skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need an enemy for this sort of campaign to make sense. It should be common sense to prefer local products, and even more so to avoid extreme dependencies like the one most of the West has on American tech companies.

In my view, we (Europe) have long been acting foolishly by passively sitting in the back seat and allowing the US to drive for us, thereby creating a radical dependency. This wouldn't be healthy even if the US were the most loyal ally. What Trump's antics are doing is trigger a return to what should have always been the norm.
According to carsized.com an ICE Volvo XC40 (not sure whether that's a plug-in hybrid, probably not) weighs 1580 kg, while the BEV one weighs 2040 kg. That's a difference of almost 500 kg. The BEV weighs almost 30% more, that seems pretty significant to me.

Batteries are heavy!

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/volvo-xc40-2017-suv...
The same logic applies to voting in elections. One could argue that a single vote rarely changes the outcome, so why bother participating?

Yet I believe that when enough individuals make the same choice—whether at the ballot box or with their wallets—it creates meaningful impact. Collective consumer decisions send powerful signals to companies and their leadership, just as collective voting shapes our democracy.
Sheesh, the...comments on that link.
I didn't say you advocated for anything.

I literally quoted you and said the quoted statement was straight up wrong.
I think this is useful more than just actual Europeans.

I'm an American, and my wife and I have been looking at "Made in…" labels on our products for decades. Not as a geopolitical protest; just as routine intellectual curiosity.

Over the last five years or so, we've noticed a significant shift in the locations listed on the things we buy. A lot of what we buy used to read "Made in China" (and before that shift, "Made in Mexico") but these days more and more of it is from Europe.

Sometimes it's the vague "Made in the EU," which I assume means Turkey or Romania or some other less-fashionable quarter. But increasingly, it's France and Switzerland, and the U.K.

(My personal, completely unscientific guess is that the next shift in manufacturing will be to Africa. Lots of cheap labor close to raw materials and access to both hemispheres by sea.)
I just wanted to say: respect for being able to say "sorry, I made a mistake". I hate the fake it till you make it mentality that seems to be the norm now.
Changing the app on iOS causes the WebSocket to fail, which made it so that my chat was lost. Sending new messages didn’t make me connect automatically, which is a shame.
' largest' fusion fuel facility to be built
they were but also so are current ones, it's just invisible due to layers of techniques and technologies added over time.

Maybe a good analogy would be microcomputers and home computers of 80's and 90's compared to a modern phone. Latter is absolutely miles ahead in everything but it's standing on giant stacks of work and on the face of it it's a commodity vs maybe what we had before where more artisan approach was needed throughout to get something great out of it.
I live in southern Sweden and while stopping at Bordershop and waiting for the ferry is not the worst thing in the world if you're going by car, this will be a huge improvement for traveling to Germany by train.

"Weighing in at 73,000 metric tons each, they will be as heavy as more than 13,000 elephants."

I'm pretty sure more people have an intuitive sense for how heavy a ton is compared to elephants.
Amazon is probably the easiest for me to ditch. It's not really that much cheaper, and when you include shipping it's certainly not cheaper. Shipping times are horrible, search is broken, half of everything is a scam and again, it's not that much cheaper, if at at all.

I can see that being very dependent on what you're buying though.
Is /sci/ on 4chan a real hub of traditional research and professional academia? I think I’d be confused by all the distinctions you anime fans are drawing here.
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> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country would not accept any outcome from the talks since Kyiv didn’t take part, and he postponed his own trip to the kingdom scheduled for Wednesday.

every article, when directly quoting, uses weasel words like this. "Ukraine" decided they didn't want to participate because Europe wasn't involved, or Ukraine "didn't get a paper invitation". even though Zelenskyy was supposed to be in country at the time, he decided not to.

I will source the actual facts later, but keep downvoting stuff you don't like.

Downvote this comment too, here, i'll help:

Russia was promised by the US that NATO would not expand. by someone named Baker. Stuff shifted, but under no circumstances was russia going to let Ukraine "join NATO". When Ukraine started saying they were in talks to join NATO and get their own nukes, russia perked up and started fucking with the border. Russia warned Ukraine about the murders occuring in "ethnically" russian "speaking" areas of ukraine, near the border. I bet you can name them. Russia waited eight years to actually respond to this injustice, and it was after Ukraine started talking about joining NATO. Again.

So if you are pragmatic, and you don't want an all out war in europe, you withdraw the US support for NATO. Simple as. Now you don't get to threaten russia with US forces anymore. The US doesn't want to fight Russia, and certainly not for a leader that "loses" hundreds of billions of dollars. "whoops, we can't find half of it" is bad enough when it's an amazon order, it's a lot different when you're talking about sending nearly 400,000,000,000.00 USD to ... Ukraine.

The thing that gets me though, is does anyone really believe this is all russia is capable of? moving a front line 10 meters, or a kilometer?

Europe needs to stop prepping for a war, because Europe is the most war-hungry population on the planet, historically. They can't help themselves.

The rest of the world is about to find out what it's like to not have the US backing up your stupid decisions. We, as taxpayers, are tired of paying for the EU experiment, for sabre rattling from the UK and France and Germany.

It boils down to the need to "read between the lines" and not just accept any article put forth in the last 4 years. there is a lot more nuance than "orange man bad" and "Comedian War Hero", ok?
Title is clickbait. While comic nicely explain what is terrible with Chrome, those virtue signalling headlines wont help anything.

Chrome is made by private company with terms of use that you agree with by using it. If you don't agree, don't use it. That's pretty much all you can do. Use competition and shape development by abandoning software with pathologic attitudes.

I find weird titling private companies as threat for democracy and privacy even though you are not obligated to use it. While government intervention threats are used against citizens under laws without possibility to opt-out.
The catalog of events near the beginning of the post is very valuable. The false dichotomy that runs through the post ("what if the real threat to free speech was the reactionary despot we made along the way?") is not; it is counterproductive. In the US, neither the left wing nor the right supports freedom of speech. That's how we got into this situation.
This often happens:

1. X says that A did stupid thing B!

2. Y makes fun of X because obviously A didn't do stupid thing B.

3. Z (that's you) points out that A did a thing B', that is like B, only not stupid, but technically X described it accurately if tendentiously.

How do you deal with that? I don't think the human political brain is built for this level of indirection. But realistically this will now always be a fight between X's and Y's faction, because Z's position, though true, is too complicated to fit in a soundbite.

I don't know how we get back from that. If it were truth vs lies it would be manageable, but the truth isn't even on the table because it's too big to fit into the argumentative paradigm.
What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out
Self interest is not something to be proud of.
cash.
The slippery slope fallacy is critical for enabling the absolutist thinking that keeps these types going.
No worries various groups will create or increase their own space investments. Nothing spacex did was a miracle just well executed engineering, despite an whimsical idiot steering it from far enough.

Correction globally will take some time, but it will be a permanent one. You don't develop your own space program to scrape it in few years. Europe is there with pretty healthy space program, China may become more open to others, India is way beyond initial successful steps. Reusable rockets are great when they work, but again thats just (at this point well tested) engineering.

China just needs to sit and smile how US is handling them global leadership one big chunk a day. Maybe in 4 years we can send elon permanently on mars with 8 billion middle fingers raised as a 'salute', to start future setup that The expanse showed us or to die there miserably.
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Antibodies are just one re-definition away from becoming vaccines, lol
Or America's advantage is by its own design.

Rich people can invest relatively small amounts in hundreds, if not thousands of startups through preferentially treated retirement funds and pay no (or little) tax on the ones that make it big.

This is what has made it so easy to secure funding in the US.

Should Europe do the same? There's definitely an ethical dilemma in making the rich, richer for the sake of innovation.
Wikipedia is already a target. The Heritage Foundation (who wrote Project 2025) is planning to identify and doxx editors. Reported by Forward who obtained the documents: https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedi...
Or for social media marketing by pharmaceutical companies. Who knows who writes these things?
It's possible to build a control system and inverters for an electric vehicle that don't spam RFI everywhere, it won't be anywhere near as small, as all the filtering required is going to be quite sizeable. (And no, I'm not suggesting using analog/linear systems, that would be silly huge and get super hot)

The motors are brushless, so if all of the drive power is low frequency and well filtered, it'll be nice and RF quiet.
I remember when I had a pretty serious health problem, went from doctor to doctor and none of them helped and some even made it worse.

I complained about it quite bitterly for about a decade, even after I had resolved it on my own without their help.

This post reminds me of that time of my life. He's not wrong and yet he may look back on this time like I have on my life and think heh, is that really what I spent my time doing? The life I could've been living instead. The life I can be living right now, today and tomorrow :)
>Productivity growth literally is just wage growth, by definition. It is impossible for them not to track each other.

I don't understand what you mean by this. If i own a business, and employee productivity increases but i don't increase wages doesn't that disprove your statement?
What do you propose as an alternative? That people should have listen to/host a certain percentage of unpopular views regardless of will? There is nothing stopping you creating your own platform, or finding one where you're welcome - if that fails to get much traction, it's probably because your message isn't very popular, and the people opposed to it perhaps weren't a minority.

What is it that you should do with, let's say, Nazis? Should the rest of society not make it clear that they consider them abhorrent?
Thats what every "support local" campaign boils down to - accept suboptimal deals because they are somehow more connected to you. I am glad to sell my services to the US and will buy their services, likewise for EU stuff if it is competitive.

Besides this outrage at the US from EU perspective is mind-boggling, for the first time since I can remember US is moving away from imperialist global polices, and Europe is in a position where they can become an independent global actor after WW2. Sure Trump administration isn't making the process pleasant but Europeans should be happy about these changes. And the tariff situation is nothing the EU has not been doing for decades, Trump did escalate it suddenly, but it is not like EU is not imposing massive tariffs to protect its industry, even at the expense of EU members that have no significant stakes in this industry.
I think it’s different to move fast in terms of your product vs. moving fast in terms of your tooling and equipment.

The article rightly points out that for most companies, there is simply no need to move to SQL Server 2022, the 2019 suffices and has LTS for another five to six years.

Infrastructure should be boring, tools should be boring . The more boring they are, the better support they usually have, the more stable they are.
It looks good, I will try it out
You might remember he was one of those recommending to vote for Harris. And some of the reasons he gave can be found also in the article btw.
https://archive.ph/jIOz4
Google Starts Rolling Out Native Linux Terminal to Android Devices
“It’s only a matter of time” -> not relevant to this conversation about what’s happening right now then, right?

Then we’re in agreement.
Some people just think war = bad. That’s fine. Maybe we can run an experiment where the pacifists get their own country and set their defense and foreign policy and see how long Pacifistlandia remains a sovereign country.

I suppose Winston Churchill was a warmonger in some ways, too, but thank goodness he was.
This is like saying that a hamster isn't a mammal because it's a rodent.
Agreed - I'm also a European (well, geographically, no longer EU unfortunately).
Seems like they partly do use their own index
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
FWIW: They have provisions in their bylaws (which can only be changed with the assent of their public interest asset-locked shareholder) that restrict salaries to a level that's commonplace in the industry specifically in Germany. In Germany, software engineers and managers tend to make a lot less than they do in the U.S., certainly not an amount of money that's a meaningful tradeoff for giving up rights to dividends and other distributions.
Article 6
Lawfulness of processing
1. Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:
(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

Point (a) covers purposes that require cookie-banner. Point (b) covers login or shopping cart cookies, as these are necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party.
Wikimedia has spent years setting up a parallel org in Germany. The internet archive, ICANN, PCH and IETF are far more exposed to U.S. risk than WMF.
Technology-wise this is a solved problem. Uses open-source software too. All the EU needs to do is say 'self-custody is fine, please use a EUR-based stable coin for payments EU-wide'. The market will do the rest (the stable-coin, payment terminals, integrations with cash registers, DeFi forex for places where EUR is not used, etc.).
okay, but 8 of the top 10 shareholders (and four of the top four) in Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc are American. I'm not really sure "ain't a subsidiary" is quite what you make of it. I was incorrect, but i hedged, i guessed that the aircraft engine parts wasn't owned by ford, but i was not sure.

in the context of this discussion, if all american investors pulled out of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc because they were tasked with copying an american engine... could Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc make that engine?

This is what american isolationism means and will look like.
Exactly. Didn't you see how green and sickly these things made poor Mr. Rogan?
You're Worrying About the Wrong EV Batteries
The big, expensive batteries are dead reliable. It's the puny 12-volts that are causing problems.
> Despite Plausible's claim of not requiring cookie banners, their processing still accesses data from the terminal equipment.

Since Plausible is selling a product that clearly claims this, who is on the hook in case a user of Plausible gets a fine?
So, what's wrong with Europe is that we try to care for the environment and that we don't make enough tanks?

I'm OK with that.
Thanks for the explanation dang.

>Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page.

>[let us] know about them at hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix it

You’re right to chastise me about the title. I had to remove all the qualifiers to meet the title character limit (also negative-> neg for that reason), so the title was more chicken little than I would have liked, but I did leave the qualifiers in the explanation, where I wasn’t claiming that all noobie posts were getting killed. My primary intention was to warn some of the good faith noobies who looked like they were getting caught up in the spam filter, and a post that noobies could see seemed to be a more appropriate venue for that. I didn't think my post would provide any extra utility to spammers. I apologize if the person that emailed you wasn’t a good-faith noobie poster concerned about their own posts.

But overall, because of the information asymmetry, I do think you underestimate the positive impact on the community of you coming out of the woodwork to provide explanations about specific instances once in awhile, as much as you loath to do so it seems.

e.g. TIL approx +50% of noobie posts are potential spam at a given time.
I don't know what you guys mean by "constitutional republic", but in the rest of the world "republic" just means "not a monarchy".
Exactly. And people who think that "did the they break ToS?" is the key point here, are perhaps unaware of the rampant dishonesty that apparently became accepted even in government.
Of course it isn't, it is a tunnel not a cable. That said it could be vulnerable to 'Nord Stream 2' type actions given that it is built using prefab tunnel sections which are sunk down and connected. It would not take that much of a breach to flood the tunnel and make it unusable.
Scaleway is pretty competitive.
Intel Preps Linux for "Platform Temperature Control" with Lunar and Panther Lake
absence of evidence != evidence of absence
Yeah, that's why I don't think it's in the cards yet. On the other hand, things are very fluid now. Things that were unthinkable two months ago (e.g. Germany ending the 'debt brake') are happening now.
A similar product is Boycat - https://boycat.io. AFAIK they are adding a campaign focused on the US since the US started adding tarifs everywhere. Would love to see them adding something for the EU side of things.
First step to change is realize there is a problem. Speech like this can help motivate action.

Note that most people don't even know what a browser is, and certainly can't distinguish from a Chrome reskin and a truly independent browser.

Also keep in mind that students don't choose the browser on their ChromeOS laptops.
Why didn't this regression in baseline performance show up (or did it?) on the faster-cpython benchmarks page [0]? Could the benchmarks be improved to prevent similar issues in the future?

[0] https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public
https://youtu.be/qcNNB2qZ5kE?t=2776 around this time code. If the USA doesn't want a nation to fight then there are more issues than a F35 software kill switch etc.
> The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is going to be placed on a dredged tunnel trench, more than 90% of which has already been completed.

This is fascinating. I had thought underwater tunnels were always creating by boring, like the Chunnel was. But this looks like they're dredging a trench, placing cast concrete segments in it, and then filling in over the top. In order words, much like how the first subway tunnels were built a century ago on dry land, but now underwater.

I wonder how it's reliably kept waterproofed (on the span of decades or centuries)? How are the segments joined and sealed?
As with damn near everything else seriously wrong with this country, the trouble is the two-party system. A real fix requires fixing the constitution so our government can stably support several viable parties rather than two, forcing coalition-building after the election.

If we had two parties for the anti-abortion voters, the “come and take them” folks, et c, to vote for without throwing their votes away, things might look very different now. Trump’s this powerful because he exploited weaknesses in one of the two “tents” and captured the whole thing, it would have been far harder for him to get so far if there were another party palatable to the right.

Unfortunately, the two-party systems serves those two parties well, and also serves the rich better than a more multipolar system (it’s easier to deal with), so this is a flaw that we cannot practically fix.
The way this was handled is incredibly good form! Thank you for going to such lengths to make sure the mistake was corrected. I respect and thank you (and all the developers working in Python) for all the work you do!