skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Register asked Razer to comment, and a spokesperson told us: "We disagree with the FTC's allegations and did not admit to any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. It was never our intention to mislead anyone, and we chose to settle this matter to avoid the distraction and disruption of litigation and continue our focus on creating great products for gamers.

The zero-accountability culture of capitalist corporatism needs to be cast into a scorching lava pit.
Can Central Banks reimagine their roles in the age of digital cash?
Ha, you're right, I even have benchmarks in the README showing 0 allocs/op. Nice. (Sorry for doubting you, past-self!)

In the past I've implemented a form of the write-buffering you describe -- it was not fun. But it was a lot more important in that context, because flushing a write meant uploading many MB to remote servers. With 4 KB pages flushed locally, I'd wager it's not worth it.
> If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.

Notice to quit given by the employee is often the same time period as notice for termination given by the employer: what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/what%27s_good_for_the_goose_i...
These are great links
While unauthorized access to therapy notes is bad, I think there's a difference in scale.

You probably don't bring all of your notes from your whole practice with you on the train to lose. If you do bring some of your notes with you and leave them on the train, there's a good chance they will be returned without being accessed by the returner, or be collected as trash, again with no access. Even if there is some access, it's less likely that they'll be widely distributed, because they'd need to be digitized or otherwise copied first, and that's a lot of effort.

If the person who picks up your notes on the train is nefarious or even maybe just curious and happens to know the people in your notes, there's potential for negative outcomes for your patients, but IMHO, the probability of a negative outcome for patients given an incident of unauthorized access is lower with paper records than digital records. I don't know if I can really opine on the probability of unauthorized access --- digital records open up the possibility of more effective controls on access than a filing cabinet; you can't audit which records were read when an authorized person opens a cabinet to get some records and looks around at others.
Re your #4 (Vim), and the original commenter's #4 that cursor keys etc. were absolutely necessary: Since around 1990, I have re-mapped the Control keys on my keyboard to be cursor keys, using more or less the Vim arrangement (but not of course moded, except that the ^Q key toggles selection). There was also an article I saw in the past six months about how to convert they keyboard completely to Vim-style, i.e. it was moded. I forget whether it was for Linux or for Windows.
Look at the SO entry on complexity zoo.

existential quantifier: “there exists an x such that...”

universal quantifier: “for every x such that..."

NP is the truthyness of yes-instances

co-NP is the truthyness of no-instances

P=co-P but we think NP!=co-NP

NP is the same as a second order logic with an existential second order part.

co-NP is the same as second order logic with a universal second order part.

Consider how the following two are different:

“there exists an x such that there exists a y such that...”

“there exists an x such that for every y such that...”

That is an oversimplified bad example, but set theory, logic, and complexity are were to start.

Gödel is another lens, but the difference between syntactic and symantic completeness causes problems. As well as Gödel dealing with TMs and not the physically unrealizable NTM.

Proving P=NP would have the implication that NP=co-NP

Proving P!=NP would prove the opposite.

IMHO the most likely lottery winning outcome is that we prove that we can't prove P=NP, but that would cause other issues.

More likely we will have to accept the limits of computable proofs and have an unsatisfying result and the problem will stay open.
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_biofuel#Sustainable_a... no point in trying to summarize a complex issue like this in a tiny HN comment.
Even if I stay perfectly still for an entire day I'm still going to become greasy and smelly. Washing is not optional for me.

Good for those who can skip it, but as a member of society, I prefer to stay clean.
> Temporary central planning in pursuit of a single common goal works at the cost of individual freedoms.

Yes, in the case of WWII, central planning led to many US car manufactures losing the freedom to manufacture cars. In exchange, we beat the Nazis, freed Europe, and stopped the holocaust.

I'd say that was a pretty good deal.

note to anyone reading this: Please attempt not to use simplified, polarized thinking for a moment. Communism can be bad/evil at the same time that temporary central planning to achieve a goal can be good.
Well, Cyprus absolutely needed to be cracked down (lots of shady shit going on there), but Ireland's absolutely gotten the short end of the stick, and I won't be surprised if something similar happens to Poland or Romania in a couple years.
I used Flock but it was no better than FireFox - the skin/theming was nice though.
It was another VC funded project that nowhere when it came how do you actually make money , that said I hope them the best - Firefox showed us the way to building a better web browser so maybe who knows.
This is one thing that really needs to be legislated and enforced into oblivion.
I am in the US, but I work with a lot of people out places like Romania, Moldova, Serbia, etc. and I agree those folks as a rule work hard, and also have a very high capacity for technical work.

Their salaries are no where near those of Western Europe or the US, and not because of lack of ability but rather more macroeconomic issues in the regions. But a lot of technology solutions utilized by the world quietly get built out of there.
A non-deterministic autocomplete system != declarative programming: there isn't any level of precision nor specificity that comes from writing prompts to give to an LLM.

If you're interested in learning more about declarative programming, check out functional programming and logic programming.
I was the O.G. NuGet developer, so yes, I was one of the creators.
This is exactly what I need right now. Thanks for building and sharing it! Looking forward to Firefox support. I hope you can get it working.

Firefox Support Issue: https://github.com/cezaraugusto/extension.js/issues/5
Apologies and thanks - should have read more closely.
> In SF you frequently hear big tech people talking how hard they work, while they queue 30mins for a coffee at Blue Bottle and chitchatting there for another 20mins.

Might be true for an established rest and vest company or position like sales or marketing, but the article seems to be wanting EU to be easier for startups. Not a single startup has that culture, especially when you’re building it from the ground up. You’re most definitely working 1.5-2x the hours as a regular job when it comes to starting a company and making it successful, even as an employee.
> Rich person wants employees to work harder and have a lower quality of life.

These are not in the article.
Election year and not to mention that the President's numbers are in shambles with younger voters. This move feels extremely transparent to me.
>If he doesn't want to be beholden to the needs of the public market, he's free to take Tesla private.

He couldn't care less about the market or its needs.We live in a capitalist society and Elon Musk won capitalism. The man famously doesn't pay bills. He doesn't pay rent. He illegally put a giant light-up X on top of Twitter HQ that the police had to remove. He plays with companies like a kid playing with toys. He believes the rules don't apply to him, thus far he's been proven correct (possibly with the exception of being forced to buy Twitter - but he can afford to burn that to the ground if he wants.) He's gotten away with things that would have landed lesser people in prison many, many times, and has more money to throw at the consequences of his actions than most governments.
Sounds similar to s.t. I did. Did you do this on Windows or Linux?
Literally everybody agrees except Qualcomm who want to basically no participate, come in on the side and make it quasi propitiatory.
MBP 2014. Firefox is smooth as can be, opening on Chrome blocks the whole machine.
I'm surprised that most of the comments seem to focus on other comparisons of EU and US, there's very little on those two points.

Personally, I think that English as the lingua franca makes sense in many contexts, since that's pretty much the case in IT already.

For example, trying to translate various terms in any given language from English usually causes inconvenience and confusion (everyone needs to know the localized version and then translate it back into English to find literature etc.). Therefore, it makes sense to teach everyone English.
It also adds cruft. Public struct members JSON usually needs to be converted to lowercase. Hence the stuct tags.
That these kinds of questions are so difficult to answer about whether something is truly green is a great reason to establish international standards and start actually figuring out how to fight carbon emissions across the board.
Yes, but people can move.

Remaining in an urban hellhole is a choice. Bitching about the consequences of your choice, and blaming local policies for your own cost issues when you could literally just get out of there, is a whole level of solipsism I can't believe HN takes seriously.

Everything in life has tradeoffs. People complaining about a situation of their own making are simply unwilling to tolerate the "ick" of living among people who aren't fellow bugmen. And that's fine, but they need to own that they've chosen their place along the spectrum of tradeoffs and stop bitching about the choice they've made.
That's very non-standard. Depending on what 'a large fee' means, it might even be illegal.
It's really not that bad when you consider that RISC-V is built to be used in anything from a tiny mcu to a large server cpu. Compare with the set of extensions to x64, too.
"Up to 180 kW with single port charging / up to 270 kW, with dual port charging."

There are 400 kW chargers in use, so it must be some other reason.
I see it more as the paragraph after that explains: that EU sells itself as a single market, yet there are different rules depending where in that "single market" you sit. In the US you kinda have the same issue, except that since the US is bigger geographically, you can create hubs that mostly share the same rules.
It's a "the facts are so blatantly obvious that you'd have to be intentionally ignoring them to be suggesting they're bullshit" reply.
> the huge difference in compensation for technology talent

This isn't a single lever that can be pulled independently. You need highly fluid labor markets that force companies to pay competitive efficiency wages (i.e. fewer/weaker/no unions), competitive and innovative companies, lower regulation and government bureaucratic interference, ambitious and career focused labor force, etc. etc.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem that, at its root, stems from culture (IMHO).
What git log shows is not "a lie", it is a part of its data model. Git is all of its commands, not just the low level details. Commits are both snapshots of the entire repo, and diffs, and delta compressions - none of these is "a lie".
When I'm writing this, there's not a single comment that engages with the actual proposals presented in the article. Most commenters are addressing points that the author didn't make or just insulting him.

TL;DR: 1) simplify and uniformize company creation process 2) teach English to everyone.

(I agree, BTW)
> “Europeans don’t work hard enough”

> Eastern Europeans work harder than Americans. Even Italians work more hours than Americans.
hours worked

> And based on my experience in the US, I honestly think that the US numbers are overstated.

Did you read the article?
Yes, I was one of the NuGet creators.
>In Germany, the worker protections make operating really quite difficult and it changes the culture of the company, too. Don’t even get me started about on-call culture.

Given how exploitative some US companies are, this sounds wonderful to be honest. The only way I can see this as a negative is if you view your employees as fungible commodities rather than valued team members.
It's the website for reason magazine, a relatively famous right-libertarian publication. They expect their audience to already believe certain things, which is a pretty good bet for a political magazine with an acknowledged angle.

It's not meant to be persuasive in the way you want it to be, because people reading the article mostly don't need to be persuaded in that way.
It's a tricky thing: my experience does mirror some of the "propaganda" despite coming to Europe with heavily rose-tinted glasses. I'm not going to pretend that my limited data is enough to extrapolate to the whole of the continent but it's still a data point.

The work culture is very different. There's a clear attitude of working until the next holiday and the company never gets one minute more than what they pay me for. That's honestly not a _bad_ perspective to have but it's not ideal if you're trying to build a startup
It would be great if you could add more details to the Firefox support issue in github. Maybe the community could help solve it?
Our biggest problem in the EU is a lack of vc capital. Vc oney goes to consumer SaaS. Most data people are European. Most data companies American. Go figure.
“Europe” is not a thing I tell most people trying to expand. It’s just a bunch of countries. Yes, some things are unified but it really doesn’t matter. It’s fragmented, extra work, and it’s bullshit compared to just building for a unified market like US or China. Tall poppy syndrome is also very real in Europe. It’s a dream killer and is deeply ingrained in many societies here. You can work hard all you want but these are the true frictions for risking capital and time.
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The bureaucratic process will take about two years. It's definitely not getting done in time for election.
It is good to see that they are still requiring you tell them your email address to try the browser. Too many browsers attempt to gain “market share” by dirty tricks like “being easily available” and losing focus on the obvious #1 priority, amassing the largest possible email list
I don't understand how people not smell if they shower less than daily. Is it a matter of using fabrics and poses that let your sweat breathe before it starts smelling?
And it's my goto example of censorship of comical proportions. A space that heavily "moderated" should never be trusted
In all honesty, tech people in EE show up to the office at 11 and take a legit one hour plus lunch break to eat proper food at the restaurant together. To ensure team cohesion of course. I'm not sure if that counts as a hard work or the result is simply better because you hire smart people and can't micromanage from SF due to 10h time zone difference.

>German, French, and British government officials are the worst to deal with imo

I would dread dealing with my countries government anything if I have time pressure. The result could be anything. In Western Europe I know that things will be done even if slow (ish).
It hasn't actually resulted in that much fragmentation. Android will target the standard profile, they have already announced that. There are standard profiles that pretty much get used by everybody that is trying to make something that runs generic software.

If you have some one of consumer electronic device that runs one specific software, you might not follow a profile, but even then most will follow a specific profile.
It's a trap, you will be drug addict.
Function names with _ ? That’s not for me :)
Interesting, not heard of CDK before! Kind of similar? As long as the language is Python I suppose! Would be possible to integrate with other languages too I guess, not something I’ve ever looked into though.

Totally agree on templating which is why inventories have always been python code just as operations, giving maximum flexibility (with some complexity/type confusion drawbacks).
What is not mentioned in the article is that productivity is much more important than the number of hours worked. By productivity, I mean output per hour worked, which is usually an estimation made from the total output of the country (GDP) and the numbers of hours worked by the working population.
I think you’re right that on a daily basis, the average American does not think about China.

But I’m more talking about the overall perception, the sentiment. I would not describe it as “nothing”. It’s far more negative in my experience.
> Expect India to look more like China - with similar economic pitfalls - in the next few decades

Pretty much this. The best way to operate in India is to use a mixed Chinese and Israeli mindset tbh.

> India’s where offshoring from the us is

True, but there is a massive change now from the 2000s where it's just BPO. Literally the crown jewels of enterprise and deep tech and increasingly innovated and designed by the India teams directly (eg. the cybersecurity backbone of a major 5G telco in the US, the Apple mobile chips, Google Pay, etc).
Odd commentary given that returns of Bitcoin are phenomenal if you bought in most periods since 2018 except for the previous all time high.

Yes, buy low sell high does work, but Bitcoin stopped making highs. What happened to $100k everyone been promising for the past 7 years?

Take a look into distributed ledger technology; it turns out that everyone can see where Bitcoin transactions are coming from and going to unlike, say, dollars where international banks regularly launder billions (and receive only mild penalties for doing so).

Still does not answer my question. If anything this makes Bitcoin worse as the justification for owning it , being privacy or anonymity, is invalided.
Similar to paying off random citizen's student loans?
Training doesn't work like that. Just because a model has been exposed to text in its training data doesn't mean the model will "remember" the details of that text.

Llama 3 was trained on 15 trillion tokens, but I can download a version of that model that's just 4GB in size.

No matter how "big" your model is there is still scope for techniques like RAG if you want it to be able to return answers grounded in actual text, as opposed to often-correct hallucinations spun up from the giant matrices of numbers in the model weights.
Electric cars that don't make much noise seem more dangerous to me as a pedestrian.
Major newspapers join legal backlash against OpenAI, Microsoft
Somehow I don't think many people living in the US want the paltry salaries of the EU and the burdensome and restrictive regulations that inhibit innovation
To this day I'm miffed that Chef has "cookbooks" which contain "recipes," which contain... "resources." Why not "ingredients??" It was right there!
I dunno, I really enjoy being woken up 2:00 in the morning by the walls of my house shaking from my neighbors car.
They're only trained up to a certain point in time, so adding RAG should hypothetically allow such LLMs to access the most up-to-date information.
> You expect them to divert focus away from what they're doing so they can poll the chat channel

They don't need to poll a channel, most chat applications will pop up a notification when a message appears.

What they can poll is the chat app icon, and to not be AFK in the next few minutes.

What would be the purpose of providing more context before actually asking a question?
Incorporation is already simple in the EU. Just pick the easiest jurisdiction, access the common market. Yes, local labor laws for employing people in different countries vary, but so does the states.

The English language thing, meh. I used to think the same but no longer do. Diversity is a good thing, it's Anglos who could use learning to work in different languages and cultural contexts.

Last but not least, just the tech bro-itis is so strong with this article. Like yeah if your identity and life is consumed by being a tech bro and you want the world to optimize for that and your startups, sure, let's make everywhere Delaware and the Bay Area. But that's not what most of the world wants or tries to do.
Sure, I agree. But I want to live in a free world unless this is absolutely necessary.
You re just building 27 different companies that are all reinventing the same wheel in their country, and they are all destined to never grow, until some US company localizes their offering and shuts them all down. Microsoft has done exactly that 100 times
Conceptually I think it’s much nicer to define the state of the system rather than the steps to get there, and tool of choice figures it out.

But there’s always edge cases and situations that doesn’t work which is why pyinfra supports both and they can combine any way you like.
I shower everyday just for the shower thoughts. It's blocked out time for serene peace and quiet. Being clean is just a nice side effect
There was a debate in the early 80s on whether the country should concentrate on treatment or enforcement. Reagan introduced zero tolerance policies. He usually chose the wrong approach.
I've never been to China, but the US strikes me as palpably more dystopian every time I go - and that's from someone who loves the country and its people. As for India... well, hopefully everyone will benefit from the growing wealth. Europe has a very high quality of life. To the extent it's sustainable, I don't see what's wrong with a government and culture aiming to make people happy and comfortable rather than #1.
Ok this reminds me of those posts on /r/science "Science says redditors are the best and the rightest".

Anyway, research on undergraduate business students with a mean age of 18.14 years, so beware.

> were asked if they viewed their car as an extension of themselves, how much they thought loud cars were “cool”, and if they would make their car louder with muffler modifications. Cronbach’s α of the three car items was .76; therefore an aggregate was generated.

That's slightly surprising, aren't there a lot of other ways for a car to be "cool"?

> Other than legally enforcing laws with respect to these automobile modifications, the present results suggest that other tactics, such as information campaigns, may not be useful as it is unlikely that those scoring higher on psychopathy and sadism would be swayed by the fact that the modified mufflers may be damaging to others, as researchers have recently reported that the dark personality dimensions are negatively correlated with altruism measures

So, the theory is that pointing out it's anti-social is pointless, if they already know it's anti-social and the people doing it are the ones who don't care.
> transpiler just typically means it goes from one language i could write, to another i could write.

What possible compiler target couldn't you write? Compilers are not exactly magic.
I've had a few girlfriends who barely sweat. Same with a roommate from Iran. All of them had no problem wearing pants and heather gray shirt out into the hottest most humid day.

Meanwhile I'm sweating like a hog in my tank top just existing. God forbid I move.

The only explanation that makes sense is that articles like TFA are written by those in the former group, so showering daily really is performative.
We probably need cars to make some noise (to warn pedestrians) without being obnoxiously loud.
American corporations are great at retooling their business/supply chains for different products (see how quickly everyone moved into hard seltzers).

I do expect big tobacco to move in aggressively if weed is made legal.