skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern weapons mostly use mature / old nodes that are easy to harden, but RU is simply that behind on indigenous microelectronics. PRC with indigenous 14/28nm (well on way) will be fine for weapons, even AI based capabilities, they can short/medium term DUV to 7nm for bespoke batches. PRC inidgenizing complete 14/28nm chain can afford to disrupt TW who will still provide 80-90% of advanced nodes to west. Question then is can western industry survive loss of huge % of advanced nodes that basically brings them down to PRC level of access, if not worst off since almost no country is planning to completely indigenize semi supply chain like PRC.

E: @paisawalla, over comment limit

TLDR is US has leverage during peacetime over sanctions, especially US origin tech. But PRC has leverage during war because most of East Asian semi is within striking range - and wholely indefensible. And current western chip strategy still relies on access to east asian semi. CHIPS act hopes to recapture 5-10% leading edge production in 10 years if all goes well, but even then dependant on East Asian inputs. Incidentally East Asian semi players on territories that US needs base access in TW scenario. TW semi chain maybe write off (which itself maybe existential to western semi), but if JP/SKR assists in US in TW scenario, expect Samsung, Tokyo Electron and other suppliers to be craters too. Really only safe bet for major powers is to complete domestic supply chain and ensure sufficient deterrence from homeland strikes. Without it, probably expect PRC to have only working 14/28nm supply chain, while everyone else scrambles. Regional TW war in medium/long 5/10+ year timeline is actually likely to CLOSE semi gap because only way for PRC to deny west advanced nodes that's already denied to her via sanctions/export controls/lawfare is through war. Also keep in mind US/western industries have disproportionate value capture from semi production and hence more exposed to actual loss of production. Which makes entire PRC invading TW for TSMC that depends on western inputs a bad meme, if anything PRC will want to invade/bomb TW simply to deny semi access to west if she has sufficient semi capability herself. Which doesn't mean leading edge, but enough for most commercial/consumer purposes, while killing leading edge for western high tech. Which is not to say semi is reason PRC will move on TW, but in event of TW war, denying west advanced nodes is going to be high up on incidental strategic goals.
The purpose of the air force is to stop the war becoming 12 months of intense ground fighting, isn't it? What would the early days of the war in Ukraine have looked like if Russia had access to a USAF-level strike capability?
I'm glad you used it, even if to some your application doesn't need it, it's good for the toolkit and I personally like how it looks.

Additionally, I think that your project might be useful to people and the only reason it exists is because you invested your own time on it so if using tauri was something that motivated you or gave you any type of satisfaction then I'm happy for you.

Thank you!
Free public travel is only for Tallinn residents (main address registered inside Tallinn city borders).

I think there's also free public travel for tourists with cars if they park their car (in certain places or under certain circumstances).
Laws are proposed by the Commission, not the Council.

The Council and Parliament work like different chambers in the EU system, kinda like the Senate and the House in the US, but it's the prerogative of the Commission to propose new laws.

Elections work similarly in any European parliamentary system. Prime ministers are also indirectly elected in those systems.

The main difference is that the executive (the Commission) is the only one that can propose laws in the EU, but the other EU lawmakers can still amend legislation.

(just stating this for people reading the comments, not specifically for you)
As someone who commuted by motorcycle in SF for several years, I have a hard time imagining any barely-competent self-driving car being worse than those maniacs in the Yellow Cabs.
The EU is not very democratic - if they want to do something they will and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
The contents of the proposed law can be accessed here:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

All of it is as bad as it sounds, but you can search for Article 7 to go directly to the surveillance bit.
Agreed. I’ve found over the years it is helpful to prefix comments like that with something like “HACK: “ as it makes it clear you are working around a limitation and not adding a feature - plus it stands out when browsing the code.
The comment I was going to write initially:

You might enjoy "Rage Inside the Machine" by Robert Eliott Smith which describes how systems like social networks can be manipulated by introducing a small group of highly motivated, but strategically placed actors (human or algorithmic).

And now, unsolicited UX feedback, Hacker News style™!

1. put the content of "?" in the front page for users who are not logged in, instead of "you're not following anyone"
2. split the 3 key points you mention there into three columns with titles, so the user (no need to do anything more complex, just throw in a flexbox in CSS)

I like the idea of the site, but 1. would make its purpose a bit more obvious/save you some time explaining the idea, and 2. would make the now obvious easier to digest by a new user/scan visually
Continue to ride the FAANG/MAMAA gravy train, if you have an itch build a side project. You will not be able to replicate that kind of income. Large startup exits are a rarity, < 1% perhaps.
I thought Trump was a lawyer's nightmare client, and SBF is like, waitup hold all my beers.

He's like a walking McSweeney's article.
The problem with the F-35 is its cost for the buying country.
Complex, costly, almost no offsets, and black box systems (only the Israeli AFAIK have a custom system). Also it can only take a few munitions, while keeping its supposed stealth, hence the famed RAND study predicting a US defeat in the event of a Taiwan battle. Also it is more fitting to consider the F-35A, F-35B and F-35C as three completely different aircrafts.

Two major problems arise :

- the "aircraft carrier" or "tessarakonteres" problem : at some point your system (ship or aircraft) is too complex and costly to risk losing it in battle, even if it is supposedly very hard to defeat. And the slightest damage is very costly in terms of down time. This is amplified by the single-type problem.

- the F-35 kills your local industry and makes supply and maintenance chains complex and dependent upon US and Lockheed-Martin goodwill, including on the software side. This is one of the major points from critics, among them Boeing.

The Finland deal seems to address the last point, and seems much better than other F-35 deals with European countries.

That said, the F-35 is a revolution for US allies, even those who didn't buy it. The information flow in central to the aircraft like to no previous US fighter. A few years ago the French Rafale notably defeated every aircraft in air superiority games (draw against the theoretically much better F-22) because its information systems could be updated quickly to the local conditions.

Every US-allied Air force around the world acknowledges today that compatibility with the F-35 information systems will be the only way to carry out allied operations in the near future, like Link-16 today. If you can't do it, you'll have a very hard time showing up as a blue dot on the screen, let alone be efficient in combat. The easy solution is to buy Lockheed-Martin. However, I really think it's a bad thing in the long-term.
Hot take, cites no legal opinion. My personal view is, this is a misrepresentation of the proposed act. The act may be bad, but this interpretation looks suspicious and hyperbolic.

I'd like to see cites, and counterparts.
I switched to ML .. well .. Deep Learning in a big way in 2018. Switched from Cloud backend engineering/research(which I had been doing since its early days). I gotta say ..not the smartest move in hindsight. Peers doing cloud are now in very high positions as corps grew rapidly in that area and needed technical leadership. DL is very math intensive and it took me a while to get my sea legs. I finally feel pretty comfortable in my (technical) neck of the woods, and realize it is all going to get blown away soon by newer advances (LLMs, stable diffusion, NERFs).

I don't think my career is anywhere close to a rocket ship at the moment .. there is a chance that ML/DL gets a lot bigger in the next 2-3 years (e.g. Satya Nadella's recent talk circuits, that is the timeline he predicts). What this means for me is that I need to get exceptionally lucky to get on to the next rocket ship. I have no clue who that is, despite having a CV for it.

Not discouraging you but just sharing my journey. If anyone has any suggestions for what the rocket ship, please enlighten me.
Where are you from, if I may ask?
Sounds like yet another echo chamber...

Will be interesting so see how they plan to tackle the issues of factuality and bias in the articles they feed users (if they plan to address that at all).
If software dev had been licensed and regulated this way we’d have only a tiny fraction of what we have now in terms of languages, OSes, tooling, etc.

There are specific areas where it makes sense but doing it broadly will just halt all innovation.
Related:

Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183772 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)

EU chat control bill: fundamental rights terrorism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416599 - May 2022 (5 comments)

Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329368 - May 2022 (323 comments)

The latest EU plan to outlaw encryption and introduce communication surveillance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308617 - Nov 2021 (251 comments)

EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200506 - Nov 2021 (59 comments)

EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066894 - Nov 2021 (197 comments)

Messaging and chat control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343 - Aug 2021 (317 comments)

EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759814 - July 2021 (11 comments)

European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727 - July 2021 (415 comments)

Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736435 - July 2021 (104 comments)

IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825653 - April 2021 (217 comments)
Taiwan is a country of 24 million people that started from very little at the end of the Chinese civil war. But it had brains and a state-backed plan.

Many countries could have the capability to produce decent chips.
You're right, my bad. Either way, laws proposed by a small subset of indirectly appointed politicians.

They're approved by a much larger body of directly elected MEPs. That hasn't happened, yet. I'm interested to know how likely that really is.
Will this also spill all over the world like cookie banners? That would suck...
It is almost as if certain tools have certain use cases. And tgat an organization as large as the US military might what to have those tools for all the use cases they might run into.

The answer? Don't use fighters vulnerable against modern AA against modern AA.

Benefit of the A-10? Lower speed, longer loitering in CAS, something quite valuable in combined arms. And faster than attack helicopters, so A-10s can move faster between mission sites.
I was more meaning a technological intervention that prevented underage people from being able to use/consume something.

Controlled substances are controlled through a legal framework although admittedly, some of the precursors to drugs are also banned which could count as a technological block on making them.

I have never heard of a confiscated child due to the parent having cannabis in their bloodstream - have you any source?
Why do you think GDPR is some boomer with filofaxes thing?

I'm young enough to be born at about the introduction of the original Mac and have worked with ecom for a long time now and GDPR from my perspective is an excellent law with the exception of some lacklustre enforcement.

Our clients all cleaned out their already collected data, they implemented deletion, and extraction/change-on-request by customers, they limited their tracking and data collection among many other things.

Not only was it an immediate privacy win for their customers, it made further development easaier because we did not have to deal with as much data, and it also protects the clients in the event of a data breach since there is less customer data to lose.
Apart from being a hangar queen, the F35 is not technically “owned”. More like a long term “lease” or SaaS model. You need a new PIN code, aka OTP, every day from the US government to just operate it when it is not under maintenance.
Can't wait for ActivityPub support so I can control the UX better with a different client.

Come to think of it, this what User Agents were supposed to be, but we just added a few more layers on top (for that sweet sweet ad revenue juice), and now are stripping some of it with the likes of Mastodon.
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Are there any Europeans here that don't agree with where the EU/WEF/etc agenda are going? Sitting here in US, it appears to be homogeneously moving in ever increasing regulations and hamstringing progress, but I am sure there is a great deal of debate about it? Are there groups in EU that are pushing back?
They have a dial for stability and one for clarity. The stability one in particular when turned up reduces the expressiveness.
Interesting! Do you think a project with a donation link is more serious than others? Does it encourage you to contribute beyond sponsorship?
I don’t think the advantage is really accidental. It’s more a failure of zoning laws if every-day shopping requires a long(ish) trip.
> will take decades to catch up with modern Western chips

IMO decades a little pessmistic. PRC generating as much STEM talent as roughly OECD combined, with semi only elevated to first-level dicipline in 2018, PRC is spitting out 30k IC graduates per year. They're still about 200k short, ~520k/720k out of what IC talent white paper estimated PRC needed for semi industry. I wadger that's comparable to total direct semi industry talent globally (US currently ~110k), which is really effort from a handful of countries (NL,US,JP,DE) in hardware industry that historically got 2nd pick on talent due to how well software pays/braindrains. People like to meme about how semi is making magic thinking sand but it's also niche industry so far pursued by a (relatively) small amount of people in a handful of countries. I wouldn't be surprised if PRC gets within 1-2 nodes of west in 10 years, and start grabbing market share selling cheap. Of course by then US will start banning software captibility with PRC hardware, triggering another round of PRC indigenization that eats at US software.
Yes I'm sure I missed the subtleties of the scene. Sorry!
Let's hope that it will be amended precisely in order to let open source projects (and their users) live.

And if you are a EU citizen, please contact your MEP about it.

It's not voted yet. It's still time.
On "[*] To define a software application store the law makes a reference to the EU Digital Markets Act, Article 2, point 12 which defines “virtual assistant”. What they actually mean is point 14, which does define “software application store”."

Is any package manager defined as "software application store" ?

reference: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
With real voice actors, we can direct them to say their lines with more sadness. Or guarded desperation and struggle, on the verge of crying but clinging to hope... etc. This kind of subtle direction is not possible with artificial speech.

For narration it can work. But for dramatic character acting in animated films, the results make the characters sound like terrible actors. More granular control is needed over specific words, syllables, tone, emphasis and timing.
This one sentence...

> I found this comparison very intriguing as I am in the field of AI and dealing with AI every day, predicting futures with advanced AI SaaS toolkits, building complex AI models, or guiding companies on their ethical responsibilities to avoid data bias - really put in perspective how complex full sensory detection is vs analyzing historical data patterns to predict future outcomes, or even working with neural networks as he truly believes we have not invented the right technology methods to get closer to singularity.

The article is poor in both format and content. I'm surprised forbes lets this pass.

I don't even understand what it's trying to get at beyond "LeCun is great, and chatGPT is not all that". Which Yan himself summarized in one tweet [1].

- [1] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1617921903934726144
Does China have de facto control over chip production in Taiwan? If they do, why ever actually invade? If not, why haven't they invaded already?
> REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

> laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse

Ah yes the tried and true "will somebody think of the children!" excuse to pass some tangential fascist laws without actually doing anything to help children in any way.
I don't think that's the analog. Nor is checking ID at a pub. The analog would be that any time two people speak to each other on the street or in a cafe, they should first present their ID to a surveillance camera and stand within earshot of a microphone.

[edit] The social argument for banning or restricting substances is also limited when it comes into too great a conflict with the social argument for tolerating individual choice. To even put the freedom to speak privately on the same plane as the freedom to take drugs is to abandon reason itself, not to mention hundreds of years of hard-won liberties and enlightenment. Anti-drug regimes are merely authoritarian. Anti-privacy regimes are totalitarian. There is a world of difference between policing action and policing thought.
I agree and even registered for their waiting list.
It seems hard to comply with because any software repository and app store falls under this law and the EU cannot control who uploads a chat app on one of these. At least people from non-EU countries will continue to develop and upload chat apps with full end-to-end encryption and without age verification. So essentially this proposed legislation seems to make all software repositories and app stores illegal, which makes it hard to enforce and comply with.

My guess is that the EU would impose fines on repositories and app stores if they contain such apps and try some ostensibly silly IP geo-blocking, and people in the EU would continue to download and use these apps.
I do something similar with youtube. I choose a video from a content creator I like. For example vox or kurzgesagt. Then from the first video I choose I make a playlist with usefull youtube recommendations or search result to similar themes.
What I want to say is to make a curated playlist is something that is made realy fast for oneself.

Spotify had once this killer feature that you could start a radio based on playlists. So i mixed some crazy playlists and the radio did get some interesting results. Something similar for video would be nice

Edit: there is something called couriosity stream. Its a website from some youtube creators. I gave it a try and it was nice. But many content missing
The right way to respond to this is to launch a detailed EU petition about it – the EC parliament is fairly open and previous petitions with a large number of signatures have, unlike perhaps other countries, effected a change in policy, e.g. on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides ("save the bees") which are banned in the EU after much action [1].

Mullvad – or someone similar – should therefore really create one. I can't find anything relevant. Details here: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/get-i...

[1] https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/initiatives/details/20...
They were, which is why this would be big news.
The F-35 is a huge and long term defense US diplomacy and influence manoeuver. Maybe the recent changes in the strategic context have helped change the stance, or maybe it's mostly the fact that the supply chain for F-35 parts and maintenance are already established and it's easier to fit Finland workers into them rather than renegotiate everything with half the JSF participants.
A-10s being vulnerable to modern air defences isn't a concern for the US military, because guess what: We have a lot of tools to use in our arsenal.

F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16C/D Fighting Falcons, F/A-18C/D/E/F Hornets and Super Hornets, B-1B Lancers, B-2 Spirits, and US Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles among others are perfectly capable of performing the alpha strikes necessary to severely damage and destroy enemy defences and infrastructure and clear the way. A-10s along with other "vulnerable" CAS assets like the AC-130 Spooky and US Army AH-64 Apache then perform their missions with impunity.
The only way it'd be worse for the economy would be if remote working somehow caused people to hoard money in cash in their house. So long as people are still spending, or saving/investing their money in institutions that reinvest, then all that happens is a shift in where people's economic work is done. Restaurants in cities might suffer from losing the lunch time crowd, but people will spend that money somewhere else in the economy instead.

Remote work is obviously not bad for the economy because the economy is basically a closed system.
The effectiveness of EU machinery is overrated. EU is a large organization with lots and lots of money. The people who go there are largely unaccountable to their countries, and are likely to do things that are popular, and they like to show off their work. There is no repercussions for the decisions taken though, because the only elected positions (the parliament) are far removed from legislating and limited to just approving what other people promote.

In the case of privacy laws, they sometimes don't even follow their own laws. E.g. as participants in an H2020-funded project, we were asked to add google-analytics to our website, because for EU officers, social proof is very important. We still have it btw, even though it's likely illegal. The privacy laws were enacted because some groups (led by german greens) were pushy about them -- there was very little push from the populace to enact such a kafkaesque system, and I am sure, that , if the populace were asked, the police and other authorities would not have been exempt from all these laws.

I think it's popular in american (left) media to deify the EU as some kind of wise leader, while it's just as susceptible to corporate lobbying (and bribes , as shown recently) as any other government. This depiction of sainthood has not helped the EU evolve to fix its own problems.

Recently in a podcast i heard Eric Schmidt admit that they were successfully pushing back against privacy regulation for at least 7 years.
Blue Origin? Virgin Galactic?
Part of that sentence may have been elided. You could read it as "[If enacted] the proposed Chat control EU law will". That is not an uncommon construct.