skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the difficulties Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette had in conceiving an heir:

> In a letter to his brother Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Joseph II described them as "a couple of complete blunderers."[50] He disclosed to Leopold that the inexperienced—then still only 22-year-old—Louis XVI had confided in him the course of action he had been undertaking in their marital bed; saying Louis XVI "introduces the member," but then "stays there without moving for about two minutes," withdraws without having completed the act and "bids goodnight."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette#Motherhood,_c...
If you join early, got plenty of stock options and the startup turns into a unicorn, those millions are totally possible.

Until then, naturally, it's all paper money. A bet. Maybe an investment, of your time and effort.

The majority of startups fail and the majority of startups having an IPO will not make anyone rich via stock grants.

It's definitely a safer bet to find a high paying job in a stable company.
I agree. As well as the technical merits, it seems to me to be a better match for natural human interaction. Your point about citizen-owned media is well made - in the US we seem to be seeing the near-total collapse of integrity in commercial media - on the one hand it is dismaying to watch, on the other it is as clear a call to arms as we could wish for.

It's been good to see Bluesky up its video game in response to the TikTok nonsense. I'd like to think that the Fediverse could evolve to meet the expectations of people fleeing Facebook, Twitter & co, but it's not there yet. Those of us who are highly motivated (and I am, after recent events!) will make do, but I think it needs to be easier in order to get the critical mass required.
Are you sure? I dont' remember the equivalent terms being blocked before.
I do not respect complexity. 99% of complexity is not necessary. I respect simplicity. Complexity appears naturally, there's nothing respectable about it, it's just the way world evolves. Simplicity takes lots of effort to achieve and even more effort to maintain.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
There are a number of edge cases in embedded where static variables can become unreliable. I am not saying it is common exactly but it is certainly not unheard of. I usually keep it in my list of things to check when stuff is mysteriously going wrong
Confirmed in Australia, still happening
From my understanding, localstack is for emulating actual AWS resources locally, so you can develop without relying on their cloud services. It's not intended to be used in production.
Politics aside, I wonder how you would technically implement something like that. For most practical intents and purposes, goods and services flow freely inside the EU. If your company has a legal body in say both Spain and Poland, can it procure the chips? Once it has the chips, it can simply ship them to Poland, no questions asked. What if a Spanish company buys chips, then a Polish company acquires them? Etc, I don't really see what a feasible implementation of this idea would look like.
Anarchist here. Anarchy is the practice of establishing social order without central authority, coercion, or intimidation.

This is clearly an attempt by the minority of attendees to use coercion to limit the free speech of someone they dislike.

If a minority of people reject broad consensus and to prevent any person from peacefully speaking in an assigned time slot, they are not participating in anarchy. They are simply being dicks.

Adults respect the right of their enemies to speak peacefully. Quietly hold up signs, wear T-shirts, but respect peaceful free speech. Next year submit your own talk with an alternative prespective to try to form consensus on why billionaires and or companies with higher-than-x carbon emissions should be unwelcome, or propose an alternative method to gain broader community consensus on approving talks
Similar background here although I stayed on in academia a bit longer. I find the same, I'm working on not very challenging problems a lot of the time. I found a decent compromise in working on engineering software with some physics and maths involved, but it's not world beating in terms of salaries.
In other words, this suggests nearly all the population are posers/pretenders some of the time…?
My prediction: as European countries feel increasingly estranged from the US they will gravitate towards China. Some recent statements from Trump makes you wonder there is any friendliess remaining in the relationship. Perhaps better to play out US and China against each other, a little bit like Turkey acts visavi NATO on one hand and Russia on the other.
So many issues with Rekordbox and their vendor lock-in. I can't even reliably export songs on a flash drive and have it showing up in their CDJ. It's honestly time to take the Pioneer giant down.
On the last point:

"The industry has matured. The low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era has largely been picked, making truly innovative opportunities harder to find."

It is a repeating pattern in history that people think technology and science have reached a dead end. Michelsen (falsely attributed to Kelvin) declared principles of physics were already established before quantum mechanics. Watson said there was demand for maybe five computers in the world. These inevitably tend to be wrong because they misunderstand the dynamics of progress. Because technology is fractal, every invention spawns several others. The explosion of web was built on top of a lot of technology, and has supported a lot of technology too. Being an app or website has lots some of its initial novelty, but really this novelty was lost many years ago. Web itself has spawned many other frontiers - like innumerable frameworks, databases, languages etc. Those will spawn their own, etc.
Well US needs our AI experts to work in US and for US not in PL. Wojciech Zaremba or Piotr Sankowski and others.
> I'd be astounded if there were not a far greater proportion of people who are here because they are generically interested in tech topics and not specifically startups

This is certainly me. Generally interested in tech (and many of the other things that HNers seem to be interested in these days), but no real interest in startups. Hope I am not ruining HN for the old timers.

I started using this place a lot more in the last couple of years as Reddit went to shit, so I suspect that was a big driving force in changing the audience here.
By way of background, we sell STEM electronics hardware that has really low margin because it's designed to be excessively priced for education.

This need to be extremely efficient has caused us to do all sorts of things, like create shipping and fulfillment robots that pick products from the shelf and help our pickers and packers out[1].

I found that it's a lot harder to do things with atoms than just software. As a company, we have been able to automate a bunch of work that would have been previously done by an office admin. I believe this style of white-collar jobs is particularly vulnerable to automation.

I have two main concerns. One is that the folks with white-collar jobs that would buy our products will no longer have the economic means to do so. The second is, well, a lot of our products are STEM-based, and I'm worried that educators will no longer feel the need to teach coding and electronics, because in the future there may be the view that such work will simply be done by machines, and all what a student really needs to be able to learn to do is learn how to communicate in a clear manner using english...

1. https://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/pages/the-raspberry-pi-...
> Despite what you might read in the news, occupancy per household is LOWER than it has been for a long time.

It has nothing to do with what I read on the news. It is simply numbers. You can come up with all these crazy schemes to increase supply which probably won't happen, or you could reduce demand that could literally be done tomorrow if they wanted to.
> there’s no border checks in Schengen area

This is no longer true, they've done a "Temporary Reintroduction of Border Control", and bunch of countries have implemented more control as of late. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...
Thankyou for this comment. The GFC is a complicated subject; there WAS a lot of reprehensible behavior, but it's often not correctly identified because people like simple problems with clear villains.

The history of Anglo-Irish Bank is an even more interesting story; Sean Quinn is one of the few bankers who was actually jailed, even if only for a short time.
And if they are not worthless in general, they are worthless for you since you will get squeezed out because funders and founders need to take everything since they are the only ones who matter or do any work (/s obviously).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
I doubt Lithuania has the budget to buy enough chips for the cap to matter.
It sounds like you were a bootstrapped solo founder in all of these cases? That’s the riskiest path, there are lots of other ways to navigate a career in startups that are not quite so brutal in odds or in emotional toll. (In the United States at least)

I have had a decently long career in startups (closing in on 30 years) and never once was a founder, in part because I always wanted to make a decent salary. Being an early employee at a decently funded startup has been a great tradeoff for me and my family. Even if all the equity over the years had amounted to nothing, I’d still have had few reasons to regret this path.
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Wait till you see Docker!
Did you mean "concerning to me"?
Same in Colombia, too
>any Polish citizen can set up company in Germany buy the chips and legally drive them over the border

They wouldn't be breaking EU law in doing so, but whoever supplied this Polish citizen would be breaching the terms of their US export license or license exception. Germany has been granted a license exception specifically because the BIS trusts them to prevent this from happening.

A company in Poland is not prevented from importing advanced GPUs, but they need to apply for either a license or a Validated End-User Authorization. Likewise, Poland could apply to be recognised as an eligible destination country on the same terms as Germany if they can provide written assurances to the US government that they have taken adequate steps to prevent diversion.

I'm not a fan of these rules, but I think they're being misrepresented.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00636.pdf
I guess once you have the permits it doesnt matter. With the nilered vids, they were more of the more hypergolic variety
That's why we have a text of law and jurists that came up with more rigorous definitions. I basically gave you the shortest tldr of a tldr of the subject. I can only recommend you read up on it more, because this really isn't the censorship tool you make it up to be.
Is it though? Instinctively the initial choice and the last remaining door have the same odds of 1/100.
> it violates various architectural principles, for example, from the point of view of our business logic, there's no such thing as "tenant ID"

I'm not sure I understand how hiding this changes anything. Could you just not pass "tenant ID" to doBusinessLogic function and pass it to saveToDatabase function?
Which size is good for a Nvidia 4070?
The code challenge scam: they tried to hack me on a technical interview
The article is --per usual-- not warranting the scope of the title. A more accurate title would be: Some literature possibly used in educating aristocratic English women about sex. The subtitle then would be: while simultaneously plugging my own book.
They are dodging a bubble and don't even know it.
If America thinks it can base future prosperity on the AppStore and AI, it should think again, because actual innovations are needed, and this low-hanging-fruit tech-bro-fantasy investment cakewalk will not provide anything but pain upon the inevitable comedown and disillusionment. You will not be able to sell products nor services with the term AI anywhere near them in the very near future. (already the case amongst a certain percentage of us)
> React is as fundamental as JavaScript itself

Wow, that's very delusional. React is very popular but can't be compared to JS. JS is THE scripting language of the web with backwards compatibility going back to 3 decades ago. You NEED JS if you want interactivity in your website. React is nowhere near there. React won't disappear but it is likely that at some point it will become the new jQuery (present in many websites, used sometimes and regularly maintained) and people will use simpler tech like svelte
I wonder if you could dangle the star tracker below the drone on a long string, decoupling its attitude from the attitude of the drone. A kevlar or spectra string capable of supporting 100 grams would be 20μm in diameter; 3 meters of it would weigh a milligram, which is significantly less than gimbals. A small weight a couple of meters below the star tracker on a carbon-fiber-composite rod would seem to be able to stabilize its attitude further except in yaw.
Sure, it is optional, but I've seen the unnecessary complexity seep into codebases over time, even though the software was originally elegant and simple.

I'm not sure if such perversions exist, it's been a while already since I touched TypeScript. To me the whole system seems perverted in the sense that an inexperienced developer can easily make things unnecessarily complex.
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You know, I'd love to run MSVC in Wine on a ubuntu container. I bet it would be quicker.

I've had the unfortunate pleasure of working with Windows Containers in the past. They are Containers in the sense that you can write a dockerfile for them, and they're somewhat isolated, but they're no better than a VM in my experience.

> And in any case, you can use VMs instead of containers.

They're not the same thing. If that's the case running linux AMI's on EC2 should be the same as containers.
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Coding Assistants – Friend or Foe?
While these are all valid, I'm surprised it doesn't include "it's possible Hacker News userbase demographics have shifted over the past 12 years" as an additional contributing factor.
Is this the entire industry or just ycombinator?

I get the sense that they’ve been dramatically ramping up volume which inevitably has an impact on quality
As a Pole I find it sad but I'm not surprised at all over this decision.
The material changes shape based on the amount of humidity in the air. The article doesn’t explain how that makes it respond to sunlight, which is what their demonstration system does. I didn’t think sunlight and humidity were always correlated. Am I missing something obvious?
I've seen it very clearly with my naked eyes in Argentina. One prerequisite though - it was 5500m high on Aconcagua camp (we camped also in 6000m but sky was the last thing I was concerned about there). Any decent mountain ie in European alps will give you massively starry night if sky is clear, but that place was a notch above.

Those few unfortunates who died on 8000m peaks by ie getting lost and had the chance to see a starry night must have seen quite a spectacle.
It wasn't a kitchen sink that he carried tho it was a bathroom sink... ah well he wouldn't know the difference...
That argument would make more sense if they did not include Poland, the biggest per capita spender and a staunch US ally.
okay lets see

hand placement is that of the Hitler salute

arm placement is that of the Hitler salute

high of the hand is that of the Hitler salute

placement of hand before doing the salute is that of the Hitler salute

even his speech before indicates it's a Hitler salute:

"This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead"

Now this part needs a bit more explanation: The Hitler salute proper name is "Sieg Heil" which yes meas to "Hail!" someone. But it also literally translated means "victory heal".

The meaning here was to "heal" Germany (which include taking over territories in the twisted interpretation of Nazis) but also to "heal" Germany (from Jews, queer people, disabled people etc. by killing them. It also was all about creating a unified fascist Germany under Hitler. It was also about projecting power and that it's a new Germany.

I.e. "new beginning/new Germany", "heal", "unify", "let's make it grate again" (to use modern lingo) where the core aspects of "Sieg Heil" just with very perfidy interpretations of heal and unify. But then taking otherwise well meaning symbolism (e.g. the swastika) and then appropriating it and turning it into something evil was the standard mode of operation of Nazis.

So he makes a Hitler salute after saying things which Hitler (in slightly different words due to language changing over time) would have said (before going full maks off let's kill all yews).

I rally don't know how anyone could interpret it as not being a nazi salute, that would be supper naive/self blinding/foolish.

Now the more interesting interpretation is does it mean he is a Nazi?

Well probably no.

Nazi is a very specific term, and there are many other kinds of fascism which aren't Nazis (which to be clear "different" doesn't contain a judgement. It neither implies "better" nor "worse").

Through what it is is a very clear statement of "I'm a fascist" and/or "I idolizes at least some aspects of Nazi Germany".

Which, let's be honest, shouldn't surprise anyone who followed what he was doing in roughly the last year.
Yeah, I assume they're trying to exclude outlier/inauthentic activity, but for things of regional interest, you're going to get differing access patterns.
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I would absolutely embrace AI if the means of production was owned collectively, not by the few privileged.

It seems to me, that the path we are on will lead us closer to a Terminator-like future, and less likely to lead to a positive future.

Our leadership are greedy fools.
You can just put the datacentre in Germany or the Netherlands and use it in Poland.
If you convert an int into a string, then yes, I would do the same. But counting digits alone is also useful (e.g. when aligning many numbers in a column).
FWIW on HN circa 2012 when I joined, there were people I thought were biz heroes who posted here and that made the place feel smaller, and that dynamic is gone I think. I’m not sure it can be manufactured again either, in the age of personal brands

Plus I think in 2025 people might be too negative and less likely to break the mold socially than in 2012. However I think that’s also an exploitable situation ‘cause it means less smart people trying to compete against you?
In the 80's I was an exchange student to Germany. Any time I talked with somebody's grandparents about WWII, they all said the same thing: we had no idea what Hitler was planning and we had no idea what was happening.

Chyeah. After this is all over (and it will eventually be over, but at God-only-knows what cost) after this is all over NOBODY is going to be able to say they didn't know what was happening.
So you don't respect semicon, airplanes, electricity transmission and distribution, running water... What do you respect then?
So you realise it's not a Wikipedia article, but also you are concerned that it is not a Wikipedia article?
They're just checking for illegal immigration though, right? Not like they'll care about GPUs going across the border.
All valid this isn't a trick question I'm truly curious if it was up to you how would civil rights leaders have gone about protesting? Or a group of people that just experienced genocide?

Because in your framework they would be disruptors so what is the right way to do things?

I was raised by a cult may be dead soon I dont't have any sense of agency anything I do feels wrong so I'm truly curious
I don't see your points contradicts the article in any way, it describes more variables in the scenario. The problem is the scale and the darwinist concepts.

For example, while (1) is totally correct, you need ten of thousands of startups to have a few ones that are acquired by big companies. The need of big corps doesn't estimulate the creation of startups if incentives are not aligned.
“Managed hosting” implies that someone else will manage the servers for you, but that doesn’t preclude you owning the servers.
There is a page with the details of what they retrieve/store: https://www.helloquitx.com/How-is-your-personal-data-process...

They essentially rely on you sharing the follower.js/following.js file from your data dump.
Brzezinski wrote about US not wanting an integrated Eurasia (the heartland), so that Europe can be more dependant on the US. Germany used to have more integration which make its industry thrive because it can take advantage of Russia's cheap energy and China's industrial goods for its industry. Ukraine war completely changed that, which marks the first time since World War II that Germany has faced two consecutive years of economic decline.
For my thesis I trained a classifier on text from internal messaging systems and forums from a large consultancy company.

Most universities have had their own corpora to work with, for example: the Brown Corpus, the British National Corpus, and the Penn Treebank.

Similar corpora exist for images and video, usually created in association with national broadcasting services. News video is particularly interesting because they usually contain closed captions, which allows for multi-modal training.
Did you read the article? The author's and your points are entirely tangential.
Your internet provider is also a private company. Do you think it should be free to censor you and close your contract if you visit websites they don't agree with?
Or in UK, or in the US (latency doesn't matter that much in case of LLMs). That would all be in line with the policy that restricted physical movement of these chips.
> It's like getting mad at your friend for making a chess engine when stockfish exists

Making a chess engine (or anything!) when others exist when the goal is wanting to get into learning how chess engines work is very different to making one with the explicit intention of releasing it into the public domain as a tool/dependency that is used by thousands or millions, needs constant updates and support, works differently than the others while accomplishing the same underlying goals, looks mostly similar but also different enough to be annoying, and is arguably just a different opinion (not necessarily worse or better) on how to structure a project at roughly the same level of abstraction.

Frameworks also are not just tools in the sense that you use them to accomplish a task N times, they end up as a foundational layer in a project, with the benefits and costs of that.
There is a part in the Life of Brian, where Brian
"helps"/intervenes in a complex assembly/manufacturing operation, which results,instantly, in chaos and destruction. The scripting and effort to film that short piece must have required a true understanding of complexity, and what happens when it isn't recognised and respected.
Unfortunately, complexity, and the respect for profesionalism, is weaponised, to produce, mountains(litteral) of junk, that then has to be payed for once, and then again when it proves to be junk, and then a third time to get rid of, and
fourth and fifth, pehaps to get strait.