skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine hasn't postponed elections indefinitely. They have postponed them until they are no longer at war.

Other countries have effectively gone from moderately democratic elections to sham elections. Turkey is one major country that is going through this process at the moment.
They did not mention a war. You can eliminate a race without a war or violence.
Penguins are just mascots.

You're probably thinking of that one dead badger.
And on top of it, a major source of mortality - smoking - is widely present in Europe and nearly absent in America. Drug addiction is also not a thing for the rich. The rich have no healthcare issues - in America if you can pay, healthcare is better than in Europe, and there are much fewer delays too, only problem is the price.

So what it is after all? Maybe simply race?
#wtf Apple
If being able to replace a part requires me to have a screwdriver (literally a Philips one should do), the component, and no additional PhD or bravery coming from youth, inexperience or both, I will welcome it with open arms.

Right now, having devices which require both expertise and expensive machinery means that the cost of going to someone to repair it will increase over 10 folds, making a full replacement a financial and sound choice.

If my CPU doesn't last for 10 years but I can change it myself in minutes, I would rather that than throwing away everything else I still love and is still functional just for promised extended reliability (which is just a matter of statistics and profit margins at the end of the day).
According to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump...):

> Despite this, according to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was “machinery and electrical” imports. It was not immediately clear what those goods were.

In the five years prior, imports from Heard Island and McDonald Islands ranged from US$15,000 (A$24,000) to US$325,000 (A$518,000) per year.

Maybe someone has accidentally uncovered some kind of tax evasion scheme here?
We tried this at a LAN-Party in December and couldn't get it to run.
I am happily trying it again for the next LAN-Party. Nice to see development on this project. :-)
You don't like federalism much, do you?

Btw, states already coordinate voluntarily on things like traffic signs, without there being a central authority. (That's both true for states in the US, and for different countries around the world. A stop sign looks pretty much nearly the same around the world, without any central authority enforcing that.)
Taiwan chip industry can have 'brief reprieve' after Trump tariff exemption
Look:

Ryzen 7840U replacement Framework mainboard £699 (currently discounted): https://frame.work/gb/en/products/mainboard-amd-ryzen-7040-s...

Thinkbook 14" Gen 7, 7735HS/16G/512G £730 - https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bun...

Ideapad Slim 3 Gen 10 14", 8840HS/24G/512G £730 - https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bun...

7840U and 8840HS are essentially the same CPU and the difference in performance between 7840U and 7735HS is minimal, few % at best. So these three are comparable. I'm sorry but for the price of a replacement mainboard I can buy a brand new whole laptop with memory, storage, screen, the everything that comes with it. Am I the only one who just doesn't get the hype behind a repairable laptop?
Trump makes Clinton look like a gentleman and Bush Jr. look like a scholar.
> I really wish people would learn to keep emotion out of this topic.

Emotions are the fuzzy result of billions of years of experience. We are capable of great things if the mind set is right. The mind set is almost entirely emotional. You are curious, you learn, you interact with others, you set goals, you accomplish things. If others do the same we can be proud together. It takes very little to disrupt this process and create people who don't give a fuck anymore.

I get that you want things to be analytically sound as anything else would be worthy of paranoia. Just read the article and see it is exactly what you've asked for.
The classical liberals support regulating speech on the basis of the harm principle. The quibbling comes down to what you count as "harm".
Posting these kinds of non-quotes-dumped-between-two-quotation-marks is, aside from being generally shitty, also against the rules on HN.
Who is this Ourselves?

Europe can do basically nothing. Funniest was German solar panels. They tried to fight American panels with 50% taxes, but American lost to Chinese. Even 200% wont help now.

I actually remember when folding 10W panel was 180€ in Germany, 60$ in USA and 10€ in Aliexpress.
Make America a great mess.
That's why the better policy is not to subsidize the purchase price of the car, but the various taxes associated with owning one, as well as offering certain perks like being able to drive in the bus lane. This was a huge success in Norway. Though now the percentage of new car purchases that are electric is so large that the subsidies are being rolled back because they've gotten too expensive(and the bus lane thing no longer makes sense because if the majority of cars can drive in it, it's not really a bus lane anymore). But I think that's fine. You can make an argument that when subsidies were introduced, electric cars were still struggling to compete with combustion cars in numerous ways, like range, capacity, access to chargers and repair services, etc. Subsidies/perks acted as compensation for those downsides for early adopters. The playing field is obviously a lot more even now. Chargers(including home chargers) are generally widely available, range is improved via better battery tech, there's a lot more players in the market, meaning more choice, etc. Not really a car guy, but I assume the repair situation is also improved, though it may not be on par yet.
Mine is 12 years old, battery is dead but I use it as a server.
You have basically described the government vs private contractor dynamic.
On the contrary, in context I believe my comment is actually the simplest explanation. Claiming that the US government is insane while we, as random members of the public know better, is certainly not the simplest explanation...

It does not imply that what they are doing is a good idea or will work (whatever the objective is), just that there is more rational thought in what they are doing than what people might assume because the public does not have the information and seeing through what is going on requires insights that most people don't have, either.

Again, check @ggm comment above. I am not saying that this is what is going on but it is a possibility, and an average member of the public would never think of that scenario and thus wouldn't see the order in the apparent chaos.
Trump isn't smart, he is an idiot, but an useful tool to others so they made sure he gets elected a second time.
- FW13 has no video output, except as a USB adapter

- FW13 has no audio outputs, except as USB sound card

That was a conscious design decision, as you're supposed to use swappable expansion cards.

Other things X60T has, but FW13 doesn't:
- Fingerprint reader

https://frame.work/pl/en/products/fingerprint-reader-kit?v=F...

- SD card slot

https://frame.work/pl/en/products/sd-expansion-card
> I don't know of any technical reason to delay emails to minor domains. My domain has valid MX records, uses SPF, has valid DKIM TXT records, etc.

I still run into that with my business address; after much mucking around with client's MS admin who did various pieces of magic on their online/azure/microsoft email platform until we finally got it down to around 2m for the delay.

The upside appears to be that now all clients who are using microsoft appear to have only a 2m delay when sending email to my business domain.
That could explain the second issue I describe. Maybe the first. But I do not think he has such an excuse for the third.
Location: France, Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, as well as hybrid or in person

Technologies: Flutter, Kotlin, C++, Rust, Cyber Security

Résumé/CV: On request or https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-ihlas-a08462156/

Email: jon {@} ihlas.me
One of my consulting gigs turned into a "fix bugs in and add features to OSS for us" job, that was good while it lasted. There are successful companies doing this for larger companies too, Igalia for example.

https://www.igalia.com/
Tech giants have no competition in Europe and no capital to do so. In some ways, what Trump is doing is a call to arms for the EU to kick their economies into shape.
We've been stuck in 0 growth for years, the UK is in a 0 growth trap since the GFC.
Writing Greener Software Even When You Are Stuck On-Prem [video]
What about the inverse though; Vietnam/Thailand/Cambodia increasing their exports to China?
It does look like a very coherent plan. Just not by an US government.
It was four.
Please oh please don’t post articles like this on hacker news. Yes these are tragic stories but they are amply covered in thousands of other online forums. HN has been an oasis free from conflict-generating political articles like this. Let HN be one place dedicated to news for — and about — hackers. If politics is your thing, Reddit is the place for you.
91% of US adults have a driving licence:

https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2024/01/number-of-licensed-dr...

So forgive me for being flippant but....how hard can it be?

>>How do people with 2 or 3 jobs do?

I assume they drive to those 3 jobs, so they somehow found a way.Again, sorry for being dismissive, and I appreciate it might be time consuming at costly - but still, 91% of all American adults have found a way to do this, so my point is that driving licences(along other documents) seem like a perfectly acceptable form of ID for voting?
It would also help to have a population without a deep-seated beef going back to the civil war. You arguably have two separate 'America's split down that historical line that might not ever see eye-to-eye and, just like the US itself has installed dictators or favourable governments by funding disruption abroad, it is open to be exploited the same way.
Now you're getting it. Adamantly trying to focus on "eliminating poverty", when my original comment was about the morality of neoliberalism, is a straw man argument. I'm glad that after enough contemplation you have come to understand this.

So, if you'd like to address my original comment, I'm all ears, otherwise this discussion is a complete waste of time. Before you do that, though, it would be prudent to learn about what neoliberalism actually is, and why foreign intervention is directly related to it and your original premise. Once you do that, we'll be able to have a fruitful discussion.

An excerpt from The Divide:

> People commonly think of neoliberalism as an ideology that promotes totally free markets, where the state retreats from the scene and abandons all interventionist policies. But if we step back a bit, it becomes clear that the extension of neoliberalism has entailed powerful new forms of state intervention. The creation of a global 'free market' required not only violent coups and dictatorships backed by Western governments, but also the invention of a totalizing global bureaucracy – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and bilateral free-trade agreements – with reams of new laws, backed up by the military power of the United States

https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9781786090034
> The average person is not intelligent enough to have their own domain.

You think that that skill (maintaining own domain for email) is an indicator of intelligence?
I know this view is common in the US but the EU fines all kinds of companies - European and not - large amounts for various violations.

Just 3 days ago it was almost $500 million to various car manufacturers, the biggest piece to Volkswagen. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

In 2021 it was $900 million to Volkswagen and BMW https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/sv/ip_21_...

In 2019 it was $370 million to automotive suppliers: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/sk/ip_19_...

In 2016 it was $3 billion to truck manufacturers: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_16_...

That list keeps going. And these are just the EU actions. National governments have their own enforcement. Germany fines Volkswagen for another billion in 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/13/vw-fined-1b...

Treating fines on US companies as a tariff means we should also count Volkswagen $4.3 billion fine for Dieselgate as a hidden tariff. Do you agree with that?
Paris is especially bad though. They have good public transport but the traffic is insane and makes the city so much worse. Partially attributed to the Parisian driving style though. Or just French people in cities. Highways in France are very chill compared to their neighbors. But in the cities it’s a fight to the death.
Hence why D has two approaches with similar semantics, const and immutable.

And also allows to alias non const references to the same data.

Thus the data can be modified by a mutable reference, owned by a specific part of the code, while everyone else only gets to see the const chain.
First you try to argue tolerance and understanding, and then you say that "most pro-Palestine views are antisemitic" and that you cut off all contact with people who hold those views. Your hypocrisy is astounding and you should be embarrassed.
The thing is that Europeans wanted the Tesla cars. They fit perfectly into the Europeans identity - had Tesla kept on and kept the Tesla cars competitive without any political interference, then that could have been great car exports from the US to the EU.
I noticed I made an error when remembering the memory type I saw a while ago.

I meant the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMM_(memory_module)

That's a way to have the memory close, but still being able to change it (without e.g. hot air station or something).
ThinkPads use 20V chargers. USB-C supports 20V power delivery. What's the efficiency of power adapters back then compared to current gen USB-C chargers?
You can use the T420/T520's keyboard in a T430/T530 with modifications to the firmware, some plastic around the keyboard part itself, and the ribbon cable (just pin isolation with tape). It lets you go with Ivy Bridge over Sandy Bridge.

I have a T430 with the T420's keyboard and it lasted me 7 years of daily use before battery life became too big of an issue for me (even with a single DDR3L RAM module and a slice battery), so I put it aside. The typing experience was really excellent.

Upgrading the CPU to a quad-core model (ideally one that consumes 35W over 45W) is one of the best upgrades to make for anyone still using these machines.
There is the OS security model, who said otherwise?

Supply chain attacks from misbehaving libraries using reflection or JNI/Panama, that is what secure by default is protecting from.
I've noticed this too, on average people are incapable of holding a moral position through to the end.

- Bad parenting is bad, we should have a permit for it --> are you ready to get denied the right to try having kids?

- Thou shalt not kill --> except those really bad people I don't like!

- Stealing is bad --> except when you're "starving"

Our perception of good and evil are multifaceted, with most of it happening in our background cognition.

There is a strange "mirror" stopping people from exchanging once a rift has opened. Someone else posited that it might be a fight or flight reaction.

I posit that our cognition is based on negation, and thus the shape of our tool impact our results.
> the only thing you will be able to replace is the battery and the screen. Both which 99% users never have to replace.

This is sarcasm, I hope, right? The two most consumable items in the laptop (specially for OLED screens), and you're suggesting users have no need to replace them?
> and also I'm certain Trump will threaten to remove American military support from anyone who dumps the Dollar - so Europe will probably stay, Australia, Canada, Saudi and quite a few more.

Europe already has the mindset US military support is no longer a given. Europe is already re-arming. I wonder if additional threats by the Trump administration are going to make much of a difference. Even though it will take atleast half a decade to re-arm the main adversary, Russia, is currently in no shape to launch any kind of new offensive against a European country.

> I'm not sure though he wants it to become THAT weak that its on longer the reserve currency.

Intentions aside, with big moves like these the question will be how much control he has over what happens next.
>by all accounts

Which accounts?
> The slowest possible piece would have a fermata with an infinity sign over the first note, and that's it.

But then the piece would never be completely played, which seems like a requirement for Cage's musical game / art / philosophical statement.

Moreover, your hypothetical piece could still technically be played at a high tempo. It seems like the point of the Cage piece is to play it at the slowest possible tempo, not over the greatest length of time possible (and that's why the fermata idea doesn't fit). (So while you're correct that 639 years doesn't represent the slowest tempo possible (just play it over 640 years instead, right?) it's the idea of extreme slowness that's interesting. Or perhaps "as slow as possible" refers to the tempo that really was as slow as possible (at the time it was set up) because of technological constraints.

Without having deeply researched the piece, I wonder if 639 years was chosen with any relation to Tesla's 3–6–9 idea.

Edit: It looks like the 639 years comes from the "performer(s)" who set up the equipment, not from Cage himself. The composer only gave the instruction to play it as slowly as possible, which plays into the technological-limitations idea above, I think.
We had an expensive IBM ThinkPad model (too long ago to remember what model it was) and the keyboard and several other parts were worn down in three years of mostly in-home use. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

At least a lot of modern ThinkPads are still modular. Recently got a 5th gen T14 AMD. Memory, NVMe SSD, WWAN modem, battery, and a bunch of other components are really easy to replace. I think I prefer the keyboard over my MBP, it feels less harsh.
And they're backing down on just enough woke stuff due to the concern about the lack of participation of checked-out-of-society White men in said (world) war.
I don't live in the USA to be able to name people, you have 350 million people, there's definitely enough to have gone through life without doing any of the stuff you mentioned, barring them from voting is antithetical to democratic values. It's very simple probabilities, there's a non-zero number of people that will be affected.

On top of that, making vote more difficult through technicalities (voter roll purges, increased friction to vote, increased uncertainty if one can vote and will be punished if not eligible due to a technicality, etc.) further tilts the scale of who votes or not, either being barred by technicalities or fear.

None of that has any place in a real democracy, if democratic values are to be uphold it should be as easy as possible for any eligible voter to exercise their vote if they so wish.

You want anecdotes to fight against statistics, I think you got stuff reversed there, mate...

Edit: ah, lol, I think I need to repeat your own words back to you:

> This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance and is also asking someone else to prove nonexistence of a situation.
> but lively debates and fights among friends and family for ideas

The missing ingredient is "intellectual honesty". It used to be the case that when you talked to people on the right they would

- refer to events that actually happened and true statements about the world
- accept them in the context of wider events (although there's always been a risk of making policy from one exeptional incident)
- make an argument that followed logically from those

This did end up in duelling statistics and arguments over what mattered, but that's a reasonable place for discussion. Nowadays it's much deeper into making wild arguments from conspiracy theories with no or highly questionable evidence. Pizzagate. Birtherism. And so on.
Could be a thing? Perhaps people might start caring about product durability and stop buying cheap shit that goes in a landfill because the producers only care about shelf appeal.
> Do people still use Thunderbird client? I would guess 99% of people use their browser.

Count me as one. It's nice to have a single local application that is set up for around 5 different accounts on two different providers.

I also like the immediacy of search on the local data. When I search for something I don't want to see a spinning busy-beachball indicator.
Say, doesn't each business - each activity - have its own formal language?

Not as formalized as programming languages, but it's there.

Try to define any process, you end up with something trending towards formalized even if you don't realize it.
You can look at countries that have remained democratically stable for a long time. The UK and Switzerland come to mind. I live in the UK and we have an odd system that I used to consider a bit of a gimmick for the tourists to take photos of but appreciate more these days. Basically the fact that we have a king but with severely curtailed powers delegated to the elected folk makes it very hard for one of them to appoint themselves effectively king, especially as the military all swear allegiance to the actual king (or queen).

It's partly effective because they system wasn't really designed but evolved out of a lot of bloody power battles, going back to at least 1215 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

I used to think it was silly but if you look at rival European powers they had Russia with Stalin, Hitler in Germany, Napoleon in France, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy etc. The UK is one of the very few which avoided having a dictator.

[Edit - I was kind of talking about the wrong thing - avoiding dictators rather than Trump types]
The majority of voters have no clue on what they've been voting. In particular it's also true for Trump's voters.
I first encountered Borges in high school, reading “The House of Asterion” as an assignment. Probably not one of his most well known short stories, but I would still recommend it.
Show HN: I built an open-source AI email assistant
https://archive.is/xeOVN
They calculate (export-import)/import also they try to hide it behind complicated formulas

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114272487006550281

On top of that they excluded services and only recognize goods for the calculation.
"Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation."

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/about/

Guilty by association.
I think it's even rational to not keep emotion completely out of something like this, since UBI is not meant to maximize economic output, it's meant to improve the quality of life for most people.

In order to asses how that quality of life can be improved, it's necessary to treat humans as humans, and not as some automatons for which a specific KPI needs to be maximized. Any proper assessment of quality of life has to have some instinctive component that models the human element, even if it's only used to picking what weighted set of metrics should measure quality of life.
As usual, if you care about those FOSS libraries, tools authors also have bills to pay themselves.

All the best with commercial endevours.
Well, I know a lot of people in the US who simply don't want to discuss politics at social events these days.
Absolutely crazy when we see countries like China not be close to as bad as the most evil empire ever, the US. And yet somehow the thought is the US isn’t the worst with human rights.