skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where the author is coming from and It is important to have a realist perspective on what is driving European strategy or else we will be in denial.

I think it's also important to recognize that the west are interconnected in many real ways beyond economic. The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella which allows the EU to invest on other things instead of defense. Another less talked about is how the US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare by virtue of the obscene amount Americans pay and hence make profitable that industry to the benefit of all of humanity.

For American companies to contemplate selling into or building offices and having employees in Europe is to contemplate a set of trade-offs.. there's a reason why European employees are typically paid far less, it has to do with the fact that there's far less flexibility if they are a bad hire coupled with the fact that they have much better benefits provided by their governments and hence their money goes a lot further. That is of course related to the fact that they are not generally paying much for defense.

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.

As much as many Europeans may loathe the united states, in the grand scheme of things we are far more interwoven with each other and ultimately entering a new cold war with China and decisions will need to be made over time around where to place bets around self-reliance. I'm sure Europeans love to sell to China but they will not love the glut of Chinese Imports that will decimate their protectionist economies at a level far more aggressive than they've ever experienced across the Atlantic
That's nothing new with Stability. Even 1.5 was "released early" by RunwayML because they felt Stability was taking too long to release the weights instead of just providing them in DreamStudio.

Stability will release them in the coming weeks.
America has a warrior culture even though we pretend to not be. Even though there are few times in our history we were not involved in a war.

A huge % of the population spends Sundays watching enormous men try to kill each other in American football play war.

If athletics aren't your thing then you probably are going to war in business or the arts.

If none of these are your things and American, there is a really good chance you are at war with yourself.
At least in the case of Apple, it’s not at all specific the the EU. That company is run by children.

Everybody who works with Apple, be it developers or suppliers complains about how shitty they are to work with. They maintain relationships by the strength of their market power alone. Bridge burning is ingrained into the company culture.

Apple is treating the EU like they do everyone else: they are being dicks. Unfortunately they seem to have missed that the EU is not able to be bullied or pushed around.
Thanks for writing about this. Makes me like Hetzner even more.
> And, as an institution, they are largely all too convinced that an all-seeing universal surveillance state would be a good thing, actually.

Not that I disagree, but where is the light in this tunnel? Increased police surveillance seems to be a common theme in USA, UK and Australia. And countries with less advanced democracies--to say nothing of Russia or China--are not climbing faster into the surveillance wagon mostly because of financial reasons.
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What do you think about money and income? If people in the Western world get older, lose jobs, earn less money, and have fewer kids, who will buy those kinds of products? Maybe people in “third-world” countries (who might have enough young people)? How can those young people exchange their labor for money? Will an unskilled worker have enough wealth to buy such products?
What about governments? Will they make taxation higher (e.g., less wealth for you)?
I agree, it seems common for people to learn "Hello, world" in 200 languages rather than diving deeper into one. I also understand why this happens, it's exciting and new, but I think the latter is more beneficial.
Yes, they're often quite uncanny and turn me off. Then again, I don't like off-topic stock photos either. I'd rather see no images than either.
I built a white noise site which has a load of sounds which can help in a similar way (including thunder): https://ambiph.one

I find the 'bass rumble' and brown noise particularly useful for masking external noise, which I guess is pretty similar to a thunderstorm frequency-wise
> I really don’t want to support piracy

Me neither. Copyright infringement however is a moral imperative.
> I'm not sharing any personal views on LFI

Me neither, to be clear.

> they are classified as far-left

By whom? Some small portion of its detractors? Anyway, no need for spreading wrong ideas, regardless the number of people claiming them. French Wikipedia claims this but this is unsubstantiated. Qualifying it as "far" just serves the purpose of wrongly likening it to the Rassemblement National, which is convenient for Macron & its friends. Consequences of LFI or the RN gaining power are radically different.

Now for sure it's not "soft" left.

I believe you when you say LFI pushed this idea. That's very like them.
Ironically, many of Apple's most aggressive policies are designed to protect its own 'Single Market'.
Yeah, I had to make the change because HN has a length-limit on headlines
Allow me to depict a small game: living on trains means needing trains with nigh services, what you do if your train is canceled? You pay with a credit card, what to do if a train is canceled for bad weather and you have no working internet connection? You work on a giant platform what you do if a day that platform, who store essentially your digital life since you just have a laptop, decide to ban you for some reasons and you can just write a message in a form to them and wait days? A small anecdote: due to a storm the mobile service where I live drop. I still have fiber working, and I WFH so no issues apparently. Well, no. I've needed to access my bank and I couldn't because to login I need an SMS OTP... I couldn't login on my mobile carrier WebUI where I can read SMS independently of the phone, because to login I need an OTP via SMS. I'm the customer or a slave of their services?

When you have alternatives there is no slavery, you can pick many options all the time, you have backup between them. When you depend on single entities you are their slave, no matter how "formally free" you are. Now I'm slave of my home to live in it, to continue this "strange journey", but the home is mine, I control it, I'm a citizen of a state with certain rights and laws and so on. I have then alternatives and backups. So the slavery from my home it's not much oppressive. I have three desktops at home, two homeservers and some spare parts, so if something breaks I can switch immediately not waiting for a spare part to come by the mail or a shopping mall to open to buy it ASAP. If I depend on a laptop I have no backup and if my data are all in someone else hand I depend on them, no backup. If I have no assets I own, I depend on my source of revenues CONSTANTLY meaning I have no backup to hunt for another job if I live paycheck to paycheck. That's slavery de facto, even if formally I'm free to go.

That's is.
90% of the article is a nothing burger about the usual asking for data for advertising. (Guess who also does that? WaPo)

The only interesting bit is the very last screenshot where they mix your officials filing signature with the unrelated consent button for data sharing, using non-grammar to hide the meaning of the button. This is not informed consent and so the advertising data use is illegal.
Intuit is a criminal organization.
Are there any counterexamples to what the author presents as the inevitability of European open market regulations?

> And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world.

Boy, wouldn't it be horrible if we got more Tesla's, SpaceX's, Starlink's, and freedom of speech on social media in the world!
It will, if the laws being passed are preventing a reasonable access, it can be repealed.
> I know this may be a weird thing for software folks to think about, but writing HDL is a tiny part of digital design. In digital design, if done with discipline, writing the HDL is an almost mechanical process of translating the design. In a design that might take a year, writing the code might be 3 weeks.

I say this as an FPGA engineer that started my career in software: This used to be the case in software too. But we now have such good tools with REPLs, automatic tests, IDE integrations, partial implementation possibility that it's simply way less inefficient to build software like that.

I feel like that is precisely where the current hardware ecosystem stands. VHDL/Verilog/SV are simply not good enough to use it as a design exploration tool.

Instead of saying: "We use HDLs just to put in the design which we do beforehand" it should be "HDLs are the central tool in digital design. Both during design exploration and implementation". I think this is what people want out of these "neo" HDLs. The way you are viewing it is as only as a straightforward drop-in replacement. That is not what it's about.
'Free isn't enough': Apple calls out Spotify for 'paying nothing'
this can vary by jurisdiction
He constantly references studies to back up what he is saying. It's a bad title I think, well for such an informative book.
Yes all LLMs have problems. But some are better than others, and there are benchmarks used for comparing the models. Also, in terms of PR, I don't remember OpenAI having messed up like this -- having one really bad incident is worse than not giving perfect answers.
Sure but the inspiration wasn't from them here.
There's already ComfyUI nodes for Layered Diffusion. https://github.com/huchenlei/ComfyUI-layerdiffuse

Of the people I know in the CG industries using SD in any sort of pipeline, they're all using Comfy because a node based workflow is what they're used to from things like Substance Designer, Houdini, Nuke, Blender, etc.
And even if they are thinking that government is their enemy. That doesn't mean companies like Apple are their friends or allies either...
Honestly blown away by this. Graphics, audio, everything just works (tm).

I've seen many 'desktop in browser' type demos over the years, but never anything like this. This is impressive on so many levels.
Try this prompt instead: "Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Give each person a name and count the number of girls in the family. How many sisters does Sally have?"

The "smart" models can figure it out if you give them enough rope, the dumb models are still hilariously wrong.
Nah, because of the awful way the privatisation is managed. Not that I think it should be privatised anyway, but really had to be it is hard to imagine it being setup in a way that benefits the passengers less.

The killer is that there are still significant subsidies involved, so we pay through the nose for bad service due to the way privatisation is arranged and also pay extra through indirect taxation too. In fact, even adjusted for inflation we pay more for the railways via taxation now than we did when they were a publicly funded industry. Funfunfun.

A quick reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financing_of_the_rail_industry...
This reads like a 10th graders report, just repeating arguments found on the internet.

The criticism of forcing apple to abandon a superior connector for phones to standardize charger cords, while every other building you go into in Europe has a different outlet that is incompatible with the charger you want to plug in is perfectly reasonable. The idea that there is some great benefit to making sure there is only one connector on the so cheap they are basically disposable cords is fundamentally stupid. The fact that the EU regulators can arbitrarily go after companies is a real problem.
It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better".

Since we have so many consumer protections, much of how we end up engaging with the law around business practices is to our benefit. We're always aware we can raise bad business practices with an ombudsman (etc.).

So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive.

The fringe american "all regulation is bad" is hyped up for certain media causes, but very alien to most in practice. It's essentially unimaginable to the ordinary european that large corporations would have a better social conscience than government.
I think federated protocols are better too, but Mastodon is literally replicating many of the problems with email one-for-one:

- identity management is hard
- you place lots of trust in the admin
- it’s hard(-ish) to pick up your data and move
- it’s very hard to pick up your identity and move
- you technically can host it yourself but only a few diehards are going to bother
- moderation is mostly up to you, except when you can’t talk to someone you need to because your admin decided to start a flame war with another admin and de-federate
- E2EE is server specific
- no way to tell yet but eventually 99% of users will likely coalesce around a handful of servers

The protocol though, it’s just better!

See also: plank in your own eye
Just a story device to contrast a positive experience
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Can't believe this had to be spelled out... The article is very well written and simple to understand, so hats off to the author.

Ironically, I've been putting off buying an iPhone because of the walled garden... Being able to side-load app stores and charge via USB-c might actually get me to switch. Because the surveillance inside Android apps is frankly obscene at this stage.
Despite the rise of far right populist parties, Europe tends to lean more on the left side of the political spectrum compared to America, and corporate worship is a relatively new thing over here. People tend to have more faith in governments and treat companies with more distrust, compared to the US which seems to be the other way around.
Indeed, my daughter is a big Miss Rachel fan
You lucky; in Europe we didn't have cheap option like these and PC's were expensive anywhere in the world. Even in early 00's I used to use httrack to download sites from a cybercafé to be read offline in my PC at home.
Exactly - you need to have quick access the horn in a safety critical use case, so it shouldn't be a small button you have to find among other small buttons. You should be able to mash the center of the steering wheel.

>But you better hope it works because if it doesn't, the airbag behind it explodes.

... what? I had a car who's horn stopped working and the airbag didn't explode or go off.
The other is the Rosaceae family, which includes: roses, apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, loquats, strawberries, rose hips, hawthorns, and almonds.
The article is actually missing the point slightly.

The French right wing of the senate has made this seemingly unimportant edit: it's not a right to abortion, it's a freedom.

This changes everything.

If it's a freedom, the job of the government is to ensure that nobody can stop you from doing it, but unlike with a right, it has no obligation of means, it doesn't have to fund free abortion clinics, make sure that hospitals are properly staffed, that every woman on the French territory has actually access to a clinic without travelling long distances or paying an unaffordable price.
„Over the last week, in communication with a flood of Googlers eager to speak on the issues facing their company — from management on almost every major product, to engineering, sales, trust and safety, publicity, and marketing — employees painted a far bleaker portrait of the company than is often reported: Google is a runaway, cash-printing search monopoly with no vision, no leadership, and, due to its incredibly siloed culture, no real sense of what is going on from team to team. The only thing connecting employees is a powerful, sprawling HR bureaucracy that, yes, is totally obsessed with left-wing political dogma. But the company’s zealots are only capable of thriving because no other fount of power asserts, or even attempts to assert, any kind of meaningful influence. The phrase “culture of fear” was used by almost everyone I spoke with, and not only to explain the dearth of resistance to the company’s craziest DEI excesses, but to explain the dearth of innovation from what might be the highest concentration of talented technologists in the world.“

https://x.com/piratewires/status/1764722509461807390
To be clear, a majority of people in the USA support access to abortion, its the fact that a minority court was packed with gerrymandered districts and a political party dead set on ending democracy that we got here.
I wrote short emails. Am I doing it wrong?
Frank Zappa reputedly.
I would bet people mostly buy their games they use with Wine. Especially now that it's so well integrated with Steam.
Travelling is an absolutely excellent way to meet people if you're at all open to it. "Deeper relationships" .. don't always last at that age. Often they get uprooted anyway at the transitions in and out of university. Which is probably the likely exit for this guy.
$999 starting price not looking so competitive…
From the paper: "causally closed levels can be efficiently controlled from just macroscopic interventions,
without needing to intervene on microscopic conditions."

I think that's stating things causally rather than predictively but two sides of the same coin.

I agree though. One issue the paper doesn't seem to underscore or delineate are the roles of measurement or intervention costs (in an information or utility theoretic sense) at different levels of emergence and how those affect decisions to work at one level or another.
In that case, Sergey really needs to start kicking. From the outside, it seems that there is no leadership.
You are not paying for the seat, but for the journey.

Go ahead and try to get a refund when you don't have a seat on a crowded train.
So you agree government agencies are run by sociopaths? Then we should strive to reduce their influence on us, just like we would want to reduce corporate power over us?
Alleged? Did you not see the pictures of black female founding fathers?
UK's number of cars per capita is not much different from countries in Europe which have much better services, though.
Modern netcode can hide a lot of this latency. You can definitely play with someone far away, though the experience won't be as consistent and reliable is with someone nearby. But things are always improving!

Most of the issue is with jitter, not latency. If you had a dedicated point-to-point link to your friend in Vietnam you could play a flawless game of Mortal Kombat for sure!
As long as it is not English mustard, which is pure violence and no nuance to it.

French Dijon mustard is the safest bet. I quite like the American ones I can find in Britain because they're more mellow so a bit more versatile. Not sure about Indian mustard sauces, but they certainly use a lot of mustard seeds.
Got it, in other words going beyond just a moment of someone signing up or putting in a credit card to actually continuously evaluating whether or not it looks like a user of the service may be on the list.. tricky indeed
If you come up with a model that works like that, then I think that would be worth discussing after you collect your Turing award.
See, and therw I was worried we'd have a discussion HN involcing the EU without anyone sharing all those meme and myths about the EU, labour laws, salaries... Thank you for holding up the flag!
Let's build a VORON Trident