skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
827a's decision to deride the journalist before even reading the article.
Something i like doing from time to time is picking a foreign movie, ie Russian (you know, the standard bad guys) and just pretend it’s a US based movie. Or the reverse, watch something based in the US and turn on Russian dubbing.

It’s funny how quickly you realize the bad guys are both sides.

I say this because often when trying to interpret media i feel the language and accent of the presenter influences me. “They sound like me” therefore i start with an assumption they think like me. Rarely anyone in fox thinks like me.
This is the nature of social media. If you see 10 examples of something happening in another country there is a good chance you will alter your behavior.

The reverse scenario is happening too. There are americans that refuse to go to europe because of the examples they seen of immigrants committing crimes and ruining neighborhoods.

As someone who spends a lot of time on both locations, I know that both scenarios are rare, and can logically overcome the emotional response after seeing examples online. But for people who don't travel much I understand.
Let's face it, this is the "regular" newsflash we are getting everywhere: one part world catastrophes and one part local news. Or almost. And as the US is a big player in the world, or used to be at least, most eyes are on your catastrophes.
I think it's a variant of the Anthropic principle. This project has been around for many years, and if it hadn't been based on Smalltalk at the time, it might not have come into existence. It's a natural extension of how Smalltalk environments approach development tools, pushing it to a new level. For more technical details, refer to https://pharo.org/features.
Sure; but there's a limit of how much you can sensibly do with an extension mechanism. You can't - for example - change a text based protocol into a binary protocol using an extension mechanism. If you're in control of both client and server, you can change everything.
Containing fragments doesn't mean this is a dire wolf, or does it? Biological categories like species are fuzzy anyway. There is tremendous variation within each species. But where do you draw a line?

It's something that perhaps has more in common with a dire wolf than extant wolves. Maybe it looks like one. Does it act like one? Do we have any way of knowing?
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I constantly travel to EU for work. I see all kinds of people from any part of the world, and they pass through fine.

When I traveled last time, I have witnessed an European denied entry for a reason I don't know, and a white male without any beard has been escorted into the immigration office.

Said office had a giant window. The officers were just chatting with him while checking his documents, and also drinking some coffee and eating some cake. I didn't look that long to see whether they have offered the same to him (because it's rude).

Also, I don't have an EU/UK/US passport, and I just pass fine.
We cause lots of things to go extinct. Doesn't seem any worse.
For market research, Exa.ai may be a better option. It's a search engine that crawls the web and index pages in LLM embeddings. For my searches, it delivers good results that are not found in Google's first page because the SEO spam is burying it. You should give it a try.
Unrelated. The article uses the word "decimated". It seems to me a lot of people misinterpret the meaning of this word. It does not mean "kill 90%", but "kill on in every 10" aka 10%.
I think you're describing a completely different geometry than I'm describing.

An ℝ²-brane such as flatland existing in a ℝ³ bulk is different to an ℝ²⨯S¹.

If the S¹ part* is present in our universe to the degree that it can explain anything about gravity, it should also have an impact on everything else in the universe larger than the radius of the S¹ dimension's circumference.

* well, S^n ⨯ T^m, the version of string theory I hear most about has n+m = 6, but there are others, and this thread is a toy model where n=1, m=0

Edit: Apparently the U+1D54A character is stripped, so put a plain ASCII "S" back in.
thank you mr. Presiden D(r)umb. I cancelled my plans.
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What is wrong is that it does not help with the discussion. It makes the discussion personal by calling someone a fascist or a leftie. A good discussion is about the subject, not the person. Also it makes both X and Bluesky feel opinionated, making a good discussion impossible.

I must say that I did not see any death threats on X either, but i just choose to stay away from that part of the platform.
Me and my wife had the plans of visiting the US every year for vacation before our daughter starts with school in a couple of years. Not anymore. I think this administration will not only destroy a lot of goodwill and business relationships, but also the dreams of many people who had a positive attitude towards the US.
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FOSS is usually defined by the FSF's Free Software definition, and the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition. I don't think either field-of-use restrictions nor per-user royalties are acceptable under either definition.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
https://opensource.org/osd/
> The US used to be the coolest place I'd do anything to visit growing up.

Huh, city centers in Europe are way nicer than anything I've seen in the US. But maybe you're more interested in other things.
For some context you may want the new file creation time, but if I copy a folder of some backups for example, I don't want every file to have date set for today. I'll lose the possibility to filter files based on creation date, which is very useful for such use case. I don't remember that I would ever need a copy to have creation date reset.
> Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European passport?

With a Canadian or American passport (until recently)? No problem.

With an Iranian passport? Probably more problems.
I think your comment can be boiled down to "management doesn't respect engineers"

That's the fundamental problem. Some MBA or book somewhere convinced people that respect and dignity were optional. Once they realized they could apply this to more than engineers they started painting the entire world with this bullshit.
I’ll admit this makes no sense to me.

How would a company like YouTube (or any ad-supported service) make money in this scenario? Does everything just become insta-paywalled?
Sigma currently doesn't produce any Foveon cameras - the fp, fp L and BF all use DNG.
> Depends on which part of Europe. In the more diverse parts, nobody would bat an eyelid (even if border police might profile you).

As a person who matches the description above, and has traveled to Europe extensively and frequently, I can tell you that as much as Europeans like to believe this is this case, it is absolutely not true.

> Nobody will throw you in jail in indefinite detention in another country with no human rights because of your skin colour, beard, tattoos or anything of the like. Other than of course the usual suspects of Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan and etc. who could for any reason.

Unless you're making some extremely critical assumptions about how much wear the word "indefinite" can bear, this is unfortunately not true either.
> The GDPR does not prevent US big tech from operating in the EU.

Of course it doesn't, that'd be stupid. But it does require them to be compliant, otherwise they'll face fines and eventually they'll chose to either be compliant, or exit the market.

As a EU citizen with rights, I love this, exactly what I want from my inter-continent union of countries.
Hall was ousted from velodyne. He's salty.

He began selling shares because he didn't like the direction of the company and was unhappy about being forced out of it, he told the Business Journal. From almost the moment he was pushed out until this spring, he fought a war with Velodyne in the press, at shareholder meetings and in the courts. Although the lawsuit he filed against the company is ongoing, he eventually decided the company was a "dump" and couldn't be salvaged.

https://archive.is/oxwoh
> There is this kind of American patriotism

Doesn‘t look much different from Russian, Israeli or Chinese patriotism. When outsiders criticize your tribe for doing bad things, many are standing in support of the tribe, not the values, and they are the most visible.
I think it's relevant to consider the baseline.

Based on a quick online research, I estimate there are about 30-40k visitors landing from Europe in the US on any day. So roughly 3 million people in the last 3 months.

I have seen maybe 5-10 very prominent cases in the last 3 months.

Are these numbers roughly correct?

Do we have any knowledge that this number is higher than before?
I also had an idea for Bitcoin entirely that was mostly build on Escrow, and I saw a startup at YC that was focusing on Base chain. The fact that this is targeted for ETH is super great.

I want to understand more on how you receive and off-ramp your donations because if it was only for USDC (which also complies with EU regulations) I knew how a normal workflow would go.
So... immigration services in the US don't use criminal language when discussing how they handle people accused of immigration offenses, because there's a whole legal structure to pretending it's a civil infraction and thus you don't have any rights related to say... trial by jury or the state proving your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

But. The mechanical processes can include indefinite detention in facilities that look and function exactly like jails.

So... what you CALL it is almost certainly something different than what it is.
Detention is already bad enough, but then reading something like this:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-bu...

"While every item in her bag was swabbed and dismantled, she was subjected to a full body search. "I was in this very loud, weird, industrial space with pipes and conveyor belts and lights and sirens, being told to open my legs. I was silently crying, watching all my stuff being torn apart as someone else was searching every crevice of me."

I can't understand how this is allowed to happen.
> Americans do not understand how much press there is outside the US about tourists from Ireland / Germany / Canada getting locked up in ICE jails for weeks on end.

From my point of view, if POTUS blathers about annexing Canada, then the US doesn't deserve my tourist dollars, neither my Netflix subscription, neither my Amazon prime subscription. I've cut back on purchases/subscriptions from US companies as much as it was possible for me and my family. Also cancelled a trip to south east US. Purely out of spite.
I'm surprised they don't require the victim or their family to pay to have them released. Make Piracy/Kidnapping Great Again.
I literally do not have any social media accounts (does HN count?), and I'm concerned that would immediately mark me as a suspicious individual (although I can eloquently justify this to the nth degree if required).

Having said that, weigh up the benefits and drawbacks of scrubbing your social media accounts to minimise that particular concern?

I don't have any, so I don't know what I'd be losing, but I can say that I feel sorry for some family members of mine who have been sucked in to the social media dopamine addiction farm. They'd be better off without it and having more time to be their own selves and live their own lives rather than other people's.

/rant (sorry)
>ultimate regulatory lock in monopoly...

In fairness to the regulators they have been pretty reasonable so far.
> most Americans are perfectly fine with "America First".

I agree with everything you said, except this. Sub “many” and I’d go with it. But at least here, in blue state / more-sane land, there is widespread horror and outrage. We’re only at the “tens of thousands of people protesting” stage and I’ll be the first to say Americans need to do more, but I think it’s going to far to say most Americans don’t care about the impact elsewhere.
>Neither Europe nor the US can compete with the level of disdain for the environment, labor laws and poverty that China brings to the table

Why haven't western governments and companies brought this up as an issue when they moved our jobs to China 30 years ago forcing us to buy our stuff but made in China while their profits skyrocketed? And bear in mind Chinese pollution, wages and living standards were way worse back then than today.

It feels incredibly hypocritical for western companies to cry about these things NOW, right when the Chinese companies have started eating their lunch on their home turf, while they rode the gravy train for 30 years. It's almost as if they wanted to have their cake and eat it too but now have to reap what they sow and they don't like it.
Also true, hah. Guess they’re also just lucky
Normal stuff, millions folks like that come every year. Millions folks like that live here and also have citizenship, I have friends and colleagues working in banking fitting that description (including passports).

Now I am not saying we are uniform half a billion, not at all, wear burka in eastern EU in some small backwardish village and you will raise eyebrows and maybe more. Try that in US and its the same, to put it mildly.
So a circuit breaker is intended to prevent a giant sell off? Did this happen during the giant pandemic sell off? I don’t remember hearing about it.

Can this sort of thing happen multiple times a day?
They used the term detained, but "secondary inspection" would also describe it. I was there maybe 40 minutes.
Because it's easiest to check, I looked up https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/overseas-travel/advice/united-... but this doesn't seem nearly as severe as Newsweek makes it seem.

It's absolute lunacy that western governments are giving out negative travel advice against the US at all, but I've noticed Newsweek seems to have an agenda on this topic.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43610246

Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US (jasher.substack.com)

212+ points, 128+ comments (posted slightly earlier)
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To pre-empt the typical reply, yes you must serve a cookie banner even if you are only using functional cookies.
> Americans generally don't understand the degree to which the rest of the world gets the CNN 5min recap of what's going on in the US, and it's very much the CNN recap and not the Fox one.

No, Americans generally don't understand that the rest of the world, and the rest of the world's news, genuinely don't see things in this dual "us vs them", "CNN vs Fox", "Democrats vs Republicans" lens.

When Trump does shit, media from around the world say what he did and why it's bad.

When Biden or Obama before him did shit, media from around the world say what he did and why it's bad.

Fox are genuinely deranged hypocrites who themselves claimed in court that nobody sane would believe them. Very few of the world's media reflect their point of views, because they are absurd. CNN is all over the place, so sometimes their point of view matches with e.g. BBC or Guardian or Süddeutsche Zeitung, sometimes it doesn't.
Musk retweeted a post suggesting that public sector workers, not Adolf Hitler, were responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust.

But hey. Are you really curious or just cosplaying?
That's good to know, but presumably that happens every year so doesn't explain the year-on-year increase in March shown in the graph.
junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired

What are your experiences here?

Mine is that generic ultra-cheap wired optical mice have been Totally Fine™ now for roughly 20 years! It's a completely solved problem.

They track fine, they have more than enough DPI for anybody except maybe hardcore twitch action gamers, and they all have vaguely ergonomic sculpted shapes.

Apple's mice lose out for me before I move the pointer because the first thing I notice is that the shape of the mouse itself has more or less no correlation with the shape of a human hand. It always feels like you're grasping some weird foreign object.
It's easy as long as you're a corporation. It's onerous for a human person. Like the EU's excellent Digital Markets Act, GDPR should be altered to only apply to corporations. It'd be better if like the DMA it only applied to very large corporations, but just corporations is still way better than the status quo.
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> Your take is typical on HN, but not the common interpretation.

TBH, it appears to be the commonly accepted answer to the question asked, but that doesn't mean it's a commmon interpretation.

To be even more honest, I'm not really sure how I'd classify the difference either; there's a lot of blurring of lines there.
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This! Let’s get back to talking about non-political topics, like science, economics, and technology.
Proprietary formats require 3rd party developers to adapt their tools: While most mainstream software will be updated to support most/all cameras, this makes it harder for smaller projects to do.
If they used an open standard, the advanced features could still require additional work to be compatible (ex: If they store custom metadata), but you could normalize everything that's shared, ensuring the core capabilities will never break for a new camera with its updated proprietary RAW like it currently does.
Market forces will drive the outcomes in different sectors.

In aviation-minded companies, human-reviewed guardrails will always be in place, some may eventually decide to might as well have humans write the whole thing to begin with to keep it end-to-end auditable.

In automotive-minded companies, "chabuduo" is the norm and agentic may be "good enough if it appears to work" and only involve humans when visible crises surface, in which case the most desired programmer are those who can churn.
You don't keep your job under this administration by sticking your head out.
It also happens to be ridiculously overpriced for what you get as a tourist, and in tough economic times satisfying one's curiosity about the US may not be as high on the list. But yes, there is also the political climate.
The cookie banners are largely a cargo cult and don't have to be nearly as annoying as they are.

Websites just love to say "we have to do this" rather than improve their UX because the latter just means more work while the former gets people to be wrongfully upset at GDPR.
Henry Petroski wrote a great book about the history of the pencil. There used to be a mine in Southern England which contained pure graphite, that was found in the 16th century. That graphite could just be cut into sticks and made into writing implements. The modern pencil consisting of powdered graphite with a binder is a response to that mine being exhausted. So it's a substitute for a product that wasn't possible before that pure deposit was found.
Not to those who are determined to be toxic.
Nobody watches or cares about some CNN, that stuff, or Fox and your bipolar political stuff US very much internal US matter. We care about outwardish things, trump mood swings and so on.
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> Picking up dropped pencils, for example. Robots are still hilariously bad at that

It's only hilarious because we're allowed to laugh. For now. Wait a few years its possible these things will demand respect.
Same here. Hoped this year to visit my collegues from the US, I won’t travel there at these conditions.
Meanings shift with time. The original meant that (doled out as a very harsh collective punishment by the Romans: groups of 10 would draw straws and be forced to kill the one who draw the short straw). Now it's meanining is more along the lines of 'severely reduced', where how much is 'severely' depends on the context.
> Not a GDPR thing, and the reason you see the banner is because companies refuse to understand the regulation correctly.

Companies will never "understand the regulation correctly" because it's not in their interests. That is why the regulation should be bulletproof: as concise as possible while forcing the exact behaviour regulators intend.
> based on how quickly they can do that, we can make inferences about their attitudes

Perhaps you could infer that but probably not.

Where did they get over a million dataset anyway?

> The key revelation of the study is that both explicit and implicit bias are malleable, Kurdi said

Let me guess, I would need to buy your training.
That article links to this article.
But a system of morality requires the ability to make "ought" statements. Merely saying what exists is not enough information to inform correct decisions, because whether or not something exists is unrelated to whether or not it is good.

When the objectivists try to define "human life" as their yardstick for moral good, again, they smuggle in those preexisting preferences. There is no real principle that means "human life" should be condensed down to individual hedonistic comfort. It is very easy to argue that human life is better served by collective comfort, and thus the best actions are the ones that are self-sacrificing in service of the community, because these are the ones that do the most service to human life.
While I’m mot bothered by Gnome UI design choices, I was surprised by the choice of JS for the implementation.