skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Lots of people who are not exactly high income live in the countryside, too..

Additionally, living in shared housing does not disqualify you from having solar panels installed either - if you live in an apartment complex that's a modestly sized 2x2x2 - meaning it has 4x the surface area, and 4x the roof area, the math generally works out the same - for longer houses, it's better, for taller ones its worse, but I think there are a ton of sweet spots, but tall and skinny apartment buildings will lose out.
European countries do not want start-ups to exist. The barriers e.g. Germany puts up make it extremely difficult for any start up to exist.

Not only is the bureaucracy difficult, the labor laws make it very difficult to hire and compensate talent.

Germany wants innovation to be done by large corporations, not by start ups.
I'm more inclined to agree with mere multimillionaire DHH on the the motivations of billionaires[0]:

> I can thus completely understand why the likes of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg continue to show up for the daily cage match of running high-profile companies. Why the appeal of sitting on a beach is limited to that of the occasional break, not a permanent arrangement. It's because the drive that got them to where they are isn't extinguished by achieving personal, material wellbeing.

That said, I had not considered that, for some, keeping themselves on top of the capitalism leaderboards might also play a petty role.

[0] https://world.hey.com/dhh/staying-in-the-arena-1ff9f285
everytime i search content about supabase, some trash ai generated content website like restack shows and waste my time. I am not saying restack is bad, but a customizable blocker to block the site for specific topic might be good for me.
Not "tools" in that sense, but libraries -e.g. D3- do make development of this substantially easier.
Ads only work because there are useful products to buy. They're a sadly necessary indicator of a productive economy.
> If performance of o3 doesn't meet expectations, there'll be plenty of people making excuses for it

I agree and I can definitely see that happening but it is also not impossible, given the incentive and impact of this technology, for some other company/community to create yet another, perhaps, FrontierMath-like benchmark to cross-validate the results.

I also don't disagree that it is not impossible for OpenAI to have faked these results. Time will tell.
Last summer I experimented making ice cream without ice cream machine. The principle I used was to freeze it in plastic bags, take them out once or twice to "massage them" and then to squeeze them out into a frozen bowl where they rest in the freezer until eating time.

The recipes are important too of course. The sugars need to be a mixture of fructose and dextrose. Also used a stabilising agent. But eventually I could create really good ice cream with a minimum of equipment.
> if you take into account that the majority of web pages are basically producing non-spec conforming (X)HTML

That part is a non-issue since Browsers need to be able to turn that tag soup into a sane DOM already. And these days how to do that is well specified.
the printer itself?
Crypto finally found a use case. Anonymously bribing the US Goverment...
It's more ubiquitous than Facebook among people that matter in public discourse.

Basically anyone with a professional presence that involves talking to the public, publishing papers, blogs, open source projects, etc still uses Twitter to talk to the public. Lot of these people have a hidden or deactivated Facebook, but public Twitter.
"Pretty much everything" does include "can't print some things" which is pretty much: they control what you can and can't print. So technically you are right and they are right too, but this conversation path led us back in a circle instead of moving the debate forward.
The last two felt more like Weekend at Bernie's.
I don't disagree with anything in particular here but I'm not sure your latter paragraphs do anything to explain why Germany is different. Or are you saying it's also institutional inertia and it's just a matter of time for them to end up the same?
Do you need to eat shit to know it is shit?

Isn't it enough to see, smell, you have to touch and eat it repeatedly so you can conclude: yes, this is shit. You are now expert in shit eating and the professional opinion is that this is really shit, no mistake is made here!?
I think type-level string unions are the way to go. They're concise, efficient (the strings are interned anyway), and when you're debugging you know what the values are rather than getting mysterious integers.
I Met Paul Graham Once
I downvoted your comment because you're wrong. The constitution defines treason pretty clearly, you're not going to get a treason conviction without the US being in a legally and officially declared war with China. There has never been a treason conviction for any act committed after WW2, the last time the US was officially in a declared war. The Rosenberg's selling nuke secrets, the Walkers who decrypted Navy communications for the Soviets, those guys who went over to the Taliban or ISIS... all highly illegal but NONE of it was treason.

Furthermore your comment is poorly thought out. Impeaching Trump would be very bad for the popularity of Republican senators, anybody should be aware of that regardless of how you personally feel about the people involved.
> As a member of the working class, I find there’s little incentive to build something new or innovate because the effort required to navigate through all the burdensome regulations is overwhelming. On top of that, any additional income I might generate from bringing my ideas or initiatives to market would be taxed at more than 50%. For many people like me, the effort simply isn’t worth it.

I find it ironic you mention "classes" (regarding "as a member of the working class"). There are problems everywhere (either as an employee or as an entrepreneur). Feeling overwhelmed is just a feeling, does not say anything about how much you can do or if you get a reasonable workload.

I think what is holding Europe back is the people not trying and understanding various things without having lots of fears (of being overwhelmed, of large tax, of what people will say, etc.).

A balance must be stricken also between what you can do (leisure, family) and how many resource you produce/consume. The purpose should be for more of leisure/family but that is ONLY IF we (I am also European) produce/consume enough. Too many smart and capable people want to "just be an employee", which results in gaps in other places (entrepreneurs, politicians, etc.).
> The system functions very well to take unproductive surplus and allocate it effectively.

What did you measure to come to this conclusion?
> A solution involving client parsing of semantic markup at least has the benefit of requiring zero maintenance.

This is a pipe dream. In reality your HTML markup needs just as much maintenance if not more - at least the separate feed is unbothered by design changes to the HTML site.
You’re right! Sorry obviously I was one coffee short of comprehension!
This was a pretty big talking point during the election, towards the end I didn't go a day without hearing about how Trump will end democracy or how democracy was on the ballot.

What the hell happened? For anyone that honestly believes that, why pack up and go home when Trump wins the election?
In Rust I came to the opposite conclusion.

One webserver framework, Axum, has the trait IntoResponse which is returned by something that implements Handler. A lot of things implement IntoResponse and/or Handler. In plain English you have handlers, these are parts of code that get selectively invoked for a request. The handlers return data that can be made into responses. It's powerful, but if something doesn't fit exactly, the Rust compiler throws gibberish errors at you. It's finnicky as hell.

But once you have written something that works, it is beautiful to read.

So it's difficult to write such code, and if it's easy for you then it's because you mastered the art.
I can assure you that I can find a way to shoot myself in the foot in any language.
Yeah, and that doesn't stop us from using either of them. What I tried to convey is that GHA isn't ideal and it has a few warts but it's still better than most of the options available out there.
One of my biggest headaches is that the pipeline cache never seemed to work predictably (e.g. not pulling cached data that was available, it uses zip so the permissions are messed up, etc), so I ended up writing my own caching system. It was important for my use case because full runs could take 2 to 3 hours.

Then there is the YAML config which is too convoluted. It took me several attempts to get things right.

What works better, IMO, is to have each CI step as a script or a Make target that can run anywhere (CI or dev PC) and in the CI configuration have a single line in each step that invokes the script.
> People of our age group expected internet technologies to be democratising and empowering.

*People of your age group who knew and had access to Internet

30 years ago, most people were not using internet. They did not expect anything from something they did not know anything about.

Nowadays internet is a daily tool for billions from all age, from most countries and from many economic levels. It has been democratized. It has empowered a lot of people. And I'm sure many would like it to help do more of it. I'd bet more than during your time.
Just to add some closure to this, the libTIFF library[0] comes fairly close to a universal reader. It’s been around, since the 1980s, so has had time to sand off the rough edges. It’s still being maintained and extended.

It's fairly "low-level," so could probably benefit from Façades.

[0] https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/
Clearly there needs to be a video game set in a word consistng of only that stuff. Perhaps a detective noir mystery or exploration of an abandoned alien civilization puzzle game.
The piratebay crew was convicted of aiding copyright infringement. In that case you could not download derivates from their service. Now you can get verbatim text from the models that any other traditional publisher would have to pay license to print even a reworded copy of.

With that said, Creative Commons showed that copyright can not be fixed it is broken.
Any advice on what to do if you might be a victim to this?
Thanks for saying all the right things.
I'm always dumbfounded when I find all kinds of people on HN who will fight tooth and nail for Apple when clearly their behavior is almost always purely greed motivated.

Now, corporations are always greed driven to some extent but the problem is the sole focus on that and the duplicity around the subject from Apple "fans".

Modern Apple is so greedy that it makes the Bill Gates era look like child's play.
It's not surprising, Bill Gates was an effeminate duplicitous man and Tim Cook is the turbocharged version of that.
I moved from Silicon Valley to London -- a funny thing I haven't seen mentioned is that the tax rates on RSUs are absolutely awful (extra NI can push rates to nearly 60%).

That is a large disincentive for working in a tech company versus finance. Tech companies especially start-ups largely pay in stock which could be mispriced and you make more (or less) money than could be predicted. But versus finance paying pure cash, less (equity) risk, and a lower tax rate the incentives are clear.

HMRC I don't think should be underrated in their effects on answering the question -- "should I start my start-up in the US or the UK?"
Yeah but the one from 19th century seems bit random for this thread.
Least ye forget Trumpy Trump!
I don't have a definitive source readily available, but from talking to people who were investigating the technical aspects, connection between the printer and slicer software will be mutually authenticated using a certificate that will issued by Bambu Cloud, issued only to blessed 1st party software, and verified by the printer upon connection over the local network.

So your blessed Bambu Studio instance connects to Bambu Cloud and requests a certificate, the server issues the certificate to you (or not), and then Bambu Studio may use it to connect to the printer on your LAN.

The certificates have an expiration time of 1 year, meaning that the printer functionality would severely degraded (missing network connectivity), at most 1 year after they take the servers offline or stop issuing certificates for any reason.

Not a definitive source for what I said, but it contains some information: https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authenticatio...
Its a stretch to consider this law breaking. The president either does or does not have authority here, but the only one breaking the law would be ByteDance.

Biden wasn't considered to have broken the law when courts threw out his plan to forgive school debt. The president tried something, the courts found the order to be invalid as the rule didn't fit the current laws, and everyone moved on about their business without claiming the president broke the law or implying he should have been charged.
> Also, a bit of a side rant: now that I am working on ActivityPub stuff I'm finding less and less sympathy for those that jump into code and push for "pragmatic" solutions. The ActivityPub spec is not perfect, but it's incredible how almost everyone implementing ActivityPub ignores JSON-LD and RDF and just want to wing with the JSON messages. It gets to the point where perfectly valid JSON-LD will get refused to anything that is not called Mastodon, because everyone else is just parsing the JSON they receive and completely ignoring @context directives

Maybe making everyone who wants to interact with the fediverse deal with all that complexity isn't such a great idea after all. What we really should have gotten was RSS++ with optional push notifications for new content instead of this mess. But it wouldn't be the web without reinventing the wheel for every new "standard" I guess.
Passion does not pay the bills; or later on, a comfy lifestyle.
You are perfectly wrong, the day is the main calendar object related to the epoch seconds.

I wrote conversion code, I know what I am talking about.
Twitter And Reddit.
On one hand, I know I should "invest" in this ridiculous thing because it's practically guaranteed to surge. But on the other hand, I know I shouldn't because, like all crypto, it's just a steaming pile of ponzi garbage.
In much of the developed world, economic productivity seems to correlate strongly with availability of free capital (I don't have a source but I imagine it's fairly straightforward to cook one up). Even US vs Europe, kind of similar economies, but with capital so much easier to come by in the US, and US productivity per capita is flying compared to Europe.

Availability of free capital is a function of both just general wealth of a society, and how well lubricated the wheels of finance are.

I don't think this is a controversial theory, even if it comes with unpleasant side effects (white collar crime, inequality etc). Just as having a buoyant defence industry that can churn out a lot of boom is great for a country's war fighting potential.
Currently the only thing which won't run on a non-google blessed android build is google wallet, although a lot of applications rely on google's proprietary services exposed through google play.

I've not ran into any banking applications which won't run on a non-google build of android (as then they would only run on a pixel). That being said, I refuse to seriously bank with any bank which doesn't offer a functioning website. My main bank offers an app but you have to wholesale switch to it.
I also work with Python, and I agree that TS has a better type system than Python. However, Python doesn’t require an additional compilation step, which is a win for it. That said, with tools like Bun, Deno, and Node now capable of running TS out of the box, that’s another win for TS.
I think the large software sector here might actually be part of the problem. If you're smart, want to stay in London (expensive), but don't want to work in finance then it's going to be software. There's no interesting hardware jobs here (FPGA trading platforms do not qualify). These jobs do exist in other European countries so I think the parent was correct.
I think they are referring to the price, not the quality or selection.

From a very quick search, a litre of milk is 20% cheaper in the UK compared to France, Germany and even Poland.
Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. Its genesis has implications beyond
To prevent disk cloning.

A typical attack scenario here would be something like:

1. You leave your laptop in a hotel room.

2. Criminals / police break in and clone the drive.

3. They install a (physical) keylogger between your keyboard and the rest of the computer.

4. You return, turn the computer on and enter your password, which the keylogger transmits to your attackers.

They now have both the drive contents and the password needed to decrypt them.

You can mitigate this by using a TPM and storing the key there instead of deriving it from the password, but even then, an attacker is able to clone the drive first and get the key later.

With this feature on, you can't clone the drive until you get that key.
Fine-tuned brain-computer interface makes prosthetic limbs feel more real
> That has to be constructed client side by downloading all updates for all subscribed feeds.

Either the Twitter frontend or app has to do this, because Twitter is a web API. So either Twitter isn't a new protocol or every blog, forum, etc is a new protocol, with isn't really an interesting statement.

>> It also describes NNTP

> Which also doesn't provide a uniform feed of updates.

I'm not clear on what you mean by "uniform feed", but let me introduce you to NEWNEWS: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3977#page-64

If it helps to find middle ground, I do think the AT protocol is a new protocol. I don't necessarily think it's a good idea or an improvement on NNTP, but it at least isn't just a microblogging website.
I find taking mini breaks, whether visiting the restroom or being interrupted by my kids to be quite beneficial actually.

It gives my mind a few seconds or a minute or two to do background processing and potentially come up with a better way of doing something.

Or to realize that I’m not working on the most important thing in the first place.
Lol, tell that to southern Poland a decade ago. On a quiet winter days air pollution on the lower third of the country is off the charts even with all the limiting measures enacted over last years. The point is that burning stuff is incredibly polluting in any setting.
Yeap, this is why I said it is kind of easy.

Until you know properly the leap years. Leap year rules on the long run are are bit funky. Just have a look at wikipedia.

(do not use gogol search since they are now forcing javascript by default)
NASA still has no plan for how to bring precious Mars rocks to Earth
Another example using Rhai that was posted here a week or two ago: this (in-browser) 3D modeling software using Fidget.

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget/demo/
These kinds of articles pop up all the time, along with all the "Web 3" ideas, and all of them seem to view the past with a sort of rose-tinted nostalgia, forgetting that the corporate business world of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s was just as sleazy and run by assholes as it is today; the only difference is that the technology is finally catching up with the ambitions of said sleazy assholes and allowing them to do what they've been trying to do since the outset, i.e. grow into enormous ungovernable conglomerates and wield godlike omnipotent control over the flow of information.

As a matter of fact, this stink of sleaziness that permeated the early Web was so prominent and overpowering that it played a key role in the rise of these huge companies like Google. Google's algorithms and page crawlers were not that revolutionary or different from anything the other search engines were doing; Google just happened to be in a position where they were sitting on lots of cash and were able to run a search engine for several years with no ads or clutter or any of the other annoyances of its competitors, seemingly providing a free service that asks nothing in return. They made this part of their carefully curated public image, of being the hip and cool tech company with the "don't be evil" mantra. They probably burned through ungodly amounts of money doing things this way, but once all the competing search engines withered away and died and Google had the entire market cornered they grew into a multi-trillion dollar megacorporation and are now unstoppable and now all their services they provide are deteriorating because they have no competition.

Ironically, it was this false underdog narrative, the idea of the young trendy cool tech companies overthrowing the stuffy old corporate tech companies, that sort of paved the way for the tech industry to become more monopolized and horrible than ever. And now it's happening again with lots of "Web3" companies trying to present themselves as the new champions, who will overthrow the stuffy old corporate tech companies like Google and bring us into a new era of the Web that is even worse than this one.
Because if there are two subjects HN cannot resist pontificating on at length, it's social media/the modern web and Sinopolitics. Add a dash of red team/blue team sniping and it's the perfect storm.
> Idk how Linux users are using Linux so that they do not meet any issues.

We open systemsettings and change things. We also use a launcher, not the start menu.
I’ve heard this all too. My father grew up and lived in the former Yugoslavia. He’s since spoken about how well regarded Tito was and the opinion many had that he played a big hand in keeping Yugoslavia united whilst he was alive. He’s also talked about how Yugoslavia was sort of a buffer zone between the east and west and so a lot of freedoms were available to citizens there that weren’t in the full on communist countries. E.g when he was younger he did some work trips to Germany and on top of earning deutschmarks had a side hustle smuggling back jeans and records to sell.

Oh yeah and my folks gave me the impression growing up that Albania was scary as hell back then.
> The first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" begins with the following sentences:

> Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

> They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

> Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

> He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache.

> Mrs Dursley was thin

https://chatgpt.com/share/678e3306-c188-8002-a26c-ac1f32fee4...
Cursed Curly Brackets in Code
A few here have commented on different aspects, and they have their part to play but I agree with you, market fragmentation is the scale killer.

From an outside perspective it might appear like Europe is a true single market like the US but it isn't. Scaling to a European level isn't impossible but it is difficult. Some of that will just be difficult to do anything about, language, different cultures, etc.
On the political side I'm sure there is plenty more the EU can do but I don't see the will.
We're also a picky bunch. A short coffee break or a chat with someone I like doesn't hurt as much as a "quick question" from Joe in Sales does.
I would guess that sentence: "that sank 2600 years ago" would imply that we are not talking about exact date. But more explicit word like: "that sank about 2600 years ago" would help.

Using different number formatting instead of word or sign (~) is still implicit and not explicit.
Just to add to your point, both Mozart and Chopin were known to hand copy JS Bach's well tempered clavier preludes and fugues