skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of Europe is stomping all over free speech.

Take Mr. Habeck (German politician). He is having more than 600 people criminally prosecuted for calling him a "Schwachkopf" (that is a very, very mild insult). One citizen journalist reported on this, including the meme that people had been sharing, then wondered "oh dear, is reporting on this going to get me prosecuted?". Yes, it did.

Or take an anecdote from Scotland. As Vance described in his Munich speech: It is illegal to protest within 200 meters of an abortion center. 200 meters is quite a distance, and includes a number of private dwellings. People living in those dwellings were informed that it is therefore illegal for them to say anything against abortion in the privacy of their own homes.

Those are just two of many, many examples. A lot of this is driven by politicians fearing for their power. Looking back to Germany, the attempts to shut out the AfD have backfired spectacularly: the AfD will soon be the most popular party in the country. Which scares the established political parties more, which make them more repressive, which drives more people to the AfD, which...well, you get the idea. FWIW, no, the AfD is not extreme - read their party program. They are, however, becoming a serious threat to the established parties.

You can find similar stuff throughout Europe, and especially within the EU. The EU itself, driven by the (unelected, corrupt) commission is behind a lot of it. Ms. LePen cannot run for office? Why, then, can Ms Van der Leyen hold office when she was convicted on much more serious corruption charges several years ago?

To add salt to the (potential) wound, TFA says that the EU wants to base a potential fine on the value, not only of X, but also of other companies. That would be incredibly...let's say, "creatively extralegal".

The EU wonders why their are so few tech startups in Europe. They need only look in the mirror...
Except I am seeing the same thing on shopping sites where I am the paying customer. I was shopping for some RAM the other day. I searched for 'DDR5 6000 cl30 64gb'. I hoped to see all the 64gb kits that met those specs. Instead I had to wade through many results that were only 32gb, had a higher cl rate, or different speeds.
I had to do something like this with Ansible's get_url module once.

Was having issues getting module to download an installer from a vendors site.

Played with Curl/WGET, but was running into the same, while it worked from a browser.

I ended up getting both Curl + get_url to work by passing the same headers my browser sent such as User-Agent, encoding, etc
In the Midwest US I also see evangelical Christianity pushing faith healing so hard that to be some kinds of sick are moral failures. Combined with the puritan view of poverty as a symptom of moral failure, and there is a lot of turning up ones nose at the poor and sick as undeserving of public assistance. Only when they bend the knee to God will they be worthy of help, and only with strings attached.
I mean, I dislike Rand's outlook passionately but I would not hold it against her to withdraw from a system she paid into or from living in the framework of society she lived in, even if she resented it.
I’d guess Daniel pronounce it as ”kurl”, with a hard C like in ”crust”, since hes swedish.
I’m bringing up my own on a Lenovo with KVM.
I'm exactly like this.

I have a OneWheel that I use to get around, and a JBL speaker. I legit listen to music in Publix isles, dancing, vibing, all day, every day.

I'm known around my neighborhood as "the speaker guy".

If I don't have music playing, I'm usually finger drumming/tapping/bobbing my head anyway.
All preorders of the Switch 2 at most, if not all, big retailers in the EU are sold out...

So no.
Trump's tariffs shake markets, spark recession fears
Thanks for the correction.

> GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case.

Allowlisting makes so much more logical sense. New ideas shouldn't be allowed by default.

Especially when so many variables are at play, the FDA's denylist model across a massive population makes it very difficult to narrow down what is causing a problem. If I could make only 1 change to US health policy, it would be switching the FDA to allowlisting.
There's a reason all the billionaires built their hidey-holes in NZ and bought citizenship. Stable liberal democracy that probably won't seize all their shit, relatively rich, not so tiny that there's little to do, really good natural environments, not likely to turn totally awful under climate change, really hard for climate or other refugees to reach, out-of-the-way and non-threatening enough that it's unlikely to be attacked by anyone or put entirely under the thumb of a great power for the next century or so, at least.

I can't think of a single other country that even comes close to matching that list of benefits. Only major downside is Christmas in Summer.
I'm not talking about SunOS or Solaris. I'm talking about Java, dtrace, OpenZFS, and a various other random bits of Sun legacy still floating around in modern open-source systems.
So I guess this is a bit the same as using something like Drizzle to define your tables and handle your migrations?
AGI timelines have been steadily decreasing over time: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-... (switch to all-time chart)
The specific proprietary controls you're referring to are called "secure boot".
Could pandas benefit from this integration?
Nope. I did it purely due to long-term intellectual curiosity.

I first pursued "AI" in undergrad during the last AI winter. For example, the only professor who taught neural networks at Purdue was in the EE dept, not CS, and was retiring the semester I was first qualified to study it. There weren't enough seats in the class, and since it was graduate level, I wasn't allowed to take it as an undergrad.

I really tried every avenue I could think of at the time to pursue AI — taking part in Robocup, taking classical AI (also from the EE dept), etc. None of what I was exposed to seemed like it was pushing the the intellectual boundaries, so I instead got into video game AI as a way to pursue AI (a number of famous ML researchers like Demis Hassabis got their start in video games).

When I started my PhD a very tiny group of researchers were looking at text generation, let alone for creative text. The idea was very niche.

Note, I only pursued a PhD after I got an interview at OpenAI in 2017 that made me realize a PhD was likely necessary to pursue research.
So over-engineered that I cannot even see them until I enable multiple rounds of JavaScript. And the colour scheme ignores my preferences and hurts my eyes.

I backed right out of whatever that was.
To be fair, Rand herself said (to paraphrase) that because the state took it from her against her will it was fair play to take it back and I think that was self-consistent.

That said, she wanted to let the disabled starve to death so I don't think anyone really has to be fair to her at all. Empathy is only for the empathetic.
No, the post referring to prior controversies. This includes the exodus of a large number of long-term nixpkgs maintainers after undoing the ban of an Anduril employee.
The republicans have not been following the laws since they put Trump into the White House 8 years ago. Why do you think something like legality will stop them?
I didn't analyze this for either: rahter what is what is the typical outcome for young humans who achieve a high degree of success/fame before their prefrontal cortex is fully formed.

As we understand more about brain development in kids, I think and under studied aspect are kids who got access to a lot more money than normal typical kids have, and the results such wealth brings.
Ukraine techies 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion
For what it's worth, this is a uniquely American view of copyright:

> The ONLY reason to have any law prohibiting unlicensed copying of intangible property is to incentivize the creation of intangible property.

In Europe, particularly France, copyright arose for a very different reason: to protect an author's moral rights as the creator of the work. It was seen as immoral to allow someone's work -- their intellectual offspring -- to be meddled with by others without their permission. Your work represents you and your reputation, and for others to redistribute it is an insult to your dignity.

That is why copyrights in Europe started with much longer durations than they did in the United States, and the US has gradually caught up. It is not entirely a Disney effect, but a fundamental difference in the purpose of copyright.
I also get such energy from Atlas Shrugged, I don't understand why. I know that the good guys are very carefully crafted, they don't cheat, they don't do things like lobbying to win. They don't compromise on their world view to the extreme. They don't have children, that makes it all easier, but also less real.

Raised christian but feeling burned out by the contradictions, the emptiness of trying to live for others (it's killing for relationships I can tell you), the mental struggle to rationalize all the rules, I too felt that spark. I realize dogmatism is always bad but that voice inside keeps saying: It's not when the theory is perfect! The truth is knowable and can be discovered through reason. How super comforting (and damn that Incompleteness Theorem I learned about later).

I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system? For rules to make sense of the world? Whatever it is, Rand's philosophy remains so appealing. It's probably the reason I started a company, walk into meetings now boldly, with a goal, why I enjoy things now, just to enjoy myself. As a rational, healthy human, there is nothing wrong with that, in contrast to what my upbringing tried to instill in me.

Perhaps that's it, it liberated my from a confining worldview. Perhaps another worldview could have done the same.
Ask HN: Will US tariffs boost robotics for manufacturing research?
Doing more manufacturing in the US may mean inventing more advanced robots to do it rather than hiring people.
Right on. And the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-Jew feels really dangerous, considering the current state of affairs in Israel.

I'm an American, thankyouverymuch. I've been to Israel once. I don't care a whole lot about the place either way. Acting like I must be aggrieved when someone attacks that country is doing far more damage to me than the attack.
I can't speak to universities specifically, but I've always felt there has been a strain of anti-intellectualism underlying a great deal of mainstream America for as long as I can remember.

It's the little things like tv shows or movies with characters who seem to glorify ignorance, people who state self deprecating things like "I'm bad at math" and wear it like a bizarre badge of honor, etc.
Citations required plz
Given all the em dashes in his essay, that's probably LLM on LLM violence lol
Great question.

I built my own super simple router abstraction. Message comes in, goes into my router, which sends it to the right handler.

I only test the handler itself, without any need for the higher level tasks. This also means that I'm only thinly tied to GCP Tasks and can migrate to another system by just changing the router.
Way back in the ASP3/IIS days, we had these "big" pages and because of the engine building big strings was slow. So, I made this little COM library (Linum) which would simply pre-allocate a buffer for writing into. Yes, a StringBuffer. For those scripts the runtime improved like 500%. Memory usage was only like 10% worse.
> Natural language is a terrible interface to interact with a computer

And period. It is terrible when interacting with people to. Its only saving grace is that it is widely supported.

> You fundamentally cannot get it significantly better.

It will when we flip the script. The trouble right now is that we're trying to do it backwards. Eventually we'll settle on a programming language as the de facto language of LLMs, that can be translated to natural language for interfacing with the pesky humans still running in legacy mode. That is when transformation will occur.
Oh thank you, that cpu_detect.c3 is exactly what I need, the posted single-header library is almost the same in terms of functionality.

BTW my last question still stands, however, that if there is a C library that is only a single header file that implements functions through macros, can it be used from C3? In C, for what I posted, you would need to first do "#define CPUDETECT_IMPL" and then include the header file. Could it be done from C3 somehow? As in, could this (or any) single-header library be used from C3?

And regarding the errors, can I have something like "Error" (in Odin), or an enum of errors? Sorry for this silly question, I realize I will have to read the source code of the libraries first.

Thank you for your help!
Small US companies near me, reliant on Chinese inputs, aren't suddenly getting hundreds of millions to build factories that'll take years to finish. Trump’s plan assumes most small businesses can pause everything for long, expensive factory construction/toolup projects. In my area our three big manufacturers depend on Canadian aluminum and Chinese subcomponents. Tariffs won’t bring jobs back but they’ll kill the ones we still have.
They don't even align with countries. You know why those odd territories have been given tariffs - because they have tlds. They can't even put a list of trading countries together.
Who Should Pay for Ozempic Is the Next Big Workplace Fight
It's "easy to learn" and you get all the downsides that come with that.

At work right now we're integrating with scoring models hosted in Amazon SageMaker written by a "modelling team" and as far as I can tell they follow absolutely no basic coding practices. They give us the API and are asking us to send English strings of text for names of things instead of any real keys, and they're just comparing against plain strings and magic numbers everywhere so if they're asked to make any change like renaming something it's a herculean task that breaks a bunch of other things. Something will break when a field is null and then they'll tell us instead of sending null if we have no data to send -9999999. One time something broke and it turned out to be because we sent them "MB" (Manitoba) as someone's province, and whoever wrote it was just plain-text checking against a list of province codes as strings and didn't remember to include Manitoba.

I know this is still mainly a business/management issue that they're allowing people who don't know how to code to write code, but I'm sure this is happening at other companies, and I think Python's level of accessibility at the beginner level has been a real blight to software quality.
Does nothing for me ("Play" does nothing) with uBO enabled in FF.
For writing many people only become popular after they are dead.

I heard this explained once as the art in some writing is explaining how people feel in a situation that is still too new for many to want to pay to have it illustrated to them. But once the newness has passed, and people understand or want to understand, then they enjoy reading about it.

As a personal example, I could enjoy movies about unrequited love before and long after I experienced it firsthand, but not during or for years after. People may not yet have settled feelings about an event until afterward, and not be willing to “pick at the scab”.

The other, more statistical explanation is that it just takes a lot of attempts to capture an idea or feeling and a longer window of time represents more opportunities to hit upon a winning formula. So it’s easier to capture a time and place afterward than during.
Yeah, definitely. It's basically executable pseudocode and it's really simple for a beginner to pick up and hit the ground running for a variety of use cases.

Some people will tell you to start with C or C++ to get a better intuition for what's actually happening under the hood in Python, but that's not really necessary for most use cases unless you're doing something niche. Some of the most popular use cases for Python are webapps, data analysis, or general automation. For the 1% of use cases that Python isn't the right fit for, you can still use it to prototype or glue things together.

There are a lot of great resources out there for learning Python, but they won't necessarily teach you how to make great software. You can't go wrong with the official tutorial. https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/ is pretty terse and incorporates a lot of best practices.
I wonder if there is value in splitting copyright into two parts and keeping a longer duration on the copies of the original work, but shortening the duration on the concepts in that work. That is, allow an author / studio to retain a long duration ownership of the original movie or story, so no one else can just start distributing copies of their VHS tapes after a few years. But at the same time, after 10 or 20 years other people can start making new Star Wars universe movies and books without licensing it from the original artist/author. If the original was good enough, then the rights to be the sole distributor of that original material should be plenty worthwhile, and in the mean time, just in time for the generational “nostalgia bump” a whole new set of related properties can come out, reinvigorating interest in the original.

Maybe even some sort of gradual opening of the IP, where after say 10 years, broad categories are opened (think things like “the Jedi” or “the Empire” or “Endor”), but specific characters and their representations aren’t (so no Darth Vader or Luke Skywalkers), then after 20 years you open the characters themselves but only derivative works. And then finally after 30 years or so you open the originals as well for things like translations or “de-specialized” editions or what have you. Then finally 50 years puts the raw originals in the public domain as well.
I remember first hearing of the "not in our name" protests (very early on) and thinking "I'm so glad I'm not the only person who realizes that what is being presented as patronization is blame."
I was responding to the parent argument that the pun couldn't have been written by chatgpt, when that is literally the _only_ pun that ChatGPT comes up with.
My absolutely biased take is that ICE car drivers are so accustomed to their frequent trips to the gas station that they just can't imagine a vehicle that does not require this.

Granted, that observation applies mostly only to single family home owners who can run an L2 EVSE. It is naturally different for people who cannot charge at home.

But I think there's also often an assumption that an EVSE is some elaborate expensive thing. I charged for years at 3kW, and drove 100+km a day on that. It was fine. Even an L1 120v charge could just fine for people who are going like 30-40km a day, which is a lot of people.
30% in my suburb (10 years ago there were farms between it and the city so this is new) live in apartments of some sort. Majority is single family, but still a significant enough number in something else.
I fail to see the irony of "inheriting" an empire from Rand, when the protagonist of atlas shrugged and other main characters were heirs to a fortune. Inheritance is thoroughly explored in her work.

To me- this article is about the social dangers of taking a philosophy to the extreme, and about how easy it is to take advantage of the elderly when estranged.
> In the past few years, getting songs stuck in my head (earworms) has become so easy I pretty much don’t listen to music with vocals anymore. Only ambient, techno and psytrance for me. (Pop I imagine would be the absolute worst, lab engineered to be memorable)

Same. This is partly why SomaFM (esp. Space Station Soma, Drone Zone, and Mission Control) and soundtracks are my jam.

I think it's also partly why I can't stand Vivaldi or Hiromi. Vivaldi writes classical pop -- so heavy on melody that it may as well be choral. It's easy to sing, and sounds like song, so it gets stuck in the ear. Hiromi, in turn, plays the piano quite literally like she's singing (honestly, I think she's a musical acrobat with no feel for the piano as an instrument), which results in ear worms for the same reason.

Bill Evans, by contrast, is so chock full of harmonic complexity and color that it's physically impossible to sing along with him. I never tire of him. Same for Wayne Shorter and Bach, though for different reasons.

And I just realized that this is probably partly why I hate musical theater so fervently.
I'm bored of hearing about it because every conversation about it is the same.
Even her fictional utopia Galt's Gulch is basically a commune, a commune where people cosplay at being hardnosed capitalists who won't give anything for free by charging each other token amounts for everything...
Collapsing the top comment (by svara) in that thread is essentially instant for me, with Chrome 134.0.6998.166 on macOS.

The Javascript is surprisingly readable (not minimized, not using any framework). It looks like all the comments are peers according to the DOM structure. When it collapses a comment, it loops through all the following DOM siblings until returning to the same indent level (so all the semantic descendants) and hides them one-by-one. I could see why this could be a bit slow even though it isn't for me. I'm not really a frontend person so I don't know why they might have chosen this structure. One could imagine if the DOM structure were set up such that the comment's descendants were DOM descendants, it wouldn't have to do this at all. It could just use a CSS selector that would hide elements (and thus their descendants also) if their direct parent were collapsed.
It is kind of interesting how long it took for people to start applying distortion to other parts of the track outside the guitar. Seemed like that started when people were doing 4 track mixing on little cassette tascoms that would clip unlike expensive studio multitrack setups. Neutral Milk Hotel and such.
Missing is why laws fight so hard too, missing the opposite of what we have (in the west), namely blatant and rampant piracy. The other extreme is really bad, creators of any type pirated by organized crime. There was no video game nor movie market in eastern Europe for example, can't compete against large scale piracy.

Which is to say, preservation without awareness of the threat will look like hoarding. A secondary question is to what extent is that threat real? Without seeing what true rampant piracy looks like, I think it would be easy to be ignorant of the threat.
> The answer is, because the money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath

But it does come with some reasonable level of consideration and appreciation.