skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might be things the US knows that maybe even the Polish government doesn’t - for example maybe there are Polish firms that have business ties to China and have funneled chips or other tech there previously. Or maybe there are implications based on local laws. I’m speculating, but I think there are possibilities that explain the split.
Ironic, considering your top level comment basically starts with that.
It is insane I have to say this, but this quite literally is the best time ever to start a startup.

The sheer leverage that AI provides founders today is simply astounding. I have leveraged AI tools to build things I would never have been able to build just several years ago.

The case in point would be it is now extremely easy to create Chrome plugins that automate aspects of my business simply by asking Claude to do so.

Another example I can point to is the use of GPT to create documentation for government tenders. Many of these tenders need supporting documents that, quite frankly, I would not have been able to create on my own. Everything from how to create documentation around modern slavery and supply chain audits, to indigenous inclusion. This is stuff they simply don't teach you at university.

We are living in a golden age where a solo founder can create so much value on their own.

This is not to say I'm not worried for the future, I very much am. I'm worried about an economic routing of the middle class caused by AI taking white-collar jobs...
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> This is the most terrifying part about China: they’re competent Communists.

What year are you living in!

China hasn't been a communist state since before I grew pubes.

They are an authoritarian state certainly; one that encourages capitalism to grow its economy.
Engineering is a lot about trade-offs. Use a new (dynamic/not stabilized thing) because it is 20% better at something, but you risk to need to adapt or use something old and stable that involves more work?

It is possible that many people avoid thinking explicitly about these trade-offs then they are upset. But if you worked in the field more than 6 years you should have seen the pattern.

I worked with people that preferred 10 years old, stable technology and they did not have surprises. There were some downsides, but I think these types of companies are there.
Doesn't it go directly against EU common market rules?
I mean, I can start a company in Germany with the sole purpose to buy chips and sell them to a Polish company. If EU interferes that would be breaking the main purpose of it - a common market and free movement of people and goods.

It's a slap towards EU from Biden's admin. Thankfully as of today they are gone. Let's hope Trump's administration presents a more EU friendly view on this issue.
do you remember 10 years ago when google promised only to tackle cp with their sensorship? and what happened in 2020-2023? all non-pharmaprofital messages were banned, deleted or flagged. Even 100% facts and even questions. wilder than in nz germany.
There are already dozens of politicans in eu who has been convited of hate speech when all they did was publish public statistics of rpe crimes or vio1ence.

Why the government officials are not working to prevent actual physical crimes that ruin the rest of the lives of so many young children around the europe?
It's not hyperbolic in any way. It's a simple, sober, literal explanation of how the Chinese censorship apparatus functions. I have no idea why you're bringing up electrical interface standards; they seem completely irrelevant to questions of civil rights to me. The W3C standards (which are not RFCs) seem barely less irrelevant; we are talking about what viewpoints people are or aren't allowed to hear, and the social processes that determine that, not file format evolution and the priority order of CSS selectors.
In the words of my former manager "one of the good ones" there's levels to the barons
You dropped "on a short-term scale" when quoting me.

The contradiction that you see escapes me. Please explain how the fact that our proxies don't allow us to talk about decade- or century-level temperature movements 50 million years ago contradicts the statement CO2 is a lagging indicator of temperature change through most of the geologic record.

Also, you say I am confused about something. Perhaps. Say in precise language what you think that is, and I will try to clear things up.
I already talked about it above.

Main problems with passing dependencies in function argument lists:

1) it pollutes the code and makes refactoring harder (a small change in one place must be propagated to all call sites in the dependency tree which recursively accept user ID/tenant ID and similar info)

2) it violates various architectural principles, for example, from the point of view of our business logic, there's no such thing as "tenant ID", it's an implementation detail to more efficiently store data, and if we just rely on function argument lists, then we'd have to litter actual business logic with various infrastructure-specific references to tenant IDs and the like so that the underlying DB layer could figure out what to do.

Sure, it can be solved with constructor-based dependency injection (i.e. request-specific service instances are generated for each request, and we store user ID/tenant ID & friends as object fields of such request-scoped instances), and that's what we had before switching to contexts, but it resulted in excessive allocations and unnecessary memory pressure for our highload services. In complex enterprise code, those dependency trees can be quite large -- and we ended up allocating huge dependency trees for each request. With contexts, we now have a single application-scoped service dependency tree, and request-specific stuff just comes inside contexts.

Both problems can be solved by trying to group and reuse data cleverly, and eventually you'll get back to square one with an implementation which looks similar to ctx.Context but which is not reusable/composable.

>Including logger.

We don't store loggers in ctx, they aren't request-specific, so we just use constructor-based DI.
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> Because the models have continually matched the quality they claim.

That's very far from true.

"Yes, I know that the HuggingFace arena and coding assistant leaderboards both say that OpenAI's new model is really good, but in practice you should use Claude Sonnet instead" was a meme for good reason, as was "I know the benchmarks show that 4o is just as capable as ChatGPT4 but based on our internal evals it seems much worse". The latter to the extent that they had to use dark UI patterns to hide ChatGPT-4 from their users, because they kept using it, and it cost OpenAI much more than 4o.

OpenAI regularly messes with benchmarks to keep the investor money flowing. Slightly varying the wording of benchmark problems causes a 30% drop in o1 accuracy. That doesn't mean "LLMs don't work" but it does mean that you have to be very sceptical of OpenAI benchmark results when comparing them to other AI labs, and this has been the case for a long time.

The FrontierMath case just shows that they are willing to go much farther with their dishonesty than most people thought.
The point I was trying to make is to give examples of rules I thought were ugly, to give a concrete response to paulgb's request for such a rule.

One, as I learned, could be resolved by a simple use of a terminal ",".

The other is how it removes spaces from around "=" for keyword arguments, but not for other uses of "=".

I can't provide much more as I rarely use black. As a single developer, I don't have to worry much about that sort of compromise. ;)
The whole Zuckerberg pretending to be conservative now that Trump is in power has been hilarious really. Like being in the Joe Rogan show, saying companies need more masculinity or some shit.
How about we don't let private companies do whatever the fuck they want?
Would that be funny? Failing a job interview because, when ask to make a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together, you couldn't come up with a quip, therefore showing your inability to reason.

Let's not even talk about the "r" you forgot when asked to write "cranberry"...
And HN seems to flag the topic, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
Maybe the AI would be smarter if it could access some basic tools instead of doing it its own way.
> state's political leadership

The political leadership of the US is elected; by definition, any network of power which isn’t beholden to that is “deep state”.
> Let's hope Trump's administration presents a more EU friendly view on this issue.

Is this sarcasm?
Traditionally one was able to change colors. But the new computers with GHz and GB of RAM are not able to do this (Android, Windows)
I would guess that if there are economies of scale, concentrating production lowers the average unit cost and thus lead to more profits and thus more capacity for investment into R&D.

If, say, all steel production was done by 1-employee companies competing against each other, I don't think any one would be able to afford any serious investement.
https://www.pandopooling.com/blog-posts/why-pooling-income-c...
> Managed Hosting: No need to manage your own servers

> 1 Servers (You bring the servers)

Hmm, am I out of touch, or wouldn't "managed hosting" imply I don't bring the servers?

Then the "Free plan" says "Manager your own infrastructure installing dokploy ui in your own server", which sounds the same as the paid plan, except without support I guess?

I think if it was a bit more clear what "Managed hosting" means in this case, the pricing would make somewhat more sense. Right now I wouldn't even understand what I was paying for, if "Bring your own servers" is already free.
It's more because people have realised that money is easier made outside of public space (crypto projects, scripts, other things that just extract money out of thin air) rather than by building something public that needs clients, investors, and exits.

I have yet to meet a single startup billionaire but i already know at least one person who made 1B+ through scripting and several who are in 9 digit range. It's just easier there because there is no law to abide (you are anonymous by definition, and frequently a sybil of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of fake people), and no need to "sell" or be liked by anyone.

It didn't exist before ~2017 because crypto/smart contracts were not a thing yet. SEO/SEO scams existed yes, but these never brought in comparable amounts of money and traditional startups looked more attractive in comparison. Today, many people just run dozens of solana nodes, guess how much they make?
I'd claim that also before the customers were locked into existing product. What is different is that in former days they were much more willing to get away from this lock-in.

The reason for this that I consider to be the most plausible one is that society has become more conservative (i.e. less willing to change things or try out new things).
Idea: since most of us are looking at terminals through a framebuffer, why not just have a terminal image command that works as follows:

1. Prints a bunch of blank lines corresponding to the height of the image

2. Renders the image/video using the fbdev in the space provided.

3. Scrolling the terminal whilst viewing is handled by moving/cropping the fbdev-rendered media as appropriate?
10% agree Marcus!
> Let's hope Trump's administration presents a more EU friendly view on this issue.

Is that likely?
Inflation in the 70s was caused by oil price shocks. Much of the physical economy relies on oil in an unhealthy way.

If you're looking for a culprit, I'd suggest a closer look at that.

Meanwhile industrialisation has been off-shored to China, which is now the tech and industrial powerhouse the US was in the 50s and 60s.

The former industrial centres in the US and UK were largely left to rot, because the people doing the offshoring simply didn't care about former workers. (In fact - in Thatcher's case, and probably Reagan's too - they actively hated them.)

Once you lose an industrial culture it's very hard to rebuild it. It's not just the factories, it's the investment, infrastructure, and education pipelines that feed them at all levels.
Two things I've been saying for as long as I can remember

"Using Photoshop to create something that resembles a website doesn't make you a web designer, just as creating an image of a house wouldn't make you an architect."

"Design without consideration for manufacturing[1], isn't doing design. It's doing art."

[1] which is what Photoshop-driven "web design" typically is.
Same in France, both #fucktrump and #democrats are censored, #republicans and #fuckbiden are allowed
really? how often this has happeden from internet writings?

and how many times has happened actual crimes that eu politicans have been lately hiding ?
I also expect it to fail, there's no way you can differentiate EU countries with the common market, there's no customs anyways.
Fairly sure the vast majority of Hacker News isn't making 300k a year in either big tech _or_ startups. Plus the author of the post mentioned wasn't some scrappy gung-ho founder trying to make it at any cost, they had Google money and one of their stories was their resentment at their cofounders forcing a $10m exit of one of the companies. No offence to them, it was an interesting journey described very openly, but it didn't sound like they were looking for a pep talk.

I suspect Hacker News is just bigger and less skewed towards Silicon Valley than it was in 2013. Maybe that changes the vibe, but I don't think anyone is (or should be) deciding whether to do a startup based on the tone of comments on an internet forum.
>could directly lead to

"Could lead to" is a slippery slope to censoring free speech or even to a Minority Report style of enforcing crimes before they happen.

The EU already tried dozens of times to ban encrypted chat on the same kind of fearmongering, now they're boiling the frog on free speech.
It was a naz! salut. Dont belittle his actions, he is a grown man and should be held accountable for the way he presents himself.
Complexity is important when a subject at is core is complex, I'm mostly against complexity for the sake of complexity. Too many subjects are getting complex for the sake of it, or due to organic development.

There is an even greater beauty than complexity when very complex subjects can be reduced to simpler ones without losing their power, it requires a greater understanding of complexity than what is usually seen.

As an illustrative example : QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Feynman
In the world of JavaScript there are two very separate populations:

1. Those who start and end with employability

2. Those who build products

There is sometimes some overlap, like people who use react native or can’t go deeper than react or jquery to build things and yet still build original polished products. The overlap though is generally shallow and certainly isn’t universal because when shipping a product there are things that matter more than aesthetics.

For people who build products new frameworks and code style is an often irrelevant aside. It’s all about what to write and not how to write it. How to write the code almost never seems to come up until measuring for performance or security.

For the people only interested in employability, regardless of candidate versus management, these framework discussions are critical. Things tend to focus on basic literacy.
Show HN: Smithery – Model Context Protocol Hosting and Registry
I'm building smithery.ai to make it easy for developers to distribute Model Context Protocol (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) servers. You can think of Smithery as the OpenRouter for MCPs. You can connect your Github repo and quickly deploy and make your MCP discoverable.

If you're building tools for LLMs and want to easily distribute and connect them with LLM clients (e.g., Claude Desktop or any developer building agents), I'd love to hear from you and get feedback!

Documentation: https://smithery.ai/docs/deployments
Discord community: https://discord.gg/Afd38S5p9Az
The set of math/logic problems behind AIME 2024 appears to be...
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2024_AIME_I_P...

Impressive stuff! But unclear to me if it's literally just these 15 or if there's a large problem set...
#republicans has never been censored. And tbh when right/far right content is being censored, it’s usually because they’re lying or prove to be terrible human beings. Not the same thing.
Cool project, but the icon looks like DeepSeek [^1]

[1]: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Now you have to explain the limitations they also included on Portugal (but not on Spain). Portugal being one of the most pro USA European countries and a NATO founding member.
Political bias is a risk with all LLMs that aren’t truly open source like AI2’s OLMo model. But I think it’s especially a risk with anything from China, a country known for totalitarian information control. Look at the recent exodus of TikTok users to RedNote who then faced draconian censorship - like getting banned for having certain years mentioned in their post or for saying they are gay or for mentioning Tibet.
You'll fit in just fine. Most of the companies that want Kubernetes also never scaled past 100 users ;)
Most engineers figured out that the options/stocks of startups are worthless.
So this is a similar model to Coolify, which seems to be a direct competitor. In fact, it looks VERY similar to Coolify, even down to the menus and menu structure.

I'd be interested to see a side by side comparison of the two platforms.
Sigh.

The people who spend a significant amount of time (often in my experience
unpaid) arranging a conference have to mix and match and probably make
some unpopular compromises for reasons know best to them.
I do think one should get them the benefit of the doubt as to why.

Just dont attend the talk.
It is that easy.

The ultimate protest would be a nearly empty room.
That would be quite humiliating for the person giving the talk.
Often here in the UK if there's a problem with a particular, the first step in regulation is for the government to talk to the trade body representing the industry and basically say "Regulate yourselves, or be regulated"

Then, if they're sensible, the industry creates a code of conduct that addresses the problems that drew the attention of legislators, without being too onerous; all the main players in the industry sign up and follow it; and the government doesn't have to pass legislation.

Politicians are happy because the problem goes away, and regulatory burdens on industry don't increase. Industry is happy because they get soft-touch regulation that's under their control.

It doesn't always work, of course.
great take, do you mind to elaborate on the last point? :)
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> I think the bigger issue is that most of the financial upsides of startups were illusory

I wouldn't say I'm an old-timer by any metrics, but even back in 2012 when I first discovered and joined HN, I remember it was pretty clear in the community (and people I spoke to around me) you shouldn't go to work at a startup if you were looking for "a lot + safe" money.

Sure, you could belong to the 0.001% and work on the next Dropbox, but most likely you would end up not, so don't start at a startup to chase riches, as there are better venues for that. Do work at a startup if the environment/mission/team feels right to you, but with no expectations of a big payday-exit.
Yet here we are in 2025, with OpenSSL still lacking a QUIC server API and RFC9000 approaching its fourth birthday.
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UI-TARS brings together all four key components of CUA agents - perception, reasoning, grounding, and memory - into a single, unified vision-language model (VLM).
Yes, this is what modern protests do not understand. Of course they don't have the right to protest however they want. That's why Martin Luther King was arrested some 29 times. Many of the protesters I talked to in other movements all want to be protected from arrest or any harm to their well-being. In other words, they don't want to push their protest into civil disobedience.

People risk their livelihood and lives to protest because they think something is is wrong enough that it needs to be changed that desperately.

People today will complain all day about Amazon and Jeff bezos but ask them to cancel their Amazon prime subscription? No way!

Just look at what Sam Hussain and Max Blumenthal, the reporters, did the other day, and that should give people an idea of civil disobedience.

What FOSDEM is saying is that they don't want civil disobedience, only protests. And they want to set the rules for the protest. So FOSDEM is turning into the state.
Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint
I've always been fascinated by thermal printers – there's something magical about seeing text and images materialize on paper in seconds. But I found that working with them programmatically was always a pain. You either had to deal with ancient printer protocols or use clunky vendor-specific SDKs.
So I built Printercow (https://printercow.com) – it turns any thermal printer into an HTTP endpoint with just one command.

Technical details:
- Supports any ESC/POS compatible printer (Epson, Star Micronics, etc.)
- Handles paper widths from 58mm to 120mm
- Automatic image dithering and scaling
- Built-in failover protection for high-volume scenarios

Don't have a printer yet but want to try it out? I've got you covered! When you sign-up you get 300 free prints and you can watch your creations come to life on my printer via Twitch live stream (https://twitch.tv/printercow). Perfect for testing your integration before committing to hardware.

I'm particularly excited about the AI integration possibilities. Instead of yet another chat interface, you can have AI generate content that exists in the physical world – artwork, poems, todo lists, custom receipts, etc.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feature requests, or creative use cases you can think of! Also happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation.
This is what many employers don't get. If they hire someone with very solid fundamentals, not just some one framework specialization, they will, with minimal learning effort, be able to product acceptable, and soon better results. But in hiring as in other matters the short term view is so prevalent, that very capable people can have difficulties getting the job.
As Are you claiming that the right to use a product or service implies a sort of ownership of it? If it’s free to use, I suppose that makes some sense. If you’re saying that the right to purchase use of it implies a level of ownership, that’s just prima facie absurd.
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If you were older, you would still consider current rates low and recent past an obscurity that couldn't last long. I can say that definitely about Europe, ie here in Switzerland interest rates used to be around 7% for quite some time and economy was doing fine, then it dropped to negative and afterwards people complained when they rose to 1-2%. 0.4% now, not complaining.