skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Scheinselbständigkeit" (false self-employment, which is a huge issue for start-ups and self-employed people in Germany)

Can you provide more details about this? How is this a problem and why does it affect startups?
I did exactly that, and it was very close to the actual sklearn output.
cool idea! i'm a bit curious about the Idea Viability Score. What does it mean?
You would prefer to create a new account on every blog you visit and wish to comment on?
Most people don't want a mass of game changers.

They want durabilty and reliabilty.
Technically, LLM can be a parser, if you tell it to output its findings in another data format, as:

A parser is a software component that takes input data (typically text) and builds a data structure
This is ridiculous. The DOGE of fusion.
…which currently impossible capabilities, businesses, applications does the allegedly missing fast internet allow?
the download links are all broken. try

https://ultima5.ultimacodex.com/ultima-5-lazarus/
This is key. LLMs will cheat and just look up training data whenever it can. Needs to be actively countered if one is to make it "reason".
How long did it take you from start to finish?

In Australia, Canada and the US I can open a company in about 30 minutes from picking the name to opening a bank account I can get money into.

In Germany the last time I tried it was about 7 weeks.
Hmm not yet in one of the departments but if I write a list like
- made coffe
- drank coffee
- fart contest on reddit
- ...

, will I get some months of income from the agency and a layoff? I guess that would be some good income. Maybe do this for some departments and invest + party.
I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.

I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.
I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and outline main themes of it

https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/

Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors
I am a paying user of both Claude AI and ChatGPT, I think for the use case you mention ChatGPT would have done better than Claude. At $20/month I recommend that you try it for the same use case. o1 might have succeeded where Claude failed.
I bought and worked through Let’s Go by Alex Edwards and found it really good and re-use lots of the code ideas and structure in other projects - link (no affiliate) https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/
Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails
To reduce an interface like macOS to its superficial appearance is to misunderstand what an interface is. The problem with "mimic" themes is that aesthetic similarity implies functional similarity, which no theme gets anywhere close to replicating.
Out of my frustration with resume builders, I decided to build one that has no login, no signup, and no payment.

Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template and colour and download.

https://resumeyay.com
Root notation isn't really _concealing_ anything. The fact that it's mostly equivalent to exponentiation by half is a theorem. Do we need to admit that 2 is concealing 1+1, thus making the game impossible?

Given the prevalence of quadratic polynomials over higher-order ones, sqrt does feel somewhat more fundamental than arbitrary exponentiation.

Lots of people have pointed out the farcity of the game after allowing fancy functions, but IMHO, there is a lot of fun in just finding satisfying solutions, without the need for specific rule limitations.
Blinky.

PS: We used character names from The Simpsons' for computer hostnames at a nuclear engineering consultancy I worked at in the 90's.
What if it turns out that the radical (square root) symbol is a letter from a language (if a little squished)? And we somehow figure out one day which letter it is, for sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_symbol#Origin
Yeah but it's mac and windows only, no?
Working with docker images...
Usually blogs don't require creating an account to leave comments. Why present this false alternative when the common thing to do is just leaving a comment without creating an account?
I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.
> using Azure and Microsoft 365 technology

then they didn't do what the article is suggesting
I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI... still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
It's a company that seems to care more about craftsmanship than becoming the next big thing.
Cool idea :)
We'll see how Germany reacts. Maybe the fascist party will offer German cannon fodder
I’ve gotten a few emails about my blog and without exception they’ve all made my week.
I have worked for a couple of those as well.

Super interesting niche products, that were crucial for people's day to day work, sustainable work pace, always shipping interesting features every other week. A lot of focus on quality (the QA:Dev ratio was 1:1 in one of those for example).

A lot different from the "we must rule the world or die" from regular startups outside Germany. Incidentally one of those companies I was in just died, after getting from 50-90 (when I was there) to 900 employees. I'm glad I left before the decline.
> Sorry, what exactly is nonsense about the linked paper?

Basically, that everybody is just trying to displace poor natives with pollution.

> Dream big!

Yeah, that's the part that is cringe and naïve. Adult people kinda need learn to distinguish between dreams and reality. And actually work on improving the reality.
We must stop associating the European economy with the German economy.
It's that or sortition.
Fellow Kiwi? The tone of your comment makes it sound to me like you disagree with me but I agree with everything you are saying.

I am usually a traditionalist but on this one I think the tradition to follow is the English one. I prefer the traditional English pronunciation of Latin (so "caveat" is "kay-vee-it"). Hell, I would prefer if we still nativised foreign loanwords and names: Saint Peter wasn't called "Peter" obviously, but I don't speak Greek or Aramaic or whatever. Peking isn't what the Chinese call it but neither is "Bayzhing" which is how English people pronounce Beijing, and so on. Plus now "Peking duck" doesn't make any sense...

(grumble)
If you can’t find something to accuse from the SEVENTEEN “areas of focus” they’ve already designated in the law then I would argue you lack the creativity and thirst for power needed to climb the ranks as a politician.
In lower Austria we would call this a "Burzen" -> Apfelburzen. But this is colloquial and somewhat outdated.

It's from https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Apfelbutzen
I’m working on two main things right now.

1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in reality a lot of different industries use it for different things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your team that I’ve been rewriting in Rust. Didn’t necessarily intend that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough that I kept on replacing stuff.

https://www.kollaborate.tv (current version on cloud is not the Rust version, but on-prem is)

2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way of time-tracking employees. So I’m working on a system to use their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they’re connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing appears to not exist. I’m still working on it so it’s not anywhere public right now.
It might also be a successful recipe- you let a startup become the next big thing, then it ruins it as a mega cooperation- and you just cook up the same thing with paid for quality and slowly hover up there fleeing customers. Slow and steady wins the race?
It's worse than that. Romania is #43 by GDP in the global ranking. There's faster internet compared to Germany in: Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Jordan, Panama, Ecuador, Moldova, etc.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-...
What we need in Europe, is protectionism both against US companies and Chinese companies. They have been funded by both country's heavily deficitary budgets and incentives.

Just fining Meta and Google a few billions every year isn't enough. Need to either tax all that digital pollution they bring over here.

And now they clearly aren't our partners anymore. With China not sharing democratic values and wanting to invade Taiwan, and the US setting up a trade war against us and at the same time siding with our enemy Russia that has just invaded Ukraine...

We need to have our own tech, for everything.

Similar to what US is doing against China, we should have a strong position against both of them. And one that strikes close at heart in the US are the Big Techs.

It's hilarious that we don't let even Fanta be sold with the terrible chemical formula it has here in the EU, like they have in the US.

But when it's about manipulating people's opinions with the US's social networks and communication apps. We are ok with that.

I'm sure anybody nowadays can build similar software than Meta or Google did. Even now more with AI search being so good.
... and in extension about Microsoft. When it comes to Rust they definitely talk the talk but do that walk the walk too?
I've been building Tailcolors lately, a TailwindCSS color palette: https://tailcolors.com

Just recently actually I published a Chrome extension for it too, so you can access and copy all the Tailwind CSS colors directly from an extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind...
There are a lot of such companies already in Germany. Basically most small/medium sized IT companies in Germany fit that classification. So I don't really see how this is now a new approach. And I'm also not sure what is proposed here to be done now. Invest more into IT infrastructure? That's a goal that many parties claim to do since many years. Many people fully agree with this. However, currently, the main topic in Germany is again immigration. Second topic is economy, but the opinions on how to improve economy widely varies. Many of the more traditional parties want to invest more into car companies.
> Financing North Korea's nuclear missile program

...hail hydra
> Not really. One group was literally wiped out. And Shawnee were just one group.

Does that make them any different? My ancestors were nearly wiped out several times before, although much earlier in the history.

The same applies pretty much to any group of humans.

> My people lived under imperial colonial rule. Cool we got railroads but trillions looted and millions killed in famines.

"Trillions looted" is another example of hypocrisy.

> Just because some people sold out their own doesn’t forgive the sin of the atrocities brought forth that set generations back.

And the notion of "generational sin" is another example of hypocrisy.
140 IQ: LLMS are magic ... token predictors that can output structured content
In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro (https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west.

https://reminder.dev
>Shawnee language

>Native speakers 100-200 (2024)

Imagine knowing every single speaker of your language personally. You could invent neologisms and make them spread quickly.
We're putting too much focus on popularity and celebrity candidates, and then masses of uneducated people (compared to the knowledge of average Europeans) pseudo-vetting clowns. Instead, we should have a large pool of vetted potential candidates (drawn from, say, all lawyers, architects, professional engineers, doctors, and similar professionals) who are chosen at random through sortition to fill the most contentious roles for 2 years, one and only one time. The roles then become functionary administrators like city managers, but on a larger scale. No more political parties, no more plutocracy, no more drama.
>`It is also one of the fundamental mechanisms by which the human brain operates.

One of the fundamental mechanisms by which brains operate. The bits we share with every other animal with a brain,

good luck teaching your dog to code.

being great at fetching your newspaper in the morning doesn't mean its going to wake up and write you an accounting software package at the end of the year.
The hardest thing is competing with free. Well funded startups can "dump" free products and services into the market to kill competition and capture the market. Large corporations also dump open source into the market to commoditize their compliments or kill competition.

Dumping is illegal in a lot of commodities markets and physical goods industries but it's standard operating practice in software. It's hard to even imagine how different the software world would look if dumping were at least regulated.
For future readers, note that those 3x and 10x figures are compared to vLLM's own previous release, and NOT compared to Deepseek's implementation.

I am very curious to see how well-optimized Deepseek's code is compared to leading LLM serving softwares like vLLM or SGLang.
Durability and reliability on consumer products doesn't make you a lot of money. See consumer Sennheiser headphones. Hence why they divested the business because they weren't making much money compared to the ewaste Bluetooth earbud manufacturers.

Turns out if you make products that last forever, you end up with less sales in the long run putting you out of business when your customer base values the c convenience of cheap modern ewaste versus pricey things that last forever.
Show HN: I built a Video Generator to help create faceless videos
I've been a programmer for a long time. For some time now, I've wanted to create videos. I tried recording and editing but turns out I am really bad at it and so I tried creating faceless videos by searching or creating various images using AI Image Generators and then programmatically creating a video from those image frames and found it very easy. This gave me the idea to automate the entire process and create a tool out of it. It is still a very basic version and I have some ideas to improve upon it which I am working on. Would love to hear some feedbacks.
When I publish something I like not shouting into the void so I want comments , but I also don't want to give a platform to anyone and everyone on my blog.

What works best for me is to add a link to the fediverse, linkedin and sometimes HN threads of comments when I publish a post. It's also a very low tech solution :)

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/06-welcoming-feedback/
Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better. AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax

https://lookbetterai.com
Gwynne Shotwell, not Musk, runs Space-X. She is very good at it. She really is a rocket scientist.
All of those are the opposite of Mittelstand. Those are old German megacorps, trying to do everything.
This is still arguing about semantics. Switzerland, the poster child argument of gun culture enthusiasts saying "but also they all have guns" had zero such events, whichever way you choose to define them, above or below 4 killed persons. And nobody cares about the exact number anyway outside the "nah we're fine" group, indeed they just want it safer.
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
And in case people think this is just propaganda, I can vouch for this as someone that lived in China for a few years as a foreigner and currently live in the UK.

Everyone does it, it's normal, even police do it… I am much more concerned about going afoul of the government here in the uk than back in china
The only animal Australians are afraid of? A bird
No the OP, but Scheinselbstständigkeit is one of the scarecrows of freelancers and their clients in Germany. It is actually not very difficult, but in certain cases it is very limiting. If you can read German, here is a handy reference sheet, which is distributed by virtually all tax advisors [1].

[1] https://www.sup-kanzlei.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Scheinselbs...
This sort of thing starts at a WAY younger age than people imagine too. I'm 30 and used to not be able to stand up from sitting on the ground without grunting and effort.

Got a dog. Sit on the floor to play with him all the time. Can now stand up from sitting on the ground without effort or grunting or using my arms to push myself up.
Most businesses aren't going to be well-capitalized startups. Because that kind of capital usually goes to businesses that can scale very quickly and to a large size.

But say I have an idea for a business, where the total number of customers worldwide is 100. The max number of employees ever sustainable by this business is, say, 50. But to reach that would take 20 or 30 years of organic growth , maybe a bit less with huge investment. It's what most businesses look like. It's not going to attract a ton of startup money. But it's also not going to be out-competed by a startup.
Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a Linux version still alive though, try searching for "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
Smuggling is normally thought of as hiding something when crossing a border/checkpoint. In this case, it would simply be nvidia violating US sanctions. The goods would have never entered or exited the USA so it's a strange or incorrect use of the word smuggling.
What if one if the integers is significantly larger than the rest?
I'm not sure it was even human.
The notes clearly say that it only shows one meaning, and I it would be more difficult (five years ago before LLMs I would have just said impossible) to discern between different meanings of a word and pick the proper one.

Edit: "translation" -> "meaning".
Government is already intervening, you think people are going at only 46 kmh because of goodwill?
Well, if you employ self-employed people in your company and after a while you or they get audited and it turns out that you are their only customer, the will be classified as employees of your company. As a result you may have to pay social insurance, pension fees, etc. for the all time they have been working for you, which can be a hefty sum and may break your neck as a small company. Oh another problem that I had not mentioned is that it's extremely difficult to fire people once you have reached a certain size (I think 10 employees or something).

One of the most important rules in Germany for startups: Employ as few people as possible. And I am not joking.
Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux
The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters.
Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
The USA is really on another level than many other nations in its lack of respect for treaties, at least in modern times. Anyone who signs an agreement with the USA should really expect at most 3-4 years of validity, depending where in the election cycle it was signed.
I guess my response was to how I read your comment fitting in with the higher level discussion. My main point is that many of these algorithms are intuitive, and kids learn these much earlier than when they learn formal programming (which might typically be in their teens).

Looking over your comment again, I also don't dispute that linear search and sorting are simpler -- even toddlers learn these.
I think you got this wrong. Laws against Scheinselbständigkeit are protecting individuals from being exploited, and it's one of the things that characterizes the EU.

Don't forget that outside of Europe, most big economies were built on the ongoing exploitation of the working class. I am not saying this didn't happen in Europe, but at least there are efforts to curb this.

So a CIO complaining that he can't exploit people for cheap labour is not an argument for broken IT laws. It's an argument for seeing that it works as intended.
Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential, feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
No, it's not that extreme. If the offset comes from a zone where air quality is already "good enough", no extra lives are saved, so it's still net negative.
Oh, I didn't know about Bencode. It looks interesting. Thank you for sharing!
I am worried that the good people at SpaceX might decide to abandon ship because of the Musk association. The money might be good, the work fantastic and exciting, but at some point saying "I work at SpaceX/Tesla/whatever" will become dangerous to one's health?

Musk put good people in charge of some of these companies, Gwynne Shotwell is a great example, but his sphere if influence is big enough that the collateral damage could be significant.
If you're using ChatGPT or the Assistants API w/ managed tools (I dont remember if this is even available for o3-mini), it has access to a python execution tool.
I'd go for AI! The problem I have with Civ is that they create these really sort of interesting and elaborate systems, but they've clearly long surpassed the capabilities of their AI systems to the point that the only way to create the illusion of competitiveness is with giving the AI ever more massive cheat bonuses (200% faster research, 200% more resources per tile, etc type stuff).

That really ruins the 'real' game and creates this sort of meta layer where you're specifically aiming to compete against these cheat bonuses rather than actually playing the game. It'd be analogous to a really weak chess AI trying to create the facade of challenge by randomly giving itself a new pawn every 2 turns, a a knight every 5 turns, and a rook every 20.
That is a very good way of shooting yourself in the foot

Now every API call is a "call to an LLM"? How much will that cost? Oh and how are you calling the LLM API in the first place?
They hijacked our flow state
I agree that it is important to use the word fascist accurately, but it is also not not as well defined as you say. There is a reasonable case for calling China fascist. It has a cult of personality, state control of the economy, nationalism, racism, elimination of minority cultures. It is far more like Germany, Italy or Spain the in the 1930s than it is like Stalinist Russia.
It most certainly is not easy, especially compared to other countries.
Definitely want this kind of thing.
yep, that was the joke!