skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, by all accounts we have a higher life quality than Americans. Only Americans care about money, because in USA you don't get anything without paying for it all yourself. Here we have minimum mandatory vacations for 4 weeks per year, and many countries have a lot more than that, most countries have a year or more of maternity leave, paid of course, we have plenty of public holidays, paid of course, and we don't need to do work while in a hospital or when giving birth, as that would be illegal for the employer to ask of you. There's also no at-will firing just because your boss doesn't like your face, there needs to be an actual reason proving that a person cannot fulfill responsibilities, and there also needs to be a chance given to improve on the mistakes before firing a person.

Our food is not riddled in toxic waste because of those horrible regulations that Americans don't like, our air is breathable because of those same horrible regulations, companies are not allowed to just steal and sell all of our data or keep it indefinitely, because of those horrible regulations, which makes American tyrants mad because they can't make their billion dollar startups here so easily since they're used to breaking the law, abusing people, or paying off governments to get what they want, which is a lot harder to do here. Much sad, many tear, for the poor American startup founder.

Europeans by and large don't share the same values as Americans. Being filthy rich isn't our goal, our goal is good health, spending time with our loved ones, having plenty of time to rest and dedicate on our hobbies, and being treated fairly and with respect. Americans on the other hand care about money at all cost, doesn't matter if it's at the expense of working class people, and they view people who work less than 80 hours a week as lazy.

I also don't know what freedom of speech you are talking about since I read the news and USA seems to have everything, BUT freedom of speech. Your education is down the toilet, crime is rampant, police murders minorities on a regular basis, school shootings everywhere, a government as corrupt as can possibly be, people fired en masse everywhere for not replying to an e-mail ...
It's getting a little less risky these days, but in the past just saying "LLMs are good at writing code" was enough to spark a hundred comment flame war.
Kind of off topic as that was the previous Trump administration, but they were also a 'shack of clowns'
Oh I agree. I'm just saying, either way that discussion goes, it just's not even the same order of severity magnitude as a corrupt authoritarian takeover.
Yesterday on a German radio I heard about a study on how they can get traumatized if trained on bad human behaviour content, and provide similar output like humans in such situations, and how their output improves if interacted in a way that kind of shows compassion behaviours.

Maybe being an LLM psychologist is a job with future.
I have empathy for civilians, but you’re having empathy to self-declared murders and terrorists. It’s in their Houthi motto. That’s ghastly
I can't tell if this is a serious question or not? So this response is only in the case that it is a serious question. Please ignore if I've misapprehended the sarcasm.

Based on what I read, the minimum would be aiding and abetting. At least, that's what it would be here in Wisconsin.
We're really not. Just the health care issues, which can be directly seen in the life expectancy figures, make us materially richer, never mind anything else.

And I much prefer not needing to exercise my rights to self-defence in the first place, than to have to worry about carrying a gun around all the time, and whether or not a child might get accidentally get access to it. See also gun shooting figures.
It's bit curious that traditionally UNIX systems did not run local DNS resolver daemons and instead the resolv.conf (and nsswitch.conf) persisted for so long. In addition to potentially simplifying configuration, having a daemon would allow system-wide dns caching, something I'd imagine would have been especially valuable back in the days of slow networks. Unix has daemons for everything else so that's why it feels odd that name resolution got baked into libc
The Invisible Ingredient in Every Kitchen (2008)
The Land of the Free and the Elements of Style (2010)
> They talk shit about EU innovation and talk up their own dominance

We should make a list of EU innovations that just got acquired by US companies, who conveniently forget.

Ever heard of Google Maps?
But the article says they publicly posted about being "valued partners" with DiamondCDN. That seems to be more than just some criminals signing up and using the CDN. At the very least it creates more questions than answers, no?
Are you also surprised when you hear about somebody going into a bookstore and buying a book?
It doesn't work out to be a lawyer in a lawless country.
They are very good tools but I now prefer duckdb for CSV processing.
To circumlocute his habitual evasion, try offering an active phrasing: “Do you have a replacement in mind for Secretary Hegseth?” would be one way to prevent the passive-aggressive “I don’t really know Peter B. Hegseth”. When Trump “doesn’t know” someone, it’s a very final thing.
While protecting your data privacy is important, I’d be more concerned about being detained without reason or recourse.

https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-d...

Here’s a better tip: Don’t travel to the US. They are making it very clear they don’t want anyone else there.
>The alternative to regulation is innovation

That's a very easy but hand-wavy thing to say.

How exactly would your suggestion work? Are the companies supposed to share their findings from this forced research with the world? What happens if they happen to discover something that doesn't help with the plastic problem but does improve their bottom line somehow? I can't see this functioning in any way whatsoever.
The President of the European Commission?
Huh... I thought that Gwern would be further up, like top 10. Top 3 even. Weird.
Trump changed something here. Yes, there is not a United States of Europe. But there is Macron, there is a strong alliance of an European idea around France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark many more and even Poland again. Hungary is right now the only EU example where not a majority is sharing these "European" values.

I think the alliance between France and Germany is as strong as never before. I think Most Germans want Macron to take the European lead right now (as we only have weak Merz to offer). Trump is like a catalyst for European unification.

PS: I‘m German.
Might be, yet that is the future our AI overlords want to bring us into, and already present in ongoing agents attempts.
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Having read the article, Coristine does not come across as blameless. When you run a business, you shouldn't be gathering criminals as your clients.
Jensen Huang on Computerphile [Video]
have you ever heard of SAP, spotify, ASML (for what it's worth)?
If you don’t want to believe, I think that’s fine, however saying that there is zero evidence or philosophical arguments that could at least gives you pause would be shortsighted.

Hitchen’s tried to hold this position by regurgitatation decade old counter arguments publicly and all he got attributed to him at the end was “hitch-slaps”.
> Most of the streetscapes that jump to mind about Chicago, if you don't live here, are places people basically don't live.

Note that 41k live in the Loop and 27k live in Jefferson Park.

Maybe if you sample by area, places look more suburban than stereotypical cities, but by population, lots of people live in the dense parts.

100k in the Near North Side, which I think is basically a “downtown” streetscape.

And of course many in the in-between density neighborhoods (eg 71k in Logan Square).

Source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago
There is a stark difference between businesses that incidentally have a tiny percentage of customers engaged in crime, and one that panders specifically to the criminal element.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...

"Big Balls" came out of this cybercrime area, and this was specifically where he promoted his business. This cybercrime company is the single known customer of his "CDN", so it's a bit laughable trying to bunch it in with mainstream companies.

If someone sells burner phones to crack dealers on street corners, don't try to tell me they're just like Verizon.
I think this is something very general, houses in Romanian villages have benches in front of them where people used to gather like this, in the summer this was somehow the norm, less now, but it's still happening. One of the other options was either the bar or probably church.
You confuse Europe and the EU. It's not the same thing.

> "Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?"

What a silly question. "Who do I call if I want to speak to Earth? There's no such person? Therefore there is no such thing as Earth."

> So what is an "European" ??

Same thing as African, Asian, American.
start by learning the difference between Europe and the EU, then decide what you want to discuss.

With those two things together you can find the relevant official's office to call.

Or do you go straight to POTUS if you want to "speak to the USA"? (also note I wrote USA and not "America")
TinySSE – A Programmable Server for Server-Sent Events in Rust and Lua
Your proposed response to civil liberties violations by the US is for EU countries to do the same? What's next, arbitrarily arresting Salvadoran travelers to protest their government's arbitrary arrest of gang members?
> As far as new jobs, they are here now but they surely sound as ridiculous to think about as being a professional youtuber in 2005

How many people can make an actual living out of Youtube? Surely they exist but to reliably live off it for decades (not just 1-2 years of temporary fame - which is also very hard to come by) I'd say fewer than one in ten thousand people will make it. I can't call "Youtuber" a career path with that kind of success rates anymore than I can call being an actor in Hollywood a career path.
> Europeans have far more restrictions on their rights of speech, self-defence, and freedom of conscience than the Americans.

In theory.

Articles like this are about how it works in practice.
Jeffrey Goldberg on the Group Chat That Broke the Internet
> Prosecutors and judges are often picked by how profitable they are to the local courts

Source? This is certainly untrue for elected judges and DAs, so we’d expect to see a difference if that were the reason. Instead we see elected judges and DAs running on tough on crime pitches due to voter preferences. Not funding concerns.
If you consider these imperial powers to be ultimately responsible for the mode of production in the countries that they trade with, does it not stand to reason that they have some obligation to assume responsibility for the governance, policy, and policing of these countries?

The Americans are not (to my knowledge) pointing a gun at Bangladeshi sweatshop owners and telling them “You must produce a quota by whatever means necessary.” The Americans might be benefitting from this arrangement, but if they refused to buy these products, it’s not like slave labor would disappear; it would just be redeployed into other sectors. The countries where this slavery occurs have to bear some level of responsibility for the things they permit to happen within their own borders, otherwise they were never sovereign countries to begin with, and they ought to be colonized by those powerful enough to enforce the rule of law.
It takes an American to speak like that (noting that for some reason, "an American" refers to someone in the US, which may explain why they don't understand the idea). Do you need "United States of Asia" to be "an Asian"?
Yes, this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/@rockthejvm

https://rockthejvm.com/

Great videos.
we replicate storage both in the same region (on multiple nodes) and in another close region (for redundency). a similar thing is done by aws with EBS. it's replicated in a region in a single availability zones and you pay extra if you want backups to s3 or replication in multiple availability zones.
Incidentally while exploring this site I discovered how much better the highlight and "translate" feature of iOS has gotten!

Thanks kappasan!
I am not sure why you are starting this offensive comment, or what your ulterior motive is. The EU is built on mutual agreements and compromises among cultures, instead of federalistic imperialism.

You can always call von der Leyen if that's what you need to have someone to talk about. But you could have googled that yourself, so you were intentionally ignorant about that part, which makes your ragebait comment what it is: ragebait.

If this is what you want the US to be seen as, then go ahead. It's not like we're short of these kind of comments on the internet though. I can recommend to go outside once in a while, go touch some grass while reading a book.

Anyways, happy weaseling, I guess.
> Devising this approach was riddled with failure. When the team tried simply combining regular duck liver and untreated fat, no matter the proportions, the result was not foie gras. “The mechanical properties are different,” he said. “The fat distribution is different. Everything was not working.”

> The researchers tried adding emulsifiers and later gelatin from the skin and bones of the birds, but the consistency was off.

> Then Dr. Vilgis thought about what occurs inside the bird’s body when it’s force-fed. The duck or goose digests all that extra food using, among other things, enzymes called lipases that act like pairs of molecular scissors. They snip the fat molecules into smaller pieces, allowing them to “rearrange and crystallize in different forms,” he said. The crystallized fat forms irregular clusters that are surrounded by a matrix of liver proteins, which imparts the indulgent flavor and texture.

> That was the key insight. “We just did what happens in the small intestine in the laboratory,” Dr. Vilgis said. When the team treated the duck fat with lipases, mixed it with normal liver, and then studied it with X-ray scattering and other techniques, the result was remarkably similar to foie gras.
But how do they compare?
Programming with AI Assistants
Using the C preprocessor is standard, available, compatible and the major usage patterns are "known". For a lot of cases, they're way easier to reason about rather than learning how an external generation tool is used to generate the code. In order to understand these macros all I need is to read the source code where they're used.

Nothing C++ related in the pattern though. This C preprocessor trickery is practically so classic you couldn't necessarily even call it a "trick".
> Europeans have far more restrictions on their rights of speech, self-defence, and freedom of conscience than the Americans

That is true. However Europeans tend to believe that restricting some freedom leads to higher overall freedom: I can exercise a lot more freedom when I don't risk a gun pointed at me. I'm a much freer thinker when religious agenda pushed (overtly or subtly) on me (directly or through societal influence). Same for misinformation and other propaganda.

From a European perspective, "american freedom" seems like "free as in free-for-all", which certainly doesn't lead to the highest level of personal freedom. It's a local optimum at best.

> They are also substantially poorer than Americans

According to this random source (first result for "poverty rate by country") https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-r..., America has a similar or worse poverty rate than a lot of Europe (not that European countries can easily be compared).

Salaries tend to be higher in the US of course, that doesn't translate directly to living conditions and poverty.

Regardless, I don't think that Europe's path to improve poverty level is US-style individual freedom.
for me, atuin's history sync is a huge must since i use 5 different machines across my house.
Being a consultant is a far more limited role than what’s been reported with DOGE being given administrative-level access to many systems with sensitive data without following the normal processes for background checks, training, auditing, copying data, etc.

That’s the difference between hiring a former burglar to give you advice and putting them in charge of building security.
Just like Scala by virtue of being a guest language on the JVM ecosystem, never will replace Java on the minds of JVM architects.

Kotlin has an advantage here, because ART nowadays is effectly KVM from Google's point of view, where they grudgingly update Java support to keep up with Maven central.

Scala has nothing like this, and the update on Python alongside native libraries, kind of stole its demand in big data, hence why this kind of scenarios is described on the article.
Someone did say it's hard to read on mobile:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479272
That's an important point you're making here...Can you expand on that with an example? A specific use of plastic as a container that gives the desired characteristics...specifically where those characteristics could not be met by another (if expense isn't a consideration) material?

If there are less toxic materials that could "do the job" but are more expensive then it really is about money no?
hmm but how many examples of that exist on the internet practically verbatim?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469611

Also this in the first file that I randomly opened: `file_location = f"/tmp/{audio_file.filename}"`. I hope that's a joke?
Who are "they"? The cloud could be hosted by you.
How human brains process thoughts is non-uniform across population. There’s imagery, written language, sound, speech, tactile, etc. Not everything that you think about is readily expressible in your language. There are definitely people with and without “internal screen”, and probably few more types with/without X, where X is a set of things we’ve never talked about, either assuming everyone has it or not realizing that it’s a non-mandatory part of how you think.
it's almost as if American citizens were responsible for who they elected.
aiding and abetting

Not a lawyer but I think that only sticks if the CDN he managed was specifically built for criminals and the selling points were to hide criminal activity similar to some bullet-proof hosting solutions otherwise Akamai, Bunny, Cloudflare and many others would be seized as they have a myriad of criminals utilizing their network as well but I could be wrong. Was there solid evidence that this CDN was purpose built for criminal usage such as proof of intent?
It's total score, prolific writers rise
What parts of the stack or what patterns do you feel are missing? Where does your gut tell you is the 80/20?
On Feb. 15, 2023, EGodly thanked Coristine's company for its assistance in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

"We extend our gratitude to our valued partners DiamondCDN for generously providing us with their amazing DDoS protection and caching systems, which allow us to securely host and safeguard our website," the message said.

This isn't about whether or not Coristine should go to jail for EGodly's criminal activities. This is about whether Coristine has the maturity and moral integrity to be accessing government systems.
I added "She should look at Billy's instagram while listening" and got

> Reasoned for 6 seconds

> Her room was dim, a quiet refuge. On the shelf, records sat like relics of her inner life. She placed Carole King’s Tapestry on the turntable, letting its soft crackle fill the space. Beside her bed lay a small smartphone—a strange anachronism—and she swiped open Billy’s Instagram feed. There, his easy smile and snapshots from math class met her longing gaze. The music and the digital images merged, each note echoing her uncertainty: did he really notice her?
> So we should be very careful not to equate that particular kind of "natural" with other concepts like "unavoidable" or "acceptable".

Natural and unavoidable mean the same thing in the context the GP used them.
>As Henry Kissinger once said: "Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?"

There are many answers today to this question depending on the diplomatic rank of who‘s asking. Most obvious choices are the president of European Commission for Trump and High Representative for Foreign Affairs for Rubio. JD can entertain himself with political freaks of his choice, his reputation is ruined anyway.
I disagree. They are well aware of these issues as teenagers, especially now that they are affecting their parents' lives.
> a consultant for the FBI after doing his time

I take it little Richard has done his time too?
Good point; it isn’t! What’s illegal is for people to discriminate based on names and photos, but the platform itself is fine.
Crawlers aren't interested in fake pages that aren't linked to anywhere, they're crawling the same pages your users are viewing.
They’re a small economy with lots of hostile traffic, so while in the EU and not sanctioned like the rest of the bunch, I’ve commonly seen them on the chopping block.
I'm not opening the url. You can turn on showdead to see the url.
They’re not going to. They like/depend on travel dollars too much. We do too but don’t care because it’ll only be few people we don’t care about who stay away.

In any case tourism is bad for the environment. Stay local, vacation locally be socially responsible.
> I usually look at things like https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

This shows per capita energy consumption steadily decreased from ~1985 to 2023 almost back to the level of 1960.
Should that indicate an energy crisis?
The graphs from the whole EU or the USA don't look much different so I don't see how the chart helps.

What numbers could be looked at to identify that energy crisis?
His proposal was towards only U.S. nationals, to make them feel what they deserve.
Not sure that's relevant. Obviously an LLM has to learn from something, but it's not a database. I could also program this myself and I don't think that it's an argument against my coding abilities that I have read the source code to many existing interpreters. I can only do it because I not only read but also understood and internalised.
or, you know, the actual crime that he did do. an unrepentant and unpunished criminal gets into government and draws attention to himself - did you miss that part?