skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
am pretty sure that the post also acknowledged that w/ "I don’t disagree. SF is a unique place. We currently don’t try to get on the level of SF. We are trying not to fall behind China, India and random second- and third-degree hubs in the US."
Since this whole discussion has been about putative aliens with billions of times our production, not about what we ourselves can do soon, I'm not sure why you're harping on this.
A reasonable article that proposes

1 EU Corps

2 Standard English language schooling

Seems wise enough.
What will it take?
Can you name any?
SE Asia/East Asia at least have much harsher attitudes on drugs. US is pretty forgiving to drug users &c.
There is a big difference between Europeans in Europe and Europeans in the US - Europeans in the US readily point this out. The idea that Europeans are somehow genetically less suited to building tech companies is an obvious strawman. The reality is that Europeans in America are, like all immigrants, heavily self-selected.

The article also does not mention the huge difference in compensation for technology talent between the US and Europe. As long as that gap exists, top European talent will continue leaking across the Atlantic.
India is very different than Europe. It would be difficult to attribute outcomes between the 2 countries to just this single difference without considering the many other differences.
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While not a recommendation, I mentioned the Razer gaming laptop to a co-worker. He bought one, it started to de-laminate and bend itself into a potato chip. I had never seen anything like it. They would not take a return, he had to do a credit card charge back, and blamed me forever.

Their laptops had a 50% failure rate at Linus Media Group, according to Luke during a WAN Show. Linus kept pushing them on his viewers though.

This was years ago, and I will never understand how the company was not shamed into bankruptcy. Well, I guess I do understand. You can buy favorable media coverage and it scares the crap out of me.
> Probably shouldn't have used "N95" though.

That’s the entire point. Nobody would have cared otherwise.
>> If every day is 1% harder for you than your competitor who will win? Your competitor. And in global markets where frequently 1-2 companies become the dominant player in a market this means you will not be a bit smaller. You will fight for scraps.

Abandon all hope. The race to the bottom is over. Any country not bowing at the feet of ever tech founder will be relegated to third-world status by the end of the decade. Canada, Finland, Australia, the US east coast ... all are doomed unless they drop taxes and abandon all hope of regulating anything. But that just isn't how the world functions. All those countries that are "hard" on new tech surprisingly keep ticking along year after year despite the ire of tech founders. Think London/Paris/Berlin/Vancouver are too hard on business? Ok. Leave. Make room for all the people that are ready and happy to do business in those cities.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the US loses the single market due to these state internet regulations, while the EU eventually figures it out.
Like the author says; it’s the mentality on Musk’s X generally.
> Failing in the EU has the same downside as in the US

Not really. The safety net is much better in some EU countries.
I make my entire living modernizing various firms' perl stacks.

There is a never-ending amount of work for people who are good at modernizing older mod_perl/cgi stacks into psgi, and profiling/optimizing stuff.

Where I see perl going:

I see the big firms running away from it as fast as they can, and getting pikachu face when they inevitably get second-system effect, but nevertheless doubling down, because admitting failure is a no-no unless during a reorg.

I see the mittlestand and small biz expanding their existing use of perl, as they cannot afford to re-tool.
Perl programmers will continue to have active careers for another 20 years, which is at least as long as I need to remain employed.

The language itself will continue to evolve at a snails' pace due to being design-by-committee since our BDFL retired. Thankfully this doesn't seem to be a particularly serious problem, as no advances in programming language design have come forth which are the kind of quantum leap in either dev productivity or performance to matter for our use cases.
Works perfectly on my 4GB machine on firefox, and ublock is barely blocking anything (just googletagmanager). Weird.
Not having any problems at all on my shitbox GPU-free Windows PC here, running Firefox.
I believe these fall under "interpreter pattern":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_pattern

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html

https://wiki.c2.com/?InterpreterPattern

I first read about it from the "Design Patterns" book, which I would recommend to everyone.
> Result<T, E> is required to be checked before the value can be accessed.

Which is a flaw in Borgo, at least when interfacing with Go code, as in Go both T and E should independently valid states.
maybe charging for some features like AI, or even creating features for teams
(Polytomic co-founder)

Thanks for the kind words! Pleasure serving you.
I think, here is not much to discuss. Breastfeeding/mother milk is the most natural and most used way to supply nutrients to newborns among the mammals. Who thinks differently, should watch less science fiction.

The reasons I see is not with Nestle marketing and aggressive market behavior, but rather with the (human) mothers. If one don't have enough milk for the baby (like my mother), one may switch to formula or turn to another befriended mother who happens to have enough for two (like my mom did). But. If you as a mother want to have nice curved body years later to giving birth - you might choose to use formula so the breasts are not changing their shape (I don't know - I'm a man).

So it's the social pressure to have nice breasts, to be in shape, .... Did Nestle build up this pressure? They offer a way out :)

This kind of nutrition (formula) might be better than mothers natural supply, if mother take certain medicine, or other things that might happen. And, what's more important, with newborns it's better to use formula than milk if other mammals. Because of the hormones and things in the milk - which are intended for the little cow to grow fast and good.
I believe the concept of drug 'scheduling' was introduced in the Controlled Substances Act under Richard Nixon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cannabis_laws_in_t....

Reagan had his War on Drugs, which resulted in the imprisonment of an order of magnitude more nonviolent drug offenders: https://www.britannica.com/topic/war-on-drugs
They could however do a restructuring, eliminating the exact role one's skillset matches. You get a couple of months of notice period which is no different from a severance package.
> 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.

Gotta be the Googlers. Elon and Zuck have shown the light to most tech cos and they are emulating to one degree or another. But Google seems unwilling/unable to deal effectively with the WLB'ers. After all, how can they conduct all of their political activities if work is getting in the way?
I wonder if the usage of Alice & Wonderland takes inspiration from Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" ?
Original article: "Do you ever type function keys? I do not."
Your comment: "Function keys are mandatory."

I'm in the "I never use function keys" camp, in fact I'd prefer a keyboard without them, since every once in awhile I accidently hit one and strange things happen (like the menu bar goes away).

I posted that (I think on the comments to s.t. at Ars Technica) and was severely downvoted. So I guess your camp is bigger than mine... But I still don't know why anyone uses function keys.
"I do think a lot of the showering is performative," he says. "Why are we washing? Mostly because we're afraid somebody else will tell us that we're smelling... I faced that fear, and I live."

This is not why I shower every day. I show every day because I exercise (and sweat) every day, and because showering and being clean feels good.
I have never seen a 3+ month notice to quit in the country I live, curious which country this happens in? Sounds extremely ridiculous if true
>Typical self-aggrandizing copaganda.

They got a guy who was personally blackmailing thousand of people in therapy, threatening to leak their therapist notes.

I'll let the cops have all the aggrandizing they want for this one.

Also, way too many solutions are obvious in retrospect. Many problems in life are NP-ish.
Here's an example of running a Raspberry on Bittle robot dog https://gitlab.com/sdv.bot/bittle:
"Attempts to get SOAFEE Software Defined Vehicle architecture working on the Petoi Bittle robot. Tested on Raspberry 5 w/ 8GB."
So instead of running on a real(much more expensive) vehicle, Darwin Sanoy experimented with running SOAFEE on Bittle.
500+ people to even do the HIGH level bits of running a SC network isn't a lot.

Everyone (even the most strident Tesla haters) agrees that SC is the one thing Tesla does the best, hands down. I own a model Y and tried to use only non-Tesla charging on a long distance trip a few months ago, it was a disaster.

Telsa's charging network is a win on EVERY front:

1. Locations
2. Quantity of locations
3. Quality (high charging rates)
4. User experience / design of hardware - software
5. Realtime reporting and navigation
6. Uptime of network

The SC network is why a lot people consider Tesla who otherwise it would be a big fat no.
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no mention of the BOM... tragic.
US here, and I've heard all of them from Americans and Europeans.

Other one I've heard is that if you start a company and it fails, at least in Silicon Valley they ask "So, what are you making next?". But, in Europe they imply that you apparently are not the right kind of person to be starting companies.
I have to admit I raised an eyebrow at Greece being near the top of the list. That's going against stereotype hard.
Balter-rs: Composable load testing using Rust
“The problem is not that regulation 1 or 100 is too much. The problem is that every country has different regulations, creating a mess of complexity if you want to act across a larger consumer market”

If you’re building the next Uber sure, this might be a problem.

But this is also a HUGE advantage if you’re not though. If you’re building the Workday for Estonia, or the LinkedIn for Germany (ie Xing) you have a huge advantage over any other big company that wants to steal your market share. Because there’s a bunch of local regulations, customs and ways of doing things that they simply can’t “port” over.

So yes, it’s a barrier if you’re building the next huge consumer startup, but at the same time it creates all these long tail opportunities for a LOT more startups that want to conquer a local market. And that probably helps a LOT more European entrepeneurs
Thinking Beyond IaC
Yeah, usage rating and billing systems get wildly complex. Especially when you start considering edge cases- beyond leap years and handling time zones, things like a billable event spanning days (run a few minutes just before midnight), etc.
The point I was making is that proportionally, funding an interstellar colony would be as easy for that civilization as things that are completely frivolous for us. I mean, it could be done by the equivalent of Kickstarter, and it wouldn't even be close.
> Musk derangement syndrome

Is that, I have no arguments so I call people names reply? There are so many of the posts using it like a 'I win ticket'

Its just a stupid Ad hominem attack.
I'm not trying to be obtuse, but at what point do the worker protections discourage employment? If I have to pay the huge employee fees associated with the EU, I may just go hire someone in Asia.
Been using Riza for the past few months at our startup for executing code generated by GPT4.

We use it for local dev, running prompt eval, and running code in prod.

- It was very fast to setup - it took us just a few minutes to execute our first function call.

- Multiple languages support - we use both JS and Python for code generated by LLM , Riza works great with both languages out of the box.

- No cold start - this is important because latency matters in our product.

- No infra management - even if we use AWS lambda or similar serverless product we felt like we still needed to a bunch of setup to make sure its fast + secure.

Congrats on launching!
'Time for them to perform due diligence and refactor their operations to take advantage of the new legal landscape to retain competitive pricing inorder for' all these small/mid sized businesses don't get gulped up by big tobacco or other mega corps.
yes, we have to trust it is done like that, as a standard.

i suppose an "evil admin" has a lot of other ways to harvest passwds, rather than one that is a major security problem.
My friend in Germany got that and had to pay a large fee to leave early to move to the US.
> And based on my experience in the US

Based on this post that experience isn't much.
Odd commentary given that returns of Bitcoin are phenomenal if you bought in most periods since 2018 except for the previous all time high.

> Why would anyone want to buy Bitcoin or own it unless they are hiding money for criminal purposes or dealing in the dark web.

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).
> I don’t want to do pure stats comparing
Starts with stats comparing
JS these days also has ways to iterate over codepoints and grapheme clusters. If you treat the string as an iterator, then its elements will be single-codepoint strings, on which you can call .codePointAt(0) to get the values. (The major JS engines can allegedly elide the allocations for this.) The codepoint count can be obtained most simply with [...string].length, or more efficiently by looping over the iterator manually.

The Intl.Segmenter API [0] can similarly yield iterable objects with all the grapheme clusters of a string. Also, the TextEncoder [1] and TextDecoder [2] APIs can be used to convert strings to and from UTF-8 byte arrays.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoder

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder
You buy the beer, you rent the glass and the barstool you sit at to consume it.
Europe needs its own tech megacorps. Their own OS, office suite, cloud provider, source control, social media, mobile devices, etc.

The creates the abundance of data required to win at AI.

Because Europe doesn't own its own data, they lack the data necessary to win in AI against others that do.

Creating a EU startup ecosystem without the megacorps is just feeding the American megacorps more because those startups will get acquired by the highest bidder.
Absolutely true, but I'm just pointing out that non-competes are not a major precursor for Europe's laggardness in innovation.

If all of the EU's innovation system is sclerotic compared to Illinois or MA or India where non-competes are vindictively enforced, then there is a major issue.
Maybe because Python is already in use by pretty much every company that makes money in this (and others) domain ? Some of what you mention looks like pebkac problems as well.
It worked without issue on Firefox 125.0.2 on Windows 10, but I have uMatrix installed and didn't allow anything beyond the defaults on the page.

Edit: Went back and tried allowing the firebaseio script, which added some blur to the top and the bottom of the page as well as some light blue elements to the background, but didn't otherwise noticeably affect performance. But it is possible those elements were added via some normally 3D accelerated operation that may not work on all browsers and be painfully slow when not accelerated.
In that case, maybe try: `_ACRNYM`
There's no need to ever listen to the BBC.
Oh no! Someone in a foreign country did not make any more effort than the author did to learn a foreign language! Not once, but twice! That's it, I'm never leaving San Francisco again.

And as for your snark, no, many French people do not speak English, and a fair number resent Americans going around like they own the place without making even a cursory attempt at being polite.
The site seems to use gradio (which from what I've experienced in the past is quite slow).

All those domains can be avoided just using an ad blocker, I suggest ublock origin.
I'm not sure what I need to wake up from and what this even is about. The Europe is good, the Europe is bad? I totally don't want to live in another US, because if I wanted, I would have went to the one already there across the ocean. I specifically don't want to work with US-funded venture backed companies and their bullshit, it's not sustainable in the long term.
Do you have a source for this claim? Many EVs I see on the road, especially performance ones, do not have recessed doorhandles.
The best luck I’ve had with SPA apps and a goal of manipulating the DOM is by using mutation observers. Worth exploring if you haven’t yet

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...

You can hack on the behavior via userscripts, my preferred way to alter websites, though I write extensions too (greasemoney is good tho)
Plasmo looks extremely useful. Have you used it to develop any extensions?
They also have a UI framework (fastui). They have funding and devs looking to be useful, I think it's fine that they get to try out new things that work well with their core product.
> The Eastern and Central European countries have always felt much more dynamic and open to work hard.

Yet as soon as they try to take advantage of their position (via e.g. tax breaks) they'll get punished (eg 15% corporate tax rate, what happened to Ireland, Cyprus). Not being a single economy truly prevents competition for capital. So old money stays put where it is , new money is not allowed.
I started using Arc ~1 year ago. I like it's model of tab management a lot, it's made using the browser much easier. Around ~2 months ago I thought maybe it was running slow and went back to Edge. Well, never really got a clear sense of if Arc was slow, but I missed it's tab management features so much, I had to switch back.

To summarize the Arc Tab Management Philosophy:

- 3 Groups: Pinned Tabs, Favorites Tabs, "Regular" Tabs

- Pinned tabs never go away

- Favorites are "sticky" to the original URL you saved them under. So you can navigate within that tab, but you can always click to get back to the original favorited URL.

- Regular tabs are auto-archived if not used in 24 hours.

And some other features:

- Vertical tab bar

- Command palette for searching/opening new tabs

- Folder structure for organizing favorite tabs.

- "Spaces" (like virtual desktops) which tbh I don't see much use from.

- Split tabs

- Some AI features they are pushing now. Don't really use these much either.

- Lots of integrations, eg, hover to see your GCal. They just pushed a new "live folder" feature that auto organizes all your open GH PRs. This is super useful.

All in all, I might actually pay for this if they make it subscription only. For me it's the difference between having 150 tabs open in Edge (many of them duplicates or one-offs) or 20-30 tabs open in Arc, and never thinking too much about tab management. All in all I think it points to the fact that the browser space is sorely under-optimized for power users. The #1 tool everyone uses day in and day out and most people just accept having 200 unmanageable chrome tabs open as the cost of doing business?
I think this is a fantastic suggestion. Having an EU-wide “Inc” will indeed allow standardized investment vehicles such as SAFEs which in turn makes a lot of very-early-stage investment much cheaper = much more attractive. The EU doesn't need to standardize the SAFEs or stuff like that - the market will take care of that once all startuppy businesses are the same kind of legal entity.
Im an American currently living in Europe (Germany). I’ve founded a few companies in the US. I have a project that’s going well, could easily turn into a startup, but I’m not sure I’d found it here—genuinely struggling with it.

The way companies fundraise here is a bit weird to me. Much smaller rounds. Also typically thinking smaller in general. Obviously, everything is very commercially focused. 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.

I can’t really think of a distinct advantage to starting a company in EU vs US if you have a US passport outside some minor niceties. My current thinking is operating on both continents is likely best, with GTM in US and engineering in EU. But not sure…
Thats because they refactored their economy during the debt crises.
European here. It normal that EU become the #4 economy in the world. There is nothing wrong with that. What wasn't normal was to see billions of people in poverty. I am happy to see India and China catch up. The best way to be #1 economy is to destroy others. We don't want to do that. Indian entrepreneurs are as ambitious as the growth of their economy. EU wants to focus on ecology and democracy and this impacts it's economy. There is nothing wrong with that.
Original author here (not ChatGPT):

My claim is that H&R Block would replace all their workers for more efficient AI if it was more profitable. Then they would re-invest that money in the most productive way they can – other companies, etc. This is the same strategy as Apple, Microsoft and other companies do with large amounts of cash.

I don't claim H&R Block would be directly creating new jobs. They would try to maximize profit by investing their profits and diversifying.
3 months notice tends to apply to people who have been there a hell of a long time. At least in the UK.

My notice period is 3 months. I've also got 2 months of long service leave built up so in effect it's 1 month (as I can just take the 2 months notice)

On the flip side if they make me redundant I get the best part of 18 months salary after paying taxes, and at least 5 months pay after they say its happening where I can look for another job.

But OK, UK shot itself in the head with Brexit. Ireland speaks english natively, has low taxes (especially corporate ones), is easy to incorporate there, so how does notice apply?

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/en...

> Employees who have been in continuous employment for at least 13 weeks are obliged to provide their employer with one week’s notice of termination of employment. If a greater amount of notice is specified in the employee’s contract of employment, then this notice must be given.

Oh no, a whole week!

> Ten to fifteen years: Six weeks

Of course your contract may be different, but there's no real legal impediment here.
India’s where offshoring from the us is. That maintains demand. India is also still industrializing. Expect India to look more like China - with similar economic pitfalls - in the next few decades. Some companies have already begun pulling from India because of costs and poor performance negating the labor savings. Some companies have figured this out and the non competes create a captive workforce but others are just wasting money trying to emulate.
Germany. I once had a 3 month notice to the end of the quarter. It's not like everyone gets these but they're also not super-exotic.
At https://chat.lmsys.org/

"gpt2-chatbot is currently unavailable. See our model evaluation policy here."
Do you have any non-space related books (non-series are ok)? Just curious :)