MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattlutze | 2025-09-09 14:28:37+00:00
> Mistral is the only serious "AI" company in the EU right now (if you exclude company working on the hardware side).

While Mistral is the one directly in the front of the Frontier LLM race at the moment, I would encourage you to also look at DeepL and Proton. They both actually have a sophisticated and significant setups for model research and deployment.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-09 14:28:43+00:00
It appears that you're (I'm in the UK) not even a year into his term and yet there do seem to be a lot of people being rounded up on the pretence of them being resident illegally, and I think there's just been a ruling that racial profiling is back on the menu.

I also have my doubts about what would happen if he makes up some bullshit excuse to stay in power for a third term - who would actually remove him from office?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-09 14:28:55+00:00
>Economically, the EU is in a strong position

Compared to who/what/when? The US? China? Not a chance. Economically, the EU is as weak now as it ever was.

About 2 decades ago, EU had the same GDP as the US, or even slightly more. Now it's at half of the US and stagnating or even shrinking due to a series of issues it has no solution to, since a lot of it's economy hasn't recovered much post-2008 crash. The EU knows the economic deck is not staked in its favor so it has to bend over to the US now. 2 decades ago the EU would have been able to fend of such actions from a hostile US administration and even more so fron China. But it can't today because it's twice as weak and the US and China are much stronger.

And it's actually very easy to understand why we're here in this situation. If you look at the government budgets in most EU countries today, about a third everywhere is going to welfare and retirement spending with retirement spending dwarfing absolutely everything else in the country by far, with some pensions being higher than some full time wages, which is absurd IMHO. Now, caring for the people and the elderly is noble and all, but you can't win any competition against nations that take that third of GDP that you spend on retirees and they spend it on on economic and military development instead. You just can't win like this, straight up, the math doesn't math. Eventually over the long run, they'll economically or militarily conquer you. So you'll have to choose between spending on providing a cushy lifestyle for retirees, or ensuring a prosperous future for your country.

EU fell asleep at the wheel for over two decades and woke up today that it needs to start the fire again, but it has no money to do so because it's in a economic downturn, an energy crisis, a demographic crisis, a cost-of-living crisis, political extremism crisis left and right, and war next door needing to fight all these fires at once. Very bad timing for EU, and China, Putin and Trump know this and are taking full advantage of "buying the dip" now in Europe the same way European powers were "buying the dip" in their (former) colonies in Africa and across the world. All, and I really mean ALL countries, engage in economic imperialism every chance they get, and Europe somehow forgot its own lesson thinking they are somehow untouchable.
by perihelions | 2025-09-09 14:29:14+00:00
France tried in the past to censor information about their sensitive facilities on Wikipedia, too. In 2013, their intelligence agency detained a random admin who was a French national, and forced them to use their credentials to make an edit in front of them,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503354 ("French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article (wikimedia.fr)", 191 comments)

The military site in that dispute was

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pierre-sur-Haute_... ("Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station")

> "As a result of the controversy, the article temporarily became the most read page on the French Wikipedia, which was noted as an example of the Streisand effect.")
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 14:29:22+00:00
Good example. The CDU is in a coalition with the left wing parties and refuses to work with the AfD in any way, not even winning votes with their votes, on the basis that the AfD is right wing and thus inherently evil. So the CDU is indeed not a recognizably right wing party anymore, and has suffered mass defections for that very reason. If it were, it would enter into coalitions with other right wing parties rather than being taking orders from a partly literally called Die Linke.
by theknarf | 2025-09-09 14:29:25+00:00
I'd rather be able to update my dependencies automatically with a few commands instead of manually vendor all my dependencies, keeping up to date is really important for security. I get that game developers who only ever work on building single player games might have different opinions on "package managers", but they are in a very small niche.

One of the worst things working at companies shipping C++ was the myriad of meta-build systems that all tries to do dependency management as a part of the build system without having a separate concept of what a "package manager" is, this is truly the worst of both worlds, where people are happy to add dependencies, never update them, and never share code between projects and departments. I do not wish that way of working on my worst enemies.

Whatever problems package management brings is such a better problem to have than not having a package manager. That said I think everyone can get better at being more discriminatory of what they add to their project.
by komali2 | 2025-09-09 14:30:00+00:00
For some more anecdata, I just had another potential new client call in to my co-op wanting to spec out an MVP that they can farm around to investors to get seed funding. He said him and his partners are keeping their day jobs for now. These kinds of projects in my experience usually cost 5-20k USD of self funded money, so of course not nothing, but well within the range of a couple working professionals pooling their money.

If they can't get funding off the MVP then yes they're 20k in the hole, but at least they were working in the meantime.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-09 14:30:05+00:00
> the system of privately owned farms moving food via privately owned logistics companies to privately owned grocery shops works very well.

Does it? Food prices are up, millions of people rely on food banks [0], etc. This may not be entirely down to farms or the governmental oversight thereof, but food security is not a given.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/09/britons-vuln...
by JohnFen | 2025-09-09 14:30:12+00:00
Personally, I don't find that use case to be very compelling. Taking notes, deriving tasks from them, etc., are not problems that I need solving. In fact, doing those things manually brings a very large benefit in terms of helping to clarify my thoughts, getting insights, and better remembering everything.

When I outsource that (whether to machine or another human), I lose a lot of benefit.
by adonese | 2025-09-09 14:30:30+00:00
I think the riskiest migrations are the ones where migration is done in parallel. Internal org power struggles get leaked, whole teams are lobbying against the effort. And on top of all of that rediscovering many things all over again. That in response to cases where a company might decide that the fix too all legacy -> new system is by throwing more money at the problem.
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-09 14:30:38+00:00
Someone down thread posted that the private company has proposed several new reservoirs starting in 1992 and they've all been blocked on environmental grounds by the government or by NIMBYs.

For example the Abingdon Reservoir has been in planning for 19 years[1]. It is opposed by GARD[2], the Group Against Reservoir Development. It's hard to see how this is the fault of privatization.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_Reservoir

[2] https://groupagainstreservoirdevelopment.org/
by humanfromearth | 2025-09-09 14:31:07+00:00
EU is a big customers of lots of stuff from US military vendors so US didn't exactly give things for free to the EU either.

Should have EU relied less on US and actually spend those agreed upon 2%+ of GDP like Poland, Finland and others have and be self reliant? Yes. Very much so.

Perun has an interesting video about it EU reliance of US military support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFoJGHZEqAk
by axegon_ | 2025-09-09 14:31:20+00:00
That's (initially a small-ish) part of the reason why I've gone from "no ad blockers" to "block absolutely everything". That said, that is only part of the problem. Take tiktok for instance, which is a clean cut, self-installed direct link to the ccp. And not just tiktok: why do you think products such as this [1] exist? And they are dirt cheap too. If you think these aren't selling like mad, boy are you in for a shock. While griefters do exist, the dictators of the world absolutely love these opportunities.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Android-Phone-Farm-Se...
by taylodl | 2025-09-09 14:32:19+00:00
That's funny. Here's a list of the attendees:

- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)

- Tim Cook (Apple)

- Sundar Pichai (Google/Alphabet)

- Satya Nadella (Microsoft)

- Sam Altman & Greg Brockman (OpenAI)

- Sergey Brin (Google co-founder)

- Safra Catz (Oracle)

- Lisa Su (AMD)

- Bill Gates (Microsoft founder)

What are customers going to do, stop using tech? I suppose you can feel good about Intel. Anyway, you're invited to the White House for a policy discussion involving tech, an industry in which your company is a prominent player, what are you going to do? Let your competitors sway policy?
by ModernMech | 2025-09-09 14:32:23+00:00
> Problem for Tesla is that Musk is the reason it has a 200 P/E ratio (and increasing at that).

The reason for the ratio is because he overpromises and lies all the time. The valuation is now hinging on Tesla being a leader in robotics when Musk doesn't even understand what sensor fusion is. But Tesla's astronomical valuation is a liability for them because it's the result of Musk defrauding both Tesla's customers and investors. The big number looks great but it's based on a fantasy.
by mattlutze | 2025-09-09 14:32:26+00:00
It's very simple to found a company in the US that has access to the entire 50 states and all of the investors therein, with a single/simple accounting to manage. And you don't have to live in the US to do it.

Europe/EU/EEA don't have a comparable setup. Found in one country, deal with workers in many, filings in all of the countries you're doing business, and more.

The new proposed EU Incorporation would go a long way to lowering the bar for getting started and accessing pools of funds between investors in different countries.
by samhclark | 2025-09-09 14:32:40+00:00
Thanks for the reply, appreciate it.

Both of your answers sound workable for me!

Even if I couldn't restore the whole profile from backup while traveling (which seems natural), at least it's still possible to restore some data. Which should be enough in the short term.

And that's perfect that I could manage it from a different Mac. That totally works for me. I worried there would be something which prevented that. I'm imagining a parent using this for parental controls, but then the kid disabling it at a friend's house who has a Mac. Works better for my scenario though!
by omnimus | 2025-09-09 14:32:59+00:00
The problem now is that institutions are literally infected with strongly US leaning people. I don't even mean politicians but just people who tied their careers and lives to some US technology. Look at Microsoft - there is whole industry of IT admins who have lifetime of experience in that Microsoft stack. You will have many Microsoft former employees at top positions at universities teaching programming with Microsoft stack.

Even in just economical sense it never really made sense when you have local companies like SUSE that could give you well functioning IT infrastructure. The money would at minimum stay in EU. It probably made sense for export of the talent (which countries don't make money on) but you just locks yourself to infinite Microsoft payments.

There are many conservative european corporations (like postal services) that never were on Microsoft stack. It was always hailed as the "poor" economical but secure solution. They probably still reap benefits. But afaik it was always uphill battle with governments because of the strong lobby from US.

Imagine if the europe started to switch to something like SUSE. It would make so many peoples skills immediately outdated. So many will fight this.
by jacekm | 2025-09-09 14:33:01+00:00
I wouldn't mind "security in exchange for better economic treatment" deal, but I don't understand how anybody still trusts US in terms of security. They clearly showed that they fear Russia, plus Trump made several allegations that they may not provide military help even to NATO allies. I am from Poland, theoretically we have US troops stationed here but over 70% of population (including myself) don't believe they will stay here long once we're attacked.

US got concrete economic concessions in writing in exchange for words about security.
by dharma1 | 2025-09-09 14:33:18+00:00
Give them enough time and they will. EUV will hit limits anyway in a decade.

For china it's DUV+packaging for now, NIL/DSA mid-term, and MoS₂/2D chips long term. But wafer scale, defect free 2D logic is 20–30 yrs out, so no EUV shortcut anytime soon
by kergonath | 2025-09-09 14:33:19+00:00
> This is an exaggeration. There are ad free alternatives.

Again, their (mostly Google and Facebook’s, but there are many companies tracking me with whom I never had direct contact) trackers are all over the web and I see them in the blocked list very regularly on websites that have nothing to do with them.

> Youtube has a subscription you can pay for no ads. There other video sites who charge a subscription instead of offering ads too.

Yeah, cool. They changed their terms of use, and I changed mine. Happy to negotiate when they are available.
by nataliste | 2025-09-09 14:33:36+00:00
It seems everyone is missing the forest for the trees by focusing on political motives, because the system is working exactly as designed. An ad platform is an auction-based machine for changing human behavior at scale, and a state actor is just the ultimate power user. They have a clear objective, an unlimited budget, and are willing to pay a premium for high-value keywords. To the ad exchange, a bid from the Israeli government to show an anti-UN ad is indistinguishable from a bid from Nike to show a shoe ad; it's just a high CPM impression from a client with a good credit line. The entire infrastructure is optimized to find the highest bidder for a given set of eyeballs, not to make a moral judgment on the message. You don't need to control the newspaper anymore, you just need to outbid everyone else for the ad space next to the article.

It’s propaganda-as-a-service.
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 14:33:54+00:00
> EU secretly just wants to buy Russian gas because it's cheap and easy.

It's no secret, reliable cheap source of the most important resource on the planet right now is essential for any economy today.

What do you expect us to do? Please enlighten me. Buy from ships for much higher prices because the US doesn't like Russia ?

There's a war on now and we are reducing our dependency greatly, did we get complacent, absolutely. Are we working towards getting away from it, absolutely.

Your attitude is just negative for negatives sake.
by wffurr | 2025-09-09 14:34:21+00:00
There's a new attempt at safety profiles. I'm not enough of an expert or read in enough on this proposal to answer your detailed questions, but there's a lot of words by Sutter and Stroustrop on the proposals:

Stroustrop, 2023 presentation: https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2023/p2816r0...

Sutter, 2025 committee paper: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p30...

Sutter, 2024 blog post: https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/
by gimmeThaBeet | 2025-09-09 14:34:30+00:00
I always wondered how to gauge how effective Apple's Dialog carveout was, in terms of was it just instant PMIC department or even effective at building a foundation for them? Given their long relationship, I would think it might be pretty seamless.

I assume Apple probably do that more than I know, it is just interesting that their vertical acquisition history feels the most boring and the most interesting.

At least looking from the outside, it feels like relatively small pieces develop into pretty big differentiators, like P.A. Semi, Intrinsity and Passif paving the way to their SoCs.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-09 14:35:02+00:00
>Life isn't fair

This argument can be used to justify whatever actions you want. You know that, right?

For example, I'm gonna take your house and when you ask why, it's because "life isn't fair".

However, various forms of fairness to balance out past wrong doings can always be achieved if desired, but it usually requires force or democratically if over 50% of people can unite on it.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-09-09 14:35:11+00:00
We do put additional editorial standards on news publications. This puts legal responsibility for the published content on the publisher.

It doesn't seem like that big a step to apply a similar standard to advertising platforms. Advertisers have failed to selfregulate the ads they choose to publish and it is infeasible to use the court system to judicate every false ad (that would be millions of court cases). Ergo you do the obvious which is to make the advertiser name a human editor who holds legal responsibility for published ads (on behalf of the company).

Now you can sue the advertising company (eg. Google) for millions of false advertisements at once.
by simoncion | 2025-09-09 14:35:33+00:00
> I disagree, because with an instrument you actually get music out at the end...

You've clearly never heard me playing my horns!

I never found the end result of all that practice to be rewarding (as the kids seem to say these days), [0] and -brother- I tried for years and years. So, I switched hobbies to video games and have a leisure-time activity that I like a lot more.

[0] Those unfortunate enough to be within earshot were usually fairly unimpressed with the result, so this isn't just me shittalking myself.
by withinboredom | 2025-09-09 14:35:43+00:00
I think you have the right idea, but possibly the wrong perspective. You want your _source of truth_, which is the "owned data" to be strongly consistent. Your shared data is a "view of truth" which may be incomplete or in disagreement with the source of truth. For example, the color of the sky "right now" depends on where on the earth you are standing, but we can all agree that air is 'just barely blue' and it depends on the light shining into it and how much of there exists.

The _source of truth_ are these facts (like "the air is blue" or "the user inserted the letter A at position X" or "the CPU is 40 degrees"). The view of this source is what we see, and can be seen through a CRDT or any other lens.
by fredrikholm | 2025-09-09 14:36:25+00:00
Sweden is very green and comparatively car free. Having open windows during summer to let in light, fresh air and bird sound is culturally strong here.

You can buy curtains, you can't retroactively insert a window as easily nor should you have to my lord.

I can't imagine living in a dark, centrally ventilated container. Most Swedes agree (massive pushback when this happened, gov backtracked).
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-09 14:36:26+00:00
To claim that the EU does not have competitors to AWS or Google Cloud or AWS because it had to rebuild it's countries after the war is more than a stretch.

The internet economy started in the early 90s, 45 years after the war ended in Europe.

GP is correct the EU rested on it's laurels, it wrongly thought that the US would always be there in case of crisis. This was a big mistake and now the chicken have come home to roost.
by dathinab | 2025-09-09 14:37:01+00:00
yes

the main issue here is that it's basically a list of thing which are "lang_item"s, i.e. have a `#[lang = ...]` attribute or are build in `&/&mut/str/[T]` etc. (but then for some reasons lists combinations of them!?). But `#[lang]` is mainly there to map types to some compiler special casing which might be as trivial as a optimization hint...

and the thing with that is it's

- not useful for teaching *at all* as it's not representing the semantic/logical building blogs, or what "core" means in rust terms or what you have to learn when learning the language or anything. _It pretty much only is relevant if you write the compiler or the standard library for rust_.

- isn't really that useful for know what the "core" of rust is (as many of this items only have a lang tag to make sure some "special case" optimizations, compiler messages, etc. map correctly, and at least in the past you also didn't really have to have all lang items to use rust in a _very_ cut down way)

- conflicts with the term of lib-core (which is a very cut down version of lib-std for embedding use-cases where you e.g. might not have alloc, but you can even write rust without lib-core)

E.g. `Termination` isn't a "core" rust feature, it's a nice customization hook which main exist so that you can have all of `!, (), ExitCode, Result<T,E>` as return types of main, which is mostly irrelevant outside of some QoL edge cases. In general you don't need to know about it and in 99% of cases you shouldn't implement it either.

E.g. Deref,DerefMut, Index, IndexMut, the various Range types, the various operator aren't really special in any way except "hey they have first class syntax" and thats it, the #[lang] tag just tell the compiler "if you find += map it to AddAsing::add_assign".

E.g. the lang tag on `Ordering` is basically a optimization hint AFIK.

etc. etc.

there really is little use for the overview outside of a curiosity and calling it the "core elements" of rust is really just very very misleading
by gjm11 | 2025-09-09 14:37:07+00:00
Within whose party base? If you're saying that the Tories are viewed as too left-wing by Reform voters, then I assume that's true because Reform are further right than the Tories, but so what? If you're saying that Conservative voters find it "controversial" (whatever exactly you mean by that) that Reform is recruiting former Conservative politicians -- well, I'm sure they don't like it, no one likes it when some other party poaches their politicians, but I would like to see your evidence that their dislike is "exactly because Tories are viewed as being too left wing".

So far as I can make out, here in the UK the near-universal view is that the Conservatives are a centre-right party, Labour are somewhere between a centre-left and a just-plain-centre party (unsurprisingly, people who are further to the left see it as further to the right and vice versa), and Reform are a not-so-centre right party. (People who aren't Reform supporters would mostly describe them as far-right. Not many people like to use that sort of terminology to describe themselves, so people who are Reform supporters would say other things.)

Pretty much no one other than extreme rightists would describe the Conservatives as a centre-left party. Likewise, some people further to the left would describe Labour as a centre-right party. I think more people would do that than would describe the Conservatives as centre-left, but that may just reflect the people whose opinions I happen to be most exposed to.

(I mean, specifically, in the UK. Other countries have different overall political leanings. Someone in the US, comparing with the parties there, might accurately describe the Conservative Party as centre-left. But in terms of the UK political landscape: no, of course they are not a centre-left party.)