MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piva00 | 2025-10-08 12:14:36+00:00
Everyone in the world buys things made in China everyday, it's the largest manufacturing country in the world, that's a non-sequitur.

At the same time there are plenty of everyday items still made in the EU, and not necessarily luxury goods. My pets' leashes are made in Germany, my kitchen knives are made in Germany, my pots and pans are made in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. My drinking glasses are made in France, and Italy, my glass storage containers are made in France; lots of my clothing are made in Portugal, my music gear is made in Germany, Spain, Estonia, and Poland.

It's up to you to choose items made in the EU and not China though.
by int_19h | 2025-10-08 12:15:40+00:00
It doesn't override all, just the most important ones: sections 2 & 7-15. Section 2 is even titled "fundamental freedoms". This means all of the following (and more) are subject to "notwithstanding":

Freedom of conscience and religion.

Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.

Freedom of peaceful assembly.

Freedom of association.

Right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

Right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

Right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.

Right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

Right to equality before and under the law and right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
by mapt | 2025-10-08 12:16:07+00:00
> This is not much to determine what craft is approaching us.

Why do you have to do that exactly? Aircraft identification and aircraft detection are very different tasks. For detection, you need a tiny fractional difference in illumination (<1%) of one single pixel, that persists over time, and which shows up on two or three cameras separated for parallax.

The Youtube channel Consistently Inconsistent has been doing a series on optical detection, after an offhand Elon Musk comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFiubdrJqqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZkLQsv3huo

Anything detected can be subjected to closer inspection with radars, optical telescopes, and infrared telescopes.
by practal | 2025-10-08 12:16:13+00:00
Oh, actually that is the syntax I will use for writing abstractions:

my-abstr x y z foo: "bar" baz: "bak" "quak" quux: [a, b, c, d] lol: 9.7E+42

I don't think

my-abstr x y z, foo: "bar", baz: "bak" "quak", quux: [a, b, c, d], lol: 9.7E+42

would be better. Indentation and/or coloring my-abstr and the labels (foo:, baz:, quux:, lol:) are the right measures here.
by Aeolun | 2025-10-08 12:16:30+00:00
I think most of the code in our enterprise is now written by AI. It’s all boring callcenter crud apps, so nobody is really sad they’re not writing any of that code any more. I’m not sure it makes me faster, but I think QA testing what the AI made and occassionaly adjusting it is more fun anyway.

The code is absolutely lower quality, but there were always so many people producing garbage faster than I could produce something nice that the code was always terrible anyway.

There’s an element of wanting to know how the thing works so at least I’ll know when it’s ready to replace me though.
by chronic74939 | 2025-10-08 12:17:03+00:00
> Does this actually mean something specific?

Probably:

Trade matching algorithms (prorata, FIFO, TOP) and rules (capital requirements, market impact definitions) will align with the interests of the most profitable customers.

Citadel Securities, with their HFT-level returns of 50-100% per year will not venture into a losing business.

Note, CitSec is different from Citadel (hedge fund), and the hedge fund is also crazy with 40% annual return before fees (past 20 years) and 19% after fees to the outside passive investor.
by graemep | 2025-10-08 12:17:06+00:00
> Also, it's a bit weird to claim the EU never tries to push for perfection and just copies - this is the organisation that brought us USB C as the one and only standard for everything

Not the same as inventing USB, and I am far from sure its a good thing.

> he right to be forgotten and the right to digital privacy

Right to privacy in various forms far predates the EU.

> competition on railway networks EU-wide

A copy of a policy of a country that has left the EU, and is far from popular there, and looks like being reversed there.

> actively trying to prevent excessive concentration of market forces (unlike pretty much any other regulator).

The US was very good at that historically, and there are plenty of regulators around the world with the same concerns.
by radarsat1 | 2025-10-08 12:17:20+00:00
Thanks something like that was going through my mind, nice to get a good reference for it. Any insights on why this is not a more popular approach? Maybe it's too difficult for a single layer to scale.

I read a paper recently on something similar for diffusion, called Fixed Point Diffusion Models. They specialize the first and last layers but recurse the middle layer some number of times until convergence.

Considering how a Transformer is a residual model, each layer must be adding more and more precise adjustments to the selected token. It makes a lot of sense to think of this like the steps of an optimisation method.
by viraptor | 2025-10-08 12:17:27+00:00
> Why do people consume and eat according to their income, instead of caring about their health ?

Why do many cultures with common poverty have obese wealthy people? Why did wealthy Victorian guys get tiny wives not able to do physical labour? Why does wealth correlate with vegetarianism in India? As usual "because we live in a society" and because people like to show off sometimes.

Also practically, it's way easier to eat healthy food when you're not worried about the cost.
by bn-l | 2025-10-08 12:17:27+00:00
This has to be one of the worst written blogs on the internet. I’ve been reading it for over 10 years. I get drawn in by a headline which is right in my wheelhouse but then when I start reading I need to go back and forward and re-read and then I get this headache that starts about halfway through. There’s something about the way they’re structured. In general it’s probably the worst writing I’ve ever encountered in my life. I’m not exaggerating or joking. Krebs is a great investigator but he needs to get someone else to do the actual writing.
by slackfan | 2025-10-08 12:17:31+00:00
How are the EU legislators complaining about this like its a novel idea or somehow undemocratic? This sort of email templating website has been a fixture of contact your reps movements on the state and federal level for years in the states.

I also get a kick out of lobbyists complaining about it.

Sorry, but this is what democracy looks like.
by chrisrickard | 2025-10-08 12:17:38+00:00
Your second point “planning in advance” could be referred to as spec-driven development… it’s a funny term in a sense (didn’t we always do that?), but I think your 7th point drives it home “a very weird form of management” - clear instructions, necessary context, and actionable feedback. As far as written words go, much more like waterfall than agile.
by noirscape | 2025-10-08 12:17:41+00:00
In most board games, proxy pieces are generally forbidden in official play. For say, a card game it's because the game store owns the cards and would really prefer it if you didn't dillute the value of the cards they're also selling to people, not to mention they also have the actual cards in stock anyway. On a similar note, chess tournaments and clubs will almost always have enough pieces to not need proxies since there's only 4 unique pieces that you'd potentially need to add for (all the officials minus the king, in practice it's usually only the Queen and the Knight though), so any extra/reserve chess set can provide the bonus piece.

In casual play outside of formal tournaments and chess clubs, proxy pieces exist because nobody is buying extra chess kits solely to cover for the event in which someone promotes a queen while another queen is on the board. (Also in very casual play, most players lose their Queen due to a mistake early on and if they promote a piece to Queen later, they just use the original Queen piece again.) Proxy pieces exist to cover people playing at home, not people playing professionally or at a hobby club. The same goes for card games; nobody cares if you're proxying a card during casual play - maybe they'd ask if you own the card, but that's about it.
by devjab | 2025-10-08 12:17:44+00:00
Sort of. We're heavily containerized and have almost no reliance on Azure only services. So we could deploy it to any EU cloud, or even put it on our own hardware if needed. In the worst case, we could use work laptops as a linux cluster and run on that, though storage would be "interesting". That is my part of the business though. IT operations don't exactly have an easy exit if they're told we can't use Windows or Office in a month. Finance doesn't have an easy exit if they're told they can't use BC, and so on.

Basically energy production would have few isses with a disconnect from the US, regardless of where we'd have to go. But the business would struggle.
by ziml77 | 2025-10-08 12:18:27+00:00
Mine is me@[fullname].[tld] and I still kind of regret it because no one expects such a short set of characters before the @ sign. Even many websites don't. It's never been rejected but rather it breaks basic personal details masking. Because they often mask an email address replacing all but the first and last characters of the username portion with asterisks and leaving the domain fully exposed...

Not to mention that I've been told by a couple people that they find it to be an awkward email address. Sending to "me" from their perspective should mean sending to themselves.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-08 12:19:12+00:00
> a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance

Why not call it: "a proposal to break encryption and enact mass surveillance, claimed to be used to fight CSAM"?

How did the author decide which part to present as plain fact, and which as mere activist opinion? The choice isn't arbitrary - the proposal definitely will break encryption and enact mass surveillance - that's what the text of the proposal directly commands governments to do!

I guess such subtleties fade compared to the two bald lies in the title alone - it is not "spam" to simplify EU citizens contacting their representatives, and since that "spam" was sent by those citizens themselves, it is not a "one-man" campaign either, but a mass movement.
by piva00 | 2025-10-08 12:19:14+00:00
Selling medicines, and biotech is quite a productive industry where European companies are leaders. The same for high-precision machinery used by the "actual productive industries" that depend on European machines to be able to even have factories with assembly lines, chemical reactors, etc.

It's almost like people taking these jabs don't understand comparative advantages, and are also blind to the economical output of Europe in general...
by SkipperCat | 2025-10-08 12:20:26+00:00
The Miami stock exchange (MIAX) has their matching engines colocated in Equinix's NY4 data center in Secaucus NJ, much like many other exchanges. I would not be surprised if TXSE does the same.

Many trading firms already have their trading engines in that data center and I would assume TXSE would want quick access to that order flow and this might be easier if they are in NY4.

Of course, they may want to have their colo facilities in TX in their own data center, that way they can rent out space and make some extra revenue, but then they'd have to build that out.
by pbronez | 2025-10-08 12:20:33+00:00
Yeah that’s a really interesting gap in the feature set. Ubiquiti’s new offerings seem like pretty good network storage appliances, but not home servers.

I’ve gone through a couple iterations of home server. First I upcycled an obsolete Dell Power edge. Then a N100 mini PC. Neither was as reliable as I wanted.

Now I’m running persistent apps on Railway and compute hungry stuff on my MacStudio. Pretty good so far.
by pdimitar | 2025-10-08 12:20:52+00:00
I'm uncertain of why $40 vs $300 is even a point of debate on HN. The latter is a one-time investment and you likely can expand it a bit i.e. add a 2.5" or M.2 drive later.

What's the gain of running 12 RPi, exactly? Do you do research work requiring distributed low-cost computing?
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-08 12:21:09+00:00
I don't agree with the grandparent comment... I don't think it's silly.

But building your own doesn't scale to all the things. For everybody who wants to build their own X, the same person doesn't also want to build their Y and Z.

They will eventually need to buy some products. So there will generally always be a market for pre-packaged solutions.

For example: someone building an app may need network storage. They may not also want to block the building of the app on the building of the network storage.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 12:22:49+00:00
> I think countries with division and low social trust and cohesion necessarily require increasingly authoritarian measures from the government to hold them together.

This sounds like it makes sense, but in reality, the most authoritarian countries throughout history and presently are highly nationalist.

A strong and cohesive national identity does not reduce authoritarianism. If anything, it seems to be one of the primary and most reliable indicators of authoritarianism.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-08 12:22:51+00:00
I get it. The situational context makes a huge difference, too. Most of the people I advise now are Chief Something or Another. Their jobs are generally to take a whole lot of inputs and make business decisions. Maybe I’ll say “I don’t think we should do that because X”, and they’ll decide to do it anyway because Y is a higher priority. As long as it’s not something truly horrible, like “let’s sell our user list” or “we don’t have time to hash passwords” or something else egregious, eh, fine. They asked for my advice, I gave it, and they’re free to do whatever they want with it.

But sure, even then it’d get super annoying if they always ignored it. At some point it’d be obvious that my business goals don’t align well at all with theirs, so maybe it’s time to find a better fit.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-08 12:23:34+00:00
> Right, but I've never met anyone who looks at it this way - this part: "the employer social contributions will be around 40k". Is not your salary.

I don't know, maybe you should speak more to people about this. Literally everyone who I discussed it with (like dozens of people) see it in the same way:

* There's the money your employer spends to pay your salary

* There's the money you take home

* Everything in between is the government tax. There's absolutely no difference between "employer social contributions" and "employee social contributions" except in the name

Well now I kind of know one person who sees it differently, but this PoV still doesn't make sense to me.

> for the simple reason that if the government reduced the employer contribution to zero it wouldn't change anything about your take home salary(unless your employer decided to be generous and give you a raise).

Believe it or not, but for multi-national companies job offers in France are smaller for this very reason: you have a fixed budget to hire an employee, you subtract the "employers contributions" and calculate the gross salary you can offer in various countries where you have legal entities. There's also the "adjust to local market part", it's not a single-factor formula of course, but "contributions" play a huge role in it. After all budget is budget, you can go lower if you like but you can't go higher.
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-10-08 12:23:40+00:00
Orban is from Hungary, not Croatia.

If you go back in time just 40 years, the countries you did (and didn't) mention, were all governed by communists. With considerable body count. Right-wing regimes in Europe after WW2 have negligible body counts compared to communists, and if you want to include WW2 and pre-WW2 times, then communists are still worse, even if you count all victims of Germany and/or NSDAP, incl. Holocaust/Shoah, towards right-wing violence.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Just because communism didn't happen in your country doesn't mean in didn't happen elsewhere, and there are still some of us who remember exactly what it was and will protest when someone attributes violence and/or authoritarism only to right wing.
by rramadass | 2025-10-08 12:23:58+00:00
This is exactly right.

Nobody has done embedded MCU programming as simple as Arduino. There is so much open source code libraries in the Arduino Ecosystem to do almost anything that much of your programming becomes plug-and-play and accessible to all. You can then ship it as long as your power/performance budgets are met.

A few years ago they went professional with their "Arduino PRO" industrial hardware and a good Cloud IoT platform. Again they gave you a simple software interface to easily program your nodes and add them to your own IoT application/services.

I think Qualcomm has a winner on their hands here if they can encompass all their offerings within the Arduino Software Ecosystem so any hobbyist/maker/developer/professional can easily develop applications/systems.
by TarekOraby | 2025-10-08 12:24:00+00:00
Hey HN, I released SigmaEval, a Python framework to evaluate GenAI applications.

Non-deterministic outputs of LLM-based apps don’t fit pass/fail tests, leading teams to often ship without confidence. SigmaEval aims to solve this by adopting a statistical evaluation approach, similar to that used in clinical trials. It supports statements such as: “We are 95% confident that our AI will resolve at least 90% of user issues with a quality score of 8/10 or higher.”

It works in three steps:

- Define “good”: You describe the test scenario and desired outcome in plain English (e.g., “when a new user asks about the bot’s capabilities” -> “then the bot lists its main functions”).

- Simulate: An AI user simulator exercises your app repeatedly, switching styles (polite, impatient, verbose) to build a diverse conversation set.

- Judge & analyze: An AI judge scores each conversation against your definition of success. SigmaEval runs binomial and bootstrap tests to decide whether you meet your quality bar at a chosen confidence level.

SigmaEval is LLM-provider, and testing-framework, agnostic.

Open source (Apache 2.0).

GitHub: https://github.com/Itura-AI/sigmaeval

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/sigmaeval-framework/

I’m the creator and happy to answer questions.
by squidbeak | 2025-10-08 12:24:35+00:00
You are simply incorrect.[1] Starship will change it all if it succeeds. The space sector is abuzz with the possibility of orbital refueling and the opportunities it will open up, eg [2]

[1] https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-03-15-Issue-210/

[2] https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50157.0
by jbstack | 2025-10-08 12:25:28+00:00
This whole comment is predicated on the idea that something is only worthwhile if it will lead to a "venture scale startup" and that to do anything else is to "waste the best years of your life".

I, for one, am glad that not everyone shares your ethos. Conversely, I'm also glad that there are people out there "building agents". Diversity is a good thing. Encouraging everyone to only do one thing is a bad thing.
by devjab | 2025-10-08 12:25:48+00:00
Even though it's the same app and ID, there is a bit of a difference between the company ID tied to my digital ID and my private digital ID. You can get a physical code thingie instead of the phone app for private use. To be honest though, the primary reason I have a smartphone is that it's annoying if you don't. Banking, contacting the doctor, buying medicine, dealing with your childrens school, going to the library and so on are all super annoying without apps, and you can't get them without Google Play or Apple.
by yodon | 2025-10-08 12:26:05+00:00
It's not a 1:1 comparison, but anyone have experience running Garage[0] as a locally hosted geo-distributable open source S3 clone in place of a traditional NAS? Garage seems to have simpler hardware requirements, native support for geo-replication, and for lots of applications S3 compatibility is actually what you want.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013004
by somehnguy | 2025-10-08 12:26:06+00:00
A “server” doesn’t need to mean a pizza box with 15k rpm jet engine fans.

My server is repurposed desktop hardware in a desktop tower case and is nearly silent except for the subtle hard drive noises. The hardware cost next to nothing and is far faster and more capable than any pi (except the pio of course which wouldn’t be used anyway).
by mhb | 2025-10-08 12:26:42+00:00
It's obvious, my opinion, and backed by data.

That's all interesting, but it doesn't really address the point that NPR's coverage is biased by a desire to please its audience. Even though tautologically true for all organizations, it is disingenuous to suggest (as GP is doing) that NPR gets to don a mantle of impartiality because they don't run (some) ads to finance their operation. Despite how hard "NPR has tried to avoid this".

So, sure, pick your favorite partisan news source. But don't try to claim that it's unbiased because it doesn't generate revenue with ads.
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by rodisproducing | 2025-10-08 12:27:03+00:00
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by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 12:28:07+00:00
> Every single one of them is better described as Socialist or Marxist.

I mean, this is just delusional.

Most liberal politicians in the US are slightly center right. And the US is not alone in that.

There's very, very, VERY few marxists out there. What happens is that someone is neoliberal in 99% of circumstances. And then they take a slightly more communal approach to one problem. And now, they're Marxist.

Uh, no. They're neoliberal, they're just not stubborn.

If you're on the US and you advocate, say, single payer healthcare, you're not a Marxist. You can listen to these people. They're staunch capitalists, and they're arguing we should make an exception for this one thing.

That's not Marxism.
by no_circuit | 2025-10-08 12:28:08+00:00
Yes, from https://www.txse.com/solutions:

TXSE's goal is to provide greater alignment with issuers and investors and address the high cost of going and staying public.

The alignment part translates IMO to avoiding political / social science policy issues like avoiding affirmative action listing requirements like the Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules that was just recently repealed: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/01/12/fifth-circuit-vac....

So it is as one might imagine, the formation was probably for similar reasons why owners are moving their company registration out of Delaware.