skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is confusing two things, intentionally:

1. Free speech in the public sphere includes the right of people offended by your speech to express that they are offended (to speak back). People like Toby Young (founder of the FSU), and those who decry "cancel culture" do not like this, but it is part of what constitutes genuine free expression.

2. Free speech against the government, which the government should not be allowed to punish people for, to enable a pluralistic and democratic society. E.g. someone like Mahmoud Khalil who was recently arrested for his political views on Palestine (in violation of both the principles of free speech and his rights as a green card holder).

People angry about #1 (arguing) tend to conflate it with #2 (genuine censorship), and accuse people who accuse those approximately equal (or less) in power than them as equivalent to draconian speech-controllers. People angry about #2 are pointing out a genuine power imbalance, and the damage to democratic society.

Elon Musk embodies this perfectly: he argues in favor of free speech when people tell him his opinions are objectionable, but actively censors speech on Twitter that he doesn't like. In one situation, he simply wants people to receive his speech without speaking back, in another, he wants to stifle discussion.

Speech is not a unidirectional activity. In order for it to be valuable and protected, the act of speaking in public is the act of listening to criticisms of what you say.
Isn't that more correlation than causation, though? The kind of person who's not keeping up with the current new tech hotness isn't going to be looking at AI or modern frameworks; and conversely the kind of person who's dabbling with AI is also likely to be looking at other leading-edge tech stuff in their field. That seems to me more likely to be the cause of what you're seeing than that the act of using AI/LLMs itself resulting in candidates improving their knowledge and framework awareness.
Why would it have been?
Kagi and Proton here
The Chunnel is rail only.
As someone who builds industrial/scientific machines, the consumer oriented devices that Apple makes are completely unusable for me. Locking down completely capable computing devices seems like such a waste. I'm also not a fan of how Apple controls devices and the market of software after the device has changed owner. I'm staying the hell away from this ecosystem. Not sure why many so-called "hackers" are so enthusiastic about these "hood-welded-shut" systems.
Yeah, and its leadership held to account; for some reason the results of the investigation was that a number of individuals were marked as suspect, while IMO the entire military leadership all the way up the chain should be held accountable.

I really hope this war ends, and ends up with Russia paying for repatriations, including this case.
When I read

> Europe bets on supercomputing sovereignty

I'm laughing and dying inside. Europe has forfeited all possibilities on creating their own chips, partially because of production regime, partially because we were never good in this subject. At the moment the war is already lost (yes, I consider any negotiation for resources a war, whether in law creation or in movement of forces). Therefore, we're condemned to rely on China's supplies, and chips supplied by China will have this

https://www.techspot.com/news/107073-researchers-uncover-hid...

which defies idea of sovereignty at all.
I'm always sad that very successful European companies got fully incorporated in the US: datadog, algolia, dataiku, dashlane, etc.

Also it seems to be missing some techs company: pigment, aircall, contentsquare (but not sure if it's a mistake)
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It's not personal information, and it's not random people. It is the government email addresses of government employees, and yes, that should be public, as is the case for all other government employees at every level.

If it were something personal like a home address or phone number, that would be different.
I'm under the same impression. Llama.cpp's readme used to start with "Apple Silicon as a First Class Citizen", and IIRC Georgi works on Mac himself.
> I think the control should be in the hands of the public. Stewarded by a public organization with government funds. What do you think?

I don't know. I think today the EU could set up EUBrowser, a fork of Chromium, and start work. Almost all the hard work has been done by OSS contributions. Google engineers, and Google-funded things such as Firefox. They could live off that comfortably while providing a more locked-down browser if they liked.

A more meaningful, less parasitic option would take longer: the EU (or whomoever) writes a browser from scratch. Then they could decide exactly what goes into it, and have independent input into standards etc.
First, taking you at face value: it's not clear we did that yet.
Second, this is ridiculous. Trusting an until-this-point-mostly-trustworthy ally is not spineless (although I guess it might be naive).
I suppose they're being pedantic in that the Channel Tunnel only carries rail traffic.
The Elon Musk Way: Move Fast and Destroy Democracy
What do you mean, some Irish reference? Oh I see, I answered to myself;)
UpCloud is really good!
I’m more inclined to think it’d be a direct beeline for moscow with a swarm of jets (kinda like what Russia tried, only successful). Nobody in Russia has any appetite for this war and they’ll take an out when it’s given to them.
If even half of this is true, I wonder what the future of HN is? THis
forum is backed by Ycombinator, a US based "investment" company. Do
they have plans to relocate to friendlier climes?
Thank you. I read that the tunnel "will link Denmark and Germany" and I had to check a map to confirm that yes, they are already linked. By land. By a lot of land. You're not experiencing memory loss.
This one is interesting because the white house article links to a cnn article that shows how the white house article is disinformation.
But do planes not have these fancy laser gyroscopes- so accurate, they have to correct in software for earth and the solar system moving?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope

Why is GPS relevant here?
There wasn't a lot of surprise when they had that accident.
You really think law would be such a highly sought-after and highly-compensated field if it was that easy?
America loves investing in risky ventures, and startups love money so they go to fish where the fish are.

If Europe would invest into local startups instead of propping up the real estate bubble, they wouldn't sell themselves to the US for money. Our downfall is by our own design here.

Governments don't create startups but they can 100% create the right legal, monetary and tax incentives to steer private capital and workers towards them, but as long as they are steered towards protecting the interests of gentrified land owners and those of 100-year-old companies, nothing will ever change and we'll just stare at how US and Chinese companies are overtaking us.
While I do find it an interesting exercise to reflect over my own choices of products and services and consider how I could divest myself from relying on ones provided by US companies (and I do agree Europe is too reliant on the US in some regards), it is a bit sad to see how quickly things are spiraling here. People really love to have a clear enemy...
Food normally has amounts <1mg. Even fortified juices are <5mg. You'd have to really try hard to make any difference with them.
I suspect people are upset a because transparent government agencies, which included contact information for their employees, are being harassed, blocked, and shutdown by a dubious body which itself lacks transparency, despite claims otherwise. In short, it's hipocrisy.
Just like C. Programming as God intended.
Porsche loves to underpromise and overdeliver on their stats. The Taycan's EPA range is 318 mi, but Out of Spec tested one [0] to 367 mi @ 70mph in chilly weather.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAccv8Wuoys
Tesla is (in)famous for making unrealistic promises, and not delivering on them.
> At the moment the war is already lost

the war against whom?
He is far too alive for us to worry about that.

(Luckily, these posts are explicitly datestamped .. !)
And they have for years now. Invaded / occupied Crimea with a slap on the wrist at best. International cybercrime for at least 15 years now, probably longer, but they get plausible deniability because it's not officially state doing it (even though we know they are).

But outside of Ukraine, none of it crosses physical borders; the sabotage of undersea cabling is all done in international waters, the internet is some kind of free for all as well, etc.

What should have happened is that the international community stepped up and sent a clear message, like "Russia will be cut off from the internet if they do not stop their digital attacks". Boundaries mean nothing if there are no consequences to violating them.
They are used for different things. If you are doing paid marketing or other more or less complex marketing Plausible doesn’t cut it.
Greenland? Weirdly, Greenland is part of Denmark but _not_ part of the EU. Still the greatest US realignment in regard to Europe since the war.
All great points. I try to de-google mostly from a personal perspective (though still haven't gotten off Maps or Android). I use loads of Google products at work though because I'm not the decision maker there.
> Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe!

Always.

hug
It's bad when Russia is doing it, but no mention of Israel jamming a big part of the land during the war
It doesn't mention "banner" because it doesn't prescribe the exact user interface. But people seeking to comply often choose the banner as a solution.
I would love to get rid of fonts and layouts.

As for video and audio, they could be done better AND more simply than the typically are at the moment.
> The scale and mature feature sets of US based cloud providers outweigh the benefits of keeping it within European ownership for most commercial organizations.

That's what companies thought about manufacturing in China. But that was before they found out the costs of corruption and loss of trade secrets. If you're a fantastically succesfuly European company, what's to stop Trump (or any future president) just deciding you're too big and need to be sold to "an american investor"?

It is high time for companies and banks to invest only where democracy thrives because when you invest where it doesn't, your investment simply ends up being controlled by gangsters. This might benefit you for a while. But eventually, it won't.
You could write this in C, no?

{ int val; if (getFoo(&val)) {
...
}}

Both ways of expressing this are weird, but stating that this can't be achieved with C is dishonest in my opinion.
> everyone loses everything

Exactly. Which is why I need to be perfectly willing to start one, because the alternative is that only I lose everything.
It seems they are also diversifying their investments into other climate impact projects like solar (see some of the projects here: https://blog.ecosia.org/climate-projects/).
I think it's important that we _do_ also include China in this. It's not just that Trump has demonstrated that the US is unreliable. We have also seen (again) that sociopaths in charge of authoritarian regimes can do things that are perfectly capable of acting against their own economic interests for political, cultural, religious reasons.

Depending on global interconnectedness of markets has not and will not save us. We need to divest and disconnect from all economies which are not reliable liberal democracies which broadly share our values.

I would include in this Hungary: We should be giving serious thought to how to kick them out of the EU.
I'll have to benchmark a library-less Matmul with LFortran, to compare against flang, C, and python versions.

Roughly: 8, 12, 18 units of time, respectively. Python only being twice as slow for the simplest matmul - how much of that is merely the interpreter startup time?
Spamming random employees gov e-mails on the internet is a disservice to tax payers money to put it lightly.

> that should be public, as is the case for all other government employees at every level.

And I'll ask again: is there a law for that other than being able to request a FOIA?
Im not particularly fussy if it's EU or European.
The idea is more to get insight if it's just a dropshipper/reseller type of business, or involved in regional manufacturing.
> It seems to me that "vibe checks" for how smart a model feels are easily gameable by making it have a better personality.

I don't buy that at all, most of my use cases don't involve model's personality, if anything I usually instruct to skip any commentary and give the result excepted only. I'm sure most people using AI models seriously would agree.

> My guess is that it's most of the reason Sonnet 3.5.1 was so beloved. Its personality was made much more appealing, compared to e. g. OpenAI's corporate drones.

I would actually guess it's mostly because it was good at code, which doesn't involve much personnality
Yeah, that's why I mentioned "typically" - there's always going to be someone processing things differently, or naturally at high levels.
Unfortunately I don't see the reparations coming about without the war getting much, much larger first, like a EU-NATO ground invasion of Russia. Which violates a whole load of red lines and would get a lot of people killed. But maybe Russia will force it to happen regardless.

(what is happening is turning the asset freeze into asset seizure, but this is complicated - rightly - by human rights law, because most of the assets are nominally private)
Parent wasn’t using it as an analogy though, they were saying it is ironic we were afraid of the state doing that when subtler corporate means are what we ended up with.

I don’t know if it is ironic, though — maybe more of an Orwellian inoculation that pushed the problem elsewhere.
The frontend is always going to be a pain since you have to deal with JS in some form, and a culture of ever increasing complexity until people give up and rewrite everything and throw away years of work.

When you have Go, I don't see how switching to JS/TS comes with any benefit on the backend.

At some point I would have liked to meet people who struggle using Go on the backend and learn what their process is and how they structure things. I've written quite a few backend systems in Go for a variety of domains (anything from PKI systems to industrial automation and various real-time streaming systems). Surely people who struggle must either do something that is very different from what I do, or be sensitive to entirely different issues than I am.
That time is now, thankfully the consumer protection organizations and car testing organizations stepped up and will / should now test in a standardized fashion an electric car's driving range and slap them on the wrist if it's much different from their advertised amount.
Are there differences between what non-profits are allowed to do in Germany vs the US?

I'm assuming that German has stricter rules, but I wouldn't know.
Don't forget about on-prem / private cloud:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_CloudStack

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_cloud_computing_infras...
> And somehow in all of this, people on one side are forgetting the numerous attempts at assasination. And the successful assasination of a CEO.

Has the side you're thinking of pardoned the (would be/alleged) assassins? Or perhaps mounted a coup attempt, blamed others for failing to suppress it sooner, then called it a "day of love"?
Pantograph a fluid and typed structural editor
I know you weren’t expecting a serious response, but Tesla does use Git. They actually use a fairly standard version of GitHub enterprise.
Thanks! I know it's controversial but it has taught me a lot about building with AI, as well as the legal and copyright parts.
I experimented with a number of prompt styles this was an example of one I used on Midjourney:

"Vector line art, icon of a flower, cute and minimalistic, made with bold outline, white background --stylize 400"
Advertisement doesn't (shouldn't?) fall under free speech though, it's not an individually held opinion etc etc.
It should be easy.
If author is here you should remove any mentions of "ch00se your 0wn adventure" and also it's 4 letter acronym. The trademark owner goes very aggressively after it. Use user generated adventures or something similar.
Their website is confusing. So it's a non-profit for planting trees.. that's also a search engine? How are those two things at all related or have any benefit to being combined into one company?
White House is becoming a kindergarten
No, free speech means you can spread lies, it implies nothing about being immune to consequences.
Commercial air travel is very risk-averse. Best practice is that if something unexpected occurs, and you have plenty of fuel to spare, you go and and find someplace else to land.
I hope it's not vulnerable to anchor drag 'accidents'.
I'm now picturing a customer support that can send henchmen to convince you that, "no, we never advertised 500m of autonomy, and your range did not drop unexpectedly while you were driving, and anyway the car was fully self-driving itself into that tree - we have logs and data and signed ToC to prove ourselves, now please sit down on this chair so we can strap you and use this big red hammer to protect your free speech."

And it' supposed to sound ridiculous and Terry Gilliam-esque, but it's now eerily realistic...
Switzerland and the UK will always be honorary Europeans.

{hug emoji}
Apologies I hit my Cloudflare limit and being based in Europe didn't see it until this morning.
I think just having servers in an azure data center in the EU is different from proper sovereignty products.

These sovereignty products I don't think are just a check-box you can tick to get it, they're separate things and probably cost the earth too.

Only officially public one that I know of: e.g. https://www.s3ns.io/en (but I hear whispers of others)
All modern business is built on trust, since Americans are keen on throwing that out the door now, every EU business is going to re-evaluate who to trust.

Which means, no longer trusting American.
In Canada, there's a big push for buying Canadian given the Trump trade war, and especially avoiding products from the US. A kitchen store I went into over the weekend had little red maple leaf stamps on the price tags of Canadian products and the provincial liquor store in Ontario has pulled US products from shelves (though that's more of a marketing stunt by the populist Premier). Many Canadian-owned businesses have added logos at the top of their webpages (I noticed Canada Computers and Memory Express over the last few days, as I was browsing for graphics cards).
Cheap LED light bulbs...
Could you be more specific? As far as I know, they have bunch of features like funnels, goals, revenue attributions etc.: https://plausible.io/docs/top-referrers
Did similar movements had a measurable impact? Asking because I have the impression that boycott movements are ineffective, but I never verified that.
Substitute EU with EU+norway/switzerland/UK/etc

The idea is whether the company has some loophole where the profits are registered in some offshore island in order to avoid taxes, as well as how big part of the product is actually made in europe as opposed as in X non-european country. I have seen a lot of products advertised as being products of the native country when they are actually rebranded chinese products or whatever (I have no issue with chinese products, but if the point is to know which products are european products this is important information).
Here is my idea: placing the ads somewhere on the page where it doesn't block the user flow.
I believe submarines navigate long distances using INS. I don’t know how accurate it is, or how often they have to make corrections using other data. But ballistic missile submarines can’t really use active sonar or surface with any frequency, so I’m not sure what other method they’d use.
Nice reference. I think the layout could stand to be more compact and fit more keys on the screen.

Also don't forget to add in the excellent vim-surround for editing braces and parentheses, I was pleasantly surprised to find it installed by default in the VSCode vim plugin, not that I stuck with VSCode but it was worth trying out.

>> decided to sell my soul and use NeoVim

If you really wanted to make a deal with the devil, you'd try out Evil mode in Emacs with Spacemacs.
And yet the website is hosted on AWS :')

Quite telling, this would be an ideal case for Scaleway/OVH/anyone else.
Switzerland hugs back
Ah I see, my bad will update. Thank you!
You’ve gotta have a series of timed vaults that give access to precious metals every few generations.
Of course not, the extinction of the human race would suck.

But when you are talking about nuclear threats there is no other way to respond if you don’t want everything taken from you.

If you constantly back down by giving the playground bully your lunch money he’ll keep coming back for more. Punch him in the face however, and…
I know that it's not in the cards (yet), but I hope the UK and the EU can be a single market again (even if the UK does not rejoin the EU). Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! We love the UK and you are part of the European family :hugs:.
Sometimes I daydream about a world where GPUs just have the equivalent of LPCAMM and you could put in as much RAM as you can afford and as much as the hardware supports, much like is the case with motherboards, even if something along the way would bottleneck somewhat. It'd really extend the life of some hardware, yet companies don't want that.

That said, it's cool that you can even get an L4 with 24 GB of VRAM that actually performs okay, yet is passively cooled and consumes like 70W, at that point you can throw a bunch of them into a chassis and if you haven't bankrupted yourself by then, they're pretty good.

I did try them out on Scaleway, the pricing isn't even that exorbitant, using consumer GPUs for LLM use cases doesn't quite hit the same since.
Web-based simulation tool for non-relativistic quantum mechanics (2016)
Web-based Simulation tool (made in 2016) for non-relativistic quantum mechanics. The split-operator method for the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation is used to simulate the propagation of a Gaussian wave packet in arbitrarily adjustable potentials.
Which effects? Why should a taxpayer care?
Rowhammer leads to bits flipping in inaccessible memory locations just by reading the content of nearby memory locations that are attacker-accessible. We developed a framework to check if your system is vulnerable to Rowhammer, incorporating state-of-the-art Rowhammer techniques and tools. We invite everyone to participate in our large-scale study.
There's also a browser extension: https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean

(btw: codeberg is the European alternative to Github)