skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, or that lady, that fled her office in Brussel with bags full of cash. What was her name again? I wonder what happened to her.

Edit: Eva Kaili. They found 1.5 Million in cash. She lost her immunity, but is still member of the parliament with full voting rights. Excellent.

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https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/eu-parlament-hebt-immunitaet-...
I just got a random idea: don't books make attention span a habit? Especially if it's something like Jules Verne or Tolkien.
But TFA is about legislation?
Scam is a bit too strong IMHO. But yes it does just appear to be hacking together a bunch of long existing tech into a package that’s not particularly novel in the history of such things.

If they’re guilty of anything it’s likely not adequately learning from why all the previous attempts in this space were big flops. That, plus the halo of arrogance that one feels from the marketing materials and presentations, setup a perfect storm for the likely unrecoverable PR dumpster fire they now find themselves in.
These technologies are manufactured with stricter environmental controls when done in the US versus China. The picture isn't as simple as it may seem.
Honestly the bloat and ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/
Yeah; Here in the USA, there's tons of folks you can explain how "Why should I worry? I have nothing to hide." is not a valid way to look at this issue until you're blue in the face, and they'll still "stick to their guns" that you're just bein' paranoid. Doesn't matter how many times throughout history or how many different ways the lesson's been taught; Some folks just don't "get it" until it's literally on their doorstep with weapons and handcuffs over some strange law they never even knew got passed for sayin' or doin' something they didn't even know was illegal or that anyone else even noticed them doin' or sayin'.
Overly controlling code like this also prevents copy/paste. For example, I have had to manually type passwords from my password manager, because a form refused to let me paste from the clipboard.
> you do not need to pass around authorized_keys to all hosts.

But now I need to trust these random host keys, instead of a key signed by my SSH CA...
> I'd call this a failure of the elected officials

You mean, the MEPs? There's very little that MEPs can do to hold the executive (the Commission) to account. Commissioners are appointed by national governments; each government gets a quota. The appointees are generally ex-ministers whose careers in national politics are over, due either to failure or disgrace.

Essentially the only power that MEPs have is to vote down legislative proposals from the Commission. They have approximately no power to remedy administrative failures, corruption, and mistakes in implementation.
s/need/ought/g
Even if they auth every user, what's stopping me from making my own API key and feeding it to my favorite app?
Sim swaps are easier
It depends, in Germany we enjoy a quite high turnout of ~70-80% for federal elections (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2274/umfrage/...) [The site is in German, but should be fairly easy to read].

While for European elections it is usually 40-50% with huge differences by country (https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/turnout/)
It’s a political process that will or will not happen to a point. Currency it’s not there yet, it’s quite far of it and honestly I don’t believe that it will happen before fixing the Eurozone and that’s a hard one.
What do you mean re: storage?

I use nearly all of those GBs of storage on mine with synced music and audiobooks for running.
Show HN: Privacy-first analytics in natural language in the browser
Peter Thiel on Political Theology
It’s basically web widgets. Nothing wrong with it really.
> Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad/imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.

There's no malicious intent in producing glossy promos videos of a device you know a priori does not (and cannot) work, becaue it violates a few laws of physics? I feel like some folks around here have become very innured to false advertising
>On that note, houses are unquestionably more valuable today.

No. They are better, not necessarily more valuable.

Simple example:

Today you can get a phone with a chip more powerful than the best supercomputers 50 years ago. Is today's chip more valuable (ie. price-value) than that supercomputer? No. An equivalent supercomputer back then would cost WAY more. You're bringing other variables into play and confusing things. Technology has improved, manufacturing costs have gone WAY down for higher quality products. The fact that we can get higher quality things nowadays has little to do with purchasing power and everything to do with science and technology. The fact we can afford a better quality house nowadays, is also much more related to material improvements, manufacturing, logistics, overall system efficiency (transportation, company competition,...) improvements than purchasing power.

What we can compare is what other poster's are doing: time vs functions. For example, working time needed to have an average place to live in by the time's standards. And if you do that, you'll see today it requires A LOT more working time.
There are elections in most countries in the world. There most likely are in your country. Would you say the people you've elected aren't detached from your way of life and concerns?
What ideology is driving this?
No, that's not the point of the artwork. The artist still doesn't even get that this is what's wrong with the artwork:

> "What I had stumbled upon was that physical entities (stones) are not equatable with conceptual entities (points)," Bochner said

Nope, that's not it.
If you don't agree with certain people that "wet roads cause rain", you are basically doing a heckin' fascism and should be deplatformed.
Coincidentally the older people who grew up that way and are proud of it are unbearable pricks
mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking
> Unlock and show me your phone so I can view all your messages, photos and apps

This sounds like a very hands on counter argument. I'm gonna use that the next time this comes up in conversation.
I have this dream of a github repo that contains all the historical code along with instructions how to run emulators of the old hardware.

I know there is a hardware accurate PDP-11 emulator, probably someone did a PDP-7 also - I haven’t looked. I’m not sure if all the original source code is publicly available, it ideally should be, hopefully nothing has been lost.

Such a project would be like a digital historian. Preserving for future generations all technical details.
Ask HN: What is your favorite Home Automation tool?
The article makes it sound like the feature set has been finalized, but is that really the case? I'm struggling to find evidence for this, and the official page does not seem to indicate this at all: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/
> I'm not anti-EU, on the contrary, but honestly the claim is true in practice

I agree that it's under reported but I don't think it's because the EU is far away or detached from the people. The media simply don't tell us what's going on. There's no regular programmes in my country covering it. There are shows like that for local politics and for national politics, and I can even keep up with US politics if I like. But to know what's happening in the EU I have to very actively choose to search for it.

The US is surely more removed but everyone seems to know every detail of what's going on over there.
My normal stance is to compare it to using the toilet.

Everyone knows what you're doing in the toilet, yet we do not use glass walls for toilet stall doors.

Some people abuse this and do drugs or hide in toilets, but does that genuinely mean we should have glass doors for all our toilets in society?

What about toilets at home?

Usually they start to see the problem.
> Why are relatively expensive and large GPUs like in the RTX 3070 commonly called “midrange”

Because the 30xx generation of graphics cards includes the 3050, 3060, 3070, 3080 and 3090. The 3070 is right in the middle of the range. Hence, midrange.
It's a three step process:

1. Convince people they're part of your group, make them feel special for being part of that group, and make yourself their identity.

2. Don't straight-up recommend the product. Say things similar to "This is great for people like us!" Insinuate that people truly in the group would want this product (and therefore, wanting this product makes you part of the group).

3. Profit.

Identity / group appeals are more powerful than individual ones. Unless you're Michael Jordan.
> that is thanks to Google pushing it no matter what.

No, it's because Android is stuck on Java 8, so if you want any language progress you need to look further to something that can run on top of it.
Huh... does anyone find these components to be remarkably bleh quality? As low quality as if they were generated by Vercel's AI service.
They are not calling this product a scam, but rather noting its similarity to laser projection projects of the past that (obviously) turned out to be scams. A subtle but important distinction.
Exactly.

Expectations of "middle class" life have inflated.

We can afford a single family house with the picket fence - but it won't be in Fillmore or Brooklyn anymore, because they are now luxury neighborhoods.

We can afford multiple vacations, but it needs to be abroad, not the Catskills or Redneck Riviera.

We can afford to eat out, but it's not going to be McDs or fast casual - it has to be fancy and instagram worthy.

> finding the path to success is impossible because it lies in their past or was never accessible to them

Exactly.

A subset of Gen X and Boomers did very well in the 1980s-2010s. Their kids are Gen Zs who rail against boomers but will gladly take their parents help to buy a condo or townhouse in SF or Manhattan.

Intergenerational wealth is now a thing, and isn't going to change.
I collected some examples of "actually, you do have something to hide" in this older comment of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37114262

Today I'd add to the list the discussion on Israel using AI to decide who to bomb. AI isn't smart enough to understand that people who just bought a washing machine shouldn't be shown ads for washing machines, but apparently it's good enough for deciding who's a terrorist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

Having said that, I personally know someone who was arrested and mistreated by police forces for being related to a criminal, and yet I've never managed to convince them that maybe the police shouldn't have that kind of power. In those cases I typically consider that the person discussing probably won't change their view, but maybe I can still reach those listening to the conversation.
The relationship between alcohol and programming performance is interesting enough that I actually skimmed through the paper and tried to figure out how legit it was.

Sadly there's only one test subject.

So basically this is a report of somebody drinking a couple glasses of alcohol and then went on to practice leetcode questions...
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Alternatively, I'd greatly appreciate if you could share your thoughts on the following:
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If you have found a good resource about Logging and Exception handling let me know.
Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions
Somewhat related: I'm still looking for a replacement for Semantic-UI. Specifically, similar breadth, no JavaScript (and no npm), just lots of components styled using CSS. Willing to pay a $250/month subscription fee.

Most "frameworks" seem to follow the same patterns: NPM, lots of JavaScript, "revolutionary new approach to how you specify your layouts", few components, styling suitable for landing pages and startup home pages, not for data-dense applications, and nobody cares about tables.

If you ask "so what's wrong with Semantic-UI?" — nothing, except it isn't really developed and maintained anymore. I wish it also relied less on JavaScript. But otherwise it's pretty good.
Some fail, some succeed. Same as the US. That's my point.

In terms of terrorism, let's look at what France could do for the last almost 20 years:

> The ability of the government to establish “individual monitoring and surveillance measures” against individuals who present a “particularly serious” threat of terrorism.

> Police may access an individual's computer files without a warrant to prevent a terrorist act.

> Internet service providers and Internet cafes are required to retain login and connection data for one year and to provide this data to authorities if requested.

> Authorities may receive telephone and cell phone usage details, without the permission of a judge.

> Increased CCTV surveillance in public

> Identity checks, including on board international trains, are strengthened.

> The Prime Minister or a person qualified in the Interior Ministry may authorize listening devices to record conversations.
That announcement is really depressing. It isn't saying "airmiles aren't taxable". It says "we promise not to enforce laws about tax on airmiles".

As a law abiding citizen, I now have a moral dilemma. Pay tax as the law says, or don't pay tax because the government promised not to punish me?

Where will the latter lead? It's fine to do other crimes as long as you know the government usually won't prosecute? It's fine to write overly broad laws because we will only enforce them against the truly bad guys?
Then you should vote more on the EU election I guess.
Not only is this bad advice, it’s perhaps the worst advice. I clicked this expecting it to be about attitudes, expectations, and entitlement, such as people who expect special treatment because of their social media profile. Instead it’s someone who is encouraging you to actively suck at what you do and to take no pride in your work when it is a hobby.

Let me counter this with an age old adage that is simply true: “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
I had a consulting call with a young founder trying to start an AI company backed by ollama.
I don’t really think ollama scales to production workloads anyway, but they had no idea what llama.cpp was.

Kinda made me sad.
The actual proposed regulation [0] is definitely worth having a look at. For example:

5. This Regulation shall not create any obligation that would require a provider of hosting services or a provider of interpersonal communications services to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data, or that would prevent the provision of end-to-end encrypted services.

[0] page 36 onwards of https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/202...
I tried the editor on the website. When I try to add tailwind navigation components to an html project it results in SQL numeric value out of range error.
Within the market of discrete gaming GPUs, there has been a hierarchy from "low-" to "high-end" for decades -- since before integrated GPUs even existed. For almost 20 years, things with 192- or 256-bit memory busses have been "mid-range" (vs. 384- or occasionally 512-bit memory busses at the high end, and smaller at the low-end). NVIDIA's "7"-tier GPUs have historically been the top of the mid-range in this world.

Within this world "midrange" has been creeping upward not via big shifts in these fundamental characteristics but via:

1. Prices increasing steadily across the board, due to shortages and market power
2. Power budgets (and corresponding board/cooler sizes) increasing across the board

The fundamentals (memory bus width -- still 256-bit; die size and performance relative to the top of the line) remain "mid-range" in exactly this same sense.
Sure, but the commission is proposed by nationally elected representatives (namely the heads of state) and then approved by the elected European Parliament, so the overall process is not too undemocratic.

Of course, direct election of the commission would be more democratic formally, but the fact is there's not really a truly European polity in the first place so its not clear the outcome would be much better in regards to the problem of the commission being composed of random politicians you never heard of.
Japan needs to; for the same reason Australia needs Aukus.

The USA has withdrawn from being Team America: World Police

Taiwan will fall; hence their rush to move their manufacturing to SK, Japan, and USA.

It's very difficult to see how India, SK and Japan doesn't get pulled into this. Harder to predict for Vietnam, Philo, Indo, etc.

The scary thing, how does this conflict not go nuclear?
TL;DR: Doping the paper insulation in a transformer with nanometer boron nitride particles increases its thermal conductivity, reduces the temperature at hot spots by 5-10 C, and increases the lifespan of the transformer by 2-3x.
This is silly.

Big companies who are extremely protective of their secrets use the cloud. Even the US government isn't afraid to store classified information in AWS, and they're not joking around with secrecy.

Unless you're acting specifically against American interests, I can't imagine a situation in which a cloud company would actually steal your secrets.

If anything, I'd be afraid of a vector DB vendor getting hacked, but I don't think that most non-tech companies who want to use vector embeddings for their documents can provide better security themselves.
Legislative veto without legislative initiative is barely useful.
At the end he shows that he wrote a book that presumably does a better job of building this foundation.
Apple use Scala, not Java, for that sort of thing. At least that was the case last time I interacted with them.

Here are some of the suggested starting points for Scala: https://docs.scala-lang.org/

Here are the Scala books I've written: https://noelwelsh.com/landing/books/

Here's the coding group I run: https://www.scalabridgelondon.org/

ScalaBridge's online events have attendees from across Europe.
Perhaps boomers were able to do so before the age of 25, but that seems unlikely even for that privileged generation. It definitely wasn't so for any subsequent generation. Gen-Z isn't worse off on this measure.
For example this is a proposal for continous auctions in power markets. https://www.deutsche-boerse.com/resource/blob/1458710/717470...
They don't only claim, they kill. October 7th was a huge massacre, with the only thing stopping it is the Israeli army. If they could, these Hamas fighters would have killed tens or hundreds of thousands. Those were the orders, and looking at what transpired there's no other conclusion I can reach other than they tried killing as many people as possible.
I do think genocidal intentions matter even if the genocide didn't quite materialize.
Cocaine really isn’t very harmful to your body. Fifteen minutes of a mild euphoric stimulant and then you’re sober. It’s not particularly addictive either. It just has a weird reputation as a “hard” drug from movies and people that believe them.

It’s the upper-class drug of choice, and there’s a reason for that. It’s also probably the most expensive drug by dollar-per-high-minutes, which is the real reason it should be avoided
The new feature of https://sql-workbench.com uses DuckDB WASM, Langchain & Ollama as well as the DuckDB-NSQL Text-to-SQL model running on the user's local machine to enable querying local and remote data via natural language.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuCec_fhlk
European parliament has a democracy-decorative role. All the important institutional decisions are taken by the commission and the european central bank. The parliament at best approves, or works on the less important stuff. EU is a very undemocratic institution, despite all the pro-democracy talking.
That's the default deployment target for any new or migrated application. I'm saying often because it is not the only one.
How come YouTube is advertising to me but not giving back enough to the creator such that that creator then has to take sponsors to pay the bills? If YouTube's ad tech were good and the deals fair, the sponsors would just advertise on YouTube and the creators would get paid too. the fact this isn't happening means the process is failing, and it's certainly not my job nor my problem to fix it. Until they figure that shit out, I'm going to keep blocking both.
Developing a new app for LinkedIn creators
The two democratic bodies of the EU, the EU Parliament and Council of Ministers, do not have the power to submit new legislation. Only the appointed Commission has the power to submit documents.
Boot as external drive?
On the other hand, I've found manufacturer sites have a "Where to buy" section that just contains an Amazon link.
It is indeed a dangerous world. A good parent equips their child with tools to mitigate those dangers -- teaching the child to swim in a gentle and supportive way, for example.

A bad parent subjects their child to an intentional near-drowning, leaving the child afraid, confused and fundamentally unequipped for the danger.

This is how it is now, and this is how it was in previous generations. I do accept that bad parenting was more prevalent in the past, but then, so was leprosy.
Seems like Snowden had to become a fugitive and seek asylum in a foreign nation to have his discussion. This is quite human.
I will ask the same question here.

Do you have access to charging at home?

That's the single most decisive factor in my estimation for whether an EV can replace an ICE car realistically or not at this time.
Exactly. If you are taught to balance a checkbook, it inherently forces you to budget.
I didn't upvote or submit this article, but my answer to your question is that this site serves a wide audience and not everyone shares your preferences.
Can you tell me more about it . I am interest to attempt it on a small scale even though i have no experince in ai or rl . Do you have any resource for beginners ?
So the same repercussions as protesting? Gotcha
A lot of topic but I find it funny once I set aside the small spelling inconsistencies, that the author's name is Guttag and the founder's name is Bongiorno, which are almost "good day" in German or Italian.

On topic, if the product is real but their marketing demos still show unrealistically different capabilities, then it's fair to call it a scam. Looking at the material provided, the marketing images show a usable device, and the real ones an unusable one in terms of contrast, resolution, and projection deformation. But because they do show real images I'd stop short of calling it a scam. You can after all make your own opinion based on reasonably realistic demos.