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Many of the physical parts are manufactured in Europe under license. I've never heard of this as a major concern.

The main point of conflict is that the US holds the source code for the advanced software systems very closely, no partner country has access. A lot of the differentiated and exotic capabilities of the F-35 that make it attractive to other countries are in the software, everyone recognizes this. There are many algorithms and techniques that rely on classified computer science to deliver qualitative advantages. Even if other countries could replicate the hardware, without replicating the software anything they built would be a pale shadow of the F-35 in terms of capability, which makes alternative hardware much less compelling.

The US knows all the leverage is in the software, so that is the part they strictly control. It is yet another case of the software eating the world, military systems edition.
> If I can hide numbers in a function call

Yeah this feels like those "Implemented XYZ in 1 line"

import XYZ
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I haven't read Machiavelli, where would you recommend I begin for this in particular?
One of the good things with process frameworks like ITIL is the way to keep track of who needs to know what. You basically are required to inform everyone if no one protest to you or some manager you can do whatever.

It is alot better when you have someone who keeps track of these changes and says no if needed. As always a drama free work environment makes this easier.
There are 300M people here and Trump won by ~200K. You can safely say that some are fine with this administrations behavior, but many are not and starting to actively protest and resist. Both are true simultaneously.
Not for long: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-quantum...
Ph.D. programs being stopped: https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-02-21/universit...
Hosting LLMs at scale without Azure/Bedrock is still a massive pain, and they offer EU based data sovereignty, so not clear what the problem is there (or are we now saying no doing business with US companies at all?)
Bundle the executables into a single larger mega-executable with symlinks as the “true” entrypoint name.
If you have enough space for distributed solar generation, you buy the batteries and go off grid (if your local jurisdiction will allow it; if they don't, prepare to politik and fight for the right to so you're not trapped into their profit extraction through local code and/or financial and regulatory mechanisms [see below citations]).

The Secret Society Raising Your Electricity Bills - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151865 - Feb 2023

https://prospect.org/environment/2025-02-21-secret-society-r...
I'm pretty damn sure this is highly illegal essentially everywhere in the US. You cannot decide an employee resigns. That's not legal, not even in at-will states (in at-will states this is stupid, you don't have to give a reason to let someone go, BUT, if you make it obvious it can still be judged illegal of course). If he goes through on firing someone this way he'll be paying 2 years pay up front for the people he lets go. AND give them their job back.
European Democracies should start a, new, NATO-like military Alliance on their own, but without Trump's America.

(and without the notorious US-made military equipment kill-switches)

And while we're at it, this time will be different: Instead of the membership criteria being anti-communism, it should be effective Liberal Democracy and Freedom from Exceptionalist Exemptions, namely from the International Rule of Law. So, to be part,

1. Compulsory ICC membership - hence no exceptionalistic US, and no exceptionalistic Israel.

2. No "Illiberal Democracies": say, for example, composite of a minimum 0.67 score on the WJP Rule of Law Index and others: therefore no Orbanic Hungary, and no illiberal others like it. Poland, Slovakia, Italy: you better watch your ways if you want in.

3. Democratic backsliding removes you rights in the Alliance, and, can proportionally lead to outright expulsion.

Not one more new military equipment purchase from the US, (and dispreference for other non-qualifying nations procurement). Member nations should use their - substantial - industrial capacity to equip themselves with indigenous military materiel.

Hey, it would be actually great for their economy!

Initially European scope, but bridges to a broader global scope (or even a secondary sister-Alliance) with open-ended partnerships with Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Japan, South Korea, and yes: Taiwan.

US and/or Israel want to join, if a more Democratic future selves? Simple: fully join the ICC, and meet the Alliance's full criteria as every other member.

Same applies for prospective new members.
Is there a version of the Fred indeed job postings list that goes before 2020? I wouls be interested to see similar data since 2000 or 2010

The narrative that software engineer jobs are going away is confused by cherry picking the start of covid as the start date.
And most CPUs have multiple layers of compilers/interpreters inside.

Any complete, practical implementation of a programming language is going to involve both imo.
Republicans say that. But also, regarding pandemic voting provisions (vote-by-mail, same-day registration, early voting) proposed by Democrats in 2020: “The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” — Donald Trump, March 2020
This is a good point. Aside from the objectively unavoidable and nigh-uncountable deluge of articles, opeds, social media posts, video news segments and direct statements from the candidate and his representatives describing exactly what they intended to do and a 927 page document detailing the plan that was released two and a half years before the election, what warning did anybody have?
I didn't know that computation on encrypted data without decryption was solved overnight.
Icarus always flies too close to the sun.
If they can’t be trusted to fix the problem themselves with a 5 year phase in period they most definitely can’t be trusted to fix the problem immediately…so I don’t get your point.
Not just Trump but any potential future administration. We’re no longer reliable partners who can keep continuity of our bureaucracy and foreign policy going for longer than four years without a geopolitical seizure.
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It's not, actually. Your comment is less relevant than theirs.
The world has changed, but the EU acts like the solutions that used to work will continue to work in the future. Neither regulating limits to AI nor waiting for Trump's term to end will solve the underlying problem.

First, Trump's rise in the US is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every country in Europe has its own right-wing, anti-globalization, pro-nativist parties, and in almost all countries their power has grown. Globalization decreased economic friction, but not evenly--there were winners and losers. The winners were the professional class who could sell their services to a global market. The losers were the labor class who saw their jobs outsourced and who had to pay more to the professionals they needed (doctors, teachers, etc.). The result was Trump.

US policies will moderate as Trump's failures pile up, but we're never going back to the globalist, "citizens of the world" consensus of the 2000s.

Second, (and ironically), globalization has given leverage to high-agency individuals to amass more power than previously possible. Billionaires are exerting influence (Musk, obviously, but also Gates, Bezos, Marc Benioff, Bloomberg, Koch brothers, etc.) not just because they have money, but because money can influence more people through globalized businesses. Social media is the obvious vector, but even a business like Starbucks has influence by how they set labor trends.

Moreover, authoritarians like Putin are only constrained by hard power, not by international institutions. And ironically, the whole point of international institutions is to decrease investment in hard power! The result is that people like Putin can do whatever they want.

It is obvious that globalization, as currently structured, has failed. But no one (to my mind) has yet proposed a better model. The left wants to keep globalization and tinker around the edges; the right wants to tear it all down and retreat to autarchy.

Eventually, the world will enter a more stable equilibrium. Whoever can see that new equilibrium can prepare for it or even influence how it comes about. Anyone got any ideas?
> It is time these companies really give back.

There's no reason for them to do so while maintainers continue to be willing to work for free and governments take a lax stand on security breaches.
stick is life
This is sad to me as the school bus was some of the best memories of my childhood. I don’t even know why particularly, but I think after being in cooped up in school all day we just got to act like fools and joke around on the bus. We even did this thing where we’d run as fast as we could to get the back seats of the bus.

Having typed all that I realized my kid is in a bus free school, we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Was more of a sign of the times for my era than a necessity for a good childhood but, if you’re on a bus with dozens of peers and all glued to your phones, it does feel like some missed opportunities
As medwezys pointed out, you forgot iPads. That’s another 40-70M units per year.

My numbers are a rough estimate from memory, but they’re not wildly off.

300M or 500M, the point remains: it’s an absolutely staggering scale and cannot be moved elsewhere in any short period of time. Setting up comparable production would take many years, just as it did the first time.

I imagine Apple/Foxconn have already begun this work. The unexpected shutdown or impediment of US/CN trade is a risk that must be accounted for, given the situation with Taiwan.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? We've had to ask you this many times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are obviously strong emotions on both sides regarding the actions of the first few weeks of the Trump administration. Whether you believe the goals are worthy or not, one must acknowledge that the manner in which all of this is being done is deeply disturbing.

Trump will be gone in a few years, one way or the other. However, the foundations that are being poured for legitimizing a strongman, authoritarian role for the executive and almost eliminating the role of the other two branches is deeply dangerous.

If you believe the goals are worthy enough that the ends justify the means, think of the worst president ever(in your opinion) and consider whether you'd want them to have the same power? Because politicians never let power go willingly. They will certainly point to Trump's precedent as a means of legitimizing their actions.

My fervent hope is that our institutions are strong enough to weather this assault and that enough people make it clear to the administration that there are lines they are not willing to cross. Whether that happens remains to be seen.
I provided a definition, since you were confused. How do you figure that’s partisan? Genuinely curious.
We are rapidly approaching that point. Globalization is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_4DvPO-7w

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/airbus-could-prioritise-non-...
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>populism thrives when political power is perceived as disconnected to the common people.

I'm asking in retrospect to the overall well-being on the nation in actual policies and results, not in it's political dominance. As recently as the Cultural Revolution we can see what happens the excesses of the mob are released.

>What I did claim was that the problems and potential of our day couldn't have been foreseen by the 'founding fathers', so it's silly to hold them as _the_ shibboleth of democratic ideals

Well I think you're attacking a strawman here, there will be situtations where their writings are not so relevant, but this situation of populism very much falls into category where their writings are relevant and specfically designed to anticipate for.

If you don't believe that, well then explain what are your alternative solutions to populism and if they are more poltically viable than what the founders proposed. I suspect if you weigh them all, the founders' ideals will come out on top.

Don't underestimate history, don't think you are really that different from our past. Plato might have lived 2000 years ago, but we still influenced by him today precisely due to the timeless quality of his ideas. Same as the Founders, you might disparage them for slavery that was common at the time, but their sincere devotion to republican ideals were acts of extraordinary moral upstanding that were rare both then and today. That's why we greatly respect them, not just in USA but around the world.
> One thing I (in general) miss from those days, was how easy it was to get into modding. Whether that be to make your own maps, or more involved game mods.

Another game from that time that was also easy to mod was The Sims 1.

For a bit of context, EA/Maxis released modding tools BEFORE the game was released, to let players create custom content for the game (like walls and floors) before the game was even released!

And installing custom content was also easy, just drag and drop files in folders related to what you downloaded and that's it.

Imagine any game nowadays doing that? Most games nowadays don't supporting modding out of the box, but of course, there are exceptions, like Minecraft resource packs/data packs. I don't think Fortnite and Roblox fit the "modding a game" description because you aren't really modding a game, you are creating your own game inside of Fortnite/Roblox! Sometimes you don't want to play a new game inside of your game, you just want to add new mods to enhance your experience or to make it more fun. There isn't a "base game Roblox", and while there is a "base game Fortnite" (Battle Royale... or any of the other game modes like Fortnite Festival or LEGO Fortnite) Epic does not let you create mods for the Battle Royale game. You can create your own Battle Royale map, but you can't create a "the insert season here Battle Royale map & gameplay but with a twist!".

Of course, sadly EA/Maxis didn't release all of the modding tools they could (there isn't a official custom object making tool for example, or a official way of editing the behavior of custom objects) but they still released way more modding tools than what current games release.

I think that most modern games don't support that easiness of modding because the games themselves are complex, because as an example: The Sims 1 walls are like, just three sprites, so you can generate a wall easily with a bit of programming skill, the skin format is in plain text in a format similar to ".obj", so on and so forth.

Lately I've been trying to create my own modding tools for The Sims 1, and it is funny when you are reading a page talking about the technical aspects of the game file formats and the author writes "well this field is used for xyzabc because Don Hopkins said so".
Some specific RISCs: RISC-V, MIPS, ARM, POWER, PowerPC.
500 USD/month it's enough to survive in Poland anymore. Minimum monthly wage is $1173 before taxes or $883 after taxes and that's not enough to make a living if you have to rent.
I wish everybody would stop making camera lenses pop out like that. Phone won't lay flat on a desk.
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That's how you spot the tourists, they speak to each other.
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That, somewhat ironically, typically isn’t included in the set of elementary functions. ‘plus’ is, but ‘plus one’ isn’t.
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Tbh I feel like the people didn't care much about it because the people who got kidnapped there were mostly attracted by job offers that were known to be shady (quick money), so there wasn't much discussion around this. The actor getting kidnapped is different: People suddenly found that you can be kidnapped even when the offer seems legit and only staying in Thailand. This forced the government (both China and Thailand) to take action to address the concerns.

But I think this will come back again. This kidnapping thing is not new, and it caught media attention a few years ago as well, they just go silent for a period of time and continue their operation later.
> And how about making every citizen constantly carry an always-on device from the USA

Screw that, every EU politician have an iPhone or Android phone, loaded with apps from Meta, X, Tiktok and what have you. Step one should be for our politicians to put some sort of emphasis on their own privacy in relationship to the US, Russia and China.
i downvote comments that some might interpret as “i disagree with this” downvoting, but in reality, i downvote comments that shoehorn in a contentious opinion only loosely related to the topic, usually because the commenter has an axe to grind. i also downvote comments that feel astroturf-adjacent—those that echo a common but tiresome sentiment, especially when it’s not well-founded in facts but instead regurgitated as a talking point pushed by billionaire-owned corporate media to an audience that doesn’t always critically examine the narratives being fed to them.

i want HN to have curious and interesting conversation founded in objective facts. the previously desscribed style of commenting is not that, so i will downvote it
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The Prince[1]. Although I think it's not very "readable" for today's standards. I've had a much easier time reading political science books that were written more recently.

[1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57037
>> I don't think the US government is dumping classified info onto corporate cloud environments judging by this description from GovCloud.

There are cloud environments specifically for classified info:

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/secret-cloud/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/coreinfrastructurea...
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You’re making this explicitly political now by brining up vote counts. All the OC did was bring up the effect of reality TV shows on public consciousness. I reinforced that the person mentioned was relevant to their point.

You brought up completely unrelated voter turnout of other political figures completely irrelevant to any discussion of Reality TV and when reprimanded have brought up explicit vote counts, completely derailing into the political.

This is not appropriate for hacker news, by your own estimation. For shame: your behavior is hypocritical.
The EU’s problem is that it doesn’t foster company growth on any level and doesn’t help with problems specific to the EU (e.g. multiple languages, differing laws, varying levels of unionization, and more).

Blaming Trump for their own well-known problems is silly. They were dependent on the US before him and they will continue to be dependent on the US after him until they look in the mirror and decide to fix what is broken.
In that taking those things seriously would have included:

* More creative threat-modeling.

* More effective prevention measures.

* More vigorous mitigation & stonewalling attempts.

* More rapid remediation & rejection of the intrusion.

Especially for a threat vector that was telegraphed so openly so far in advance. The circumstances might be unprecedented, but they're not at all surprising.
I worry about the rising tides of nationalism/anti-globalism both in the US and in Europe. I view things like this as accelerating the trend, not 'resist'ing it.
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I wonder how those managers can delegate, or how anything gets done in society at large, if independent decision making is considered insubordinate.

Also, effective military decision making relies heavily on units on the ground being able to adapt and not needing to phone home to act.
The polls are starting to agree with you. Trump’s actions are extremely unpopular, and support from his base is eroding:

> In the CNN poll, Musk having a prominent role in the administration is viewed as a “bad thing” (54-28) by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio. The Post-Ipsos poll showed Americans disapprove by a similarly wide margin (52-26) of Musk “shutting down federal government programs that he decides are unnecessary.”

> And Americans said 63 to 34 that they are concerned about Musk’s team getting access to their data, which is the subject of high-profile legal fights.

> Even 37 percent of Republican-leaning voters said they are at least “somewhat” concerned about Musk getting their data.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-pol...
This is nothing new, Microsoft signed an agreement with the French government to build a sovereign cloud called Bleu [1] operated by Orange and Capgemini using Azure and Microsoft 365 technology. The German government did something similar and launched Delos Cloud, operated by SAP and Arvato Systems.

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/27/223...

[2] https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/news/first-sovere...
Rather that it cannot be said simply "by construction" when the calibration only happens every few years. And I'm very sure that the calibration is done by sampling.
The problem is allowing arbitrary numbers of unary operators. If you allowed ++ increment it would be trivialized even easier. Could even do all complex numbers with only 2 twos.
I've stayed at a Yoga school for up to 6 months straight.

Best part, all gadgets are locked up in a safe on arrival and returned when you leave.

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What’s the alternative to ICANN?
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I do understand the situation, thank you for the light insult, but I do go to the doctor in the US and in the both your first and second examples I've had my own different experience than you.