skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe, "right" usually means EPP, or center-right. Their member parties may call themselves conservatives, christian democrats, the national coalition, or something like that. They tend to be economically similar to US Democrats but often less progressive.

Then there is S&D, or center-left, with their members typically calling themselves social democrats or socialists. They are another big traditional mainstream group. And even the ones who call themselves socialists are more like social democrats.

The third traditional mainstream group is currently called Renew Europe, which consists mostly of various centrist / social liberal parties. Some of which are socially quite conservative.

Then there are usually two center-left to left, mostly progressive / liberal, mostly environmentalist parties. The differences between them vary from country to country. Their current groups at the EU level call themselves Greens and The Left. Some actual socialists exist within these groups, but they tend to be mostly harmless weirdos who didn't get the message that the 80s already ended.

The conservative / nationalist right mostly emerged in the last ~15 years. They often resemble US Republicans. Their EU level groups tend to split and merge all the time, because they often make very different conclusions from the same ideological positions due to historical and geopolitical reasons. Such as whether Putin is a good guy or a bad guy.
> The non-deterministic nature is simultaneously the worst and best thing.

This is what always has me asking, "How can you trust it?" with usage of LLMs for some pretty complex tasks, so I gotta know, what kinds of tricks have you employed to identify hallucinations from good output? How do you separate valid output (valid meaning it works but isn't necessarily what's desired) from desired output?

Additionally, how do you identify the most performant ways of doing things? Have you found that you've recreated portions of websites more efficiently than the real sites you're mimicking?
It's not so much that storage sucked, as the interfaces for storage sucked.

We didn't have much you could plug a better drive into. The floppy cable's protocol was too restrictive to support anything much fancier, exposing too many internal details. And the parallel port was awfully slow. And SCSI was unfortunately absent from the consumer hardware.

That made it really hard for anyone to make a better storage device, because it'd find itself immediately constrained.

It's only in modern times where we finally have technology-agnostic interfaces that make it possible to use any storage tech you like, bandwidth to spare, and a generic USB storage driver meaning that even if you do own some oddball device you can still plug it into any random computer and have it work out of the box.
> During the Second World War, Germany was under a United States trade embargo, the British naval blockade and the import of Coca-Cola syrup was prohibited. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH), decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including sugar beet, whey (a cheese byproduct), and apple pomace. He later described them as the "leftovers of leftovers".

An embargo is literally a ban on trading.
> It’s ok, the economy isn’t collapsing.

Nobody said that Germany's economy is collapsing, but it's certainly underperforming. It had a recession in 2023 (-0.3% GDP growth), stagnated with 0.1% in 2024, and is expected to grow by just 1.0% in 2025.
https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...

> The trains, despite all the ineptness of Deutsche Bahn, are generally pretty good!.

They're awful.
"In 2023, just 64% of long-distance trains reached their destination on time"
"Germany accounted for six out of the 10 worst stations for passenger convenience in Europe"
https://www.dw.com/en/how-does-deutsche-bahn-compare-with-eu...

> Promoting Nazism is banned. It’s not a slippery slope, and the country hasn’t devolved into authoritarian groupthink. You just can’t publicly support Nazism.

"No national figures exist on the total number of people charged with online speech-related crimes. But in a review of German state records, The New York Times found more than 8,500 cases."

"After Mr. Grote later made remarks admonishing others for hosting parties during the pandemic, a Twitter user wrote: “Du bist so 1 Pimmel” (“You are such a penis”). Three months later, six police officers raided the house of the man who had posted the insult, looking for his electronic devices."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...
I know little to nothing about sailing, but I didn't realize they had 200T (tonnes? 200.000 kilos?) of ballast, and that some of it is movable to well below the waterline.
> yep, and without lowered keel the chances of the gust putting the boat into those 75 degrees is much higher.

If the downflood angle is 45 degrees, that does not matter. He notes that you'd have to turn off the generator & HVAC before closing the vents, and those vents give it the poor downflood angle.
The debate in the comments about whether you should run locally is fascinating.

To the people saying ultra modern hardware could handle it: worth remembering the companies on question started on this path X years ago with Y set of technologies and Z set of experiences.

Because it made sense for Google in 2012 or whatever doesn't necessarily mean they would choose it again --or not-- given a do over (but there's basically no way back).
That attitude leads to the shitty epubs we currently have. You either do a fixed-size PDF layout, or you have a proper dynamic solution. For technical/mathematical content, I am not interested in anything in between, given that PDF just works for me, and is easily achieved with tools today.
Historically most countries Europe had generally been "tripartite". With progressive and/or classical liberals in a weird spot between left-right. But even then I think it get's very messy when we leave Britain.

Traditionally in most continental countries you usually had two major (social-capitalist/paternalist) Christian Democrats and some Social Democrat style parties. But in reality they often shared more with each other than with various fringe left(Communist, radical-socialist), right(reactionary conservative but almost (pseudo-modernist) Fascists) parties all of which usually had some weird-missmash of traditionally left and right policies.

e.g. Weimar Germany was an extreme example republic where it was Christian Democrats + Socialists + Liberals vs everyone else regardless of exact social/economic policies. But modern France, Italy and Germany are kind of similar (of course both the fringe and the centrist parties are still thankfully a lot more moderate).

I guess you can fit all of the on a single left-right axis if you squint hard enough but you'd really need 2-3 axes to get a somewhat accurate/meaningful picture.
Ebooks where such an exciting prospect when they came out, but whether it's because of anti consumer monopolies, focus on DRM protection instead of features, or just plain old inertia, they haven't really advanced at all passed their first ever implementation.

I sometimes read interactive fiction, and even a format as intentionally simple as Twine supports variables so content can be dynamic. There's no reason ebooks couldn't do things like that, but they are so far behind that they haven't even caught up with where print publishing was 50 years ago yet.
Poland's right-wing is pushing nationalism and anti-EU propaganda under the guise of patriotism. The word lost its original meaning since pre-1991 communist era.
Same, it made zero sense to me. In an age of housing and energy crisis we have huge buildings with lights on for no reason whatsoever? I can't fathom that. So it has to be fiction, and then I think of MUDs, Mystic Quest, WoW, and Elvira. Scary can be part of end of repetition. Also, repetition in gaming is a means to deal with lack of [other] content.

In non-fiction that sound you hear in an empty building is probably some homeless person, a prisoner, sex slave, or all three: you ended up in a SM basement. The probability of that is near zero, so shrug it off as fiction.

The beauty of fiction is: if you don't like it, if you don't get it, if it gives you inspiration to something competely different -- you are free to do so. Whereas with non-fiction, reality and facts (or laws) may haunt you into oblivion. E.g. paralysis on judgment day.
> Google gets a free gift from a multinational bureaucracy and gets to look like a smart company in the process

it would have cost you exactly nothing to not make an unnecessary dig at Europeans, here
> It’s not a slippery slope, and the country hasn’t devolved into authoritarian groupthink.

Society position on COVID-19 and (more recent) Israel-Gaza situation (the word is deliberately wrong, but this is not the main point here) really walks and quacks like groupthink.
> 2FA would be tricky since these accounts can't be nominative anyway (at least not with the current economic model): there is so much turnover and subcontracting that it would be a nightmare to manage

I disagree. Due to all the security theatre involved with post-9/11 air travel, every air-side employee is already subject to relatively strict regulations. Employees are already given personalized RFID access cards, making those same cards 2FA-capable would be a relatively small change.
Something seldom acknowledged is that mild variable-length instructions are not a new thing in RISC, and didn't start with Arm's Thumb2 -- or even with SuperH adding a few 32-bit instructions to their originally 16-bit one.

If we can agree that the essence of RISC is separating the instruction set into load and store instructions that don't do arithmetic (except incidentally in calculating the address), and instructions that do arithmetic only between registers, then the CDC6600 (1964) [1] and Cray-1 (1975) were RISC, and had 15&30 bit instructions and 16&32 bit instructions, respectively. The original experimental IBM 801 design (the 24 bit one) had two instruction lengths. Berkeley RISC-II had two instruction lengths.

Other than the very recent Aarch64, having a single instruction length was only a defining (supposedly) RISC characteristic between about 1985 and 1995, ten years out of 60 years of RISC history until now.

> A few selected software programs were compiled, __but not linked__, using GCC.

Unfortunately this artificially disadvantages RISC-V, where the compiler generates the maximum-size (multi-instruction) sequences for function calls and data references and the linker performs "relaxation" which only ever (and quite significantly) decreases code size and instruction count, especially for function calls where most functions can be reached with a single instruction with ±1 MB range.

Most other ISAs optimistically generate code with the smallest displacements, then the linker expands those with insufficient reach, which can itself cause some other instruction to have insufficient reach. This is especially problematic in ISAs with 8 bit (or smaller!) displacements.

In RISC-V the code starts out already correct, just larger than necessary and a single pass will get virtually all of the possible compaction.

Not linking means this isn't done at all.

[1] actually it was slightly funkier in that it didn't have explicit load and store instructions, but storing an address into a particular A register implicitly started a load or store of the same-numbered X register, depending on which register (and a couple of them did nothing).
This is pretty much implied here. Perplexity is an AI-focused company. They're trying to make money off of a shitty situation. AI is a "cheap" tool to use for this purpose. It's really, really scummy.
* Be yourself, and do so bravely. Don’t bullshit the interviewer, though politeness and mild flattery are beneficial. Dishonesty is most frequently expressed non-deliberately, and any half competent interviewer will see it. That also means being comfortable with who you are including all your shortcomings and opportunities for improvement.

* Know what you know. Be bold about what you do know as proven from prior experience and be quick with what you have not attempted. Don’t attempt to fill in the gaps. Experts are people with tremendous enough experience that they have learned to stop failing through trial and effort, and often forgotten things they find no longer necessary or in bad practice.

* Listen to them. An interviewer will attempt to control the interview, and that’s ok. Look for bias, intent, selection criteria, and more. Ask questions to qualify/disqualify the signals they resonate. This gets easier with practice.

* If you do not have prior leadership experience, actually leading people, you are not a leader, at least not yet. Be cognitively aware of that. If you want to be a leader then accept leadership where it’s available (initiative), and people will notice. I was promoted twice last week (each by different employers). I have been in leadership in my unrelated part time job for so long I didn’t even realize I practicing leadership at the primary job. I was actually just trying to do less work, but they saw something I didn’t.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009570

What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy? (nytimes.com)

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But CD-R and USB drives weren't mutually exclusive in my experience; a lot of PCs couldn't boot off of USB yet and early USB sticks didn't have the same capacity (I believe my first USB stick was 64 MB?). But, burning a CD was more involved, and re-recordable ones were expensive. Some time later we found you can buy spindles of burnable CDs for pennies per disk.
Erlang is interpreted. It is in the same class of performance as Python and Ruby. If you want a relatively high-level and performant alternative with great concurrency support your options are C#/F# (you are likely find the tooling pleasant) and perhaps JVM languages once they adopt structured concurrency (but you are likely to find the tooling less pleasant).

Graal Native Image support is very niche and does not provide the same level of experience as .NET’s NativeAOT nor has tricks up its sleeve like static linking with native libraries.
> Then why aren't other people capable of doing what he is doing?

> How many of the people who build stuff for him would be capable of what he does?

What is he doing exactly? Have an ungodly amount of money and invest it? Gee, I wonder why normal people can't do that.

> The reality is that his time simply is worth more than yours or mine since it will result in exponentialy more products being produced than that of a single worker.

This personality cult is tiring.
Even the ruling elite consider themselves French/German/etc first but it is fashionable to publicly claim otherwise. The EU is good at projecting an image but behind the scene it is a ferocious power struggle among member states that boils down to relative power (hence Germany tends to win, especially since Brexit) as it has always been.
You may think that the trains are awful, but the OP was comparing with the US which basically does not have passenger rail at all.
Because most people who “care” about politics like this are radicalized due to their bubble. Add in a fair mix of a lack of civics classes and inexperience with politics and you get very loud people with no idea what’s going on.
I don't think public torrent trackers would have much incentive to do so, as their legal justification is that they aren't hosting or linking to files themselves. If they were to run services like I2P they would probably have a harder time making that claim.

Private trackers probably wouldn't want to do that because it probably would mess with the largely IP-based seed ratio requirements which most private trackers have.
>If the downflood angle is 45 degrees, that does not matter.

it does matter a lot - the larger momentum, the sooner it will return from the 45 back to 0, and thus less flooding. With less momentum and thus slower return it may though not return at all if the flooding speed would increase the list faster than the momentum would righten the boat back.
Using systems modeling to refine strategy
Really? I must have been working for the wrong tech companies in the 90s then...
Not only have Taiwan said that if Taiwan invades, "we're going to blow up TSMC", but sabotaging semiconductors is absolutely, utterly trivial to do by anyone in the dozens/hundreds of steps needed to produce the cutting-edge semiconductors that make the difference between TSMC and China's domestic fabs.

You can wreck production yields by using the wrong color of paint in the break room or running a fan outside the building, no that is not an exaggeration.

But, maybe there's some economic value in invading Taiwan. What's the economic cost, though? Well, besides the collapse of the semiconductor industry that China is quite reliant on. What else? Sanctions up the wazoo. Sanctions from the US, sanctions from Europe and from major US allies, sanctions from anyone in the South China Sea most likely.

Taiwan doesn't have any natural resources, their knowledge workers can just leave (and the US will offer green cards and evacuation to everyone involved in the chips needed by the US army, if China tries to invade), their economy will plummet when imports drop from sanctions, and also China will be at war, and war is terrible for the economy.
He (probably) means that the geometry of a PDF "page" can be customized. You can even have different sizes within the same document. But most people using LaTeX or even basic plotting utilities which export to PDF know this.
> Thankfully US has all sorts of checks and balances and it might take a while for a single party to get control of the House, Senate, White House and the Supreme court

The fact that "it is good when government is deadlocked and ineffective" is an actual argument people use is baffling to me, but for the sake of the argument and out of assumed mutual respect, I'll do my best to stay objective for following:

> IMHO electoral systems matter but extreme polarization is the real problem

I absolutely agree that extreme polarization is a major issue.

I believe that FPTP inevitably leads to extreme polarization, when given enough time: FPTP inevitably converges to a two-party system (due to strategic voting), and a two-party system inevitably leads to extreme polarization (due to strategic politicians playing into strategic voting).

The argument for the latter goes something like this: Disenfranchised voters can be coaxed to vote for a least-worst option when the most-worst option looks worse enough. So it becomes more politically effective to demonize your opponent rather than argue your own politics.

Additionally, it is politically beneficial for you when things stay bad while your opponent is in charge, and especially so if things get worse. You can use their perceived incompetence as ammunition to further demonize them. So it becomes beneficial to use what government power you might have in order to hinder your opponent's attempts at improving things, even if what they're trying to do is something you agree with and would yourself do if you were the one in power.

Depending on your preferred political party, I'm sure you can think of examples of the above.
High trust vs low trust societies. If I was Waymo id aim to start opening shop in Japan, Korea, Poland, places like that.
True but I am thinking more of their children that have grown up in the last ~30 years in this bloc-wide EU project, and less their parents currently in power. Basically people that read Monocle magazine.
Besides the metric ton of 1000kg there are various others that differ slightly [1]. So that is indeed approximately 200,000 kilograms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
Thanks for Adafruit link. I didnt know they picked up my Vogons thread and actually found picture of dedicated floppies. Sadly 2TD drives seem to be unobtanium :(

Technically its extended ED and should be as reliable, even the media should be interchangeable. I would love to get my hands on one too :)
History, traditions and current struggles are more common that's for sure but the attitude towards life is different.
Yeah, it’s blocked by NextDNS too
The conclusions a lot of people draw from universal healthcare are, frankly, insane most of the time. I've seen people saying that people in Europe are happier because of free access to therapy (as in, mental health), which implies a lot of things, but is not even true. Going to therapy here in Norway is extremely expensive.
The idea that someone would indulge in risky behavior just because a doctor will "fix you" for free is also ridiculous. This person clearly didn't think too much about it considering how people eat in the US.
> if I'm working on a team and people are writing code how is it any different? Everyone makes mistakes, I make mistakes.

because your colleagues know how to count

and they're not hallucinating while on the job

and if they try to slip an unrelated and subtle bug past you for the fifth time after asking them to do a very basic task, there are actual consequences instead of "we just need to check this colleague's code better"
They make it sound like this was a choice. Meta as a US and US based company can only say 'how high' if the US realy wants them to jump.
I think it's a great point!

Perhaps authors could also produce PDFs designed for common tablets as well, and therefore get the exact expected format.

I do agree with the author that paged format are difficult with browsers to this day, and I also hope this can improve.
There definitely is a Chinese ethnicity.

What you are talking about sounds like claiming that the US is not a country built by immigrants because there are Indians.

I can understand why you insist on such ideas if you are, well, the so-called "Taiwanese indigenous peoples". If you are not and your family was largely brought to Taiwan in 1940s with KMT then idk, maybe think harder?

Either way, I don't believe it's wise to continue the talk as your view - The only connection between Taiwan and whatever definition of China was, Taiwan was occupied by Qing, and then KMT - isn't popular or accepted at all outside Taiwan. Not even in the anglo-sphere. Citing a lot of facts while conveniently leaving out others does not help, too.
I enjoy silent days, too! Yet, I certainly don’t need a government to mark my calendar with those
I've got nothing against the fundamental concepts that Nix strives for. In fact, that's what triggered my 2 year journey with it. I just hate the implementation with a passion. The overall result is worse than before.
Rory Sutherland makes this point, that because some products are cheaper to manufacture and keep in stock (like frozen veggies), they're perceived to be less healthy than "fresh".
For me, it's the opposite. Whenever i have the choice, i want EPUB, not PDF. The problem with PDFs is that you don't have a device that is the same size as the original page size in most cases.
Uh, is it really clear to say that rockets "push against" something? That makes it sound as if they could absolutely not work in space, which they obviously do.

"They push against their own exhaust" seems to be the idea that motivates the pushing explanation, but to me that just invites the question "using what?" and makes things even more complicated. At least in my opinion.

I think Newton's 3rd ([1], forces and reaction forces) is a better explanation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion
> So it was sort of hilarious when they joined to form a government and the media graphics didn’t work.

In The Netherlands the media solved this by calling it a "purple government". They ruled from 1994 to 2002.