skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in both, plus the Netherlands. France has one forgiving element: usually some room for the human element. Germans civil servants seem happy to apply rules and procedures, even if they are clearly suboptimal. French civil servants would agree it's ridiculous and are more inclined to help you get unstuck if you can show them that you are.

France also seemed further along digitizing things.

Total duration is probably still a tie: it's all over the map but things can take ages in either country.

The Netherlands is great, except when it isn't. If you ever get stuck there, you have no chance convincing anyone. Their believe they have the best (civil) service doesn't help, but it turns out its all highly optimized for 'normal' Dutch citizens. As soon as your deviations from that norm start to add up, you're going to run into unhandled edge cases, which people won't handle (no protocol, and they are not used to using their own brain). "Computer says no" is Dutch (civil) service in a nutshell.
Academics is much older than Python. At some point, they adopted that.
I am curious: what specific horror of modern America are you escaping?
> I think he rather cared about the few core principles behind the rules, no?

Rather? You mean, like, "instead"? No. He gave some core principles that could be an aid in interpretation, and he used those principles to argue against a certain rabbinic extrapolation of the law- but he still wanted all jews to follow all 613 of the laws of moses.

> he came to fulfill old promises and replace the old rules

He came to fulfill the prophecies. But according to Matt 5:17-20, until heaven and earth disappear, not a single commandment will be abrogated, and woe unto him who teaches that even the least of the commandments can be ignored. Unless you think that was a typo, or maybe Jesus didn't mean it, or didn't know what he was talking about in that passage from matthew?

> Or as summarized by his followers 20 years after his death

As summarized by a single guy, who never met him, writing to non-jews- sure.
The question is "when?". Wayland is 15 years old, it already had a lot of time to "get better". So today, in most cases, I'd say X11 is still the way to go, it just works better.

When Wayland will get better and apps start supporting Wayland more than they support X11, it will be the time to switch, but at the glacial pace Wayland advances, chances are that your current system will be obsolete when it will happen.

It is still a good idea to consider Wayland support for your own apps and have at least a test machine running it, but doesn't mean writing apps designed to work with X11 like this one is a wasted effort. X11 is here to stay, for a while at least.
If you do not use git, you might not be GitHub's target audience.
That now sounds like that Anarcho-Syndicalist dialogue from Monty Python's Holy Grail, where Arthur represses peasants by existing.

And I'm absolutely no fan of communism.

The hole in question that absolute majority of Bulgarians' experience was shaped by what the economy can let them do and what it can't - talking about both pre-1990 and post-1990.

Late communism was more like an asylum which is run by inmates. It was as repressive as they personally were.
It was noticed because of it's CPU usage. It seems most people think "that was lucky". It wasn't lucky, it was inevitable.

It happened to be noticed by someone doing benchmarking, but there is another category of machines out there it would hit hard: low end VM's running an ssh server. I've had my low end VM's hit by exactly the same thing the postgres benchmarker saw, but on these box's it isn't just annoying. There are so many ssh logins happening the OOM killer comes out to play but these ssh logins are tiny so it tends to kill the real stuff you've got the box doing, like web serving.

A 2 or 3 fold increase in CPU would suddenly bring a lot of VM to their knees. At least thousands of them. It would be noticed.
Well... it's complicated
> Is the Rust ecosystem just dependency hell?

Not quite to the extent of the js ecosystem, but yes. Especially for a purported systems language there's a lefpad-esque problem of people making tiny and somewhat useless libraries to learn or pad their resume which then get depended on by the world.
> From what I heard the cut the public funding for Digitalization by 90% last year.

This is basically wrong. They moved the budgets to different departments, where it made more sense. And it actually does move on..slowly. It's basically a living example of too many technical debts and the pains of federalism gone wrong.

> Soon you'll be able to use a credit card in most shops even!

Real credit cards are very uncommon in Germany. Debit cards on the other hand are working well everywhere, even in small shops (since the pandemia to be fair).
Before those opportunities are available to you, someone would need to spend a few million dollars and train a competitive model with this, and then release it under a license that allows commercial use. This is out of reach for the vast majority of smaller companies. These models only excel at large parameter counts, even for narrow problems. This is especially true in the case of MoE, which is a way to push the overall parameter count even larger without lighting up the whole thing for every token.
Note that I am a German. I would say there are few. Bad education, especially in schools, a broken railway and public transport system, as well as incredibly high taxes. You may say "free healthcare" and a point can be made here, but when you take a look at the high taxes you have to pay, it's not worth it, if your income is above average. All in all it's a mess and I haven't even begun speaking about German people and their mentality, as well as poverty and unsuccessful immigration.
Then interpret my use of that number as a literary allusion meant to refer to {the set of all commands of prophetic origin}.
Did you get mixed up and think that people saying that debug builds are crucial for iterations means that they were saying no one ever needs to debug an optimized build?
Show HN: YouTube transcripts and summaries, punctuated with AI
There not a single true statement in your comment. Why are you doing this?
Having lived here for 1.5 years, I can say that beraucracy in germany basically works in the sense of how bureaucracy in other lesser third world countries work.

Basically, the system works in general for the average population but is broken such that it affects most those at the margins (for example, the rich, the poor, those entrepreneurial, etc).

In other countries, when this happens, you see the rich paying their way to access while the poor generally suffer until some populist movement comes and promises to save them.

It's thus really not that surprising, I just had yo change my view on where I placed each country in this developed/developing country mental model
If we didn't have the web, all networking above OSI L4 on all operating systems would have been encrypted by default. A simple set of syscalls and kernel features could have enabled it. But since the web was there, and popularized a solution for secure communications (TLS + HTTP), everyone just jumped on that bandwagon, and built skyscrapers on top of a used books store.

The weird irony is it's the old "worse is better" winning again. HTTP and TLS are fairly bad protocols, in their own ways. But put them together and they're better than whatever else exists. It's just too bad we didn't keep them and ditch the browser.
Man I'm with you all the way. I was also lucky to be born in a place where college education is very affordable: around 1K/year flat fee for everyone. It sounds like you got a raw deal.
Nailed it and made my day.
Did it take 25 years? That's the baseline. :)
Don't forget text editors! And even though it didn't last, many people made very good money on these.
In case anyone doesn't know - Bulgaria is the most beautiful country in Europe and is rich with cultural history. Ruins and artefacts everywhere. Please come and check it out - Sofia is amazing this time of year.
What problems do you face on LinkedIn (professional platform)?
Hi folks, my experience with LinkedIn hasn't been great in the last few months -
- too many promotional posts
- unrelated posts in my feed
- too many ads even after being premium
- job search filtering is broken
- job alerts aren't real time
- job search shows all promoted jobs
- no way to drill down in 4k+ jobs

Do you face these issues? What are some issues you face?
They’re not know for efficiency or being methodical, but for gründlichkeit - being meticulous.

Then again, anything like this is a stereotype.
funnily enough, the author is parroting something that a lot of people could consider spam
You have a chance to see them in northwestern Lousiana or western Arkansas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Map_of_broo...

You might want to double-check with a local. The ones closest to you in Dallas would be Brood XIX, the light blue ones on the map.
There has never been any violent coup attempt in Brazil. Stop lying. Why do you defend blatant censorship?
You've still not said what is wrong with calling a repressive regime repressive. Is it because you think it wasn't actually repressive? Or maybe because you think it got less repressive in its later days? Even that is inaccurate, there are significant ways in which it got more repressive, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_Process

Edit about your edit:

Late communism was more like an asylum which is run by inmates. It was as repressive as they personally were.

I can't say I understand this but it sounds like a tautology you can apply to just about any human organization.
He's Canadian, after all.
There's an audio file in the repo to simulate an alarm (works for 3 different models bought in Germany, they all sound the same).
You can pass the target frequency, beep-length and audio threshold as parameters in the CLI (you can estimate these params with audacity).
we all know by now that, when it’s free, you’re the product
But all of those values are created using an MLP with the same parameters, so there is no routing to different parameters.
It would be easy for a pilot to follow the rules for their license, while no one is following USPAs rules.

Ways they could lose their license for recklessness I guess, or if they were doing something dumb and someone landed on someone in the ground.

But USPA’s rules get followed because they’re a good idea and it’s easier that way, not because someone is going to jail or losing an FAA license if they don’t.
GitHub employee here

This does exist in GitHub Copilot - it’s called content exclusions: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/managing-github-copilot-i...

I’m not sure if Cody has a similar feature, or if there’s any move towards a standardised solution.
it's a not a waste of time but imo it's also not going to be disrupting. it could be a good sounding board when you know the subject otherwise it's mostly useless. it does makes things convenient but how much value it add, that's yet to be seen.
At that scale, they have the resources to deal with it.
Okay, thank you opposing council, ya got me. I should have said "make everything unambiguous, usually by using two or more syllables, and in a couple of instances where it was okay, one syllable."
A better study would be to place an unlikely but detection worthy artifact into the image. Say, you’re looking for a broken bone and you put a rare disease in an unrelated part of the body but visible in the radiograph. Bet the clinicians spot it. Because in the real world, this is how things get caught. But I’d love to know the missed detection rate.
It's fuzzy because intelligence is relative right.

I mean "being able to conceive an idea". As humans, two or more of us can reason our way to a conclusion without domain knowledge. There is an upper limit where the idea is incomplete (assuming respectful ignorance), but it's generative nonetheless.

With an LLM I have to prompt engineer to guide it. I would rather have it generate novel concepts to push domain boundaries. They work great as knowledge bases though.
What sounds a over man show do with no revenue?
And others of us are old enough to remember the Sony rootkit DRM on their CDs and refuse to go anywhere near Sony products.
I swear that the displaced artist writer mafia is pulling all the stops to try and write low grade hit pieces and AI doomer narratives.
It’s full of people pretending they like their job.
I think what he meant by AI is AI in services everywhere.
I attended an AWS summit this week and 9 out of 10 of the almost 100 companies had AI written on the punchline of their stand.
This is the AI the author meant, AI integrated into services that collect data and use that data to feed the AI to sell more stuff.
Yes, why?

And I believe these days you can use SSH keys for signing commits as well.
Mastodon is thought of as "distributed social media", when in reality it's not much different than Reddit without central corporate control and profit.

Instance owners can block anyone based on manual or automated rules. It's just an extension of the status quo. This is fantastic for building insular communities, but it doesn't get us into a better place with respect to individual user freedom. There are still power dynamics and the end users are not powerful.

My concern is that we stop here and this becomes "distributed social networking". What we need more than anything -- more than Mastodon and ActivityPub -- are protocols that enable peer to peer communication where no node can impose its will upon others and the barrier to participation in the broad community doesn't demand fielty to powerful moderators.
The Pinecil is cheap cheap and good enough (if you have a suitable power supply, which many people don't).
Ask HN: Fast way to relearn React industry best practices?
I'm in a coding session with a recruiter soon to show off my front-end skills. The truth is, I haven't coded front-end in a while and am out of date with industry best practices. What's a good way to as quickly as possible relearn this?

I have about 4 years of software dev experience, mostly back-end. In my first year it was mostly front-end (in React).

I was wondering if something like [1] would help. But I just remember that name from somewhere. I don't know if it's any good.

What's your advice?

[1] https://frontendmasters.com
Get married in Denmark: This not a joke, but my friends did it (German woman, Indian husband). It Germany it would have taken two weeks. In Denmark you get it done in an hour (minus the booking of the time at the civil registry).
I was at a VC conference several months ago and ever since I've joked that if I learned nothing else while I was there, I learned how to spell "AI".

It's the frothiest space now. Interest rates are high, everyone wants thay next funding round, hence they glom onto the buzz and hype even if they don't have a product or a valid use case, even if they don't solve for anything.
I'll one up you and say that it's so broken, there are lots of people that basically live on ranges of exceptions.

In my case, I was told I was not eligible for the visa I needed but when I spoke to a migration consultant who knew the process, they managed to get it done. I was pretty shocked as this wink, wink, nod, nod style system is not something I expected from this country.
yeah using a DSP for this definitely makes more sense - but I'm lacking experience in the field. Same goes for using a discrete band-pass filter. This project is more of an attempt at "how can I build something in 2 hours that works reliably" !

For reference, it eats ~25% of the available CPU resources on my rpi zero 2w - which draws a maximum of 350mA, so this implementation definitely draws less than 1 watt.
> Don't roll your own crypto.

This is exactly the meme I would try to propagate if I had backdoored every popular crypto implementation. More people should roll their own crypto so they can stumble and learn and eventually get good at it.
> Disclaimer: I work on GPG and I am one of the KMail core developer.

Nice work :) Looking forward to seeing further improvements to it, it's still got a few rough edges, but otherwise I really like it.

> The standard way to use GPG is via the gpgme librairie which then communicate with the Assuan protocol to the gpg deamon.

Yeah, but all GPGme does is calling the gpg binary and presenting a more palatable interface to applications.

That solves the problem as far as the API goes, but performance is still terrible for some uses, and it's still liable to run into all kinds of weird problems in edge cases. But at least for something like mail clients it seems to work well enough.
As bad as Germany is, it is better than average. Eastern Europe is harder, and Asia borders on impossible. Africa is literally impossible.
Oh God, why do that? I bet you could embalm someone with vegemite in a pinch.
Thanks haha
Yes, more of this please.
What are you blaming him for? How is this one starving artist holding the world back from room temperature superconductors?
He would probably argue that future LLMs are less likely to have their weights released. It is remarkable and strange that we have so many open-weights models right now, considering how much they cost to make.
And government run monopolies don't?

E.g.,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_accidents_and_incid...
No, you author of "Transform: A rebel’s guide for digital transformation", must be.
Well obviously this is true.

Doesn't change the fact that to participate in the world in just a few years you better pick one to interact with bc your not going to be doing too much "normal" stuff otherwise, like shop or write an article, or code a website, or go to work, or I think you get it.

I don't think AI is my friend. I don't have to like it for it to be necessary. There is no stopping this.

Pray tell, what else do we do?
> Germans are anything but efficient.

Germans are (rather) efficient. The German bureacracy isn't. :-)
In theory, it should be possible for any EU citizen to work in any EU country.

In practice, it is not possible because you need to register to a local tax office of the worker. Spanish employee -> need to register your company with the Spanish tax office.

Good luck unless you can afford expensive legal services that do this for you. Does not make a sense unless you are planning to hire in quantity (>20 workers).

The alternative is that every remote worker is a subcontractor and takes care of their own taxes.
Thanks for the recommendation. I know what my issue is, and it isn't that, but hopefully others can benefit from the info you've shared!
It’s not even just current games tbh, one of the things that cooked their goose was trafficking in pre-release games, which is legally relevant because it demolishes the “we’re just innocently emulating hardware/supporting homebrew” argument. Demonstrating intent is absolutely legally relevant.
Generative AI is a wonderful tutor.

Source: I'm a teacher.
Almost invariably the “artists” that are the loudest about how bad generative AI is on social media have 35 followers and make shitty digital “art”, which is mostly anime characters.
I'm European because of US healthcare, insecurity, inequality, bad food culture, urban planning, and danger from natural and man made disasters, quality and cost of education.

Every single one of those things is better in my new European home.
The current guy is not a moderate, he is the biggest criminal in the country’s history.
I think its a fair article. How can you tell that AI has been manipulated to make outputs more appealing to make you do certain actions. You could argue that money <-> favor has been long exchanged, but in this case, we don't have someone to name and shame.
To your counterexamples: if you move to the US or the UK for a job, you don't really suffer directly from Brexit or healthcare being tied to your unemployment. Sure, these could make things worse in certain cases (let's say you get laid off while in the US and end up having to get your own healthcare for a while).

The thing with bureaucracy is that it's part of normal life, there's no way around it. You can assume there's a 20% chance you'd get laid off in the US and that it would be bad, but there's a 100% chance you'll have to get a work or residence permit or something else in Germany, and it seems that the default is a painful process (reading the comments here).

> The point is there are major pains absolutely everywhere.

There are still places such as Switzerland where things are better though.
> Not to worry. If you’re fairly well educated, reasonably sensible, not prone to addictions, and in good mental health, you’re probably ok, for now.

AI will learn to target you when you are at your most vulnerable. It will learn what hours you're usually feeling tired. Which nights you tend to get less sleep. It will learn when your ADHD medication typically starts wearing off and you're more prone to act impulsively. It will learn when you're overwhelmed. When you get hungry. When you're emotionally upset. Those are the times it will try to manipulate you and it will come at you in ways targeted to you individually. It will learn from its failures and successes until it knows exactly what to say and when.

As adults, we all have defenses against lies and manipulation, but nobody can be hypervigilant at all times. No matter how educated, or healthy, or reasonable, or cautious you are, there will be times when your defenses will slip and that's when AI will hit you. Our children don't even have those kinds of defenses yet. AI will be learning how to manipulate them while they're still learning what is real, how to navigate their environment, and how to communicate. AI will teach them. They won't stand a chance.
> Therapy, medical diagnosis

Please no. I agree with the rest (imnproved workflow too), but leave social tasks to humans.
8 paragraphs of negative emotional valence. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree, you won't learn anything new here.
> The design of deps.edn/clojure CLI and the lack of user friendly tooling is forever frustrating.

"user friendly tooling" and ANY Scheme in the same sentence?!

I kid, but I always have held that Schemes feel like "tools for building a programming language" (the insanity that is (car ), (cdr ), (caadadr ) suddenly reveals its usefulness when you write an s-expression parser) and Clojure feels like "an actual programming language" with its benevolent use of brackets, build tools, and library ecosystem.

(defn my-func [arg0 arg1] ..) -- Clojure
(define (my-func arg0 arg1) ..) -- Scheme (of which Racket is one)

Racket seems to want to inhabit the space between those two with its package system and ability to compile to an executable.

One thing I've always liked about Racket is its refusal to accept (if )s without else statements, insisting instead on using (when )s.
Is it? Or is tech folks finding out that they're the baddies and not happy with their reality hitting that of the rest of society? I think it's the latter, but only history will tell.

"Tech Is Not Your Friend" would've been more apropos, hype cycles and all that (adtech, crypto, gen AI, etc). Just cut the "changing the world" facade (not wrong! just not for the better in a lot of cases) and come right out with "we're extracting from the economy like wall street, but with code instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811287 ("HN: Do artifacts have politics?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811085 (valuable subthread on the above citation)
> It used to be one member of a family could earn enough for the entire family to live well on. Now, both parents are working and they’re struggling.

It is a small price to pay for women in workforce.
> [recommend against] feeding very large pieces of text to the embedder

Sounds right, I've heard this from multiple sources. That's why I'm leaning towards just embedding the keywords.
The paper was submitted in June 2023. The results sound promising. The approach also seems interesting because apparently they use a different approach than the usual NLP embeddings to encode the training data.