skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ever have those moments where you realize youre standing in wifi, 4g, 5g, gps, am/fm and sunlight? Sunlight is the only one i can control thats why i never go outside.
Anecdotally, not a single American I've talked to who was on the fence about moving to Europe was deterred by not knowing the native language well enough. Whether overly optimistic or not, the prospect of spending a few months learning well enough to barely get by and spending more time later to become more adept never amounted to even a footnote in the deciding factors.
> my self-hosted services are hosted on Oracle Cloud

That's... one definition of self hosting
It potentially plugs the contractual and liability risks, which might be more important (talk to your legal and compliance folks). None of your data is going to launch nuclear missiles, if it leaks it would be unfortunate, but not as much as the litigation and regulatory costs you could potentially incur.

Everyone gets popped eventually. It's your job to show you operated from a commercially reasonable security posture (and potentially your third party dependency graph, depending on regulatory and cyber insurance requirements).

(i report to a CISO, and we report to a board, thoughts and opinions are my own)
Well, Germans without a passport can still travel all around the Europe. Passport is only needed if you plan to go outside EU - that should be a factor in this comparison.
lol I thought we were all joking on this thread???
Tap your foot until your leg aches while plucking individual hairs out of your beard
So you'd rather live in a villa next to a slum than in a decent house next to a decent house?
She doesn’t have an email address? You’re not in a walled garden, just self host it and send her a link.
I'm surprised there isn't much discussion of data structures here, as that would inform an undo algorithm.

I infer from 'PieceTree'

That this is a binary tree based piece chain.

That makes undo really easy, especially character by character.

Nice explantation of piece chains

https://www.catch22.net/tuts/neatpad/piece-chains/
People are willing to pay but Apple won't take their money.
So now you are suddenly talking about the EU? I thought we were talking about Europe. Europe is not the same as European Union, and Europe is in fact more than double the population of U.S. Germany, being one of the most backwards countries in the entire Europe, is not a good representation of every European country.
Does this seem “Islamist” to you too? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day
I can absolutely tell when onions are sauteed or not sauteed though
That could be.

Very interested to hear specific ways the Europeans are beating us and where exactly they are hiding all that prosperity!
This one is sure to elicit strong opinions here on HN.

People quickly jump to point out how the average quality of life in Europe is so much higher than in the US. And rightly so, that's not even up for debate.

But why does having high quality of life have to be orthogonal to having a strong tech market? I think the more interesting question is could Europe maintain their standards _and_ also have a strong tech industry that could compete with the US?

If turns out that you can't have one without the other... then that would be a very interesting and somewhat scary answer. If you could only optimize for one or the other which one should we go for?

I'm very interested in this because I think it's easier for the US to catch up on some social advances than it is for Europe to have its own Silicon Valley. And therefore would love to see the US actually (ha! one can dream) do so.
Huuury up. I need WebAssembly in my life. My two use cases are:

1) Web UIs with DOM access from wasm/threads and all that goodness. I want to write my entire web application as a Rust wasm application without thunking through JS.

2) A native application with dynamic plugins as WASI libraries. Writing CLI tools and desktop applications in Rust with a practical method of loading plugins dynamically is .
This article makes me sad, because:

1) It's completely true that the EU's economic outlook is dire.

2) Most Europeans (I am one) do not want to hear it, will not discuss it and will flag this article to avoid having to think about it.

To an outsider it might be surprising that this isn't on the political agenda at all. People complain about the gradual deterioration of the economy, but the causes are only discussed at the 6th grade level. (Half the population blames everything on immigration and the other half wants to retire at age 55 and ban this computer nonsense.)

Obviously our living standards are only made possible by the fact that our, historically, strong economy has made it possible to import phones and computers from China, produce from South America, tech from the US. But the average European (especially in the West) assumes they are owed these things, and never think about why our purchasing power should be higher than, say, India's. (Or, indeed, why it's dropping compared to the US.)
Founded Centuries Ago, America's First Public Park Still Attracts Millions
> Why does everybody feel entitled to use it if they're not using Apple products?

I'm only speaking for myself here, but I don't look at it as "being entitled to use Apple's services". I look at it as closed, non-interoperable systems as being fundamentally bad for people and for the internet. I hesitate to call them immoral, but I feel like I could argue that competently as well, if pushed to do so.

So if Apple isn't willing to allow interoperability with their messaging service that is used by hundreds of millions (billions?) of people, then I support every effort to "sneak in" and make that happen anyway. And if that means using some Apple service that isn't intended for use outside the Apple ecosystem, that's just how it has to be.

On the other hand, I would frankly just prefer that non-interoperable systems die, instead, and be replaced by functionally equivalent, but more open, systems. So I am also uncomfortable with Beeper Mini pushing more people into Apple's closed ecosystem, even if overall (in the short term, at least) it will mean a better, more secure experience for both iOS and Android users. (It's gross that Apple talks about the security and privacy afforded to users of their products, but at the same time forces their own iPhone users to send unencrypted SMS/MMS messages to anyone who doesn't have an iPhone, because keeping non-iPhone users off iMessage is a competitive advantage for them.)
I like the article, but I think the consequences that the author suggests lack insight into what’s really holding European entrepreneurs back.

IMO it’s all about simplifying regulation. Simplify tax. Simplify bookkeeping. Simplify hiring and firing.

I’ve lived in various European countries and I always get the impression so much energy is spent on solving every edge case with yet another rule, trying to make the world perfectly fair. It arranges the status quo better but prevents a lot of future change.

Generally speaking, I firmly agree with the analysis of the author. As far as modern tech like computers go, the “providerism” description is spot on.
Somewhere between "4 years ago" and "7 years ago".

Google Fiber cancelled plans in a bunch of cities in 2016: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/googl...

Google Fiber Louisville was cancelled in 2019 after some disastrous costly mistakes (that broke city streets): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...
They do supply the number of active iOS devices, though it doesn't necessarilly mean that they are all active iMessage users. 136 million iPhones in the US, ~140 million active Facebook Messenger users in the the US.
While I don't necessarily disagree, why drink hot water when you can drink flavored hot water (tea)?
Yeah, aggregating seems technically challenging, but doable. But I wonder if ActivityPub or some other "open social" protocol would suffice. I'm torn between "support open protocols in particular" versus "support as many things as possible".
this page seems useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger
There’s also the fact that iMessages have a cost to them. An individual message might not amount to much, but millions of them? Apple is hosting the computing to manage the delivery of iMessages. Should they provide that free of charge to the world out of the goodness of their heart?
To be honest it looks like I completely missed Kdenlive. It looks very advanced compared to openshot, from what their website shows. May be worth a try for both of us
By such logic a company could call wood steam engines neutron-free nuclear fission engines, as they convert the water vapour into mechanical energy. It would be to change and/or to blend the properties of any technical word or concept freely, and legitimately, for to commerce, marketing promotion or any purpose. If generalized I guess it would promote and increase the misleading advertising cases exponentially.

( If I can humbly comment about what happened in the conversation you heard, it seems that your boss eluded an "it is not Machine Learning, it is better" and blended an answer for to avoid confronting or disappointing the investor some way )
Far from solved

Modal editing isn't enough if you type whole sentences/paragraphs of text within a single insert session

Also undo in selection is required to "solve" it, as well as semantic points besides "last 15 minutes" (like "last saved session" or "last time you quit the editor")

Also UI with a diff is sometimes better than having to undo/redo to see changes
At the very least, it's being proxied through the third-party Beeper app, which Apple has no reason to trust. (Nor the Android device it's running on.)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/beeper-mini-is-back-in-ope... appears to indicate more than that, though.

> In tests, signing in with our Apple ID generated an Apple prompt that noted our ID was being used to sign in with a device “near Los Angeles, CA” (where we are not located.)
"Cars/TVs/insert-other-thing-here are free, because I could just give an old one to someone!" That ain't how it works bro . . . .
As an aside, the studio's previous game, "Propnight", was a pretty blatant asset flip as well. The only difference was that it was an unambitious $10 hide-and-seek game; no one expected much from it.
I wanted to see critics of Tesla, but I can't, because Musk has banned several accounts that track Tesla manufacturing defects, FSD crashes, etc. Jenn Senshiba even got banned for talking about unions it appears. Lots of others too: https://twitter.com/dictionaryhill/status/172997549431631465...

Free speech, sure, right.
> He's right though :)

Not in the world at large. There’s considerable variation in what different programming languages/paradigms call ‘code units’ with varying properties.

For example, pascal has functions that cannot change the values of their arguments, and procedures that cannot return values. Both would be called functions in C and JavaScript.

Common Lisp has defun to define functions because it is a lisp, but introduces defmethod to make something that’s highly similar, except [1] that it can be called when code calls a generic function defined by defgeneric (https://gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic-fu... https://opendylan.org/intro-dylan/methods-generic-functions.... may be easier to understand because it, IMO, is better written and because, for many, Dylan’s pascal syntax is easier to understand)

Also, functional language purists will argue that functions must be pure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function), as they are in mathematics.

[1] I probably am ignoring/forgetting details, possibly even essential ones, here.
Sure, they convince themselves that everyone speaks English, which is generally true in the kinds of places that hire expats.

But plenty of them find it hard to fit in socially, and then leave later.
...which is still more than 5x the normal rate for payment processing.

Reducing your price gouging from 10x to 5x isn’t exactly a kindness.
It's not a sales tax, it's similar to a VAT but doesn't just compound.

So I suspect that if you are manufacturer, you pay it on your raw materials, you collect it on your finished goods, and there is a credit system in place so it effectively passes through.
Lost $X from its "market cap".

The company itself has lost nothing. This is a drop in stock price. The only people who lost anything are those who own company stock.

Note to the author: the number of coffee-based similes you are allocated per story is 1. You might get 3 if they were good; yours aren't. I stopped reading before I hit the paywall.
So does that mean that the fish still alive are better adapted for warmer water and will now rapidly breed new fish that are also similarly adapted?
There is a really good ten hour walkthrough of Python 2 internals https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV58Zm8FuBL6OAv1Yu6AwXZr...
When I was in high school and not allowed to have a cell phone, I had to use email via Gmail in my PSP's web browser in order to message people. I relied on these addresses so heavily and many people gave me weird looks for "oh btw, I need to know which carrier you have so I can get the right email address"
A ratchet and pawl limits the backlash to the distance between the teeth on the ratchet gear; think of it this way; if it were to turn less than the radial distance between the teeth on the ratchet gear, backlash could still happen; similarly in regular operation, it turns the ratchet gear slightly more than that distance, and there is backlash until the pawl engages.
If it's not in the ruling, it's their choice, maybe they read the room...
Given that this version from the NYT is very different from the one in the post, and far more reasonable in its requirements, it makes it even more apparent that the linked product is a scam.

Exaggerating details the way the linked post does is one of the major red flags of almost every scam. Especially dangerous is the way it attempts to make the regulator the enemy based on a fraudulent retelling of actual events.
WatchOS 10's Side Button Change Almost Ruined My Apple Watch
Wouldn’t entire thread need to be light green. Wouldn’t android users not see the Tapbacks/threads in same visual UX. It makes sense to turn it off entirely than to deliver a subpar and confusing UX
Author here. Glad it resonated with you :)
I've seen the exact opposite practiced for alcohol: declaring liquor stores essential because DTs are no joke and they don't want alcoholics in withdraw taking up hospital beds.
yeah the political bent isn't a dealbreaker for me, they're not kidding about it, have what I'd call a painfully plain mainstream view on most things, and at least attempt to, most of the time, examine both sides of an issue before picking a side (which will obviously be the free market one). fairly deep looks with standard UK middlebrow takes
Using Tailscale for it's VPN, too... that's a rather generous definition of self-hosting.
> how do they solve it?

Release iMessage on Android. If there is a concern that it wouldn't be secure with Google controlling it, then they could put it out on F-Droid, which would simultaneously prove that they're serious and also undermine Google's own efforts at controlling the culture war.
The Fargate Illusion (2019)
You mean “succeeds in allocating wealth fairly”
Tumblr's 'Fediverse' integration is still being worked on, says Automattic CEO
I'm glad to see work is continuing on ActivityPub support in Tumblr, and also not surprised to find there isn't much interest in WordPress ActivityPub support.

Most people who want something with ActivityPub support just go to Mastodon. At least for now.
It's because there have been quite a few big threads already:

Mixtral of experts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598559 - Dec 2023 (272 comments)

Mistral-8x7B-Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594578 - Dec 2023 (69 comments)

Mistral AI Valued at $2B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593616 - Dec 2023 (221 comments)

Mistral's mixtral-8x7B-32kseqlen on Vercel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584179 - Dec 2023 (30 comments)

French AI startup Mistral secures €2B valuation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38580758 - Dec 2023 (76 comments)

Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570537 - Dec 2023 (236 comments)

I know these are not all the same exact story but the discussions end up being more or less generically the same, so we can call them all (or most of them) quasidupes.
Battle of Stalingrad 51 part documentary completed after 4 years
Looks like it. 8-bit 6502 at 2 MHz.
dang: could you unflag?

It's frustrating when some things can't be discussed on HN because they are insta-flagged as a way to silence them. Although this one is a touchy subject the article does raise some interesting points which could be debated.
Well, I don't think it's surprising that royalty are upper-class. But recently they act less like it, based on their school portrait-looking family photos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0pf0IXNv15/
Meh. Each to their own. There is some "value" in knowing that you own something that is not mass produced. In some aspects, each additional print doesn't affect the utility of any of the others. After all, it looks the same hanging on your wall.

But there is a difference. Using an extreme example, what if the print you hang on your wall is also hanging in every single Starbucks? It will detract from your experience because you'll think of Starbucks when you look at it. No one will marvel at your good taste, or ask where you found it. People might even look at you strangely.

I'm not saying all unnumbered prints are going to be this extreme, and the "value" described is logical. But hopefully this contrived example can demonstrate that there is an loss of value when each additional print is made (at least for a large percentage of the population).

If you're the sort of person that this doesn't make sense to, you needn't be swayed by this thinking. More power to you. But let's not pretend the practice is dishonest or perversive. And if your selling one print of an unlimited run, don't be surprised if people don't want to spend as much.
> A recent Times/Siena poll found that only 2 percent of registered voters said economic conditions are “excellent,” and only 16 percent said they were “good.”[0]

Anecdotally, the Americans I talk to are saying things are worse than I've ever heard them say in my life. My parents used to have an unshakeable work ethic, but after my mom's company was bought up by private equity and squeezed for every penny, I've never seen her less happy to go to work. And she's far from alone.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/economy-biden-vib...
AT&T wasn't delivering 300mbps before rolling out fiber. They were selling 100mbps connections with data caps for more than what the cable company was offering.
You're correct, the friend had the warranty out for child support, I was in good standing paid up.

The fear was being jailed too long to respond to potential employers so that I could continue to work. Child support agencies are immediately notified if you've been let go and will hound you on a daily basis to find employment, there are no breaks.

Thankfully I'm in a much better position in life, but I know what it's like if you don't have access to capital to hire a good defense attorney who isn't behind the 8-ball like public defenders always find themselves.
let's be honest. it isn't for security. security is just the hand they wave to prevent people from tapping their walled garden.
I'd be willing to put up with it if it were free, like the good ol MSN messenger / AIM days.
> I am not dismissing the concept of a risk premium

You wrote:

disguised as a "risk premium"

Saying something is just a disguise for something else and, for additional emphasis, putting air quotes around it is an unmistakable dismissal of the concept. Hard to imagine how you could have been more clear.
Thank you very much for the feedback :)

Never heard of EODHD but i will take a look now to see what benefits they could add to the website - Thanks!

If you want to hang around in discord you could add me "near114" or join the discord group https://discord.com/invite/KWX9SpHQQP

Talk to you soon :)
OPEC members keep climate accords from acknowledging reality
This nonsensical "I know they're spying" bro science needs pushback. There are very real reasons to increase oversight but no, "Trust me, Snowden," is not one of them.

The joke is that everything snowden revealed was either already legal, or shutdown, or made legal if there was a doubt. It's only hurtful for you to regress the conversation, it's not cool cynicism.
Interact Home Computer
Yes. I'll check back here in a few months when it ships to everyone on the internet (if it all goes well) :)
America was the land of opportunity.
1. The photon moves through free space, where only the EM field is disturbed.

2. The photon enters a material, where the disturbance in the EM field couples to the electron waves — creating a phonon.

3. The phonon travels through the material, as an oscillation in both electrons and EM.

4. The phonon reaches the edge of the material, where there are no more electrons and reverts to a wave of just EM — a photon.

5. The photon continues in free space.

The reason this happens is the photon changes the electron behavior, which in turn changes the photon behavior. This is because EM interacts with charged particles like electrons.

For the time it is in a material, a EM wave can’t be separated from the behavior of the electrons present: both and their mutual interaction are required to explain what happens.

That disturbance of both is “coupled” — and called a phonon.
The fallacy of appeal to authority (or argument from authority) is referring to cases where the authority status is unrelated to the field of the argument. It is not a fallacy to assign higher credence to a statement of an expert in the relevant field relative to outsider with no relevant expertise.

I once read an article relating to farming practices which evoked from me reaction similar to yours, those smartypants archeologists are surely imagining entire worlds on the basis of small piece of insignificant broken metal. I read the entire paper just to prove myself I was right, and reading the forensic methods used for corroborating the thesis was very effective humbling lesson
Cuba is a sovereign nation, it can install missiles. Oh, wait..
That decade of lawyer fees is much more than $2m.
Yeah? Asymmetric cryptography has been around a lot longer than a decade.
The distinction between usage and production is a silly one imo. Every producer is also probably a consumer of tools.
How so?

I believe I'm treating the physics of growth, not the economics of growth.

If you need to use 1% more energy each year starting from what we use now per year, our universe does not contain enough energy to do that for more than 12000 consecutive years.
Hungarian. We have seen it from VIP seats how the populist ideological blob ate everything, and how uncompromising uncooperativeness from weak opposition prevented them from even achieving an effective minority status. (So the blob has absolute majority in the legislature again, yeey.)
This is such a helpful insight and a good reminder to always read multiple sources
Thanks. That's fascinating about Ruby, I'll have to look into that.

I'm not an expert on Python but I don't see how Python is significantly more dynamic than e.g. JavaScript. I think PyPy and JS performance is comparable (or at least within the same order of magnitude), so I think it largely comes down to implementation, i.e. prioritizing performance.

I think if it had been Python (or Ruby for that matter) in the browser instead of JS, it would run about as fast as JS does today.