skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is the route I think it is (Copenhagen to Hamburg), I rode a train on that route about ~8 years ago. It was memorable for the fact that the train itself pulled onto a ferry boat. Pretty cool as a tourist, but I can obviously see how a tunnel would save a ton of time.
Ask HN: How would you apply AI to this app idea?
I spent the past 6 months building an app that by logging your food you can see how is processed by your body. Guys it is the first human digestive system simulator on the internet!!! Isn't it something?

BUT! as nowadays everything is AI, ive wondered if I need to think about including an AI feature or something so I can add "AI" to the title. :S

Thoughts?
If you want the compiler to treat your code as literal portable assembly turn off optimizations.
> You just open your heart and your wallet, and Claude Code takes the wheel.

Yeah it sounds a lot like marketing to me
Someone once said that looking for a ship on the ocean is like trying to find your car keys in a field with a pair of binoculars.

Obviously this applies less to littoral waters (1.5 dimensional instead of 2 dimensions of open water) but still: how does scale factor into trying to task sea drones with hunter/killer roles?

Also, always worth pointing out that while tactical warfare is a technological battle — in which drones may indeed be superior — war is also a strategic, political act and as such the presence of large scary ships — even 250t ones — is often enough to achieve ones strategic aims.
Thank you, would love to get your feedback after
I have one question about one:

> Public employees are illegally

> purged if they are viewed as

> disloyal to the new regime.

My understanding of how the U.S. government works is that the President functions as the CEO of all federal employees.

Is this all about Schedule F executive order which was rescinded by President Joe Biden on January 22, 2021?

I want to have an intellectually honest discussion about this:

- Why are these firings considered illegal? What is the legal argument?

- Why do we believe the President cannot hire or fire federal workers at will? What legal precedent or framework governs this?

If our system is designed in a way that allows the above and we dont like it, shouldn’t we work to fix it? After all, Congress—specifically the House—is the only branch with the power to write laws.

So if you don’t agree with Executive Order XYZ, let’s propose a law to address and fix it.

Would love to hear thoughtful perspectives on this.
One way is query your ip, retrieve certificates, read the domain(s) in it.

I made my server return self signed certificate without domain name in it, in case of access to wevserver's port 433 by ip instead of by domain name.
For anything time critical Amazon Prime is a godsend.

1) Anything PC related I can get shipped to me tomorrow. There is one local computer store and they just repair laptops and phones with absolute rip off prices (£70 for a HDMI cable). Before Amazon it took days to get an order shipped from one of the big PC suppliers in the UK, Payment used to an absolute PITA frequently card gets rejected on dubious grounds. I've had a PSUs die before, I can get one shipped to me tomorrow.

2) I am working on an old car at the moment as a hobby. Working on old vehicles you will find many small bodges or you won't realise until 50% of the way into it you need a replacement part. Almost everyone uses the postal service and the delivery time is 3-5 days or they charge you £15 for next day delivery (which is often more than the price of the part). So any job can be stopped by a missing part and I have to wait 3 days to get a replacement part or be ripped off. I have literally no alternative than to use these suppliers much of the time and it is a major source of frustration because it will take me an extra week to do a job.

That is the USP of Amazon Prime.
Blackbird, Blockchain Restaurant Loyalty App, Goes Live with Flynet Mainnet
Yes, I found a loop performance regression [0] in 3.12 and 3.13.

[0]: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/123540
This was not said for years. This became a thing post COVID and Trump.

I couldn’t get anyone to pay attention to content moderation if I tried. Only after misinfo and false hoods became the fuel of politics, did the filters and janitors become an issue.

“Content moderation is allowed to work as long as they dont touch the wires that carry political power”

This was the message when the Stanford internet observatory got targeted.
Stupid clickbait headline for a famished article
1) Are we pretending the two assassination attempts were by left-wingers now, in addition to all the rest of the pretending? Trump gave them permission, anyway. I mean he had a different candidate in mind, but still.

2) The CEO thing was popular across the board, not just with democrats. Health insurance companies are that bad. Everyone who’s not taking their bribes hates them, and I mean hares. Also: again, not a left winger, so yes, I agree with you that right wingers should be regarded as dangerous.
Hard to forget something that didn't happen yet. We have declarations and decisions, commendable ones. But let's wait until such money is indeed spend on something.
Thank you, We are trying to make it better to solve the problems when scraping data. Would love to get your feedback after
> EVs have ferocious acceleration

Not all of them. It's pretty easy for manufacturers to make ridiculously fast accelerating cars, and it seems those cars get all the attention. But there are others. I drive a Volvo XC40, which comes in two variants: one with two motors, one with a single engine. The two motors variant does 0 - 100 kmh in 4.9 seconds, which is pretty fast; to get that acceleration in an ICE car you'd need a pretty sporty sport car. But the variant with a single engine (which is the one I drive) does it in about 8 seconds, which is plenty fast for me but certainly not in ferocious acceleration territory.

I have no numbers on relative market shares of very fast vs more normal EVs. It wouldn't surprise me that the share of normally accelerating EVs will increase over time as we get cheaper cars meant for a larger public instead of expensive cars for enthusiasts.

BTW that fast acceleration of EVs is mostly at lower speeds. At higher speeds the benefits of an electric drive train diminish and depending on the specifics the EV might very well accelerate slower than an ICE.
Snope's six week odyssey to recover their hacked Twitter account
Also relevant to cookies, ePrivacy directive Article 5 (3):

Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
>Germany ending the 'debt brake') are happening now.

Now what exactly they're goanna do with the extra debt is the question.

More debt to fund innovation, infrastructure, defense, education and healthcare is welcome, but if it's just more debt to fund welfare and pensions, like Southern Europe, then nothing will improve.
Presumably complaining about a serial killers toilet doesn't achieve anything. What am I missing?
We don't normally test with bleeding-edge compilers on the faster cpython benchmarks page because that would invalidate historical data. E.g. if 2 years ago we used GCC 11 or something to compile and run a benchmark, we need to run it with GCC 11 again today to get comparable results.

Clang 19 was released last year. We only benched it a few months ago. We did notice there was a significant slowdown on macOS, but that was against Xcode Clang, which is a different compiler. I thought it might've been an Xcode thing, which in the past has bit CPython before (such as Xcode LTO working/not working versus normal Clang) so I didn't investigate deeper (facepalming now in retrospect) and chalked it up to a compiler difference.

TLDR: We didn't run benchmarks of clang 19 versus 18. We only ran benchmarks of clang 19 versus gcc, Xcode clang, and MSVC. All of which are not apples-to-apples to Clang 19, so I naiively thought it was a compiler difference.

EDIT: As to how we could improve this process, I'm not too sure, but I know I'll be more discerning when there's a >4% perf hit now when upgrading compilers.
Hetzner half-heartetly started to offer database hosting as well but they need a lot more services and present them on eye level with the servers.

I a am huge Hetzner fan and waiting for years already for them to expand their offering.
This is not oop but polymorphism that is useful. And various forms of polymorphism are used in all kinds of programming paradigms.

Also, this is a nice way to get the damn banana without getting lost in the jungle.
They pick their sides for profitable expedience. I expect they would
betray those sides just as fast for profitable expedience. US, EU,
it's all one big world, and business never prospers in the long-run
under the heel of a boot.
Is it a monoculture? obviously theres Thiel and his clan. But are there other powerful elements?
One question arises: does the added code [1] bring any improvement, or does it merely complicate the source? Should it not be removed?

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/128718
Both characters in the dialogue seem, like the author, to implicitly believe in the basic concept of eugenics improving IQ and that making the world a radically better place.

I'd like to see the author's working for getting to that result, as this feels a bit like the pro-nuclear people who focus on safety concerns for an easy win to distract from the cost and timing and other awkward questions they don't have answers for.

For example, most of the people in Africa are already born but are young and have their lives ahead of them, so even if the eugenic interventions worked perfectly, how quick a change would you actually see? The genetically engineered children wouldn't get a vote till they were 18 at which point they'd be a minority, might not even get a job until they are mid 20s after university.

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

(Very similar critiques apply to many ill thought rants on limiting population growth, it's mostly already happened and the growth in people being alive is mostly in people living longer so any intervention implies mass murder, even if the people proposing them don't realise that is what they are proposing because they've not looked at basic relevant facts before spouting off).

Seems like feeding and innoculting and educating and not poisoning with environmental toxins the existing children would be a far faster route to a higher IQ population. But the kind of person who obsesses about IQ and sperm banks for nobel prize winners seems uninterested in the these basic fixes for already existing people.

Is this just an attempt to reframe eugenics as not racist, by coming up with a totally implausible plan to fix Africa with it that wouldn't even start for decades and not have an impact for decades further? If so it feels like it's backfired as this just seems like a ill thought out fig leaf for whatever their real interests are.
> A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them.

Words being weaponized is a problem that exists for multiple years now in the US. From the free press [1]:

"To give a sense of proportion, only three professors were fired or forced out of schools over something they said in the post-9/11 panic. The modern era of cancel culture (2014 to present), by contrast, has resulted in almost 200 professor terminations. That exceeds even the standard estimate of 100 professors terminated in the second Red Scare (1947 to 1957)."

[1]: https://www.thefp.com/p/american-colleges-gave-birth-to-canc...
No, it’s Europe. Ukraine decided not to join the EU and the West supported a coup via the Maidan Revolution. The extent of that support? I don’t know, but at the very least we were verbally encouraging the violent overthrow of their government.
Guess what - 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
explain how you make something quiet in a "narrow band" around things that are so sensitive that it was claimed that "if you integrated all of the signal power received by the antennas, it's less than the energy used by a flea to jump".

not just at any given moment. In the career of whoever said that, the total power was that miniscule.
The article mentions the peptide "BNP", without explaining the abbreviation. This stimulated my curiosity.
It's "BRINP2-related peptide", where BRINP2 indicates a specific gene responsible for the production of the "BMP/retinoic acid-inducible neural-specific protein 2".
NCBI gene summary: "Predicted to be involved in cellular response to retinoic acid; negative regulation of mitotic cell cycle; and nervous system development. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm; dendrite; and neuronal cell body. Implicated in oral squamous cell carcinoma. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Nov 2024]"
There's no reason to reach for the Nazis. As an example they are the reverse of clarifying.

What I've seen the last 15 years is both right and left aggressively hollowing out the centre. Views that would have been vaguely centre right in the Clinton era described as fascistic. Views that would have been faintly centre left treated as communist propaganda. And the contempt and hatred on both sides showed me that nobody despite their protestations would have any problem with their opponents being subjected to any kind of suppression if they had the power to do so...

Edit: to answer your question I do not have the solution but I believe better psychology and more respect for the other view point is certainly the starting point.
>>Productivity growth is literally just wage growth, by definition.

No, it is the opposite, whether you are measuring Units Per Worker Hour or especially Units Per Worker Dollar.

You have a dozen $25/hr workers in a factory producing 50 widgets/hour, and you now introduce new tools, techniques, and/or materials and they now produce 80 widgets per hour, productivity per hour and per dollar has risen, but worker pay is exactly the same.

If you instead cut their pay to $22/hr their productivity in Units/WorkerHour is unchanged but productivity in Units/Labor$ has risen.

It is ONLY in the limited case where you are paying 100% by piecework that productivity tracks wages, e.g., if those workers are paid $6/Widget produced and they manage to make 50%more widgets/hr, then their pay rises with productivity. But that is uncommon and labor cost is rarely the only input.

Edit: typos
Our infra is split across France (our API, database, inbound servers etc.), Germany (backups) and UK (outbound SMTP servers).

Unfortunately we haven't seen enough demand in the UK to set up a UK only infra (nor are there any UK cloud providers that would work for us?)
I've been using it as my primary search engine for a couple of months. It's not great as a search engine. I find their locality of search to not be well-supported (e.g. the search "food near me" works good in google and not great in ecosia).

Ecosia doesn't emphasize recent events, news, or posts in search results as much as I'm used to --- but I haven't decided if this is good or bad.

It's not so bad that I've changed. But I do sometimes use a better search engine when I want better results.
There's an important detail here -- an advantage of mRNA vaccines is that mRNA does not last all that long in cells [1]. Thus, even if the cells live a long time, they won't produce spike proteins for very long (instructions for the production will be degraded and thus not available).

The vaccine's longer-term effectiveness comes from the immune system's memory B cells response to the short-lived expression of spike proteins.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA#Degradation
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/utah-fluoride-public-water-ban-3...
Oh, I definitely am! It's always cool when someone with domain specific knowledge drops by and proceeds to shatter that dream with technical reasons that are cool nonetheless, the same way how LPCAMM2 doesn't work with every platform either and how VRAM has pretty stringent requirements.

That said, it's understandable that companies are sticking with whatever works for now, but occasionally you get an immensely cool project that attempts to do something differently, like Intel's Larrabee did, for example.
great to see list include software products as well
can someone please think of elon's hostile government takeover employees!
In a parallel universe, where the UK never joined Europe or abandoned its car market protectionism, British Leyland still exists and is making electric cars. Probably with NiCd batteries.
No, to the team. Science is collaborative. If you learn that the results you are working with and building on are fraudulent, what's even the point? Trying to replicate that team members results with it never workong, starting new projects designed based off of fake data, continuing to tolerate and endorse that fraud by keeping quiet means the entire group's work becomes meaningless. Fraud infects all the research that references it and builds on it. Would you want to spend 5 years of your life futilely trying to build on your collaborators work if you know at the start that their data is fake?
For a while there, funding in US was as simple as putting the right keywords into your proposal, and sending it to the right treasury office, getting it practically auto-approved. I hope they will align closer to the sensible European practices in the future.
UpCloud also seems quite cheap - 1 vCPU and 1GB of RAM, 10GB disk for €3/month and €4.5 for 20GB disk.
borrowed* to spend on something
I understand the frustration but I don't think it needed to be said (the part about mentality, the thanks is of course cool), because that's still not the norm.

Why do I even bring this message - I want to say that let's not let what we see in the news influence our perception of the real people of the world. Just because fraud and crimes get elevated in the news, does not mean that the common man is a criminal or a fraud. :)
Year Long Exposure Photo of Berlin
I'd prefer a card with a European payment processor logo on it. An app might do as well...
What does TRL mean to you in this context ?
In the second paragraph, it says:

>Hosters with a focus on virtual servers, are only listed in the category virtual private server (VPS) hosters.

>https://european-alternatives.eu/category/vps-virtual-privat...

Hetzner is the very first entry in that category.
That's a fair question.

The blog post mentions it brings a 1-5% perf improvement. Which is still significant for CPython. It does not complicate the source because we use a DSL to generate CPython's interpreters. So the only complexity is in autogenerated code, which is usually meant for machine consumption anyways.

The other benefit (for us maintainers I guess), is that it compiles way faster and is more debuggable (perf and other tools work better) when each bytecode is a smaller function. So I'm inclined to keep it for perf and productivity reasons.
There's a multi-decadal controversy in sociology and political science over whether some countries are forced to adopt the regressive approach because of structural geographic factors they can't control (such as low population density or aggressive neighbours) or whether every country has a choice. The US definitely has a choice, FWIW.

[edit] Of course the anthropomorphization I've used here isn't a completely serious representation of states, they are a mass of interconnected people and not individual agents, but the metaphor is a valuable shortcut.
I think you're posting a strawman here. ePD is known to be bad (though for different reasons depending on who you ask), GDPR on the other hand _is_ easy to understand and follow.
Please no. It's good that tech conversations are global. I wish there were more Chinese and Russians on here, not less. And this comes from someone who's very critical of the current US admin, and lives in the Baltics.

Also, please no regarding the language. Coming from a small country, it's great that we have a lingua-franca that we can use to communicate effectively. Doubling-down on going native when it comes to our respective languages won't help the single market, or European integration in general.

EDIT: Won't help our militaries either if and when they'll need to coordinate.
You held respect previously and this is what caused you to lose it? Or you never held respect and use whatever to feed you?
Personally I find myself reevaluating the choices I made for my personal data at the beginning of the cloud era.

Back then, one of the arguments I convinced myself with was that the cloud behemoths had so much to lose on integrity breach that it would just not happen.

It didn’t even occur to me at the time that my data being held hostage in some geopolitical gameplay should be part of the risk assessment.

I'm seriously considering self-hosting as an alternative, in combination with regional cloud services.

Maybe we have an Internet renaissance on our hands, taking it back to its decentralized nature?
Thank you for your feedback; I am currently analyzing the data and will group the locations soon.
+1 for olimex. They really stayed true to their vision, not looking to go big or go bust, just doing cool, quality things.
The ferry was cancelled a few years ago: the train route is now east all the way across Denmark to Kolding, then south all the way down to Hamburg.
The user can always sue Plausible for lying about their product to get their damages back. In the end, the user of these services is responsible for maintaining the privacy of their customers/visitors.
How does that work with binding the same port to it? Does it automatically assign a new IP to every new domain resolv() call gets (and then caches it)?
Because I expect someone to explain what is the actual difference.
a true democracy would be a 1:1 vote, each person gets 1 vote, and that is what matters for everything. we have a representative democracy, but our country operates as a constitutional republic. words have meanings.

so what i am asking is, even if you take democracy to mean whatever you think it means, is the US not a democracy? It is really hard to see what your point was, because i asked if they thought the US was not a democracy, and here you are saying it is, so what are you trying to say? you agree with me, the US is a democracy, right?
Laravel is a gigantic memory hog as far as PHP apps go. I don't think it makes for a great shared hosting go to, unless you completely ignore PHP's common concurrency models and feel like you need to serve a few requests per second.

There are some ways around this these days, but these seem unlikely to bolt in to common shared hosting providers.