skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a general rule if you're reading a technical discussion and every single participant is using a particular phrase in a way that doesn't make sense to you then you should probably do a quick double-check to make sure you're on the same page.

For example, in this discussion about whether C is "portable assembly", you might be tempted to think back to the days of structured programming in assembly using macros. I no longer remember the exact syntax, but programs could be written to look like this:

.include "some-macro-system.s"
.include "posix-sym.s"

.func _start(argc, argv) {
.asciz message "Hello, world!"
.call3 _write STDOUT message (.len message)
.call1 _exit 0
}

Assembly? Definitely! Portable? Eh, sort of! If you're willing to restrict yourself to DOS + POSIX and write an I/O abstraction layer then it'll probably run on i386/SPARC/Alpha/PA-RISC.

But that's not really what people are discussing, is it?

When someone says "C is portable assembly" they don't mean you can take C code and run it through a platform-specific macro expander. They don't mean it's literally a portable dialect of assembly. They expect the C compiler to perform some transformations -- maybe propagate some constants, maybe inline a small function here and there. Maybe you'd like to have named mutable local variables, which requires a register allocator. Reasonable people can disagree about exactly what transformations are legal, but at that point it's a matter of negotiation.

Anyway, now you've got a language that is more portable than assembler macros but still compiles more-or-less directly to machine code -- not completely divorced from the underlying hardware like Lisp (RIP Symbolics). How would you describe it in a few words? "Like assembly but portable" doesn't seem unreasonable.
"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him" [0]

It isn't that they're discussing anything which would traditionally be considered risky or out of bounds - that's the whole point. It's that they're discussing anything to do with an organisation which has made it quite clear that if it disagrees with you, it will find some way to make your life miserable. Even if it doesn't disagree with you today, who knows what it will disagree with tomorrow? This is the absolute classic way of instilling fear in a population, the original chilling effect - when you don't know what will be forbidden tomorrow, better to say nothing today.

Your latter point on assassination attempts is also very odd. It conflates some broadly disconnected things (an actual attempt on a presidential candidate) with an apparent murder based on political views, two unrelated but very direct consequences which you could perhaps correlate through the types of people targeted. On the other hand you completely ignore the wider systemic violence inherent in stripping people of jobs, healthcare, social security, etc. Do you think those actions will have no consequences? That no deaths will result? Just because a chain of action might have more than one link, doesn't mean the consequences can be dismissed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...
If you walk into a European supermarket, fashion store or MediaMarkt there is very little coming from the US.
The giant container ships are coming from the East not the West.
2 year old 30 minutes documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYvXKQksgI

Regular official small update videos: https://www.youtube.com/@FemernAS/videos

It's interesting how they build the concrete parts and then "just" sink them :D
I asked him because I couldn't see the fun of it. And your examples about milk and car are exactly what I am saying. I don't create them...

About your last example, it's like asking a AI to write Harry Potter but where the character has a different name and be blown away for what I did in a weekend!
Well, as Greenland is part of Denmark, the threat is against a member of the EU
git commit after each change it makes. It will eventually get itself into a mess. Revert to the last good state and tell it to try a different approach. Squash your commits at the end
I'm sure they'll find a way to make a profit working with the system rather than against it.
The gain is more resources to plunder. You're thinking of Putin from a western democratic mindset as an accountable leader who has to at least pretend to serve the interests of his country. It was also dumb to invade Ukraine if you think in terms of Russian interests. Leaders do lots of dumb things which are incredibly damaging for their country and often are driven purely by self-interest, especially dictators.

Re-arming is unfortunately the only answer to naked aggression from dictators and the US cannot be trusted any more as an ally. Putin has clearly stated his aims - to reconstitute the USSR (and if possible enlarge it) and to defeat the west.

Europe now stands alone against that.
The easiest antenna for SW listening it's just a long wire in an high position, clipped to integrated antenna with crocodile connectors.
Easy, portable and very effective.
> The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

Classy, professional governance.

America sure is intent on turning the American government into a joke.
> Well, what about converting strings to business data structures safely?
> What about complex JSON parsing, serialization, CSRF, preventing
> injections, session cookies, authN/authZ, easy database CRUD operations?

So you are saying this is only possible if you use a large framework? You cannot do this with libraries? That's a very odd position.

JSON has never been a problem as it is part of the standard library. And there are lots of libraries to extend the functionality if you need something the standard library doesn't offer.

Heck, Go even has ASN.1 in the standard library so I can write custom serialization of certificates to satisfy fiddly crypto components that only work with certain representations. And it was surprisingly easy to do. If it is one thing Go is really good for, it is writing robust code for transforming data.

Learn to do things using the standard library first. Then learn what libraries to add and keep a collection of snippets and notes on how to use them so you can apply them quickly when you need them. Learn once, take notes, use again.
Today I learned that DeepL was German. It's hands down the best Japanese to English translator (according to my Japanese coworkers) and I was surprised how many used it in office. (never used it myself as a trilingual)
I'd always rather, if possible, give my money to a company that pays their tax where I do. That's simple self interest.
Also don’t forget you might be fine with just a VPS (or a few)!
Ukraine began the day expecting Trump to seriously attempt a settlement of the conflict by signing an agreement; Security guarantees were discussed before the agreement was formulated.

1 hour before, they learned they had nothing to gain because there were no security guarantees, and that they would need to establish formal changes to the agreement during the meeting.

During the meeting, they learned that politely asking for formal changes to the agreement would trigger performative anger, denial, and insults. That Trump would get self-righteous about his extortion attempt, and that it wasn't "Your money or or life!", but "Your money, now!"
That’s the most interesting way to warp reality that I’ve seen.

Afghanistan won, period. It doesn’t matter how Americans would like to advertise their loss - you didn’t “lose interest”, you lost, abandoned the people who were helping you, and have left thousands of innocent civilians to fend for themselves. Afghanistan is, and should be treated as, the biggest failure of the American “empire”.
> Spamming random employees gov e-mails on the internet is a disservice to tax payers money to put it lightly.

They aren't random, they are DOGE employees. And at the moment, we don't even know what the role of DOGE is in the US government. Is Elon Musk a cabinet member, despite not being confirmed by the Senate? If DOGE exists solely as an advisory body, then why do they have the power to fire employees of other agencies (which have been ratified by Congress)?

So rather than being upset about posting public email addresses of public employees, I would say the disservice to taxpayers is allowing an unelected agency to make decisions about other agencies with no Congressional oversight.

As for "is there a law" I think this is implicit in the nature of representation. If you vote for someone to represent you, and after they are elected you have no way to contact them, how do they actually represent you? I'm not suggesting people should harass DOGE employees or say bad things to them, just that we need more transparency in general.
Toting Adidas, Puma, Jack & Jones, Decathlon etc. as "European-meade" is laughable when everyone knows their clothes are actually manufactured in third-world low-labor-protection countries.

Heck, I can make a safe bet that the vast majority of the companies listed here sell items at least partially made outside of Europe.
Talk to Tesla and ask how they are doing in the EU and Canada :).
Grin is lightweight by design, obtaining most of the privacy benefits (hiding amounts and addresses) while staying 4x smaller than bitcoin.

The extra transaction step adds robustness, letting the receiver state and sign for the purpose of payment (e.g. the item purchased or the service rendered).

Monero obscures the tx graph with decoys (effectively only 4 as recent research by Rucknium shows), which cuts corners compares to the much stronger privacy guarantees of Zcash's shielded txs.
That will be inline by any C compiler and then pretty much anything can happen to the 'a += 1'.
Whilst a good idea, no politician is going to try and do it under the fear of reigniting the Brexit argument which ends up dominating politics in the country.
Well, you seem to be rhetorically asking a question, so... Your implied answer would seem to have to be yes to support your point, in which case, would you care to give similar examples? What free speech suppression are you thinking of and how was it enacted?
It's been fascinating experiment. The stuff you can now do, its like having scaffolding to help you.
You can create all the tools you need yourself and can host it for virtually nothing. I just upgraded Cloudflare to the $5 plan (btw I have 18 sites hosted atm and that price includes up to 100). I also paid for Fathom analytics $15pm and Cursor, ChatGPT, Midjourney (although cancelled now) and VectorMagic (also cancelled). So you could spend just the domain name and the AI tools, making it about $20. Totally bonkers
Yeah it is a risk, but so is it a risk for anything. Can you really trust the CPU, RAM, BIOS, USB-C cable etc on your desk? Maybe those have backdoors too?

But that is adversarial and is to be expected.

At least for these sort of cooperative partnerships that I am aware of in enterprise, there are typically provisions in contracts for code-access, verifiable builds, ability to reject updates and so on and so on. I don't know if these provisions exist in the sovereign cloud contracts that the cloud companies are building, but I would be really surprised if they went to all this trouble replicating Azure/GCP/etc in entirely air-gapped data centers with duplicated staff and hardware and all that, but don't bother to vet the code they get!
I read that as a starting point.

Lots of people in French and german speaking countries do search in their respective language, as do spanish and chinese speaking people.

I don't see it as separating the eu internet accross language. I bet Google/Bing and any search engine has a language metadata in its index anyway and I don't understand your link with nazi parties.
China borders Russia. If the Russians invaded some Chinese territory and then Russia and the US held talks to decide how much to take not involving China in the talks, I think they would be pissed off. It's kind of the principle of the thing.
Python asyncio supports meaningful stack traces through async functions just fine.

import asyncio

async def baz():
await asyncio.sleep(.1)
raise RuntimeError()

async def bar():
await asyncio.sleep(.1)
await baz()

async def foo():
await asyncio.sleep(.1)
await bar()

async def main():
await asyncio.sleep(.1)
await foo()

if __name__ == "__main__":
loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
main_task = loop.create_task(main())
try:
loop.run_until_complete(main_task)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
main_task.cancel()
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait([main_task]))
pass

And then run:
$ python3 test_stacktrace.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/tmp/test_stacktrace.py", line 24, in <module>
loop.run_until_complete(main_task)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/base_events.py", line 649, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
File "/home/user/tmp/test_stacktrace.py", line 17, in main
await foo()
File "/home/user/tmp/test_stacktrace.py", line 13, in foo
await bar()
File "/home/user/tmp/test_stacktrace.py", line 9, in bar
await baz()
File "/home/user/tmp/test_stacktrace.py", line 5, in baz
raise RuntimeError()
RuntimeError
You mean Johnny Mnemonic?
One of my favorite books is by this author: "Understanding Comics"

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

Even if you don't like comics, it is an incredible take on how the brain processes images. Comics are art, more than anything else, about humans. And, this book is a work of art itself because it explains in detail how humans process images of other humans. I cannot recommend it enough.

And, if you are a computer scientist it provides an additional definition for closure, which was surprising to me.
The chips and software in a lot of those products are coming from the US, even if the final products are manufactured in the East.

The US makes the biggest margins from valuable IP and software services, not from mass produced widgets coming in shipping containers.
Randall Munroe explained freedom of speech better than I could - https://xkcd.com/1357/

You seem to be invoking the tired old trope of "both sides bad". But they're not. The government pardoning rioters and punishing law firms is not the same as individuals saying "you know what, fuck Roseanne Barr, I don't want to watch her show anymore."

You're tying yourself in knots to establish a false equivalence between the two. But it's clear as day that they're not.
How do you want this worded? It’s worth giving the Ukrainians a fuckton of equipment, and potentially organized military intervention for? You can summarize that as ‘fighting’.

The problem is that as a European, giving in here means they come closer. Next time it’s the Polish border, then the German.
...and also showed that she had antlers.

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
There are competing incentives. Governments/politicians want to make it easy for companies to comply in order to encourage economic investment, and also to gain goodwill among their voters. Legal institutions want to make things appear as complicated and uncertain as possible so that they make more money selling lawyers.

The end result is that you get mixed messages, depending on where the information ultimately came from.

I personally don't know how hard it actually is to comply with GDPR, but I know that it has to be easier than it's made out to be.
The elite Silicon Valley venture capitalist class has made it pretty clear which side they're on.
I think the most critical missing piece is GPUs right now. As AI becomes more and more crucial, GPU/AI hardware design and manufacturing will become a matter of sovereignty and unfortunately, can't find any EU alternative
> What does this mean? A better vaccine?

New mutations (since some chronic, immunocompromised unable to clean the infection patient will get it).
you know that the EU produce more steel and Aluminium than the US, and that its industrial output/GDP is a bit higher than the US, right?
EYG IR spec for a "no syntax" language
> I'm saying it's easy to get the nazi/right wing to vote for state funding for such a project because it's "nationalist".

I read it has limiting the scope so they can fine tune their code/index before going bigger with other languages.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but it's not part of the EU. It was originally part of the EU (back when it was the EEC) but voted to leave in a referendum in 1982, officially exiting in 1985. Today, Greenland has a special status called Overseas Country and Territory (OCT), meaning it has trade deals with the EU, but EU rules don't directly apply there.
You can use cloud while you have free credits – just spend them on a beefy AWS Lightsail server or something like that. Then pack it up and move to a cheaper provider.
Claude code does this already
> It starts at the top of a mountain with a “100%” (actually 90% according to reverse engineering) battery (a tesla couldn’t regen in that situation, the bmw can).

Ah so BMW advertises (and charges to I assume?) 10% less capacity than actual, which both reduces wear and allows regen even on full battery?

That's actually pretty cool. They're effectively sacrificing marketing for user experience.
- "We are a group of individuals from across Europe who connected via the subreddit r/BuyfromEU."

Then, why do you promote a list of European Reddit "alternatives" such as "Lemmy", you say people are supposed to use instead?

This is the laziest form of internet activism there is: lecture people what you believe they're supposed to be doing in ways you don't yourself do, and can't be inconvenienced to try.

(Bonus points for building this boycott website on top of Amazon Cloudfront, Cloudflare, and Google Analytics).
what (hypothetically) happens when the cost to run the next giant llm exceeds the cost to hire a person for tasks like this?
"The worse system except for all the others that have been tried."

Many hackers think that about Apple computers. Many others have no choice because they develop iOS apps.
I think they are screaming too late. For more than 10 years was known enough that the US government was mass collecting information about everything they could on internet, the Snowden’s revelations was just a milestone on the current state of that back then, and as nothing happened, it continued.

Now we have over that AIs and probably a government openly willing to use that against you, but that was always a possibility all this time. The future is open, the records are forever. And what we did all this time? Just put in photos, videos and text what can be used against us under some future policy, and shared it with them.

There is a point where we deserve the consequences. And yes, even of this very message.
Quick internet search, first result.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/02/25/covid-censorship-yes-bi...
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Only because the US refuses to properly protect consumer privacy and seemingly can no longer be trusted at all. If Trump forces Microsoft to turn off Office 365 for example for the EU, or blocks AWS, GCP or Azure from doing business with the EU then European businesses are screwed. We’ve now realized these risks are potentially real and European countries are scrambling to look for alternatives (and realizing that they don’t really exist).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319298
> Debs was tried and convicted by a court.

oh yes. and he broke a law passed by congress. that makes it even MORE appalling, as all three branches were complicit in an egregious breach of the constitution, not a single one stopped to hold the line
> Peter Baker, the New York Times White House correspondent, compared the current moment to his time at Russia at the beginning of the Putin era:

> By the time we left in late 2004, Moscow had been transformed. People who had happily talked with us at the start were now afraid to return our calls. “Now I have this fear all the time,” one told us at the time. There is a similar chill now in Washington. Every day someone who used to feel free to speak publicly against Mr. Trump says they will no longer let journalists quote them by name for fear of repercussions, both Democrats and Republicans
I would not.

My taxes are not a burden on me. While on the other hand, the local politicians have sought tax cut after tax cut, causing the library to limit services, the schools to cut down on teaching staff, infrastructure maintenance delays, less funding for local social services and city events, and more.

My paying an extra 20% wouldn't fix things, as adding to the general budget would end up simply reducing taxes further, instead of everyone sharing the load.

I hate that I've starting getting involved with local politics. I would rather code.

Or, following your self-centric analysis, I would put the effort into raising my taxes by 20% since the collective benefits give me much more than what I can do individually.
It doesn't matter what the law allows unfortunately. If enough money is involved, everything is possible. Law is what people make it, and people can be bought and sold. It's not some fundamental physical constant of the universe.

This is why statements like this feel like empty posturing (even if the intentions are genuine and good).
Well, it's not really to have a clear enemy. It's an effort to avoid having one.

The day the US drops the Cloud Act would be the death of all European CSPs. Until then, cloud offerings not subject to it will thrive, and the US will be seen as hostile.

And for all other subjects, it's a simple matter of not putting all of your eggs in the same basket. Having privileged trade partners is a good thing, but it becomes a bad one when it's a partner (singular). Today, the US has full power on Europe's tech landscape, which is concerning, even if it's a friend country.

Oh, and I say a "friend country", but given the latest announcements where the US Govt. clearly targets Europe and wants to sanction it (e.g. tariffs on French exports), the friend is turning around.

TL;DR today Europe does not see the US as an enemy. But it does everything for it to never happen, and this include reducing the dependency on the US.
Quite - so far the tech community (at the top level), with a few exceptions, has shown itself quite willing to bend itself to whatever is required as long as it can carry on making money. The cowardice involved is apparent, do not look to corporations as your potential protectors. They've never turned out to be before, they're not going to be this time either. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
We have it, although by not being painted in military colors an wrapped in bully speeches needs good eyes and an open mind to be seen.
I'm a little confused reading the article on how exclaves are related to the Mach kernel. Is there a second, parallel seL4 kernel running on the same chip? If so, how do two kernels execute at the same time?

> To allow for execution of exclave Services while isolated from XNU, Apple has introduced a new kernel called the Secure Kernel (SK).

Or do exclaves run on a separate chip, like Secure Enclaves-with-a-N do? (The article said not to confuse the two.)
there's absolutely no European alternative to Amazon. Thanks for clearing that up.
I have used both of them in the past, pricing is indeed very competitive - there are very few providers coming close to Hetzner pricing on dedicated servers.

There's also OVH, they have plenty of global regions, but I haven't used them yet.
yeah - iirc the concern was that car drivers would be too unpredictable / bored driving 21 miles in a tunnel - so you just drive your car onto a train
I felt I needed to add some kind of license, I also wanted to get attribution back to this website for traffic purposes.
Dare I admit that I just asked ChatGPT what to use... I then got it to create a Python script to apply the license to the SVG image itself and add the website details.
Its been a fascinating experience