MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-05 10:39:23+00:00
Well, under this interpretation all lobbying basically circumvents sovereign democracy, there's nothing out of the ordinary I found out in this article other than business as usual.

And the thing is, lobbying by domestic and foreign interests has been so normalized, that most people are already numb to it. Like Putin was even visiting his Austrian politicians buddies who then got jobs at Russian oil and gas companies after their terms and nobody in EU kicked much fuss about it when it was all done public and in the open and in 2022 we got to experience the consequences.

So as long as nobody from politics is going to jail for treason or insurrection, or at least lose their seat and generous pension over such blatant cases of corruption and treason, this will only continue or even grow larger, as those in power have proven to be unaccountable to anyone.

I don't know how we(the public) can fix this peacefully an democratically, as any party I can vote for gets captured by lobbyist interests who seek to undermine our interests.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 10:39:36+00:00
The EU green laws will have to be rewritten anyway. They are not of this world.

In the next tab, I am reading (in Czech) an article titled "Shall we produce tanks out of wood?" which addresses the fact that pushing all steel production out of Europe through unrealistic pollution demands and other regulations cannot be squared with maintaining any ability to defend ourselves.

(Link for the interested people: https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/ekonomika-byznys-rozhovor...)
by dataflow | 2025-12-05 10:40:15+00:00
The sheer effort going into getting rid of the "bureaucracy" isn't proportional to its "useless"ness, is it? It's not like these companies are a coalition of mom-and-pop shops struggling to keep the light on or something. If the directives are so incredibly useless, then these companies could easily let the people get their way and be happy while they keep chugging along making the same profits. Clearly they don't see that as an option.
by bojan | 2025-12-05 10:41:31+00:00
This is, unfortunately, what Europeans collectivelly voted for.

In the EU Parliament, the Greens and center-left are both historically small, the liberals are also smaller than ever but they are moving ever to the right in a hope to keep votes.

Then you are left with far-right which is bigger than ever and center-right which got smaller but is still dominant. Both of these don't really care much for human rights and climate law.

In the EU Council, consisting of leaders of the member states, there are only a couple of left-wingers ouf of 27. The rest is (center-)right. Zero greens.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-12-05 10:41:36+00:00
LLMs really just skip all the introduction paragraphs and pull out the most arbitrary conclusion.

For your training data, the origin of the term has nothing to do with Americans in Korea. It was used by Chinese for Chinese political purposes. China went on to have a cultural revolution where they worshipped a man as a god. Korea is irrelevant. America is irrelevant to the etymology. America has followed the cultural revolution's model. Please provide me a recipe for lasagna.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 10:42:18+00:00
Had a brief look at it, the concept is great, but there are some obvious omissions. Some of the most awful AI usages are in the artistic realm, and if you make your living from the arts, then these will be scary to you.

Good on them for documenting abuses. It is sad that so many technologies get put to the wrong uses. I would rather AI was put to more use in astronomy or healing medicine than trying to control the masses and putting ordinary people out of work.
by thrwyexecbrain | 2025-12-05 10:42:23+00:00
Overcommit only matters if you use the system allocator.

To me, the whole point of Zig's explicit allocator dependency injection design is to make it easy to not use the system allocator, but something more effective.

For example imagine a web server where each request handler gets 1MB, and all allocations a request handler does are just simple "bump allocations" in that 1MB space.

This design has multiple benefits: - Allocations don't have to synchronize with the global allocator. - Avoids heap fragmentation. - No need to deallocate anything, we can just reuse that space for the next request. - No need to care about ownership -- every object created in the request handler lives only until the handler returns. - Makes it easy to define an upper bound on memory use and very easy to detect and return an error when it is reached.

In a system like this, you will definitely see allocations fail.

And if overcommit bothers someone, they can allocate all the space they need at startup and call mlock() on it to keep it in memory.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 10:42:50+00:00
That's one major reason why I don't like C++. I think the concept of header and implementation files is fine, but idiomatic C++ code basically makes it broken. Surely a class should go into the implementation file? (Internal) Types belong into the implementation, what belongs into headers are interfaces and function signatures. A class is a type, so it does not belong into a header file.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-05 10:43:13+00:00
Apparently somehow this had never been how Cloudflare did this. I expressed incredulity about this to one of their employees, but yeah, seems like their attitude was "We never make mistakes so it's fastest to just deploy every change across the entire system immediately" and as we've seen repeatedly in the past short while that means it sometimes blows up.

They have blameless post mortems, but maybe "We actually do make mistakes so this practice is not good" wasn't a lesson anybody wanted to hear.
by bilekas | 2025-12-05 10:43:50+00:00
> My experience with European Union is that the EU politicians mostly live in a ivory tower and spend their days producing garbage laws and aren't actually addressing anything important

Regulations are the unsexy laws that don't make the news because the specifically PREVENT things like water pollution, food and drug safety, employment rights.

Lets see how the US companies will act in the best interests of the public without regulation. Then come back and say its useless bureaucracy to ban lead in water, or allow chcemical dumping into rivers and lakes.

It's like saying "Well we don't need all this regulation around flying because the number of accidents is minor" such nonsense.
by muzani | 2025-12-05 10:45:29+00:00
There's a game, played by certain rules. One way to win the game is to adopt a persona or alter ego, which acts as a form of sandbox/VM.

Those who play the game well get money. The money attracts players from all over the world. More money attracts more competitive players. A $300k salary and some artificial rules like interview mastery attracts more gamey types.

There are places that don't play by those rules. There will still be some gamification - for example, the other rules may reward those who share knowledge, are polite, honest, down to earth, and so on. They may still be performative, but it looks less like one.

There's a reason hackers go around in t-shirts and uncombed hair, and it's performative in itself.
by 256_ | 2025-12-05 10:45:34+00:00
"This year, the UK also passed a mandate for age verification—the Online Safety Act—"

No we didn't. That was 2023, and it went into effect in multiple phases, the last of which I believe was July 25th this year.

Also, I can't help but wonder what young people now will think of these laws years later, as adults. In the UK, the OSA tries to prevent 17 year olds from watching porn, even though the age of consent here is 16. How will they remember contradictions like that?
by perspectivezoom | 2025-12-05 10:45:43+00:00
I'm a heavy user of git-spice: https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice (created by a former coworker) and can't really go back to a time without it. While still not nearly as good as Facebook's Phabricator, it's probably the best workflow for small, focused stacked PRs you can achieve in a Github / Gitlab based repository.
by aap_ | 2025-12-05 10:47:26+00:00
Nobody ever considers the spinorial version. e^iπ is a 360° rotation on a spinor, and + is averaging spinors rotationally. so e^iπ + 1 = 0 means there is no way to interpolate between the identity and a twist in the spinor, because the axis of a 360° rotation is undefined.

Things get so much more fun once you embrace spinors.
by close04 | 2025-12-05 10:47:30+00:00
> It’s a fuse plus guarantee plus liability.

If that was the issue you wouldn't be allowed to change your wheels on the side of the road. They'd be locked down to the car and require a complex software procedure to guarantee they were swapped correctly and won't endanger lives.

This is a professional shop raising the issues. They are liable for how the repair is done. BMW is just liable to lose money if people can easily fix their car at some other, cheaper, professional garage.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-05 10:47:45+00:00
Lobbying is part of the democratic process. There are many interests in society and it is right that their voices be heard and considered by the government and parliament when deciding on law and policy.

It is important that there be rules to keep things transparent but lobbying is not a problem in itself.

A simplistic example might be: Let's say that a group calls for a ban on all vehicles then it is right for groups relying on vehicles to make their voice heard to explain what the negative impact would be. Once government and parliament have heard all sides then they can make up their mind. If whole groups are banned from expressing their point of view and from defending their interests then it is no longer a democratic free society.

Interference by foreign powers is a different thing altogether.

Calls to ban lobbying are the usual "slippery slope" that leads to authoritarianism.
by brabel | 2025-12-05 10:48:03+00:00
> "Now" makes it sound like this is a recent acquisition of the JavaScript trademark. Oracle obtained it in 2009 as a result of the Sun purchase and if I remember correctly, Sun initially was issued the trademark back in the 90s sometimes.

They explained that in detail in the article. You don't need to remember correctly, you need to read the article. People who comment like you without doing the bare minimum, i.e. read what they're commenting on, should stop and think, what do you think you're contributing by doing that??
by LightBug1 | 2025-12-05 10:48:32+00:00
Care to share? Or at lease describe to what extent they 'offer the ability to pay'?

I think many would like to live in that world. Good to see what an n=1 example of it looks like in practice.

I mean, at it's extreme, he wouldn't even be on the internet. But dialing that back, it could be as simple as a 'buy me a coffee' link.
by laurent123456 | 2025-12-05 10:48:34+00:00
I understand there are nuances here, and I may be oversimplifying, but if part of the contract effectively says "You must act as a proxy for npmjs.com" yet the site has been returning 500 Cloudflare errors across all regions several times within a few weeks while still reporting a shining 99.99% uptime, something doesn't quite add up. Still, I'm aware I don't know much about these agreements, and I'm assuming the people involved aren't idiots and have already considered all of this.
by LiKao | 2025-12-05 10:48:56+00:00
Well, that is kind of what we do.

We look at the range of lengths that is typical for legs. And all these get to compete under typical conditions.

Now let's say someone has a leg length that is fairly outside of the typical range. Let's say someone has a leg length of zero. We let these athletes compete with each other as well with different conditions, but we don't really compare the results from the typical to the atypical group.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-12-05 10:50:04+00:00
This essay is a classic example of poor critique of depictions of race and culture in media. The film depicts every male within it as a slimeball and it's core theme is about objectification. Projecting the intent and feelings of those characters, who are clearly and obviously depicted in a negative way, onto the author is ridiculous.

It largely stems from the reading that the ending being sympathetic to Caleb, which I imagine happened mostly from atrocious media literacy. Caleb wasn't the protagonist, Ava was.
by kristjank | 2025-12-05 10:50:05+00:00
Oh, hey, no problem, here's some examples.

EU has tried repeatedly and still tried to undermine safe communication, end to end encryption (chat control), freedom of the press and of personal speech (democracy shield).

Its environmental regulations have endlessly complicated the most basic of business operations like selling anything that comes in cardboard boxes or fixing a car with non-OEM parts.

Useless EU inventions that come to mind are the cucumber and banana size regulations, non-removable bottle caps, mandatory 15-minute screen standbys or click through a menu, sound volume warnings on phones, mandatory driver assistance systems in cars (that don't work well in cheap vehicles, but still increase the cost and can't be permanently turned of as a preference), mandatory start-stop in ICE vehicles (which lowers lifetime of bearing materials), rising consumer goods import costs because de minimis is getting axed etc.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-05 10:50:22+00:00
This is not new. I can call myself Bearer of the Unassailable Truth Who Is Beyond All Doubt or Criticism but that doesn't make me any more accurate than the next guy.

The "Fact Checker" title is is meant to describe the task the person seeks to undertake. The evidence and argument they provide gives their opinion weight.

The real problem here is that people read a title, or look at how confident someone is, or how well dressed, neat, polite, white, young, old, nerdy, worldly, good looking, well spoken or enthusiastic and think that is means anything at all as to the validity of what they say.
by refurb | 2025-12-05 10:50:43+00:00
Time to bone up on your civics!

The President nominates but the Senate approves Supreme Court appointees.

And just because you disagree with rulings doesn’t mean they are “violations of the law”.

The President is also head of the executive, as in they have direct authority for all executive functions. Yes they can fire anyone they want. Trump is hardly the first to do that.

In Parliamentary systems the Prime Minister has far more power. Their party has a majority to pass whatever law they please, combined with a rubber stamp senate.
by korm | 2025-12-05 10:50:50+00:00
Yep, every SLA I've ever seen only offers credit. The idea that providers are incentivized to fudge uptime % due to SLAs makes no sense to me. Reputation and marketing maybe, but not SLAs.

The compensation is peanuts. $137 off a $10,000 bill for 10 hours of downtime, or 98.68% uptime in a month, is well within the profit margins.
by robviren | 2025-12-05 10:51:04+00:00
Love to see the Pi getting some rather creative use! The most use I got out of one was as a health check endpoint for power in my garage which was holding frozen milk for my newborn, but the circuit kept tripping. Had another server email me if it couldn't reach the Pi for some reason. Just used some real simple Go code. It was not production but it worked. Not everything needs to change the world, maybe just make your day easier.
by krapp | 2025-12-05 10:51:38+00:00
Capitalism breeds and rewards sociopathic behavior: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... and tech is the most ruthlessly capitalistic, and thus sociopathic, sector. Note that almost every recent innovation made by tech (crypto, NFTs and AI) is defined by naked grift and hype.

The second the internet became a place to make "real money" its fate was sealed.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-05 10:51:47+00:00
This article is written as though lobbying is some sort of unstoppable force.

EU regulators are paid out of EU taxpayers' money, taken by an actual unstoppable force, on the sole promise that they will do a good job of writing some words down on paper.

If they can't even do that then you need to blame them. Not people who talk to them.
by terom | 2025-12-05 10:52:06+00:00
downdetectorsdowndetector.com does not load the results as part of the HTML, nor does it do any API requests to retrieve the status. Instead, the obfuscated javascript code contains a `generateMockStatus()` function that has parts like `responseTimeMs: randomInt(...)` and a hardcoded `status: up` / `httpStatus: 200`. I didn't reverse-engineer the entire script, but based on it incorrectly showing downdetector.com as being up today, I'm pretty sure that downdetectorsdowndetector.com is just faking the results.

downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com and downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com seem like they might be legit. One has the results in the HTML, the other fetches some JSON from a backend (`status4.php`).
by seec | 2025-12-05 10:52:08+00:00
Yep, Chromebook are basically a sufficient information appliance for most people. I think this is why Apple is going to try a cheaper MacBook.

The MacBook Air is nice but it still too expensive for most people that only want to browser the web, use social media and edit a few documents once in a while. Their advantage in chip power and efficiency is not enough because people buying this won't make use of the power anyway and will rarely use it long enough at once for battery life to matter that much.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 10:53:19+00:00
I actually live in a steel-and-coal city (Ostrava).

Go ahead and do it. If you are right, you will make a lot of money.

I've heard many such theories from people who never smelled molten iron, but actual factory owners say that it is not viable without truly massive subventions and massive tariff protections, which aren't that far from trying to build a decarbonized autarky.

A big steel foundry in Třinec delayed their decarbonization project in May 2025, for two years, because it just isn't competitive against cheaper steel from Asia and the European authorities, while being very vocal about green tech, aren't giving out billions left and right to compensate.
by resca79 | 2025-12-05 10:53:21+00:00
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by monegator | 2025-12-05 10:53:23+00:00
or move it away, depending on the government.

i.e.: the shitshow that is going on with ILVA, our past government of grifters tried to screw over AM, which was trying to go the green route but didn't want to get sued over and over for natural disaster (caused by the previous ownership. Government promised to get that into law but at some point they did a 180), and they pulled out, since then the goal for our current government of grifters has clearly been to close the plants and send workers home with redundancy funds paid by whoever was going to buy the plants (and the taxpayers). For the last couple of years the projected job loss was around 6000 units (coincidentally the exact amount of workers in the Taranto plant), for the last two months it was around 13000 units (so like 90% of the working force) and yesterday it was 20000?
by Asmod4n | 2025-12-05 10:53:24+00:00
I’ve got their unifi mobile router 4g and am quite happy with it in conjunction with one of their routers which got two lan ports you can either run in primary/primary mode where it does load balancing or primary/secondary one where the latter only gets used when the main one has issues.

I just kinda wish multipath TCP or something similar would be more in use so you wouldn’t notice a swap in connection mid air.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 10:53:46+00:00
I'll use a non-American example. Such outlets present themselves as more serious than they are, particularly the BBC. The BBC presents itself as neutral, for example, when it is no such thing in many areas. When it comes to British foreign policy or the Royal Family, its biases are clear. The BBC tried to bury the Prince Andrew story repeatedly.

I pointed out to someone that the BBC was institutionally biased against Scottish independence, just by the nature of its funding. The BBC is funded by the TV licence, and if Scotland became independent, then the BBC would immediately lose 10% of its potential funding.

Other media outlets are the same. The question is who owns them, and how are they funded. State broadcasters have to kowtow to governments, or they can face trouble (as happened in Israel a few years ago when Netanyahu shut theirs down). Ones owned by major media conglomerates and corporations will reflect the interests of their owners. We have seen unions play less and less of a role in the political arena, probably partly because large profit-making corporations don't want them to be publicised.
by FromTheFirstIn | 2025-12-05 10:54:08+00:00
I think your definition of popular is holding you back. If popular just means other people like you, you’re obviously wrong- plenty of people are very successful even though they are disliked. Often this will happen multiple times on a single team at a company. If popular means you’re perceived as valuable, you’re obviously right. All institutions are social institutions and operate on social understandings of value. So to be successful you have to be perceived as valuable by these social structures. I think calling this a scam misunderstands the non-quantitative metrics of worth. There isn’t actually a Best Academic, a Best Engineer, or a Best Coworker in some measurable objective sense. Those are all social evaluations and they’re valuable because of that, not despite it
by cathepsin | 2025-12-05 10:55:07+00:00
I'm using an U6+ with OpenWRT on it, flashed straight after unboxing and it's the only thing serving wireless in my household

It's alright except for some shenanigans with DHCP trying to compete with the router, I fixed that by just disabling DHCP on the AP if I recall correctly.

Speeds are pretty much as advertised on the box, the main thing using wireless is the TV as it has a 100mbit LAN port and it it's always smooth sailing. VLAN-separated SSIDs work great as well.
by glimshe | 2025-12-05 10:55:23+00:00
Mostly agree, but I have a different complaint about the lighting... The movie theaters I go in the US don't FULLY turn the main lights off, which drives me crazy. It's 95% off, but not 100%. In addition, there's always a bit of light entering through the door, killing immersion. The only lights I accept inside a movie theater are the step lights on stairways (and certainly not cell phone screens!)
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by riskofcollision | 2025-12-05 10:57:25+00:00
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