skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, nice story, sadly it is a lie.

Hungary enjoyed good GDP growth rates recently. It stumbled in the last two years because it's energy dependence on Russia used to be higher than that of other EU countries - so gaining bigger benefits from it earlier (cheap energy), it had higher losses recently when this dependence is being slowly broken.

https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/full-year-gdp-growth - 2.7% average growth in the last 12 years, or 3% per capita corrected for population decline.

By comparison, U.S. GDP growth in the same period averaged only 1.75% per year per capita (which isn't bad, about average actually), so there's 15.9% accumulated catch-up over these years (while Hungary is still 1.8+x poorer so that is expectable).

It's neither poor nor there is mass political terror. There can't be because borders are open, everyone is free to emigrate and find employment in any nearby EU country having full rights as EU citizens. So the government is very, very limited in what it can do to it's people as voting with one's feet is way too easy and that is the untimate form of democracy.

Only way in which Hungary is different from other Eastern European states is major territory and population loss after WWI. Other Eastern European countries did not have any sort of statehood before WWI and then not until after 1989 when they were Nazi and then Commie colonies. Many of them don't even have history of their own, just ethnography - say Slovakia (ok there was Principality of Nitra that one can count for Slovak state but it was 1000 years ago and lasted one generation), they were owned by other countries/cultures and not even as a whole but piecemeal. By contrast, Hungary was a very real nation all the way from ~1000AD. Which then, lost 2/3 of it's territory and population, to the nations they consider their inferiors, and still can't get over it. It's sort of natural that they are kinda resentful and far right, they naturally feel that they have been historically wronged and have a much lower international position and weight than they naturally deserve.

Of course, there is another "very real" East European nation - Poland - but it currently enjoys a very prominent international political and economical position which probably matches their expectation, so while their politics is kinda right wing, it is so to a much lower degree. One could also name Lithuania, but GDL wasn't a nation of Lithuanians.
I wouldn't think most of those factors matter when deciding to visit.

E.g., if I had friends in the US, or I wanted to see Yosemite National Park, why would the education system matter?
This seems like something you want to be true more than something that actually is true.
Memecoins are a very, very small part of the overall economy. Much smaller than journalism used to be in its heyday.
Full agree!

Being close to the edge of AI usage, it's important to realize that most AI use cases are not "fully autonomous AI software engineer" or "deep research into a niche topic" but way more innocuous: Improve my blog post, what's the capital of France, what are some nice tourist sites to see around my next vacation destination.

For those non-edge use cases, costs are an issue, but so are inertia and switching costs. A big reason OpenAI and ChatGPT are so huge is that it's still their go-to model for all of these non-edge use cases as it's well known, well adopted, and quite frankly very efficiently priced.
I think you work in different domains.

Expecting a good outcome is different from expecting to get exactly what you intended.

Formal specifications are useful in some lines of work and for some projects, less so for others.

Wicked problems would be one example where formal specs are impossible by definition.
Yeah, and culture will stagnate forever at the 2020 mark, as nobody in his right mind will create anything new only to be immediatly copied without anything in return.

>usher in an internet age where everybody can access the entire corpus of evolved knowledge

We have had that for decades and everything is going to shit. People now just reject facts.
> they got to follow the rules, whatever how stupid and outrageous they are

That's kind of the crux of the issue: stupid and outrageous rules.
Because if your relationship is friendly, cordial and appropriately distanced, there would then be no evidence that you resent her not wanting to date you.

Come on guys, this stuff is pretty simple.
I don't think they give a specific and exact output, considering how nondeterminism plays a role in most models.
My wife and I recently flew to New Zealand from London, we opted to avoid a transit via the US. Not just because of the political situation in the country, which isn't ideal, but because our bags wouldn't be checked all the way through. Having to offload our bags and re-check them in either JFK or LAX is a huge pain – travelling via China, Singapore or any of the middle eastern countries is so much more convenient in comparison.
I think you're being hyperbolic. On a 1080p screen that's almost the entire vertical real estate. You'd upscale it if you're going to actually use this thing for "useful purposes" like marketing material, but that's not an icon.
Overthinking without extra input is always bad.

It's super bad for humans too. You start to spiral down a dark path when your thoughts run away and make up theories and base more theories on those etc.
The real question is, do we actually need "frameworks"? Pure JS works pretty well, and no JS at all even better.

I recently worked on an SAP project where there was a whole Java layer in front of SAP, and then a huge Angular app on top of it all; but since the point of the application was to manage b2b sales of physical things and it mattered very much whether those things were in stock, almost every screen did a full request to the SAP layer. The need for a thick "rich" client was unclear, and PHP would probably have worked much better.

Hype aside, it seems big organizations are using frameworks as a mean to ensure uniform coding practices and make developers more easily replaceable; but surely there are better ways to achieve that.
The cheapening of the experience is the whole point though. People are robbing themselves of the joy that can only come from putting yourself through hardship in pursuit of a goal.

It’s not a moral judgement, that’s just how humans are wired. The lows make the highs higher.
Sorry, I missed that.

But yes in a sense: we do know that particles are subject to gravity. So that is part of 'the sum total of human knowledge of particle physics.'
Not wanting to spend money there likely comes 1st, being sent to an adventurous free trip South is an extra bonus.
maybe also the major paper you can rely on for the truth. yeah it's left leaning but it won't spew lies and spread propaganda like the NYT / Washington Post.
In France the inheritance tax is only applied above 100 000€, so it's really not 40% flat. What's more, it's possible to make donations before the death, 100 000€ every 15 years, without taxes, meaning most of the time no taxes are payed at all below 200 000€ or even 300 000€.

These amounts are per-child, which means you can double them up if there are two children.

Median patrimony in France is 175 000€ per household, so your typical middle class family with two children ends up paying no inheritance tax, without having done donations in advance.
At least on Android it's possible to dissect an app. You won't get the original java code, but static analysis is possible. And indeed, it's possible to capture it's network traffic and even often decrypt that traffic (with root access to the device). Now, I, or you may not research at this level, but someone looking into wether they may use WhatsApp to discuss attack plans on, say, Jemen, might find such weaknesses.

People find exploits in proprietary code, or even SaaS (where researchers cannot even access the software) every day.

People at Meta might leak this information too.

"Information wants to be free"

My point is: the risk of this becoming known is real.
> developers don't taking any time to optimize, lazy load, cache, minimize dependencies...

I built much more performant apps without lazy loading or caching when using html and a sprinkle of JS.
I'm saving this comment just so I know what cheese to try next time
> I deal as DevOps/SRE daily with these services, and finding one that will do a first load under 10s is close to impossible

Come on. That can't possibly be true.
Usually the home country or other touristic destinations. I'd consider that US has been the country with the highest crime... and very obvious police presence compared to any other place visited (I've traveled fair amount)
It's like how border-radius was added after rounded corners via images fell out of fashion.
Ex-felons should be allowed to vote.

Felons shouldn't be eligible for political positions though.
It makes sense, they want that silly communist Obamacare to be cancelled, as long as their own family can get good old fashioned American Medicaid.

America for real Americans is a great idea! Hopefully they won't have to live in reservations anymore.
> The real question is, do we actually need "frameworks"?

Yes. The advantage of having a common API across thousands of web apps shouldn't be a point of discussion.
Great stuff!

Small UX thing: Make it so you can just click a word to fill in the next empty spot, instead of having to drag, similar to when building sentences in Duolingo. Especially when not on a touchscreen, having to drag is pretty painful and reduces accessibility.
Which government is that which is comparable to Mexican cartels?
Because the people you will enevitably run into will have gone through it and paired with stress, poverty and guns this could ruin your day?
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Very good online resource (and free!) is JustinGuitar guitar course[1]. It begins from absolute nothing, no prior knowledge required. And it works for both acoustic and electric guitars. Also Justin is great, understanding and aproachable teacher (even though course is online). Only downside is you will need a lot of self discipline to go through it, but it definetly worked for me.

[1] https://www.justinguitar.com/
Honestly, after playing around with your example and tweaking a JavaScript example, I feel that my plain JS example is faster than the one with WASM/Rust on Nue (possibly due to the animations). Please disable animations; I think they make your WASM example feel slower than it probably is.

Here is a 1 million rows table in JS with filtering, sorting, and pagination:
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubuserconten...
Lambda collaborated with Razer on their last tensorbook in 2022. It was literally a then current Razer Blade running Ubuntu
I've been suspecting the subtext of that was "take back anime from Japanese", except what they made was a death trap welded stuck in reverse. Now they must climb with what they have, for that they are closer to the top from there than to where they came from.
till the UK finally admits London is its fifth country. the UK won't devolve and diversity development.
The tagline says a lot more about React than it does Nue, but I'm always interested in less bloat when it comes to front-end. I'll try this out, one small thing I don't like is in the demo there is a weird pulsating effect that actually modifies the layout when clicking, throwing me off a little.
It's not just Apple integrating AI into the hardware, Microsoft has been part of a big push to "AI PCs" with a certain minimum capabilities (and I'm sure their partners don't mind selling new gear) and the copilot button on keyboards, and certain android models have the processors and memory capacities specifically for running AI
I'm not sure if this would scratch your itch, but I'm building a Postgres-native workflow engine that separates orchestration from execution. I want to be able to start my flows from within db triggers.

It just exposes set of functions to propagate the DAG through states and queues tasks for a task worker to perform the actual work and acknowledge completion or failure back to the sql orchestrator.

I was working on it for last few months and it will be ready in upcoming weeks, first version is dedicated to work on Supabase but I plan to make it agnostic.

If you want to learn more, check out the SQL Core readme which explains the whole concept (https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow/tree/main/pkgs/core#rea...) or my Twitter for updates and some demos (https://x.com/pgflow_dev).
> I suspect the larger reason is that they created this to optimize their primary business

Wasn't this how AWS started at Amazon as well?
> And why shouldn’t you be able to use EU funds for that? It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if a political organisation that is pro EU gets funding, the opponents should be funded as well. What is beneficial to the EU as a organisation shouldn’t be a parameter at all, that’s not how democracy works.

I fundamentally disagree with that. It would be like using public funds to run for presidency in a country while campaigning for that country to cease to exist.

Note that they didn't forbid her to campaign on a platform that is against the EU - which I think they should - they only forbid her to use public EU funds to do so.

That you want to paint this as undemocratic is very bizarre.

> But that doesn’t make EU a particularly democratic organisation.

To the opposite, EU fragments power quite a lot. It is one of the main reasons why it is slow to act sometimes, many changes requires unanimous approval from all member countries (which is why Orban gets to veto any initiative while he is gurgling on Putin's balls).

> In my opinion, it is rare to find politicians who try to increase democracy.

I don't even know if we would agree what a perfectly functioning democracy even is.
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Under Trump doctrine, IIRC, Vance could simply kill Trump as an official Presidential act, and the legal presumption would be that it's A-OK.

Actually, that's an interesting question: does the VP share that same presumption of immunity? If so, then Vance could just do the deed right now and get off Scott free.
I don't think the American farmer with close to 20% of income in government subsidies is really that eager for free market https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...
> the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Just the other day I was appalled by a new record, 1604.

I'm increasingly of the opinion this stuff needs to just be banned outright by law. None of the businesses I've talked to seem to be aware of how dishonest it looks to say "we value your privacy" while trying to get users to agree to get more companies than there were pupils in my secondary school to analyse them.
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Watch the episode of Rotten that features the avocado trade. What country's govt acts the "exact same?" One example would be kidnapping to extort farmers, causing them to lose their farm and livelihood
My girlfriend wanted to visit the US once in her life, but we decided to cancel the plans due to the current uncertainty.
A German tattoo artist was detained because she had her work equipment with her. What will happen when I bring my phone and laptop as an IT guy?
> I see a lot of people angry at "Nue" in various ways

Interesting. I see people making overlay-broad claims without evidence or justification.

> I deal as DevOps/SRE daily with these services, and finding one that will do a first load under 10s is close to impossible

Nobody is going to call in for your help unless something is wrong, so don't be surprised you haven't seen anything right. That just means people are keeping the good stuff secret (and/or they don't work for your company)

> I can't help but think these are people heavily relying on React and missing the overall issue.

That's too bad.

I think that everyone who works on a slow project knows it's ultimately Management's fault, and when a codebase gets so big that nobody feels like they can fix it anymore, that's Management's fault too.

Maybe you can think if Management called you in earlier you could've designed a better thing, but guess what: I think that would be Management's fault too.

> but I can at least root for them

Can you imagine if any of what you said was really True, everybody believed you, and everybody actually stopped using these "huge frameworks [that] have made the web a horrible slow mess", and that actually solved "the overall issue" so that all software is perfect and reliable? What exactly do you think a SRE does in this case? Do you think that's even a job?

I really suggest trying to look at things differently, because I think for your skills there's a huge opportunity sitting right in front of you if you can see it.
If you ever canoed you will know 80km upstream for 2 months with loaded canoe is impossible for regular humans.

As for direction of flow, just look at the map, not sure why people post questions online that can be answered in 5s googling, its freely available info.
That's a strong accusation.

The only way I can think of, is by pushing an update that grabs all your keys and pushes them to their servers.

Otherwise, it's pretty decent set up (if I am to believe Moxie, which I do)
I agree that the interest rate is astonishingly high.
People want to take a selfie at the top. No one is "enjoying the view" anymore - certainly not the shallow masses.

It is enshittification.
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I'm getting "Failed to load video player"
Not at all. Most objects die young and thus are never moved. Also, the time before it is moved is very long compared to CPU operations so it is only statistically relevant (very good throughput, rare, longer tail on latency graphs).

Also, write-only barriers don't have that big of an overhead.
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But what if it is not the frameworks that are bloated but the application developers that make bloated applications? Then how would this fix anything ...
if the computer belongs to the company, and you're using it as an employee, you should be told that such spyware is installed and your usage of said machines are monitored. Then there's no qualms about this at all.

It's only an invasion of privacy if the monitoring is done in secret.
Nice to see some workflow engine action on Hacker News! :-)

I'm currently building pgflow, which is a simple, postgres-first engine that uses task queues to perform real work.

Have explicit DAG approach, strong typesafety, nice DSL in TypeScript and a dedicated task queue worker that allows it to run solely on Supabase without any external tools.

I'm super close to the alpha release, if you guys want more info, check out the readme for SQL core (https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow/tree/main/pkgs/core#rea...) or my Twitter (https://x.com/pgflow_dev).

Hope that grabs someone attention :-)
Cheers
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Well they then stole from Ponoc, too, right?
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Yeah, take it from me, NYC and Boston are far more relaxed and friendly than Cape Town for walking or driving around.

But I find the airport border security in CPT Airport much more pleasant. The worst that happens is that they sometimes go through your stuff thoroughly, hoping to ding you some money for "importing" e.g. that second bottle of booze.

In all of these cities, there is crime and violence. Less so in NYC and Boston. In all of them, there are safer places and times, and less safe areas. If you know what they are.

You can't say "USA crime and poverty rates are terrible, therefore Manhattan will be very dangerous" - it just doesn't work that way.
It doesn't make it any less worse, but that was my takeaway from the Signal scandal. Of course more secure channels exist, but I'm sure the UX sucked big time!
Trump cannot run as VP as he's no longer a valid backup POTUS having already served two terms. VP candidates have to be "valid" (birth citizenship, age, not have served two terms).

The back door third term via VP trick only cleanly works for candidates before they've been elected twice.

Any attempt by Trump to run as VP will almost immediately be locked up in chaos.

It's another dead cat on table smoke 'n mirrors distraction play.

To quote another:

The reason Donald Trump is talking about this third term ridiculousness is very plain.

Second-term American presidents are lame ducks. That’s just how it is. And if they are unpopular lame ducks, after awhile their allies may start to look past them toward the future.

Trump is undoubtedly terrified of this—of becoming irrelevant before his term even ends, particularly once the race to succeed him heats up.

The way for him to keep the specter of lame-duckishness at bay is to tease the idea that just maybe, who knows, he just sorta might run for a third term.

That’s the play, and the media is being played.

~ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/old-man-dons-cross-to-b...

Addendum:

The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President of the United States to two terms, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

The interaction with the twelfth has not been tested in any Supreme Court:

It has been argued that the 22nd Amendment and 12th Amendment bar any two-term president from later serving as vice president as well as from succeeding to the presidency from any point in the presidential line of succession.

Others contend that the original intent of the 12th Amendment concerns qualification for service (age, residence, and citizenship), while the 22nd Amendment concerns qualifications for election, and thus a former two-term president is still eligible to serve as vice president.

Neither amendment restricts the number of times someone can be elected to the vice presidency and then succeed to the presidency to serve out the balance of the term, although the person could be prohibited from running for election to an additional term.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the...
> There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom. The same will be true of AI art copycats.

True, but this was also during a time when it was incredibly hard to make a video game. It wasn't like anyone could spin up a Doom clone in 2 minutes. Competition vs. commoditization at massive scale are different things.
The fact that EU uses it for protectionist reasons does not make it wrong or untrue, though. And frankly, if cost reduction is based on destruction of earth and slavery-like working conditions in cartel-controlled lands, it makes sense to disincentivise these at least, if not boycott completely. The problem with EU doing it for protectionist reasons is that it does not apply similar standards for what is happening inside the EU, eg re:working conditions in strawberry production.

For the military industry part, I completely agree. This applies already to certain war situations that were and keep being encouraged.
> Vance runs, Trump as VP on the ticket, Vance resigns after winning and voila.

I dunno man; Vance is ambitious, but doesn't seem like such a sycophant. I'd say there'd be a non-negligible chance that instead of resigning, Vance has him "accidentally extradited" to an El Salvadorian prison.
The story is kind of wild. Behind the Bastards has a couple of episodes on Rudolf Steiner, the founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2HkBugFBw