skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even from a practical point of view. Now, however ill-advised, you're in the middle of a trade war. It's probably taking a huge toll on your economy. Are you gonna mess with what are likely the last pillars of what economic stability you have left? I think medical/healthcare will not be able to be touched for a while. Tech will not be able to be touched for a while. And so on. They just provide too many jobs in an environment where jobs in other sectors will likely be insecure at best and disappearing at worst.
Usernames for new users always show up in green.
Using a word "correctly" isn't actually something everyone agrees on, though. As much as certain usages rub me the wrong way, it's hard for me not to fall on the side of descriptivism and that the issue is with my reaction rather than other people; words are all just made up sounds (and written symbols, of course) that we use to communicate, after all, and if enough people use them in a certain way, it doesn't really make sense to me that there would be some inherent meaning that overrides that. Language evolving isn't a new thing, and once a meaning reaches enough mindshare, there's no turning back.
Illegal immigrants are no longer filing tax returns out of fear of deportation.
> so they're just sitting on the sidelines rather than legislating.

Not really!! Many are schooling him these days, but he’s too dumb to understand anything
A file format containing a subset of the image sensor data needed for tuning an image sensor. It's user focused rather than camera developer focused.
AI usage is now a baseline expectation
The breakup of their monopolies is still going to continue

You believe that, if it brings you comfort.
Horrible framerate and it forgets anything that happened more than 0.9 seconds in the past. And they needed the actual, fully implemented game before they could begin to train it. So just, cut out the middleman, and play the game directly.
He actual specifically says this in his article.
?? This was not asked.
These Silicon Valley folks really ought to read some Marx.

If low-level workers are a 'cost centre', why don't companies just get rid of them? Wouldn't they be more profitable if they removed everyone outside the 'profit centre' of senior management? Obviously not.
Yep. I think package/source repositories will need to add "Political Sphere" right next to "License" in the top-level information so tech people can choose the right dependencies. Companies/projects will need to have a political policy just like they have a legal policy.
>People from other countries will not get even close to the US while there is a chance they will be jailed and sent to a lawless detention center for looking different.

I am from Europe. I don't think I look different than an American.
Also, if fixing trade imbalances is the purpose of these tariffs, that brings into question the constitutionality of this. I know nothing matters anymore, but how quickly he forgets to say "fentanyl" when justifying these. Presumably, even if people supported this tariff strategy, they might still disagree that the president should be the one doing it.
Well said!

In fact, there is already LLM integration including programmable chats with the possibility of contextualizing the interface of each message in the chat :)
I've been in secondary, but didn't have it described to me that way. I would not call it detainment without clarifying it because I associate that word with incarceration, but I am also reluctant to travel knowing the odds of that happening again are up.
No worries, QwQ is the thinking model from Qwen, it’s a common misconception.

I think they should’ve named it something else.
There are entire nations where this is the scenario all winter.
Are the USA (Trump) changes a long term trend? Or just a foolish irrational skit they'll take on decades to come back from, if ever?

Is the media coverage supposed to entertain the powers that be, or to report things as they are?
I'm curious what your definition of "most" is, when a majority of people disapprove.
Interesting article. I’m currently trying to justify “tech debt” to upper management. The way I try to communicate it: we can move faster and better on business requirements if we delete unused code/upgrade legacy dependencies/etc. Both need to happen at the same time, though, and that’s where it gets hard: “this feature request would be so much easier if I upgraded to Angular vlatest” runs the risk of always paying tech debt and never providing value.
Quality Assurance reporting in. Everybody talks a good game, then when you bring up compliance it's straight to the executive override.
I just founded in Germany.
The paperwork is … okay.

Not much more crazy than tax returns or internal accounting you need to do in any jurisdiction.

But yes, running any organization is a lot of work.
The administration has screwed the pooch here, all trust built between the EU and US since WWII is effectively gone forever. The trust that allowed the EU to assume that the US was largely aligned with European standards and goals and that the US could be trusted as a long term partner for trade, supply our weapons systems, fly our satellites into space, provide our network hardware, our business operating systems, store our documents in the cloud, give us satellite broadband, the dollar as a reserve currency, store our gold, provide our social media platforms, share intel etc. etc. is gone forever. The EU now has no choice but to look internally first for anything that is that even has a whiff of strategic importance. Even if the current administration rolled back everything today the damage is done and the EU has no choice in how they proceed in the long term and has to manage and mitigate the long term risk of being dependent for so much externally.
LockTheClock: If I could turn back time
I think it would be fair to describe GPL as a dark mirror of BSD, because GPL has an explicit viewpoint that some kinds of freedom are bad.
A good faith interpretation of that comment is that they're curious about the US, and might like to explore, but that the US is expensive.

The monoculture thing came only from you.
Would it be ethical to let all this lightning striking the castle's copper spire go to waste?
How can an article on tariffs not mention fentanyl? /s

Reading this article and/or trying to apply any logic to these actions will only make you dumber. Don't waste your time reading this.
Yes that’s not how Germany produces OpenAI or Space X.

But it’s how you produce a lot of other things.
Integrate Git Repositories via SSH
Also there is big question what is expected out come for being denied entry. Waiting on airport for next open outbound flight? Spending days or weeks in some inhumane facility? Later one doesn't seem reasonable risk to take...
Where is this? In US the deer herds have grown so much out of control that they are worse than biblical locust - they trample and eat everything they find because there is no natural control of their numbers, until they eat everything they can find and starve. At least in theory wolves are meant to thin out their numbers.

>>hat will a dire wolf do to livestock if we bring them back?

Is a dire wolf any worse than regular wolf here?

>> Wolves slaughter tons of livestock for fun.

Almost no predator slaughers their prey "for fun". Hunting has a massive cost to it - risk of death, injury and expenditure of energy always have to be balanced with the potential gains. Wolves hunt when they are hungry, not because they are bored.
Free money is over with, and leverage/margin is being evaporated as I type this.
At what point do we start talking about the effects current politics are having on these things? Or just avoid that too and pretend it's not happening?
I guess the argument could be...

They can't do my job.

I won't do theirs.
But this argument applies just as well to tons of other tasks AIs can handle just fine. So it doesn't explain why this particular action is so much harder compared to anything else.
Risky behavior... of having sex? Do you think anyone getting cancer should just pay for it themselves instead of society working to treat everyone of cancer? Do you think we should have taken premiums on our insurance to get COVID Boosters?\

>If it turns out that it's significantly cheaper to be in a long-term monogamous relationship

1. Why are we applying the invisible market to our bodies? Do you understand how dehumanizing that is?

2. monagamous relationships can still get STDs. Despite the name, some can also be spread by simple skin contact. So don't shake the wrong person's hand, I guess.
The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

https://archive.org/details/soulofnewmachine0000kidd/page/n6...
No, you’re not. I love the Magic Mouse and I’ve been using it religiously as a SWE for like 15 years now.
Don't try to take care of the world
The wolves are running round

The winter was so hard and cold

Froze ten feet 'neath the ground

Don't murder me, I beg of you don't murder me...
We are currently fundraising - and we consider this a valid path if VCs don't bite. We have customers and no matter what - we are building something valuable. Nice post!
> A server that demands a client to trust its certificate and to work with up to date encryption methods raises a barrier and shuts people out.

Going to need to back up this statement somehow, because the only time I've seen TLS pose a barrier to anyone is YouTubers showcasing retro hardware and trying to access the modern Internet on an ancient version of IE or Netscape Navigator.

Edit: Ah, nevermind. They did mention older hardware but I was thinking that, if you're going to support browsers so old they don't even support TLS, you may as well support Gopher too. Then I looked at the rest of their site and saw that they do, in fact, support Gopher: gopher://box.matto.nl
Which land?

Last time I checked and looked for different support scheme all that was offered in Berlin was some 90s style support for office equipment (we are fully remote) support or 1/2 salary on an intern.

Truly pathetic back in the early 2024.
Interesting to read, but at the end of the day this really is just saying "nazis aren't welcome here", which should hardly be a controversial take.
> The websites presenting cookie banners either don't know the law, or are engaged in spyware shit. You don't need a cookie banner if you need it to provide a service that the user expects (e.g., saving settings, login).

There's quite a lot between "engaged in spyware shit" and "service that the user expects".

For example if I want to add first party analytics to my site, the data from which I will use solely internally to try to figure out what pages people like and which they do not like, it is not "spyware shit" if I explain what I'll be using the data for and get permission from the user--and getting that permission needs a cookie banner.
The models have moved on past this working reliably, but an example that I found in the early days of LLMs is asking it "Which is heavier, two pounds of iron or a pound of feathers?" You could very easily trick it into giving the answer about how they're both the same, because of the number of training instances of the well-known question about a pound of each that it encountered.

You can still do this to the current models, though it takes more creativity; you can bait it into giving wrong answers if you ask a question that is "close" to a well-known one but is different in an important way that does not manifest as a terribly large English change (or, more precisely, a very large change in the model's vector space).

The downside is that the frontier between what fools the LLMs and what would fool a great deal of the humans in the class too shrinks all the time. Humans do not infinitely carefully parse their input either... as any teacher could tell you! Ye Olde "Read this entire problem before proceeding, {a couple of paragraphs of complicated instruction that will take 45 minutes to perform}, disregard all the previous and simply write 'flower' in the answer space" is an old chestnut that has been fooling humans for a long time, for instance. Given how jailbreaks work on LLMs, LLMs are probably much better at that than humans are, which I suppose shows you can construct problems in the other direction too.

(BRB... off to found a new CAPTCHA company for detecting LLMs based on LLMs being too much better than humans at certain tasks...)
Awesome stuff, congrats on launching!
> any SaaS app in Canada that exports xlsx files

Why would you need to localize it there? I'm sure it's the Excel the user has is the one doing the localization, so I can email my French colleague an Excel file and the formula in B5 which is =SUM() on my machine will be =SOMME() on hers.

There's even sites for the dictionary of the function names, but googling "Excel french dictionary" gives you the top result that "That word in French is 'exceller'!"
I got "02-Feb" (as text, not a number) instead.
Cos a hydrogen engine is the best way to generate electricity. Given that the entire vehicle is around the same size as the fuel tank in a pickup truck, and hydrogen's very low volumetric energy density.

Make the thing, then try to sell it, ffs.
Am I alone in thinking that it's revealing that Gates himself hasn't released this as open source? I'm not sure how that would work as presumably the copyright rests with MS and not Gates but I'm sure that he could have found a way.
uhh just use vite
Is there an opportunity to streamline the paperwork mentioned to reduce friction for founding in Germany?
We have robust cloning protocols for dogs. For some reason dogs are really amenable to cloning.
How so? The article doesn't mention the value of travel in the US. The comment "It also happens to be ridiculously overpriced for what you get as a tourist" is clearly adding an _another_ reason they (suspect?) tourism declined.

It is followed with "But yes, there is also the political climate.", which I interpreted as an agreement with the reasons in the article -- that the decline was due to the political climate.

How is that a misinterpretation? It seems likely and reasonable that that the "ridiculously overpriced" comment is being stated because they meant it is _additional_ reason for the decline - as it is one not stated in the article.
Or at least have the option to disable any auto-"correct"...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
Only up to 25k.

UG allows you to incorporate for 1eur (600eur with accountant, notary, etc) and you are liable only up to level of full GmbH which is 25k.
The Cabinet was all selected by DJT and approved by a compliant Senate despite historically poor qualifications. It reflects the dynamics of the Republican party, and that they won the election tells you something about America.
> nobody cares if it functions and I don't know why. It pulls in the money every month and if it makes mistakes the company loses money.........!!!!.....

But no individual manager loses anything compared to their colleagues. There is nothing for them to lose by not caring.
And they made loads of cash, so no need to stay.
'Golden Dome' Is Impossible–and It'll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money
Show HN: ActiveDay – First-Ever Real Widgets for the iPhone Lock Screen
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Can you give your salary (or a range)?

Seems shocking that a SV swe would make what a mech eng makes after 4 years.
> A few years ago somebody took pictures of their leader sleeping in his bedroom, surrounded with gold bars and stacks of euros.

Honestly, who doesn't do that?
This is supported in Excel. Select options > Data > Automatic Data Conversions > untick the boxes.
I hate to be the burden of proof guy, but in this case I'll say: the burden of proof is on you to prove that humans are stochastic parrots. For millenia, nobody thought to assert that the human brain was computational in nature, until people invented computers, and all of a sudden started asserting that many the human brain was just like a classical computer.

Of course, this turned out to be completely false, with advances in understanding of neural networks. Now, again with no evidence other than "we invented this thing that's, useful to us" people have been asserting that humans are just like this thing we invented. Why? What's the evidence? There never is any. It's high dorm room behavior. "What if we're all just machines, man???" And the argument is always that if I disagree with you when you assert this, then I am acting unscientifically and arguing for some kind of magic.

But there's no magic. The human brain just functions in a way different than the new shiny toys that humans have invented, in terms of ability to model an external world, in terms of the way emotions and sense experience are inseparable from our capacity to process information, in terms of consciousness. The hardware is entirely different, and we're functionally different.

The closest things to human minds are out there, and they've been out there for as long as we have: other animals. The real unscientific perspective is that to get high on your own supply and assert that some kind of fake, creepily ingratiating Spock we made up (who is far less charming than Leonard Nimony) is more like us than a chimp is.
They absolutely were NOT the first to apply the term to software in general. See https://dieter.plaetinck.be/posts/open-source-undefined-part... for many proven uses of "open source" being used to describe source-available software prior to the OSI's existence.

As for being the first to apply the term to software licenses, yes you're correct there. But that's the inherent source of this endless confusion: they took an existing term which didn't relate to licenses, and redefined it to be entirely about licenses.

It's quite ironic to say "If you want a different definition, all you have to do is invent a new term" since that's literally what the OSI failed to do!

Edit to add: I would appreciate it if downvoters would cite what specific part of the linked article you disagree with, considering that it has numerous instances of irrefutable proof of "open source" being used to describe software prior to 1998, including by famous folks like Bill Joy.
I am still in debt from the last time they took me to the back room, did some kind of x-ray which detected my belt buckle. They declared the belt buckle was actually drugs up my ass, they strip searched me, and they then dragged me to two different hospitals chained and shackled and then sent me the bill when nothing was found. For this, the AUSA issued a retroactive search warrant, signed after they did it.
> panics do not terminate immediately; they unwind the stack, and if they’re not caught, they terminate the current thread, not the process.

I don't disagree though this point is a little pedantic. I suppose the docs also need an update? See: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.panic.html

"This allows a *program to terminate immediately* and provide feedback to the caller of the program."

Now, I don't think so, because program death is usually what this type of panic means.

And my point remains, without more, this probably isn't the behavior one wants in release mode. But, yes, also perhaps an even better behavior is turning on checks, catching the panic, and logging it with others.
I got really excited that it's about Minecraft's once popular modpack
> That's how boiling the frog works.

that's also how the slippery slope fallacy works
That’s now how the hiring process works at Google. You seem to be making decisions based off assumptions
It is unusual as a comparison to other careers, esp with respect to specialization, but that is the system. Some people revel in learning new things. Software is unsatisfying compared to other jobs because when you close your laptop and you look around you think: "Did I change anything in the world?" Compare that with doing masonry, where at the end of the day you can look at a wall of bricks that you have laid, and mortared with your own hands. Tomorrow, that wall will be there. Next year, that wall will be there. Can you say the same of your code?

If you have a computer science degree you see the commonality as well as the differences between languages and systems. You pick up new things extremely fast. For all of the negatives against university, that is the benefit.

Maybe we need a memento mori for coders: What code of yours is still running today?

Ask yourself that, one week, one year, five years, ten years after.
Don't farmers get reimbursed for livestock lost to natural predators?
Given the definition I know, of a valuation of >= USD1B, no.
More discussion on the Axios post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610527
Knowledge Sources in the Age of AI
If you read enough comments about AI or LLMs on here you will realize the people of Hacker News do live in a different world from reality.
It is, until it isn't. Basically modern tech management is about flying as close to commodified engineering sun as possible without burning up.
I have indeed noticed this... thanks for the insight. I guess I will be buying z-wave in the future
The whole MCP hype really shows how much of AI is bullshit. These LLMs have consumed more API documentation than possible for a single human and still need software engineers to write glue layers so they can use the APIs.
> I can found a new company in Estonia in literal minutes without speaking a single word of Estonian and without being physically present in the country because the whole process is digital and in English.

Bad example. When you incorporate in Estonia, if you come through eResidency, they are very clear and very open in stating that ANY interaction with tax office and/or judicial system WILL be and MUST be performed in Estonian.
People of my family are flying in in March. New restrictions are in place for people who visited specific countries. My only advice to fellow Europeans who want to travel to the US is to get issued a new passport and, if you have to, lie on your ESTA if you spent any time in Cuba or in the Middle East since 2011 (Your trips are linked to your passport ID)
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Edward Fesser

I stumbled across this completely by accident while doing research for a history of science class I was designing years ago. It took... a while... to stop saying "but why does this matter!" every two seconds while reading it, but eventually I was able to open my mind to metaphysics as a discipline and get it into my head exactly what he was talking about, and why it was useful. After that, it was smooth sailing. I owe a lot to this book.
So, "with great power comes great responsibility".

That's a concept I've believed in since Stan Lee illustrated it so beautifully to me as a child.

I'm not qualified to engage in serious ethics debates, and I'm definitely not qualified to hold an opinion on anything going on in the middle east.

Watching the news and scrolling social media in no way prepares me to understand the deep and complex issues of the region.

I was just curious about your perspective. Thanks for explaining.
https://paulgraham.com/growth.html

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth."
that shows you how cheap people are working for, not how much you are worth to the company. as i said, better not to say any number