skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where do you get sentenced for blaspheming the Quran in the EU?

Italy is a traditional religious country and blaspheming gets you <checks notes> a 50€ fine. Also, not a big deal if your blasphemies ara against Mary, that's ok.
It's just punishment differences based on paperwork available, that doesn't mean there's difference in the designation of the action as "crime".
I can't even imagine the amount of submissions coming in the next years, reviewers will have to start using AI tools as well. In the end (computer) science is just AI reviewers filtering AI submissions.
Scammer Payback's videos always include footage from the surveillance cameras. At least the scammers he and his crew target don't use slavery - that's more of a problem in Burma/Myanmar, not in India where many tech scammers are.
Or as I like to call it, The Boston Mollasacre
Well interest rates are lower in Europe than the US.

The other advantage over credit scores is that people willingly give their information out and are able to understand the banks decision.
God, yes. Every time I see a Cybertruck in NC they all look, well, just dirty. And not like a normal dirty. It is hard to explain, but the aesthetics just do not sit right in my artists eye.
You are facing a constitutional crisis right now, something most EU members can say they do not.

> Khalil called his lawyer, Amy Greer, from the building's lobby. She spoke over the phone with one of the ICE agents, who told her they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Greer said when she informed the agent that Khalil was a permanent resident of the U.S. in possession of a green card, the agent responded they would revoke the green card instead. When Greer said she needed to see a warrant before Khalil could be detained, the agent hung up. Abdalla said they were not shown a warrant and that "within minutes, they had handcuffed Mahmoud, took him out into the street and forced him into an unmarked car". A Columbia spokesperson declined to say whether, before the arrest, the university had received a warrant for the ICE agents to access property the university owned. The spokesperson also declined to comment on the arrest.

> On March 9, Greer said she was uncertain of Khalil's whereabouts, noting the possibility that he could be as far away as Louisiana. Abdalla, who sought to visit him at a detention center in New Jersey, was informed that he was not there. Khalil is detained at the LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana. [0]

Without appropriate warrants or being accused of a tangible crime in the court of law, a permanent USA resident has been detained, while being denied his right to speak with his lawyer for a significant part of his detention, with the post-hoc justification being his engagement in "anti-American", though not illegal, activity, ignoring claims of monetary ties with terrorist orgs made on national TV without being able to provide any corroboration when pressured.

Let's ignore political affiliations, who's on what team, and who you're rooting for. Applying abstraction, replace America with "Country X" and you see, plain as day, this as an attempt at silencing unfavorable speech. As a Ukrainian, sharing a language, geography, and personal connections across the border with Russia, I can tell you with certainty: this is how "disappearing" someone looks like. The target does not matter; the "enemies of people" set has a funny tendency to expand, starting from those for whom the least will stand up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil
The actual migration, a day or less. Now there was a 2-week sprint for testing and validating backup and restore before doing the actual migration. At the non-engineering level (management and such) of course there was a review and consideration time as well.
You're the one missing the forest for the trees. The security risk is not caused by websites, but by the fact that the browser can access your USB devices in the first place.

By giving the browser access to your USB devices, the browser could act as a keylogger even when you're using other applications.

Further, as there's no proper way to sandbox this, you wouldn't just be giving the browser keylogging capabilities, but any native app running under your user.
My main gaming rig (for admittedly not very intensive games) has been a 7000 series Ryzen APU with a 780M, and my next one will also be an APU. It makes zero economic sense to build a discrete CPU system for casual gaming, even if I believe that APU prices will be artificially inflated to "cozy up" to low-end discrete GPU prices for a while to maximize profits.
IMO the problem isn't 10x engineers. The problem is that the workplace is flooded with 0.1x "engineers" that we have to tiptoe around. These people can barely implement Fizzbuzz, and if we write any code that they find complicated then we're not "team players". Well guess what, if we want to be ahead of the competition then we sometimes have to use quicksort instead of bubble sort and if you hire people who don't get that then you're part of the problem.
what exactly?
The number of spoiled rich people?
This is why I downvoted the first comment.
Closing in on 50 years experience, under 60, USDA Grade A genius and son of one who is closing in on 100 with a bigarse certificate above his bed signed by a US Secretary of Defense..

..Sadly, the man with a law firm of a last name is probably from the era of tech professionals that began to emerge after the (dot-com-crash) nuclear winter ended, when most all over age 40 had been permanently purged from the tech industry for financial reasons. (People over 40 typically cannot survive for 5-6 years without earning an income and have to transition to other occupations in support families/mortgages/etc.) He most likely didn't come up with any grey-beards mentoring him at all. I can't even imagine having education, talent but the wisdom of random Google searches and Reddit posts. You can only go so far in life without knowing the "why" of everything! So, with all due respect, likely coming up without the mentorship trade professionals with even 20 years of experience means he doesn't know what he doesn't know about whether or not to take advice from "old heads." Case closed. (So depressing, how about a near-endless stream of beautiful women https://www.youtube.com/live/gqOeWBxN4_Q)

PS: First new grey-beards since 2000 (outside of Defense/Big Tech, Europe and Russia) should be around soon. A legit example of the handful left from before 2000 are like https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage Want some actual "career advice"? Figure out why Dave knows more about DeepSeek R1 than everyone YOUR age? (Hint: None of those people are going to make it in this field to Dave's age.)
Only if there is enough power generation
Which one? HN? TFA? Any of the scammy subdomains mentioned therein?
Right!

I say take it a step further - not everyone is excited by sitting in front of a computer and doing intellectual exercises. People like different things and are suited to doing different things as well.

But if there is only one way forward, which is Engineering, Medicine and Law - then you have essentially recreated 1970s India and China.

But this is 2025 - not only do we have automation we have GenAI, which threatens to take away tons of low level service work. Education is something that takes years to result in blooms. Decades of nurturing.

(Hey - thats a useful analogy. Societies plant and harvest crops of trained professionals.)

Can people discuss these difficult topics? Nope. Besides, if you do - people start becoming more “liberal”, “disconnected” from ground reality. Code for people not voting the way leadership would like.
About 15000 engineers have contributed to the Linux kernel. You should be more mindful of how facts line up with your feelings.
In remote Philippine villages, micro-hydro alternatives power Indigenous homes
Plus webusb is a 0 day waiting to happen. Browsers should not become os, they are exposed to the entire web.
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Hi guys

I created this initially for myself and seeing the doubts I used to check my internet speed at least once a day just because I sometimes found my ISP non reliable.

I see there are amazing services that are used like speedtest.net by ookla or fast.com by netflix but those are commercial speed with optimized servers and this led me to think what if I could just try a different algo to get a more real speed to what I get..hence I introduce 2 modes in this tool, one is standard which is real life speeds and other is commercial which is what we get closer to ookla style speed test results.

I will be also doing a technical article on this and how the tool works within a week or 2, until then this is the short story.

I would love for you to try it or you can completely discard it if its not up to your style of work or doesn't fit in your workflow.

See ya fellow HNers.

KV
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I posted this one earlier with improper link and I had overlooked that I couldn't edit the URL. I apologize for the confusion.
Good ol' Unicode.
Did you find differences in performance or reliability of the S3 and Kubernetes services already?
I own a cybertruck and completely love it. It’s wacky and fun and it gives me all the tech I wanted, plus I can use it like a truck when needed. I actually think it’s opposite, once people drive it they realize it’s really compelling. It does have some minor build issues that are fixed for free under warranty. Then again so does my gmc.
The challenge would be that there isn't just one "credit score". The scores published by bureau's exist more for marketing and as a stick to improve consumer behaviour.

A credit bureau's real product is the credit file, which contains your history of inquiries, defaults, collections, court judgements etc. In some countries it also includes granular payment history information.

From this file, many lenders compute their own internal credit scores. They do this because the credit scores published by the bureaus are the likelihood to default on any loan, however in practice consumers are often more likely to default on certain types of debt than others. Also, many lenders have additional data points that can be considered which the bureau's don't capture, such as the structure of the loan.

If there's anything questionable going on (e.g. using variables which act as proxies for factors prohibited by ECOA or FHA) it will be occuring in these proprietary lender-specific models, however the parameters used in these models also embed commercial sensitive information about the behaviour of their customer base, so I doubt many lenders will be keen to release them.
I should hope not. Even if your body could withstand the low pressure, you'd suffocate very quickly.
Great, they are now websites. What happens if they decide to no longer host them in two years?
Safari is an ant standing on the shoulders of a giant apple.
Hera asteroid mission spies Mars's Deimos moon
Every low or high-paying job I've had in the US is the same. I can just call in sick for a few days. Eventually they would want a doctor's note just to be sure.
Nuclear energy seems less harmful because its damage is often invisible or long-term. However, uranium mining leaves behind 99.99% of the extracted material as radioactive waste, contaminating land and water for centuries. The mining sites are primarily in Indigenous territories—such as those of the Navajo in the U.S., First Nations in Canada, Aboriginal Australians, and communities in Niger and Kazakhstan—where local populations suffer from radiation exposure, heavy metal poisoning, and increased cancer rates. While nuclear disasters receive global attention, the ongoing destruction from uranium mining remains largely ignored—out of sight, out of mind.
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10x is not literal - the origins is from the 60s, and stem from some study where the best engineer was found to be 10x more productive than the worst engineer.

Average, is of course relative to the sample. If some "elite" company only hires 10x engineers, there's likely not going to be any 10x engineers there. The most productive engineer will probably only be slightly more productive than the worst.

If some other company has zero standards for hiring, to a degree where you can basically pick anyone off the streets and put them to code, the best will probably Nx (where N is very large) more productive than the worst.

But even then, there are so many dimensions and aspects to this.
By this logic I suppose you would also be opposed to black power movements or certain African nationalist tendencies? White is more than just one bland, interchangeably generic ethnicity/race. It's hundreds of millions of people of many ethnicities and they have no less right to celebrate these cultural roots than anyone else. It's a shame to see so many of them cheaply labeled as white nationalist ergo Nazis even if they might have fuck all to do with racist fascism.
How large was the total data transfer? It doesn't seem to have been that big.
what made you choose for OVH instead of Scaleway.com ?

I recently discovered that Scaleway is also European, and that their offering is on par with many managed services AWS provides which could be a good drop-in replacement for them.
The working link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/internet-speed-test...

I apologize for the improper link in the url.
Problem for the HK company that sold is that America will take it either way. Trump can just say it's Chinese, so here comes the US Navy. At least the HK company gets some money back now instead of getting forced out without anything.

Just the way the world works right now it seems.
>Zuckerberg's Law: The amount each person shares double each year.

Anecdotally, this is almost certainly false. I (and most people I know) are posting ("sharing") less and less. Faced with a surveillance panopticon, I think many normal people are opting out. Peer-to-peer networks are withering.

The internet is reverting to the format of traditional media, with two distinct classes of broadcasters ('influencers') and audience members.
Best alternative to move to?
>>The people don’t hold the power.

The people hold the power to elect or not elect Trump though! I cannot possibly be any clearer about this, and I really hope you don't disagree with this!

It would be democratic in name only if it was like Russia - where you still have elections but somehow the leading candidate wins with 99% of the vote(sometimes even above 100%!). So you have the disguise of a democratic process but the underlying mechanisms don't function.

I honestly don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. You said "this is NOT democracy in action". Trump being the president IS democracy, the US presidential elections are democratic even if the rest of the US isn't. The nature of US being or not being a democracy isn't what I took an issue with, because I do actually think we agree there.
Tesla’s build quality was always in doubt but people were willing to overlook this fact. Now only the most ardent fanatics who live in Elon’s reality distortion field, of which I doubt there are many due to his deeply flawed personality, will buy his car.

We are witnessing Elon’s house of cards coming down. Remember Elon Musk has massive loans with Tesla as collateral and a collapse of Tesla’s share price will absolutely affect his other ventures.

Unfortunately probably SoaceX as well. But think medium term this could be a good thing - new space is thriving and do we really need a gorilla in the room?
> Has anyone ever seen Facebook as idealistic?

During the "Arab Spring" [0], a lot of people thought Facebook was the
dogs bollocks and that the sun shone out of Mark Zuckerberg's arse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
>Most of German workers work for German companies following German laws and German culture, not American companies. So why twice the sick days versus EU neighbours?

Which EU neighbours are we talking about? A cursory check shows them to be up by like 20ish% compared to czechia and poland, (which have decent sick pay) but up immensely compared to France and the UK (which do not). If #of sick days scales with % of sick pay it would make perfect sense for germany to be on top, do you have a decent dataset on #sick days by any chance? I was unable to find consistent data on this.
In my opinion, this is the primary problem with Tesla (no new models?) and future directions.

Tesla has promised a new Tesla Roadster for 5+ years now. There is no sign of it. Cybertruck also took ~5 years from reveal to release. Not sure where the Tesla semi is.

There has been some mention of a low cost EV, but I don't think we've seen sign of that yet. Last I heard was that it was cancelled.

So, given that Tesla usually uses around 3-5 years from reveal to actual production and release of a new vehicle, they are probably not going to sell any new models the next 3-5 years. Maybe updated versions of the existing line-up (like the new model Y).

Obviously, last year Musk revealed the "Robovan" (a somewhat odd self-driving minibus) and the "Robotaxi" (a two-seater self-driving taxi without a driving wheel). Both of these depend on FSD living up to its name first, and neither seem to be intended for "normal" people.

During the last Quarterly Earnings call Musk heavily pushed the idea that Optimus (Tesla's still in development biped robot) would increase the company's market cap by 10x. So it seems Musk thinks the future for Tesla is in the field of biped robots rather than vehicles.

Musk also claimed that a Tesla would start FSD taxi-service in Texas this summer -- I find that timeline doubtful, given that it takes time to set up the infrastructure for a "taxi" company. In any case, self-driving taxis is another possibly future direction for Tesla.
Besides Tesla's being the best EV's at their price point based on every real-life conversation with Tesla owners, at least they pause deliveries and address issues, unlike many other car manufacturers.

Tell me of any other EV truck with anywhere near the same real-life mileage and features, and look at all the EV trucks that are actual failures, like the electric F-150.
Your missing the $100 developer fee. Just Apple nickel and diming in every way possible.

It's riddled with adverts because it's the only way to get revenue out of such a terrible system.
Thank you for sharing! There's no excuse for staying on AWS (or Azure) these days, but it's hard to convince executives because the alternatives are marketed much less.
Musk's Madisonian Insight – and Its Troubling Consequences
I wonder if it is still the case that the most widely-used Prolog app in the world was the solver for network stack configurations in Windows NT?

https://web.archive.org/web/20040603192757/research.microsof...
but is a competitor to the $4000 Mac Studio with 96 GB. The slow memory bandwidth is a bummer, though.

Not really. The M4 Max has 2x the GPU power, 2.13x the bandwidth, faster CPU.

$2000 M4 Pro Mini is more of a direct comparison. The Mini only has 64GB max ram but realistically, a 32B model is the biggest model you want to run with less than 300 GB/s bandwidth.
>The propeller plane split into two after crashing into a wooden cabin in the Velika Planina mountain

Had to laugh at this though. "Velika Planina", the incredibly original name for this mountain means "Big Mountain" in Serbo Croatian and slovenian. The news article basically said "Big Mountain mountain".
In other news, only small children can easily open the anti child caps on medicine bottles...
Imagine being proud of yourself for 25 years, displaying "implemented innovative orbital positioning methodology for Shenmue" on your resume. It was even your promotion case for staff engineer since you did it yourself, and some guy comes by more than 2 decades later and points out that you actually did it wrong
Back in my day, our evil tech overlords allowed us to back up our system configurations before performing a complete system software upgrade.
Minor build issues? They had a total recall.
Fixed for free? Yes, if you can wait weeks for the fix.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91109879/a-timeline-of-tesla-cyb...

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/waiting-o...
"There are enough poor people that can’t afford the new Mercedes CLA and must drive model 3 instead."

What a sentence.
Hah, on the contrary, I thought what I was replying to was probably US defaultism. "Is it on purpose" indeed.
No need for brain programming. Some of them will have seen Cody Detwiler WhistlinDiesel test the CT. [1][2] He's of course overly dramatic and meant to be entertainment but I personally wish he would test every vehicle and should be the standard for durability testing. There are plenty of other Youtubers running into problems with the Cyber..... falling apart when doing things I did with my 80's Chevy without issue.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scBKKHi7WQ [video][10 mins]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_EJ3DyiiA [video][21 mins]
R1T is better than a Cybertruck in pretty much every way. It also doesn't look mind-bogglingly stupid to 99% of the world.
I'll bite. When I worked there I didn't see the management as idealistic, but the news media vis a vis the employee base had a lot of power. Many times I saw fiery journalism create direct confrontations between Zuck and ordinary employees about things like the company's moderation reaction to the shocking "napalm girl" wartime photo. Back then employees often won, creating shifts on company policy that felt like would not have happened otherwise. At some point it seems that the company decided that it wanted its people to have less of that kind of power though, presumably because it created a liberal company and Zuck seems to see the idea of Facebook as a liberal entity as a serious threat to his company
China's iSpace secures D round funding, targets December orbital launch, landing
Interesting but I have a hard time imagining how a nest made of anti-bird spikes could be comfortable. Do they actually find it to be nice? I guess corvids are super smart and wouldn't accidentally get tricked into making an uncomfortable nest due to man made materials...
Theyve both done a really good job of following a similar vendor lock-in strategy to oracle as well as using their salespeople to scare the shit out of timid, risk averse execs over things like security and compliance.

This is how their market power was built - with FUD, lies and tricks. Theyve now gotten to the point where theyre comfortable enough with this market power that they can lean on it while pursuing a strategy of developer wage compression.
uvx is the npx equivalent, it's provided with ux, and also has some nice bonuses.
There are plenty of reasons to stay with AWS, RDS being one. Are there viable alternatives?
Looks like this was previous reported. Only seems to affect some users.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/11/ios-18-3-2-apple-intell...
It's worse though - that it turned out his documents were falsified and he lied about his age - https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/JxGBa4/felet-i-bevisnin...

So he had fraudulently received that money too.
I doubt that has anything to do with getting "large in terms of job applications" alone. It's a correlation, alright, because wealthy families have it easier to get high-status and high-paying jobs for their kids, and if such a field grows, wealthy people flock to it like everyone else. But I sincerely doubt you'll find the wealthy over-represented in physical labor / blue collar jobs, regardless of how the ups and downs in the labor market for those occupations.

The way I see it, it's like 'swatcoder and 'lovich said upthread: the field became a money printer, and attracted - not revealed, attracted - a different kind of people, with a different mindset. I too saw this change happening. Applicant pool size? That's a spurious correlation - it's just driven by the same factors that make software industry a money printer.