skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XML business rules? Is it xml-oriented-programming again? They were doing it in Java 25 years ago
Isn't funding at that extreme level pretty much localized to a few areas in the US, like Silicon Valley/Bay Area, Portland/Seattle area, New York and maybe Colorado. It is probably easier than in the EU, but I don't think may start ups in Alabama are getting crazy funding.

As for getting acquired, that's the same in the US. Either you goal is total dominance on your own or getting acquired by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle or Salesforce.

You do have a point, start ups doesn't have access to the same level of uncritical funding. The SV model also isn't ideal, but it should be possible to find somewhere in the middle.
Cheap 'n' simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars
That's... a surprisingly crass thing to say. I would play it off as a joke, if not for the second part of your post. Dutch people are not "vicious assholes", they have a culture of direct communication. Assuming that only your culture communication patterns are "correct" is xenophobic and close-minded.

And connecting all people in the country with "tax evasion schemes" is rude, if that was not actually a joke.
Strictly speaking that is probably not as important a risk as the direct political risk of the Wikipedia 501c being involuntarily dissolved by AG Pam Bondi.
> […] is one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects, with a construction budget of over 7 billion euros ($7.1 billion).

the berlin airport was more costly
> It feels like they're flailing in China because the competition is now better.

There is BYD and other brands (Chinese or not) in places outside of China. Just like how Tesla is not USA only.

> They're flailing everywhere else because they are now associated with Musk and his nazi salutes

How do we go assuming that "everywhere else" cares about this and China doesn't?
the paper behind the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09860

the RP2 / SIP / FTE attacks they used (reproduced)

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07769

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.10217

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.06192
I thought his attack on Firefox was a little unbecoming, while also forgetting to mention that he's a competitor (and his product is not free).

Mozilla is apparently run by corporate drones who made a blunder (as drones do). It happens. They corrected it. No need to attack or dismiss Firefox in general. Firefox is excellent.
Slightly more info with pictures on the official site: https://femern.com/the-construction/building-the-tunnel/
If you look closer, you can see that the free tier is mostly covering SaaS in order to lock you into their APIs.
The free tier for VMs isn't that generous.

For a startup, locking into an API that is initially free can often break their neck in the long run. Because for a startup, switching providers is a big distraction. It's often better to run VMs or colocated servers on an OSS stack.

I'd argue that OVH (European) is the cost leader for that in every market they are in.
I use Contabo for my personal projects, not on the list, they are from Germany.

My company uses OVH and I have also used UpCloud, it is pretty good.
From a brief search I see that it isn't (or it least not yet), but seeing how well-formatted the pdf is, and the fact that it's CC-licensed, you could print it yourself, or perhaps talk with them to organize a batch.

Though I personally prefer to read these sorts of books directly from pdf, and am grateful to them for sharing it on arxiv.
Take a closer look at 'eru's example and my follow-up.

He wrote an example where the result of `a+1` isn't necessary, so the compiler doesn't emit an ADDI even though the literal text of the C source contains the substring "a += 1".

Your version has the same issue:

unsigned int square2(unsigned int num) {
unsigned int a = num;
a += 1;
if (num < a) return num * num;
return num;
}

The return value doesn't depend on `a+1`, so the compiler can optimize it to just a comparison.

If you change it to this:

unsigned int square2(unsigned int num) {
unsigned int a = num;
a += 1;
if (num < a) return num * a;
return num;
}

then the result of `a+1` is required to compute the result in the first branch, and therefore the ADDI instruction is emitted.

The (implied) disagreement is whether a language can be considered to be "portable assembly" if its compiler elides unnecessary operations from the output. I think that sort of optimization is allowed, but 'eru (presumably) thinks that it's diverging too far from the C source code.
No lifetimes, absolutely no plans to add anything similar. We’re nothing like rust!
Have you seen prices on Lexus LFAs now? They haven't depreciated ha ha. And for those that don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWdXLF9unOE
Please add mlbile apps that scan product barcodes and display the origin country. I think EAN-13 barcodes make this easy already
I would like to turn this comment into a gold plaque and point to it any time an HN commenter repeats the “EU privacy regs and GDPR are actually super simple!” narrative.

As someone living in Europe who watches the EUs best and brightest mostly go to work in consulting firms because the only growth industry in the EU is “companies spending money on regulatory compliance,” it pains my soul.
I'm very curious about why americans always use examples from China and Russia to describe something shit happening in the USA

> Some compared the atmosphere to Maoist China, so great were the chilling effects.

i mean, americans have their own history - it's short but it's remarkable

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

In China, when something like this happens, some people shout, "Are we going back to the Cultural Revolution?!"

Why Americans don't talk about McCarthyism?

"Are we going back to the McCarthyism???"

Nobody ever said this
Basically, countries where private people are allowed to build things like Falcon and Starlink progress technologically and economically, and countries where they aren't progress, if at all, much more slowly. Instead, they suffer a brain drain of those people and then have to rely on the freer countries for things like communications services and weapons.

This article is about the US changing which group of countries it belongs to, much as China did 40 years ago. So you are likely to get your wish in the sense that US companies will probably not be allowed to build such things anymore, because they might pose a threat to King JD's power.
if you don't know what words mean, then why bother responding?
> Good VC cultures

I say this as proud European: the problem isn't just VC culture, it's European culture. In Europe there's an extreme risk aversion to trying things that have nonzero risk of failing.
The problem with buying European is that shipping between countries is nightmarishly expensive.

If Brussels wants to try something useful - instead of bottle caps create a proper shipping network that can ship from Malaga to Vilinus in 2 days for 0.5 euro per KG. It is not that we don't have national postal companies. It is absurd to buy something for 15 euro in italy and pay 30 euro shipping to romania.
>There's definitely an ethical dilemma in making the rich, richer for the sake of innovation.

What do you mean? The European rich have always been getting richer via inheritance regardless of innovation. That's a monetary and legal policy hack that's been in place for decades/centuries here which is how the richest families are centuries old.

Investing in innovation instead would be a much needed breath of fresh air and give current generation of youth some skin in the game instead of a defetist mentality that there's no point in working hard because the zero sum game is rigged. So I don't get your point.
I mean I think LLMs are quite cool, but like, that’s it. They’re cool. My Corvette is also very cool and I love it very much, but it would be silly to say it’s the ideal car for everyone. It’s wildly impractical for carrying any cargo, and while efficient, if you’re driving it and having fun, it isn’t anymore, haha.

Genuinely curious though: what is it you find so compelling about them as a product?
I always rolled my eyes a bit about the decorum calls when anybody would get a little rowdy. I don't know, I seem to find a little bit of profanity and pointed name calling an entirely different thing than an all out assault on truth and reason.
Why would you want it to increment 1 if we decrement 1 from the same variable? That would be a waste of cycles and a good compiler knows how to optimize it out, or what am I misunderstanding here? What do you expect "it" to do and what does it really do?

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320495
I agree but I think most people will reject the idea without considering it if it isn't formatted as a 1500-word article hosted on substack.
> The "stability in CPI" after the gold depeg in the 70s is also when wages stopped growing in real terms.

The depeging occurred in 1971:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

the CPI didn't start going crazy until the mid- to late-1970s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_shock

though there was a rising amount before any of those events:

* https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-inflation

You'll find that real wages in the US were fairly steady for most of the 1970s, falling mostly at the end, and really dropping during the 1980s:

* https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/are-wages-rising-or-flat/
I would be hard pressed to find decisions more helpful to Putin (and destructive to Ukraine) than what Trump has made so far.

In fact, it seems quite many others are asking the same questions - a US Senate Committee has just directly asked,

“is Trump a Russian asset”?

- via Forbes:

https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s
FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring
Thanks. Playing within the lines ... helps.
How does it compare to 4o? I used to use deepl but not since the later chatgpt versions came out.
So covering every screen with cookie banners is a form of malicious compliance?
It's worth to keep in mind that it took only about 2 years for this one guy from Austria to remove the final backstops the society had in place before until he was able to become the supreme leader in the 1930's.

2 years.

What has been hard won and fought over can easily be lost very fast and the only way to regain it will be through blood and violence.
Yes, I agree. But those words about threat for democracy are misleading. Often misused as fear from different opinions.
What is VRAN: Virtualize Your Radio Access Network
While time-travel debugging would provide such capability, it is highly unlikely they are describing that due to timeframe and unfamiliarity with debuggers.

They are most likely describing the much simpler feature of having the debugger drop stack frames (by force nuking the stack) and then starting over (with all the other side effects that occurred in the “prior” execution still present). This is a fairly common feature for exploratory debugging, but has the obvious downsides of leaving lingering side effects so is only fit for use in non-production environments at best like other “edit-and-continue” features.
Yeah this is pretty content free as hype goes.
The creation of technology didn’t create the people who would misuse it.

I’ll give an example to illustrate how this defeats the point of the submission.

Submission “we’re seeing chilling effects because students dont want to take the risk of having a record of discussion about government.”

Comment: “We’ve known things are getting worse, and this technology in the wrong hands would be harmful, we should have done something 10 years ago”

Here we can substitute anything from the invention of letters to computers to AI, as the technology in question.
I think some Game Theory 101 might be relevant here. Yes it's good to cooperate initially but after that, tit for tat is the thing to do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
I’m talking about rhetoric and deterrence and values. When Putin was building up for war, the US was saying we’d provide money and “defensive” weapons. That’s basically an invitation. It’s saying we won’t do what it takes to win. That’s fine. If we don’t care enough to prevent it, then we can own that and let it happen without millions dying. Or, if we really won’t let that happen, then we can make that the reality and again save millions of lives.

I don’t understand how Europe seems to think that a world war among nuclear powers is the least-risky approach. If we keep fighting someone is going to start using them anyway.
It's not that great for a solution. You can set the 90% in other cars too. With the extra benefit of being able to use 100% when you occasionally want to.
What makes you think that Zuck, Ellison, Pichai etc are "obeying in advance" and haven't already received implied verbal threats of imprisonment?
I don't know how this can be illegal, although I agree that the practice is pretty harmful in some ways.

In the AI age for example, almost all platforms are giving it away for free now and costs huge amount of money for them.

They are able to give it for free because their investors expect down the road to make much more money like they did in the Web age and then Apps age. Thanks to the investors of the time we had great run on the web and later in the apps.

In one hand it means that sometime in the future if they corner the market and establish a monopoly the service will suffer, will be used for doing bad things or become very expensive, just what the web and apps has become.

In the other hand this accelerates the technological advancements and deployment far beyond what would be possible in another business model.
Will Durant and his wife have spent multiple decades writing history books. One of their observations was that technology creates inequality, see the book Lessons of History.

Having said that, I still think technology has been a net positive. Just imagine living in 1900. It would take months to go from Europe to the US. Medicine was able to cure almost nothing. What we consider simple diseases now would be deadly back then. And you can forget about watching or listening your favorite musicians online. Also, imagine driving with a modern car into a 1900s village. People would be in shock.
I don't recommend IONOS as they require a phone call to cancel any services and their billing system was inconsistent with the documentation (at least when I tried it recently).

Also this list not including Hetzner is deeply shameful.
Compared to earlier years, Amazon has gotten much easier to get a refund for since almost everything I buy clearly says “Free Returns”, and all I have to do is drop it off at a local UPS Store, Kohls, Whole Foods, etc.

They do try to trick you into accepting Amazon credit instead of cash refund though.
Considering the PCLOB has lost some of its members, it's questionable whether the DPF can continue to exist in its current form. If it does go out the window, then Trump won't need to tell AWS/GCP to stop doing business with the EU, since European companies wouldn't legally be allowed to transfer data to US companies anyway.

I expect the EU commission will take a _very_ long time to actually act on this tho. Maybe we'll see Schrems III first.
"5,119 Remote Jobs" but no way to filter for WHICH country they allow remote from. There's plenty of "Remote (U.S.)" which are useless when looking from Europe, and vice versa.
Right, yes, I was thinking about advertising cookies and additional functionality but you are of course correct for those examples.
Starlink would probably continue to sell because there are no reasonably priced alternatives where it make sense (in the boonies).
Add to that how amazon boxes stand out, and are easily targeted by porch thieves.
1) yes but everyone does NOT live “100-200” ms away, so i think we’d all appreciate if the local first vendor went and measured the real number rather than pulling this completely fake 100-200 ms number out of their ass (justified in the image with a big blue line across the Atlantic from Germany to SF, no less!). invoking the “Call of Duty” test - if you can play online shooter games, then you can get a sub-40ms ping to a game server in your region

2) engineering is done with numbers. Which market of “everyone”? Half the world is enterprise workbench software, and when slack goes down all work stops. We aren’t trying to make customer support software work in the subway. What exact market are we targeting that does?
He isn't saving 100€ at all if Amazon's prices are higher than the competition, which is almost always true for every product I ever checked during the last five years, at least.
What other context besides "Israel" do you need?

I guess, good on them for at least blocking the country outright and being honest about it, and not sneakily distributing malware like some very good people did to Russians back in 2022.
Yeah well, I can't edit or delete the comment now unfortunately, and seems like i can't flag my own comment.

There are certainly things to discuss here, but not the right forum.
the formatting was funky when i first looked at this, i can see it's returning a boolean now, that covers the case of count > 0
We use it on our site, which handles around 100M requests per month, works really nice. In fact, we have a screen in the office that continuously displays the stats, quite nifty!
They might be, depending on architecture - the ROPs are responsible for taking the output from the shader core and writing it back to memory, so can be used in compute shaders even if all the fancier "Raster Operation" modes aren't really used there. No point having a second write pipeline to memory when there's already one there. But if your usecase doesn't really pressure that side of things then even if some are "missing" it might make zero difference, and my understanding of most ML models is they're heavily read bandwidth biased.
I don't know if it's a co-incidence but this topic disappeared from the front page faster than you can say "front page"...
'Free' returns still cost time and effort. Since they started FBA I've come to wonder if every quirk with an Amazon order is due to a counterfeit or passing off a return as "factory" refurbished.
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> Of course, he’s still at the whim of the Board, and he’s no spring chicken, so there’s no guarantee that his successor would feel the same

At the risk of sounding like Richard Stallman, that exactly is the problem with buying into such walled-prison ecosystem of devices. You're at the mercy of Apple pushing an update that can unilaterally take away your privacy and rights.

They already do that with sending hashes of your photos on your iPhone and implement dark patterns to trick you to upload your data to iCloud. Just 1 CEO change away from having them from being a privacy advocate to a privacy nightmare.
Good news, I caught it today, I'll be able to iterate and at some point I'll publish my extension at Mozilla.
Mastering SAML Implementation in PHP
Then the consequence of having an X account blocked is not even worth a mention even in passing.

From the perspective of the DOGE detractors, how is this any different than complaining about a serial killer who doesn’t flush the toilet when they’re done?
Let AI invest based on latest 25 financial news of a company
What do you think will happen with humans when there are a trillion agents with "god like AI" out there?
With ~1000 input, the TTFT is ~10 seconds
I'm just being brutally blunt. It goes both ways. The scale of this these evasion schemes is monstrous, not a joke at all.
> more people have an intuitive sense for how heavy a ton is compared to elephants

Yeah, I think most elephants don't have a good sense of _any_ man-made unit.
> From long experience we expect Google and hence Chrome to act against our interests. We have not expected that of Mozilla and Firefox.

HN used to gush over how great Chrome was. Some of us were saying, um guys, you know google is in the business of selling advertising right? Nobody seemed to care. Now mozilla's lawyers have them change some legalese and they are instantly the bad guys.
The responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of BS jobs in universities
Note how also in this stack trace you lose the information about where the main task was scheduled [1]. While you can stitch together the await points, it's much harder to find where tasks are originating. This is also true for `TaskGroup` where the actual call that schedules a task is lost. You will just find the eventual await, which might be the task group (which is good, since that would be structural concurrency), but often you just find nothing since it's not properly awaited or in a completely different place (eg: pending shutdown).

[1]: the important line is "main_task = loop.create_task(main())"
Paul Graham wrote some very fine LISP books IIRC, and that's
absolutely all I know about him. We may have had some cordial
exchanges here on HN. To the extent Mr Graham is influential on this
forum I'm sure he understands the peril facing any nexus of open
speech in the current technofascist climate.
> If you don't agree, don't use it

I find myself over the years drifting from this philosophy, having originally been an ardent advocate of it.

The practical reality, i.e. the one we live in and therefore what actually matters, is that corporate power has massive influence on society and de facto control of government.

Individuals do not have the resources to become experts in every domain and industry which creates a huge disadvantage in their ability to regulate via wallet/feet. Social consensus on this is proven by the existence of agencies like the FDA, SEC, many more. If individual/consumer choice and knowledge was enough to regulate all corporate behavior they wouldn’t exist.

Unfortunately in many cases these regulators have been corrupted and captured by corporate power and the result is corporations doing whatever serves their interests at society’s expense.
I'd love to use this, but notice it's hosted in the EU, is there any way of ensuring we go through UK servers only?
> Being vicious assholes in daily stuff especially towards strangers? That's hardly something deserving praise.

I’ll take it over the fake American politeness any day, 100 times over.
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"... one of..."
I agree but the $0(*) people do win, they usually loose money for years and years and they are able to provide great service.

Eventually they lock you down and start recouping their investments from you but they do make some things possible simply because it costs nothing to try and as a result a lot of great things are incepted on those platforms.
"Generally", means there are exceptions to the rule. If the ancient Greeks could handle more than two, can't we, today?
Look how elon was worshipped here, long after his mental issues, massive ego and racist south African nepo kid upbringing started coming out with force.

I find it very shortsighted to substract features from personalities of successful visible people that one likes and (selectively) ignore the rest. Why the heck, adult people don't like absolute truths and don't understand those are inseparable parts of a single whole?

elon is a fascist pos, gates is probably a pedophile/hebephile (epstein) pos, so is clinton and orange man, all good epstein's friends. Jobs was a horrible person. Yes they did or are doing some good, but above is still valid. And so on and on.
> What is the minimum amount you should be able to pay someone an hour? Surely it is the amount where if you didn't, someone else would pay them more.

A livable wage in the geographic jurisdiction they are in. Including stuff like transportation, healthcare, food, heat, housing, and insurance.

Glad you asked.

oh, the company can't compete without exploiting workers?

oh well.