skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU has lost almost every direct vote over joining. And let's just not talk about what happened with the initial formation of the EU. It involved a democracy sending commando forces kidnapping EU politicians to execute them. But most famously:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Dutch_European_Constituti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitut...

(look at the list of all referenda in those pages, because this wasn't just the Netherlands and France rejecting the EU)

Note almost all the referendums that were planned, were canceled. Any honest person should point out: they were canceled because the odds of the referendum passing was negligible. Of course, the EU immediately went against the obvious will of the voters through the treaty of Lisbon.

Needless to say, as per usual, the EU makes sure it's popular with politicians (e.g. special tax-exempt status, BUT full social benefits, for any EU personnel. Plus many other things, including an excellent restaurant). So there was a long and thorough discussion in the NL parliament on how to override the will of the voters.

Just like, in this case, the party in parliament is bluntly stating they're looking for a way to get membership approved knowing full well a majority is against it.

There's yet another reason I'd be wary: the poorer an EU citizen is, the more likely they're to vote against EU. Given the economic performance of the EU of the last 10 years I would expect ... and I do see recent election results (near-majorities for the extreme right, and growth for extreme-left parties that also aren't helpful, in both France and Germany)

The EU itself is extremely frustrated about these events, because the whole point of the "EU constitution" that became the Treaty of Lisbon was to trade a bit of EU power for increased legitimacy through a popular Europe-wide constitution. After forcing through the treaty of Lisbon ... the net result of it was less legitimacy instead of more, and less power for the EU executive. They are pretty frustrated since the EU executive actually fulfills a LOT of government functions of the member states.

Reality is that for ~70 years the people of the EU have rejected the EU the vast majority of chances they got. Politicians have seen it, imho correctly, as a necessity. Even a country like Germany cannot reasonably negotiate as equals with something like the US, Russia or China, to say nothing of countries like Luxembourgh or Serbia.

I guarantee you that while Norway's politicians want to join the EU, they are very unlikely to actually commit to a fair vote to join the bloc.
This is related to Trusted Computing on ARM platforms, i.e. what is cited related to Distributed Confidential Computing.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm...
> Tech pundits still seem to commonly assume that UB is so fundamentally entangled in C++’s specification and programs that C++ will never be able to address enough UB to really matter.

- denial ← you are here

- anger

- bargaining

- depression

- acceptance

Cope, seethe, mald, etc.
People don't see the EU as a suicide pact so it wont function as one.
Probably an obvious addendum here, but the classes I remember having the most engaging lectures were flipped style where you didn't need to take notes necessarily, because the class was about discussing and deepening the understanding of material you saw already. That was true for my physics classes as well as philosophy. I think it was doubled up in usefulness when we were assigned material that asked us to act on our deepened understanding soon, e.g. before the next class period, such as one of the many "opinion pieces" we wrote for things like dualism/monism, etc.

Technical subjects achieve this with labs, too. It doesn't scale but we see clearly that scaling isn't always very desirable, especially if it leads to this regression.
This is the correct answer. It will never cease to disappoint me that 2&3 didn’t go in one of the many interesting directions implied by the Animatrix.
The first author's commentary at https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2024-082569.full is easier to read than the paper you linked to.

In it she suggests that rather than thinking of a smart phone ban like a smoking ban,

> A more constructive analogy than smoking might be driving cars. In response to increasing injuries and deaths from car crashes, rather than banning cars, society built an ecosystem of product safety regulations for companies (seatbelts, airbags) and consumers (vehicle safety tests, penalties), public infrastructure (traffic lights), and education (licences) to support safer use. Comparative efforts in product safety and education are needed to supplement debates about smartphone and social media bans and to balance the positive and indispensable role of digital technologies against their potential harms.

It's an intriguing analogy because we know well how dangerous cars are to health and the environment, we know there are people who don't want to drive but are forced to because there are no alternatives, and we know how much many drivers oppose support for bike lanes, mass transit, and other alternatives.

And we know the history of how the UK over her entire life has transformed to be more and more car dependent.

If we embrace that analogy, then we need to support alternatives to being digital, with the right to an offline life.

I don't know what System A and System B are, a DDG search for "System A {thinking,reasoning}" finds nothing useful, and the paper says nothing about it nor about comparing dopamine levels.
studying is indeed transactional.
this means that there is an input and a result.
the intensity of effort put by a student is rationnaly a result of a constant (personal to the student), times the product of the chances of getting a result by the intensity of life changing result you get.

nowadays, being a student is an obligation: without those diplomas, you dont get anything. but with those diplomas, you can not get anything.

so you have to split your attention between different sources to split the risk.
That is cool thing to do if you do not have family yet. If you do not, than do it. Life is too short to worry about not having a job for a few months.
If.you have savings than why not?
Ahh, thanks, I didn't notice.
> I happen to be re-reading Burmese Days at the moment, which I think is his best after 1984.

Better than Homage to Catalonia?!
True, of course. But how else would you gauge the stability of a majority? I would have thought the size of it is the main proxy.
I like the automated deployments. These days I'd probably use Harbormaster, but I'm biased because I wrote it.
Running Win98 is still the most reliable way to get Discworld Noir to actually run; a gem of a game, made almost useless by the aggressive DRM practices of the time.

Bookmarking this for future use :)
I don't want to run a closed source OS anymore.
Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
Fwiw you pretty much nailed what being trans is in terms of a concise and unattached summary. There's usually a lot of extreme discomfort with your birth sex too, among other things, but yours is a pretty good starting definition.

Of note on the "2 sexes" subject btw:

- are there actually "only 2 sexes" in context of the genetically intersex?

- the dialogue usually isn't "there's no such thing as a simple biological sex of male or female for most people!!!!", and most people seem to confuse gender with sex or are just seeking excuses to hate on other people.

- many have been trying to suppress reasonable conversation, which is making it harder to just explain things to people. But a lot of us don't even bother trying to explain personally for ourselves when most conversations end up being exhausting bad-faith arguments just to justify our existence to someone spitting some points they heard on a podcast once. So it does tend to mean not a lot of us are going around just trying to explain to everyone like glorified jehovah's witnesses, and the popular perception is pretty distorted from the actual situation on the ground.
Ninja Code: some javascript bad code
or the Uighur genocide, or many other mass murders around the world.
Unfortunately the US government has always been a government for people who do not want to be governed, if you view it from that lens it's much easier to understand the idiosyncrasies of the system.

I don't think it's possible for the USA to move into a high civics-educated, high-trust society, those are cornerstones for a society to have a government made up of representatives of the population's interests, in turn earning respect.

The relationship between USA's population and its government is absolutely adversarial, making it very easy for financial elites to exploit the common people. Tack on top of that the power corporations have developed over the government since the 1980s and you get contemporary USA.
Thanks for pointing that out. I wrote "prohibited" from what I remembered when my child was little and the discrepancy to the info you provided made me research the topic, so here is a summary of what the law (1223/2009 Cosmetic Products Regulation Annex III) has to say:

Tooth paste with more than one per mille of fluoride has either to be marked as unsuitable for children or has to have a note that children have to be supervised using it and a doctor or dentist has to be consulted in case the child swallows more than a pea-sized amount.

So, not quite prohibited, but far from recommended.
> All research is met on HN by people who know better and will tell you why it's flawed. There isn't a greater collection of expertise in the history of the world than on HN.

It seemed like a pretty valid criticism. These studies should be taken with a massive pinch of salt because they're fairly uncontrolled.
Art should be, yes. Unfortunately a lot of visual art being produced from art schools and shown in museums / galleries are forms of criticism. The article mentions crticism as not being a good new thing. The message they seek to convey is more of a priority than the creation of a Good Thing. (In reality modern art is a mixture of varying degrees of criticism and creation)

This is partly because modern conceptual art is about concepts so it's very easy for it to be overtaken by a political or critical message as the concept.
Just get a cert error…
I don't think that there's a contradiction. "Ingress of platonic forms" is observationally indistinguishable from a selection effect: "Universes that don't admit realization of certain platonic forms are unobservable because they have no observers."

For example, a static zero-dimensional universe. There's no pi, no Chaitin's constant, no nothing. Or, in other words, there's no processes or objects in there that we can describe as "ingress of platonic forms" (and no observers to notice that).

I do like his ideas (and I wrote similar things about platonic forms elsewhere), but it's not a solid refutation of physicalism. It's an attractive framework, but as almost everything in philosophy it can easily be challenged.

A physicalist can say "Physical processes that follow a certain equation trivially have properties corresponding to the properties of the equation. So what? I can measure physical process and I can think about the equation (thinking is a physical process too), but why should I postulate independent existence of a/the platonic form of the equation?"

The fact that my subjective experiences undeniably exist makes me reject physicalism, but I can't prove their existence to anyone else and I can't use their existence as a solid basis for some philosophical view. After all it's just one bit of information. Or zero bits? I wouldn't have noticed my own absence.
Down? https://web.archive.org/web/20250331082114/https://daniel.ha...
Well, I see an e-bike analogy around the corner. People dont want to invest the energy anmore, now that they can buy expensive batteries to help with the pedaling. That is pretty much the human nature.
Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence—however…

I don’t dispute that you will come to remember something after needing it several times. But without a more or less comprehensive knowledge of the subject, how do you know if there’s something you haven’t thought you needed, that would have solved the day’s problem faster or better than what you came up with via targeted search? How do you know there aren’t several such things?

I also strongly suspect that having all or most of the facts about a subject immediately available to your mind gives you the ability to think about it in a way that you otherwise couldn’t. Perhaps I’ll post an update in a few months once I’ve thoroughly studied the text I’m working through. If I’m no more adept at analysis, I’ll admit it. I’ll report the negative result.

So I guess we’ll see if it works for at least one of us.
fandom.com is yet another example illustrating why the model of big entities replacing independents forums and wikis has failed (also see reddit). Corporate interests are completely disconnected from the communities.
Many wikis have started to migrate to their own platforms and I hope to see more of that in the future.
That's not the reason why the guy in charge is being called a fascist, if you do believe so you ought to educate yourself instead because you do not understand what's happening, much less the criticism.
In France there's a long (as evidenced by the phpbb forum) active community of people doing that, the keyword is "box† bypass"

https://lafibre.info/routeurs/ (see "remplacer XXX par un routeur")

It's somewhat easy if you know network stuff (DNS, DHCP options, CIDR, routing, prefix delegation, etc...); if you somewhat know about those and can navigate some docs the hardest part is figuring out what the ISP expects in terms of magic bits so that it decides to:

a) hand you out v4 address (DHCP) / v6 prefix (RS)

b) allow routing (notably for v6 prefix, sometimes /64 may work OOTB but getting the /48 or /52 you're supposed to have doesn't route without proper RS DHCPv6 options)

c) unlock throttling (some throttle packets unless magic bits are sent in a specific way)

Well; that, and having the proper hardware (e.g obtaining an off-the-shelf 10-GPON SPF module compatible with what your ISP provides might range from very pricey to unobtainium). I'm lucky because my ISP chose a split ONT/router strategy and I just have to plug my own router in the GPON ONT over Ethernet.

† an ISP-provided router is just called a "box" - from "set-top box" - commercial names being "box" concatenated with the ISP initial or name: Bbox, freebox, livebox, neufbox/box SFR
There is a very good intro on how LLM work by Kharpaty. It's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI and it's 3.30 hours, so way below the 100 hours mark :)
Isn't it harmful if worker co-ops don't allow employees to sell their shares?
needs rename to findMyToilet
Robotics has yet to experience its ‘ChatGPT moment’, but the key to unlocking intelligent physical systems lies not in algorithmic genius but in real-world data. With a 100,000-fold data gap separating robot models from their language-based cousins, a new generation of industrial automation is emerging one warehouse pick at a time
I agree with you.
Not entirely sure what value this post brings of his brings.

“Create something new”… ok great insight, thanks PG, I guess this is some big strategic plan to increase the number YC applicants?

It really reads like some abstract art form that one is staring at and has to figure out the “deeper” meaning of. The problem is, there is no deep meaning there.
I hate the long form so much. I come for the information about the plane crash details, and I get the wall of verbal diarrhea about pilot's upbringing.

At least put all that extra nonsense at the end.
The world gets both better and worse. it is something that I regularly get voted down for saying here, but IMO the west is unduly pessimist because it had a golden age from winning the cold war until the late 2000s, took an overly optimistic view of the future and the inevitability of progress (remember "the end of history") and cannot cope with things going back to normal.

Things get better, sometimes they get worse. Generally people are better off materially than they have ever been, but people do not change all that much morally.
Thanks for the clarification there, but you are going on a tangent there. Point is that people are being valued based on metrics that make no sense.

Pointing that my specific example has some error does not detract from the main point and diving into the specifics of cow breeds or whether all cows are used for milk or not is irrelevant imo. The cow-milk analogy was just an example that could be replaced for any other.
What we get from the sun isn't energy. All the energy we receive has to be irradiated away, or we'd be cooked. We get low entropy energy that we dissipate to sustain our local low entropy systems going and growing.

What LLMs offer is second hand low entropy data. They feed off the low entropy human generated data and give it back. But they raise the entropy of the total body of data, inevitably. The more AI slop there is, the less useful work LLMs can extract from data.
Are you trying to flip the table against them? because I agree with all of that. If certain employees are causing problems with other employees, the company has every right to fire them.
> how the US handled the situation in a country

As if the US were responsible for the whole world. Hey Megalomania, nice to meet you.
While I have no idea if this is or isn't the reason for those issues, I think it's worth mentioning that SSDs do suffer from bit rot, especially when left unpowered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
https://www.partitionwizard.com/clone-disk/is-ssd-good-for-l...
This is the direction I'd love UI automation to move towards, congrats on bringing it closer. Gonna try and see how it works for me. I have a couple of questions:

1. How's reproducibility of actions, is it flaky?

2. How does it perform under adversarial conditions, such as slow network and high CPU load? With current crop of frameworks, you have to write tests defensively.

3. Any plans for visual regression integration? I'd love to have a smart VR tool that doesn't fail because a Linux machine CI renders fonts differently than Windows. None of the existing image comparison libraries are robust enough.
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Ask HN: What are the best questions to ask a potential CTO during an interview?
Thanks for the replies re OO's security issues, they're lighting a fire under me to make the move.
I stumbled upon this tool [1] recently that does not slim down the image like you might want to but gives you a lot of options what to remove via an .xml file
[1] https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1905249003291484566

Looking at those graphs I think one sees a war started by the weaker force and losing badly. A genocide in the same way as a bully being smacked in his face is bullying.
I have seen folks who are relatively new to programming work like this.

Rather than simple laziness, it was often because they felt intimidated by their lack of knowledge and wanted to be more productive.

However, the result of a ChatGPT based workflow is that reasoning often is the very last resort. Ask the LLM for a solution, paste it in, get an error, paste that in, get a new solution, get another error, ask for a fix again, etc. etc.

Before someone chimes in to say this is like Stack Overflow: no it isn't. Real people expect you to put some work and effort into first describing your problem, then solving it. You would rarely find someone willing to go through such an exercise with you, and they probably wouldn't hallucinate broken code to you while doing it.

15 minutes of this and it turns out to be something silly that ChatGPT would never catch - e.g. you have installed a very old version of the Python module for some internal company reason. But because the reasoning muscle isn't being built up, and the context isn't being built up, they can't figure it out.

They didn't see the bit on the docs page that says "this function was added in version 1.5" because they didn't write the function call, and didn't open the documentation, and perhaps wouldn't even consider opening the documentation because that's what ChatGPT is for. In fact, they might not have even consciously chosen that library because again.. that's what ChatGPT is for.
That looks a lot like several inefficiencies:

1. Why aren't more people trying to get those jobs?

2. Why aren't locals trying to bring workers from low cost of labor areas?
IASM – bridging gaps between legacy tools and offering continuous visibility
>and cannot cope with things going back to normal.

how do we define "normal" for society?
kinda both :)
Well, that's indeed the prime issue - but also I suspect why Norway is even considering is. There were also some noises about Canada considering EU membership (!). Turkey would be a hard nut though, especially with the recent activities.

I mean, when there's will, there's a way. It could notionally be an EU organisation, with third-party affiliates, a bit like ESA or Horizon. But even then, I posit that it is more convenient to have it notionally be a unit of the EU for most EU members - and by extension, most NATO-ex-US countries.
An amendment proposed by congress [0] very specifically disallows a third term if the first two were consecutive. It's all been very cynical in that way.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-res...

Speaking as someone not from the country, US federal politics has became alarmingly... gerontocratic. Which means the younger generations get fewer chances to grow political acumen and expertise (unless, of course, they have backing). Which only hurts the rest of the country in the long term.
Yeah you definitely wanna review section 3 of the C standard again because it literally doesn't say that lol
I'm working on a hidden puzzle for the 40th anniversary phrack edition which is scheduled for release this summer. If you're a reader of it be on the lookout for curiosities and scrutinize everything. There is a prize at the end and it's going to be fun. :)
The left refuses to vote for the left because the left isn't crazy and confused enough about jihadis. Checks out.
I'm working on https://github.com/librempeg/librempeg
This tired old contention that some great historical thinker is
somehow single-handedly responsible for the fall of civilisation is
nothing more than railing against intellect itself.
For those who don't want to install:
https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
I've been out of the Java world a while - you spotted exactly what I was thinking of, which was a global JVM deployment that everything used. Or at least an app container that lots of things used. Thanks for the update.