skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're ignoring start up successes within Europe. I suspect most complaining about this use Spotify - started in Sweden. Revolut is also very popular for people after a crypto-friendly bank. Monzo is credited with revolutionising bank accounts within the UK.

Afaik, until recently it was difficult to send money between two bank accounts in the US for free - hence the proliferation of "tech solutions" like Cash App and Venmo. That just isn't a thing in the UK, banks have supported free instant bank transfers for years. So, maybe just maybe - we have fewer startups because our systems aren't as crippled as the ones in the US?
Quantum computers are computable by classical computers. It's just a problem of exponential complexity.
Neither am I but evolution doesn’t seem inclined to engage in philosophical discussions
That's been my experience as well. Doesn't help me that much in Django where I am pretty familiar. It helps me loads in the frontend, where I am less familiar.
Of course he doesn't have a source for that
Arvind Gupta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Gupta) is a well-known science educator/toy inventor who teaches Science/Technology using low-cost/trash items.

His very popular TED talk titled Turning trash into toys for learning : https://www.ted.com/talks/arvind_gupta_turning_trash_into_to...

Videos/Photos at website : https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@arvindguptatoys

These are excellent for teaching/involving kids by doing. They are also very easy on the pocket and every kid can have his/her own complete set of items needed to build their toys.
Now just add another one and you have the conjoined triangles of success.
For us Europeans, this isn't a bug, it's a feature. There are bugs that we should fix, but this particular thing isn't one of them.

I work for an ex-EU (UK) startup, and I'm grateful for all the regulation. Yes, it means we innovate less, but we get to kill fewer people, which I really like.

Meanwhile, Teslas just run full-speed into barriers, and Tesla just goes "well, maybe you shouldn't have used our autopilot then, huh?".
Haven't traveled to Denmark recently, but always use Bolt and/or Uber when traveling in Europe - can't recall a place where it wasn't available (Portugal, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Italy all had them from the top of my head).
This reads like its a group advocating for exactly the wrong kind of deregulation that turns markets into basically unbreakable monopolys.

The EU directly opposes the growth model of the new-era tech startups (ruthless growth financed by investor money, take over competitors, market monopoly) and the regulations aim to keep markets at least a little bit competitive.

We (the EU) do not need or want this kind of deregulation.
>without consulting with specialists first

Why is there a need to have specialists just to interface with one's local government (or regional governments) in the first place? This is what I see as eu/acc's focus: You shouldn't be doing proverbial song and dances as a small to mid size company to appease cushy government employees with Annexure B.5 page 12 section 3 subsection 25 form D every time you want to change the wifi password.

Running lifestyle or smal to mid scale businesses, especially with knowledge work, is increasingly hindered by inflexible government admin in the first world. And yes, you can be a startup without wanting to be a unicorn.

It is possible to want to make money AND not have your soul drained in the process.
Heavily guarded fortress would indicate something of value inside, and the big crooks may spend a little more effort. In the age of AI, this becomes even easier.

{
"model" : "gpt-4-turbo",
"messages" : [
{
"role" : "system",
"content" : [ {
"type" : "text",
"text" : "return a json array of all valid emails found in the image."
} ]
},
{
"role" : "user",
"content" : [ {
"type" : "image_url",
"image_url" : {
"url" : "data:image/png;base64,{{ INSERT_BASE64_PNG_DATA }}"
}
} ]
} ],
"temperature" : 0.5,
"max_tokens" : 2048,
"top_p" : 1.0,
"frequency_penalty" : 0.0,
"presence_penalty" : 0.0
}

Edit: Converting web page to an image is trivial.
Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor. (2021)
The Great Flattening
Microsoft/MS-MARCO-Web-Search: A large-scale information-rich web dataset
You could also argue a lot of it is down to Russia doing it deliberately rather than the US accidentally. See eg https://www.aei.org/op-eds/russia-created-a-refugee-crisis-a...

The main waves of refugees I recall are Syrians, with Russia involved, Ukraine obviously caused by Russia and apparently their Wagner type proxies are merrily overthrowing governments in Africa and contributing to the Africans crossing in dinghies. I don't recall many waves of people from Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan.
If you’re living in a cave entrance a lifetime of exploration is very different than what we think of as spelunking. Add generations of kids to the mix and little is going to remain unknown and unexplored.

No need for spiritual explanations for something that mundane.
You are confusing suggestibility with the question of free will.
You can easily block network access for an app on Windows using Windows Firewall. Same on a few Android skins such as MIUI by Xiaomi
> Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perplexing how trends in the software industry can completely ignore what customers actually want.

I initially read this backwards and thought you were lamenting that people insist on on-prem stuff when cloud is clearly The Right Thing.

I certainly don't think the entire software industry is ignoring what customers actually want. Case in point, you. But also lots of other developers who thrive in covering the myriad use cases the myopic behemoths can't see. They just have very loud PR and marketing and pretend those cases don't exist, so you hear about them a lot.
That's not true for code which gets pre-compiled.

For interpreted (or JIT-compiled) code, then yes, by definition, the source needs to be distributed to end users in order to be executed.

For compiled code, only the resultant binary needs to be shared after compiling the source.
David Graeber argues much of that productivity has been sucked up by the managerial and administrative class. Any increase in productivity is offset by a new layer of middle management.

I think we can also make a Moore's law analogy here. As CPUs get faster we write slower code.
This is the essential principle behind Getting Things Done. If you’ve got to do something, and it takes more than 90 seconds, book time for it.

If you need someone else’s input, schedule a time to check in with them for their inputs if they don’t get back to you by X time.

Been using this for years and it has worked really well for me.
I find ChatGPT 4 is the best place to ask a question, then often use it's answer to find more in docs or stack overflow. It's basically a better search engine for certain coding tasks.
I wasn't overly impressed with ChatGPT 3.5 as it gave me wrong answers enough of the time that it cancelled out the amount of time it saved me.
> Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis.

It isn't. In some places yes, but not in Spain
The megascale entrenchment is needing a specialist consultant to navigate tax and compliance laws just for your company to exist, let alone operate, and especially operate in multiple EU jurisdictions.

EU OSS VAT is a great example of a program that simplifies these sorts of operations. eu/acc is clearly asking for more like that.
Really feel for these kids.
Ask HN: SaaS prcing. Why not charge the little guy?
I wonder why Saas pricing models do not often charge the little guy? I am not a business and I am not a team. I will not make the leap to business prices but I would put my hand in my pocket for more features (which are probably already there) as an individual.
Interesting idea...but could a crawler not just incorporate some AI like LLava2 or convert the SVG to a JPG and use OCR to get the email addresses out?

It just seems like this adds a couple of steps to existing crawler scripts.
*toxicants
Only me or does the link also refer to general blog index for others?

I can't see the post.
I feel like my original comment fully addresses your point, but I will restate here in a shorter form for your convenience: 1) bigger population means more chances a potential genius is born in the right circumstances 2) we can have a smaller population if everyone lives at western standards (and then genetics becomes the bottleneck)
I'm writing a lot about LLMs at the moment because they're the focus of much of my work.

I don't see that as a hype thing - in the past I've had other topics I've focused on, not because of hype but because those were the topics I was spending the most time with.
this works if you write it into the html on fullmoon tuesdays :

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I love the comments to this article. Time and again when such "EU is not friendly to business enough" stuff is posted to HN, Europeans come out and say they like it that way.

Thus I'm skeptical this article will change anything. Europeans have looked to America, and said no. (Or, gave up and moved there.)

EDIT: to be clear I think Europe should be the way Europeans like it.
Bad link? This just takes me to an article index listing
In the end, they hold the keys irrespective of how many algorithms they wrap on top.

I do not feel it is any different from Google Chat, Twitter DMs, etc. They do have a lot of censorship resistant and anti-MITM attack features in between, but they hold the keys by default

I use it for convenience and amazing features, not for security!
The core of the flaw in your proposition is the premise of making the determination based on external observation.

The actual question is this: do I have free will or not? Life presents us with choices. To paraphrase the prince of Denmark, 'Do I decide to do x or !x? That is the question'.

Related question is does I (distinct from Reality) even have a real existence?

In the 2 slit experiment, as long as the future state of the system is undecidable, we see light behave as waves. When the future of the system is constrained (by measure, which is a 'means of determination') does light behave like a particle.
These features keeps me solidly without ZFS:
0. Powercut zfs host : cannot import pool without destroy old and create new.
1. For case "0" need minimum 2nd zfs host while backup restore even slower.
2. Extrem slow meta-/data reads with aging, eg try tar any dir to /dev/null.
3. So stay working with other alternatives and have fun.
Here is the most important part

> The agency used egg inoculation tests to find out – the "gold standard for infectivity". These tests involve introducing the virus to an egg and incubating it there, to see if the virus reproduces.

> The tests came back negative, indicating that there was no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus in the pasteurised milk. "This demonstrated conclusively that standard pasteurisation inactivates influence when raw milk is processed," the agency concluded.
How easy/hard is it for someone in Europe to set up a company in Delaware and then pay themselves dividends to transfer the earnings into their personal income?

Would that shield them from all the European bureaucracy?

Or would their government say something like "Sorry, since you are here personally, we consider the company to be here as well"?
Was it ever save? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582480/
That listing of people seems pretty comprehensive. If that’s not the “whole world” it comes pretty close! And to be clear, us parents think that being “childfree” is shallow and selfish, like being one of those sovereign citizens who doesn’t want to pay taxes. It’s basically being the ultimate hipster—thinking of oneself as being too special for something hominids have been doing for millions of years.
The home page does somewhat assume that the reader knows what "Loom" is -- if I'm not already a Loom user, that's pretty much instructing me to go look at Loom first because it's obviously the market leader in whatever-it-does.

From context, I'm guessing it's not about textile manufacture?
And?

Does it succesfully refute it?

Or is the new study just another study with bad methodology that wont be replicating?

Or maybe the first one is?

Individual studies aren't worth considering, especially after they just came out. Call me when they have settled about it, 10+ years from now.
Matrix is a protocol, not an app, and it's still evolving rapidly.

Meanwhile, Element as an app is also evolving rapidly too. Totally agreed that the onboarding has been awful in the past, but we're plugging away improving it and trying to make it more glossy and less neckbeardy, as per https://element.io/labs/element-x etc.

The fact is that Discord has raised $1B+ to run a centralised unencrypted comms platform; meanwhile Element is doing something ~10x harder (decentralised & E2EE) with a tiny fraction of the $. It takes longer, but the difference is that Matrix should last indefinitely, whereas Discord will get Eloned sooner or later.

I wouldn't say we've lost yet, but ymmv. I do wish we'd progressed faster though.
This whole ‘e/acc’ meme is completely cringey.

Why does the EU need to accelerate it is fine as it is?

Accelerate what exactly? Everyone out of a job with AI?

No thanks.
I'm comparing two OSes and pointing out when one OS has issues there's a single source to point a finger at. When the other OS has just as many or similar issues there is no one to point a finger at. So if you total up the finger pointing, MS will appear to be doing worse than they are. Where as if you total up the issues instead of the blame, they're doing probably no worse than average, maybe better.

If we're talking services, it's similar. 100 companies, 50 using MS, 50 using random non-MS software. 10 breakins in each category. MS gets the finger pointed at them 10 times. 50 random non-MS companies each get the finger pointed at them just 1 out of 5. But both MS and Non-MS have the same amount of issues in this hypothetical example, but one looks worse, even if they're not.

In fact there could be 5 breakins with MS and 15 with non. But MS would have a finger pointed at them 5 times and 15 of the 50 random companies would each have a finger pointed at them only once. Yet, if you added up the numbers you'd be safer with MS (5 failures out of 50) instead of random non-MS (15 failures out of 50).

I'm not saying that's how it is. I'm saying it's plausible.
Kind of neat but I would rather just have a “throwaway” email if I was sharing globally.

In my case, I setup an email alias with a sieve rule (if email sent to alias move to “public inquiry” folder). Prior to processing rule, spam assassin takes care of the non technical folks that couldn’t be bothered to run their spam campaign through spam assassin testers. Or even nontechnical folks that wouldn’t know how to setup their domain for sending email (spf, dkim, dmarc, …)
Well, not one floor, but you could have bought 40 floors at 300k each.

Having said that, the other comments here make a fair point that you would have likely ended up paying an initial 300k and then an unknown sum in repairs and unpaid taxes for a floor with an unknown number of tenants with valid leases.
Can you tell me why we should make EU like the USA if we just can invest into the USA startups and reap the monetary benefits and once they figure out the good and the bad aspects of it, we can adopt it in a regulated manner? It's not like any tech by those "tech" companies didn't made it into Europe.

Sure, experimenting at scale it creates talent in these areas but it also disrupts public life. Let Europeans live like Europeans and Americans live like Americans. Not everyone needs to operate the same way.
I've been generally staying away from the whole "imagine what this stuff could do next!" side of the discourse.

My personal opinion there is that if all research froze today it would still take us years to figure out all of the potential use-cases and applications for the models we have access to right now, and how best to apply them.
WingetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers
These data do not have a control group of healthy similar tissue samples, thus are not falsifiable, and are not 100% scientifically valid.
Run it on an air gapped breadboard 8086?
did not know that German university students were at the forefront of the Nazi takeover, would you have any good sources on this to recommend?
Did they test it succesfully? Did they make some blunder? Did they misrepresented the importance of their results? Will it replicate? Does it apply to humans?

I wouldn't be bothered with putting much faith on any of the papers coming out, unless I was a researcher in that space. The dust is far from settled.
You should define “free will” if you want to claim you have direct experience of it. I’d suggest that what you’re experiencing may be just “will”.

And in my opinion, whether you’re “responsible for your actions” isn’t a question about the nature of reality (ontological), rather a question (or one of several) about how we should act in it (moral).
Not the OP but I’m going to guess that, like me, they prefer to render server side where possible, don’t like Handlebars or Pug etc and don’t want to get lost in the quagmire than it NextJS.

I use htmx for as much of my network requests and UI updating as possible as it’s faster to implement features, faster the render and easier to reason around than a SPA front end and JSON response backend - there’s a chance the OP is in a similar boat.

The downside to a JS SSR driven app is the backend templating situation isn’t as expressive as JSX and can feel a bit limiting.

Hopefully OP will chime in and correct of confirm my assumptions.
The average person has a higher IQ, true, but the problems we face also require a higher IQ (and higher specialisation) than in the past.

It might sound misanthropic, but the average person is average. Nothing wrong with it, morally or otherwise, but they won't be doing revolutionary work in specialist fields, they will be raising families and be happy.

Like I said in my original comment, we can get by with a smaller population with western levels standard of living, and then only be constrained by genetics.
So now it’s “In order to understand something, you need to Ask an LLM to code it"?
Absolutely. The basic tools just fetch sites recursively and use regular expressions. The advanced tools are Chromium-based, so will render SVGs just fine (and then potentially run OCR / AI to extract text even from JPEGs).

This technique protects from a "neither here nor there" subset of programs, I wonder how large is that set in practice.
Yeah, Schmidt and Andreessen represent the absolute worst of American VC hyper growth culture. They made their money in old models and lack any new ideas other than squeezing the stones of Google etc. Their model will not win the future. They are the ones dragging down the present.
Woke No More
Here's (probably) the correct link: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Cloud/T...
Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
You have no physical sensors that would allow you to "feel" events up there.
The argument for growth is ammunition against the kind of cosy deals that are everywhere in Europe, insulating established businesses from competitive pressure. Half the regulations out of the EU are an attempt to level the playing field so that inter-country competition can break up the kind of legalized corruption that forms when wealthy companies are politically connected, but there's a risk of regulatory capture too.

The opposite of growth isn't things staying the same. It's the rest of the world leaving you behind. Not being competitive means being exploited by those currently occupying the nodes of power and money.
90 seconds?? Is that negotiable? Because that sounds to me like a stupidly short time.
The Smartest Person In The World – Competitive maths/logic game
Why "feet"?
For small projects, there are community & non-profit options that don’t require self-hosting. Alternatively, if your tooling is actually decentralized, then you don’t need to become a massive host & a bedroom PC can ‘host’ a project.
They could sell the assets shutter the company as fire everyone for huge dividend. It’s more complicated than that.
I can confirm, I left my Catholic middle school as an atheist.
yep that's true, although AI compute modules do get significant benefit from low latency cache as well
this used to be a problem in the early 00s. I don’t think spam filtering was as good back then so protecting your public email from spam was necessary.

Also this was a time when mail boxes were often allocated 10-25 megabytes. So spam bots could easily flood your email.
Big difference between a fancy interpolation algorithm that compiles to 500 bytes and another that takes many more orders of magnitude of space because it also contains data used to add details from what it thinks other similar photographs have
It won't make sense cost wise though
European economies always have lived of long term, large scale technology companies. This is the case especially for Germany and France.

Germany especially does not want startups to exist, they want to have companies which are large and succeed over the long term. The employee protection laws in Germany (which are often praised on this site) make it extremely hard to run a startup without violating the law. E.g. if you want to employ someone you need to pay their healthcare and pension insurance. They can't work for more than 10 hours a day, no this doesn't mean you aren't allowed to compell them, you have to actually stop them if they wanted to. How do you build a product while figuring out that bureaucracy?

The European model will succeed if and only if those large corporations are actually able to innovate at the same pace as American or Chinese companies. Which currently looks very unlikely.
For me in Poland that was how religion classes looked like. Don't ask anything, as it's a sin or being "asshole".
I always wonder what happens to your skyscraper 50 or 100 years from now.

If I buy a house I own assets for the price of the house plus the price of the land on which it sits. If the house burns down I still own the land underneath.

But if I buy an apartment on a skyscraper and it is deemed uninhabitable all I end up with is the price of the land minus the price of demolishing a skyscrapper divided by the number of people living there. That doesn't sound like a good investment long-term.
Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing