for clap, thats how you get dependency hell.

Argument parsing, in partucular, is a great place to start realizing that you can implement what you need without adding a dozen dependencies
by a_e_k | 2025-05-10 08:06:35+00:00
This is excellent. I've been pulling and rebuilding periodically, and watching the commit notes as they (mostly ngxson, I think) first added more vision models, each with their own CLI program, then unified those under a single CLI program and deprecated the standalone one, while bug fixing and improving the image processing. I'd been hoping that meant they'd eventually add support to the server again, and now it's here! Thanks!
by kelnos | 2025-05-10 08:07:48+00:00
I guess Clipper wasn't super reliable when it came out(?) (so long ago at this point it's hard to remember), but I don't really remember having much fondness for the old BART cards. (Not to mention the annoyance of having to pay for BART and Muni in different ways, or carrying around those silly paper Muni transfer slips.)

These days, I can't remember the last time I had an issue with my physical Clipper card. I do recall lots of issues when they first rolled out the ability to put a Clipper card on your phone, but I haven't run into a problem with that in at least a couple years.
by dcminter | 2025-05-10 08:07:52+00:00
The Guildhall in London is one of the old political centres of the city. If you go down into the basement there's the remains of a Roman ampitheatre!

Tucked away in an alcove on Cannon Street is an old block of stone. This is the famous London Stone. So old that nobody knows what it is originally famous for...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildhall,_London

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

That sort of oddity and connection with history is one of the fun parts when living in an "old" city (London isn't even that old by global standards).

That ampitheatre shows that street level in ancient times and now might be quite different, so the historical feet might not really have been walking in the same place. London Stone does suggest that you could reasonably invest a lot of effort into the history of a single slab though!
by emptysongglass | 2025-05-10 08:07:53+00:00
I wrote my comment because I want you to stop this practice. Being demoralized doesn't appear to change your mind about the decision to do what not a single other FOSS messaging app out there does. Zulip is the only one. Maybe reconsider Zulip's stance given how completely alone it is in its choice.

Your team made the decision, now you get to own it. And I'll keep putting a light on it until it changes. You call it vitriol, I call it fair warning to anyone considering adopting Zulip.

I am not a business and I certainly would not touch Zulip with a ten-foot pole given your team's decision.
by lerno | 2025-05-10 08:08:06+00:00
The ease of using Odin over Zig for Raylib was an interesting contrast that I hadn’t reflected on myself. I tried to do things well with C3, but it might be hard to beat Odin on that particular point.

I just wonder how well it will work long term with update cycles and such. Zig and C3’s decentralized model seems easier for handling frequently updating libraries.
by noufalibrahim | 2025-05-10 08:08:43+00:00
I guess I'm viewing this through my own personal experiences and world view. Everyone I've seen who's a compulsive photographer doesn't have this heightened awareness for details. Instead, they're, at best, people who know how to manipulate a "scene" to get a better photo.

The thing is that every thing in the real world is a photo subject for them rather than an experience. And i think the deeper down the hole they go, the less they realise this.

I had not factored in conditions like aphantasia into my thoughts and in that context, i can agree that it would be useful but i imagine that it's not a very common condition so it's an outlier?

For many people I've met, the first time they see something, it's through their phone/camera because they don't want to "miss the moment". I'd rather let it linger in my head as a memory and age.

I can't take disagree with your point of view but i think it's mostly because our experiences are so different.
by jMyles | 2025-05-10 08:09:45+00:00
> no one remembers it.

That doesn't resonate with my experience. People know about the murder, but aren't sure what to do.

The murderer, who clearly had mental health issues (eg, having "you're fucked" on the dust cover of his personal AR-15, which he used to commit the act), was acquitted (in a trial of strange circumstances). It's baffling that none of his colleagues - who saw the message on his weapon - ever pulled him aside to ask if he was OK.

And anyway, what does this have to do with your point of holding up an unlikely / outlying example to demonstrate a phenomenon?
by rajnathani | 2025-05-10 08:10:06+00:00
CPG food and beverage companies rely hugely on automation (source: see YouTube factory videos on anything packaged food related). I was told by my automation consultant that Heineken runs an entirely “dark factory” with no human labor (at least in-line).

Automation helps reduce product costs and improves standard-of-living, and sort of then directly boosts investments/jobs in other sectors.
by prmoustache | 2025-05-10 08:11:41+00:00
> Europe hasn’t adopted English at work that much

Not where it isn't strictly necessary and I believe it is a good thing but I've seen english being used whenever people from multiple european countries are working with each other.

It is the case in IT and definitely the case in research too. Even 27 years ago when I was an intern in France, my office was next to the office of some mathematicians, I believe one japanese, a russian and another one I don't remember and they were all speaking in english.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-10 08:12:11+00:00
Also just upgrading the connecting bits. Like the muffle/joint in the ground, for more 'speed',

to enable more branching out, or both. Seen yesterday night, had a good chat with the two guys.

I always stop when I see them, to get a better picture of what is where, who owns it, and so on.

Sometimes they even let YOU do the splicing. Which is actually easy, because it's fully automated.

Imagine something like a small suitcase, or a shoebox with LCD-screen on top. You insert both ends into slits on both sides,

the 'box' grabs and aligns them, cuts and repolishes the ends, melds them together, and ejects the fibre through a slot in the front.

Then you sleeve that with tape, insert it into a muffle, apply some hardening foam, sometimes gel, like hot-glue, and close that muffle like a clam shell.

Done.
by inglor_cz | 2025-05-10 08:13:42+00:00
I live in Czechia where basically everything you demand is law of the land, no one except rare uninsured foreigners faces any medical bills at all, we don't even have tuition etc., but our birth rate still isn't stellar. It moves the needle only by a few tenths of a kid, compared to our European peers, and our absolute birth rate is comparable to the US one.

I don't believe it is about the money anymore. People love sex, but they don't necessarily want to have children, and once efficient contraception and sex education is available to everyone, the subset of "unwanted kids", which might have been more than half of all kids born 100 years ago, mostly disappears. What remains are the "wanted kids", and the harsh truth is that quite a lot of people want 0 or 1 kid at most.

People also aren't even having that much sex lately. The epidemics of loneliness is real. Tell me how you are going to have kids if you never have a BF/GF. That is not something money can cure, this is a deep societal dysfunction mediated by smartphones.
by staunton | 2025-05-10 08:14:21+00:00
> anything fast moving

Examples of using GR are few, GPS being the most prominent one, another being astronomy. Making this point, SR would be a better example.

Maybe a better description would be "we use GR to describe extremely precise time measurements, or the movement of extremely large things". The latter has not yet lead to any devices being built, as far as I know.
by marsten | 2025-05-10 08:14:36+00:00
Length is 100% marketing. There is no commercial market for 15-20 page essays, which would be the ideal length for a lot of business books. (The famous Harvard Business Review cases are typically this long.)

The reason many business books feel fluffy is that these 15-20 pages of solid content are spread over 300 pages to meet the expectations of readers and booksellers.
by satanfirst | 2025-05-10 08:15:23+00:00
Drawing on one or even a few experiences for a conclusion for all of Europe in all sectors is a bit much. Scientific Organizations are not looking for local language skills. Many are in Germany which is very bureaucratic about other aspects of life, but they all spend their time on standardized International bureaucracy. The Universities in other countries might be harder to get in to, yet I wouldn't buy a $250k US University scratch ticket in a field like science. (The US University is a particularly poor investment for less qualified students.)
by kelnos | 2025-05-10 08:16:16+00:00
My one huge gripe with Tokyo's/Japan's transit system is that you can't load money onto an IC card using a credit card. I was just in Japan last month; my last trip before then had been in 2017, and I really assumed that they would have fixed this deficiency by now.

I forgot to get a Tokyo metro pass along with my train ticket from Narita to Tokyo, so I ended up wandering around Nippori station looking for an ATM that would take my Visa debit card so I could get some cash in order to top up my Pasmo card[0] and take a local train to Shinjuku. I'd also forgotten how most random ATMs don't take foreign debit cards; after it dawned on me, I left the station, found a 7-11, and used the ATM there.

This was not something I enjoyed having to do, while carrying my bags, after a 10-hour flight, plus 2 hours waiting in line at immigration, followed by another hour-long train ride to the city.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that many many more businesses in Japan take credit cards nowadays though.

[0] I was also pleasantly surprised to find that Pasmo cards are still good up to 10 years after the last time you use them. I feel like something similar in the US would expire after no more than a year or two.
by tzs | 2025-05-10 08:16:17+00:00
Note that even in Tokyo, which is often held up as having some of the best public transit in the world, around 30% of households own a car. Around 12% of trips there are taken by private car. That suggests that there are still a significant number of cases that are not covered well by public transit.

For example I don't see how lockers solve the issue of multi-store shopping trips that was mentioned in the comment above. The locker would give you some place to accumulate the purchases from each store, but unless you could carry them all simultaneously you'd still need to make multiple trips between the locker and home to get everything home.

I suppose you could use public transit when going store to store accumulating things in the locker, then use your car to move everything from the locker to home in one trip. That's probably optimal. While going store to store you don't have to deal with finding parking at each store because you are taking public transit so might save time and money there, and you save time and money by getting your stuff home in one car trip instead of multiple transit trips.
by klunger | 2025-05-10 08:17:46+00:00
My department (at a Norwegian university) is working on a headhunting plan. The way the ERC grants are structured, the applicant needs a sponsoring institute. So, we are identifying researchers who are working on relevant topics, if we think it will be a good fit (and/or if we have successfully collaborated with them in the past).

Some of the details are still being ironed out. The beauracracy is real! Even so, I guess the first emails will go out late next week.
by snickerer | 2025-05-10 08:19:15+00:00
People and societies work a lot with re-enactment. I think of, for example, pirates. There was nothing fun about them, watching the Jolly Roger approaching you must be horrible, followed by a gruesome death. But we, adults and children both, are enjoying to play pirates. Maybe the re-enactment of something brutal can be a healthy way to get over it for humans.
by ossm1db | 2025-05-10 08:21:14+00:00
"A 20% continuity discount applies starting from the second year of uninterrupted subscription. After the second year, it increases to 40%, which you keep for as long as you continue to renew your subscription on time."

I get the "all products" pack for $173. I mostly use Java/C++, but I love being able to dabble in other languages in a familiar environment.
by zozbot234 | 2025-05-10 08:22:24+00:00
> It seems Swift 6.2 is still unfinished and is acting more like Java. Eternal evolution of language. While it is popular among tech and HN crowds to have new language and framework to play around and work

You can have both. Rust feels "mature" and "finished" if you stick to the stable featureset, but it's still bringing compelling new features over time in spite of that. But this can only be achieved by carefully managing complexity and not letting it get out-of-hand with lots of ad-hoc special cases and tweaks.
by irjustin | 2025-05-10 08:22:41+00:00
I'll play's devil's advocate - is there really a difference?

People were angry (rightfully so) at children chimney sweeps and they definitely existed, were abused and did die/have horrible problems/etc.

So the outrage is justified. Now, the specific picture isn't true/authentic, but the contents of the picture definitely existed did.

So is it wrong?
by druskacik | 2025-05-10 08:23:34+00:00
If someone wants to begin with Baudelaire, I would recommend his collection Le Spleen de Paris[0] - it's not poetry in its usual sense, but a collection of prose poems. I still remember picking the book randomly at our city library when I was 15 and reading the very first poem, L’ Étranger:

THE STRANGER

"Tell me, whom do you love the most, you enigmatic man? your father, your mother, your sister, or your brother?"

"I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother."

"Your friends?"

"There you use a word whose meaning until now has remained to me unknown."

"Your fatherland?"

"I am unaware in what latitude it lies."

"Beauty?"

"I would willingly love her, goddess and immortal."

"Gold?"

"I hate it as you hate God."

"So! Then what do you love, you extraordinary stranger?"

"I love clouds... drifting clouds... there... over there... marvelous clouds!"

The book has been with me ever since, and as I'm getting older and re-read it I always discover new things. After all, there are themes a person has to grow into.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Spleen_de_Paris
by klunger | 2025-05-10 08:23:41+00:00
This reads like a bitter ex-employee. I guess you were in Germany?

There are plenty of European countries that do use English as the working language for technical fields, if there is not enough domestic talent.

What you say about the US research ecosystem may have been true until January 2025 but it is unfortuantely no longer the case. At the same time, the EU is finally getting its act together in both defense AND research funding. So I would forecast a sunnier future in Europe for scientists than the the US, at least for the next generation.