skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point.

I'll allow it.

But that doesn't change the fact that there are good people in the US.

But good and bad are a bit irrelevant. I believe it was a mistake to go poking Europe with a stick because there are 600 million people there. Most far better educated than us. They were perfectly contented to sleep in the then current global order, and willing to help with maintaining that order if called on in an emergency.

For some incomprehensible reason, we decide to go over there and poke that lion?

I don't get it because I genuinely believe that Europe would be the best partner for the US. It's not because I'm "good" or "bad", but because I believe close relations with Europe are good for this republic. Now obviously, in the US at the moment, mine is not the consensus view. That's fine. But I believe it's gonna cost us.

China and the EU will become closer. All of Asia will begin to realize there is more to be gained by working together than working at odds with each other.

And heaven help the rest of the world if the Europeans, the Chinese, and the Africans ever figure out that if they work together they don't really need the rest of us.
Hating LGBT people is itself a luxury belief.

The spendthrift belief is to just not care what people do with their personal lives, what bathroom they use, etc.

And, of course, comprehensive sex ed that reduces the negative externalities of human sexuality on society, and doesn’t interfere with the positive.
I see. According to this [0] website spring break finished typically in mid-March last year. Perhaps that explains why the blue line in OP dips back to 0% around mid-March.

[0] https://www.eduvast.com/news/spring-break-2024-dates-for-us-...
Sure. But when the US threaten to invade an ally militarily, therefore destroying the status of "allies" for the foreseeable future and looking more like enemies, I suppose it's more shocking for those ex-allies than... say... when the US find a bullshit reason to invade Irak.
There’s a whole concept of records management in enterprises that manages the disposal of data. It’s far more complex than just purge dates as there’s often regulatory requirements and legal discovery issues so <2% of data is actually disposed due to perceived risk.

For personal data, the concept would be simpler but still has requirements like say tax records need to be kept 7 years.
I think the problem-solving / want-to-be-engineer side of my brain lights up in that "how did he do that??" way. To me that's the fun of it... I immediately try to engineer my own solutions to what I just saw happen. So I guess I'm the first camp, but find trying to figure out the trick hugely interesting.
On top of that, what the model prints out in the CoT window is not necessarily what the model is actually thinking. Anthropic just showed this in their paper from last week where they got models to cheat at a question by "accidentally" slipping them the answer, and the CoT had no mention of answer being slipped to them.
Oof this article hits like a kick to the nuts.

Ive been unhappy with my career growth in past several years, and basically it’s because I worked on products / projects that did not make a ton of money.

I knew this intellectually of course, work on revenue generating things, but emotionally I gravitate toward such reasons that it’s good for customer, or this is high risk / high reward, it’s more interesting, etc.

If I had kept this heuristic as my North Star, I would be further ahead and making more money.

I’m not sure if emotionally I could have done it - I was offered a management position if I moved OFF a high revenue product, so that would’ve been hard to say no to. But in the long run, with hindsight, it would’ve been the right choice.
Depends if you have American dates or normal dates, I guess
Early in IBM's internal rollout, I worked for IBM - I demoed to one of IBM's security guys how to embed a button in an email to all users within IBM that would delete their own mailbox when clicked. (Did not actually send it, of course)

His reaction was, "Oh, shit." I don't know who he talked to, or if it was just a coincidence, but Execution Control Lists came out really quick on the next version.
What? They did not say it was Capitalism and greed? I am shocked!

They are just trying to lock people in to their format and make them dependent on the company instead of an open source and universal format.
Probably, but if your dad starts beating a kid in the street, I hope you'll do something about it. Also for your dad's sake and for your family reputation.
Thank you. "Spearheading" is always valued and the way to do it is to leave for some new initiative somewhat before everyone realises the current one is a turd. The blame then attaches to the people left holding the turd.
Even if it weren't a real extinct animal it wouldn't have just been an MtG card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_Wolf_(song)
EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway have huge government innovation funds. Unfortunately they are mostly given to manage to politicians who are loyal, but not very bright, and possibly corrupt.

Now would be a perfect time to take advantage of the stupidity of Trump and channel these government investments into building European infrastructure providers (cloud and AI), but I very much doubt this will happen.

Without goverment support there is just no way in Europe to raise the capital that is required to compete with the American big tech.

EU assigned as commisioner of Startups, Research and Innovation a bulgarian politician called Ekaterina Zaharieva. Bulgaria is the poorest member of EU - shows you how much EU values startups, research and innovation.

On top of that Zaharieva is a member of the political party Gerb, well known for corruption. A few years ago somebody took pictures of their leader sleeping in his bedroom, surrounded with gold bars and stacks of euros. An ex-financial minister from Gerb is sanctioned for corruption under the Magnitsky Act.
DNG has nothing to do with free software, it's an Adobe format similar to PDF. It is an open standard, but it is covered by patents and it comes with a no-cost patent license (except that it's less open than PDF because it doesn't define the interpretation for Adobe-specific tags (which ACR/Lightroom uses), not that that matters for raw file in any way).

Of course that even Adobe DNG converter can do what the GP asked for (I just tried it[1]), not that I would recommend it for Fuji files. And not that it matters anyway, since the whole point is producing DNG files directly, not converting them.

Edit: on my Fuji X-T5 files, using mosaiced data with lossless JPEG-XL compression (supported by MacOS 14+, iOS 17+, and the latest Lightroom/ACR):

edengate:1$ ls -l
total 163664
-rwx------@ 1 aram staff 40894672 Apr 4 15:25 DSCF1483.RAF
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aram staff 42894224 Apr 7 16:51 DSCF1483.dng

[1] https://llum.chat/?sl=3MCDl4
Income, assets and capital gains are clearly defined in the tax code.
I think you did not understand my comment.

1. It is a problem for greenfield projects too. Not everyone has sufficient expertise to be fully compliant from the beginning. The accidental non-compliance is possible and there's usually a cost to prevent it.

2. It may work as expected from EU charter perspective, but current implementation is adding extra to an already high bureaucratic workload. My point is, it can be better than that.
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> Well, you're answering to my thread, if we go like this.

Except we were not going like that, because my thread is tangential to yours, and is all I was discussing.

> Because that's my goddamn point from the beginning on. Privacy has an impact on UX (which means "user experience", by the way), period.

No, it has no impact on whether or not the frontend interface is implemented well. "Virtualized Listviews 101, or how to implement them well" is a course you might consider taking.

> Same here. You don't seem to understand how privacy works technically, and you don't seem to understand what UI/UX means.

I've been pretty transparent with the point of my comment chain, and I've more than enough time on the implementation end of both of these topics. I've asked you repeatedly to stop going off on tangents unrelated to my point (i.e, rendering/frontend UI/etc). If you don't want to do so, that's fine - I certainly can't make you. I just don't need to waste the time arguing with you either.

Have a good day man.
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I'm not going to split hairs over what 43% means, but the point is that we are still in an ecosystem where "Trump supporter" is a viable political stance and very much has a seat at the table of discourse.

That state of affairs is utterly unacceptable, and signals that overwhelmingly the country doesn't get it yet. Look at how many Greenlanders like Trump— those are the numbers you need to be pulling at home. Once 80-90% of the US population agrees that he's not only a bad president but a threat to democracy and a criminal, then we can talk about feeling safe to travel there again.
Looking at the situation from the shoes of a tech titan (Zuck, Musk, Bezos, etc), i almost see it as the lesser of two evils.

The problem they had was Lina Khan, who was dead set on breaking up their monopolies. They all decided to get into bed with the Trump admin and help het the guy elected, they all say it was for free speech but let’s get real it’s only because Lina Khan is no longer at FTC.

But now they have a different problem because Trump decided that tarrifs are a great idea and now they are going to take a massive hit over the next few years as folks outside the US increasingly look for non US cloud solutions.
That's a fair point that I hadn't considered. I was developing C+objects as C++ was first being released in the mid-90s, and then using Borland's C++ compiler in the early 2000s, but never really thought about it as anything more than what its name implies: "C with some more abstractions on top of it".

Thank you for the correction, but I consider C++ to be just a set of abstractions built upon C, and, if you think about it, and none of those structures are separate from C, but merely overlaid upon it. I mean it is still just ints, floats, and pointers grouped using fancier abstractions. Yes, they're often nicer and much easier to use than what I had to do to write a GUI on top of extended DOS, but it's all just wrappers around C, IMO.
> if the administration changes, the Democrats will absolutely take apart these tech companies.

I don’t know if it will happen though. Tech companies have a lot of cash and lobby power. But some kind of move is highly needed as the tech sector morphed into something despicable
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That feels like an exaggeration. I did that last year. They took several months to process the registration itself.

And this was just to freelance as a developer. In my case I was allowed to start while they were processing the registration. But had it been something that would require their permission, I'd have to wait several months before I could start my business, while they wave through a form that basically says "I'll be selling goods".

I'm not one to blindly hate on all bureaucracy. But in this case it feels unnecessarily complex.
All of this but coming on the heels of the largest layoff in history (that was still going on as of last week)
Knot theory is mostly inapplicable to crochet. The nature of how a crochet is made, by curling a single unbroken chain around itself, means almost all crochet is equivalent to the unknot. You can see this in the way crochet unravels all the way if you pull on the end of the thread.
i just picked up an edition of “The Evolution of Cooperation” that has a foreword by richard dawkins. was cool to see his take, from writing the selfish gene, on axelrod’s contributions to the study of cooperation. by any chance, did your edition of his book mention those cooperation studies? dawkins said he updated a later edition in this foreward i just read
Ads don't pay for anything. You pay for ads.

The cash flow is:
you -> merchant -> manufacturer -> advertising department -> google -> influencer

So if ads go away, theres two scenarios:

A: the influencer was worth your money and you pay him directly

B: he's not worth your money

I know, I'm making quite a few assumptions about how the market will correct, so I will also point that many Twitch-Streamer and YouTube channels already are financed through crowdfunding. It's not unrealistic that people will pay for good content.
>Is this supposed to be a flaw?

Yes. If Salk had this mentality, then Polio may stand up there with cancer and AIDS as one of the big 3 killers. Instead, he spread the solution and its nearly eradicated in the world. we might have also tried to monetize the COVID vaccine and grind the US into an early depression with that kind of thinking.

>What would you do in the alternative?

Fund the science and make use of taxpayer money to advance society instead of giving billionaires tax cuts. You'd think a community focused on tech would undersand that you can't treat skilled thinking the same way as an assembly line.
The other replies have observed that the AI didn't get any "videos to watch" but I'd also observe that this is being used as an English colloquialism. The AIs aren't "watching videos", they're receiving videos as their training data. That's quite different from what is coming to your mind as "watching a video" as if the AI watched a single YouTube tutorial video once and got the concept.
The similarity is obvious, but there's a difference between "a travel warning has been issued for minorities" and "a travel warning has been issued".

Unlike what the right-wing media may make it seem, the amount of trans/nonbinary people is absolutely minute. The warnings apply to at most a percentage of the population, and even then it only affects the people that have come out of the closet and jumped through the hoops necessary to get their passport altered.

That obviously doesn't make the political trend _right_, but the geopolitical and economic implications are very different.

These warnings don't include advice against entering the country as a tourist, despite the recent reports of tourists getting arrested and locked away at the border. Such a warning would set a much more grim tone for the future of the western bloc.
I can't edit it, but my point was that this is the perception from the outside. And really I believe that the perception is that most Americans are fine with America First.
Thank you for moderating and clarifying a bit.

An example I would suggest is the push for "always more" no matter how much has been given.

Employer: "Great job succeeding in delivering our release death march on time! You are all the best!"

Us: "Comp time to rest?"

Employer: .oO(awkward choice employee...) "You agreed to a full time position, it will be fine for you to work your normal 40 and do make work."

That I've experienced almost that directly. Not in every role but it did happen. That particular company lied to me about the role too so I ended up leaving.

The thing that concerns me is that we start with these overly strong statements. The next stage is some of us become convinced of them. After that some of those transition to believing companies are obliged to them and start behaving accordingly. But these beliefs are bad for business and everyone involved. They create iterative counter solving games that reduce satisfaction and productivity. While I've always done my best by my employers, the concrete delivery of that effort has varied based on external factors but mostly the health of the work environment. No one has gotten as much of of me as startups that set a clear goal and let me work.
Probably MM/DD (2 Jan) vs DD/MM (1 Feb) since Excel uses it's current locale for parsing. (=SUM in en-US, =SOMME in fr-CA for example... making any SaaS app in Canada that exports xlsx files is always rough.)
You need to be a unicorn or you need to only take angel checks. This is not complicated.
Not if the person isn't a national of either country. At least currently for the US and Mexico and the US and Canada, if a person crosses the land border and is refused entry to the other country, there's no procedure to act as if they never left the first one; it's treated as a new entry, which may likely be refused (having been refused by another country is a risk factor for refusal).

Both countries can't refuse, so one will have to detain.
It's a mixed bag, quicker reporting doesn't really hurt them specifically until they're required to report them in advance of the trade because any time after it they've already made the sale/purchase so you knowing a bit sooner after the trade doesn't really affect their plays. (unless they're gambling on options I guess)

The reports are public so you can scroll through them, the most common pattern (I'm just eyeballing it I haven't found their download to graph it out properly) looks like they just do bulk reports every 30 days so you actually get a mix of old and new trades in each report.

https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades
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Hmmm, are you suggesting that the scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think whether or not they should?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0
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U.S. manufacturing was already near an all-time high. Bringing more manufacturing onshore will just get us more robots, not more jobs. There's a steel plant a few hours south of me, outside of Corpus, it runs at a few % of nominal capacity, and generates 2 millions tons of new steel per year. It has 200 employees, mostly for regulatory purposes. How many thousands of people would a plant like that have employed in 1980? I can tell you: at least 10000 at current nominal, without overhead, just on the floor; at full capacity it'd be 100k+.

Similarly, our naval yards are inefficient because we're fucking with last minute change orders, because there's no effective oversight. (And, due to DOGE, none, now.)

China produces vast amounts of manufacturing output because it's a huge country. So does the U.S. So does India.
> This is concerning that in order to have a properly functioning open source hosting we would have to archive regularly.

This has been the case always. Remember when SourceForge would inject adware into the installers? It's just a fact that when you're using a thirdparty's server to host your stuff, you cannot completely control what you're hosting. You're at the mercy of the thirdparty.

It's no excuse for GitHub deleting something you took the time and effort to write and share with the world for free. But with enshittification and all, I don't know if we can ever expect fair treatment anymore.

For total control you're going to need to host stuff on your server or put everything like issues, pr comments, wiki into your Git repo. Fossil does it. But git doesn't, at least not yet.
Yeah, tourists like to go to places with low crime rates. In fact, when I’m a tourist, I pick where to go solely based on the crime rates!
I really with the semicolon weren't optional. Its "I'll take my best guess" parsing is maddening.

One that keeps killing me is:

return
(complicated-multi-line-computation)

Since it can put a semicolon at the end of the first line, it does. Which means the return value is undefined, and the rest of it is just some code that it never actually reaches. A linter will fix that, but I find the usual fix a bit ugly:

return (
(complicated multi line computation)
)
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I agree that the process is unnecessarily complex, but I also think hiring someone for that would be the wise choice in most places anyway.

And even in Germany hiring someone for that would probably amount to paying 500-1000€ for the whole registration of the company instead of doing everything yourself and only paying the 100-200€ notary fees. It's not as bad as you might think.

> I will never try it in my home country.

May I ask, where would you try it? As I understand it, it's not really possible to found in a different European country while you're still living in Germany.
It's just the usual HN sport: ask a low-end, obsolete or unspecified model, get a bad answer, brag about how you "proved" AI is pointless hype, collect karma.

Edit: Then again, maybe they have a point, going by an answer I just got from Google's best current model ( https://g.co/gemini/share/374ac006497d ) I haven't seen anything that ridiculous from a leading-edge model for a year or more.
"These people" who, uncared for, are "generally harmful to [our] libing spaces" are part of us; we are here alive together, and I help out my fellow humans because it feels part of being a good human, not to avoid discomfort.
It was a old edition of the book. But I had enough of the Prisoner dilemma on it to have an introduction.
We have a general sense that the US is actively trying to hurt us here in the US too.
Do you live in a cave? The current US president, obviously.
> Most tech startups need a limited liability structure like GmbH (similar to LLC) or UG.

Meh, do they really? Only if they want to go the VC route. But in this topic we're talking about more healthy ways to build and grow a company and for that you don't need a GmbH or GbR to start.
That is very much not what I said. Additionally: some of recent people who've been detained are "criminals" as well, a missing document, a tattoo-gun there on a tourist visum, etc. Doesn't make it right to treat them like utter garbage or to make their rights disappear.
It is false association. Your government != your people. It is not natural to defend your government regardless of their actions.
This is not really... what you expect it is, I think.

There are more people killed in mass shootings in the USA every year than there have been people killed in attacks during Christmas in Europe, like, ever.
> We had no budget issues.

Depends on how one judges the state of equipment - I remember my private laptop having 4x the RAM than the city's computer... or my school's MuSiN computers running on win2k (!) until at the very least 2012. If that isn't a budget problem, I really really don't know what else could be one.

> There are even rumors that Dieter Reiter told someone that he regretted moving away from LiMux

Reiter regretting something, now that might be a first for him

Anyway nice to see (or rather: read) you again!
I think specialization still occurs in our field but it’s more domain driven than tech driven. I know folks that have built their careers in banking, auth, crypto, billing and healthcare. In each of those cases your language will differ but there are always similarities in that domain.
Why should US citizens deeply care about Canada? It's not their country, they don't live there. Don't tell me Canadians lose sleep thinking about the well being of US.
The Hands Off protests had signs and chants saying hands off Canada and hands off Greenland. And I think it's understandable current events have higher priorities than possible events.