skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same applies to USA and clouds hosted in Europe.

Only real move way is to start creating local corporate structures. Maybe even entirely separate companies. And have the infra in those areas. So UK customers are served from UK servers by UK company. USA customers from USA servers by USA company. And EU customers from EU servers by EU company. Repeat for enough.

Maybe if some of these agree to play fully nice with legislation and privacy there could be some cross work. But seeing how even EU is moving, I am doubtful.
I blame meta doing sketchy illegal stuff :D

Like when some junk food isn't available in my country, I think it's probably for the best.
> Now this will create problems because now countries will start requiring Apple no to disclose their citizens information to any other party.

This is an excellent take and I couldn’t agree more with it.
> If you're using threads, global and static variables should be thread local. If they are not then the discussion becomes about sharing data across threads and synchronization, which is a different topic

Most languages make global and static variables thread-global by default, and making them thread-local is more work. I can see why, but that piece of language design causes a lot of global variable problems.

Also: you can simplify a lot of problems by deciding that something is going to be limited to n=1, whether that's variables or threads, and then a business reason comes along where you really want to have n=2. Suddenly every global is a source of regret.
They say they bought it on the foot of blog advice, which seems to have convinced them it was reliable. Tesla has a host of weird superfan online defenders; if they went down the wrong rabbithole it’s possible they simply didn’t know.
Actually I'm curious if there is some kind of representative poll among Tesla owners about whether their personal ethics still align with the company's (or rather, its owner's) ethics. I mean, this is the guy who as recently as 2017 quit as an advisor for the first Trump administration because of Trump exiting the Paris climate agreement (https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/elon-musk-resigns-trum...). Now I'm not sure which of the two alternatives is worse: that he has had a complete 180° turnaround of his moral compass, or that he was just pretending to care for the environment as long as it suited him?
But… it's not open source.
And it's not even open source at all :D
Weird take. He repeated his salute immediately. ‘I can’t be <x>ist because I know an <x>’ is hardly a new position.

Defend him all you want, he speaks for himself. We can see his actions and who he funds.
DOGE has put large numbers of civil servants on administrative leave in violation of congressionally mandated civil service protections.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-...

> “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School, said of Musk’s machinations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/04/elon-musk...
My university had a model train set, hooked up to some ancient 386 machines (and we're talking late 2010s here) and it was used for a real time programming course which was taught in Ada.

Unfortunately the lecturer that ran the unit retired the year I started my degree and by the time I had the prereqs required to do the course the faculty had run the course once without the original lecturer and it was apparently a disaster so they canned the unit until it could be rewritten from scratch, sans train set ... and in Java.

I still think about missing out on programming a train set. Years later
Apple cant as GPDR makes it impossible for them to give european data no matter how much UK asks
You don't have to be a lawyer to listen to one

> “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School, said of Musk’s machinations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/04/elon-musk...
I suspect in the current climate their response may be different, they may bend the knee.
> Bone structure is, as far as I can tell as a layperson, the major determinant of how people look. I found it quite surprising as I thought it would be the other way around.

How would it work the other way
around? You don't have a "look" before your bone structure exists right?
I’m not sure that you can reasonably expect people to ignore this particular elephant in the room just for the sake of your psychological comfort, honestly.
It always helps indeed, to change people's minds when you tell them "You are probably beyond help" or "You should feel bad if you do X". It's been great for my relationships!

In fact, I'm gonna write a blog post now: "Things I wish someone would have told me before I went online and started sharing my opinions"! It's gonna be a guaranteed front-pager!
Says a lot that they don't support Windows.

This sounds similar to Chrome's Mojo system which lets you do RPCs on objects between processes, transmitting shared memory segments and fds/handles between them transparently. Mojo is really nice, I wish it were fully factored out into a separate codebase you could git clone without the rest of Chrome. It also supports Windows sandboxing.
I prefer if shops do that (or actually the more common €2 instead of the deceptive €1.99 or 1.95), but most shops don't round their prices.
This is not something only younger people are prone to. I work in a consulting role in IT and have observed multiple colleagues aged 30 and above use LLMs to generate content for reports and presentations without verifying the output.

Reminded me of wikipedia-sourced presentations in high school in the early 2000s.
It hurts my eyes (more seriously, the Pascal family look lost vs the C one, it's a popularity thing) and from my understanding, it took too long to become truly usable in the FOSS world (a bit like CL).
Emulators are often emulating "hardware globals", things like machine registers or GPU state where in the thing being emulated there really is only one instance.
Whenever I can use Ada. I wouldn't use anything else.
Any customers unable to pay can still join a free trial, but will be shown ads.
Absolutely agree. Just for fun, I recently implemented SSI using Cloudflare Workers [1] — but with a twist to feel like it's from 2025. It's a bit of a shitcode experiment, but I really wanted to recapture that early hacking spirit.

[1] https://github.com/artps/ssi
The real question is how do they achieve vendor lock in? My bets are on Microsoft to figure that out.
There's a link to the Perl code hidden in the third para of text ("The [Perl source] for this script is available...") Of course a big reason it still works is that it was written for Perl 5, which is still current!

What that link doesn't give you is the dictionary files I used as input for the preprocessing step - which of course were also 1998 vintage. There are copies on the server (https://all-day-breakfast.com/chinese/cedict.b5_saved, https://all-day-breakfast.com/chinese/big5-PY.tit)

My Chinese got somewhat better, then a lot worse, then a little bit better again - obviously mostly to do with whether I was actually using it, which on the whole I haven't been. But back then I was really working on it and I just wanted something to help - there were a few useful resources I knew of (CEDICT obviously, and Rick Harbaugh's zhongwen.com was mindblowing at the time) and this seemed like a way to glue them together that I actually knew how to do.

Writing learning tools is obviously not the same thing as learning though.
FOSDEM was packed overall. I can't think of a subject track I went to that had spare seats. I noped out of more than one because I just couldn't get in.
Right, but naively I would think that your bones are the foundation and your skin and muscles are the house on top. But really, the skin and muscles are more of the paint and trim, and the bones are the foundation, walls, and even part of the roof. Even your nose is largely determined by the angle and width of your facial bones, which is quite surprising to me, given that obviously there's no bone in it past the bridge.
My Renault Megane e-Tech has Android and it was far better than whatever the other cars used.

One point Renault did right was use beefy enough hardware. They went[1] with an automotive Qualcomm Snapdragon, while it seems Volvo and others went with an Intel Atom.

All I know is it's smooth like a good tablet.

While voice recognition is not perfect in Norwegian, it was also by far the better one. A lot of room for improvement though, like if I say "call Merete" it won't find my contact named "Merethe", which is pronounced exactly the same here.

[1]: https://9to5google.com/2021/09/06/android-automotive-renault...
I'm aware of it thanks.
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There is an EX40, that's the EV model. But the XC40 still continues to be sold:

https://www.volvocars.com/uk/cars/xc40/
Better to hurt your eyes (which is nonsense unless a book hurts your eyes) than your brain. Optimised for the common operation of reading.
The Musk aspect is pertinent in the respect that he's mythologised for his innovation in Tesla and SpaceX while his detractors state that he merely bought into innovative companies, and they had to actively manage him to minimise his interference.

So in one view, he is indeed the guru of legend, and is responsible for the successes of Tesla and SpaceX, so a good candidate to refactor the federal government.

However, if he's responsible for their success, he's responsible for their failure. And this is a massive failure in manufacturing, in quality control, in after-sales service, and in just plain ol customer service.

But, if he's just a canny investor and his best companies succeed by insulating the company from him, then why the fuck is he touching the federal govt systems?

As for "buying a car in a country with no service" - the parts shortage looks to be global, so local market wouldn't help that.
I never met anyone from my grandfather's family that didn't immigrate before WWII because they were Polish jews who disappeared into the war. Except for two great aunts who escaped to Israel. No love for Nazis here. But yes I'm OK with Nazi merch, and glad to live in a country where you can freely sell, buy and wear it, and self identify as someone with a dangerous mind virus that I can beware of. Such symbols are receptors our antibodies can latch onto to signal cognitive lymphocytes to help protect from the memetic payload. You don't remove the danger by removing the symbols.

Here's something worse than Nazi symbols: Nazi values obscured by popular symbols.
The issue with these reliability tests is that they operate on old(er) models. At the end of 2023, the Model 3 was upgraded during a refresh. It roughly received 40% new parts, and is a substantially better value-for-money.

Clearly there are still some things to iron out, and I personally know folks with a few problems in the new model, but as a 2024 M3 owner with zero problems I hate the one-sided online communication surrounding this.

I'm not condoning Elon's behavior at all, but this vehicle is such an insane value for money especially with EV rebates and such. Purely saying Tesla is bad quality is such an easy trope, especially if you have never driven in one
incidentally, yesterday i saw "scrappy" used in a job description for the first time. i was unfamiliar with that term before reading your post.
The .sucks TLD is supposed to be for the express purpose. In reality, it's a way to extract anywhere from $250/year onwards from companies to not have tesla.sucks in the wild.
Many small actions over a large amount of time does establish a body of work and (some) credibility
Ok, that’s what I saw elsewhere. The conflicting part is where some individual agencies pass their audits (https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7291) and yet this claim of lacking audit basics. What gives? Is this highlighting bits where say DoD is a known black hole and then crafting a narrative?

As for “doom-mongering”, you don’t have to take my word, just listen to what republicans are saying: $3T in tax breaks extension, possibly offset by $1T in cuts. Not even accounting idea of cutting income taxes. You do the math.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-gop-rushing-...
As I said in another comment. Yes that will be the case as now EU and other countries will require Apple to not do this. There is no way Apple will comply with UK without risking being banned from most of the world. But this does not change the fact that this is literally what UK is demanding.
Free DDoS red-teaming! <3
Yes. I suspect that many people who run online shops don’t think about this issue and, mostly, don’t even know there is an issue.
To add to the roll call of similar plotlines, there is also Zardoz. It's a hoot.
How Not to Measure Latency (The P99 Lie) by GIL Tene
And are required by law because people with big SUVs kept running over their own children when backing out of driveways.
Who...who wrote that? I've seen local facebook crackpots with more rigorous use of citations / references.

This might be the worst I've ever seen, from officials. This is one step away from "trust me bro"
> yeah it wasn't pretty but it was stable and it worked day in day out.

I've driven a V40 with Sensus for 10 years and noticed a 'watchdog reboot' while driving _twice_. Which means the map goes out and comes back in a few seconds; the digital gauges run another OS (QNX I believe) and remain rock solid...
I have hopes that adoption outside of stodgy enterprises will pick up, which would of course help the job situation (in due time of course).

Sometimes it's hard to shake the rep you have when you're now a ~25 year old language.

Awareness takes time. People need to be told, then they need to tinker here and there. Either they like what they see when they kick the tires or they don't.

I'm pretty language agnostic tbh, but I would like to see it become a bit more fashionable given its modernization efforts, cross-platform support, and MIT license.
This is about _sparks_ specifically, so plasma guidance, which makes sense. The headline otherwise sounds like a clickbait...
Right to be forgotten isn't related to free speech, it is indeed about privacy.

Free speech and "right to know" are different things. The second one is about transparency, and is very important... but as you say, the EU draws the border with "your rights stop where others' begin". We have a similar thing in many EU countries where people arrested/on trial still have a right to privacy until conviction, to avoid their names being forever plastered everywhere, with mugshots, based on nothing proven.
> infamously silencing a literal epidemic of child sexual abuse for fear of its optics (i.e., Rotherham).

When you say "silencing", what do you mean? There was an inquiry in 2013[0] and various media outlets have been reporting on this for years.

[0] https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/279/independent-...
I gave a presentation in the Quantum Computing track and I couldn't sit down to attend the other presentations :/
Having pattern types would be great!
> Data from over a thousand Tesla Model 3 owners…

It’s bullshit
Without characterizing you personally as an alarmist, every alarmist or apocalyptic take is characterized as an emergency or unprecedented. Yet in most every case, the predictions of doom were false. Irrational fear is used to stir up hysteria.

I don't know that this is specific to the HN guidelines, but hysterical partisan doom is what I see, from my own subjective interpretation. When I try to discuss specifics, the discussion generally derails into derangement.
Ends with

>Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition. Since, under present circumstances, free and unhindered discussion of these problems has come under a powerful taboo, I consider the foundation of this magazine to be an important public service.

Typically socialists refuse to tackle problems of socialism in their papers and capitalists refuse to talk problems of capitalism in theirs.

Nordic countries where socialists and capitalists have been competing for power and correcting each others problems, and pragmatism has worked to overcome ism's seem to work well.
This one's for you, from Diana Hu (GP @ YC)

https://x.com/sdianahu/status/1887208144025292975
Yes, you're right. It looks similar, but ofc all the processes in a large consulting company are optimized for such "missions".

These kids are doing it the first time with little/no oversight it seems. A bit like sending troops into a war with no training.
There may be some truth to that.

There's this idea that sharing in illegal or socially shunned activities is an effective way to establish strong personal ties, and strong personal ties can in turn help advance careers.

Which is why there were a lot of successful secretely gay people in politics even in the 19th century.

As homosexuality became accepted, there was a shift to "harder stuff" playing this role. Not by literally the same people, mind you, but over time the composition of who's powerful shifts towards people who engage in shunned activities to form their strong personal ties. And as more activities become socially accepted, the activities that are shunned and give people a leg up become increasingly worse.

I don't like this conclusion, but it's the strongest potential argument against social liberalism that I know of.
Graphics APIs don't force your to have thousands of shaders. The abstraction in your engine might.
less clickbait title would begin with: "millions of years ago..."
Mostly,

- Compiler prices

- The few UNIX vendors that supported it like Sun, it was extra on top of C and C++ compilers, why pay more when C and C++ were already in the box

- Hardware requirements

Still, there are around 7 Ada vendors around.

https://www.adacore.com/

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/apexada

https://www.ddci.com/products_score/

http://www.irvine.com/tech.html

http://www.ocsystems.com/w/index.php/OCS:PowerAda

http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/janus95/j-ada95.htm
I've been contemplating buying a new car. BYD are a popular brand for electric cars in Australia. A single titbit in a review turned me off[1].

> To start with, the Dolphin falls victim to a speed limit warning system with no tolerance and a chiding beep that will quickly drive you insane.

The car has cameras to read speed signs and if it detects you are speeding beep at you. Sounds like a great feature! What's the problem if you aren't speeding?

> To make matters worse, the Dolphin is equipped with equally flawed traffic sign recognition technology that takes all speed limit signs at face value, ignoring the time stipulations common in school zones and busy shopping hubs.

Oh ... we have some speed signs that have time qualifiers, eg lower speeds around schools near start and end of school, or busy shops etc.

> It’s one thing to have a car bother you for breaking the speed limit, but another altogether for a car to unnecessarily distract you during safe, lawful driving. Rant over… for now.

> You can switch the system off, just not permanently. Settings revert to their default state every time you switch the car off, so setting up ADAS becomes a time-consuming daily ritual.

Absence of a feature is often far superior to a broken one.

[1] https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-reviews/2025-byd-dolphin-re...
Allow me quote their "prophet" Curtis Yarvin: "you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April." (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvi...)

Harvard's already under attack, Politico's already under attack, "Wokepedia" (as Musk has been calling it) is already under attack.

So... give it a couple of weeks from now.
Tried to link to the specific timestamp in the video, where the p99 lie is discussed. Core takeaway for me was that most users of a page will experience the p99 latency of the system: https://youtu.be/lJ8ydIuPFeU?si=HasLt5QBsB1tzww_&t=648
I read this and of course couldn't believe it. Isn't 14.7B enough to be considered extremely rich these days[1]? In the the Forbes real-time billionaires list is quite easy to find _many_ such examples.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/profile/sarath-ratanavadi/?list=rtb/
Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019)
Apple needs to take the nuclear option here. They don't have to actually go through with it, just the mere threat would be effective. Starmer is unpopular and desperate for political wins, he has little to lose by conceding, whereas Apple has a lot to lose by conceding.
> people getting longer jail sentences for Facebook posts about immigration than for violent crimes or child porn

Do you have a link for that? I read UK news pretty regularly and I've missed that one somewhere.

> due to the weird way they won the election this one didn't

What weird way? They got more votes than the Tories and a clear democratic mandate.
For me it evoked Stephen Kings horror movie "Children of The Corn" where the kiddies are indoctrinated into a cult to murder.
> Google stuff does not. Draw your own conclusions.

It wasn't security related, they didn't filter search results for Winnie the Pooh.
Looks like an arena allocator is available in JDK 20. But I’m fairly sure it’s been in the RT spec for a lot longer.
Mandatory binding arbitration will still be an issue.

Maybe pack those pseudocourts by registering a huge roster of consumer-oriented arbitrators?
> A Few Rules For Using Globals:
> If you change observable state, restore it

I’m sorry but no. Humans are human and mistakes will be made. I’ve lost count of the number of esoteric bugs I’ve had to track down due to global state being changed and not put back properly.

If you have to qualify a pattern with rules that are easily forgotten or open to corner case bugs, it’s far better to just not use that pattern in the first place.
> Personal sites are dead because the Internet search is broken.

Personal sites are not dead. I've got one, and it is entirely fulfilling its function. Other people have them too.

Internet search is pretty broken, I'll agree with you. That said, Kagi and Marginalia both seem to tackle the problems with surfacing old and/or independent content. And people are bypassing the search-engines by constructing link pages, link blogs and web-rings, and seem to be doing fine.
That polytheism is "the truth"? Same mental gymnastics should apply here, though, according to his belief.
> you get 5GB free and the first backup takes ~4.5GB

Not my OOTB experience at all; an iCloud backup of a new, nearly empty phone is vanishingly small.

That said, shoot a bunch of 48Mpx pics + 4K vids and you're going to fill those 5GB quite quickly.
Googling the firs claim leads to a website absolutely teeming with ads, one of many being this gem:

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The second result is the comment above. I cannot find any more information on this otherwise.