skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel is taking over Palestine and nearby countries with support from US and EU. They are using hostages as an excuse[1]. So let's not go there.

Ukraine proposed to join NATO and EU about a year before war. Both of which could bring significant money to Ukr.

> extremely typical Russia talking points like... You want corruption? Putin's wealth...

Once again, Ukraine is in debt of EU/US, NOT Russia or Putin. Corruption in Ukraine matters cause it's international debt.

Top level Ukr officials are making billions, purchasing properties in EU and going on vacation while thier soldiers are running out of supplies. And who/how do you think this debt would be paid back? Who is profiting from this war?

[1]https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/ben-gvir-outrage-blocked-h...
Sorry, I meant binary λ-calculus specifically. I can't quite wrap my head around what the hell it even does with its I/O.
I suspect the german state's total reliance on fax machines, notaries and and physical paper forms is what keeps german records out of giant electronic databases

rather than "germans liking their privacy"
AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power
HN discussion on part 1:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672790
Yep, and if you contact their sales directly because you've been bitten before and tell them your traffic they will be happy to tell you that yes, other than a short trial you have to pay them for huge bandwidth from month one. It's actually surprising to me people would believe it's fully free. Like think for a bit that if that was the case Netflix would just move to Cloudflare free tier and Cloudflare would go bankrupt immediately.
Hopefully nobody exposing a full rsync daemon to the web out there
Welcome to the world of managed code. The calc.exe of yesteryear was written in C IIRC but 2025 programmers need to wear protection at all costs.
Indeed, switching Windows PCs is like pulling teeth because of having to re-discover all of the little programs you had downloaded previously. I was a supporter of the "Windows Store" they added in Windows 8 and 10 for this reason, it let me try to keep as much of my software in one place. MS also used to have a "digital locker" service for this kind of thing but that's long gone from the Vista days.
> You mean like four versions...

The two options for cargo here are 1) fail to compile when there's more than one crate-version in the dep tree or 2) allow for there to be more than one and let the project continue compiling. The former would be more "principled" but in practice incredibly disruptive. I usually go "dep hunting" to unify the versions of duplicated deps. Most of the time that's just looking at `cargo tree` and modifying the `Cargo.toml` slightly. Other times it's not easy, and have to either patch or (better) wait until the diverging dep updates their own `Cargo.toml`.

> People are just way too trigger happy with external dependencies, and burying our heads in the sand is not helping.

>

> Inclusion of every external dependency should always be well motivated. How big is the dependency? How much of it do we use? How big of an effect will it have on compile times? How much effort would it be to write it yourself? Is it security sensitive? Is it a dependency which everyone uses and is maintained by well known community members, or some random guy from who knows where? And so on.

We can have a nuanced discussion about dependencies. That's not what I was seeing. There are plenty of things that can be done to improve the situation, specially around Supply Chain Security, but this idea that dependency count is the issue is misguided. It pushes projects towards copy-pasting and vendoring. That makes that code opaque to security tools, existing or proposed. Think of the shitshow it is if you have an app and decided "more dependencies is bad, so I'm copying xz into my repo"?

> Removing leading whitespace from strings? ("unindent" crate, which is also on your list) Hell no! That's like a minute or two to write this yourself.

I don't have access to the closed-source repo to run `cargo tree` to see where `unindent` is used from, but why do you feel this is an invalid crate to pull in? It is a proc-macro, that deindents string literals at compile time. Would I include it directly in a project of mine? Likely not, but if I were using `indoc` (written by dtolnay), which uses `unindent` (written by dtolnay) my reaction wouldn't be "oh, no! An additional useless dependency!".
If you catch someone planting bombs under all your bridges, you don’t need evidence that they’ve detonated any to take them down.
I continue to be baffled by people who simultaneously believe that TikTok is dangerous because of Chinese propaganda that may happen in the future, but that all the other social media networks are not dangerous despite the mostly Russian misinformation and election interference that has been ongoing since 2016. So far as I can see the important part is not who owns the network, but just how easy it is for misinformation to be published, and basic info like "is this poster a real human?" or "was this person paid to say this?" or "is this a factually incorrect statement?" are not readily visible to users.
I did, and it truly was better. Threaded forums are far better at facilitating complex discussions, organizing information, and making the information accessible. Today, most communication is happening inside the walled gardens of Facebook, Discord, etc. That information is effectively being lost rather than being neatly organized and easily searchable.
I find this somewhat hypocritical given that you've recently made suggestive statements about users comments being posted and mocked on other forums, along with vague threats of their real identities being uncovered e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pkkkzip
Maintenance on aging plants is also very expensive (just ask the French) and German plants were getting long in the tooth.

Decommissioning is also very, very expensive, and disasters like Fukushima are also very very very expensive (that one cost about $1 trillion).

It wasn't some secret plot by Russia. Russia exported most of the uranium they used. Fukushima just made nuclear power more of a headache than it was worth, especially given the cost and pressure from the environmental movement (who had agency, despite what you might believe).

The reliance that the US/Europe had on Russian uranium is, in fact, one reason why it was never sanctioned.

The greens in Germany are mostly captured by America these days - that's why they shifted to becoming massive war hawks.
This is one of those things where the act of trying to evade state-level actors by definition puts you on their radar big time.
> How, exactly, are they causing that to come about?

By spreading rumours and falsehoods about vacines. Which reduce vacination rates and leaves an opening for diseases like polio to spread.

Which part of that are you having trouble believing? Just so we can chat about those parts.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706732
Which has nothing to do with this, since all the graphs show divergence in 1971, 2 years prior.
> Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
FB Marketplace is the best way to buy stolen goods cheaply - not sure about authentic goods.
ElevenLabs Reader is the same thing, but much higher quality voices for free. I've lost my place a few times so it's not quite as reliable as VoiceDream. But you aren't paying an expensive subscription with mediocre voices.
Reddit is the exact same - just a propaganda machine
The really neat part is the instrument precision. It's terrifyingly good and I have no idea how it (really) works.

- "Gaia measures their positions to an accuracy of 24 microarcseconds, comparable to measuring the diameter of a human hair at a distance of 1000 km"

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/C...
Netlify manages to be wildly overpriced even by AWS standards, CloudFront starts at about $85/TB, which isn't cheap by any means, but that turns into $550/TB(!!) if you go through Netlify. They have some of the most obscene bandwidth pricing in the industry by a huge margin, and to add insult to injury they don't allow you to set a spending limit either.
> Is there any historical reason why farming is a big industry in a state associated with deserts?

California is a desert too.
calling that AI is very generous.
The literal terminology we use to refer to them directly correlates with their slide. They were "Social Networks" and were all about the network effect of having a connection to people IRL reflected online. That meant you could also go additional links out. They are now "Social Media" and they are largely just one-to-many platforms for media. They have completely crowded out most of the original benefit of being a social network.
If that's true, that might also be part of why dreams exist. If the glymphatic cleanout during sleep is a rhythmic constriction wave across the brain, then whatever the brain is doing at the time the wave crosses it becomes a sustained thought as a side effect.

Maybe that's why sleep, in the sense of becoming immobile, is a thing. The brain disconnects a lot of the motor control so that the hallucination caused by sustained randomness from cleanout waves don't make us flail all over the place and hurt ourselves.
I'm not sure why this has been downvoted so much, this guy states something that might upset some people, but then goes on to provide a pretty sober list pros and cons. This is the kind of content that we want to encourage on HN.
> Now Trump is in charge, Europe is being told that it still has to fall in line

Trump might ask the EU to be the 52nd state of the US.
In the linked article below, we talked about "If RDS has already been used, why is another database needed?" and "Why RDS?"

Briefly, you need to manage metadata for the database. You can write your own raft based solution or leverage existing software like etcd or zookeeper that may not "a relational database". Now you need to deploy them with EBS and reimplement data replication + multi AZ fault tolerance, and it's likely still worse performance than RDS because first-class RDS can typically use internal storage API and advanced hardware. Such a scenario is not software driven.

https://flex-ninja.medium.com/from-shared-nothing-to-shared-...
"So they charged us $400k knowing full well we didn't use the resources and the resources used only cost them a small fraction of this amount."

Good job, Google!
Do you mean Dell is selling a brand new PC/Laptop with Windows 10 currently?
Thanks - I'll give your plugin a try.

Along similar lines, I subscribed to r/nederlands, so that random reddit scrolling features intermittent Dutch practice. I figure that this sort of everyday exposure will help me build a subconscious, pattern-driven sense of grammar and word usage.
it’s painfully obvious
The universal translator in Star Trek didn't mine conversations in order to gather data that would later be used against everyone involved in any and every way that might generate more profit for the universal translator. The universal translator in Star Trek was designed to help people.

Seamless, like all of facebook's AI, was designed to enrich facebook at the expense of people. Anything facebook provides that people find helpful is just the bait facebook uses to trick or entice people into giving up more data from their personal lives and into giving facebook more opportunities to use the data they have against them. This isn't a step closer Star Trek's universal translator. It is at best a step towards an evil mirror universe version of the universal translator designed by the Terran Empire.
> If the restaurant puts food on the public sidewalk I'm free to pick it up.

If someone leaves their purse on the sidewalk and you just take it, you're committing a crime. Consuming a restaurant's food without paying for it is also a crime. It being on the sidewalk doesn't make it not their property (or the property of whoever paid for it).

> The internet is not inside of someone's business, they are inside of it. It is a public space and if they publish without a paywall, I'm free to consume that how ever I like.

There's already many court precedents that no, you can't consume it "however" you like. For example, all copyright laws apply.

Ad blockers are a grey area in that yes, they're not disallowed, but that also means that companies are allowed to mess with you more or less however they want (YouTube for example throttles browsers with active ad blockers).
Just think about it. A German Russian partnership would become a major rival to American Hegemony. German know-how and Russian resources. Can you imagine what a force they would become? From Americas point of view it must not happen. It has nothing to do with Putin in particular, its Russia period. It has everything to do with threats from potential rivals to American power. Nixon and Kissinger thought a China Russia alliance was a threat so did their best to keep them apart. Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blinken, and Brett McGurk are the unholy triumvirate you want to look into for US Foreign Policy decisions in recent years. They obviously thought pushing Russia and China closer together was a good idea for maintaining America's world hegemony. Pax Americana.

As long as American bases remain on German soil, you bet your boots on the ground Germany is beholden to Americas hegemonic wishes.
Israel has the F35 because it can strike Iran, not because of insurgents. And it was successful in this.

Anti-aircraft missiles are not that good. If anything, this conflict is showing that. But the platforms both sides are using aren't up to par either, which is why aircraft like the F35 were made. Vaunted systems like the S-400 didn't prevent Israel from reaching deep into Iran, which is giving some of it's buyers second thoughts.

Su-57 had serious problems because the Russian aerospace industry lacks the technical ability to build a reliable 5th-gen fighter. (Engine problems galore). They made some excuse around "its so good, we don't need it".

The rest of your argument is built around the premise that the F-35 is not for use in big power conflicts, which frankly is incorrect and the opposite: That's exactly what it's for. Much of the hate it gathered early on was centered around why it existed when insurgencies were the majority of what we were fighting. (You don't need a stealth strike aircraft to drop a 1,000 LGB on a Toyota with a DShK attached) but you certainly need one if you want to penetrate defended airspace.

If you can't penetrate said airspace, you throw glideb bombs from long range instead. =P

China's stealth fighter projects are not for "other enemies", but precisely in line with missions like the F-35: To penetrate defended airspace to attack high-value targets. Like Taiwanese and U.S. defense sites and naval assets.

But it is amusing how many accounts there are out there saying F-35 is useless and the U.S. should stop building them, while China, South Korea, Japan, India, and others are all working on building or are building its equivalent.

Good try.
This behavior seems much in line with Musk.

The all in podcast has four high net worth people with a similar vibe.

Something disturbing is going on in the ranks of the "elite". I get these people are narcissistic, but the overt displays of contempt combined with authoritarian cowtowing is a bit frightening.

A trade war with China combined with other increasing consequences conflicts seems to be bringing the age of global free trade to an end, or at least a very different one.

The Ukrainian success with naval drones may mean the end of secure seas as well. Drones are cheap, anonymous, and effective.

That implies an disruption to the multinational corporate order, and an emphasis on domestic or near domestic production, and less of the government independence / arbitrage that the super rich have gotten used to.

But the ultras all seem to be going into these maniacal bond villain molds. Is Musk a symptom or a torchleader?
Both alcohol and tobacco are regulated by the ATF. The FDA would ban cigarettes if they had the authority.
A restaurant can become big. Say you have a food critic showcase your restaurant and hundreds of people show up. How could we possibly deal with this problem without the aid of the smartest, most amazing, totally really smart, awesome at leet code, software engineers?
When my oldest was going into middle school the district started providing devices for the kids to use in class. There was breathless hype about how this would usher in a new age of technological competence and improved pedagogy. I asked the district IT folks in attendance what types of controls they had in place to prevent misuse -- watching YouTube, open browsing of the web, etc. They had literally nothing in place.

You can guess how that went.

I love Vernor Vinge's works, but the worst prediction of his ever, just 180 degrees totally in the wrong direction, was _Rainbow's End_'s treatment of technology in education. His take (and this was as late as 2006!) was that unfettered access to technology would turn elementary students into a cohort of genius autodidacts. Fast forward to 2025 (coincidently the date the book is set in) and unfettered access to technology has turned children into feed-consuming zombies.
Thank you for writing this, and making it available online!

When researching+writing this, did you find it useful to look through McLuhan's "Medium is the Message" lens? If so, what are the "message" implications of this ouroboric/circular/whirlpool medium?
Both are true.

Looks like the fab requires about 40,000 acre-ft/yr of water. If they really do start running out of water, adding desal of AZ's brackish aquifers would cost the fab about $20m/year. Not really worth it for farming, but completely fine for a fab.
The difficult part is not balance but looking ahead. When you are first learning to use the pedals, you instinctively LOOK at them. That's what makes it difficult. I learned on a standard bike but did not pedal until somone encouraged me to try. I was going downhill fast and everything without using the pedals. :)
That's the whole point, you can't rely on systems for hermetic builds.
Cheese

Tuna

Pickles

Oranges (apples as well, but I can't find an old article)

Wasabi

Apricots

Ginger

Salmon

https://www.treehugger.com/foods-youd-never-guess-were-artif...
Huh, I actually do some of this but I'm planning on doing a bit more that I'd like to get their feedback on. For background, I live in the PNW among the trees. My soil is part of a long dead riverbed and thus is mainly silt and sand. I have chickens, a worm bin, and a medium sized compost pile. The trees have the same erosive properties that trees in the Boreal forest have. Douglas firs have shallow roots but are towering trees, the soil just doesn't do them any favors.

I'm building a chicken coop that's designed to take pine shavings and be completely emptied once a month with relative ease. The idea is to take the chicken poop and pine shavings and add them to the compost pile. I'll further introduce new worms from my separate vermiculture bin and add them to the compost. This should speed up the break down, but the pile will primarily rely on the Berkeley method to accomplish faster cycles. Each month I should start getting pounds of fresh compost that I can move around my yard.

Secondarily to my chicken and worm hobby I love to smoke meat and cheese. I use all of the ash from the pellets to amend the soil as well. I pile it up in a box and spread it around when it gets full. I then till the soil, working it in over time. The natural acidity of the soil from the fir needles has slowly started regressing, but that's the most progress I've gotten thus far.
>The "emotionally mature" way of dealing with such things in any sane society

If my children lived in a war zone and were suffering constant (high risk) of being killed or mutilated, the mature way of dealing with that wouldn't be to teach them to take cover, or survival skills, or medical triage and first aid... it'd be to just leave and never go back. Get one million miles away from it. Normalizing it, saying "what are you gonna do, we live in a war zone" is strange. But it's just as bizarre to say "you should become an anti-war activist and demand that the diplomats make a lasting peace".

No, just get the fuck out as quickly as is humanly possible, and never look back. Later, when you're someplace safe, maybe you do therapy for the PTSD (I have my doubts that it works), but the first and most important step is to put distance between yourself (or your children) and the threat, enough distance that makes it impossible for the threat to follow.
> No, it really isn't.

I wonder what you know about Genocide better than experts in Holocaust studies and other genocides themselves.

William Schabas, author of the 741-page textbook, "Genocide in International Law" - says it's a genocide in Gaza.

John Quigley, author of the 300-page book, "The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis" - says it's a genocide in Gaza.

@martinshawx, author of the books "What is Genocide?" and "War and Genocide" - says it's a genocide.

@dirkmoses, author of the 600-page book, "The Problems of Genocide" - says it's a genocide in Gaza.

Raz Segal, author of "Genocide in the Carpathians" - says it's a genocide in Gaza.

Amos Goldberg, author of books on Holocaust, says it's a genocide in Gaza

@bartov_omer, author of several books on Holocaust and genocide, says it's a genocide in Gaza.

But why to listen to the experts in law and genocide studies? Why to bother to read the extensive human rights reports?

Listen to @piersmorgan instead; he has a gut feeling.

https://x.com/NimerSultany/status/1870761846497583323

> This is war, this is how it goes.

Yeah, war is how "I was just following orders" German troops justified killing 12m+ in concentration camps. Goebbels said, "The Jews are responsible for the war. The treatment they receive from us is hardly unjust. They have deserved it all." Don't be like Goebbels.

> the 2 billion Muslims that hate Jews

Yeah, well: I know a handful Muslims who married Jews.

> and all you did was bitch on the internet, I'd be ashamed to know you

Same.
Smells like desperation.

Microsoft has been failing on the gaming front, trying to make their buggy "current gen" OS relevant by force, and is losing ground to other online competitors (i.e. Google docs). Azure is still growing, albeit slower than their top competitors. Bing has actually been doing good thanks in part to ChatGPT, but even there they still resort to bizarre tactics, like pretending to look like Google. [0]

I would love to hear from others truly in the know, but it looks at times like the company is less an organism and more a writhing mass of creatures in a thin, shared skin trying to make it appear as one.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/bing-stopped-pretending-to-be-goog...
Even before I went to college I knew that Race Across America winners would sleep only a couple hours a night, timed to wake at sunrise to trick their brains into thinking they’d gotten more sleep. They’d be hallucinating by the end, which did not sound like fun.

I think the longest I ever made it was 70 hours. Maybe 80. I had two finals on consecutive days so I stayed up to cram for the second. Fibbed to my parents about when I was available to come home for the holidays, so I went to the computer lab to binge games with a couple friends, never made it to sleep that night.

I went to bed when the blue background on the computer terminal started to swim. That’s enough internet for me today.

The older you get the more dangerous it is to do this. You can start dying sometime between 70 and 120 hours. And the quality of whatever you’re doing is declining rapidly after 30 or so. Go to bed.