skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there needs to be a word like "Paris syndrome" for when Americans meet actual Europeans and find out their politics.

I've not met anyone who doesn't work in Brussels who thinks the EU isn't a dysfunctional pile of shit. The most spirited defense I've heard of it is "Well at least it keeps the Germans from invading again.".

> The EU, it's better than genocide, by a bit - probably.

-- Enthusiastic EU supporter, 2024.
I am not making this up, this is abundantly commented upon in the French press.
Ah yes, and people also have the choice not to buy cigarettes, too. Let's remove all the warnings on the boxes and cancel any law changes around trying to reduce smoking.
The sad fact is that this is more expensive than my 1-bed flat was 15 years ago. Rent really is insane if this is preferable now.
Have you ever read Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_? (also published as _Magister Audi_)

Every time I see alternative representations of knowledge/computer code/algorithms it comes to mind.

Would you expect a person to be able to achieve a mastery of this to the point where they could play and control something in an improvisation? Say something like to the character Agatha Heterodyne of Kaja and Phil Foglio's web comic _Girl Genius_ controlling an army of clanks (robots):

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061229
This has absolutely nothing to do with the article.
Tax info is more or less public in many Nordic countries. It helps to create a more equal society.
This is the danger of hosting your own comment sections; by the powers that be (be it companies like Google or coporations) you are the end-responsible for user generated content. There's some leniency of course, since you didn't write it yourself.

Personal anecdotes. Members posted porn gifs on my old fashioned forums 20 odd years ago, Google did not appreciate that.

Members posted stills from an unreleased game on my current forums; we got DMCA takedown notices from at least three separate legal people associated with the company that published said game. If we didn't do the takedowns ourselves, they probably would've gone to the host and have our site shut down.

TL;DR, if you use a 3rd party (host, service), your content has to comply to their terms and services.
Identity politics being an "import from the United States" to Europe is a laugh. During WWII's genocide was committed on the basis of identity. More recently in the Former Yugoslavia a war was fought with significant focus on national or religious identity. That's not even to mention the rote national identity politics present in European nations for at least 200 years.
Vfox is a cross-platform tool for managing SDK versions, extendable via plugins
Download music from Deezer with a nice front end
Sure, but again, you've added convenience - or what you feel like it's convenience - for something that probably can be achieved right now with open source tools. A "CONTRIBUTORS" file with sign-offs by maintainers is an example of a solution for the same thing.

I don't deny that your improvements can benefit certain teams/developers but I feel like there are very few people that would actually care about them and they're not making use of alternatives.
This is the exact problem though, noone really cares what the law says, they care that now they have annoying cookie banners. They don't blame the businesses for this; they blame the EU. The more of this they layer on the more ordinary people get irritated by the EU.

This is how Brexit happened, remain tried to explain this stuff over and over again and no one wants to hear it. They want the cookie banners gone, or the bendy banana rules gone. The EU makes itself an easy target everytime they add more.

If nothing else was learned from Brexit that should have been the thing. There actually isn't a point where you can spend enough money to convince people of this stuff when they don't want to hear it.
As I got older, teachers (and then professors) tended to get more comfortable with Wikipedia. I never, EVER cited Wikipedia, but it was generally acceptable to use Wikipedia as a starting point - or even to use Wikipedia as a way to find other sources. My fiancée substitute teaches between jobs, and her impression is that policies relating to Wikipedia may be more lax today than I ever saw.
> I am glad that we have you to tell people that what they want is bad, and that they should want something else instead.

Suburbia and cars were massively subsidized by the government and have a very high cost for society.

I don't want to tell people what to do, but if a damaging thing is subsidized, suggesting that subsidizing something else might be better isn't much of a stretch.
There's a big difference between cryptocurrency and CBDCs.
The line has definitely moved but not so far that Go would be considered low level. I think most people would consider languages without any sort of garbage collection to be "low level" now so C, C++, Rust, etc.

Go used to (still?) market itself as a "systems programming language" and I think that along with the presence of pointer syntax gives some the initial impression that Go is a scary low level language.

In fairness to the author of this article, he did call it low level as a comparison to Python and mentioned that it not as low level as C which is all true.
A) Advertisers request content changes before showing advertising is not forcing you to not have that content, just saying you have to do that if you want their advertising. Why support Google's ad business?

B) Here's a spreadsheet of complaints - if we look at this one last entry, it's not right therefore "Google's demand is capricious, arbitrary, and demonstrably false" is quite the hilarious leap.

Based on it's own logic I think I now have more than enough bad faith argument examples to consider this site "capricious, malicious and demonstrably false"
I switched from MacOS to Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 3 years ago and couldn’t be happier. It’s so nice to have Pacman (and the AUR) as a built-in package manager. My experience with multiple monitors is better than on MacOS. My experience with gaming is surprisingly better than on Windows. Elden Ring worked day one on Linux but was almost unplayable on Windows for me. The entire experience feels to the point and working for me. Windows was littered with ads and weird driver issues. MacOS would constantly yell at me for trying to do things on my own computer. On Linux, I could simply plug in a printer and print documents. Finally, life as a developer is so much higher quality all around. Linux just works. Never thought I would see the day!
Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure
But that is nothing compared to the reality that the EU is not facing:

You know who is even more important than the EU to the peace and security of Europe?

The United States.

The audience for the whining of the American tech companies isn’t the EU consumer, it’s the US voter.

They are pushing the narrative that the EU is a bully beating up on innovative American companies.

And with the rise of the “America First” isolationist faction in the US, they might find an audience for the US Government to start taking action against the EU and/or retaliate against EU companies for the perceived bullying of US companies by the EU.
I like to add some mustard to a bowl of chili, it adds a tangy taste that's quite nice.
> I have family members who would have died

This isn't about that scenario. In case you get an abortion for a purely medical reason you can abort at any point in the pregnancy, 1 week or 9 months, it doesn't matter.

The one we just put in the constitution is the type of abortion you can request for any reasons up to 14 weeks
In Canada, this would be approximately the cost of a one-way ticket from Toronto to Vancouver. Our rail lines are absurdly expensive relative to flying and even driving on your own.
Any platform operator needs policies to protect users against spam and abuse. But does Apple do a good job at this? No. Many of the popular app store apps are low quality games that exploit addiction with loot-box mechanics. But those scam apps make money for Apple so it's fine.

Apple does not keep spam and other crap from the App store, but it does police high quality apps that offer their own subscription services. Because Apple feels entitled to their cut.
In your meetings with regulators how often have you seen the "we'll exit the market" bluff actually work? I can't see many companies wilfully exiting the third largest market in the world.
First thing I tried was checking if I could use it to share images. Which would be a nice way to organize what I share in folders. But apparently it can only be opened inside Puter itself, and it asks the user if they want to download it.
> EU citizens haven't been brainwashed into thinking that their government is their enemy

I don't think that EU is so homogeneous in this regard. Ask that question to people from Italy and Finland and you will get quite different answers, and rightly so, because Italian and Finnish government, and in general state are quite different.
I have no idea about USB C connector being mechanically defective, but how would that relate to labor unions? And how does that relate to my question?
It makes sense that the engines would be heavy and they are heavy on the launch vehicle. I am not sure how the ratios come out there but I'd still expect the fuel to, by far, take up most of the mass. Then engines for maneuvering in space and to land on the moon don't have to be very big. I looked up the figures for Apollo and found out the following:

"The Apollo's "lunar module descent engine" weighs a mere 180 KG vs the approx. 4200 KG of the rest of the craft (dry mass). Just the fuel for the descent is then roughly 8000 KG."
I think so, as the other reply points out.

And I want to encourage everyone to try their hand at making one of these. They're deceptively more interesting than they would appear to be at first glance.

And plus-one on the recommendations for Vi Hart's videos on Hexaflexagons also mentioned here.
It's pretty popular in web servers. You create a new area per HTTP request, and then everything you need for the context of that request, you allocate from the arena. When the request is done, you free the entire arena.

Nginx does this. As does my Passenger application server.

Apache... kind of does this, but it fakes it. It allocates every object individually, and the "arena" is only used for linking all those allocations together so that Apache can free all of those allocations (individually). facepalm
I knowm I also know enough about law to tell that removing a freedom is a far cry from removing a "guaranteed freedom". And of course the press is reporting, the right has to claim a victory, the topic itself and the far right whining guarantee clicks.

And we all fall for it. Again.
> Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America.

Seems like this holds true more generally.

The manufacturing is happening in China, the decisions are being made in North America, and the regulation in the EU.

Its like direct (US), produce (China), react (EU)
I use DuckDuckGo primarily and hear good things about Kagi on HN, but haven’t used it much myself.

DDG is fine I suppose, although my most frequent use case of looking up (nearly wrote “googling”) code solutions is mostly handled by ChatGPT these days.
You could just write "PESTLE analysis" and be done
I actually like them. It's eye opening when a a website wants to share your data with their 283 partners.
A lot of this confusion is people talking past eachother. For most people the level of governmental entity taxing them isn't the concern, its the amount of tax the government in general demands in particular contrasted with the level of service provided.

Add up the IRS cut, state and local, gas tax, sales tax, fees to use services already paid for with taxes and are basically required for life in the US (road tolls, document fees, vehicle registration fees, public transit fares, etc), costs for compliance with laws like hiring someone to help you file taxes or taking a day off work to renew your driver's license, higher costs for goods and services due to monopolies granted by government (drug patents where the same drug costs a quarter of what it does in the US everywhere else the world, higher than otherwise internet fees paid to entities like Comcast who are granted monopolies, hospitals that are expensive due to monopolies granted by certificates of need, etc), inflation caused by money printing to pay for foreign wars without broad popular support, housing that is more expensive due to policies that benefit homeonwers at the expense of those without assets etc, etc.

Its way more than half of your productivity that is taken, if you are productive and earn wages. Those earning capital gains are hit about half as hard, another happy little accident that benefits primarily the wealthy and powerful to add to my list above.

Oh and the best part, after paying those taxes for decades once you get sick, all of the sudden, the government and the medical industrial complex doesn't have the money to help you. You get to live in a cardboard box under a overpass.
https://virusvaria-nl.translate.goog/de-inquisitie-van-retra...
I was just about to write that. No crypto scam nonsense in the same datacenter sounds like a plus to me.

(On a more serious note, I imagine the reason Hetzner does not want crypto-related stuff is for the same reasons most hosting companies are not very fond of porn-related sites: High rates of fraud, charge-backs and other potential legal liability).
This article feels fairly naive to me. One possibility is that the EU is doing what is written on the tin and executives and companies are foolishly misunderstanding.

Another possibility is that reality is more nuanced and that executives are playing edge cases where profitable, like they do in other countries and jurisdictions.

Instead of seeing the EU (or any other system) explicitly as what is described in founding documents or official meetings, there is another perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_w...
> the successful campaign to get the UK out of the EU.

Depending on your definition of success of course.
> Everyone is self interested and when we see the Europeans talk about human rights on the one hand but then do big wine and dine trips in China to sell their luxury goods on the other hand you see clear evidence of that fact.

I think you're falling into another typical mistake, which is to think "Europeans" are one person.

In fact, it's very likely that the Europeans who talk about human rights don't travel to China and those who do "wine and dine trips in China" are different people who aren't very interested in human rights.
I think the one place where the author is mistaken is in the incentives for these big tech companies.

I think they fully understand what the EU is about. If Apple can delay for a month or a year on giving the EU what they want it’s very unlikely that any fine is going to be a net negative for them. One more month of the App Store pulling in its Monopoly money is a huge amount of revenue for Apple. One more month of Facebook collecting private data is another month of higher profits.

The EU cellular companies benefitted from the removal of roaming charges but Apple won’t benefit from being forced to allow alternate app stores.

Corporations in Europe may benefit from their single market regulations but not many corporations in the EU are the size of Apple or Google and have the same profit incentives.

(I also think that equating Elon Musk’s bad management to companies like Apple and Google that have generally good management is something of a false equivalency)
So will they bring back "Don't be evil"?
France is more and more influenced by US politics and cultural struggles even if they rarely translate to the French situation
They both follow safety standards we as a democracy have voted are best for our health via non partisan and objective health authorities.
You hate (not dislike, actively hate) 861/2007, the European Small Claims procedure? and 1007/2011, you are really that opinionated on textile fibre names?
There is also the issue where you have a pointer in the arena pointing to something on the heap. The GC will gladly kill the object on the heap as it has no idea something is still pointing to it.
If you're looking for a comprehensible to mortals explanation of the genius that can be found in Jazz, watch this explainer on Coltrane's Giant Steps.

https://youtu.be/62tIvfP9A2w
Legally maybe. There's a massive difference in access though. Kansas has like two clinics for the whole state.

Also I'm not up to date on french abortion law or anything but people like to make these comparisons without taking into account medical-cultural differences that are extremely relevant. In the US an abortion cutoff is likely to truly be the last date you can access one at all, except maybe for life threatening medical situations but even that exception is being closed out. In the french model the cutoff date is the last date you can access one on your own initiative without significant barriers. After that they get increasingly difficult with a higher degree of medical and possibly legal scrutiny, but the threshold is still far below "you must be dying" for most of that time.
What is band theory? (2005)
They definitely haven't. But that's mostly not due to how effective they are. It's more due to the fact that some regulatory or industry standard the enterprise promises to follow requires a WAF to be in place. If not by directly requiring then by heavily implying it in such a way that it's just easier to put one in place so the auditor won't ask questions.
that's not how it works.

there is good science and bad science. there is also bad or malicious application of good science.

i trust independent scientists and a scientific consensus. but that does not imply that all use of that science is good. what's happening in the industry is often not good as they use science to further their own goals and not in the interest of society
Guardian's new "Deeply Read" article ranking focus on attention–not just clicks
Any free WordPress.org version?
We have a separate repo where you can submit issues related to the shell: https://github.com/HeyPuter/phoenix/issues

If a file doesn't have a newline at the end then `cat` will immediately start writing the prompt after the last line; this is the same behavior you'd expect from sh or bash. We might later improve this by having a "no newline"-indicator in the promptline instead.
> One thing that did just occur to me though is how many adopters of rust were coming from languages with entirely automatic lifetime management (GCs, etc) so having to think about object lifetimes at all is new?

Maybe not "new" but something that's tedious once you've drank the GC koolaid.

With C++ explicit lifetime annotation is never required. You are expected to just do it right and know how long something will live (RAII helps a lot here).

With Rust, when you get into a situation where lifetimes are required, it can often feel really tedious to have to insert them everywhere. Especially when dealing with structs and fields on structs.

Heck, some things in rust simply aren't possible (in safe rust) that are possible with C++. For example, a class with a pointer to itself. In C++'s case you'd say "Well of course this lives as long as itself does so we don't need to free it" In rust, you literally have to use an `unsafe` block to make such a construct.

And, of course, in managed languages you wouldn't take a second thought to why something like this.

This particularly rears it's ugly head when you come from a managed language and you want to do multithreading in rust. Rust's promise of "We can do safe multithreading" sounds REALLY nice, until you learn exactly what that entails. It may be safer, but it's not easier. C++ is easier to multithread than rust (perhaps not correctly) and it's a LOT easier to do correctly in managed languages.
This is a phylosophical question, French law is quite clear-cut about it: an unborn baby is not a person, therefore it has no rights. To the point that recently a famous person had a car accident while driving under drugs influence, the pregnant woman in the other car lost her unborn baby. No muder or manslaughter charges could be held, because according to the law, nobody was killed.
Agree. Nobody in the US expects anything to ever get fixed. Prime example: healthcare.
Meanwhile, this is the kind of "attack" they're letting go through on a Pro property with all defaults WAF activated:

>HOST: example.com/2Y8son3bwiuSuYUdBW3EAIojZc8{{41839*41587}}

Django catches this and I get notified.

EDIT: it's being passed as HTTP HOST header, not path. Obviously, `example.com/randomgibberish{{}}` is not a VALID zone/host set up on my CF account, so I'd think that they should not pass that to my backend.
Twitter revealed illegal government censorship of US social media because Elon bought it and was transparent. That's what I'm referring to. I don't know much about Twitter's legal fights against authoritarian countries' censorship of free speech, but that doesn't seem like a particularly winnable battle anyway.
That is much better, the initial change focus on "Facing reality about the EU", rather than "Facing reality is a core requirement of good management".

Granted, the EU aside is also important.
I stopped using Google for search in 2017 and haven’t missed anything about it.
It kind of blows my mind that most people around me eat steak without a good Maille or Grey Poupon mustard. Thanks for this list, I'm gonna explore!
My guess is it's a huge liability if keys are stolen, and it puts a huge target on their back from people around the world who want to steal crypto keys or DDoS crypto systems.
Google is not demanding that they censor their comment. Google is telling them that they won't serve ads on their page because of issues.

Funny complaint coming from a site called "Naked Capitalism".
why Switzerland? I would think its a bit too small for this kind of travel.
No just make buttons. Screens can hickup, scroll weird, etc. also you don't get any tactile feedback.

I don't wan't a touchscreen keyboard on my laptop, and the travel is already small enough - i say bring back tactility! The dead cold glass orb has destroyed so much.
everytime i boot a Linux based disco on hardware for the first time im always blown away that some of the greatest multitools of mankind are free and available in minutes
Oh yes word of mouth is a great way to learn new information in the age of a society that bases its communication interconnected technology. It's totally reasonable to tell someone to start up their own indexing service to solve the problem as well.

So your basic solution is people have to know something without knowing that they know something. How else can you bookmark something if you don't already know that it exists? I'm not sure how you cannot see the problem where a half a dozen companies have taken over your entire ability to find something in the modern world. Your glorious solution is go get the multi-million dollars of funding to build your own solution that does something different.

There are other search engines besides Google but go ahead start using those other search engine and you'll find most of them are the same captured type portal information of content that they deem acceptable rather than allowing an end user to have some default filters but also be able to remove those default filters if they want. To be honest to God joke of your entire post is that Yandex is probably the best search engine at this point for finding actual uncensored information.