skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% agree. I am also deeply dissatisfied with the state of diplomacy. I also think these negotiations should be handled by a strong and independent Europe.

Regardless of who is pulling the strings, they should be negotiating and ending conflict, like in the Minsk agreements, which were torn down by the west. In fact, Angela Merkel herself stated in 2022 that the 2014 peace agreements were an attempt to give Ukraine time to militarize and eventually join NATO.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-are-minsk-agreemen...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-loss-trust-w...
I would tell the same story, but the root issue is cars. Housing density would have remained high if not for car dominance.
Oh I didn't say the US would survive another four years of Trump, i'm saying despite their current state of jubilation, Russia is screwed no matter what.
The US have lost their soul.
So you too have noticed "something" that cannot be quantified as "event" yet. I would say from around 2014 things started to move in strange directions here and there around the world. I am not sure if what is brewing is highly unusual, but I would say it is not something we have seen in a last 50-70 years.
On the plus side, at least Marco Rubio seemed completely embarrassed to be sitting in the room with them. He was sinking and sinking into that sofa.
In my case yes, I use an OSS library that is based on Scala's (a bit outdated) parser combinators (https://github.com/scala/scala-parser-combinators). So the parsing part is not actually written by hand, the library only defines the keywords, the precedence etc.
I don't know that sovereignty is what a lot of apps want for this kind of hazmat data, which is why Cognito and Auth0 are so popular.
Macron came out the other day in the interview with Trymp and stated that if the assets were to be seized from Russia that this would be considered payment.
Ecosystem, not the lang itself.

It truly is a community issue, it's not a matter of the lang.

You will never live down fucking left-pad
Most of the mineral wealth stuff is all in the Donbas, or a couple of kilometers from the front lines. I am unaware of much of anything like that in western Ukraine.

Historically most of the heavy industry, near the mineral deposits, has always been in eastern Ukraine. Agricultural stuff in western and central Ukraine. Putin would be perfectly happy w/ a Ukrainian only rump state centered around Lviv.
I mean, with the way things are going currently, I wouldn't be surprised if the "vibe-based engineering" paradigm gets applied to real-world engendering too.

The bridge collapsed? Oops, software error, can't do anything about it!
This is no joke. Run an e-commerce site and have been generally skeptical of WAFs but had to sign up for a bot mitigation service because it became out of control two years ago. These bots were even executing JavaScript and loading third party scripts which caused additional fees from these vendors. We went with Datadome and are pretty happy with it but I wish I didn’t need to!
IME even a small company runs into something you need an actual server for, and then you're suddenly spread across two clouds because Cloudflare is serverless or nothing.
We allowed a guy that tried to coup the government not only to run for office again, but to win and disappear all his criminal charges.

What rule of law. What checks and balances?
I haven’t read Piketty, but another book pointing in the same direction is The Meritocracy Trap, essentially explaining how non-meritocratic a lot of the economy is despite the common belief that it is. Wealthy parents spend a ton of resources developing the human capital of their children. It has basically eroded the middle class as a result. The author calls for an inheritance tax among other things.
> And you should only look at what he does.

Yes. Like sell a ton of drones to Ukraine, partner with Ukraine on producing drones, shooting down a Russian plane in Syria, conflict with Russian troops in Syria, etc...

They have been aligned with the US most of the time but they very clearly also have a mind of their own and that includes a lot of actions against Russia.
Yeah, it's definitely a head-scratcher. I wonder how often unapproved people make it in. Seems like a major security risk to have someone unapproved in the room with that many high-level government leaders from multiple countries.

I'm wondering if they were given a pass by another approved news agency or something along those lines.
Everyone knows this is just a publicity stunt and a distraction from Elon Doge. Zelenskyy is a puppet anyway. Thats why he is so confused. “You guys put me here wtf”
Problem: a tool built with LLMs for building LLMs with LLMs has a vuln

Solution: more LLMs

Snap out of it
If you steal something from someone who stole something, I'm not going to cry for the original thief.
My point of view overall is that it was an insufferable meeting and I'm surprised that it didn't explode sooner.

Question after question praising Trump and then he repeating his same old script. They even seemed to forget Zelenskyy was there for a moment, and then a reporter asks him why is he not wearing a suit?. Such a ridiculous question, and if they care about it so much, why they don't ask Elon Musk that?

Being in Z shoes I would feel like a sane people trapped on an mental institution or a cult.
Why do you think the US is going to remain in NATO for the next 4 years? Trump loves to say the quiet part out loud and he’s been repeatedly threatening to pull out.
Even if Trump doesn't run again, Vance will, he'll declare victory no matter what happens, and Trumpism will have another opportunity to coup the government after failing and learning from their mistakes the first time.
Europe has spent more to help Ukraine than the US has.
Current Mojang employee here, we moved fully onto Azure as of a few years ago AFAIK.

Some more game-oriented technologies of course have helped in the years since though.

Edit: AWS -> Azure :)
Based on the timestamps, it could only be. But this story, timestamps notwithstanding, was submitted by suprisetalk ~2 days ago.

Then it was placed in news.ycombinator.com/pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43176091), and got two comments; credit_guy's comment was one of them.

Then, today, it hit the frontpage.

Notice that if you mouse over "9 hours ago" on the story it shows the timestamp 2025-02-25. 9 hours ago was not 2025-02-25. If you mouse over the "7 hours ago" on credit_guy's comment, the timestamp shows 2025-02-26. One day after it was submitted, two days before it made the frontpage.
And Zelensky ended up apologizing, rather quickly:

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1895618072905384351

The whole thing was just sad to watch. Politics have hit a level of inanity unimaginable..
I just don't believe this, not because I have hard data, but it just doesn't make any sense. Sure, the central banks will do everything they can to ignite the economy and everyone will be generally working their hardest to recover from hard times, but how can an economy that gets completely halted to go full bore in war efforts ever hope to generate the wealth of an economy that isn't halted and has been making incremental improvements, uninterrupted?
This is a fairly common bug in multithreaded use of .NET Dictionary, too.
> I'll be surprised if all the tests are still passing two months after this project, since nobody runs them.

Wouldn't they just run as part of the build? At least for Java, Junit tests run as part of the build by default.
And a performance to the MAGA base. One thing we've learned about Trump is, he'll do and say whatever outlandish thing if it'll gain / keep his votes.
JS, TS, Python, and Rust are first class options, plus generic wasm:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/
This is the reason I try to avoid proprietary bullshit services. Use EC2, Postgres, and S3, and you’ll be fine in any cloud or even on bare metal.
It's been surprising to me how poorly understood this field is. Even something as popular a the von Mises criterion seems to have got its popularity because Tresca was a more "pure" result of the supposed failure mechanisms but it needed rounded corners to fit dirty real world materials and von Mises has rounded corners, so it'll be good enough.

I suppose it doesn't matter to most engineers because nobody's going to design with a safety factor of 1.1 or even know the loads anywhere close to that accuracy. Also nobody needs to exploit the greater compressive strength vs tensile of most materials so no need for those asymmetric models.
We can still steal land from people who were originally on that land, happens all the time in America.

- Land Appropriation for "Public Need" with Direct Transfer to Wealthy: https://fastercapital.com/content/Land-appropriation--The-In...

- Heirs property, property tax sales, and Torrens Acts (article focuses on black people, yet works equally well on all skin colors): https://inequality.org/article/black-land-theft-racial-wealt...

- Wealth City / Suburb secession to leave poor areas to pay bills, and then buy them in destitution: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-11/atlanta-s...

- Rezone areas to make new cities, take all the businesses and good land, and leave the remaining "city" with the bills (another Atlanta idea): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Union+City,+GA/@33.6158433...

- Sell vacant land out from under land owners with false listings: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newark/news/fra...

- Purposely Induced Foreclosure, Bankruptcy or surprise tax assessments to cause a forced sale: https://www.businessethicsnetwork.org/forced-sale-implicatio...
I'd look at the minimum viable option as providing enough materiel that the worst case situation is eventually similar to North and South Korea. But I also think it is conceivable that non minimum options are possible.
I wonder how many new developers will have legit panic attacks if their LLM of choice has an outage.
As I said in my edited post, it was a typo where I messed up the impact of MH17's shoot down on Netherlands and the Smolensk incident.
Keep up with times man. "de facto" now connotes "de jure" just as "literally" connotes metaphorically.
I can second this recommendation. The first interview he did, he was a bit rusty as a interviewer but the 3 followups was great, he did his homework. All 4 are good tough, I'm not sure it is helpful for "international relations" of today as much as good to understand history from multiple perspective. I think they are a good foundation on "how to think/see perspective in things", but history always have hindsight so practicing that is a bit harder.

There's also Decoding Geopolitics Podcast (full content is paywalled) since he talks with actual experts. There's ofc US bias in experts, and usually actual experts can be kinda boring to listen to initially.

But experts in international politics seems to disagree on a lot of stuff, and when one big thing happens it seems like a new face always momentarily pop up (John Mearsheimer, Peter Zeihan etc, for Ukraine war). A good rule of thumb seems to be to not get too fixated by one voice.

Its refreshing to hear some experts being able to healthily disagree, such as Mearsheimer & Sach in this[1] for example. That should be the take away from Sarah Paine interview too, she's good at making clear what she can & can't say for sure. Contrast that with say Zeihan.
[1] https://youtu.be/uvFtyDy_Bt0?feature=shared
I don't think the lesson is lost. The opposite.

If you get a slap on the wrist, do you learn? No, you play it down.

However if a dev who gets caught doing a bad is forced to resign. Then all the rest of the devs doing the same thing will shape up.
Doesn't make sense. Requiring exponentially more resources is not surprising. Resources getting exponentially cheaper? Like, falling by more than half each cycle? That doesn't happen.
Sure, some tried, but smallpox and other diseases were doing a great job on their own. It didn't need a few blankets to make it a real pandemic.
>I am willing to bet that military spending will keep ballooning now that the broligarchs are in power and fighting to redirect public spending to their pockets.

Why would you think that military spending would go up, given the tasks the executive has currently issued, and diplomatic direction indicated vis-a-vis other world military powers:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-pentagon-cuts-8-troops-budg...

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/trump-china-russia-military...
Sorry if my comment is pretentious.

I can't go further into details about Ukraine, not today at least.

One piece of information in my comment is that I suspect arguments and facts are likely to be ignored if people a-priory convinced what opinion makes them "good" and what opinion is shameful.
>just shop when you get there, no issue

depends where you live: you may encounter substantial waits to speak to a sales rep.
At least the Azure one lets you see all your resources, so you can verify you don't have something you're paying for unexpectedly.
> we moved fully onto AWS as of a few years ago

Did you mean Azure?
It's true. Also, the UK has never repaid its WW1 debt to the US.

The US joined WW1 when it became clear that the UK would not be able to repay its debt to JP Morgan and its clients if Germany won. Of course, that was not the only reason, but it was a huge factor. (Source: Adam Tooze, The Deluge)

(London had, bizarrely, decided to bankroll the Russian and French war efforts in addition to its own, so its debts were vast.)
His actions were totally public and affected people who worked for him. Thinking “I don’t like broccoli” is a private action. Contributing your effort to take away existing marriages and prevent new ones is not a private action: he isn’t a party to someone else’s marriage and nobody was forcing him to have gay marriage if he didn’t want one, nor would his church be required to perform or recognize them. The only reason to support Prop 8 was an explicitly public political statement that the government would interfere with personal liberties for religious grounds.

That’s shameful enough – and completely discredits his purported religious beliefs – but it’s especially bad for an officer of a public company because it creates a hostile working environment. If you’re gay, working for a homophobe means that you have to view any decisions he makes through the lens of whether he thinks your life should be illegal. Even if you only care about the business, anyone with a stake still needs to worry about liability from creating a strong argument for a lawsuit arguing that a negative personnel decision wasn’t based on the stated rationale.
Why do you think complete surrender is better than continuing to struggle?
How do you turn off getting your search history sold? You can turn off seeing the suggestions. Can you request they don't sell it though? The company they sell your search profile to could then sell that to someone else.
Some people only care about simple stuff. You know like partying or having fun? US Government being a shit show? War stuff happening halfway across the planet? Some people don't care about that. They don't care if the government they are in is a democracy or a dictatorship. Some people just want to smoke weed everyday, play video games, fish, travel, spend time with family, or get laid... If the current government (whatever shape or form it is) isn't preventing them from doing what it is they want to do, then they don't really care. And reality is, there's a lot of such folks who's pursuits are rather unaffected by the current state of affairs, even if they're large amounts who are. You might think that they should care, and reasonably so, but fact is, some won't until it actually is (too late).
Compartmentizing the code only matters if it works in the first place.

The main argument from senior folks is probably that vibe codes won't cut it for actual sizeable problem. There is complexity that can't be abstracted away just because we want to.
I think the Trump family has been bought a lot harder by very wealthy Israel supporting Americans and the UAE. The Kushner stuff is well documented. There's checks moving around. Both parties on each end publicly announce huge real estate deals.

I can't point to anything concrete about Russia funding Trump.
One difference is that the government can choose not to renew a lease on land it owns. Eminent domain exists but it is a lot more messy.
I'm assuming you're on platforms dominated by Americans and Westerners so you're not seeing it much, but I can assure large portions of the world are quite happy to see America's downfall in real-time.

Personally, I hope to see China fill the void America will leave behind; the world will be better for it.
They’re too busy figuring out how to pay their bills to worry about the future of the country.
Some people have it, some people don't?
Well for one it was a gift so there is no valid contract right? There are no direct damages because there is nothing paid and nothing to refund. Wrt indirect damages, there's bound to be a disclaimer or two, at least at the app layer.

IANAL, not legal advice
You're not alone. Fixing bugs is usually really easy anyway, and it takes me more effort to feed the context to the LLM than to fix them myself.

The real complicated "bugs" often come from unclear requirements and the hard part is clearing up the requirements. It's more about design than logic errors in the code. And LLMs suck hard at this.
Well, that's an argument and you certainly can and should make it in response to whoever you are hoping to convince somewhere in the thread. Pasting the same URL at people is not 'discourse' or conversation, it's sloganeering. You can't do that while also decrying "regurgitation".
Yes, I do. Whoops!
Continued "Longevity Island" Meetups: EthDenver/End of February Links
My guess is that all of this moronic fiscal policy causes a significant recession by the next presidential election.
If one opted out of all the possible data collection and privacy related options, are they still able to collect your data? If yes, how does it work? Is this called client-side scanning?
> Windows that set us up for web based services (eventually)

...and then .NET and SQL Server started shipping for Linux.
Was this argument staged? Trump & Vance get to look as though they're out for American interests and peace-friendly. Zelensky gets to go home and say "look, my hands are tied, I have to end this war, our biggest ally has betrayed us".

I'm working on the thesis that everything politicians say about foreign policy in public is for the consumption of the home audience, which has served me pretty reliably up until now.
> Trying to sell a browser now is an even weaker proposition to most users.

To most users yes, but a group of power users like me can make them life-changing money. I'd happily pay a monthly subscription for my web browser.

It just does not need to be a U.S. entity. Otherwise, people without a Visa or Mastercard will be left out.

Crypto is fine for this use case.
You can open a US dollar account in a non-US bank. Some banks don't offer this service to ordinary private citizens (others do), but I think pretty much all will if you are a (non-sanctioned) business or foreign government or high net worth individual looking to deposit large sums of cash (millions).

The bank needs to somehow hold US dollars to back its US dollar deposits, but there are various ways of doing that – e.g. put the money in its own account(s) in a US bank, hold physical US dollars in a vault somewhere, purchase US treasuries, use the deposit to fund lending denominated in US dollars (huge market for US dollar loans outside the US) – likely it is using some combination of those

So probably some of these Russian assets in Europe are euros, some are US dollars, some are other financial assets such precious metals, stocks and bonds, units in managed funds, etc – and they are just all being converted to euros for reporting purposes
Within the EU, it's mostly Germany's fault because their political leadership is too chickenshit to remove the debt limit and the ban on expeditionary forces from their constitution. 30 years ago, West+East Germany had world class armed forces, yet the current German military posture is ridiculous.

The US should keep its commitments, but there is no reason Germany cannot step up to the plate - especially given that France has a similar defense budget as Germany yet has an outsized impact on global security.

German political leadership needs to either stop blocking France+UK and defer to their security policy or build it's own domestic capacity.
"Protecting the skies" is an act of war. Literally. That would mean declaring war on Russia.
I'll be around at the venue. Just HMU through Twitter
Aren't these engine designs patented very heavily? How were clones popping up less than a decade later?
It's also sad how much Hashicorp apparently ignores marketing for it. Especially when it works with Consul which is already in a lot of places. Also another funny memory is going into a decomm meeting where I was gonna ignore it like usual since 99% of it was another team decommissioning on-prem stuff. And out of nowhere I hear "we just got approval to decomm Consul. We'll be shutting down the servers in two weeks and waiting to see if anything breaks.." followed by my very stern "NO YOU WILL NOT" ahaha. What a mess that company was
While a replace for M777 may not be in service, the US had stopped manufacturing and continued only after Ukraine requested it. This indicates that it isn’t an integral tool to the US’ arsenal, and has been superseded.

> November 2024 BAE announced the opening of a new artillery factory in Sheffield during 2025 to resume production of complete M777 artillery pieces for Ukraine and to help fulfil orders for fresh titanium cast spare parts from the US supplementing its US parts factory which also resumed production during 2024.

Similarly, ATACMs production was also halted.

Really, your question, tone and phrasing really indicates that you are not really looking for an actual conversation but rather a gotcha moment.

It’s worth noting that variants of weapons and exist, and sending older ones to Ukraine does not imply that it is getting access to newest and greatest.
By necessity, perhaps. But really, cars enabled communities to more cost-effectively express preferences that would have been too expensive without them; cars are an indirect driver of this problem.
Interesting.

Just checked and in argentina there is no federal tax gift, and in some provinces it's just much lower. We also have a wealth tax so that may address the gen wealth issue in another manner.

Tax is like that different in every country and hard to compare apples to apples.
>spend $15M on a team of 20+ highly competent full time developers

Implies that the browser is the mission, not some social cause is the mission
That was in California. Presumably, it's worded somewhat differently, and with different intent, elsewhere.

50 states, plus Federal laws, and all the other countries of the world and internal jurisdictions is how many possible variations? And before you say "Yeah, but they all mean mostly the same thing", remember it's lawyers we're dealing with, who will happily charge large sums of money arguing over misplaced punctuation and legislators who will happily take bribes from those same lawyers.
That's why you keep some local too
Definitely not a dumb question. It's a really good question that I rhetorically ask myself every time I start one. And I'm glad there have been some good answers to your question here. Though for me, it will never be answered , because I helplessly detest the subject.
The original question was about what value educated people can bring to the economy. You are asking about most people.

And I reject your characterization of the capabilities of American students. There are plenty of incredibly bright ones.
he didn't say it's ok. He said piketty is wrong. Anyone who studied even econ 101 and combined it with a teaspoon of common sense knows piketty is an idiot and that book is garbage. He's a politician.