skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. The German government is painfully effective at digitalisation and it is becoming more painful every year. That being said, things are meaningfully moving since around 2 years in Berlin, even though the 2025 budget cuts digitalisation by around 25%.
Self promotion in comments is perfectly fine on HN, as long as the comment is on topic and informative---both of which are true here.
if their execs want to get arrested the moment they step out of China, sure
Noting that TekSavvy (and only TekSavvy) fought the block, I looked into being one of their customers again. It was a good experience in the last city I lived in, and I was a customer for a year in my current location.

They still lose on price by ~$30CAD monthly, but I could forgive that. Paying for objectively better customer support and an ethical ISP (even if just a reseller) is something I can work with. What really kills me is the upload topping out at 100Mbps (even with gigabit down), and that one I'm not willing to work around.
> Well if that's the problem, then maybe address that, perhaps by teaching people critical thinking skills?

We should do that, but reforming our education system will take years or decades. And in any event, any solution that requires everyone to learn or do something or act in a particular way is doomed to fail. Humans just don't work like that.

And even with robust critical thinking skills, people are still susceptible to psychological manipulation. That's never going to change.
> Even when it was available, you only got an allotment of it and had to figure out how to do everything you wanted within that allotment.

IIRC computing primes was a popular way to test hardware; it’s fairly easy to compare results between machines, and both having a faster CPU, more CPUs and having more memory (simple example: if you do trial division, you can keep a larger table of ‘small’ primes around to quickly weed out most integers)) will speed up computations.

It then sort-of became a marketing goal to beat your competitors, so cleverer and cleverer algorithms were developed.

Because of that, those records had less trouble with resource allotments.
I used Home Designer - https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/products/home-designer-... to draw a house we purchased (built in the 1970s) and the changes we intended to make during a remodel. The person reviewing my permit application was very impressed that I showed up with proper plans and not some kind of sketch done hastily on a napkin.

It definitely tries to think about walls, rooms, windows, floors as they are meant to be modeled. You can even get a materials estimate based on the properties of the wall.
Meanwhile anthropic >.>
The Chinese twist always seems a bit forced to me. I have been spied upon my entire life by American companies and by the American government. I do not live in America.

It’s weird to compare the potential threat of Chinese spying to the ongoing reality of American spying.
except the premise isn't true.
Sure, but I am perfectly fine with my own nation refusing to let other nations propagandize toward my fellow citizens. Especially when that other nation is a totalitarian dictatorship.

Whether or not we do that to other countries, and whether or not that's ok, is a completely different discussion.
I have yet to see a department of innovation to actually do anything. The only innovation I have seen in any organization has always been from the inside, never imposed. Not giving Musk e.g. Treasury to bully everyone with budgets clearly indicates this is only to flatter his ego, but effectively protect everyone else from him wielding actual power. I am happy US administration remains sane even in these trying times.

> wall of weaponization of the complexities of law, policy, regulation, process, and lore in defense of the status quo

I have yet to meet a veteran civil servant with whom I cannot establish rapport and prepare the groundwork for a project.

The key is to actually increase their agency without needlessly exposing them to risks they cannot mitigate.

Yeah, sometimes you run into egos and people who are used to huge bribes, but that just means marking them for dismissal when possible and adding their favorite sponsor to the delivery team temporarily.

And if all fails, they refuse to budge and insist on protecting the old, unusable, siloed system to protect their bribes? That's where you report to their boss with final word said by the cabinet member. And find another project for 4 years until the situation resolves itself. These people usually don't last long.

But when things go well, public servants can really rip through the red tape and make the project reality. It's just that they need to see the benefit.
The LVCC Loop is bi-directional – it has two tunnels, one for each direction. I'd say the main reason routing is less of an issue for the loop is not because it is "leisure" (strange phrasing, the LVCC Loop is also public transit) but because it is an underground tunnel, which is kinda the point – tunnels have significantly less issues with routing assuming you can get the digging cost to be much cheaper than status quo, which is the purpose of TBC (and so far I'd say they have demonstrated significant progress in this goal).

Definitely agree that a high-speed rail project and an electric car ferry tunnel project are not apples-to-apples comparable, my point is rather that even if you want to call TBC projects "boondoggles" (which again I struggle to see how that is the case even in isolation), the idea that you'd call them boondoggles in the presence of municipal infrastructure projects like CAHSR betrays incredible prejudice (or myopia) on the part of the author.
Looks like AI is already trashing the place, lol.
Self Confidence vs Self Awareness
I think you’re forgetting how fast tech moved in the 1990s, it wasn’t until 1999 that broadband was available in the 8th largest city in the US.

(I remember wanting to dumpster dive the CO because we got a letter from Southwestern Bell saying they were upgrading the equipment to 5ESS in late fall 1998)
I'm returning my 96GB m2 max. It can run unquantized llama 3.3 70B but tokens per second is slow as molasses and still I couldn't find any use for it, just kept going back to perplexity when I actually needed to find an answer to something.
(ok nodding to ERV and induction cooktops, but what is a japanese toilet and why are they better?

Haven't heard of them from grand-designs and those kind of youtubers)
3D game using DOM elements and Htmx
In my workflow I've integrated both ranger file manager and fzf as file pickers: fzf when I'm inside a git repo ('git ls-files | fzf' - but doesn't have to be this way), and ranger for elsewhere. Both ranger and fzf are amenable to being used for this purpose, so all it takes is a couple of lines of hand-rolled vimscript - no need to wait for a third party integration plugin to drop.
No, it's not clear, what he was "dismissed" for, he wasn't publicly condemned by the Ukrainian president. And "dismissed" means he was made Deputy Foreign Minister and half a year later assigned to the position of the ambassador to Brazil. In fact, in the news reports the Bandera remarks weren't mentioned at all or at best mentioned after the words "also coincided".

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had dismissed several of Kyiv's senior envoys abroad, including the country's outspoken ambassador to Germany.
Zelenskiy announced the sacking of Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary and said new candidates were being readied for the positions.
"This rotation is a normal part of diplomatic practice," he said in a statement.

The 46-year-old regularly engages in outspoken social media exchanges and has branded politicians and intellectuals who oppose arming Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion as appeasers.
He once accused German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of behaving like an "offended liver sausage" when Scholz did not immediately accept an invitation by Zelenskiy to visit Kyiv." [0]

"Melnyk was critical of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accusing him of having too many close Russian connections. He also became embroiled in a dispute with Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Steinmeier was told he was not wanted on a visit to Kyiv earlier in the war. When Scholz called Ukraine's snub of the German president unfortunate, Melnyk used a German idiom to imply that he was feigning insult and was overreacting to the situation.

Melnyk had defended himself in the past, when charged with being undiplomatic in his tone, by saying the time for unflinchingly deferential diplomacy had passed for a Ukraine fighting a defensive war for its survival as a state.

His departure from Berlin also coincided quite closely with comments of his defending wartime nationalist Ukrainian leader Stepan Bandera, who still divides opinion in Ukraine and abroad. " [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-sacks-ukraine...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/kyivs-ex-envoy-to-berlin-takes-deputy-...
I never eat crackers and I didn't even know that softness is what defines their staleness until now.
Could they not allow another TikTok variant to be made that doesn't have the problematic ties. (I'm no TikTok fan)
uv init; uv add requests and you automatically get environment that can be easily shared between team members with predictable locking, with no “source .venv/bin/activate” bullshit.
The US banning a foreign-owned service from operating on its soil (when that foreign country bans many US-based services from operating on their soil) is not a "planned economy". Please don't use low-effort, bad-faith arguments.
For those who want the data: https://t5k.org/lists/small/millions/

(Only useful if you have a large disk but not a fast CPU. As that page says “Usually it is faster to run a program on your own computer than to download them”)
What the Apollo Astronauts Did for Life Insurance
This is way cool. The ability to visualize the k8s object model as a graph and query it as such makes so much sense!
The hottest feature in my mind is applying this in an operator - maintaining state as defined by a simple graph query. It is much more readable, and does so with very little code.
Well Done!
This is a reflection more on Joe Biden’s morals or lack there of than on anything else.

He did this en masse clemency deal to divert attention from his nepotism, namely the Hunter Biden blanket pardon.
The results are only true for highly socialized and or normalized people, who become, by definition, uncritical and have low individual agency. A great many people have called them "the 'unthinking' majority" and hackers and engineers are rarely an exception to that rule.

The entire write up is a study in social engineering and how to keep people below _their_ or _an_ in-group maximum average. It's the curse of failing relationships, marriages and so on and a top of the list reason for why from the hippies to festival goers nobody notices that they are expandable factory farmed milking cows whose productivity and constructiveness tastes bad and damages the (social) brain & body. Be like us, dance like us, produce like us, feel like us, talk like us, ... ...
They probably trained it for this specific task (generating SVG images), right?
The stale old enterprise code is not in public repositories.
Line of sight over water is quite a long way, and pleasure vessels spend most of their time near the coast.
on what metric?

Why would OpenAI bother serving GPT4 if customers would be just as happy with a tiny 9B model?
UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
Three letters agencies
How much money a company makes should not matter. You get paid by how hard you are to replace and how important your task is to continued revenue.

You can make your company $1 billion a day, and save countless lives, but if you can be replaced easily, do you expect to get paid much?
No American will be censored if TikTok is banned. They will simply use (or go back to using) one of the many other non-TikTok alternatives to talk about the same things.

If TikTok were the only game in town, sure, banning it would be censorship. But that's not the case, by a long shot.
You're acting as if they're banning the Internet for U16, they're not, it's just social media (and not even YouTube, and probably not something like reddit either, at least for viewing).

How many things did you actually learn from Facebook? I'm guessing not a lot.

The problem with banning specific features etc is that it will most likely just leave giant loopholes and will be extremely hard to actually enforce.
>A better example would be that reciprocity would say that if China mistreated our civilians then we should mistreat theirs.

Good example, and thank god that is unconstitutional.

For example China can arrest American citizens in China without dual process. But we cannot arrest Chinese citizens, or anyone here in the U.S. and just put them to prison without dual process.

Americans in China have no freedom of speech. Should we ban Chinese citizens in the U.S. from speaking freely as well? Again, that is unconstitutional. U.S. constitution protects anyone within the U.S. not just U.S. citizens. Otherwise we can just send someone with a green card to jail without trial.

So your example only serves the counter-argument, which is that reciprocity is not something you should aim for when it comes to human rights.

> which is in turn used to spread CCP propaganda.

Since not even the U.S. government has been able to provide any such evidence, and have admitted that the threat is hypothetical, if you have any such evidence you should present it.
Recent quote I saw based on the life of the investigator who set up the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1850:

> If you tell a farmer you’re collecting signatures to cap the salaries of government employees, and you’re a smooth-talking confidence man, the farmer will sign almost anything, even the deed to his own land. This kind of swindle is called “the boodle game”.

which feels closer to what DOGE is doing than any real reform.
You are right that there are terrible issues in building (Grenfell being an obvious, terrible example).

But I'd say, in general, building is in a much better state. There are fairly standard rules, which are mostly followed, and most building stay standing, year after year, without the need for constant maintence. On the other hand, software is still really pre-fire of london (at best) in terms of quality and standards.
I guarantee you that this is not an uninformed comment. Exactly the opposite.

All I'll tell you is:

a) you're failing at stopping malicious internal actors you're simply fixing tick boxes

b) most school networks are a complete nightmare or worse laughable with next to no separation of resources (marking a drive as hidden on windows isn't secure)

c) maintaining an adult block isn't something to be proud of, there's services that do that for free at the perimeter they're called firewalls, deploy and forget, if that's not the case you are doing it wrong.

d) oh fudjing wow you wrote a script. This makes you a l33t sysadmin among your peers... Try taking to someone who deploys Linux at scale, this is Tuesday morning to them.

Stop blaming the teachers, and while we're at it, train them to not get fished by the smart kids...
Yes, it absolutely does mean that, in this case.

Sure, if finding and joining another platform was a difficult thing, that would be a problem. If no other platforms will host your speech, that's a problem. If your audience is significantly reduced in size, then that's a problem.

But none of that will be the case if TikTok is banned.
You'd typically go for an orchestrator like Airflow or Kestra, which gives you orchestration state.

This will enable you to run incremental batches or do structured backfilling.

Another option would be to use a data loading framework like dlt, which will also do the same but even more light weight (without the orchestration part, you write your batch flow logic in it).
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> In 2021, UNESCO concluded that the UK government had an obligation to return the marbles and called upon the UK government to open negotiations with Greece.

> Asked about the possible return of the Marbles, the British Culture Secretary, Michelle Donelan replied: "I can sympathise with some of the arguments but I do think that is a very dangerous and slippy road to embark down."

> ..Fulfilling all restitution claims would empty most of the world's great museums – this has also caused concerns among other European and American museums.
At root, this topic is about "misinformation". The topic is interesting as misinformation itself may be subject to misinformation! I'm sure most would agree that the topic is politicised at the very least.

One thing that we can look into at is just how effective misinformation really is. Another thing is to examine how we approach the topic. Do we see people around us as "the masses" that are easily brainwashed and influenced but ourselves as rational, free thinkers? What are the impacts of a culture that is growing to believe that its own people can be easily brain washed or that its people should be protected from harmful information.
>multitude of copy cat apps for their freedom of speech.

Except they can't. All of the other apps are under U.S. government control and have engaged in severe censorship on certain topics such as the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Even the politicians who voted for the bill have openly admitted that making Israel looking bad is the reason they are banning TikTok.

This ban effort regained momentum after October 7th, 2023: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tiktok-ban-israel-...
> What are the chances that language is older than we thought?

This find is about a script in an unknown language.

The question about how old spoken languages are is of course unrelated and can't be answered since it predates history ;-)
Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
In my experience 80% plus is quite common in the models sold for colder environments. E.g. Mitsubishi electric Lossnay advertises 86%.
> That's not annoying

People found it plenty annoying when NL was as car centric as the US is now.

In some potential future when everybody has an EV you might not be against banning ICEs from city centers either. The annoyance is now, the benefit comes later.
quite astonished to see very little counts of rally events, especially considering the history of spectators up against non-existing barriers.
Those are made up by a con man that went by the name Joseph Smith, but not even he claimed they were found in Georgia...
I'm not one for the US Politics but i distinctly remember this being a keystone Trump policy last time around.

Why would it change just a couple of years later?
I don't get why people keep asking for evidence of Chinese government-run influence campaigns on TikTok. It should be obvious that the Chinese government is using TikTok to influence the culture and politics of citizens of other countries. If they are not doing this, then they are wildly foolish and incompetent.
What’s so good about fresh air? Like I don’t want stinky stuffy air but as someone with central HVAC I had no issues with my indoor air. Are we trying to get outdoor smells? Or is it something else?
Yep. He's been a scumbag his entire political career, and it's only his association with Obama that seems to have masked that for a time, with a younger generation. He's an amoral shitbag.
>there will come a time in the not-too-distant future when today's technology will seem as quaint and primitive as what I have just described.

Will it? In a decade, man landing on the moon will be closer to the first flight by the Wright Brothers than it is to today.
Well, first off, the number of Federal employees hasn't changed much since the 1960s. It's payments to contractors which are more of a problem.

Second, only defense and entitlements really matter. Here's the top level breakdown of the Federal budget.[1]

Entitlements, such as Social Security, Medicare, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, account for about 65% of the budget. Defense, 14%.
Interest paid, 13%. Everything else, about 9%. Most of the noise about cuts focuses on that 9%, but that's not where the money goes. About half the federal budget goes to old people.

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
> Removing the platform entirely is not censorship. Especially when everyone will just shift to Instagram, Youtube etc.

It is, because politicians voted for the bill have openly admitted the Israel-Gaza content is what pushed them to vote for the ban. Instagram, YT, etc are under U.S. control and engage in sufficient self-censorship when it comes the Israel-Gaza conflict in order to make Israel look good.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tiktok-ban-israel-...
From Wikipedia: "The Standard Model of electroweak interactions has all the necessary ingredients for successful baryogenesis, although these interactions have never been observed[11] and may be insufficient to explain the total baryon number of the observed universe if the initial baryon number of the universe at the time of the Big Bang is zero." In other words, there is a process that can in in principle create more matter than antimatter, but it has not been observed experimentally yet.

I think other than this, there are no known ways to even create more antimatter than matter in a process. But it is believed that more processes must exist, in order to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in our universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_anomaly
I salute getting it right and not getting in a huff.

Some of the best sysadmins I've met are around academia because of the culture and they don't explode when being told their peers need to do better.
How hard it is to build North South transfer capacity? I mean intra-Sweden capacity. My understanding is that Finland can buy power from the north and then move it to south effectively... And we don't even produce that power...
This "draw pelican riding on bicycle" is quite deep if you think about it.

Phi is all about synthetic training and prompt -> svg -> render -> evaluate image -> feedback loop feels like ideal fit for synthetic learning.

You can push it quite far with stuff like basic 2d physics etc with plotting scene after N seconds or optics/rays, magnetic force etc.

SVG as LLM window to physical world.
Totally fair and balanced response. I'd much rather works have liked to work for him than for Apple. Of course they didn't do very well in the end but I like this respectful attitude.
Is paid software OK? Have you looked at Revit?