skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Europe it's facing an excessive taxation plus excessive regulation. Regulation it's good but it should be small and precise. The excess of regulation in Europe it's only being benefitial to huge corps, that have money to either pay the small fines, or an army of lawyers to either comply or circumvent regulations.

For example, they forced brands to switch to Type-C, everyone here cheered up the EU. This will come back to bite us in the a*. EU's actions were excessive and in the future will hurt innovation since brands will now have to ask permission to EU to come up with new standards if needed.
I'm not looking for help, so I don't think we're really trying to have the same conversation.
I'm not sure privacy as a concept should be off limits. It wasn't always a thing, in fact it's fairly recent. However there's a fairly big leap from "you can't always expect privacy" to "drones recording your whole life".
> The artist does deserve to retain value for some time

Hard disagree. We have chosen to allow the artist to retain a monopoly for a limited time because we though it would encoruage the cration of more art. The only valid argument for copyright is one that shows it benefits society as a whole.
Create a StackOverflow + GPT site where questions can be asked in public with both human and AI answers. Make it clear to users that the content will be used in future training sets.
> which is unfair for those who have to pay their fair share of taxes and support the burden of the social system.

You (as a government) want people to be honest with their taxes? Set up the taxation laws so that "being honest" is incredibly easy. Instead Germany has one of the most convoluted taxation laws in the world.

This alone should provide strong evidence that all the talk about "tax fraud" is just some pretense to adopt new surveillance laws and/or make them socially acceptable to adopt.
The actual proposal, first paragraph:

> The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Article 24(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’) 1 enshrine as rights the protection and care of children’s best interests and well-being. In 2021, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child underlined that these rights must be equally protected in the digital environment 2 . The protection of children, both offline and online, is a Union priority.

Literally, "it's for the children". I don't need to read any more. Get fucked, big brother.
Dems too. They're both as nutty as each other. You hear that? Someone in the distance is shouting "I just want public healthcare". Russia is about to find out why USA doesnt have public healthcare.
To me, the real question is how this differs from Graphene OS, which has the advantage of already working- so much, so, it seems, that they get security patches faster than almost any other Android phones. And then it's a game of re-Googling your de-Googled phone for most people, it seems.

Privacy-respecting phones already exist in the US market (I think it's pretty much illegal in Europe to get cell service without government ID, but that's not firsthand). If you think you care, buy https://inteltechniques.com/book7a.html, get a Pixel phone, and try for yourself.

Ironically, they're handicapped by Google's SoCs being quite bad (though seemingly not much worse than most recent Qualcomm flagship products, this most recent generation excepted).

Edit: this site suggests that there are quite a few countries in Europe where you don't have to register: https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
What I hate about this is that it pretends to be something else - "light rain starting soon" with a cloud icon. But the result is the weather taking up very little real estate. And on top of that you _can't_ make the weather take up more space. It's always the smallest tile on the page.
Cheap SSDs slow down when they run out of the faster cache memory!
I’ve been happy with SourceHut
Dashboard of the Present Future
Like Covid, it will change the world very fast. Talk to your representative about it.

As an example, I wont code at work anymore, I chatgpt all day. Just like that, overnight. And my productivity went 10x - though i was already 10x more productive than you.> What should have taken 1 week takes 1 day, sometimes less (it's new software im working on).

I would only code if I was doing great software, that is, for myself, we dont do that at work.

It's gonna build tension silently and then release: capital will be massively reallocated - that moment will be tsunami. Talk to your representative.
As part of this work they've proposed updates to the spec:

https://github.com/veovera/enhanced-rtmp
Man the shillbots are going hard in this one. There have been some heated crypto discussions on HN for sure, but this is something else.
It reports what it has, if it manages to connect but fetching the metadata or whatever fails, that’s what it’s going to report.

If it can’t even connect it’ll tell you that, but I would assume on github the client will always manage to connect unless their entire network is down.
Isn't there already a magical exception for "root" and "builtin"?
I do not use any of those apps. I do use Gmail and used to use Twitter. There is and was zero reason to use Twitter app. Or youtube app, website is literally better.

And I don't use Gmail app, because it was taking too much space.
> would you switch to a phone that didn’t have a native Gmail app? Or Twitter? TikTok? Instagram?

Yes. I don't use any of those services. Occasionally friends link me to Twitter and I read the web version. The fact it makes that experience shit with pop-ups and limited message history is actually benefit.

I sometimes use G-suite apps, but they're also better as web apps on a desktop/laptop than phone apps.
> Andriod is a just copy of iPhone/iOS.

And a lot of EU and CN "start ups" are just copies of well known US companies
I also use it for connectivity check. Most other sites have so much ads and cookies it creates long lags with adblock in some older systems I use. So I point to HN and get a really fast response that the web is working
I do worry the problem is insufficient data. What other scanning techniques are there? Does PET and MRI or work on these things?

Is there any way to dope the structure to make the ink more visible? Something akin to immunocytochemistry marking via looking for chemical markers? Given the amount of innovation in immunocytochemistry binding methods, why couldn't they do something here for the ink?
It’s probably more a thing of dev velocity. If you aren’t changing anything it’s easy to keep your system operational.
Ask HN: Why Allow Http1 Traffic?
HTTP1 is almost entirely bot traffic. Some of these bots are good, most are not.

Why hasn't everyone switched HTTP1 to an "authorized traffic" model?
No, it's still better than a mutable variable. Because it's not a mutable variable, just a series of variables that happen to have the same name.

Mutable state is 'evil' and makes your program harder to reason about on a semantic level. Shadowing is merely a syntactic choice with pros and cons.

I like shadowing in Rust, it works well there. In eg Python or Haskell, it works less well, but for different reasons. (In Haskell it's because of laziness and definitions being co-recursive by default. In Python it's because the language doesn't give you any tools to tell apart assignment to an existing variable from creation of a new variable.)
The EU is a big enough market to strong-arm manufacturers and developers into suppporting their OS:

- an extra import duty on phones not running EU OS unless an equal number of EU OS phones is imported
- all EU-sponsored projects must run on EU OS
- if you're a software dev in the EU making phone apps, you get a tax break if you support EU OS
- and so on
>[citation needed]

No citation, just my anecdotal time working in the gastronomy sector as a student and that of several of my friends as well.

Seeing the owners at the end of the night carrying home buckets full of cash out of the restaurant that will never be seen in any tax declarations is a common sight, and will just be dumped into cars and real estate later.

This isn't restricted just to gastronomy and hospitality either. Lots of businesses deals in Germany are done on a handshake, with sums declared in the contract at, say 10k Euros, with the actual payment for the services being something like 50k Euros, meaning only 10k gets taxed, the rest is tax free for you. You get the point.

In case you're wondering why real este buying prices in Germany are so high and seem completely disconnected from the median wages, that's one of the reasons why. Lots of undeclared black money sloshing around the economy looking for a safe parking space.

>but it doesn't seem that tax fraud in Germany is particularly high

Meh, irrelevant. That statistics looks at offshore untaxed wealth. Most small business owners dealing in cash won't have accounts in Bermuda or Panama for that.
You don't notice when their indexers cannot write; preforming a search is basically RO.
I don't think GitHub's homepage has gone down at any point during this outage either.
Sure, or even an existing algo or method that is applied to something very niche that hasn't been done much (at least in the data GPT is trained on, I guess).

In my experience these things need a little nuance communicated as a part of the problem, but GPT can't get there. It just starts looping over incorrect solutions (rather than modifying them slightly to get it right like a person would).

These aren't crazy advanced things, either. I'm not a genius. I solved the problems when GPT couldn't. I was just trying out GPT4.
Saying that if we start scanning all chats for illegal activity then we should also require all communications of politicians to be part of public record is not exactly the strongest argument.

I mean those systems are already in place, at a minimum you'd have to argue they're ineffective or not as intrusive. And your hyperbole is not doing you any favours on that front.
I made one adaptive morse receiver in 1970s already and the key property was to measure average lengths of dashes. All other issues are trivial.
This is a good step.

AMP is such an interesting project but it did more damage than good.
The point is that there is no "generic" solution. The abstraction of the ORM has created the illusion that you don't need to worry about this, the ORM will handle it. N+1 examples like iterating over all the publications from an author arise because the goal is to not have to concern yourself with the fundamentals of data fetching.
As a mobile developer: The two primary OS ecosystems are already difficult to develop for. And we already kind of have a third if you count Amazon Fire, as they run Android without Google services, which creates all kinds of edge cases specific to this OS flavor.

What could end up happening is the smaller OS markets would end up getting a lower quality of service because it's hard for product teams to justify the dev and maintenance time investment for smaller user bases. Stretching us thiner than we are will mean a lower quality of service for all app users unless it becomes easier to develop for multiple OS flavors at once. And no, RN and Flutter are not silver bullets here: they come with their own tradeoffs that each team must assess for their product.
Can’t get hacked if you’re offline.
> we are FAR AWAY from that being a problem. An average Joe that isn't corrupted by money/lobbyists/... will make dramatically better decisions than any smartass that also tries to hide the corruption under the rug of meritocracy

Citation needed. Actually, a lot of citations needed.

When's the last time you spoke to an "average Joe" ? The average joe can't even make the right decisions regarding their own life and health, and is probably struggling to keep their family together and make ends meet.

What in the world makes you think they are qualified to make decisions on behalf of millions of constituents? I would drop dead before I let someone like that be my voice in politics.

> Decisions that are made in good faith from average people would be so much better than anything we experience today, its almost comically absurd.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far, none is provided.
How can you honestly dismiss an argument solely on the grounds that it lacks polarization?
> Plugins suck. There are a lot of people who will not bother to go that route.

Serious people WILL explore the plugins route, but one has to go from "What is this thing I just downloaded and how do I use it?" to "Okay, I've got the hang of this, I'm pretty good at it, but the stock tools are holing me back from making something better." I would venture to say that the majority using OBS will never make it to that second phase. For those who do, have a well SEOed blog post and YouTube/TikTok video ready to show them how to take it to 11.
It's funny because I've had a lot of people share this exact same experience with me, since they know I've been a Linux user since the late 90s. But this is my experience with Windows! Especially the shortened laptop battery life. Windows runs so much in the background that performance feels 10x slower on the same machine and the battery drains much faster ... in my experience anyway. But I also have issues with Windows drivers and applications crashing often. Whereas on Linux things "just work" for me the vast majority of the time.

To be fair, though, there was a short-lived period a couple of years ago where a lot of laptop trackpads wouldn't work, and I had a work-issued laptop that didn't seem to want to play nicely with an external monitor.

So I wonder if this is largely what you're used to. I run Linux on all of my devices, which are hardware I've chosen myself and had high confidence would have good Linux support. It's only been the work-issued machines that I've had issues with... so I probably just have a sense of how to get things to play nicely because it's what I've used primarily for so long.
Lincoln? Probably not. But I'd definitely rather start one in Omaha, Nebraska than in Stockholm.
> Add as many of the source words as you want, the meaning is the same.

Incorrect. If you're having any trouble figuring out what you missed, feel free to ask!

> Perhaps you should re-read my response?

I already addressed your response in the part of my post you didn't quote. As such, your post can't be considered a response to what I actually said.
The 'expensive' SSD used for comparison is a 6-7 year old Crucial MX500

Oddly enough this test doesn't even get 300MB/s writes for the Crucial drive, where other benchmarks are 400MB/s or above for the same drive

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12165/the-crucial-mx500-1tb-s...
Interesting. I've had terrible luck with 'cheaper' SSDs where I thought performance wasn't important. I got a crucial USB3.2 drive for backups for my mac mini, which I stupidly thought would be good given the bandwidth of 3.2, but it can barely manage 100MB/sec of writes sustained, which is close to an old hard drive.

Managed to repeat the mistake again on black friday with a cheap SATA drive that cannot write anywhere close to the SATA speeds. I even checked the specs on this but real world performance isn't anywhere close. Probably using different chips with the same model number?

And to top it off I just got a 256GB M2 Macbook air for travelling which has horribly crippled IO perf compared to the other models, which I didn't realise until after I bought it.

It's all tolerable really, given I have some good NVMe drives in my main workstation, but I cannot understand how those do 2000MB/sec no problem, but cheaper drives struggle with 100MB/sec. NVMe drives have plunged in price over the last couple of months so maybe getting them with a USB enclosure/SATA convertor is a better way to assure higher quality.
That works for your average HN user, who knows what all those words mean. For someone else it means you either live with what the government lets you have, or you pay the cost of learning all those things. People will end up accepting a lower level of privacy.
The Celeron 300A might still be the best bargain in CPU history. I put together a bunch of PCs with them for myself & friends/family. Not all of them could get to 450mhz, but all of them were able to clocked much higher than 300. And with the L2 cache on the chip, it already was better clock-for-clock than contemporary products.

While from an objective amount 50-150mhz is peanuts in today's terms, that was a huge step up relative to the original speed.
> with respect to the privacy that US or Chinese products provide

Does this mean that EU apps all charge subscriptions or are advertising heavy in order to provide their service and data privacy?

They are not charities so if they are not selling their data, they have to be making money some other way
Ask HN: Is there a Wallaby.js equivalent for Rust?
Wallaby.js is a JavaScript tool that instruments your code, runs tests, and shows the values of variables inline in your text editor, and re-runs tests on file change.

Does anything like this exist for Rust?
In modern parlance, BPF always means eBPF. The original BPF is sometimes called cBPF.
Trackerless torrents via DHT have been a thing for decades.
Every time this topic comes up I like to point out that Europe’s inability to compete in tech has been true even since the personal computer.

Here’s an article from 30 years ago doing a postmortem: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/07/business/why-european-com...

It’s baffling to me why the entire world in the 1900s was eventually able to compete with Detroit in auto manufacturing…even after being decimated during WW2 (Europe, South Korea and Japan have no trouble competing in automotive)…why have they not been able to compete with Silicon Valley?

Manufacturing cars is far more capital intensive than anything in software, so I don’t think funding is at the heart of the issue.

Either there’s something fundamentally different about computers/software or the rest of the world is about to finally wake up and start competing.
I know that HN isn't supposed to be for jokes, but legit, I assume that a naked Mitch McConnell looks like the nudist alien scammers from futurama.

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Sprunjer?file=Srunger.png
> One of the funnier conclusions to draw is that it's beter to use a hard drive than to use cheap SSDs if you need to ingest a lot of data. Even the Crucial 1TB SSD could not keep up with the HDD.
> Europe it's facing an excessive taxation plus excessive regulation.

Is there a compelling argument to be made that it's not the inverse of this? Perhaps other jurisdictions are facing destructively light regulations?
Not respecting robots.txt is the only legitimate concern you list here. The marginal cost of one page load is approximately 0, and this is not a fuzzing tool.
News orgs are not obligated to present sides of issues as though they're equivalent. Just because a point of view is prevalent doesn't mean it's valid. But as I've pointed elsewhere in the thread, On the Media handles controversial topics better than anyone. They are exceptionally good and digging in to even the most conspiracy-laden topics with clarity and fairness.
They should be removed after the feature is deployed and stable.
Some folks have a CI task that checks for stale FF and alerts.
They are supposed to be removed quickly. The biggest issue I've seen with implementations of feature flags in products are that they are not removed quickly enough. They should be removed as quickly as possible, to avoid what you're saying. In some places, I've even advocated and implemented strategies for not considering something actually done until the feature flag has been removed. So it can be deployed and activated in production, but in terms of project management, the overall task of the feature shouldn't be considered done until cleanup has been done. This process has been the most successful.

Another strategy that kind of worked but not as well, is requiring the cleanup of the feature flag to happen in the next sprint. But it tends to be de-prioritized, and sometimes even pushed to the next sprint as other things are always more important.

Another strategy that I've discussed and thought about but never actually implemented or advocated for, is limiting the max amount of active feature flags in the specific project to N numbers (ideally 1). So if you want to activate another feature flag, you have to first cleanup the previous one.
With the amount of money that MS makes, it is hard to imagine they do this for revenue. Are they trying to be "useful"?

At very least, since many of us have enough to concentrate on as Developers, the install should either ask you "do you want loads of crap to read from the news?" or it should be a simple global switch.

I think probably as a big company, Microsoft have lost the Bill Gates character who could decide everything in a holistic way and not random groups of people with their own objectives slinging mud at the OS to see what sticks and annoying everyone in the process. How much has been tried and dropped in the last 10-15 years of Windows?
Commemorating Jacob Ziv: The “Z” in the LZ-77 and LZ-79
I have always used Windows for my gaming PC, but last year when I got a new one I went for Linux. I was just tired of having to constantly reset my settings, remove ads/candy crush from the start menu.
There is also https://niek.github.io/chatgpt-web/
No, there isn't, because if there was, people wouldn't use those apps. People may yak and yak about how they distrust the apps, but their actions say that they don't really distrust them.
Remember the "Brexit was just about racism" folks?
And so do the expensive SSDs. Usually writing the first 30% of the available space goes through fast pseudo SLC mode and then the speed falls down drastically.

The most in depth SSD reviews I've seen are on this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@prossd

They are in Russian, but subtitles are available.
> and under policies that elevate "gender identity" over sex, will be believed.

This does not apply to the actual policies I assume you're complaining about. Please read the policies – or name them, if you have found some that work that way.

> it is based on significant evidence of the risk men pose to women.

Nobody's disputing that (much as I'd love to live in a world where I could). You haven't demonstrated the risk that trans women pose to the women around them.

> you've presented no argument whatsoever as to why men should be incarcerated in women's prisons.

I'll provide one: male-on-female prison violence is a well-established phenomenon. What do you think is going to happen when you put a handful of women in an all-male prison?

… Or do they not count?