skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course Microsoft et-al won't sit around with their disks in their hands watching their market cap get obliterated by Europeans moving to FOSS, so they'll wine and dine politicians, open an office here and there, offer generous kickbacks and discounts for volume purchases, bribe Ursula v.d. Leyen and have her delete her emails after doing deals under the table, you know, the usual EU drill, making the decisions to move to FOSS seem very expensive to the bean counters running the show compared to staying locked in to the Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc ecosystems, so I don't think such a transition will even happen EU wide besides a few small municipalities here and there.
That's e-voting and that was an absolute disaster.

This is E-id which we voted on not to have the private sector operate.

The current solution proposed are quite good, the biggest issue that remains is that currently the law is not clear who can require the ID and this should be tightened so I don't need to show my ID to use a pay toilet.
I would consider (sadly) Matsodon as an anti-example. As much as we all know the issues with “the algorithm”, people find real value in automatic curation that I suspect is best served by a centralized authority.
I think you meant US companies. The fine for Volkswagen was $20B+.
Microsoft has a high share in this area but enterprise security is generally a very competivite market. Microsoft may even move into #1 position as a fallout from this debacle becasue the market share between them and the #1 CS is very small (that does not mean people actually buy more Ms btw... if that needs to be said ;)

This is not neccesarily a good thing for MSFT as it will 100% trigger regulator rage in the EU.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/917405/worldwide-enterpr...
I don’t consider this being a bug. The big issue is: while they get the praise, they reject or pass on the blame to the employees.
Same with rust, there's the `select_nth_unstable` family on slices that will do this for you. It uses a more fancy pivot choosing algorithm but will fall back to median-of-medians if it detects it's taking too long
Generally these newer elements themselves aren't directly applicable to day to day objects or tools given the difficulty in creating even individual atoms and the short life of said atoms. It's almost completely about advancing the general atomic and subatomic understanding by pressing at the edges.
ah thanks for the context
I believe the competition started with Deno. But yes, Bun is part of the competition now, too.
or capacitorjs
> I always want to see a page with the product details and price before I click "buy".

This is doubly true ever since they let shady sellers/scammers run free on their platform. I trust AliExpress more than I trust Amazon for any product that isn't explicitly "Sold by Amazon".
As opposed to now, when non-executives and non-shareholders are left out of the equation...
Except you know that isn't the case on HN because we still have a good standard of conversation and respect
Well if you don't allow the traditional company governance and everything must be a cooperative - then these employees cannot choose a traditional company governance.

But my comment really was about restricting the choice of a potential employee - someone who has not yet decided what company to join.
It didn't just crash, it crashed 100% of computers running it at that time and in a way that required physical intervention to fix. So I think you can considers this quite different from regular crashes because recovery is much more difficult and because it affected a lot of computers simultaneously.

On top of that there are companies that had failures of their own in their recovery procedures. But even with good procedures this can be a significant outage because it is not trivially reverted and would typically affect many configurations that are redundant for many other failures.
I think I read some compromise position years ago where the workers didnt just own the business, but the business would issue new bonds/shares every year based on effort put in.

The problem with traditional worker owned businesses is that you assume that being a shareholder would incentivize work, but it turns often enough into a race for the least effort while still getting paid. A classic coop failure mode.

If share of profit is proportional to effort every 12 months you eliminate that.

That said, I cbf reading the article. Sorry but at least I am honest.
> Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative" search engines.

That's a symptom of the issue, not a solution. Bing is used because having your own crawler is infeasible, partially because you will be literally blocked in many cases.
When we went to war against someone using our name in a recruitement scam, by the time they moved on, it seemed like they were up 5x on what it costs them in domains.

It's all heavily automated, and I suspect there's some credit card fraud involved too. I also reckon there's a few unscrupulous registrars that are helping them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_transducer

https://medium.com/fetch-ai/classical-roots-of-ai-unpacking-....
> we use metric system and his response was “but don’t you learn *the standard* system in ache school?” I did not know, how to respond

It’s just a difference in travel and seniority. If you aren’t talking across continents there is no need to speak two languages.
I’ve had a lot of success combining JSDoc JS with .d.ts files. It’s kind of a Frankenstein philosophically (one half using TS and one half not) but the actual experience is great: still a very robust type system but no transpiling required.

In a world where ES modules are natively supported everywhere it’s a joy to have a project “just work” with zero build steps. It’s not worth it in a large project where you’re already using five other plugins in your build script anyway but for small projects it’s a breath of fresh air.
This all be quite dated in 10-20 years now. Common information will be free as it was in the 90s, but valuable information will then probably cost even more. And 99.9% times illegal to obtain or possess.
> We're into late stage capitalism and you're telling me the world was experimenting with making employees lives better?

They're repeating propaganda about communism and socialism.

It's tiresome, really, the degree to which Americans have bought the propaganda that countries like the Soviet Union themselves spread, that they were communist, when in fact they were authoritarian dictatorships with a few very-badly-thought-out planned-economy features.
The way I see it--and I mean this in a non-pejorative way--Apple as a company has autism. Google has ADHD.

Apple Maps launched in 2012. That's 12 years that Apple has been plugging away at this. I think we've seen just how much effort is required to catch up to Google Maps. Google actually does a ton to clean up and integrate data from different sources. It adds up.

Apple sticks with things they start for the most part (Ping anyone?). Apple Pay is the poster child for this. Every week there's an announcement where some bank in Estonia has been added. They've slowly built out an ecosystem.

That's what I mean by autism.

Google OTOH has ADHD. If something doesn't immediately work, they lose interest and it gets cancelled. They've reached a point where doing anything requires commitment.

Most of Google's successful products are acquisitions. Android, Maps, Docs, Youtube are obvious examples. Exceptions include search (obviously), Chrome and Gmail.

There are areas where it's almost a joke how many variants of a product have existed and been shuttered over the years. Payments and messaging springs to mind.

Apparently Apple has decided that Maps is core to their business and they've stuck to it. I don't disagree. Good for them. Still, not supporting Firefox? Hopefully that's temporary.
In theory?

Probably yes.

In practice, and at the behest of "AI titans" - who have NO at-scale experience with economic policy or political leadership?

Zero chance in hell.
> not unusual in the US to assume the US are the only planet in the universe

This is true for every large culture.
Reading the blog linked in TFA, in this case the requirement applies just to software developed by the Swiss government (or on their behalf by a contractor), not to all software in general.
> But actually to have any employees companies need to optimize for workers lives anyway. And it seems that cooperatives are not any better in this area - otherwise everybody would work for cooperatives.

There's much more at play than just "cooperatives are not any better". Cooperatives don't get as much funding from investors because investors won't be owning a larger share of them, and taking their returns, they instead invest in a traditional company because then they can extract as much as possible from their investments.

That by itself already puts small scale cooperatives at a competitive disadvantage, you can't raise as much capital as the non-cooperative startup, even if their product could be better and their employers could be happier the lavishly monied startup will try to outcompete them by throwing money away until they get a larger share of the market.

If somehow this situation was improved where cooperatives are not immediately disadvantaged from an earlier stage we could see more of them popping up, right now there's not nearly enough cooperatives for this comparison to be possible, simply because they get extinguished by others with more capital.
You're right this is HN not 4chan, because none of the things you said have actually happened here and people can easily have good respectful debate. It feels like you're attempting to use this as a way to silence debate around the country of origin rather than anything else
Our Fleet (Ryanair)
Sharing here because I found it interesting that Ryanair, the biggest low cost in Europe, seems willing to double down on the 737-MAX. It reads

> By 2034 we will receive a further 300 new Boeing 737- MAX 10 aircraft
Although there seems no reason apart from health and safety that you couldn't try it in humans. That they can bypass the blood brain barrier is interesting.
> In the end, I really think Nix and NixOS are very strong tools for achieving reliable and reproducible system configurations and package management. Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS.

This largely reflects my experience with NixOS as well. I installed it for a few months on my laptop (on two separate occasions) and there are parts of the OS I love. Being able to simply define your packages and user setup in a single configuration file is incredible, and even now if I wanted to switch back to Nix, I could dig up my configuration.nix and pick up where I left off. Gone too are the piles of mysterious packages installed on my system but I can't recall why they're there or if I still need them.

Unfortunately, once you start stepping off the beaten path, Nix often became a source of frustration. If there's a well working package available in its repositories, great. If not I found creating my own Nix packages to be an experience of arcane incantations, even for the simplest things. Compare this to writing Arch AUR PKGBUILDs, which are simple, glorified shell scripts, and it quickly led to me growing frustrated with the OS.

I think what eventually did me in was trying to get Neovim LSPs installed correctly. For some reason I never really understood, where ever my Nvim plugin was installing them was certainly not where Nix wanted them, and I never resolved the issue. Things like this eventually drove me back to the comforts of Arch, although every once in a while I look back over and wonder what could've been. I think it's the only distro I've tried in recent years that really tempted me to switch permanently.

The ideas of NixOS are fascinating, and I really think it can create a new paradigm in the Linux space. However, I'm unsure whether it'll be Nix itself that really gets there.
Theoretically TS could… until it encounters an ‘any’ type in that code path, then it would have to give up.

But there are TSconfig options to ensure no use of any so with the right level of strictness it could happen.
Why not just create a new public repo and copy all of the source code that you want to it?
Does swc-node work with code coverage calculation libraries? For a long time tsx didn’t (and it’s still pretty finicky) so that kept me from using it.
I don’t think I’d call netlink awesome. Ever had to program with it?
Nice to see a fellow Kraftwerk fan.
But you can create one? If many people wanted to join a cooperative - then it should be easy to do?
Well, for one, their chat markup language (i.e. what they used for chat/instruction tuning). But they closed the source on that last year, so we don't know what it looks like anymore. I doubt it changed much though. Also, when you work with their models a lot for e.g. document processing, you'll find that markdown tends to work better in the context than, say, html. I've heard similar observations from people at other companies.
For those, who don't know, Topics API is a browser API that allows one website to save user's interest in a browser and then another site can retrieve this data. So basically browser helps websites to collect and store information about you and your interests.

It is difficult to understand why browser should help advertisers collect data rather than protect users from them. I hope Firefox won't support it.
Seems like it wasn't so terrible. Munich has still decided that "Where it is technologically and financially possible", the city will emphasize use on open standards and free open-source licensed software. Which seems reasonable.

from [1]:

In 2018, journalistic group Investigate Europe released a video documentary via German public television network ARD that claimed that the majority of city workers were satisfied with the operating system, with council members insinuating that the reversal was a personally motivated decision by lord mayor Dieter Reiter. Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Literally just received some .top spam last night, nothing new there but curiously it was addressed to the mailing list for all students in my department.
Very sparse content too: Just a t.co link shortener address, which resolved to a .top domain (interestingly with an invalid https cert instead of going just with http). It was sent from an obviously compromised gmail address. Fellow students in other mailing lists got other shorteners with other domains, all resolving to the same russian ip address. Thats as far as I investigated.
If the uptime of 100% of your computers depends on a single vendor not writing software with bugs in it, you have a problem.
I think the real shock here is to see that MongoDB is still #5
> What if a third party non-open source product does something that FOSS can’t do or is dramatically behind on?

That's almost the best side effect: in a place where open source is mandatory, they will have to fund the missing features and it will be available to everyone, once and for all. If everyone does that, we rapidly get great software, sharing the costs, very efficiently, and it's all open source.

The alternative being everyone paying their own little license on their side ad vitam eternam.
It’s worse than that. These systems can be adapted by looking at failed user commands, but people don’t really sit around trying out fun things and watch it fall on its face for longer than the first day or so. After that, the novelty wears off, so you’ve trained your users to accept the device’s limitations. Then, even when you do improve the functionality, your users won’t know! They won’t try it, and those commands will never get traction in the system or get more testing beyond the initial launch criteria. It’s a death spiral. The same thing happens with the tone of voice people use.
> for a duration of about 1 hour

Not even remotely correct.

Most computers that were affected by the fault needed physical remediation via safe mode boot to fix the issue because they were not able to download a fix because of being stuck in a reboot loop. The understanding is that for most cases, the fix needed to be applied by an IT technician dispatched to physically access the computer.

A week or 168 hours later, there are still many, many computers out there that remain bricked by this fault because it is so heinously difficult to fix.
> Just look at the recent Boeing incident where people were killed, the company clearly misled the US authorities and settled only a $0.5B fine.

The problem is when you fine a company, they will just turn around and offload that cost to their customers. Which in this case is the US government in a very large way. Boeing will make their part in the SLS a few billion more expensive again to offset it and even gain some profit. The US government are just fining themselves.

Fines just aren't an effective deterrent for companies. They should go back to imposing personal sentences on their leadership. But this is really unpopular because these guys are so well connected. So basically nothing is done and everyone goes free.
How to Review Code Effectively
Did they stop letting developers build skills or restrict it somehow?

A friend of mine used to be very into that but he seemed to sour on the experience last time I talked to him.
See the sentence I wrote just after that one.
EU is on the same path. Actually even worse with over-the-top ecological requirements. Making it harded for local businesses, while making trade deals with iffy countries left and right. For now it's rolling on selling assets to China or US. But obviously that's not sustainable long term. Either we need to protect our internal market and tax the crap out of imports, or the party will be over.
Beta version supports Mac, iPad or Windows.

So you cannot view maps from Safari browser on iPhone.

I am curious what they use that Firefox is not supported…
the full headline (at this time at least) is more nuanced than seen here in hn: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent.
Where does inflation come from?

It is in fact the deliberate increase in the money supply in order to match the growth in economic activity. The purpose is to keep prices from spiraling out of control (same money, more things to spend it on, prices would go up).

Any discussion embedded in the current economic system is moot, IMHO. We need to radically change the system to meet our future needs. Growth (involving materials/energy, etc) cannot go on forever, it's a mathematical impossibility, but the current financial/economic system requires that it does.
Could the video feed be recorded from the 911 side and be admissible in court?
Well, yes and no. The law (which went into effect 2023 BTW) still has a lot of loopholes, e.g.:

> The federal authorities subject to this Act shall disclose the source code of software that they develop or have developed for the performance of their duties, unless the rights of third parties or security-related reasons would preclude or restrict this.

"unless the rights of third parties [...] would preclude or restrict this" pretty much says it all.
Generating Sudokus is a fond area of computing for me. Great job; the website is very thorough and readable.

Many years ago I wrote a Sudoku generator in C++ that was based on Knuth’s “dancing links” algorithm. It then analyzed the generated puzzle in terms of what techniques were necessary to solve it, and ranked them accordingly.

Perhaps there is still something useful in there: https://github.com/stlab/adobe_source_libraries/tree/main/te...
Won one at a work raffle. Only reason I have one. Good for timers, weather checking, Amazon notifications like package deliveries, and some quiz games are decently engaging while you wait for food to sauté.
Binders has been in mainline kernel for years, and some projects ended up using it, if only to emulate android environment - both anbox and its AFAIK successor Waydroid use native kernel binder to operate.

You can of course build your own use (depending on what exactly you want to do, you might end up writing your own userland instead of using androids)
Bunch of desktop distros include it to run anbox/waydroid
> Your current browser isn't supported

From the "Supported Browsers" section, they only seem to support macOS and Windows. Somehow I suspect that this is overzealous User-Agent sniffing.
That would mean that you always need a fully redundant copy of everything based on entirely different OSes and software with no common component. That is obviously not realistic.
Yet Another Neovim Setup Guide – 2024 Edition
That might be what their proponents intend them to be for, but the extent to which they actually achieve their goals -- especially goals at odds with the manifest intentions of the actual market participants, including workers themselves -- is another story entirely.

If reality works one way, but aspirational idealists are trying to "ensure" that it works in some other way, then their attempts will falter. Many regulatory interventions are at best performative rituals that measure their success in terms of creating the appearance that something is being done, with the question of whether what is being done actually resolves the actual problem (if there is one) barely being considered. In the worst case, these performative interventions create harmful unintended consequences at the same time, leading to them being a net negative.

It's worth noting, also, that nothing other than "actual humans" are involved in any aspect of this. There are no non-human "entities" in existence that have autonomous agency and participate in economic exchange. Every question here is about interactions among humans, and the organizational models that humans use to coordinate their activities are not separate "entities" with independent intentions.
> The one exception is "search" queries - "how tall is Everest" and so on, but that only really works well on Google's platform because they've done all the work for that already.

Had a small Google Assistant thingy for years, and that search stuff works great, until it doesn't, and completely misses the mark. This immediately kills trust and reduces it to a gadget that I will only use for non-critical stuff, always expecting it to break anyway.
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring Auth Engineers (Fully Remote)
1. A larger, wealthier, cohesive consumer market sharing language, and culture.

2. A business-first, citizens-second approach to society.

3. Wealthier, and less risk-averse investors (ties back to point 2.).

Simply put, very different societies (even more considering Europe is not at all a homogeneous block), with different priorities, both extremely wealthy by global standards.

The question is more: which model is more sustainable as a society in the long-run, that play is still ongoing and we might not have a clear answer for the next 30-50 years.
I don't see this as a problem, at least not more than it already is even with proprietary software. Remember that announcement from just a few years ago that Japan will finally move away from using floppy disks as the official way to exchange data with some authorities? Or stories about government offices somewhere struggling to move away from windows 7?

I really don't see how it even still matters today. Even a Libre office from 5 years ago should have plenty features for the average tasks an office clerk needs to do. Heck probably even MS Word 97 would suffice. The rest is often specialized software written by contractors, so "make it OSS" will just be a new requirement.