skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is off topic, but I've actually found comfort in how it has galvanised Europe.

What worries me is which side the US (government, not people) would choose to support if EU states send troops to Ukraine's front lines, which would absolutely instigate a Russian response.

(Trump wouldn't like that the little EU states are messing with his negotiations for the shrinking and pillaging of Ukraine, and Trump is, if nothing else, vengeful).
On the spot

> Most of the cases I've heard people complaining about GDPR being "complicated" or "impossible to implement correctly" have been from people/organizations who are breaking GDPR
Yeah, I can't imagine any honest and sane person describing solitary confinement as "non-punitive". What ICE is doing is both cruel and expensive.
This reminds me of something _why the lucky stiff would create.
Cookie banners are not a requirement in the first place. They are a convention set by giant risk-averse consequence-free tech companies, and followed by everyone else.
That used to be the case before the privatization in the 90s. What do you think the Deutsche Telekom is?
Hey, ChatGPT, tell me what's wrong with this person's comment.

> [T]he third comment violates the Cooperative Principle, specifically Grice’s Maxims of Relation and Manner, and ends up implying ignorance where there is none. Let’s break it down a bit more with that framework in mind:

> VIOLATION OF GRICE’S MAXIMS

> The second ["EPUB folks have continued to evolve their bespoke format instead of ditching it for something that legacy browsers already know how to handle"] commenter criticizes EPUB for continuing to evolve a packaging format that is not browser-native. They're not confused about what EPUB is—they're lamenting that it isn’t something simpler, like a plain web bundle a browser could just open.

> The third commenter responds by explaining what EPUB is, as if that somehow rebuts the original critique.

> Factually true.

> Entirely irrelevant in context.

> This failure to meet the relevance standard creates an implicature: the previous commenter must not have understood the format they were critiquing.

> THE IMPLICATURE TRAPS THE THIRD COMMENTER

> By stating something the second commenter obviously already knows, the third commenter unintentionally shifts the conversational footing in a way that belittles rather than builds. That’s why the tone feels off: not because of overt rudeness, but because the presupposition of ignorance is baked into the structure of the reply.

> FINAL THOUGHT

> The third comment reads like an attempted “correction,” but since the original comment didn’t contain a factual error, only a value judgment or proposal, this “correction” becomes a non sequitur—one that subtly undermines the prior speaker’s credibility while failing to address their actual point. That’s what makes it rhetorically broken, even if factually fine.
Quite apropos that this article was cookie-walled with a "We value your privacy. Customize/Agree" modal screen
Study finds global downturn in bias against stigmatized groups
I'm not arguing anything. I'm agreeing. Why do I have to be arguing?

"ICE goes crazy looking for crimes, hapless tourists caught up in the boondoggle"

and

"ICE detaining tourists for no good reason"

Are both 100% true ways to headline the same events. Which framing is Europe getting?

This is something to watch out for on all issues, not just immigration/foreign affairs.
A few reasons come to mind, as a EU citizen:

* The US has repeatedly threatened military invasion of a country (Denmark) near mine.

* The US has basically given Russia the green light to invade the rest of EU when ready.

* Mentioned elsewhere in this thread: The many reports of travellers being detained for weeks.

* The US has recently started an economic war on the entire world, except Russia.

Why would I want to visit?
YALLMLA (yet another LLM legal assistant).

One of my first questions with these is usually this: Presuming it works as well as it claims, would we want it to? In each of my roles as a lawyer, law-practice owner, litigant, and citizen, my answer is no.
We realize, just nothing we can do about it.
I get that narrative. I guess my point is that, if border crossings at the US-Mexico border are down 90%+ compared to last year, and if some migrants/asylum seekers fly in instead of crossing a border on foot/in a car, then how much of this decrease is would-be migrants deciding it's not a good time, and how much of this is would-be tourists being scared of detention? Is that even possible to know?
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https://lemmyverse.net/

They are federated as well; I just educated myself on BlueSky, I had heard that maybe it wasn't but it looks fairly federated. Companies can always slap a lock on after the fact though.
> whilst internationally it's almost entirely "this is catastrophic change"

Of course it is. Because the chance of a global recession is about 50% now.

Which means millions of people are going to lose their jobs, businesses will collapse, governments will go into deficit and cut services and there will be needless suffering only a few years after COVID.
It's not just political news being flagged. It's also highly relevant tech and world intersecting news which is highly relevant.
I doubt that seeing the Fox spin on US events would persuade many people that the US is currently a place of rationality and the rule of law.
A pencil is essentially a core of something that easily rubs off onto other things surrounded in a protective cladding of something that keeps it from rubbing off onto your hands; stuff like this has existed for centuries.

There is essentially only one place in the world where graphite suitable for pencils naturally exists, and this wasn't discovered until the 1500s. Making it artificially from powdered graphite was first done in 1662, and the first process that approximates modern pencil construction was done in 1795, which is probably what you're calling the invention of the pencil.
i know europe is making it easier for grants/proposals to go through and lessening the overall time it takes for grants to be accepted, for people in academia leaving the US
> C++ is for when complexity cost is worth trading for performance gain. What type of person successfully finds simplicity working in C++?

> What type of person successfully finds simplicity working in C++?

Be the change you want to see!

Every language has the raw materials available to turn the codebase into an inscrutable complex mess, C++ more than others. But it’s still possible to make it make sense with a principled approach.
I would hope it doesn't include getting locked up despite having a valid visa and proof of a return flight for several weeks.
All of it.

All of it is being tossed aside.
Data pool optimised (switchsd off) by DOGE?
Paywalled so I have to ask, why the dire wolf? Why not an animal that humans drove to extinction like the dodo bird? Is it because dire wolves sound cool and were in video games?
People are staying away from an oligarchy where habeas corpus has been suspended for a wide range of situations, and that results in extradition without an option of release to El Salvador. That's the obvious bit the rest of us know and can see and TFA draws a line to that you can't see yet.

Tourism is not down in other countries. Migrants/asylum seekers don't typically fly in by plane to the top 8 airports in the US, and those that do, do not do so in numbers anywhere near large enough to account for the change in numbers.
No tool is perfect. The unix philosophy is a philosophy, not a dogma. It serves well in some use cases. And in the other use case, you’re perfectly fine to put the whole domain in a single program. The hammer has been there for millennia, but once we invented screw, we had to invent the screwdriver.
Less than 5%. OpenAI's O1 burned through over $100 in tokens during the test as well!
When the President of the United States threatens to invade ex-allies, I don't think that the threatened people give a shit about what the American people think about it. The fact that this guy is the President means that most Americans were not against it, right?

Of course most Americans don't want random people detained. But still, this is happening in the US.

And one thing that I believe is absolutely clear outside the US (whether it's true or not), is that most Americans are perfectly fine with "America First". Americans don't really care about the impact of Trump on the rest of the world; they care about the impact on themselves. Boycotting US products is a way to impact the American people, in the hope that the American people will eventually realise that what's best for them is also better for the others.

Something that I found interesting: when Canadians started booing the US anthem in NHL games, Americans started booing the Canadian anthem. Why? Canada didn't do anything to the US. Does it sound that most Americans are against what's happening, when they defend it? There is this kind of American patriotism where people seem to be like "Yes, my government, is bullying you, but I won't admit it and I will fight against you if you say it. But I'm a good guy, I don't want my government to bully you. I'll just support it because it's my country".

So yeah... pretty sure that it feels a lot different from the outside than from the inside.
I guess in the 1930s, Americans had similar thoughts about Germans.
So KFW (state investment bank?) has a thing called StartGeld (startup loan). I've wondered about few practicalities
1) What sort of collateral does bank expect from you?
2) Can you really get 125ke or more like 10-20ke?
3) Interest rate is a single digit number?
4) Can you really get 10 year payback periods?

Reason why I'm asking is that in Finland(where I live) these startgeld terms seem like a dream come true for entrepreneur. To give you an example;

1) Tradiotional bank wants collateral for the loan. For a 5k€ loan, 5k€ in deposits are needed.
2) There a lots of Swedish/Norwegian "loan-houses" advertising their services for companies, with interest rates are somewhere between 23-30% per annum.
Kube-Scheduler-Simulator
I think the title is clickbait'y. The EU proposes to simplify the law rather than abolish it, which makes sense to me.
Yes I agree. A lot of the stuff in GDPR are things that companies should be doing anyway.
> How does your camera shop decide what to stock? How do they discover new brands to include?

In the case of camera shops, camera brands actively reach out to the stores and have a relationship with them. The camera brands send reps out to train the sales people on the features of new camera models.

Likewise, brands partner with supermarkets to sell their products. Thats not advertising. Nobody is proposing or talking about stopping businesses from forming relationships with one another.
> Minecraft's gameplay dynamic are not particularly complex...

I think you underestimate complexity of going from 12288+400 changing numbers to a concept of gameplay dynamics in the first place. Or in other words your complexity prior is biased by experience.
TSA and all of its security theater is going to get the boot. Airports can manage their own security. That won’t change international customs which is still managed federally.
He would appear as whatever he set his profile name to.
>Aren’t a lot of jails private and for profit?

No, it's a small-ish minority of them. Most are government owned and run.

That said, there's a huge incentive to piss away money holding people so you can justify your budget and use poor conditions to justify increases in budget. And on top of that the contractors that supply government jails are pretty evil too.

So it's really a distinction without a difference at the end of the day, it's all a pretty rotten system.
But what does it matter? "Hapless tourists caught up in the boondoggle" is just as bad (and maybe worse) from the POV of said tourists.

If you're worried, though, that "ICE goes crazy" is an underrepresented perspective in the rest of the world, I can reassure you on that count...
As a big GDPR fanboy, one thing I would be happy for them to remove is the portability between providers requirement: it was essentially dead on arrival, is not implemented, and could be done away with.

The other EU-level regulation that needs to be either removed or completely rethought (since it will clearly not be enforced in a way that makes sense) is the cookie regulation. It was well-intentioned, badly implemented, and the GDPR addresses more of the core problems, it is time to do away with it.

But as a whole, I push back against the idea that deregulation is the primary way in which the EU can or should become competitive with the US on technology. Lack of public investment, worse ability for companies to offer equity incentives, and timid private investment are all much bigger problems than consumer protection regulations.
Healthcare institutions operate in high-stakes environments where even small delays in incident response can have serious consequences. Whether it's a medication administration error, patient injury, or breach of protocol, incident response must be immediate, structured, and well-documented. Unfortunately, many hospitals still rely on outdated reporting methods such as paper forms, Excel trackers, or siloed internal email systems, which delay responses, create inconsistencies, and complicate compliance audits.
So far, the travel warnings I've seen all specify specific groups targeted by the American government, such as LGBTQ+ people.

News of tourists getting imprisoned for weeks or longer have been all over the news, but so far Europe doesn't seem to have actually brought out a general warning for that kind of danger.

That said, the people I've spoken to (most of which aren't LGBT+) are hesitant to go to the US now. There's a stark difference between the "haha, what the fuck, US" sentiment I used to sense and the "what the fuck, US" we're getting now.
>Maybe this is a US centric definition.

It's a common definition for new companies that intend to grow quickly beyond a small/medium size and very often associated with funding from VC.

1st paragraph from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company :

>A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.[1][2] While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder.[3] During the beginning, startups face high uncertainty[4] and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to become successful and influential, such as unicorns.

The characteristics in that paragraph don't apply to new mom & pop restaurants, dry cleaners, new law practices, etc so most people don't usually label them as "startups".

But there is no Global Language Police that everybody has to obey so if some folks wants to label their new neighborhood coffee house a "startup", nobody will stop them.

EDIT to REPLY: >If you keep reading we get to: "Unlike an entrepreneur, a start up founder doesn’t have a major financial motive." I'm not sure that is in line with the YC program.

I see that you're referring to a LinkedIn article that someone added to Wikipedia. I agree with you. That Linkedin blog by Japjot Sethi has bad heuristics and should be removed as a citation. The Wiki user that added it in May 2019 has been flagged and blocked for bad edits to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sensate8

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Startup_company&d...
The 'sea' of data is huge - I am doubtless entered into it multiple times with all manner of associated data.
The ICE casts it's net (with a pack of valid as well as a far number of non-valid associations) through this sea and when it lifts it there are number of 'fish' therein. I will be in there, among the silvery bodies and the attached associations.
I am 'by-catch' as I have no crime ever - but millions of tons of bycatch die even if discarded.
There is an old French Canadian poem, that says, in essence - 'The wind might roar, and the waves they might dash, but you will not drown on Lac Sainte Pierre - so long as you stay on the shore.
Does pushing for slavery matter if it works regardless?
Beyond the recent chilling effects from people being detained, the idea of having your digital presence scanned and judged by a flaky arbiter at the border, or having your devices imaged and/or backdoored are big turnoffs for me.
> do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

There is no such requirement. You're free to make a website that doesn't require cookies.

This very website on which we're discussing doesn't have a cookie banner, and isn't required to have one.

(I'm not saying HN is GDPR compliant though, it's missing a DPO mail address to allow edit/deletion of older PII messages and a privacy policy even though said policy would probably be max 10 lines)

> cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations.

I can't say for other countries, but in France there is already already a lot of slack even for bigger organizations. We have mainstream websites that are obviously violating the GDPR (most visited cooking site, most visited tv content provider, not allowing free choice of refusing tracking)
Nope and nope, same rules are for all. You want to steal private data, you will be labeled. If it comes from libs, maybe don't use shitty private data stealing libs?

Move fast and break things - fuck that, anybody smart enough can project to what sort of society it leads down the road.
What visa do you hold? I wouldn't be confident that organising a conference would fall under ESTA or B1, speaking at one should be, but ultimately it's upto the goon looking at your application at the desk. In any case ensure you immigrate as early in the day as possible to maximise the chance of a quick deportation if you are rejected.
> 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?

Depends on which part of Europe. In the more diverse parts, nobody would bat an eyelid (even if border police might profile you).

EU Eastern Europe, you might get funny looks but it's still not an extraordinary situation to have various shades of skin colour (e.g. Syrians, various Central Asians are migrant workers in a few of the countries in question; a lot of e.g. the Balkans are on a palette of skin colours).

Non-EU Eastern Europe (referring more to Belarus than Montenegro here), might get casual racism.

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.
seems like a wordle with a super clean interface. I like the animations on completion and not guessing a word. I also suggest that maybe the animations are shorted as this is a time focused game, I want as a user as little distractions as possible.
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I am hesitant to correct a math Olympian, but don't you mean the median?
The UK has updated its "Entry requirements" page, but not its "Warnings and insurance" section: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa

Last I checked, Germany's advice was similar (i.e., not a general warning); and from the article, it doesn't look like Portugal's advice is a Travel Warning either. There's a difference between making information available, and providing warnings.
Aren't all immigration "arrests" all "detentions", technically speaking (not that it makes any difference in reality - you're behind bars)? Aren't ICE prisons called "detention centers"?
It's interesting and funny from a tech perspective that auto-suggestions on iPhone got him.

It's also proof that 1) security processes are important for a reason and 2) don't discuss information you don't want getting out on a consumer device (or really on any internet connected device) and 3) these guys' plan of using signal to avoid record keeping was foolish and stupid, more than just because of their silly fear that Democrats would release their records (that would require Democrats growing a spine).
The dictionary defines startup as: "a newly established business."

Your take is typical on HN, but not the common interpretation.
Isn't this the gap TinySeed tries to fill?
Cookie consent banners might be one of the most frustrating aspects of modern web browsing. A better solution could have been a thoughtful extension or fork of HTTP, specifically for EU implementations, something that handles consent through HTTP headers instead. That would allow users to easily opt in or out, either globally or per tab, without the clutter. Ideally, technical regulations like these should be designed by people with a strong understanding of technology, to ensure practical and user-friendly solutions.
Are you implying there are similar arrests and indefinite detentions going on in Europe? Any data to share? Certainly worth being upset over if that’s a true accusation.
Langchain is nice but it's psychotic in TypeScript. Everything is "any" wrapped in layers of complex parameterized types.
> a) do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

i recommend everyone gets the chrome plugin that auto accepts these banners so you never have to see them again
Don't know what's confusing about it... I mean, I shoot ARW with my Sony, these work fine with Lightroom and work fine with DxO PhotoLab [1] at least as long as my ARWs are not compressed (it's not that the compression is proprietary, it's that the compression is lossy and breaks denoising)

[1] Shoot ISO 12,800, process with DxO, people will think you shot at ISO 200; makes shooting sports indoor look easy, see https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lkc45d3xcs2x so I got zero nostalgia for film.
I've been following work metrics quite closely this year that has this problem. I don't know why I didn't think of this!
Things to note:
1) supply a JSON schema in `config.reponse_schema`
2) set the `config.response_type` to `application/json`

That works for me reliably. I've had some issues with running into max_token constraints but that was usually on me because I had let it process a large list in one inference call, which would have resulted in very large outputs.

We're using gemini JSON mode in production applications with both `google-generativeai` and `langchain` without issues.
As a US citizen who despises Trump and has international travel in the near future that was booked long ago, even I almost consider cancelling just due to the fact that basically anywhere I go will almost certainly have immediate negative thoughts about any US citizens now.

Trump has ruined basically all our credibility on a global scale.
It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks
Evil = Incompetence + Power - Empathy

I think there needs to be one more element like agency? Because under this definition of evil, a sponge elected as president is evil although it wouldn't do anything at all in any situation. Maybe that's still evil?
The issue isn’t whether they can be trained to play. The issue is whether, after making a careful reading of the rules, they can infer how to play. The latter is something a human child could do, but it is completely beyond an LLM.
He is talking about something totally different from the article, but somehow comforting to the average (sorry, median) HN reader.
Said it before and will say it again : side project are the antidote to burnout.

You need to have some agency in your life and being able to pick a project you like and doing it the way you want is vital. Sadly, it's being taken away from us, so reclaim that right !
Imo this is the root problem with SWE as a profession: the best solution to most problem is usually very simple aka career suicide.

Managers of humans build artificial empires to climb the ladder.

Managers of machines build artificial complexity to climb the ladder.

Bad for the parent org, but necessary to pad the CV.