skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> There are thus no European Rasputins pumping untold millions into political campaigns, getting pride of place at leaders’ inaugurations or their own new-minted government departments to run

I think this is underselling the very real risks of European-style fascism, driven by the same social media and other forces, just because it doesn't exactly resemble Musk. But it does seem like the crisis is now compelling the cozy ""centre"" to actually do something, like re-armament and actually prosecuting politicians for their financial fraud. Not just Le Pen but previously things like Wirecard.
Whether you care about number of users or not, there's value in considering whether what you're doing is actually advancing the cause of Free Software or not.

GCC today has a very interesting license term, the GCC Runtime Library Exception, that makes the use of runtime libraries like libgcc free if-and-only-if you use an entirely Free Software toolchain to compile your code with; otherwise, you're subject to the terms of the GPL on libgcc and similar. That is a sensible pragmatic term, and if they'd come up with that term many years ago, they could have shipped libgccjit and other ways to plug into GCC years ago, and the programming language renaissance that arose due to LLVM might have been built atop GCC instead.

That would have been a net win for user freedoms. Instead, because they were so afraid of someone using an intermediate representation to work around GCC's license, and didn't do anything to solve that problem, LLVM is now the primary infrastructure people build new languages around, and GCC lost a huge amount of its relevance, and people now have less software freedom as a result.
Why? It’s nonsense on the face of it.
Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

https://archive.ph/hETjp

Not a one-off, either:

https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...
What we in Europe have is just more political corruption of the justice system and a populace too comfortable to care.
The Russia and China that don't have free elections?
Your last paragraph is why most of the people who don't like systemd don't like it.
Given how much any kind of peripheral used to cost in the 8 bit home computer days I imagine how much that hurted.

All my stuff on those days were equally Christmas or birthdays gifts, or having to save up during months.

My first Assemblers were a mix of hand translating opcodes into DATA code blocks, and then I upgraded to hexdump editors, never managed to acquire a proper 8 bit Assembler, and during the first year of PC, MS-DOS debug was the only way.

My first Assembler was also A86/D86 shipped on a 5 inch floppy in a book I think from Sybex, no longer certain.
> But that's not my vision of how open source should work.

Exactly. I expect a modular fork of systemd when people get annoyed enough. I still don't understand why people treat systemd as the second coming of the Christ.

Disclosure: I'm managing large number of servers for the last 20 years. Don't tell me that init scripts were bad. I won't buy it. Don't tell me systemd is fast, again, I won't buy it.
> overfitting

Are you sure it's not just a matter of being halfwitted?
> It's a simple formula based on balance of trade.

"Simple" is why it put 10% on an island with no humans and no manmade structures separately to the country which owns that island, and also tariffed another island that's technically British but which the British leased to the US military.

"Simple" isn't what you want to decide a complex trade policy for a complex economy.

> That's an absurdly biased point of view.

Hello, I'm in one of those foreign allies. We are, in fact, laughing at USA for shooting itself in the foot like this. On the other hand, the bit where Trump is also refusing to rule out military force to annex some of us? We take that seriously.

> Not much. They didn't actually "trust" us before. I'm not sure how you'd measure that anyways.

We used to hold the US in high regard. "Leaders of the free world" etc.

But also, relatively stable economic position, stable currency, reliable government that repaid debts, etc.

Even though Trump 1 happened, we knew it would come to an end, and we thought you would finally be over it — especially given how it ended.

Now, we don't. And many of us will be looking to China as a more reliable (for us) trading partner.
I've experimented with making it more explicit in one project I'm working on where 99% of it is written by AI, but the chat logs from Roo Code are way too verbose. Ideally, I could export a version of the chat with my prompts and metadata about which lines were changed, then I could commit that with the rest of the changes. I have every chat associated with changes made solely with AI in a chat folder named similarly to the commit, but the chats themselves are just impossible to read, so I haven't committed any of them.
Perhaps to address screen-readers and broken semantics of a page?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj5nlxz44yo
Lmao, BRICS.
Systemd has more in common with launchd than SMF to be fair. SMF very much is a product of another time. Completely fine when we were dealing with workstations whose configuration was mostly static and not expected to change but very much unfit to the environment systemd operates nowadays.

Systemd uses a dependency graph by the way. There is little magic. Provided you have properly setup what depends on what, everything will boot just fine and it’s somehow resilient enough than even if you messed up somewhere there is a good chance it manages to bring everything up after some hiccups.
Hot Ones Minus Sauce. Sean driving a guest to madness through sheer conversation.
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
> Yet to many Europeans the idea that free expression is under threat seems odd. Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice.

A journalist in Germany was just sentenced to seven months for posting a meme of a politician where she holds up a sign saying "I hate free speech".

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nancy-faeser-afd-...
So. You believe freely expressing yourself in China will be less dangerous than in Europe ?

I don't think anyone will take that seriously.
NPM deleted everyone's access tokens
I don't see this parallel, sorry.
I personally don't want to see "a whole new generation of startups". GenAI, LLMs in particular, are a powerful tool for the users precisely because they are general.

After all, what is the business of such startups of the "AI age"? It's using the AI models on the backend, where users can't reach, to sprinkle some magic onto features. But as a user, I don't want your product to use AI as a tool, I want your product to be a tool the AI uses. The former keeps power away from users, the latter gives it back to them.
So many articles and comments claim Ai will destroy critical thinking in our youths. Is there any evidence that this conviction that many people share is even remotely true?

To me it just seems like the same old knee-jerk luddite response people have to any powerful new technology that challenges that status quo since the dawn of time. The calculator did not erase math wizards, the television did not replace books and so on. It just made us better, faster, more productive.

Sometimes there is an adjustment period (we still haven't figured out how to deal with short dopamine hits from certain types of entertainment and social media), but things will balance themselves out eventually.

Some people may go full-on Wall-E, but I for one will never stop tinkering, and many of my friends won't either.

The things I could have done if I had had an LLM as a kid... I think I've learned more in the past two years than ever before.
This looks really cool. But I'm stuck on understanding the setup. I spawn at a known point defined as 32QAU04710542. I have a list of "given" points that I'm trying to reach, all beginning with 32QAU0 and then ranging from 3500715 to 5790531. And I have a map.

I assume I'm supposed to locate these points, including the known point, on the map. And I'm hoping the names of the points will help me do that. But I don't know what they mean or how to find them on the map.
Well, if your goal is to pump and dump the stock markets, this is a strategy and it is working.

I don't think that the current administration has enough foresight to actually plan for such a scheme but I think they are smart enough to see an opportunity, to wit the posts on social media shortly before withdrawing some tariffs.
You'll have to be more specific about where in Europe. Some places, yes. But only a minority
Europe and the US have no moral high ground when it comes to the justice system being used against political opponents.
I mean I don’t think these projects will be maintained by humans anyway because they are not structured by humans.

If the AI fucks up then its a lost cause. And maybe you’ll better off create a new version from scratch instead of trying to maintain one when LLM starts to fail. Just ask Gemini 3.5 this time around.

The AI can write obfuscated code. Name all variables from a to z. Even emit binaries directly. Who cares if it works?
We're talking about two views of "capitalism". I think you're talking
about the kind in textbooks on economics and Marxism etc. I'm talking
about the lawless, insane festival of destruction and human misery we
see today. To my mind, it is a an absence; the absence of law and
reason.
EU, where Brussels sends to jail candidates in other countries that it doesn't like?
Do you believe that's the only thing that defines 'freedom'?
One is a fight against nature; the other — to make it economic — is a fight against all the other highly skilled entrepreneurs not in the USA.

Single player, multiplayer.
Thanks, I always mix up mold and mildew. However, "arpa" is specifically a lottery ticket, whereas there are tickets for concerts, tickets to ride, tickets in Jira etc...
> "Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice."

David Bendels has been threatened with prison time and sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme [0]. It is the harshest sentence ever handed down to a journalist for a speech crime in the Federal Republic of Germany.

This is the tweet, poking fun at the German minister of the interior Nancy Faeser (the sign says "I hate free speech"):

https://x.com/Deu_Kurier/status/1762895292075053348

[0] https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/deutschland/artic...
Can you give concrete examples?

systemd-resolved: can be disabled and replaced with your DNS resolver of choice

systemd-timesyncd: can be disabled and replaced with your NTP daemon of choice

systemd-networkd: can be disabled and replaced with your own networking scripts
> Using ChatGPT doesn't dumb down your students. Not knowing how it works and where to use it does.

LLMs can't produce intellectual rigour. They get fine details wrong every time. So indeed using ChatGPT for doing your reasoning for you produces inferior results. By normalising non-rigorous yet correct sounding answers, we drive down the expectations.

To take a concrete example, if you tell a student to implement memcpy with chatgpt, and it will just give an answer which uses uint64 copying. The student has not thought from first principles (copy byte by byte? Improve performance? How to handle alignment?). This lack of insight in return to immediate gratification will bite later.

It's maybe not problem for non-STEM fields where this kind of rigor and insight is not required to excel. But in STEM fields, we write programs and prove theorems for insight. And that insight and the process of obtaining it is gone with AI.
tbf, GP could have had just a bit more absurdity to clarify it has been a joke.
The theocratic republic of Iran.
The trade-off of the current smartphone assembly process (many parts and many steps) is driven by numerous factors, including cheap labor. It also considers: incremental design improvement, testing, defects, supply chain, model differenciation, ...
Yes, I agree: unicorns are, by and large, a failure of capitalism, not an example of success. They result from a system that doesn't value competition but values winning.

That's not to say that the European tech sector is doing fantastically. Still, as an end user, I'd rather have a thousand companies like Proton, Filen, Tutanota, Tresorit, Infomaniak, or DeepL than one Google.
Seems like the proper fix would be to introduce a <h> element with heading level dictated only by the number of <section> nesting. But it's too late for that now I guess.

Anyway, I'm quite surprised to learn all this about <h1> while I've always read everywhere up until today and including on MDN (Mozilla's documentation), that one should use only one <h1> per page.

Now I wonder if and how <section> nesting affects <h2>, <h3>, etc.
This is the same difference irl between:

- a post box you can leave your application

- a filing tray at the registration desk next to the clerk

For the later they have a real time handling of how much registration are coming in, and from who. They don't have to look at it realtime, but they have full control of the input and can either shut it down if needed, or immediately react to errors or issues.

It was a long time ago, but I once had a school clerk phone me right after I submitted a request, to tell me their system is dead and they want me physically come fill out the papers. For them it was a straight equivalent to the tray at their office, except it's digital.
There's no risk capital. There's no vision. No guts, no glory. Just old glory.

A bunch of scared real-estate investors and pension funds who have their roots in STAYING in Europe when the (ad)venturers went overseas and built what has become the US.

It's not in the culture and it won't be.
This could be written only by a Non-European.
You mean corrupted politicians, or those abusing laws to get to the government?
People who don't like it can call me back when they graduate beyond ricing their i3 desktop and run a ~5k node server fleet, and then tell me how they did it without reimplementing everything systemd already does.
>like re-armament and actually prosecuting politicians for their financial fraud. Not just Le Pen but previously things like Wirecard.

In the end, all those things can be traced to curbing Russia's direct and indirect warfare. Re-armament? Direct Russian threat. Le Pen? Financed by Russia. Marsalek? Part of a Russian spy-network that operated from Austria, where the FPÖ is not just financed by Russia but also has a literal cooperation contract with Putin. Similar story with the AfD in Germany.

The US used to be good at this as well. If they were as close to the war in Ukraine as Europe is, they might still be. But instead they have gone from being the biggest opponent of Russia to one of it's most subverted supporters.
JSON for Modern C++ 3.12.0 released
How do you define it?
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nancy-faeser-afd-...
Thats why we need a strong open source competitor to closed source AI.
What is this country called Europe they're talking about?
I assume the game is meant to be played with the knowledge of some supplementary course and material.

the coordinates seem to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Grid_Reference_System
+1 this question. I notice QEMU can do 68k these days, apparently, including MacOS 7 & 8:

https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/m68k#Running_M...
https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/1909968556332097681
There're a few contradicting narratives going on:

1) Big companies actually don't innovate, they are slow and bureaucratic. It is startups that do innovation

2) Look at the top 10 companies by market cap, it's all the Chinese and American companies. Therefore USA is the pinnacle of innovation and Europe is falling behind(because of your favorite scapegoat)

3) Europe has many startups but they can't become huge because of excessive regulations. They end up moving to US, leaving Europe to lag behind

4) China has grew much more than the west, the west is lagging behind now. This is because the west has become socialist, we need to remove the taxes on the rich reduce regulations and protections to be able to compete with China.

Those all(and a few more actually) have some truth in them and a lot of wrong. A new narrative that captures the picture correctly is needed because at the current state those few camps are wedging wars where each ignore contradicting evidence instead of structuring it in a way that things fit.
Not sure watt you guys are on about. Not to be too negative here or polarise the debate, but I remember the electrifying experience as a child to source local products instead of relying on imports from faraday countries. I guess technology has lost some of its radiance and has just become a mains to an end, to feed the addiction.
Sorry to hear.

Why would it matter to you if it’s a real human or AI? Wrong in any case.
Hungary exist though, not just in Europe but in the EU. And it’s the perfect sample of what the GOP want to achieve in the long run.
> As for unicorns and trillion dollars companies... some may say it's a feature, not a bug

Cope much?

As a European I'd rather not have half of our industries critically depend on AWS and Microsoft, especially now that the US has fully embraced governance by RNG. The choice isn't having or not having your own digital infrastructure, it's either having your own or having to depend on someone else.
It's hard to believe anything from the Economist these days.

They are basically sold to some circles of influence, such as Qatar and are merely propaganda.

Example, the world cup:

"
The Economist

https://www.economist.com › leaders › 2022 › 11 › 17 › in-defence-of-qatars-hosting-of-the-world-cup

In defence of Qatar's hosting of the World Cup - The Economist
The claim that Qatar is a den of homophobia is also misleading. "

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › middle-east-and-africa › 2022 › 11 › 02 › qatar-races-to-ready-itself-for-an-unusual-world-cup

Qatar races to ready itself for an unusual World Cup - The Economist

The Economist

https://www.economist.com › international › 2022 › 11 › 17 › the-qatar-world-cup-shows-how-football-is-changing

The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing - The Economist
Much of a broader $300bn economic development plan called Qatar 2030

etc.
Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it since it's coming from someone who was in the industry for many years.

I see your biggest concern is AI hallucinations, right?

I'm not using just an LLM. I added a service to give LLM up-to-date knowledge from the web. That reduces hallucinations a lot. Can I guarantee no hallucinations at all? No, I can't.

Where I see value in PodcastPrepper the most is being able to process dozens of sources from the web in parallel and create a report on the guest in about 3 minutes.
Exactly. ONLY Proton rings a bell. Made by a Taiwanese person ;-)
"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable."

Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors.

The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.
I have mostly removed all things that feature advertisements or subscriptions. This means a lot of self hosting and ad blocking.
Is it April 1st still?
The UK folks don't seem to feel so free to say stuff either: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704467
Would be better to offer specifics so people can actually look into it rather than take what YOU took from it on face value.

Journalists typically write, not draw. Was there an article ? On which grounds was the journalist sentenced ? So on, so on.
I suspect the quotation was due to that inside their own head — that they were actually going to say "on one hand" but stopped themselves because it wasn't correct.
“inline CSS wizardry by my friend Kyle”

Thank you for the kind words my friend. I enjoyed contributing to TinyKVM during my time at Varnish Software. It is nice to see that you are able to present and share it with the community.
With digital transformation accelerating, your organization’s control over its data and workflows is more critical than ever. While many collaborative platforms seem convenient, they often come at a steep price: vendor lock‑in, a one-size-fits-all approach where customization and deployment are limited, and data management practices remain unclear.

XWiki offers a different approach. It offers a flexible, open-source platform that you can shape to fit your company's specific workflows and security requirements. It puts you in control.
Do you think Trump is not trying to copy the UAE model? I don't believe he'd want any elections to take place anymore in the US
Are there any alternatives to JLCPCB that are cheaper post tariffs for small order quantities of 5 to 25? I ask because I am not aware of any options that come close. If there are, I know people who would like to know.

By the way, I believe the de minimis exemption is still in effect until May 2, so until we get close enough to the deadline for shipments to arrive on May 2 or later, the tariff rate does not apply to small shipments.
Name one who is jailed because the other countries don't like them?
RAG with clever attention mechanisms?
We have plenty of foreign Rasputins to complain about, as well as some local ones.
No ChatGPT responses here. ;)
Except, anything you "say" can be hate speech or antisemitism in many EU countries. You will be censored, de-platformed or prosecuted.
How many political opponents in the EU and US died by falling out of windows or getting poisened?
China Raises Tariffs on U.S. Imports to 125%
> The boring processes of rule by consensus can slow the EU to a crawl: it took four days and four nights of haggling to agree on the bloc’s latest seven-year budget, in 2020.

That's a weird complaint. 27 member states, manage to agree on a seven year budget, in less than a week. That's seems alright to me. I get that there have been weeks if not months of work done by bureaucrats leading up to that week, but still, seems reasonably fast.
I work in the embedded space. I'd absolutely love to have a tool to build immutable, signed distro images which I can push to devices with a/b style updates. I imagine you can do this with mkosi, but it doesn't quite feel like the intended use case.

Most immutable distros (this included) are developed with the idea that you'd run local commands on the machine, and update a single OS image in place. That gets pretty unwieldy to manage across a fleet of devices.

Right now the industry standard tooling for building truly immutable images for embedded devices is Yocto. It works well, but it's incredibly complicated and has ridiculous build times because it insists on building every single package from source. It's utter madness that building a Linux image for a common ARM64 processor requires me to compile the Rust compiler myself.
I don't see why one needs a trillion-dollar company to host a website.

I'd rather have neither.
I do not know about that but people have had police raids for calling the head of the german Green Party an idiot: https://www.ft.com/content/27626fa8-3379-4b69-891d-379401675...

The Online Safety Act in the UK has been discussed here before and it is part of a general trend to prevent "harmful" speech including specifically "legal but harmful speech".
For data analysis and visualization R is the lightsaber.
Rotherham in the UK, Le Pen in France, Romanian elections.
It's a suspended sentence and Germany has clear laws against defamation, those laws applied here. Saying "it's just a meme" doesn't make it so.
Agreed. It may as well be a million billion percent, there’s barely anything at all that will get exported at this level - diminishing returns from 125% to 145%.