skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sample "papers" produced by the LLM are at https://github.com/velikov-mihail/AI-Powered-Scholarship.
Germany provides about the same contribution to EU GDP as California and Texas do to the US.

The top 8/51 states(+dc) generate 50% of US GDP, the top 3/27 EU generate EU.

The bottom half of EU states generate just 9% of EU GDP, but then the bottom half of US states generate 14%
In principle I would be interested in such a service, but the service as presented on the Web-site looks very unprofessional to me. No adress, no person responsible, no email contact, no details whatsoever (only bullet point key words), no EU Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), no list of countries available for your "tax compliance solution", no details on payout methods, etc., etc., etc.
> Can it solve easy problems yet? Weirdly, I think that's an important milestone.

Easy for who? Some problems are better solved in one way compared to another.

In the case of counting letters and such, it is not a easy problem, because of how the LLM tokenizes their input/outputs. On the other hand, it's really simple problem for any programming/scripting language, or humans.

And then you have problems like "5142352 * 51234" which is trivial problems for any basic calculator, but very hard for a human or a LLM.

Or "problems" like "Make a list of all the cities that had celebrity from there who knows how to program in Fortan", would be a "easy" problem for a LLM, but pretty much a hard problem anything else than Wikidata, assuming both LLM/Wikidata have data about it in their datasets.

> I suspect the breakthrough won't be trivial that enables solving trivial questions.

So with what I wrote above in mind, LLMs already solve trivial problems, assuming you think about the capabilities of the LLM. Of course, if you meant "trivial for humans", I'll expect the answer to always remain "No", because things like "Standing up" is trivial for humans, but it'll never be trivial for a LLM, it doesn't have any legs!
Yeah that's what I've done!
It doesn't take 30 seconds either.
They're just kept on the list of all people not on a list.
Google Favicons cache? Like this `https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=${domain}&sz=128`;
The quiet rebellion of a little life
It’s worth pointing out that the “Agile” philosophy is literally 4-5 lines long:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

> Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

> Responding to change over following a plan

> That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

The thing I think everyone has grown to universally despise is the cargo cult of “Scrum” that got bolted onto that.
At least Hunter Biden won't be our Ambassador to France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
I also want to add in the context of human sprinters & F1 drivers, their reaction time is measured via leg actuation, which for a creature evolved to be an object-throwing endurance hunter is going to have worse neural & muscular latency than, say, your forearm. That is why using your finger to trigger a response in a conventional computer time tester can get such high speeds, cause we're essentially evolved for it.
>a joke about a pelican and

Tell me you're simonw without telling me you're simonw...
While legislation restricting innovation is a problem, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, all have the same bigger problem of expecting smaller and smaller working populations to support bigger and bigger non working populations.

In the long term, the level of wealth transfer in these countries is not sustainable, and each year it incentivizes those who produce to seek greener pastures where they get more rewards.

Look at these population histograms:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2024/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/germany/2024/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/france/2024/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2024/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/spain/2024/
I'm literally responding to a comparison.
> "Scrum master" who explicitly stated that one of his jobs was to see what approaches work and change what doesn't work for the team.

Ironically, if I were to give one-sentence summary of what the idea behind Agile is, it would be exactly that: "see what approaches work and change what doesn't work for the team". Running through that feedback loop rapidly is the whole point of Agile, and the one thing that actually distinguishes it from typical management methods at the time (as opposed to silly comparisons with "waterfall" boogeyman that never even existed).

Everything else is process - the thing that's supposed to be sculpted. Focusing on that is committing the sin explicitly called out in the Manifesto - putting process over people.
You sorta just made the point I'm trying to make here.

How the heck, does your 11-year old, verify? Do they turn to you, who already has the necessary background? The AI generated information cannot be verified by someone who cannot already do, what it does.
Choosing your break isn't an interruption. An unexpected, external tangent is.
Yep, it's a national strategy.
As I understand the UK nuclear deterrence is highly dependable on the US, unlike the french.
Trump won't impose tariffs on Canada, other countries right away: reports
> it's a revision of history to claim that it wasn't or that most people abandoned it in 2010.

Whether this is true or not depends a lot on the social circle you are talking about. I am aware of quite a lot of people who abandoned Twitter after it became more closed with respect to the API, but I am also aware of quite a lot of people who nevertheless did stay.
It’s not a subsidy, but a hold back from taxation. It’s usually in these country’s national security interests, let alone environmental interest, to push away from gas and oil given that they are often imported from hostile nations. America doesn’t really have that same problem, but Denmark and China do.
It's actually great if the end result is that the incumbent with infinite money that has unrealistic aspirations of capturing a huge section of the sector lights all the money on fire. It's what happened with Magic Leap - and I think everyone can agree that the house of Saud tossing their money into a brilliant blaze like that is probably better than anything else they would have wanted to do with that money. And if we get some modest movements forward in that technical space because of that, all the better. Sometimes capitalism can be great, because it funnels all the greed into some hubris project like this and all the people that are purely motivated by greed can go spin their wheels off in the corner and minimize the damage they do. And then some little startup like Deepseek can come along and do 90% of the job for 1% of the money
very nicely done! smallest nitpick in the world but "comprehensive" and "linux" kinda sorta implies I could read at least a blurb about epoll and io_uwrong or whatever its called lol
That's not ordered by the SIM but by the packet-core network policies set by both parties.
The deeper under the Earth's surface, the more species you can find
PEP 723 looks great! I'll give Paper a try one of these days.
Your comment isn't funny, just snarky. I suggest you read again HN guidelines and do some reflection yourself.

Also, if you see it as insult, that's your mistake. It is just a simple empirical observation. I'm not saying it's an original thought - feel free to Google more about this topic.

I won't waste any more time since you obviously aren't interested in discussion.
> Trying to bring skilled labour into the UK, or trying to get residence as an apparently useful and self-sufficient person, is actually quite difficult, so I'm not sure how all the low-skilled labour ends up here, other than large agencies in areas (social care, farm work) with known skill shortages.. being large agencies, the bureaucratic overhead isn't too bad for them, whereas for an individual or small company, it's more trouble than it's worth.

Most of the skilled labour that I've encountered in the UK from immigration was Indians etc. that Accenture brought over. It is a gold ticket for the Indian developers and it is cheaper than paying people like me. So they do the same thing from the most skilled to the least skilled if the company is large enough.

> There's no way you can just bring a cleaner over from abroad because you want someone to clean your house/office.

I wasn't claiming to. I was saying that I know roughly what the costs are.

> As to shouldn't be happening. Yes. But as for so many other things in the UK and its gradual slide towards a low-trust society. So it becomes a case of figuring out which battles to pick, which ones are genuinely impacting peoples' day to day. And I think collectively (not particularly a left vs right thing), the country has forgotten how to prioritise that.

This feels like a false dichotomy. Many things can be done quickly if the bureaucracy wills it. The fact is that they don't.
Hey! Yeah, I figured out how to turn off my content gate last night soon after their comment. Was never my intention to force people to put in their email who didn’t want to and I love seeing a healthy discussion around the content of the article and not just the headline. That gate is on by default on my newsletter platform so I didn’t think much of it when I originally submitted the link but totally understand why some folks were frustrated.
> and now you're treating an invasion of the Netherlands as credible?

It is as credible as it gets. The explicit threat is in the American Service-Members' Protection Act and it was signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 2, 2002.

Which part of this do you feel is propaganda?
You start off sounding like you're arguing against the idea that the EU exerts more control over media than the US, but then most of what you said seems to support the fact that they do so.

Am I misreading what your intent?
In some shops this is solved by staggering scheduling so people work on several projects. Some aspects of HW can be simulated (think analog with SPICE-likes, or logic level like the chip designers and FPGA users do) so this reduce the need to iterate every time in hardware.

A lot of the iteration work can also be done on the board you received. You don't have to wait for your new board to see if those additional decoupling capacitors will do something, you add them on your current board by hand... You would be amazed at how far rewiring can go, sometimes entire BGAs are removed, installed dead-bug style and each pin wired by hand.
It's not really anything to do with eSIM. If you used a physical SIM from the same carrier with the same settings, you'd have the same experience.

When connecting via a cellular data network, all data will be routed via your carrier's Access Point Name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Point_Name).

Most carriers only have servers in their home region capable of handling the traffic. It is possible to have regional servers for this, but most carriers don't bother with the expense. Roaming data is usually expensive or restricted in usage - so there's traditionally been very little demand for higher speed connectivity.

Travel eSIMs are usually just a regular SIM with a very limited plan from a carrier that has favourable roaming deals.
Set UK/EU tech salaries at maybe 30%-50% of US, and factor in higher taxes. Then integrate over 40 years, resulting in a number from which investments can be drawn. Add to the corresponding US number all the profitable exits from previous ventures. There's just so much more US investment capital available.

It can be argued that a responsibility falls on EU equity companies, pension funds, and so on, but they do not make seed investments.
That's a great idea. In the earlier days when they had about 2500 satellites in LEO I built a small visualizer from the fleet TLE data and it was remarkably simple with the skyfield library.

If you're in the fringes of a GNSS denial area ADSB might be useful as well. Would need more hardware of course.
The web as an app platform form was primarily pushed by Netscape to circumvent Microsoft’s monopoly. Sun tried the same with Java. Both of these efforts led directly to every problem the author is complaining about. There was no utopia. The world went from an expensive monopoly under IBM to an expensive monopoly under WinTel to an expensive duopoly under Microsoft and Apple.

If people dislike exploitative SaaS and content platforms, stop using them. No one is forcing anyone. Plenty of people use home servers and Linux. Go for it. There are also tools like Chris Titus’s UWU to make Windows more tolerable, and MS still sells an office suite that can be installed locally. You don’t even have to “sign in” with it, though you can.

I’ve lived through several distinct eras of computing. This one may not be the most exciting, but it’s by far the best. You can use SaaS or locally installed stuff, and emulators (both hardware and software) exist to keep the older stuff alive. Even better, I don’t have to panic save every 5 seconds, reboot my computer every hour, and my computer can come with me. I don’t get disconnected when someone places a call, and while some software is expensive, it’s cheaper than it used to be when inflation adjusted.

Go fire up an Apple II, an H89, a TRS-80, or a PET without any modern supplementation and tell me that those are preferable. You may groan about Google, but go back to purchasing tons of manuals that may or may not be specific to your machine, read through them only to find no answer and proceed to play detective for a few weeks. How much more productive is your time with a dang search engine?
> Transitioning to eSim-only could enslave us even further, as if Windows 11 secure boot shenanigans were not enough

How are eSIMs "enslaving" people? Or for that matter, Windows 11 secure boot? There's plenty to complain about in Windows 11 from a privacy perspective, but secure boot is your problem?
Russia is in Europe and has a lot of nukes.
The fact that ads work doesn't mean that they're beneficial to the economy.

I disagree with the premise that non-human entities are entitled to my attention.
Deepseek is well known to have ripped off OpenAI APIs extensively in post training, embarrassingly so that it sometimes calls itself “As a model made by OpenAI”.

At least don’t use the hosted version unless you want your data to go to China
there is a bit of sarcasm in there, but most server and desktop machines stay on all the time. Amortized over 1000 days of uptime, that 30 second boot time is not worth messing with.
The phrase is not a defense of some hyper relative worldview. It’s commentary that the perception of the many facts, which of those are highlighted, which are ignored, which biases shine through and which narrative wins, etc., at the end of the day, is the reality you must deal with. Reality is downstream of facts.
We are in fact better than them just as we're better than any UAE royalty.
Fun fact:

The SR-71 and U2 planes had automated celestial navigation systems b/c GPS wasn't around when they came out.

There a story in the book about Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works where they mention turning on the system while one of the planes was in the hangar and it locked on to a hole in the roof (sun was shining through the hole and system thought it was a start).
IMHO the article is trying to elevate the importance of philosophy in AI development and success, but its arguments are weak, and the examples are too generic.
I wish the article was more rigorous and less verbose. While philosophy and AI clearly have significant overlaps, this article does little to strengthen the case for their synergy.
That’s not what the saying means, obviously -_-
The Lightcone Infrastructure forum stack. I don't know why it has an assistant.
I expected to use an eSIM when I went abroad for a month last year. It turned out the providers offering "travel eSIM" are 2 to 4 times more expensive compared to buying a prepaid physical sim at the counter valid for 30 days.
do you primarily write rust, or js?
It's like 2016, all over again.
Inflation is a given, but one can increase faster than the other. Electricity can be generated in many different ways, so has flexibility, while natural gas must be piped in.
Another move that seems at a glance to foster innovation, not remove it. Just like having a common standard like PCI helped innovation in desktop computers, making sure companies use a standard charging connection could have the same effect.
Dailies have the social contract of "you get to talk to the developers every morning, so shut-up the rest of the day", what on theory should be really great.

The only problem is that all the problem people never take the hint, and the well-behaved people tend to take it to an extreme. So on practice it both doesn't get rid of the interruptions, and delay everybody's work due to the latency you need for avoiding interruptions.
Enshittification is caused by greed and opportunity. Anything that can be exploited for profit will be exploited --- eventually.

Venture capital is just an enhanced and amplified version of it.
> The documents...suggest that North Korean troops are recording their combat experiences in detail and appear to be using the battlefield experience to gain a better understanding of new technologies. Ukraine has warned that Pyongyang is seizing the opportunity as a chance to gain practical battlefield experience for potential future conflicts with the West.

As a casual observer of North Korean affairs, my main thoughts regarding their participation in Ukraine have been around how much it will help their military modernize. To date, one of the few comforting thoughts about potential North vs. South conflict has been the North's lack of practical experience.
Yeah, same for Poland.

You're either PiS/Konfederacja supporter, or PO/Left/P2050 parties. There is no chance of any other coalition, and everyone knows this.

Choice is - do you want to dismantle democracy, or would you rather not. Sigh.
Self assessments are a bullshit GDR tactic to get you to tattle on yourself. Rate yourself as 10/10 categorically, and make them tell you otherwise
One bedroom house shares in london (Zone 2 or further) are closer to £1-1.2k a room currently btw. They maybe get that high in Zone 1, but there's almost no reason to live in euston or kings cross over living in camden/kentish town for example in the northern direction.
Yea they were absolutely exhausted in terms of economics and demographics but it is so much more than that too which the article touches on.

The lands in the middle east changed hands so many times that you had a generation be born and grow into adulthood without having being firmly associated with one empire or the other.

You had the nomadic tribes grow rich from their mercenary work for either empire.

You also had the fact that both Christian and Zoroastrian faiths took huge blows as the true cross was stolen by the Persians and then the Roman army destroyed the most important Zoroastrian fire temple and snuffed out the eternal flame there.

And finally after the Persians were defeated by the Caliphate, you the the Romans, against their well established strategies, gather their forces for a decisive battle, and then make tactical mistakes allowing for defeat.

It was the perfect storm of the right place, at the right time, with rolling nat 20s.
MPGA
I know what you're saying; sometimes open source is presented as the answer to all the user-hostile decay that the platform owners introduce, but you must prove yourself worthy through study and sacrifice. If you want to build your own system, great, but if you want to share the joys with others you cannot attract them with an austere religion.

I just want tools to be more accessible.
As noted by other commenters, some carriers (I think all of the UK carriers) use IP-based geoblocking to ensure that Wi-Fi Calling only works when using an IP address registered in the UK.
Where are you seeing this? On https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/tree/main?tab=rea... I only see the paper and related figures.
If it isn't a secret, what field?

Do you think it is possible for an Embedded SE to find work in Japan?
Took me about 5 seconds

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SI...

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SI...

Those are government, so probably have even better pensions than private sector.

And there was job advertised for lead software engineer by computer futures(probably an agency) for 80k

I didn't even look deep. I know there are even better jobs.

There are jobs that pay more than 65k. Just have to know where to look.

If you're working for undercapitalized local private companies, then yeah not going pay very much.

I'd also recommend looking at remote jobs. My really smart friends who can beat the competition got 100k+ jobs working remote that are officially based in London but they work up north. Then come down for meeting once or twice every few months.

A lot of the fintechs allow for fully remote and pay well.
You could outgrow the problem, by increasing individual productivity or you can stop the wealth transfer. It will stop sooner or later anyway.

I made some comments elsewhere about the long term. It is delusional to think that it is possible to continually have jobs that pay significantly more than identical jobs elsewhere in the world.
Top recipients of campaign donations from Meta:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/recipients?id=D0000335...

Congress members invested in Meta:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/members-invested?id=D0...
Hes no spring chicken so that remains to be seen. I do however worry about who is waiting in the wings to ride on his coat tails.
Moving on from React, a year later
It's not Scrum. Scrum wasn't even the first. (I think it was XP.)

The problem is all the "Agile methodologies". Every single one.

(Also, notice that "Agile methodology" as an idea is already against the first principle there.)
> return the hardware at any time

"Any time" might be a stretch, but I've had no problems returning hardware which, after unboxing and/or setting it up, I found violated basic expectations and didn't have those limitations listed in the specs (no, I'm not buying and maintaining an un-rooted Android AND granting location services and other such permissions just to set up your special snowflake printer, and if your OBD-II control app works via a webview and one day starts requiring a subscription for the device I "purchased" then that's going straight back to the store/manufacturer even years later, ...).
I worked there until 10 years ago and it was quite rewarding. (In fact this interactive uses some of the "lab" framework code I worked on.)

The founder was inspired by Concord (Massachusetts)'s history of progressive educational experimentation, going back to the transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau).

They're based in Concord but they also have a Bay Area office, after merging with the nonprofit org that built CODAP (https://codap.concord.org/)
This is just the beginning. Not sure America will survive another 4+ years of this clown.
Agile seems to be used to refer both to a form of cult and a form of software development interchangeably and I think it's too late to fix that.
I don't think those conversations get that far. The Netherlands is one of the most "transatlantic" countries in Europe and values the US/NATO relationship highly. In that sense not much different from Taiwan.
I feel silly saying this, but I wish the author would use more periods and fewer exclamation marks.
Moving Out of Parental Homes Is on Hold (NAHB)
Semi-static conditions in low-latency C++ for high frequency trading