skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, https://agentwebfactory.com is my project service that creates directories and websites.
Agreed about the content, it is too AI created, and can certainly fuel distain.
Mmm point taken about the crediting - my bigger goal with this is to actually build a PNG to SVG tool.
Thanks so much for the feedback.
macOS application to create DMG installers for your .app file
I am launching new macOS application for developers. It's a GUI app to create DMG installers

This is first time I am selling something for developers (very tech savy people)
And knowing that tech savy people (including me) are not avoiding, but even preffering using command-line interface (even if it takes more time initially) I am eager to find out if somebody will be interested. Regular users will not need this obviously

I needed DMG installer for my other projects, so what I used is Disk Utility / command line tools After each app update I need to crate new DMG installer so I created this app just to make it faseter
This is just a first iteration, I am open for feedback/feature requests
Fastmail and Kagi. And I'm very happy with both.
I wish there was a mode to force Errors to automatically capture traces & print them as part of the chain on panic. Would save a lot of time when debugging & let you force libraries into supporting it.
Don't worry about the trolls, everyone else just flags them.
That doesn't really work as long as you have legislation like the CLOUD Act, which means EU-based businesses have to think twice about using any US providers, especially if they handle sensitive customer data and also since the DPF is on the way out.
Because US proved itself to be an unreliable partner.
Shouldn't this be illegal?

Price dumping in international trade is already illegal, like when China floods the market with electric cars and solar panels.

And I only wonder why EU has put up so long with price dumping in other domains. Like the whole Microsoft world domination strategy that was made possible by intentionally lousy enforcement of its IP.
People forget what free speech really is though. The most important point is a contract with the government: that they hold a monopoly on the ability to censor and control speech. That any other group who threatens anyone for their speech must be dealth with using even hand of the force of law by the government/legal regime.

Mobs suppressing your free speech is never ok. It is a sign of a government that is no longer in power.

It is unclear exactly what these students are worried about ... the details should be provided. Are they discussing the organization of violent resistance for example? Or are they merely worried that simple discussion of government policy will somehow land them in jail. The latter seems ridiculous but it is worth hearing them out in detail.

And somehow in all of this, people on one side are forgetting the numerous attempts at assasination. And the successful assasination of a CEO. Regardless of your political angles, the risk is severaly one sided by any empirical measure right now. To dismiss this is to remove yourself from serious discussion.
Great to see a directory like this starting to include physical products. I'd be interested in having some extra datapoints to help with decision making:

- How much of the product/company's supply chain is in EU (to get an idea of just how European the product is, is it made here or abroad)

- Some way to show if the company is paying "fair" tax in EU (or are profits shifted abroad)

These are difficult datapoints to get, but I wonder if there can be some sort of "community notes" where this data can be crowd sourced and updated on the directory.
If you want to go theoretical one would argue that this effort is precisely what you ask for: one link in the global chain has become inefficient and this page is the result of the system routing around it.
There is also nanoFramework which is an open-source continuation of .Net Micro Framework to bring .NET to MCUs.
Yes, sorry to fuel the fire a bit.
Its hard to know how to handle this now, LLMs have made content cheap, and anyone is going to make it.
One can argue whether stack traces should be enabled for production (at least on all servers) given they're relatively expensive to create. Which isn't a problem if they're exceptional, but in a lot of cases they aren't.
Cool anecdote, for me it has slowed me down 8x to 23x since I started using it in real projects with real customers in a real code base last year.

So 1-1 in pointless personal anecdotes.
Now show us the numbers! How did you measure this? Can u show 2x/5x increase in projects/orders/profits/stock price?
Why? Because it's reacting to the current US trade policies.

The EU is realizing that one of their major trade partner, who they trusted with critically important goods and services, might pull the rug under their feet.

Not to mention that the EU in itself is already a huge achievement in terms of free trade agreements between EU countries.
> It is unclear exactly what these students are worried about

> They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them.

hth.
This would make more sense. It's a very different problem if trans people "can't get passports anymore" vs being able to get their preferred gender on a passport.
I would say clickhouse
> or most any legacy carmarker's touchscreen UI

Cars do not need touchscreens to operate.
They never had to so far and worked just fine.
Hetzner has been the cheapest big option when you just want raw servers for at least a decade, and e.g. Scaleway is pretty similar in price to US based providers.
It is my understanding that the VSCode team uninstalled this from the marketplace service, as in, it was remotely uninstalled. I just opened my VSCode on an old laptop that had extensions from this actor and everything under his publishing account got removed.
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to GPT-4o
I would love to see it too. Also relations with for profit companies as well.

But how much a CEO of a company like this should make?
It seems quite lot of work and one needs to make a living. But how much would be fair in your opinion?

I honestly have no idea
Yes, and ideally we would have no wars, either. But because of fucking psychos like Putin, Trump, Xi Jinping and many more, we do. Therefore, unfortunately, it makes sense for EU to decrease their economic dependence on outside players like the US and China.
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Yep, point taken. I wanted to try the easiest thing to completely build a directory only using my own agents, and other AI tools.
Ultimately I'd like to build some kind of software based on feedback and traffic.
This only makes sense in a simplified world of academic economics.
> A broader outcome of this enlightenment is preference for monolithic products. Stack traces fare poorly across web service and API boundaries. If you've only ever worked with microservice architectures, the notion of a stack trace may seem distracting.

Yes. People forget that the original concept of microservices, the AWS "everything must have an API", was to put in an accountability boundary across teams. Either the API behaves per its contract or it does not, you're neither expected nor really allowed to cross that boundary into the API to find out why it's doing that.

In an environment which is correctly doing "each microservice is a different small team", that helps. In an environment which is doing "one team maintains lots of microservices", this is nearly always an anti-pattern.
Productivity gains decrease exponentially after a few weeks as your engineering skills become rusty very fast (yes, they do, in 100% cases)

Thats the biggest part everyone misses. It’s all sunshine and rainbows until in a month you realize you start asking llm to think for you and at that point the code becomes shit and degrades fast.

Like with everything else “use it or lose it”

If you don’t code yourself- you will lose the ability to properly so it very fast, and you won’t realize it until too late
I made Flowqy to make web scraping super easy. You just enter a website, tell it what data you need, and it grabs it for you—no coding or proxies needed.

I’ve been using it for things like lead generation, and now I’d love to hear what you think. How would you use something like this? Any ideas on how to make it better?
$ wget -qO - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... | pdftotext - - | grep -i banner | wc -l

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What’s the Simplified Chinese for “never?”?
Finally the people of the european nations have started to invest where they always should have invested, in their own infrastructure and companies.
Mapping between reactive variable and DOM element. I first heard this term in Million.js docs, but it explains very well what most 'reactive' frameworks are doing. For example, a Signal creates the mapping at runtime on first render.
No, that alone does not make it a worker-owned coop.
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?
Been hacking away on projects and programming since I was 7 years old (covering engineering side). Medical school came later as a backup and also a passion, but also because my vision to impact a billion people seems most attainable through the combination of innovation in tech+healthcare.
I mostly agree with you, but nowadays codec blocks are mostly h.265 and ac3 :( They are smart as they will just do a little bit more things in a new codec and renew their patents. The thing is displayport, yep, something is off here, hardware ppl don't need a expensive hdmi connector, just another USB-C... I wonder if the HDMI people are not doing things in the shadow to end up favored...

That said, I have to point the fact, those patents are only valid in some countries, namely subject to royalties (USA, UK, Japan... but not EU for instance).

I don't know why raspberry is not selling some of their SOCs with the ARM blocks hard disabled at sell time, namely they did not pay for the ARM royalties.

In the end, it is near impossible to buy all those RISC-V boards in my country with a noscript/basic (x)html browser, and if possible with wallet codes (or bank swift) instead of a credit card.
I guess nobody considers it price dumping because it's given away entirely for free. People only see it as price dumping when somebody offers something at a far lower price.. but nobody feels like complaining when somebody is so rich that they throw their money at you for free.
This is precisely why I lost all respect for the West in the last couple of years and am now cheering on Putin's propaganda that is deepening divisions in your own societies. It's obvious you'd like nothing more than to carve up our country and destroy our culture — which the people of Siberia, Caucasus, and all other regions have significantly contributed to. But you know fuck all about that because your knowledge of Russia is based on news headlines.

Now I really hope he's successful, so this will come back at you.
Because calories are cheaper now, thanks in large part to low cost, energy dense vegetable oils.

When people can get more calories per dollar they will eat more calories.
It includes UK offerings (Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, etc.)
Right now directories like this are getting popular mostly because they offer alternative to US products. Pretty sure Europeans would be happy to use a Canadian alternative to a US service.
This is a better article with a map

https://www.geoengineer.org/news/casting-of-fehmarnbelt-tunn...
Because the US is asking Europe to defend itself eighty years after ww2
See also https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/
Thanks so much for the feedback. I used Svelte 5, and I think there is bug that doesn't refresh the page correctly, I'll dig into it.
I have to say on the whole Svelte is a really nice framework - before this I'd never built a JS project before (plenty of Python and Ruby). It's interesting how the AI tools can support you in a language and framework you don't know well
> names and emails should have been public already.

Why? Is there a law for this other than being able to request a FOIA?

Regardless of where the information came from, plastering personal information of random people on twitter is not okay.
& the US system routes abuses through the private sector: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-us-government-buys-data-for...

These things aren't a one-and-done matter of legislation or constitutions, they rely on constant pressure on every case.

(and I explicitly said the EU system does not guarantee privacy against law enforcement! Because total privacy for crime is very unpopular and politically unsustainable)
> You've never worked at a place where someone was an incompetent hanger-on who was an expert at self promotion and stealing credit? Or hired someone like that accidentally?

Thinking back on it. Not really. I’ve had a few people be outright incompetent, but I’ve never been at risk of them stealing the credit for stuff. The closest I’ve come is people that should probably be fired, but manage to barely hold on by being experts at self promotion.
I once had an employment contract that said I would work from 9am to 5:30 pm and any other hours the company deems necessary.
The model they use is relatively well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward-ownership

My personal experience with this model boils down to: you make a company and a charity. Where the charity owns special share categories in the company.

You can then have other share types for founders and investors. These share types can essentially be bought out (e.g. an investor share can be bought for 5x of it's initial value, say, allowing for investment with a 5x cap). Essentially allowing the charity to gain full shareholding at a certain point. But there is no requirement to have these other share types - but they are useful drivers to get the company off the ground.

Obviously this type of investment isn't something traditional VCs care for; other more philanthropic oriented sources are required.
It might be worth noting that this is not specific to the EU, it's the whole of Europe. So for example it includes companies from Norway, Switerzland and the UK.

So asking how much tax is paid or how much supply chain is in the EU doesn't necissarily make sense here.
Are you seriously asking why? If you've paid any attention to the news in the past few weeks, you couldn't have missed the daily efforts by Trump and his cabinet to isolate the USA from its allies. In the past, European countries have trusted that the common values shared by the Western countries will ensure mutual cooperation now and in the future. Now this thinking has proven naive, as Trump has threatened Europe with, e.g., shutting down technological services if it's in his interest to do so. It doesn't seem to matter whether Europe pays for these services or not. Therefore, it's paramount for Europe to not vendor-lock themselves in American companies, as they can't be trusted anymore. It's sad and shocking, but Europe has been backed into the corner with this one.
This is literally not what free speech is as defined in the US Constitution.

Constitutionally protected speech is speech criticising or commenting on the government, and defines the right of citizens to do so.

The government has never had a reaponsibility to ensure all speech is heard, it certainly is not granted a monopoly on power of censorship (again, literally the opposite - no one else has to grant you a platform, but the government cannot take it away), and if you're worried about the power of "the mob" then you really should've worried more when the Supreme Court ruled the police had no duty to protect citizens.
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There are other listings like that, e.g.:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...
> a lot of planes simply don't have INS installed

Perhaps in general aviation, but I can't think of any modern commercial airliner without an INS via the air data inertial reference unit.
I don't really understand why the plane was diverted because GPS was jammed; I get that it's important for navigation, but not how it's required for landing when they're that close. There's (iirc) close range guidance systems, and of course visual ones (lamps, stripes, etc).
> My immediate thought is who decides what a good media diet is

Which is a valid but separate concern. If we’re only using words like “good” and “bad“ we don’t really need to agree on what those point to for a consensus.

I don’t think it’s controversial to say your health suffers if you eat poorly. In other words, it’s harder to be in good health if your diet is bad. Same thing with media diet and voting: it doesn’t seem controversial to say if your media diet is bad your vote is misinformed.

> I know I'm getting into echochambers.

Good for you. I don’t think that’s true of most people, though. And I’m certain there are people who believe they see the truth when they don’t (false conspiracies).

> Even people under regimes with media consisting of 100% propaganda can see the real picture.

I don’t think that’s true at all. What’s your basis for that opinion?
I feel like this shouldn't be surprising. If you use GPL, you give others strong incentive to rewrite an alternative, because GPL is just very heavy burden. I'd even go as far as to say this is an example of failure of GPL. If the intent was to set up incentives to make sure people share the improvements with the community for mutual benefit, but the result is an incentive to rather burn resources to do complete rewrites, then that seems like a failure on all sides to me.
UpCloud are good, and I've used them for over 5 years. They aren't cheap compared to DigitalOcean/Linode (everything is extra €€€) but when I benchmarked the providers before picking them their CPU and disk IO was faster than the other cloud platforms. The internal network has been more reliable than every time I've used DigitalOcean's.

All this is for London data centres. It'd be interesting to re-benchmark them against other providers.
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe!

Added my company (https://mailpace.com) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
Study finds pursuit of happiness drains self-control, increases unhappiness
That says nothing useful. The legislation refuses to be specific and you have to know what all the relevant ICO decisions are, which is why compliance is so frustratingly vague.
And: https://www.buy-european-made.eu/
> World’s longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea

> The tunnel, which will be 18 kilometers long

> By way of comparison, the 50-kilometer Channel Tunnel linking England and France, completed in 1993...

Am I missing something? 50 > 18
Well, FP4 (mostly INT4 these days) means you are moving fewer bits per weight around, so the memory bandwidth that you have performs better.
Chip-scale atomic clocks based on cesium were demonstrated in 2003 with DARPA/NIST funding, and entered commercial production in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-scale_atomic_clock

Apparently they're not even export-protected, despite their obvious use in GPS validation schemes and in RTK.

> The SA.45s CSAC has an Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) of EAR99. This means it is not ITAR-controlled and does not require a special license to ship to most nations. The SA.45s CSAC classification is controlled by the Bureau of Industrial Security (BIS) within the US Department of Commerce.

The article talks about quantum "optical clocks" but doesn't really explain the concept.

Which appears to be this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_clock

Which, like many things named "Quantum", still doesn't really explain how you get an IMU out of it.
No, facts are facts. Interpretation is what's the problem. And unless you look at all facts this will be biased due to lying to yourself. Also known as being in a bubble online.

Truth is a 3 edged sword.

But frankly if you're going to insist on facts not being facts I'll just bid you good day and go back to gardening.
They wouldn’t start a war over Ukraine for certain, but are you going to bet those ballistic missiles target Ukraine?
I looked up the bylaws just now (mostly because I'm procrastinating). It looks like they have a gGmbH that owns 99% of the shares (by number of shares), but founders retain 99% of the voting rights. Founders' shares are barred from receiving dividends, and the gGmbH has veto rights in relation to any certain changes that would fundmentally alter this ownership structure.
So you are saying that one-off scripts and hobby projects is not a trillion dollar industry? Blasphemy!

The emergent crew and I are going down going down to the shrine of Sam Altman later today to sacrifice a goat, maybe you would like to come and learn a thing or two?
Channel Tunnel is rail only; 'road and rail' probably used here to mean both means of transport.
Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed to Linux-Firmware.git
I looked at a bunch of Vectorising tools, and in the end used https://vectormagic.com/
It works really well, although I had to do all the conversions manually. They do have a bulk tool, but wanted to try this out first.
It does also produce .eps as well as .svg
What? There are highly optimized Marlin kernels for W8A16 that function very well on a 3090 in both FP8 and INT8 formats.
> Trump has threatened Europe with

He even threatened to invade a country that is part of the EU
Time-travel debugging is something different – time-travel debugging means you can actually step backwards through the execution to try and see how you ended up with the bug.

Merely being able to inspect the state of (local) variables further up the stack frame is a much more limited proposition, even if it can still be useful.

> yet very often wished I had it (for […] javascript […] mostly)

Both Firefox's and Chrome/Edge's devtools allow you to do that, don't they? Click on an entry in the stack frame and it takes to the corresponding code line and shows you the state of the variables relevant at that point.