skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s cynical and edgy, but misses the mark. There are several reasons why rules tend to be more specific about the outcomes than the ways to get there.

This decreases the attack surface for loopholes. What is desirable is the end result, not the technical details.

The law is actually clearer because the intent is clearly spelt out. The point of the law is to protect privacy, not cover every screen with cookies banners.

This leaves room for different implementations and flexibility (yay, competition).

It makes the law more resilient, because it does not need to be re-engineered every time anything happens. 10 years from now, even if cookies and banners have completely vanished, the core of the law will still be relevant.

This is why debates about the spirit and the letter of laws translate poorly across the Atlantic. Different places have different approaches.
Stack traces are underrated, unless you're developing EnterpriseJavaSingletonFactoryAbstractionFactoryFactories, in which case they're buffer overflows on your poor log analyzer
The unfortunate thing is that more than any other service, email feels like the one on which I cannot risk to compromise reliability. This sort of story (thank you for sharing) unfortunately fits with my own experience managing my University's undergraduate society's local email server. Non-stop headaches and complete indifference from every group which affects your setup.
you say the climate is decided by hard science. You mean the models say it's decided, right?

I just want to be clear what you mean by hard science.
We have legal structures with which to make statements like this about nonprofit status, structures which bind the promise so that we don't have to take your word on it.
>If you don’t have goals, though… god help you.

Lots of people have goals, both winners and losers.

It's much better to focus on process and let the chips fall where they may.
It's time to look for an European HN alternative.
The parent example can be made clearer like this: https://godbolt.org/z/MKWbz9W16

Dead code elimination only works here because integer overflow is UB.
> However today, with the latest, surprisingly good reasoning models like QwQ-32B using up thousands or tens of thousands of tokens in their replies, performance is getting more important than previously and these systems (Macs and even RTX 3090s) might fall out of favor, because waiting for a finished reply will take several minutes or even tens of minutes.

3090 is the last gen to have proper nvlink support, which is supported for LLM inference in some frameworks.

Would 1x 5090 be faster than 2x 3090?
> I grew up believing that our officials should strive to be role models.

They are striving to be role models, and they are role models for their followers, and this is clearly visible in changea in social interactions...
the right wing's case on this point is based on the fact that the government leaned upon facebook and google to remove or downrank any views during the pandemic that didn't align with government policy, including anything about covid having gotten loose from a lab that was doing gain of function research under the auspices of one A. Fauci. That actually is the sort of suppression of free speech that might lead a very low information voter to think that a fascist dictatorship was going to ensure freer speech going forward.
Why don't you comment on your main account? FOH.
None of this is necessary to have an authoritarian government. Just some lawsuits and government inquiries.

Inversely you can also have a government that collects everything and doesn’t wield it this way.

The two issues are not actually that intertwined.
I think it’s important to look at the issue as a systemic one, not just about the current administration.

For decades, we have delegates all this legal authority to the president with few real checks on the offices power.

Eventually a Trump/Musk would happen.
> "Give me the man and I will give you the case against him" [0]

And in the opposite direction as well, where someone is probably guilty of something and prosecution is held back if they're on the 'right side', e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._Department_of_Justic...

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

People think of authoritarianism as going after someone, which was prevalent in the 20th century; but it can also be protecting (and enriching) your friends, which has become popular in 21st century regimes.
Do you think the United States isn't a democracy?

I mean, it isn't. It's a constitutional republic, but answer the question.
Because ad revenue can be used for the non-profit? Ecosia's whole thing is that when you use it, you indirectly help plant trees - "the search engine that plants trees".
As a European citizen, I'd say, indeed, I gladly consume Canadian products.

Furthermore, Canada should apply for EU or EEA membership.
> Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible!

That would be the rational and sensible solution. This may be why it’s unlikely to happen. I would be happy to be wrong.
Based on what's being commented here - some absolutely will. And sitting on the eastern border of EU, that truly scares me.
I mean, it's particularly unfortunate for Tesla that Musk decided to go crazy in a very public way _right now_ (he's been like this forever, of course, but until recently you had to be Very Online to notice; it wasn't on the news every day); it's at a time when it is, in any case, facing increased pressure from competitors. There's some aspect of a combination of factors; likely neither on their own would produce such a large effect.
So does the good old Quake 2 rendering API. The game exported a bunch of functions to the renderer via refimport_t and the renderer in return provided functions via refexport_t. The only visible symbol in a rendering DLL is GetRefAPI_t: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2/blob/master/client/re...

I remember being impressed by this approach, so I shamelessly copied it for my programming game: https://github.com/dividuum/infon/blob/master/renderer.h :)
> Not only could that not match your real gender,

If it doesn't, choose the other or closest option. It's unlikely there isn't one.

> there are places where IDs allow for more than those two options.

Sure, like here in NYC. That's really more of a personality thing IMO, which gets conflated with sex. Wherever necessary, things still reduce down to a binary choice, with the rest being details.
I'm not sure how much that's creating outsized income for the founder...

There are between 98 (2022 annual report number) and 120 (ZoomInfo) and 133 (LinkedIn number). German filings are notoriously opaque vs Europe or UK.

So that's 637k EUR / 120 employees (although the payroll number jumps around between 450 and ~640 - weird, but who knows, # of employees shifting around or some paid quarterly or on commission?).

That's around 5,300 EUR / month per employee, or 64k / year. Germans notoriously don't work on the cheap - so unlikely that everyone else is working below market to line the CEO's pockets.

That said - they are still a profit seeking enterprise (another commenter noted that they aren't gGMBH - but also they set up a Feeder fund in January - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1999332/000199933224...)

Which presumably CAN be profit seeking.

So yeah - it doesn't invalidate their mission - if you're into that - but it's not 100% of what it says on the tin.

Also - monthly financial statements may be a German thing (sorry, I actually quite like Germany and Germans - just German company law is quite cumbersome) - but annual statements would give a clearer and more transparent picture.
The ACSH is not a credible source of unbiased reporting, in any sense.
Where do you belong, system researchers?
Saw a video from Bolt Graphics, a startup trying to do that among other things. Supposedly they'll have demos at several conventions later this year, like at Hot Chips.

I think it's an incredibly tall order to get into the GPU game for a startup, but it should be good entertainment if nothing else.
Don't forget the 800 billion euros for defense!
> A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them.

Kudos to the students who were not only aware of this general risk (not just under the current regime, but in many societies), and acted to improve their situation.

Next, they should look at how they're under almost ubiquitous technological surveillance, with little-to-no protections. And now there's emerging "AI" methods to automate harvesting insights from the ubiquitous surveillance fire hoses, and also to automate actions to suppress enemies of the regime. And if you look around, at the pace we're going, it's very easy to believe this will start happening within a year. Maybe they'll decide that one of the best defenses for national security that could happen right now is to cut off the surveillance data wherever possible.
Communism gave my parents and (younger) me free Education, free Healthcare and very cheap Housing, I don't care about its supposed totalitarianism, I just want that back, can I?
I don't think anyone loves this but it's the most rational response to the threats made by the US government against its former allies.
Why would you want to wipe Russia off the map? I don’t think we’d achieve anything with that except our own destruction. I’d settle for giving them a good punch in the face instead of strongly worded letters.

Asassinate Putin, a sponsored coup. Something like that.

Good vs evil is simplistic enough that It can be used to convince basically anyone that those are a good idea. The only thing we really have to be wary of is that thing someone said:

The only thing that’s necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
No top level domain alternatives? Org, com, net, gov, mil are US TLDs.
My ID says D for "diverse". Equivalent to X in the US.

What now?
Sure. My microwave from 1988 is about the only thing made in the US in my home (interstingly an Electrolux). However, every purchase I make is with a Visa card. Most services I use are American. And as I'm typing this... anyone know a European alternative to SwiftKey? :P
It is weak to not recognise the change that has happened. It has been telegraphed for many years.

What has happened in the US could happen to us and we must prevent that while we hope that more sensible people eventually prevail there.
It's to discourage the US from escalating the tariff war, which in the end always hurt consumers. People in the US are already paying that insane choice, but I don't hold my breath waiting for GOP voters to reconsider their choice: propaganda is a powerful weapon, and we're struggling against it also over here.
This reminds me of the twitter conversation I saw - someone cheering on the dismantling of US meteorological service, because they have weather apps on their phone.
Of course, the use of the term 'preferred gender' is the issue here (I don't mean with your reply), since to trans people such as myself, it's literally who we are.

Imagine someone that has transitioned and passes as the sex they identify as, now only having the option of getting a passport as the sex they were assigned as birth.

Practically, for many, that simply isn't an option.
Canned response: `There's probably no word in the $LANG_TARGET that shares etymological roots with $WORD_SOURCE in $LANG_SOURCE, so it'll have to be placed in a sentence, and then translated. Otherwise it will be garbage in garbage out. This applies to any words in any languages that aren't close siblings of one another and/or combinations of languages that has not enough traffic across.`
The difference between US and Europe:

- In Europe, getting funding is literally like pulling teeth. Just to get a measly hundred thousands of € in funding you're expected to provide a comprehensive business plan, financials, etc. that would rival M&A due diligence other places. In Silicon Valley you can get more funding by simply meeting the right angel investor, and providing a good pitch - done deal.

- In Europe, the end goal for many startups is to be acquired by some megacorp or market leader, for something like €10m-€50m. In the US you can multiply that number by 10 or 100, or in general have ambitions of developing the startup into a unicorn.

That was at least how things used to be. US has a long, long history of (risk willing) VC investments - while European countries have been lagging far behind.

Good VC cultures have developed in some European countries for the past 10-15 years, and startups have become more ambitious, but unfortunately there's still a culture of nickel and diming startups. And the places that rob you, will fund you maybe a month or two worth of capital.

EDIT: Should be said, that I'm also from Europe. And as someone else have pointed out in this thread, Europeans hate risk.
In this case, "in the EU" is a shorthand for "in the single market", "in the customs union", or "in the EEA (plus Switzerland)".

High-level discussions rarely go down to this level of detail, and from the point of view of the consumers it is not very relevant. What matters is coupling with the US or China, and the relevant regulations.
Archived: https://archive.ph/GrdkJ
It's sad and depressing what's happening.

And even more depressing is how little fight there seems to be, and how spineless many are.

From politicians to big tech and just most people: They sit down quietly, hoping this will just blow over, or that someone else will take the fight so they don't have to.

Don't make it easy! Don't do their job for them! Don't self-censor. Make them show their cards! If not, by the time you're ready to fight, it might be too late to do anything.
You likely still identify as masc or femme in some sense, so chose the closest option.

My point is simply that there is likely a 'closest option'. Obviously people don't have to use any service they feel doesn't cater to them, but when a service doesn't always offer more than the binary it doesn't have to always be a "woe is me, how could I ever proceed" scenario.
I like DeepL, but without Catalan, it has less value.
> I think the only people who care about this are people who care about politics in the first place or didn't already like Elon, which isn't everyone and probably not the majority.

... You think the majority of people don't care about Nazi salutes? I mean, certainly if we're talking Europe, yeah, sorry, the majority of people do care about Nazi salutes.

I think, also, that the kind of sneering, what would you call it, implausible deniability maybe, thing the US far-right like to do where they do something outrageously and then smugly deny that they did it, works less well in Europe (I'm not sure why Americans are so tolerant of it, tbh).
For context, I did not pick that type signature at random. It was in actual code that was shipping to customers. If I remember correctly there was some sort of bool -> int -> char -> std::string path via `operator()` conversions and constructors that allowed it to compile, though I can't remember what the value was (probably "\x01").

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My experience with the C/C++ optimizer is that it's fairly timid, and only misbehaves when the input code is really bad. Pretty much all of the (many, many) bugs I've encountered and/or written in C would have also existed if I'd written directly in assembly.

I know there are libraries out there with build instructions like "compile with -O0 or the results will be wrong", but aside from the Linux kernel I've never encountered developers who put the blame on the compiler.
>In a sense, what humans actually care about is the derivative of their state.

I suspect humans mostly care about the delta between their state and that of their friends and neighbours. It takes a great deal of fortitude to ignore the fact that those around you are materially richer.
There's also more than just two sexes. Bunch of people with more than two chromosomes around.
I see an even bigger problem with Wikipedia.

How long time will it be before they are pressured to censor or change articles?

Will they even have the power to move?
> People forget what free speech really is though. The most important point is a contract with the government: that they hold a monopoly on the ability to censor and control speech. That any other group who threatens anyone for their speech must be dealth with using even hand of the force of law by the government/legal regime

WHAT?

This is literally the EXACT OPPOSITE of free speech, at least as it is defined in America. The 1st Amendment SPECIFICALLY AND SOLELY prevents the government from putting its thumb on the scales.

Private parties are necessarily allowed to respond to speech with whatever other speech they wish to use, including utilizing their rights to free association (or non-association) in response to what you say.

This is absolutely 100% backwards. I highly suggest reading some basic American civics material or something.
How does that help us figure out what to do now?
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> Mobs suppressing your free speech is never ok

Of course it is sometimes ok. There is no absolute here. It's neither always nor never. If it's never okay, then it is "tyranny of the majority". If it is always ok, then it is "minority rule".
Like a lot of countries, the constitutional set of checks and balances was predicated on the fact that the majority of those involved were basically trying to "do the right thing". It's effectively a state-level gentleman's agreement, where it is assumed that any bad actor is in the minority, and can be dealt with while they remain the minority.

This falls apart if they're not the minority - i.e. you failed to deal with them while they were a minority. There were levers designed expressly to deal with things like this - impeachment, etc. - they weren't used because one side thought that it would play out in their favour. As they will probably learn, it plays out in nobodies favour.
Is there any European alternative for Hacker News? And if yes, what's its URL/web address?

Preferable in French or Italian, or maybe even German, which I wanted to learn for a long time and this would be a good enough motivation, because, and with all due respect to the Irish, having a continent-wide conversation in a language natively spoken by only ~5 million of its own people is not very conductive to the forming of an European spirit.
I mean if you're a lawyer and took a client ten years ago this administration doesn't like you might end up with an EO naming you nineteen times and all but declaring you an enemy of state.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addr...
It has optional cryptographic signatures of the navigation message, i.e. the data indicating position of satellites.

Spoofing generally works not by altering the navigation message, but by altering the timing of arriving signals. I'd recommend this video for a publicly-available overview of the techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAjWJbZOq6I

tl;dr Galileo spoofers exist and work just fine.
... And if you're intersex, what then?
People vote for a candidate’s vibes but they can change their minds if a better candidate comes along!
ORMs tend to make things more complicated and usually slower. I'd recommend using SQLX. It is a nice half-way point. It eliminates most boilerplate, is going to be sufficiently performant for 99% of cases, and it reduces a lot of cases down to between 1 and 5 lines of code for simple CRUD operations. (Where it isn't fast enough you can easily fall back to using the SQL drivers directly.
An AI Agent That Can See Gorillas
Oh absolutely - both are already quite apparent.
It is specifically with these smaller projects, not something like Linux or Chromium, that AI can accelerate. In particular, companies would probably not bother using an (A)GPL'd library, and would instead recreate them from scratch with help from AI. I don't have specific evidence for this, though.
They can be on both? Lots of users on reddit to reach.
I recently bumped into an Albert Camus quote which seems appropriate:

> You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Yes, I misread -- thank you. I thought it began with "how is this" and not "how is there".
To add some nuance about the US’s 1st Amendment: it is not just speech against the government that is protected. It is that all speech is protected from the government.

The government also is not allowed to imprison you or threaten you for speech about another private party, for example.
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Nobody seriously claims that Europe should be self-sufficient in everything and isolated from the rest of the world. It’s ok to simultaneously 1) try to make things better, and 2) still talk to Americans or use American products (same for China). Discussing alternatives does not imply burning bridges.

I am just going to leave this here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
Did the EU not have tariffs before Trump? How about Canada? Or China? Or Mexico? Are tariffs ok as long as it isn’t Trump?
It's also a perfectly natural reaction that is built into many people's biology.
(Rant sorry)

While i'm from EU and I support the movement, after I looked over some numbers it is hard to ditch something like Amazon. 1st thing for me are the prices and monthly I can save at least 100 Euros just from shopping on deals. Second Amazon employs 150k people across EU and this is not a low number (how about them?).

Yes we need alternatives but the rich EU guys also have to invest some. Sometimes I feel that average Joe needs to support the "movement" while rich just mid their own business.

Same goes also with local producers: "support local farmers!". ME: "but the price difference is almost double form Kaufland/Lidl/Carrefour/etc for the same thing!"
Sorry, I'm not in a position to just spend more just because...
While I don't disagree with that observation, it falls into the "well, duh!"-category for me. The models are build with no mechanism for long term memory and thus suck at tasks that require long term memory. There is nothing surprising here. There was never any expectation that LLMs magically develop long term memory, as that's impossible given the architecture. They predict the next word and once the old text moves out of the context window, it's gone. The models neither learn as they work nor can they remember the past.

It's not even like humans are all that different here. Strip a human of their tools (pen&paper, keyboard, monitor, etc.) and have them try solving problems with nothing but the power of their brain and they'll struggle a hell of a lot too, since our memory ain't exactly perfect either. We don't have perfect recall, we look things up when we need to, a large part of our "memory" is out there in the world around us, not in our head.

The open question is how to move forward. But calling AI progress a dead end before we even started exploring long term memory, tool use and on-the-fly learning is a tad little premature. It's like calling quits on the development of the car before you put the wheels on.