skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern computer was invented in Britain, we have ARM, designers of the most popular chip architecture in the world and make things like Raspberry Pi. We've got the ability but not the ambition. The attitude of "we'll design the chips, others can do the scary bit of building them"/"we'll publish the paper and others can monetize it"/"We'll make a fun little toy for research, but we'll let the americans make the commercial version" attitude is absolutely endemic here.
Guess what:

A US Senate Committee has just directly asked,

“is Trump a Russian asset”?

https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s

[via Forbes]
I'm quite surprised that they use a secure exclave to control the physical camera LED - this is absolutely massive overengineering to do something very simple.

A tiny bit of hardwired dedicated logic integrated into the camera module would be more than adequate to do this - just gating of either the digital I/O or the power to the camera, and a pulse-stretcher so the LED goes on for at least a few seconds each time to prevent an attack by rapidly flicking the camera logic on and off.

A similar circuit for the microphone with a different-coloured physical LED - not just a software-controlled dot on the screen - would be a good idea too.
Trump agreed on TV, that he believed meta’s capitulation was out of fear of him.

For the country of free speech, to have not even noticed a threat to a media company? How is America in a position to say anything to anyone?
I sincerely hope you are joking. But if you are not, are you against democracy in undeveloped or developing countries, then? Do you think apartheid was right to not give black people votes because they weren't "developed" enough? Do you think British colonialism was right because the "savages" weren't capable of ruling themselves well?
That's a shame. There are many UK cloud providers, who would work - what do you need, I'd be happy to make suggestions?
I'm not a lawyer but Company using Plausible gets fined, but then they can sue Plausible. most likely.

But GDPR enforcement is more like 'you need to fix this, if you don't you get the fine' - if you are actually helpful and do your duty to improve the process the fine is usually reduced.
well, lemme try again.

the US is a representative democracy, as far as "democratic" goes. a true democracy would be a 1:1 voter:vote, but that's untenable. most people interpret democracy to mean that the people have a say in government, but in the US, it's the constitution that limits the government and certifies our rights to complain at the government. That's why the US is a Constitutional Republic.

The implication of the person i was replying to was that the US is not a democracy, and i wanted to see what the reasoning was there. As i said, it isn't, but i am unsure if any country is an actual democracy. So it's a way to mess with the framing of an argument.

I wanted to know why that person implied the US wasn't. that's all.

btw, the word "democratic" and the like is loaded. Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I was a huge Firefox supporter, but then Mozilla started to truly push Pocket.

Their recent update, deleting the promise to not sell their users' data, doesn't instill confidence either.

I hope that Firefox finds a new home outside of this organization, there's a fantastic piece of software somewhere in there still.
You had insane levels of checks and balances. You just never had a way to get the population to recognize a home grown propaganda campaign designed to gut your systems and overcome your intelligence.
Who Should Control Social Media?
I didn't realize what was happening and used to be a booster for Google. I still own Google stock.

But, now I'm don't like what they do as a company. I've definitely changed my mind.

I think what worries me is not what is happening now. I think about how Twitter almost died in 2016 and was very close to selling a bunch of exact location data on their users. To a cell company who wanted to know when users were going into their competitors stores. That's so nuts that two parties were actually in conversation about that. Corporate desperation is worse than a fentanyl addict, sometimes.

https://x.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700722983305216

I bring it up because if Google is broken up as the Trump administration intends to do, the world inside Google will be chaos. Anything can happen. If one of the businesses spun out of Google decides it will be best for them long term to sell my data collected ten years ago to the Belarusian secret service, what's to stop them? Nothing really is stopping them now, but in moments of chaos, really crazy unexpected things can happen. Maybe it won't be the Belarusian secret service, maybe it will be my health care company who buys some innocuous like I made on Google+ and I'll be permanently relegated to some un-insurable class of people living in Trump's America.
53 days, surely? The gleischaltung had finishing disbarring every non-NSDAP lawyer, firing every non-NSDAP judge, firing every state governor and seizing a voting majority in every state legislature in less than two months after the Enabling Act was passed.
I've noticed many large C projects resort to these sorts of OOP-like patterns to manage the complexity of the design and size of the code base. But I'm not aware of any one standard way of doing this in C. It seems C++ standardized a lot of these concepts, or C++ developers adopted standard patterns somehow.
An executive order issued January 20th.

> (b) Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.

April 20th is 90 days out from that (though it could come sooner, and it may already have—the report won’t necessarily be public, as many such reports aren’t and shouldn’t be).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/decl...

[edit] “this proclamation” here means the EO itself, or rather, the parts of it that declare a state of emergency “at the southern border”. Emergency powers are also how he’s levying tariffs without Congress.
I tried Claude Code and gave it very clear instructions to build a web based tool I wanted to build over the weekend. It did exactly that ! sure, there were some minor modifications I had to make, but it completed over 80% of the work for me.

As for the app itself, it included a simple UI built on React with custom styling and real-time support using WSS . I provided it with my brand colors and asked it to use chadcn. It also includes a Node.js-based backend with socket.io and puppeteer. I even asked it to generate a Dockerfile and Kubernetes manifests. It almost did a perfect job—the only thing I had to fix manually was updating my Ingress to support WSS.

After studying the K8s manifests, I learned a bunch of new things as well..
spent around $6 for this session and I felt that it was worth it.
Mic drop:

https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s
For what it's worth we have to stand up a UK infrastructure for UK customers and EU for EU customers, it really sucks.
I take the Copenhagen <-> Hamburg train a few times a year, and this will make a pretty major difference on the Skåne / Germany journey. Though next time I’m taking Snälltåget over night, so maybe that’s easier still?
Different platform but you can do that with this: https://replicate.com/recraft-ai/recraft-v3-svg (or on Recraft itself.)
Well, it was a strength as long as people wielding such power acted at least a bit morally and with higher purpose than their petty egos. But now it shows its weakness.

But things would have to get much much worse (and they probably will) before US population in general steps down a notch from that pedestal of 'US is the greatest and most free country in the world yadayada' and admits that well, we've fucked up and how to make sure this won't happen again.

If there would still be a way to correct all this after his term/death eventually since he won't give up power easily, which I sincerely don't think will be the case anymore.
It is now done quite often for tunnels crossing rivers - just build the tunnel in a bay next to the river, then fllod it, float the tunnel in place and sink it to the trench, then cover with ballast and cover the trench. One of the Metro river crossings in Prague is done like that.

As for longevity - it is not that different from normal tunnels. Those also need to be often heavily waterproofed due to groundwater (under quite some pressure if you are tunneling under a lot of mountains!) and various underground springs you might tunnel into. So even "regular" tunnels that are blasted or bored often first have to fill the stabilized cavity with hydro-izolation and then actually build the actual hermeticaly sealed tunnel tube inside that out of concrete.
If it is bad to use your money to legally buy yourself advantages that other people cannot afford to buy, then capitalism is bad.

Do you think capitalism is bad?
Really?

US Senate Committee:

“is Trump is a Russian asset”?

https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s

[via Forbes]
> for most commercial organizations

The overwhelming majority of commercial organizations don't even have a registered domain. They pass well under our radars because they'd never hire any of us for help.

Last one who asked me, a fertility clinic, wanted a blog, so I registered a domain for them, set up Google services (back then it was free for their org size - something like 5 people), Wordpress, their payment accounts, and that was it. Apart from e-mail and shared documents, they had zero cloud presence. If they wanted to self-host their blog (something I would discourage) they'd need nothing more than a single tiny instance behind Cloudflare.
Prices vary wildly across Europe. Countries like Serbia have absolutely insane prices for basic products that are two thirds or half the cost across the border, sold by the same companies.

As much as Europe wants to be a single market sometimes, every country has different cultures and different economic situations. Where I live Amazon is never the cheapest option (and almost never the fastest to deliver), but 20km to the east of me it's a valid competitor to many online storefronts.
Contracts for C
That is what happens in a project if you purge all opposition and a few people work on corporate projects that are supposed to succeed.

The free-threading had massive regressions (50% slower), this one has almost no speedups.

People are scared of corporate repressions or repressions from the Steering Council, so they shut up like in the Soviet Union.
The point of decorum is is that a devolution of language tends to result in an escalation of aggression which frequently ends in physical violence.

You generally don’t hear someone screaming “with all due respect I must disagree” before shooting someone.
I wore a mask every day to work and outside for over a year. It's not a big deal.
I understand that for you cheaper shipping options are important, but other people might find other things important. The EU has the capability to address multiple issues at a moment, so it should not be "instead of doing <my favorite thing to make fun of>". btw, shipping to Romania is expensive because infrastructure is still quite bad and the reliability of the national post is quite low.
PS: Bottle caps that stay attached to the bottles is great!
Love that analogy. But on the topic of your final point - I agree with you, but I do think we're rapidly approaching the era where ships of this size will be difficult to defend from a mass drone strike, easily coordinated via a combined air/surface/submerged drone swarm.

At that point, the asymmetric reward of sinking one of those large scary ships is going to be irresistible for both state and non-state actors, specifically for those same strategic and political aims.
The US isn't a consciousness, so I think it's not meaningful to ascribe choices to it. Admittedly, I kind of did in my comment! But the reality is that these changes in course are the emergent outcomes of interactions between factions with different interests influenced by individuals with different interests and the memes that are most fecund, not the choices of a shadowy puppetmaster pulling the strings from behind the scenes like a Civ 5 player. That's why it's so common for societies to take obviously self-destructive courses of action.
You will find the brown party again once you go far enough left.
Algol 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged into GCC at This Point
Distorted Information Flows and Irrationality
I'll retract that 'generally' then, and substitute it with 'always', since that's a mathematical certainty. There won't be any humans that are perfectly balanced with a completely equal distribution of all traits that we assign to one of the binary choices. Barring that, someone will always fall on one side.

Sure, though, we have the tech and ability to handle more than two, but until we get to the point where that's the norm not every situation where we don't isn't one where the sky falling.
If you are unaware that pregnancy requires a female reproductive system and that this is the process the female reproductive system in humans and most other mammals is specialized for, then I would very much recommend you learn more before attempting to discuss this topic. At the very least, please look up what a uterus is and its role in gestation.

As for your view of women being "clothes, hair and makeup", this is a remarkably sexist perspective and I would urge you to rethink your understanding on this as well.
I don't get it. What's the point of running Debian inside Android? Like what does it bring, really?
- Lazy State
- Dynamically Generic Types
- Custom Lazy List
- Directory to Folder
- UICollectionViewCell
- Clean Xcode Junk
- Reusable CI
here’s the link to the original article:
https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html

also on bluesky: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/thomwolf.bsky.social/post/3...

I believe limiting twitter’s presence is beneficial to all of us.
I do recommend IONOS as they provide cheap powerful machines with unlimited traffic.
Why do you need one company from which you buy everything? Go to idealo.de/es/fr... find what you need, compare prices and buy it from the cheapest supplier
Where are you going with this? The authority provided no evidence so noting the logical fallacy is correct here. In this scenario, people are appealing to authority because there's nothing else to count on.
> Russia was promised by the US that NATO would not expand. by someone named Baker

This is Russian propaganda. Russia claims this was promised verbally. Surely if this was something that Russia wanted why didn't they demand in writing, like they did about many other concessions made to them? The answer is that Putin made that up. It never happened.
Such a shame to see Gitlab go for gold in America rather than staying with its European basis. While Codeberg is absolutely fine in itself, I think Gitlab is a much better offering for many companies.
If they stayed in Europe they wouldn’t have been as successful.
What many Americans don't seem to understand is that the burning of political goodwill started long before Trump - he's just pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire that started with America's illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 and has been festering ever since ..
If people had the internet when shortwave was king, they would most certainly be using it.
Containers IaaS, plus managed Postgres. So far I’ve only found UK hosts that do VPS, VMs, or bare metal- the abstraction above this is (heroku, fly.io etc.) makes Ops 10x easier for smaller companies
Afaik unlike Nord stream the tunnel sections will be burried in a trench, under a lot of both rock ballast (so they don't float back up) and soil. Not impossible to breach of course, but requiring either a lot of some very serious military grade explosives (earthquake bombs, just underwater, somehow) or a very auspicious drilling rig.
Having a kill switch "just in case" really is a strategically logical move. Consider the case of Iran: In the 1960s and 1970s, the US delivered several US-built aircraft to Iran, including F-4s, F-5s, and F-14s, some of the most advanced fighters of that era. After the 1979 revolution, US-Iran relations collapsed. Despite the US cutting off spare parts and maintenance, Iran has been able to keep the aircraft operational to this day (likely through effortful reverse engineering). So now there is an adversary that is armed with equipment you provided. The obvious way to avoid that is to install a kill switch.
Not sure how it is in all fields but at least in the molecular bio world there's a lot more replication than meets the eye. Especially methods, it's just that there won't be a replication paper, it'll be in the methods/supplementary info of the new research paper ("we used xyz techniques as described in researcher et al").

Null publishing bias still exists and obviously it's not remotely a perfect system. However, it's not some sort of completely broken system where every paper is either fraud or replication, and interventions that start from that sort of an assumption (people are very aware of the need to trust but verify) are in my opinion unlikely to be useful.

If the world is at a 60/100, you need to focus on things that get you from 60 to 80, not from 0 to 20
I stand corrected. My complaints about IONOS still stand.
Why is it in the interest of the EU to work with an entity that doesn't condone concepts like democracy, due process, or the rule of law?

Shouldn't it be the mandate of liberal democracies to enable liberal democracies and to prevent authoritarian entities from growing power and reach?
> You can set the 90% in other cars too.

That has to be an option, which you need to know exists, and actively use.

Hell, bmw could expose that exact same setting the other way around, and maybe they do. But defaults are important, and from a UX perspective I think they have the better one.
Try ending sarcasm with /s
The site seems to have been HN'd:

https://archive.ph/xP8YB
>While I won't claim there are countries that are immune to the effects of persistent grifting, the speed at which US was taken over is quite surprising for a European

That's because you guys get the CNN 5min recap version of American politics and therefore you didn't see the discontent that's been brewing since the 00s when US was sufficiently annoyed with establishment types to elect a young(er than the typical federal political) black guy who ran on a platform of change.

The populists will continue to win elections until morale improves.
Unfortunately that’s the case because large US-based companies can leverage their existing global sales / marketing / governance setup to rationalize very high exit valuations. In the EU we don’t have the large software shops that can do that. So for an EU based startup - it’s exit to a US-based company or go all the way to an IPO / profitability.
Reference to Mach for historical reasons. Using IPC instead of traps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
That is a better than average benchmark page.

As alluded to in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319010, I see these tests were collected against just 2 Intel and 2 ARM CPUs. So, if you are looking for feedback to improve, you should probably also include (at least) a AMD Zen4 or Zen5 in there. CPU & compiler people have been both trying to "help perf while not trusting the other camp" for as long as I can remember and I doubt that problem will ever go away.

A couple more CPUs will help but not solve generalizability of results. E.g., if somebody tests against some ancient 2008 Nehalem hardware, they might get very different answers. Similarly, answers today might not reflect 2035 very well.

The reality of our world of complex hardware deployment (getting worse with GPUs) is that "portable performance" is almost a contradiction in terms. We all just do the best we can at some semblance of the combination. The result is some kind of weighted average of "not #ifdef'd too heavily source" and "a bit" faster "informally averaged over our user population & their informally averaged workloads" and this applies at many levels of the whole computing stack.

EDIT: And, of course, a compiled impl like Cython or Nim is another way to go if you care about performance, but I do understand the pull & network effects of the Python ecosystem. So, that may not always be practical.
>>There is no such thing as what minimum wage should be "fairly"

Nonsense.

There most definitely IS a definition of a fair minimum wage -- it is the definition used when it was originally introduced into law:

The wage necessary for a full-time (40hr/week) worker head-of-household to support a family of four above the poverty line -- spouse & kids in a house/apartment, food, medical, education, etc..

We have Walmart workers collecting $6 Billion in benefits per year to stay above the poverty line while the Waltons sit on a $250Billion fortune, it is clear we are subsidizing the rich by failing to set an above-poverty minimum wage.

EDIT: typos, add referenced line
Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor?
Labour party manifesto explained in this fresh (5 days old), official document.

It also includes context about ongoing emergency EU security meetings and the Trump administration.

No single market, no freedom of movement, unfortunately.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
Wasn't Mark David Chapman that way? He'd convinced himself that Lennon had betrayed the working class and got so worked up he killed him.
Where does Free Press source the claim that 200 professors were fired due to cancel culture? I looked on the site because I want to see the actual reasons the professors were fired (reasons can be justified) but could not find them. The linked The Fire website displays zero results for filtering by "Outcome is Termination"
> No it doesn't, all the ideas for democracy, and modern social democracy can and were arrived at independent of marxist communism.

That's incorrect. Marx was an inspiration to many later politicians and philosophers and his ideas are found in many socialist policies. Not all of them great, of course.

> State intervention in the economy is something every empire had done threw its whole history.

Yes, and that doesn't tell us anything. But for example the state directly and wholly owning and operating transit systems used by the public is very much a socialist policy.
From Spring Boot to Ruby on Rails
The Enigma of Peter Thiel (2022)
I have lots of tech conversations in my native tongue. But they don’t happen on webforums, they happen in (semi-private) chat rooms.
Trees don't need planting.

Trees need a safe place to grow without saplings getting destroyed.

But trees absolutely don't need planting. Besides, a healthy forest has to go through pioneering stages first.
Absolutely! But it was quite limited, to colleges etc. Now it's potentially all of US government employees. And, I assume, most of the private ones ?

So .. basically everyone in the US.

Maybe also people working for US companies abroad? Some of them did at least shut down DEI initiatives in Europe, so not so far fetched to think it is/will affect who they hire? "Oh, this candidate was outspoken against Trump on social media" . Of course, many places this will be seen as a good thing, so maybe it evens out, outside of the US.
Compare Musk doing my heart goes out gesture https://x.com/kingore91/status/1884580205185954045

to Musk doing the nazi like gesture https://x.com/iam_smx/status/1881583500991889729

I think there's an obvious difference.