skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m using VISMA e-conomic to do my bookkeeping/invoicing. They launched an eInvoice system some time ago which I would expect was PEPPOL based, or something similar. They enabled it by default without informing anyone.

A couple of my clients didn’t see the invoice in my monthly email, so they asked me to resend it. I re-sent the PDF manually.

To address OP’s question: I don’t expect it will change much for me. The customer configuration will let me choose whether the invoice is sent by email or another way, and I’ll still create my invoice by clicking “book and send” in e-conomic.
Looking forward to transparency about where this capital flows /s
If they're being realistic, for sure, but there was a period where investor money was flowing freely and the news of investment rounds, IPOs, and individual financial success was a regular occurrence on HN. I don't know if that has lessened, but the discourse around it definitely has.
> It's just not worth the reviews and hassle if the result is less standardized.

I'm pretty sure HTMX is closer to standard stuff than anything you do in Angular or React.
Oh no. So Java JSF was right after all? :-)
This is incorrect. Whilst you may be sceptical about whether quantum computers can be realised, the theoretical result is sound.

Recent advances in quantum error correction are a significant increase in confidence that quantum computers are practical.

We can argue about timelines. I suspect it is too early for startups to be raising funds for quantum computers at this stage.

Source: I worked in quantum computing research.
Here we go again... Ok, I'll bite. One last time.

Look, making up a three-letter acronym doesn't make whatever it stands for a real thing. Not even real in a sense "it exists", but real in a sense "it is meaningful". And assigning that acronym to a project doesn't make up a goal.

I'm not claiming that AGI, ASI, AXY or whatever is "impossible" or something. I claim that no one who uses these words has any fucking clue what they mean. A "bomb" is some stuff that explodes. A "road" is some flat enough surface to drive on. But "superintelligence"? There's no good enough definition of "intelligence", let alone "artifical superintelligence". I unironically always thought a calculator is intelligent in a sense, and if it is, then it's also unironically superintelligent, because I cannot multiply 20-digit numbers in my mind. Well, it wasn't exactly "general", but so aren't humans, and it's an outdated acronym anyway.

So it's fun and all when people are "just talking", because making up bullshit is a natural human activity and somebody's profession. But when we are talking about the goal of a project, it implies something specific, measurable… you know, that SMART acronym (since everybody loves acronyms so much).
What is an H1?
He served 12 years. Feels about right for the crimes he committed. Depending on your political association feel free to put quotation marks somewhere in the previous sentence.
Thank you so much for such a detailed and thoughtful reply. You might actually be right, and I would like to ask you a couple of questions: Could you please explain what you mean by there being a high demand for people like me in other places on the internet?

If it’s possible, I’d like to talk more with you in private messages. Could you share an email address for further communication? Of course, I understand if that’s not convenient, but I’m genuinely interested in hearing more of your opinions.

Thank you again, and have a great day!
What are islands? The new servlets?
reposting bc i think this deserves more attention than it got on HN the last time it got posted.
I think the biggest issue with stable diffusion based approaches has always been poor compositional ability (putting stuff where you want), and compounding anatomical/spatial errors that gave the images an offputting vibe.

All these problems are trivially solvable (solved) using traditonal 3d meshes and techniques.
What kind of project did you "remove all React"? Also, curious whether you ended up with vanilla Web Components, or fast-element/LitElement/others?
Illegal online marketplaces absolutely do reduce "turf wars". It's argueable that there is harm reduction compared to street dealing. Then I suspect it creates new consumers so there is that too.
> I don't credit Trump in any way for doing "the right thing" or even having a principled position regarding Ross' case.

This is probably the most ridiculous comment in this thread. Trump even spoke at the Libertarian convention and specifically mentioned how unjust the sentence was and that he would pardon Ross as one of his campaign promises and he delivered. Trump saw parallels between the attack on Ross and the politically motivated law fare the democrats attacked him with. I think the real issue you have with this pardon is that Trump did it and not some democrat.
There's a Rust project (used to be OCaml iirc) that aims to be a better Git, it's called Pijul.

https://pijul.com

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul (self hosted, thus not on Github)

It uses the interesting Sanakirja db engine:

https://pijul.org/posts/2021-02-06-rethinking-sanakirja

https://docs.rs/sanakirja/1.0.1/sanakirja

When I look at the design goals of Evo, it seems to be more on the user ergonomics side. There have been many attempts to fix Git's UX; so there is probably some things about Git's UX that can be improved.
You have to assume competence too. You may have good intent but that doesn't help if you don't really know what you are doing or are blinded by ideology or some wayward belief.
Speaking for myself (and this will likely show up on their application audits making me an infeasible), I'd give up some of my morals if the pay is good.

A former colleague somehow landed a job at Github, he earns more than most management level people here; he said the job is just a job and pretty much the same as any other job, but he can't really leave because the pay is so good.
> The veneer of civil society is surprisingly thin. Norms fray quickly if left unguarded. And it's much harder to reestablish their purchase on society than to protect them from disappearing in the first place.

Amusing to contrast this with his support of the current administration, which is all about breaking norms that support a civil society.
I am starting a new web application frontend project soon calling a backend REST api. What would you recommend in 2025? I don't have legacy requirements. React? Vue? Something else?
First UK patient has tumour removed through eye socket
Rational != principled.
True quantum computing in the sense that most people would imagine it, using individual qubits in an analogous (ish) way to classical computers, has not reached a useful scale. To date only “toy problems” to demonstrate theoretical results have been solved.
This is so much money with which we could actually solve problems in the world. maybe even stop wars which break out because of scarcity issues.

maybe i am getting to old or to friendly to humans, but it's staggering to me how the priorities are for such things.
The latest hype is around "agents", everyone will have agents to do things for them. The agents will incidentally collect real-time data on everything everyone uses them for. Presto! Tons of new training data. You are the product.
Weren't the people he tried to kill his collaborators? That kinda puts it in a nothingburger in my book.
> Ross violated the only remaining national holy religion, the rule of law. He was sentenced for being a heretic.

Good.

Let's keep in mind that the shared faith in this "holy religion, the rule of law" is the only thing holding together your country, my country, everyone's countries, and civilized society in general. Take that away, and everything around us will collapse, regressing the few survivors of that event to the prehistorical lifestyle of small tribes slaughtering each other for what little scraps the land has to give.
I figured it is because most things in nature exist in multitudes, so there being 0 indicates an absence of multitude.

For example: There are trees in this field. There are 0 trees in this field.

Singular is the special case, similar to square x rectangle relation.
dtrace.conf(24) – State of the Union [video]
Interesting idea. But those say what’s in the commit. The commit diff already tells you that. The best commit messages IMO tell you why you did it and what value was delivered. I think it’s gonna be hard for an LLM to do that since that context lives outside the code. But maybe it would, if you hook it to e.g. a ticketing system and include relevant tickets so it can grab context.

For instance, in your first example, why was that change needed? It was a fix, but for what issue?

In the second message: why was that a desirable change?
> The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute

You need to be a radical far leftist to even believe that. But then this is Reddit.
99% of paid hitmen were and are just cops. They catch plenty of people with real plans all the same.
Yes, see wiki about the website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.gov

This was after Biden's transition:
https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/20...
That's what the Belgian guideline seems to be, yeah. From what I gather, the extra costs are deductible at 120% during the first year. But it still all feels pretty shitty.
In the "old days" I'd colocate data as HTML attributes:

<div data-parent-id="1234" data-category="Article">

We'd use this data for any number of purposes to build out other little features that'd rely on the attributes.
They do in Denmark (and probably more of the EU).

If you have electric heating (resistive or heat pump, doesn't matter), you will pay €0.01 / kWh in energy tax for all electricity consumed above 4000 kWh per year.

The 4000 kWh is the "expected average" consumption for a household for a year, and of those you pay the full energy tax, which is currently DKK 0.9 / kWh including 25% VAT.

If you drive an EV, you can also get a refund for the energy tax of the electricity used to charge your car, provided you have an approved EV charger with a supported energy meter, which is most of the common chargers. You will need to enter into an agreement with a "charging company" to apply for the refund, so no individual refunds.

This of course doesn't apply if you have reduced energy tax, as you're not paying energy tax in the first place (except the first 4000 kWh)

Why €0.01 ? It's the minimum energy tax allowed by the EU, and i assume it's to avoid some spreadsheet breaking somewhere if it was 0.
It is likely due to one or both these lines:

<meta property="og:url" content="https://x.com/doge"/>
<link rel="canonical" href="https://x.com/doge"/>
What far left sources do you consider “trusted”?
Slash and burn policies from a reactionary administration that doesn't and in fact refuses to think about the second and third order consequences of their decisions.

One of the reasons a lot of people are worried about this administration is the vibes based policy decisions they seem intent on making. Everything is haphazard, arbitrary and contradictory. Some of it comes down to personal grievance and some of it comes down to favors for people in the business sphere who chose to kowtow to this administration.
> Re that link: I turned off the flags on it earlier, but it isn't a great story for HN. The way it is written is as tendentious as it gets; at minimum, we would need a more neutral source.

Yeah I get that, the link itself wasn't much. What made that thread interesting IMO was people reporting what hashtags work or don't work for them in what country, pondering possible explanations, etc. At least from my perspective, and this goes back to sites like slashdot, it's not always about what TFA can do for us, but what we can do for TFA, if you know what I mean.
And you don’t think the prosecutors consider the interests of the FBI when deciding what to prosecute? In cases where they want to use FBI evidence and probably want ongoing cooperation of the FBI for future cases?
> if you use typing outside these two scopes you'd probably find many troubles.

- encoding invariants and define valid evolutions of the codebase

- memory safety without a garbage collector (see Rust’s Affine type system)
Also discussed 30 days ago, 33 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485423
The US can't stop the wars it wants others to fight for them even if it means population collapse like in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Is this explainable in any way by the cost of running these boards? By the sound of it the cost-benefit of thwarting Salt Typhoon is probably not optimal at zero investment.
Yes. I don't want to assume an adversarial posture on this, I'm mostly an outsider, observer. I probably can't understand nuances in US domestic politics (although i am opposed to this kind of semi random behaviour by institutions, I did not see this signalled in NOG lists and the like as coming down the pipe)

So I'm wondering if this is as simple as cost/benefit? Did somebody do the sums and decide the delivery was sub par for spend?

The alternatives are mostly very sad: they're fools. Replacing a process can be beneficial. There's usually overlap.
I agree that Docker doesn't do the best job here, you can still get a lot better reproducibility than without though.

You can use specific image hashes to work around image tag changes.

For problem 2 ideally use something like NixOS as a base or at least nix package manager.

But IMO Nix is quite complicated, even though the working model is really good. So this is mostly if you really need deterministic builds.

Docker already gets you 80% of the way with 20% of the effort.
Altman said we will be amazed at the rate AI will CURE diseases. Not diagnose, not triage or help doctors but cure, ie understand at a deep fundamental, mechanistic level then devise therapies, ie drugs, combination of drugs and care practices that work. WOW.

Despite the fact that this is THE thing I'd be the happiest to see in the real world (having spent a considerable amount of my career in companies working towards this vision), we are so far from it (as anyone who actually worked on these problems will attest) that Altman's comment here isn't just overselling, it's a blatant lie about this tech's capabilities.

I guess the pitch was something like: "hey o3 can already do PhD level maths so you know in 5 years it will be able to do drugs too, and cure shit, Mr President".

Trouble is o3 can't do advanced math (or at least definitely not at the level openai claimed.. it was a lie, it turns out openai funds the dataset that measures this - ouch). And the bigger problem is, going from "ai can do maths" to "invent cures" is about a 10-100 X jump. If it wasn't, don't we think the pharma companies would have solved this by hiring lots of "really smart math guys"?

As anyone in biotech will tell you, the hard bit is not the first third of the drug discovery pipeline (where 99% of ai driven biotechs focus). It's the later parts where the rubber meets the road.. i.e. where your precious little molecule is out in the real world with real people where the incredible variability of real biological hosts makes most drugs fail spectacularly. You can't GPT your way out of this. The answers for this is not in science papers that you can just read and regurgitate a version that "solves biology and cures diseases".

To solve this you need AI but most of all you have to do science. Real science. In the lab, in vitro and in Vivo, not just in silico, doing ablation studies, overfitting famous benchmark datasets and other pseudo science shit the ML community is used to doing.

That is all to say, I'd bet we won't see a single purely AI designed novel drug in the clinic in this decade. All parts of that sentence are important. Purely AI designed. Novel. But that's for another post..

Now, back to Altman. If you watch the clip, he almost did the smart thing at first when Trump put him on the spot and said "I have no idea about healthcare, biotech (or AI beyond board room drama)" but then could not resist coming up with this outlandish insane answer.

Famously (in tech circles anyway) Paul Graham wrote more than a decade ago about Altman that he's the most strong willed individual he's ever met, who can just bend the universe to his will. That's his super skill. And clearly.. convincing SoftBank and Oracle to do this 500 billion investment for OpenAI (a non profit turned for profit) is an unbelievable achievement. I have no idea what Altman can say (or do) in board rooms that unlocks these possibilities for him.. Any ideas? Let me know!
Swiggy and Zomato in India show inflated costs on items and lists a small fraction as delivery charges, which is waived for members. Does the UK law ban this trick?
I am loathe to be a customer of Paypal and all its shady subcompanies - but they're the most-known online payment provider so we don't have a choice, and Braintree's APIs are more capable then Paypal's own.
Ask HN: What's the best or usual way to do PWAs?
I've been diving into Progressive Web Apps and while there's a wealth of resources out there, I've noticed a lack of consensus on a general approach or best practices. Some guides emphasize certain tools or techniques, while others take completely different routes, and, to be honest, they seem very old.

In your opinion, what's the best or most common way to approach building a PWA? What tech stack do you usually use for PWAs?
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If you are willing to use Apple Shortcuts on iOS it’s pretty easy to add something that will be trigged when a message is received and can call out to a service or even use SSH to do something with the contents, including replying
And in slow javashit!
Hard to square the circle with this. Trump is against China's drug imports (and more generally China's imports), but releases someone convicted of running a "import some drugs from China" business because... well crypto money. Oh money that's it. No contradiction!
I find the "why" points not appealing to me (maybe I know my way around git too much), but one:

"Partial clones
Commutation makes it possible to clone only a small subset of a repository: indeed, one can only apply the changes related to that subset. Working on a partial clone produces changes that can readily be sent to the large repository. "

OK, now I am interested.
https://gophersignal.com – I built GopherSignal!

It's a lightweight tool that summarizes Hacker News articles. For example, here’s what it outputs for this very post, "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?":

"A user inquires about the use of tiny language models for interesting applications, such as spam filtering and cookie notice detection. A developer shares their experience with using Ollama to respond to SMS spam with unique personas, like a millennial gymbro or a 19th-century British gentleman. Another user highlights the effectiveness of 3B and 7B language models for cookie notice detection, with decent performance achieved through prompt engineering."

I originally used LLaMA 3:Instruct for the backend, which performs much better, but recently started experimenting with the smaller LLaMA 3.2:1B model.

It’s been cool seeing other people’s ideas too. Curious—does anyone have suggestions for small models that are good for summaries?

Feel free to check it out or make changes: https://github.com/k-zehnder/gophersignal
I've contributed to all kinds of frontend setups; Elixir LiveView, React, Vue, Angular, HTMX and many more.

I've yet to find a frontend scripting solution that works well. My current stance is to have the frontend as thin as possible, no matter how it is written. Have your domain logic on the server output Plain-Old Data structures (JSON or similar) and render them with stateless, dumb views, be it a template, Vue, React or whatever.

A clear boundary between the domain logic and view is important. Rails templates that can basically access anything is a terrible idea.
FWIW, the two agents in the Ulbricht case, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force IV, both subsequently went to prison for corruption, money-laundering etc. which they were perpetrating at the same time as the Ulbricht investigation, and tainted a lot of other prosecutions.

[0] gives a timeline and fills in lots of details.

Article [1] describes Bridges:

> Bridges was a cryptocurrency expert [... with offshore entities, including one that he had created after pleading guilty in this case]. According to AUSA Haun, his involvement with digital currency cases across the country caused a “staggering” number of investigations to become tainted, and subsequently shut down. She told the judge at Bridges’s sentencing that the corrupt agent had been looking out for opportunities to serve seizure warrants and somehow profit from it.

> The prosecutor also said that bitcoins were still missing, and they weren’t sure if he had worked with other corrupt agents. The US Attorney’s Office seemed to imply that there had been a lot of weird (but not necessarily chargeable) stuff that was still unaccounted for.

Article [2] describes Force:

> [Force's mental health issues]... his previous undercover assignments had ended disastrously. An assignment in Denver in 2004 had ended with a DUI. A second undercover assignment in Puerto Rico had ended in 2008 with a complete mental breakdown. Force was institutionalized, and did not return to his job until 2010. He was on desk duty until 2012, when he was assigned to investigate the Silk Road.

[0]: "Investigating The Staged Assassinations Of Silk Road" 11/2021 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/inside-silk-road-staged-...

[1]: "Great Moments in Shaun Bridges, a Corrupt Silk Road Investigator" 2/2016 https://www.vice.com/en/article/great-moments-in-shaun-bridg...

[2]: "DEA Agent Who Faked a Murder and Took Bitcoins from Silk Road Explains Himself" 10//2015 https://www.vice.com/en/article/dea-agent-who-faked-a-murder...

[1] was previously posted on HN 2/2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037889
Absolutely, this is one of the main assumptions where the blog falls apart. What takes more time and carries more risk, really depends on context. Boring, but unavoidable. This is another one:

> when compared to a world where that change isn’t risky (server-rendered ERB)

Server rendered html templates a la PHP - which is what ERB is, may be not risky in this smallish project with likely a fairly straightforward UX and seasoned rails devs, but it can be risky in others for sure. I think a lot of the motivation to embrace what react began was a desire to move out of a tangled mess of spaghetti templates, to be able to use means of abstraction and modularity as powerful as regular backend code. Frontend devs want to create and use components. You cannot create a component with html templates, not really. It will be a mess.

Moving from server rendered html to an api + spa architecture has quite an overhead of course. Just like adding a separate backend service. That price should be worth it. And a good developer can judge whether in which context that is the case. But pretending the benefits that motivate such a change just never justify the costs doesn't make sense to me.

The cost of a change is a very, very complex measure. Anyone who has a simple answer to it that is universal, true and useful will win a Nobel Prize. This is because the cost depends on the person who is making it and his peers, on its effects in the future, on the project of which it is a part, on luck and on the larger ecosystem in which it is done. There are just way too many parameters.
Pretty much all criminal laws are like that since only a fraction of crimes will ever lead to an arrest we make examples out of those are caught to make others less likely to commit crimes in the future when they see the punishment. The deterrence effect is basically "risk of getting caught" * "punishment if you get caught".
I use plain PHP.