skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slavery is the absence of choices. Yes, owning a home means being slave of that to keep the home up, but you control it, it's an asset you depend on and you have full control on it. You typically live in a State with a certain level of stability established laws to protect private properties and so on. Meaning you have choices and backups.

Now try to imaging you works on YT, your revenues came form Alphabet for the video you publish. You produce them with a laptop in a rented office and on the go. Well, you have non backups, YT have your videos and your audience. A ban and you have no choice but to restart nearly from the ground, no insurances, laws, asset under your control and so on. Then you are a slave of YT.

I've choose to live the big city for the mountains, so I'm slave of a car to move. But I have three cars, of different brands, two moderns connected so potentially risky "not fully mine", one classic, so risky only in mechanical terms. Having choices I'm slave of "a car" but not on one in particular, so I'm free. I have desktops and homeservers, WFH if one break my data are locally available and locally usable on another, no slavery to wait for a new system get delivered of the nearest shopping mall to open to buy one in person. I have fiber and mobile with a good enough 4G/dummy 5G (700MHz, in France, it's both 4G and 5G) and no data cap issues. I'm evaluating if buying a Starlink base service might be a wise choice, so I'm not slave of a specific ISP to work/live BUT for instance to access my bank I'm slave of my mobile carrier, due to the mandatory OTP via SMS, no banks here allow classic RSA OTP or using a smart card or something else not connected anymore. That's a BIG slavery even if 99% of the time works issueless.

The difference between slavery and freedom it's not the mere presence of a choice but both choice and backups that allow you to choose without dramas. In freedom terms I can even took my life, but that's not a wise choice without drama, if I work on YT as described above I can formally change tomorrow but if it's my sole source of income it's not a choice without drama and so on.
I have a 2021 Ram Classic 1500 "plain Jane" truck. The only option it has is the tow package and the medium size touch screen. To adjust the HVAC air flow, you have to go to the touch screen! (you can adjust the fan speed with a dial.) The cab on this truck is pretty large, so adjusting from the lower vent to the defroster vent is quite risky while going down the road.

On my wife's Pacifica, the fan speed dial is also a button that can be used to change the vent settings, which is much more safer. Why Mopar didn't include this on my truck is anybodies guess.
But it is a well integrated VM, since you have direct access to most hardware.
[I don't think HN does...but after 18 hours here, the puzzle has only 1 upvote and 2 responses here.]

I assumed the sequence is (in effect):

- Quietly look at the numbers on everyone else

- Quietly decide what number to shout

- All shout when a signal is given

- Somehow hear and understand what everyone shouted simultaneously

- Quietly decide on your guess (at the number on your own forehead is)

- All reveal their guesses when a signal is given

If that's correct - then everyone can just shout the lowest number they see on someone else, then give the lowest number they heard shouted as their guess. That number is on someone's forehead, and one correct guess lets everyone go free.
"Designed for California" nonsense. It's pretty common to wear gloves while driving in the winter in Canada. Now you have to make sure your gloves are compatible with your car.
What is carsharing, and how does it work insurance-wise?
As George Clooney so brilliantly pointed out in Three Kings: Necessity and Priorities. The EU has a lot stuff on their plate, from Ukraine to Gaza. One thing at a time.

And yes, it seems that for the time being, abortion is not really ubder threat in the EU at the moment, so they can focus on other things. I applaud France for doing this, and hope the EU, and more member nations, do follow suite in the future.
> Go is a pretty low-level programming language

Has the line between low-level and high-level languages moved? I remember being taught that a low-level language is like Assembly language while a higher level is C. And I still stick to that, but is that not the consensus anymore?

Also, why do we talk about static binaries like it's a new feature? Is it really that exotic nowadays?
I can't help but think of this Onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/man-on-internet-almost-falls-into-w...
The SCP page itself was created on 2008-07-25, while the episode aired on 2007-06-09, so it looks like the BBC was more like a year prior.
Thats disturbing even happens when searching from Europe so its a global manipulation of results. At this point I have started to tell everyone i know to avoid google products.

The question is any of the other search engines any better ?
I wonder if anybody has thought about giving the lander a slow rotation? It will help stabilize its landing axis and so likely avoiding a tipping-over.

Another idea is to let the lander “spring” on the moon surface. Because the gravity is so small, a free fall from 50 m or so will be like nothing. Cutting off the engine early and accept a certain down fall velocity will help stabilize the landing axis as well. With a wider base, the landing can be further stabilized.
It's not uncommon in not-china either, public libraries are prestige buildings but it often feels like the purpose of them - books - is lost in favor of the prestige aspect.

I mean I'm only seeing a few images actually showing books, and those are only three shelves tall. I'm also seeing high ceilings, literal hills made out of steps but without any apparent function other than maybe crowd photo ops, and some reading tables.

But the amount of books is about the same as a small local library or bookstore. What happened to the multi-storey repositories? Endless rows of categorised books? I don't get it.
If you go back to before Jeffrey Epstein was exposed, you would likely face high level suppression if you made a public accusation of Prince Andrew. Many accusations of sexual assault were suppressed before they became believed during #MeToo. Courtney Love publicly warned about Harvey Weinstein in 2005, implying that his behavior was widely known for decades before he was finally arrested. We can talk about it now, but if a young actress had accused him in 2010, for example, she would have been suppressed.

It's almost certain that there are other things like this going on right now. We just haven't heard about them yet. In other words, within our lifetimes we will almost certainly learn, "In 2024, they did..." and we're not aware of it now.
When did McDonalds and General Mills become part of the medical industry?
You might enjoy this lovely little anecdote from John McLaughlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB5UkrkMu4
How about adding a text "subtitle" stream to the mix. The encoder may use ML to perform speech-to-text. The decoder may then use the text, along with the audio surrounding the audio drop outs, to feed a conditional text-to-speech DNN. This way the network does not have to learn the harder problem of blindly interpolating across the drop outs from just the audio. The text stream is low bitrate so it may have substantial redundancy in order to increase the likelihood that any given (text) message is received.
SpaceX is awesome and I'm glad we have -one- Elon Musk but I'm not convinced we need more than that.
The don't have to silence opinions; they could forgo the ads. and hosting services. and anyone else upset by their content.

and build their own!

There's some other folks on the other side of the political spectrum had similar problems not long ago. Perhaps their alternative networks provide an opportunity for you? They been through this already.
Except DD2 and KZ, well true, they only have 2 pedals, but they also have a hand operated clutch. But you only need it to start the kart. You shift without the clutch, and for starting you can have it in neutral and just push it in first when you have build a little speed and sit in the kart. I suppose if you have one with an electronic starter you need it.
The Explain is worth reading for this one: <https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1244:_Six_Words>
Yes, in Windows the actual implementation requires that paths consist of sequences of 16-bit values, and those values have some constraints, but the constraints don't include requiring that they're valid UTF-16, and so they aren't necessarily valid Unicode text, and so there may be no UTF-8 representation. In Unix they're just bytes and the bytes may not be UTF-8.

In Rust terms what Windows is doing is basically [u16] and what Unix does is basically [u8] and neither of these is necessarily meaningful human text.

Internally Rust's OsString is probably like the hack in this blog post, all valid UTF-8 is just stored as UTF-8 which means everything else must be using the byte values which aren't needed in UTF-8. But Rust is explicit that this is opaque and not guaranteed to stay the same across compiler or library versions.
For some definition of left.

The interesting thing about the article is that all this EU regulatory control over corporations is in fact deeply capitalistic and the very reason for its existence, and in the corporations interest. Which is not what most EU citizens would consider being on the left of the political spectrum.

The idea is: we need regulation to shape the market where businesses can compete freely to the advantage of both businesses and consumers. If we don't regulate, monopolistic corporation would threaten the single EU market.

Or even more simplified: we need rules to have a free market. The US version (or one of the versions) of capitalism is more of a free-for-all, where the most important thing is to reduce regulation, not increase it. It seems to trust the judicial system more than the government.
> freedom of speech on social media in the world!

Did that get better?

I though twitter fired a lot of lawyers who held up freedom of speech and now the company is folding against governments like Turkey. But I have mostly only read headlines. Would love to read more about it.
I would look at aviation like displays, buttons on side, but based upon paging.

Tactile feedback is important.
I'm not sure I understand why this is bad either way. If I am a company that wants to offer a chatbot on their website, but prefers to spend my time and money to train or provide context to the model so that it works the best for the applications I intended rather than spend my time hardening it from the latest prompt injection attack, then this is a product that appeals to me highly! This seems like a great product from cloudflare.

In fact, there's a good chance that I'll be using this product 3 months from now.
If you are making more than enough to pay a significant amount of tax, but get away with paying a derisory amount or even nothing, then you are really winning!
Compared to classic hydraulic lines everywhere dedicated cables seem easy.

Having to account for a DOS attack from a compromised head unit or some such just seems like a nightmare.
Was that the merino massacre of 1887?
Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit
Using the horn to prevent myself from being squashed by yank tanks with a hood and tailgate height significantly taller than my car (and most adults) helps the commute. They'd have to shut down part of the road to clean the car bits and the red goo off the road otherwise. If my country legislated those absurd vehicles out of existence I wouldn't need to lay on the horn to make my existence known.
My understanding is that French abortion protections are somewhat more conservative than those of Kansas, which for instance has a 21 week cutoff versus France's 14, and requires no additional consults or cooling off period.
> 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.

As an American who pays for healthcare insurance, I must say that this is a bug and not a feature!

> there's a reason why European employees are typically paid far less

American companies also want to pay American employees less who switch from working in the office to working remotely.
Huge - been waiting for something like this! Down with junk entertainment algorithms
At least all the phones will use the mechanically defective USB-C connector though. Huge win for labor unions and internal market?
How'd you get 450 users in 24 hours and 1,200 verified user emails over a three week period?

And what are your long term plans for this side project?
I quite like the article as far as it goes; but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America. This should be an article about how Nokia or equivalent is approaching the US all wrong and not understanding the realities on the ground.

I'd put energy in a similar frame. Energy matters a lot, and for all the optimistic noise around the Energiewende, the solar industry ended up in China. Wind power Europe has managed a company in the top ten, so that is pretty good [0]. Given the growing energy crisis in Europe, this seems to be an area of failure that needs more focus in how the common market is performing.

The EU's successes seem a bit mild. I remain sceptical that harmonizing charging cables is an important enough dot point to appear on these lists, it looks like there is just a lack of success stories out of the EU. The failures are catastrophic; last I heard the farmers had just started rioting too [1] which is a bad omen.

[0] https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-wind-power-companies/

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/farmers-...
Processes for safely and hygienically injecting vast quantities of sugar, salt and fat into "food" != good nutrition.
France is a colony? Who is their colonial overlord? And is this overlord also controlling the EU? And is this overlord truels suvereign, or does he answer to higher powers as well? If so, who are those powers, them? Because if it is them, I have a problem, they keep loosing my socks during laundery and it drives me crazy.
I wouldn't say they're children.

Rather, Apple is ran by people who are used to the ~20 years of free corporate reign granted to them by the complete defanging of groups like the FTC in the US while Europe was still trying to fruitlessly coax them into being cooperative.

It's not just Apple who is struggling to work in an environment where regulators have teeth; Amazon tried to treat the EU the same way and got banned from lobbying the EU parliament for not taking them seriously.

Basically the only GAFAM company that took regulators seriously for a while was Microsoft (due to the IE lawsuits) but even they are starting to act out again as of late.
AI passes 100 IQ (Claude 3)
If you have a use case where you utilize Hetzner's RTX4000 GPU 24/7/365 around the clock, then it's a great deal. However, I think many people will just load some quantized LLMs into it and call it a few dozen times per day. For the latter use case, €2,200 is a bit too much, I think.
This comment on the post sums up the issue quite clearly: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/google-demands-that-...

His commenters are saying too many "bad words" that google ads doesn't like. It's been like this for over a decade, but from my perspective the "bad word list" has grown out of control to where people can't have anything more than kintergarden conversations on pages hosting Google ads. I kind of wish they would just ban every word in the dictionary so we can move on from their control of the web.

If HN had google ads, the URL list in this spreadsheet would reach the moon.
Only if you yield to the layout engine (e.g. `await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 0))`) in between. Which, if you know you want to change two things, why would you?
I am European and hate all the regulations they’ve done so far.
I know it’s a very rare pov, but for me all of these new legislations are terrible both for the consumers AND the small developers (which I am both).
The ONLY people getting something are the somewhat big companies.
Deals with customers are always going to involve tradeoffs like this; if the 30-day payment term is standard but you offer an increase to 45-days that will earn some goodwill at the expense of those 15 days, for example. If a customer has a very different time-value of money than you do, giving them a discount for prompt payment could end up working well for everybody. It's also not a short-term benefit if they are a recurring customer.

I can't seem to find the article now, but I remember reading about somebody buying food for their restaurant and getting 50% discounts for paying immediately instead 30 days later. There are some obvious drawbacks to this, but it's also easy to see how the restaurant can come out ahead with a discount that large.
What, exactly, is your goal here?
When I was a kid I used my bike to flawlessly get around everywhere I wanted to go.

At some point I wanted to go to places or in an amount of time or with cargo that a bike wouldn't allow.

The Artemis program is doing something similar but not the same as Apollo. It's different so it requires a change in the architecture which in turn means a series of problems because change is hard. Which truthfully is the exact same thing Apollo went through. Apollo was only six for six if you ignore everything that went before it. If you look the events before Apollo 11 it's easy to see that there were difficulties.
Who gets to decide the difference between facts and hatespeech? A famous meme is citing FBI crime statistics by demographics, which are considered factual information but using them in any argument will have you branded a racist.

If after November, the powers that be decide that "Donald Trump lost the 2020 election" is no longer allowed speech, you're screwed. Especially if you wear it on a T-shirt.
Apple saw what happened when Google was nice to developers and got shitty camera views in apps and adobe flash.

Apple has rightfully concluded that developers do not deserve to have any freedom on their platform because they immediately abuse it for their benefit and to the detriment of the user. Devs got so bad meta lost billions in value when Apple set up a privacy transparency feature in the App Store, say what you want about their repair practices but no other tech company takes this much care in managing their platform.
I disagree. There most vulnerable are those without voices.
Yuzu will live under a new name "nuzu"
"They were behaving like Elon Musk.
And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world."

I'm not a fan of his behaviour on Twitter, but the idea that the world does not want more Elon Musks seems insane to me.

Theyre not for me personally, but whatever you think about Teslas I don't see how you would not want a person who can build a new car company. Just look at other entrants like Rivian, it's so hard, and he managed to will that into existence.

The fact that I can then move onto SpaceX is unbelievable. He willed reusable rockets into existence and made it into a sustainable business. Starlink, just look at starlink. Where is Blue Origin?

Would we really not want more of that, even if it led to more nonsense on Twitter?
It worked for Putin (see Nord Streams for example) so Trump wanted it too :)
> see the Europeans talk about human rights on the one hand but then do big wine and dine trips in China

Those are not the same people.
And here I am spending $700 to take the Amtrak with a sleeper room one-way as a mini vacation! I admire his adventurous spirit. I’m a bit nervous to travel by myself. Particularly once I arrive in SF where I don’t know anyone, but I’ll figure it out as I go. My plan is to put the phone and laptop away for a few days and enjoy reading the Lord of the Rings while viewing some beautiful places and capturing them on film.
....in order to comply with Google Ads, on which the site runs. NC has been around for years, I'm surprised they haven't moved to a patronage model of some sort.

It's worth reading the actual criticism, but the clickbait headline implies that you are talking about Google impacting the site's organic search ranking.
But doesn't YouTube try to reinforce the rule by flagging such content and remove them?
This is an explanation of the EU's point of view and motivations and how you can use understanding that to predict their actions.

Calling those actions 'fundamentally stupid' will not, in fact, change reality, and thinking such an opinion has any relevance to doing business in the real world is precisely the class of mistake the author's trying to point out.
It's been two weeks since Google turned off the generation of images with people. Still no word on when it's coming back. This tells me it wasn't just system prompts and prompt injection, it was done via RLHF and it's going to take awhile to un-gimp the model.

I just tried "generate an image of a man camping in the woods" and it came back with "Sure, here is an image of a man camping in the woods" followed by a 10-15 second pause followed by "We are working to improve Gemini’s ability to generate images of people. We expect this feature to return soon and will notify you in release updates when it does." This would seem to indicate they're letting it generate an image and then running some sort of human detector on the output instead of filtering the prompt on the front end.
That's not at all the case, since Sergey holds 42% of B class shares.

Together with Larry they have the majority voting control over Alphabet.
I don't think any of your links substantiate the claim that US healthcare expenditure subsidises global R&D on healthcare, only that healthcare is more expensive in the US (which I personally think is more due to an extremely ineffective system with an unhealthy amount of middlemen that inflate prices).
Nicely written. Great management processes the reality of workplace and society, and applies that information to maximize their employees' effectiveness. Managers are human and thus they have opnions, but great management doesn't let their opinions cloud their judgement when it comes time to manage.

I'll admit that, as an engineer, I appreciate that someone is trying to rein in my industry's worst instincts, even if that someone isn't America and they aren't necessarily succeeding on every front. So yes, I have a bias.
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/130/130179_Secrets_of_M...

seems to be a cookbook, but I'm no chemist. took me a couple of minutes via Google.
The subsidies go mostly to the infrastructure and currently that number is high because it includes the cost of the shambolic HS2. Indeed, Network Rail is still a state-owned company. But the majority of the expenses (trains, staff, etc) are borne by the operators and paid for by the fares.

I agree that the way privatisation has worked is poor, though.
> Almost half of the French population reported that they were Catholic

If you break that down generationally, you see 70% in 70+, scaling down to about 15% in young adults, with atheism mopping up the difference. The older people may have believed, the middle cohort were raised by believers and think of themselves as Catholic by creed, but they haven't passed it on to their kids.

The same is generally true in the rest of Europe. The social contract that everyone goes to church on Sunday has broken.
That would be his family’s places?
Nothing in the law requires those cookie banners. If you don't agree, you can quote to me the exact passage in the GDPR where it talks about cookies, banners, or browsers.

Or you can read what Github has to say about this: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/