skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep rolling out this defence over and over in this thread, but look at those who started on anything else. For example, I've never used Photoshop, but moved from MS paint level to Paint Shop Pro (I think 6? 7?) and had to learn that from scratch. The experience was mostly intuitive, things were more or less where you expected and did what you expected, and there was solid help available under the help menu.

I have tried to use GIMP on dozens of occasions, and it always surprises me in the worst ways, or bounces me off to search the web for a howto. Simple things like: I want to select a rectangle, move/resize the selection, then crop the image to that selection. Or I want to arrange two images side-by-side for comparison, crop to the smaller one, to export a side-by-side. Pretty much every attempt at doing something other than colour curve adjustment has resulted in a faceplant. Eventually I gave up switched to Krita.
> Git repos (it's too difficult)

Sourcehut

> Startpage uses Google's index.

If they have enough users/make enough money, they'll make their own. Ecosia and Qwant (both european search engines) are working together to make their own index.

In any case, even if a european is a proxy for an american service, you need to prove that there is a market for an european equivalent for change to happen.
I have never heard of either company before and I'm starting to wonder whether I'm the odd one out.
For those as lost as me, a cursory look tells me that Rippling is a "Workforce management system (HR, IT, Finance)" while Deel is a "Payroll, Compliance and HR Solution".
It still is big. Let's not start to treat 10's of thousands of skill labor losing their jobs through no fault of their own as an everyday occurance. We may as well leave the US at that point.
I wonder is switching to cell in parallel/series would speed up charging
I thought the whole point of this post is to get away from US clouds. So why should I choose Cloudflare and Azure in the end?
And maybe that is the reason why it is going down now. The speculation seems like not going to materialize.
Been looking for this
> more closely defends the interests of the US.

Uhm, you did notice the threats of invasion and annexation to allies, didn't you? This is not "more closely defending interests", this is a 180° change of policy after half a century. Maybe this feels like some minor issue to you, but generally, countries take direct threats to their sovereignity extremely seriously.

And the thing is - while Europe didn't do the whole "growth above all" thing in recent years, it still has the best median quality of life in the entire world. Maybe there is a point, where it's just good enough?

Maybe the price of eternal exponential growth is too high.

I've been hearing those doomsday "europe is going to get destroyed economically" stories for my entire life. Yet the median quality of life and other societal markers kept going up.

Do you really not notice what you are doing to supposed allies, without whom the US is essentially nothing? This is a two way street. And without protection from the US, why should american outstanding political influence be a thing anymore? The US and its citizens aren't special, just one country among many others now.
isn't cloudflare a US corp ?
Pretty much every country has interests groups trying to push backdoors into end-to-end encrypted services, what's your point?
There is ample precedent for NASA stubbornly holding on to sunken costs, too. Yes probably it's forced on them but still.
I wouldn't buy that - if there is a dead switch then sorry, I don't want to pay that with my business.
In SI prefixes M=mega/m=milli, sure. In SI units m|M=metre.
Absolutely. Microsoft stuff is so mediocre and incompetent.

They get away with it because they're pretty much the only game in town for enterprise. So there is no drive for them to improve in any way.

But really, companies choose Microsoft because it's all connected (easy to manage for them) and fairly cheap if you take the whole package and because "nobody ever got fired for picking Microsoft". But AAA third-party solutions are always way better in terms of UX and features. Picking Microsoft tools always feels like you're settling for less.

I manage a lot of the microsoft 365 stuff at work and I really hate my job. Also the condescending attitude of their employees and 'consultants'.
What did you learn out of the experience?
Thats why people are going yarr again
Most likely gas stations will have to buy these systems to keep their business running.
The explicitly includes Cloudflare as one of the big services they currently used and needed to excise from their life as part of this move. Promoting consolidation from many providers to one while also switching from a generic solution to a vendor locked-in one would probably be a downgrade in their book.
I hope they have a robot for physically handeling the SD card insertions and retrieval. Even then, lets say you can load or swap 1 card per second, by the time you are dealing with the 200th card, would the first one not already be ingested?

Seems like more of a scale out than a scale up problem, with a view on the whole operation from recording footage down to final archive to tackle the real bottleneck.
The most generic dystopia novel premise imaginable. but it seems like America is gonna treat it like gospel instead. Anything to not pay the working class.
Building the Ultimate Mobile Game Engine: Starlite
> I live in Germany, which has its automobile industry being shredded into pieces by China, and it's for a good reason though.

This is wrong. In the past German car makers made a great profit from selling cars in China and had a really good time. Now the Chinese have learned to build their own cars, which lead to a significant loss of market share for German and other foreign car makers.

But German car makers are still quite profitable. For example BMW just announced a profit of 7.68B Euros, and are still the largest exporter of cars in the USA (yes, exporter). The race is still on, and despite strong competition from Chinese car manufacturers, German car makers are everything but "shredded into pieces".
I believe 256 bit symmetric keys and hashes are currently recommended because it's double the classically-secure 128 bit.
I found things got a lot better when the proper apis and terraform zpa/zia coverage happened

Still many foot guns, but I’ve much the same feelings for most of the tooling in the proxy/vpn space.
I wonder what the armies of lobbyists are doing here. I would not imagine they are silently ignoring what might happen to the funding feed.
> functionally a wealth transfer from grandma to an institutional trader

This makes no sense. Grandma can only lose money if she sells, most are not actively trading in the market.

Also large trades are in both directions. Some are trying to unload large holdings and some are trying to build large holdings. These pools are merely trying to find other large transactions to be the counterparty, the net effect is to reduce volatility in the open market, which is the whole point: price stability for their transaction.
KB is a JEDEC thing where they invented a new shorthand prefix but re-used the Si prefix names of (kilo, mega, giga) while changing their meanings. They used capital K for kilo meaning 1024.

It's certainly one of the dumbest standards in existence and the fact Microsoft went with it and extended it is frustrating too.
Like any mind-altering substance, I would suggest caution. Bad decisions are made and dangerous thoughts are had. Relationships can end, lives can be ruined, and people can die. It’s not a hallucinagen-specific problem, but here be dragons.
Battery charging/discharging speed is limited not by capacity but by current relative to capacity. Li-ion batteries can generally be recharged in constant current mode without significant degrading up to "4C" - 4x its mAh rating, above a low threshold below which it's not yet safe to charge at full speed, and below ~80% where it's no longer safe to charge with constant current but charging has to switch to low current constant voltage mode.

Cutting down charging time to below 1/4th standard Earth hours require material science breakthroughs(hard). While this system might be useful for charging a 4MWh train packs, or a 1MWh semi pack with a not insignificant degradation penalty, this does not accelerate charging for most EV users even if this was to be deployed widely.
> school and university has taught people to first and foremost be obedient.

That's not inevitable. I count myself lucky that it didn't happen to me.

Unfortunately I don't know how to improve schools to the level of those I attended over half a century ago. And I lack the get up and go to make it happen anyway.
Unvibe: Generating code that passes Unit-Tests
There is right now a thing that you believe strongly that is false. If someone were to point it out to you you would get angry. C'est la vie.
I like them a lot but they only have EU DCs, if you are looking for Global (or at least Asia) you're out of luck for now. Perhaps this disconnect from US services might give them the impulse to spread out though! I'm really happy with them as a customer and I don't have needs beyond Europe anyway.
Codeberg? Self-hosted Forgejo?
Absolutely, here’s why.
Emails Are Making Me Happy Again
TIL that Sourcehut is or has been moving to the EU/Netherlands, thanks!
True. If you are new to Lisps it will require substantially more than 5 minutes to learn about the different types of macros. For Racket in general you might start here.[0][1] For Rhombus probably here.[2][3]

I'm not clear what your asking about regarding the ellipses though.

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/macros.html

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Reader_Extension.html

[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus-meta/index.html

[3] https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/Syntax_Objects_and_Macr...
Reminds me of an Indian ceremony where they believe cow manure is healthy (maybe it is, I have no clue) and they are walking on it on barefeet or something.
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate EPA's Scientific Research Arm
but they got the right sales people to get to the IRS and they hired the "right" (wrong) certification company. so that's three jobs at least.

we now have one job to ask for accountability and will not do it.
Can you imagine a large investor who isn't, to some extent, invested in real estate?
> Startpage is owned by a Dutch company which is operated from its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, and is a part of System1, a publicly traded company based in the United States.

I was hoping Startpage was the successor of startpagina.nl, which I used as a kid in 1995 to 'browse' the web. One of the oldest Dutch websites that I can remember. Fond memories!
Looks unrealistic to me.
Sure, for one guy with lots of energy and know how its possible.
Try migrating academia, industry, entire government branches etc. That's not gonna be easy.
> It's no surprise nobody uses it for sensitive content anymore

I get password reset links for pretty much every website on email. Few things as sensitive as that.

I also receive and send documents, signed or for signing, with pretty sensitive information, over email.

I agree it shouldn't be used for those but it certainly still is.
This comment makes me think of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect but applied to comments. If I was unaware of what has been happening for the past few weeks I would find this comment reasonable and well nuanced. I realize that many times I read something on hn on a subject I know almost nothing about and leave thinking I've learned something.
> putting multiple icons under the same button and then changing the icons too to make it entirely impossible to find anything

GIMP's toolbox was like that, since forever IIRC, no?

Edit: Just checked, everything is where it's since 1998. New tools added under correct toolbox categories (heal under stamp/clone, etc.).
— <https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyon...>
Where did the word "all" appear in my comment? How many r's are in strawberry?
It's a pretty weak smokescreen. People thinking this is about "efficiency" should go work for DOGE. This has been happening for years now so the facade is long gone.

The reasons are as usual. Anticipating economic headwinds and how to make number go up despite that,s174 (sp?) changing how you amortize R&D, early attempts to incorporate AI into workflows, etc. Companies at the moment are not at all concerned with lean development nor streamlining workflows.
> Privacy rights in the EU are being eroded as we speak. Unless people there get off their high horse, they'll succumb to the same level of authoritarianism and surveillance as in the states.

Last time I checked not even the US is proposing to install AI agents on everybody's phone to surveil your encrypted messages (look up chat control, last meeting not even 2 months ago). Soon people will start looking for non-EU VPNs to install Signal (the CEO said they would leave EU if the law passed).

> Also, sorry, but the idea that EU countries are in any position to build a serious hyperscaler is pure fiction. Growth, funding, risk, innovation - those are alien concepts to European entrepreneurs.

Disagree, some of the EU clouds are already well on their way.
> And related, don't non-pro traders basically always lose money on trades but still exist?

by the same token, gamblers also on average lose money, but still exist.
Yeah, I was a Protonmail evangelist but their mobile app sucks and their client software has nonconsensual surveillance embedded in it that you have to remember to turn off.
> If there's demand there will always be companies to supply that demand.

I want to walk around town without cameras tracking me. Can companies supply my demand?

I want PFAS and microplastics out of the evironment. Can companies supply my demand?

I want net-zero CO2 emissions in all the products I buy. Can companies supply my demand? How do I trust they are not green-washing? Do I depend on even more companies? How do I trust those companies?

Sure seems simpler to have the government enforce privacy and pollution laws.

> Politics shouldn't dictate to economy.

Which means you think William Wilberforce's most famous work was completely wrong.

> Then why should people be forced to use EVs instead of whatever they like?

You should consider how government-subsidized oil production and distribution has forced you to use fossil fuel cars instead of whatever you like.

You should consider even more how government-subsidized planning forces you to use a car in the first place, and often closed off alternative solutions like walking, bike, and mass transit.
It is not that bad, the code is easier than your average web server and it is usually only one CPU for consumer devices. It gets bad if:

1) You add embedded linux

2) You have multiple CPUs that need to communicate with each other.

3) Both of the above (then the complexity skyrockets)

(this happens in modern cars)

So basically if it has a full LCD display (instead of 7-segment with a few extra toggle lights) I don't buy it.

It is actually quite refreshing code to read and write, yes the quality is often bad, but it often feels like school projects where they are small enough you can hold the complete system in your head. And it usually doesn't integrate with anything else besides the eletronics in the board
Virtually all foreign companies that set-up shop in Europe (or anywhere else) do so by setting up local subsidiaries.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc. When you deal with all of these guys in Europe you deal with their local subsidiary(ies), not the US mothership.
We used to poison people with lead. Stopping lithium spreading seems like an easy task.
Because of low human rights advantage, their products are much cheaper. They also send all used batteries back to China, leaving no pollution to your country. But such thing won't last forever.
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US listings often fail to boost European companies' valuations
This is still just name calling. You are just using negatively charged adjectives without quoting or arguing the substance or even the style. Is your crique only about the presentation or the substance of the ideas too?

What makes it unprofessional? To me it looks much better than a substantial chunk of my review stacks at ML conferences and journals. Are you an ML researcher? Maybe you're used to a different research community that's more "uptight"?
Wait. Is this why twitter got rebranded; a billionaires pissing match and brand confusion?
I don't mind black and white icons in most places, but in GIMP and Inkscape I turn on colour icons - there are lots of icons together in a palette and it's hard to tell which is which.

Monochrome icons is from GNOME, it's a shame Sun has gone, they used to do usability testing on GNOME and publish the results
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On Arch, per `file`:

/usr/share/file/misc/magic.mgc: magic binary file for file(1) cmd (version 20) (little endian)

Per magic(5), it could also be “a directory of source text magic pattern fragment files in /usr/share/file/misc/magic”.

The original sources are mirrored in <https://github.com/file/file/tree/master/magic/Magdir>. The identification of the magic.mgc file itself comes from <https://github.com/file/file/blob/0fa0ffd15ff17d798e2f985447...>.
>In your neighbor's house example, it would be like if there was a street market auction for trading cards happening in your neighbor's front yard, but in the house your neighbor and another neighbor had gotten together to trade 100x the average #of cards using the prices they hear from outside, and the people outside only see the deal they made after it's done.

I mean, that's literally what happens with trading cards. It's super common to base face-to-face deals (whether for cash or trades) on internet pricing, including very big ones. (the trading card market is a lot less liquid, though, so it's also common for there to be a fairly big discount or premium on those prices in the deal for various reasons)
Is anyone migrating away from microservice architecture back to just big box single monolith blob like back in the 1990s/2000s?

I really liked using Hetzner and pure metal. The only real hold-back I have from switching from Google is email and doing backups.
But you have no idea of the prompt. The money will ultimately go to people who are almost certainly invested in real estate. I make no allegations, but I would not ask any landlord for advice on which terms of my contract to negotiate/flag as illegal.
https://archive.is/4tvvj
Does not really matter, if you charge 10 cars at 100kw or 1 car at 1MW. The amount of miles you add to your transportation system is the same.
I am migrating away from Proton. In theory they check all marks, in practice they fail in delivering baseline functionality in all categories.

1. The Web interface email is so-so, but the proxy email bridge is really heavy and takes a huge amount of disk space. It also makes my computer start flying from time to time. The iOS email client(very important as they dont support standard protocols) is just useless. The text is rendered like an image which I need to pinch to zoom in and slide across the text. There is no way for the font size to be increased to a legible amount. The images in attachment are not in a carroussel so I need to open1/close1/open2/close2/open3/close3 if there are 3 attached images. In an email client this is absolutely basic.

2. ProtonDrive: It took a long while before rclone was supported and for their web client to be working, "ok". Anyway it is basically unusable as a backup cloud service because it takes forever to encrypt in the browser. I just gave up and have no idea what is the state of sync of my files there. I just moved to backblaze and am waiting for my Proton subscription to expire.

3. ProtonVPN: Good on paper, totally untrusted and blocked by the internet. I can't navigate without filling 10 captchas or just be outright blocked.

4. ProtonCalendar is proprietary and not compatible with generic tools in iOS or linux or Android.

I gave up trying their other services as I just expect them to be as incomplete.

I mean: Email is the thing that needs to work right and every time I need to see some email together with my wife I feel like this goofy person that complicates what for everyone else is one of the most basic tasks in using a computer.

If I could I would just cancel and ask my money back, unfortunately they do not do that.
Man, that's fascinating, full study here [1].

I wonder how the Lithium is entering the food chain? Given they've tested drinking water, food, and air.

Dust from processing? occupational exposure? unscrupulous recycling operations? but Lithium isn't a heavy metal so exposure would have to be ongoing.

Definitely need to test some additional cities and try and understand what's going on here. While concerning these blood levels are at 3% of the doses typically studied in psychiatric conditions. There's some potential public health benefits to low level lithium exposure actually [2] but at the same time you don't want to be unintentionally exposing pregnant folks.

1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c12959

2. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.128
He committed a clear and factual mistake in design - a [Basic Engineering Defect]. It cannot be merely called not following "convention".

Now if the question was between radio buttons and a drop-down list - that is a designer's choice.
Testing Go programs with testscript [pdf]
A rendering would have been nice
If China pays extra cost to deal with pollution, their ev won't be that cheap.
Meanwhile I'll note that raised heels were originally menswear - derived from riding boots, where the heel keeps the stirrup in place, but gradually got taller for conspicuous display, then disappeared along with most of the rest of peacocking.
Ehh, I'll take more knowledge and accounts on the inside, even if the reporter themselves gleefully implemented them with no regrets. I'm not trying to find heroes, I just want to seek the truth. Tit for tat in my eyes, no altruistic party here.
There's still progress bar on update and there's timer (but not always).

The timer also jumps. Once I had ~40 minutes update that was hope-feeding me with "2 minutes left" for most of the time.

My guess is that it's not worth optimizing, but nowadays I shy from updates if I don't have 2h of time buffer (not because I am afraid something will break, but because I know I'll be locked out).
I don't know Rippling, but Deel is widely adopted over here in Brazil for startups hiring international workers.
> This abstraction shields users from the complexity of the underlying systems and allows us to add new data sources without changing the user experience.

Cursed mission. These sorts of things do work amazingly well for toy problem domains. But, once you get into more complex business involving 4-way+ joins, things go sideways fast.

I think it might be possible to have a human in the loop during the SQL authoring phase, but there's no way you can do it clean without outside interaction in all cases.

95% correct might sound amazing at first, but it might as well be 0% in practice. You need to be perfectly correct when working with data in bulk with SQL operations.
codeberg? git as remote repo also works just with a remote host over SSH.
The ellipses was about replacing 3 ascii symbols 1. 2. 3. with 1 unicode symbol 1… and have it serve the exact language function (repetitions)
Or 1300 horsepower
This work seems like it was a some sort of advanced LLM output. Thought-provoking and curious, but no soulful thread of consciousness. It could also be schizoid rambling, but it seems too detached for that. I read it bottom to top and it made no more sense. I guess this is what makes frontpage HN these days. It’s probably the third or fourth thing over the past month that was obvious garbage.
The macOS inline dictionary has a shortcut
Obviously in the ideal case indicator animation would be tied to something else, like background process sending output, and there would be a textual description next to it.