skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't remember Cinderella or Snow White being special beyond being pretty and charming.

Snow White was, at least in the canonical Disney 1937 version, "the fairest of them all": the most attractive person known to the magic mirror.

Cinderella was the chosen one, high femme edition: rather than being handed a magic ring or sword she got a pair of shoes and a carriage. Both of these are folk tales that fit the fantasy trope mould.

Really I think this is a slightly circular problem of genre, because if you try to write this sort of story without centering on The Chosen One you end up just doing literary realism.

(possibly urban fantasy gets into this more, by explicitly starting from the modern post-feudal world. Anyway, I agree with you that it's a great article!)
If we can do it with scooters today, I bet you we can do it with cars, just need some stronger mechanical arms and whatnot.
Not the website's title. But indeed the common sense title.

It is simply a tragic story, that represents many others, who simply happened and took place in smaller, "less famous" companies.

Software is eating the world, and some are coming to eat software.

Having Antirez's name completely missing from this page says it all.
The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me
> Does paying for YouTube Premium support creators? (If so, how much, compared to say Patreon?)

Yes. Recent info is sparse, but when they initially released it as Youtube Red it was generally much more than they got from ads per view.
"Equal" is a very relative concept, and trying to move from unequal to that in a month or two after decades of having a reputation of being a stable partner is only going to make it more difficult.
Bit of a double-edged sword that. Might appeal to Trump-y people, but only serves to bury the brand in Europe and non-Trump-y America further.
I did not necessarily need an explanation of what 'the cloud' is or isn't. I came to believe it's definition is vague on purpose. I found out it's (almost) the same old internet with new shiny marketing labels on it (I say 'almost' because clubs like Netflix probably need their movies stored near the end user for seamless HD streaming). With the end goal of getting everyone's data on someone else's server (so they can control it, eventually without your permission). It works because programmers who might understand technically what it is, usually don't call the shots when some Big Tech salesperson offers shiny new apps from the US.

Luckily, I don't need a cloud. Not someone else's cloud, not even building my own cloud. Why? Because the technical progress required for me to save, work, share and publish stuff online (or locally on my computer) was already there from the '90s. And luckily, it's not standing still. Although every exec and marketing boy wants you to believe the only good stuff is the next hyped up stuff.

We see the same thing happening with LLMs and AI. It's marketing fluff all around, by people who so fully believe in it that it becomes scary. And it's hard to argue against it, because it is impressive what LLMs can do. It's also bullshite and has nothing to do with reasoning, or thinking, or whatever human capabilities are projected onto a digital parrot (I don't want to ruffle some feathers, pun intended, a lot of people probably have good use for LLMs and it's still interesting that people work on these systems).

A computer, an internet connection and some webhosting get's you more than far enough for most use cases. Without vendor lock-in.

There's more to technology than only technology.
"It's easy to use react inappropriately so nobody should use it"
> So Unsafe Rust from a UB perspective is no different than C/C++. If preconditions are violated, UB can occur

Only if you actively disable panics being triggered if unsafe preconditions are triggered. In most code, the program will crash instead. Enabling default panic on up violation in production code was done last year, IIRC.

> Its unclear how the compiler could check anything about preconditions

It can't. This is done at runtime, by default and without manually needed programmer interaction.

You can see an example of this in the `ptr`module, here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/src/core/ptr/mod.rs.html#1071

Some are only enabled for `debug_assert` (which is enabled by default), see `ptr::read`, here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/src/core/ptr/mod.rs.html#1370
> a "super-secure" password for if something happens that can only be used once

With 99.99% chance you forget it before you ever get to enter it because humans forget things they never use :)
Dark pools work in generally liquid and broadly balanced (between buy orders and sell orders). In times of volatility or when the order book(s) become heavily skewed to buy or sell orders - everyone will scramble to primary liquidity at the exchange.
This article is specifically about digital archival. That is, keeping bit-perfect copies of data for 100+ years. But I think for regular people this is not so obviously useful. People want to keep things like texts (books), photographs, videos etc. Analogue formats are a much better option for these things, for a couple of reasons:

* They gracefully degrade. You don't just start getting weird corruption or completely lose whole files when a bit gets flipped. They might just fade or get dog-eared, but won't become completely unusable,

* It's a more expensive outlay and uses scarce physical space, so you'll think more carefully about what to archive and therefore have a higher quality archive that you (and subsequent generations) are more likely to access.

The downside I guess is backups are far more difficult, but not impossible, and they will be slightly worse quality than the master copy. But if you lose a master copy of something, would it really be the end of the world? Sometimes we lose things. That's life.
Seconded. I'm using mailbox.org for my business for 4 years now, and haven't had any problems so far.
> "So I'm all excited, and I went over to my dad: 'They're going to blow it up, 20 cases of dynamite,' and my father proceeded to say, 'I think you misheard them. I think he said 20 sticks,"' Umenhofer recalled in 2015. "And I said, 'No he said 20 cases.'"

> It was indeed 20 cases of dynamite.

Reminiscent of this letter by Evelyn Waugh to his wife during the Second World War:

> Darling...

> So No. 3 Cmdo were very anxious to be chums with Lord Glasgow so they offered to blow up an old tree stump for him and he was very grateful and he said don't spoil the plantation of young trees near it because that is the apple of my eye and they said no of course not we can blow a tree down so that it falls on a sixpence and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever and he asked them all to luncheon for the great explosion. So Col. Durnford-Slater D.S.O. said to his subaltern, have you put enough explosive in the tree. Yes sir, 75 lbs. Is that enough? Yes sir I worked it out by mathematics it is exactly right. Well better put a bit more. Very good sir.

> And when Col. D. Slater D.S.O. had had his port he sent for the subaltern and said subaltern better put a bit more explosive in that tree. I don't want to disappoint Lord Glasgow. Very good sir.

> Then they all went out to see the explosion and Col. D.S. D.S.O. said you will see that tree fall flat at just that angle where it will hurt no young trees and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever.

> So soon they lit the fuse and waited for the explosion and presently the tree, instead of falling quietly sideways, rose 50 feet into the air taking with it half an acre of soil and the whole of the young plantation.

> And the subaltern said Sir I made a mistake, it should have been 7.5 lbs not 75.

> Lord Glasgow was so upset he walked in dead silence back to his castle and when they came to the turn of the drive in sight of his castle what should they find but that every pane of glass in the building was broken.

> So Lord Glasgow gave a little cry and ran to hide his emotion in the lavatory and there when he pulled the plug the entire ceiling, loosened by the explosion, fell on his head.

> This is quite true.
When I was in China last summer, every taxi I used was an electric car. By far, the worst of these was a Tesla Model 3. You can buy serious luxury vehicles for really very little money compared to western manufacturers. Not electric car specific, but for me, the most impressive thing is that the mapping apps are all synchronised with the traffic light systems.
Works for me (I'm not in europe but my VPN is)
If you're working with text in an image, you'll have a vastly better experience using Inkscape.
The one thing I absolutely loved about Ubuntu's original unity desktop was the HUD. Specifically for big complex applications like gimp, libreoffice, kwrite and such. Things that I use infrequently and have no way of knowing all the menu items.
Weirdly enough OpenRouter reports issues with Claude 3.7 on Bedrock as well:
https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet
I tried, it's a really nice language with almost no libraries so you end up reinventing the world every new thing you do. It's not really practical compared to arguably worse languages with better ecosystems
5 min charging would be a game changer as it reduces the need for larger batteries which lowers cost and weight again impacting cost.
I’m curious about mailbox.org, which markets themselves as “privacy made in Germany“
Isn't that very common with NIO cars etc? They are also very popular with many other brands, especially for rideshare cars.

https://cnevpost.com/2025/03/04/nio-97800-daily-battery-swap...
> every tesla investor I know (5 of them) is a believer that tesla's robotaxis will (slowly but surely) take over most of the car transportation in the US.

... Why would anyone believe this? Like, even if they suddenly magically jump from level 2 to level 5 (implausible), what's so special about their thing that they'd have a monopoly? If _they_ can do it, the likes of Waymo certainly can.
Apple's Force Touch aka 3D Touch
Do you know anything about another popular German mail provider, mailbox.org?
Wow, I've just googled it and seen a video about it - pretty amazing !
obsidian plugin please
Japan makes nice things though. Also the corolla is 60 years old and still a fantastic car.
YT Premium is $140/year (unless you know someone with an Indian credit card :), it's cheaper to buy a $100/yr Apple Developer sub, patch the app and sign with your cert.
So is Israel, but a lot of people moved away from a popular VPN provider once it was purchased by an Israeli company.
What are the reasons that truck shouldn't have entered production? I can think of a few myself (pedestrian safety, ugly, not bulletproof and shouldn't even ostensibly be, etc) but none of these reasons seem to be related to the actual technical innovations which are apparently in the truck. So where is the relevance?
Ah, okay. Well my starting salary was €50k in 2016 so it's probably €60k or €70k now.

If we're considering entire continents I'd like to point out that the median salary in Mexico is €30k. :)
If this works, you can use the same tech for distributed grid ballancing batteries.
Gogogo - very popular, and pretty extensive coverage [0]. The only problem is the scooters themselves are so quiet they sneak up behind you on the street.

[0] www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network
>Email is just dead as a tech.

It's really the only game in town for messaging. Like sure, there are a zillion incompatible alternative systems out there but email is the only system with worldwide adoption. ... and its federated. ... and it actually works somewhat reliably. ... and it's actually fairly secure these days, using a network of trusted email servers.

Like sure, it would be great if we could make end to end encryption usable for regular people for the email case. It would also be equally great if we could make E2EE usable for regular people for all the other cases.
You can store it in paper with your other important documents. It's not unstealable but if someone nicks your document folders you're spending two weeks redoing/reissuing everything anyway.
It's unfortunately not just YouTube but all social media. Self-censoring like "unalived" or 'k**ed" to avoid the wrath of the algorithm is becoming all too common.
I fear that mixing government IDs to commonly used digital credentials could invite lots of privacy violations from businesses and governments.

It'd be much easier for porn & social media ID laws to be enforced. Which could be abused by adtech and law enforcement.
Taiwan immigration agency revokes residency of Chinese influencer for post
AWS Bedrock or Vertex AI. I guess https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet/providers might be worth exploring, too, as it may provide an easier switchover in case of a failure at one of the providers (I haven't used it myself).
Just use a KeepassXC and you are 99% there. Add some Browser extension that synchs with it and only use randomly generated passwords.
You choose to interpret it as politics. But you can make decisions from many points of view, even a view of pure self-defence.

If somebody is engaging in pure self-defence it is a misframing to think of as political.

If you believed that it were political, then you could imagine compromises, coalitions etc. that could end it, but if it's pure self-defence then it will end when the threat is gone, and agreements etc. will be irrelevant.
No he couldn't. That site uses a non-geographical definition of Europe that excludes Britain. "EU, EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA member country" also excludes Serbia, Turkey, Belarus and Russia but includes several countries that aren't able to join the EU at all due to corruption or misaligned legal systems.

This really shows the incoherence of the whole Euro project. There's no such thing as European-ness: when the sort of people who wave the blue flag use the word Europe they are imagining an ideological construct subject to inconsistent and ever-shifting definitions. They don't even agree with each other what European means. One minute Britain is in Europe and Ukraine isn't, events happen, and suddenly Ukraine is European via DCFTA and Britain isn't. Switzerland is a similar case: sometimes it's considered to be European by these types, and other times not.

Why should I, a man born in Britain now living in Switzerland who has worked on two different US clouds, want to apply that experience to a Eurocloud given this history? This of thing is why it will never inspire much loyalty, and why Bert instantly gives up on the idea of a European cloud being used because it's actually good. The resort to force of law underpins the entire project because the European identity is a sort of social engineering programme, not something organically developed.
It only works if you lease the battery. And if you lease the battery, you care much less about doing all the things that keep you from trashing it. So either you now have to also lease the car (with plenty of surveillance) or the company has to write off batteries at a high rate.
Thank you for that link, and that observation.

I am probably going to have to break down and learn/work with QT or something similar for the graphical project I am planning out and have been searching for an environment for.
YouTube still provides RSS feeds for individual channels. Combine that with mpv's yt-dlp integration and you can avoid the official web frontend altogether.

I don't know how long it's going to last though, with the current trend of rug pulls and enshittification.
This is good to see, but I think too much effort is being used to maintain the prefix style function application. As a result a significant amount of the novelty is just mapping syntax from new to old. Special cases, special cases everywhere, even in an implementation like this which is specifically attempting to allow you to make your own "special" cases.
I mean they had to finance rebel moon, the idol and the electric state.

This is what I also hate about the gaming industry. If you have a team that works good - find something to do for them.

The guys behind Prince of Peria lost crown were brilliant in every aspect. And Ubisoft disbanded them instead of giving them time to get their footing. But we have a bloated AC:Shadows crap coming our way.
Horrible article telling bright eyed prospective grad students to fellate the prestige obsessed academic politics machine rather than actually try to advance science.

Remember that Einstein told journal editors to piss off [1] when they tried to get his papers peer reviewed.

[1] https://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-ein...
> At the same time, neither QUIC nor HTTP/3 are included in the standard libraries of any major languages including Node.js, Go, Rust, Python or Ruby.

I'm not sure why it would be in the Rust std, Rust std doesn't even have HTTP/1 or TLS, it's not supposed to support any network layer higher than what's provided by the OS.
Silence (https://www.silenceuk.com/) has scooters and "microcars" with swappable batteries. If I remember correctly, their batteries might have wheels as well so they're easier to move around, since they weight a bit.
iOS 18.3.2 Broke iCloud Mail Delivery
I'm not sure that's true - mainly because of some potentially big European customers in government or national infrastructure. They care enough about security and reliability, that they'd very likely choose a European provider over a US one, especially if the existing political climate continues.

Companies don't need anywhere near the profits of Google to cover continuous development and maintenance, so while a European tech giant of the size of Google might not seem that likely, a European office suite certainly is more likely.
Where [1] is cryptocurrency fundamentally tainted?

Do you also think E-Mail is fundamentally tainted because spam is widespread? [2]

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[2] https://www.emailtooltester.com/en/blog/spam-statistics/
But there is already violence, since people turned on this device.
I think a ton of services would actually run just fine on a single old fashioned Linux machine without any fancy cloud stuff, we've just been conditioned to think that it's somehow wrong.
> What are the reasons that truck shouldn't have entered production?

It’s selling like shit. And this was before the whole Tesla vibe shift. Instead of a leading-edge $25k EV we got a truck that can’t truck and robotaxi vapourware. Meanwhile, BYD is on its game.
It's not magic. It's pattern matching.

The `[Posn(x, y), ...]` is a pattern that matches a list of positions.
The `[Posn(y, x), ...]` is a template that produces a list of positions.
Europe needs a separate ecosystem to not relay only on US technology.
I think having a lingua franca have way more advantages than drawbacks.
As a spanish native speaker, I know is easier for me that for someone whose first language doesn't come from latin, but is really not much of a hassle.

Even coming from one of the most used languages in the world (and having a just enough english level), is very rare that I search of read something programming related in other language than english.
Did we need a study to know this? It is obvious to anyone who has ever seen a non-techie use an online service.
If you dont play their game you are not allowed to play at all. Catch 22
The comments here are more interesting than the article.

Often on HN that statement would mean that someone with relevant technical experience has commented, but not this time.

Instead the comments on a fairly mundane incremental improvement in technology are full of concern trolling, whataboutism, nitpicking and cope.

This suggests to me that people are starting to absorb the information that China is ahead in this area of tech and they are emotionally uncomfortable with that reality.
Dark forest but the very thing we fear could destroy our internet gated communities is big tech/tech companies

It sounds reasonable, and i'm not joking
Cool idea, I keep wondering if this could be used in other settings as well, like a company advisory board meeting, brainstorming etc.

Also, it's not immediately clear that the input box on the frontpage is just for searching, I bet a lot of people enter something and click create, only to have to enter the topic again. You could pass that value to the create page and prefill it.
Bypassing Authentication Like It's the '90s – Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s)
I agree that some of the hard parts were glanced over. Besides that, everyone seems to talk about the cloud and nobody about the other big, if not bigger, dependency. Our use of Windows and macOS (and Google Android and iOS if you will) on the vast majority of client devices.

If

Time and time again, data-sharing agreements between the EU and the US get busted, showing there's just no legal compatibility between EU privacy rights and US spying laws. [...] With the current political situation in the US, it's also starting to become clear that our entire digital infrastructure is at the mercy of US policies. It is no longer safe to rely on US clouds for our governments and societies, as the US government can shut it down at will.

are your worries, rolling out government-required backdoors, lockouts, etc. in operating systems is going to be a huge issue. To shut down a large portion of Europe's infrastructure, the US government only has to order three companies to do so.
> The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.

I mean, see Azure and Google Cloud a few years back. For quite a while the market was AWS, and also some joke services which nobody who wasn't required to used (notoriously, in 2012 Azure was substantially entirely down for _over a day_ due to a leap day).
The playing fields is very asymmetric. Can you negotiate with these guys? No. They're faceless when it comes to their data operations. Secretive, covert even.

Creating a solution requires cooperation. Making these models fit on smaller systems, optimizing them to work with less resources need R&D engineering, which no company wants to spend on right now. Because hype trains need to be built, monies need to be made, moats need to be dug (which is almost impossible, BTW).

My 10 year old phone can track 8 people in camera app in real time, with no lag. My A7-III can remember faces, prioritize them, focus on mammals' and humans' eyes, track them and keep them in focus at 30FPS with a small DSP.

Building these things is possible, but nobody cares about it right now, because AI Datacenters live in a similar state of ZIRP economy. They're almost free for what they do, even though they harm the environment in irreparable ways just to give you something which is not right.

As if people lost their mind about this thing.
Anthropic's uptime is the second worst out of the most used AI APIs that I've seen. Just look at the uptime of all these providers. It's not even '3' 9s.

OpenAI: 99.96% [0]
Anthropic: 99.56% [1]
DeepSeek: 95.68% [2]

Gemini doesn't reveal their exact uptime figures but there have been intermittent issues with their API. [3] Overall, with Anthropic own API's they are struggling to get the basics of scalability of their systems despite billions in funding.

I'm looking forward to the post mortem of this but the importance of efficient AI inference cannot be under-estimated. Just look at Mistral as an example of handling this slightly much better than the rest. [4]

Unless you have the money, one should just consider the cloud hosted versions of Claude by AWS or GCP rather than their direct APIs, if you cannot tolerate the constant outages.

[0] https://status.openai.com/

[1] https://status.anthropic.com/

[2] https://status.deepseek.com/

[3] https://aistudio.google.com/status

[4] https://status.mistral.ai/
I think it's good that people finally does this but people in EU should've been doing this many years ago when all the news of the surveillance broke out.
>The old battery is charged slowly, cheaply and safely..

May be you can be sure of that. But can you be sure of the new battery that you just got, will discharge safely..?
GIMP should port and adapt Darktable's parametric masking and get ahead of Adobe.