skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess there's maybe an argument for this out there for sufficiently large paranoid companies that would rather own something in house, but would also rather collaborate on an auth system than build one from scratch (something like if Google wanted to adopt a new auth system for some reason).

The other use case (other than people/companies with NIH), might be government or other similarly high risk systems, where they'd rather have a dedicated system rather than a sort of unknown risk of someone else running it (not that I think it would necessarily be more secure in practice).

That said, I feel like on premises deployment of something like auth0 might be closer to what those people would want, rather than something relatively untested.
Then you’d call Mozilla overly political, not “Californian”
The insane AI-generated one he posted to his socials the other day outlining his vague plan to profit off the suffering of Palestinians by building a utopia resort? What a world we are living in.
First, 3,500 is a drop in the bucket. Second, just because China hasn't yet mobilized doesn't mean they won't if they feel a line is crossed like they did in Korea.

With a country like China, everything is on the table
> Though yes the US military, rather state department, does openly fund political manipulation abroad via USAID. It's not humanitarian aid, or rather, the humanitarian aid is a side effect at best.

You betray how much you hate democracy when you refer to efforts to strengthen the ability to conduct free and fair elections at home and aboard as "liberal activism".
Land that is far away from developed land will tend to have lower land values, so farmland would not be so highly taxed under LVT. It's mostly land that benefits from being close to development that would be taxed higher.
It's not an "argument" any more than any other insane faith cult fantasy. Like the aliens are gonna land and rapture us up in their spaceship to the land of fairies and unicorns.
DEFCON started the Frankin project less than a year ago. Purpose is to work with the small mom and pop people across the country and volunteer to harden their security. The consensus being that China will be launching a major offensive in the next 5-7 years and this country filled with small pockets of people doing their own thing are deeply vulnerable to having their infrastructure being crippled in a "first strike" kind of attack. Think about it, so much of the country is decentralized and a lot of the people have their infrastructure that the country depends on just running on outdated junk.

The rest of this decade is make or break for the next 20+ years. I honestly don't know if the US is really on the right path. Maybe letting Musk cut everything so the country can focus on the core essentials will save us? Maybe it will doom us? If we go down, I suspect he will go down with us (never getting to mars) so there is that at least. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore? Maybe there really is no leadership at the top so the window has closed and we are just sleepwalking into a depressing era of pain and suffering?

[1]:https://defconfranklin.com/
> (1) Chinese nationals have served, indicating that Beijing at least tacitly approves mercenary actions

I wouldn't assume a small number of Chinese nationals volunteering to fight for Russia means China approves of their actions. Several Australians ended up fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, that doesn't mean the Australian government approves of Australians fighting for ISIS, it just means it failed in those cases to stop them – it didn't realise they planned to do that before they left the country, or they didn't decide to do it until after they were already living overseas.

And one difference, is obviously Australia and ISIS are sworn enemies, so when Australians volunteered to fight for ISIS, the Australian government could openly condemn their action. Whereas, China and Russia are allies, so even if China disapproves of its citizens volunteering to fight for Russia, it can't condemn them publicly because it would harm the alliance.
its easy to hide data behind percentages and say 94% of the blacks who had a certain GPA where admitted. look at the raw numbers, study after study have shown improved care for colored patients and outcome better when treated by black physicians which indicates we have to have proportional numbers of black and hispanic physicians representative of their population. If whites and asians disproportionately apply to medical schools their admission rates are going to look different. The systemic advantage afforded to affluent kids by being brought up for 18+ years by highly educated parents is not level playing field.
I don’t think your point of view is unreasonable, but I would also like to see folks like you admit that the episode was poorly handled (and that similar mishandling is happening all over) and embarrassing. I notice you didn’t answer all my questions and that seems evasive.
I understand. I'm saying that that alliance is in real danger of shrinking before it even gets started, and at any point thereafter.

Seven countries now have far right parties in government, including Italy, France, and Germany. If they go the way of the U.S., any liberal alliance will be greatly diminished.
I initially saw just the latter part of the meeting where the conflict happens and it seemed like a premeditated thing, but after finding a video that shows the meeting from the beginning[1], I agree that it comes across differently.

It seems like they were having a pretty good meeting, right up until Vance decides to interject his stupid talking points, and then the exchange between Vance and Zelensky gets Trump to launch into his bizarre grievance tirade. It's like dementia was in full-self-driving mode and had no brakes.

Maybe Vance got what he wanted out of this meeting, but I could plausibly believe that Trump wasn't planning for it to blow up like this -- he just didn't have the level of self-control or self-awareness to stop himself. Which isn't exactly a good look either.

[1] https://youtu.be/Y7QxUHdvpk8?t=8693
> In order to do that they need to have a defined leader, not twenty some people each one pursuing their own interests

I mean on paper that's not really true. The US or whichever leader can't tell Poland to send troops, warships, or pilots into Ukraine because if Russia then sends a cruise missile into Warsaw it violates the NATO treaty which would require them all to react. There's no minor conflict exception, it moves as a unit. So the only option on the table is full NATO vs Russia, or status quo proxy war where weapons are funneled through it.

For Europe to properly defend Ukraine's sovereignty on their own they would have to break NATO commitments. Because I don't see continued supply of weapons from their small pool as sufficient to make a big difference... only to extend the war for a few more years, after which a very similar DMZ will be established.

To fight this war you need real military power: on the ground logistics, protected supply lines, large troop reserves to support offensive operations, etc. Weapons only get you so far.
Where I live, land is a very meaningful constraint, there’s no cheap land near anything meaningful. We’re about at our limit in terms of transportation infrastructure, too, so additional housing has to be apartments right in town or our horrible traffic will become even worse. Unfortunately, everything they are building is tight single family homes.
We should broadcast everything all branches of government do all the time, across thousands of channels so that the people can watch it all and make their own decisions on everything. Now that's transparency.
I know right? Black applicants with high MCAT scores were rejected in favor of white applicants with low MCAT scores! Just unbelievable.
That's not true. The last Soviet soldier has left Afghanistan way before the USSR disintegrated.
About why the dollar has been the world currency for the past few decades (during which EU consolidated into a huge market with a single currency, and China became either the first or second country by economic size): the world's currency needs a country that runs huge trade deficits [0]. China is a nation of savers so their instinct is to not run trade deficits. Europe is in a similar position. US - not so much. I would not expect the dollar to lose this status any time soon.

[0] https://www.dunham.com/FA/Blog/Posts/triffins-dilemma?utm_ca...
> You're more embarrassed by Trump tactlessly trying to end the war in Ukraine

The fastest way to end a war is to lose it. A conditional surrender of Ukraine based on all Russian demands is not peace deal, to state the obvious. It is in fact a guarantee this war will continue, which is what Ukraine is seeking to avoid.
Surely the liability will lie with the insurance company, like with regular doctors in the US. And if there is too much malpractice, the state can revoke the license, like a regular doctor.
Insightful!

Makes me think a bit about how negative content engages more people. Is this the same with people who don't like change? Not liking change activates people more than people who do like change?
So you think that Ukraine being overrun is a negotiating card? For whom? Why does America care? It's really Europe's problem, and Europe is not united enough to mount the necessary response. The reality is that Europe has underfunded their defense to the tune of trillions of dollars since the fall of the Soviet Union, and if Ukraine really mattered to them then they would have started investing in their defense back in 2014 when Crimea was "overrun" (and there were basically no consequences whatsoever). The EU's GDP is 10x Russia's; if it's really so important that Ukraine wins, then let Europe fight!
> Nor does ChatGPT ban you from the entire network because you answered a Palestine question on the politics sub-section. (Happened to me.)

ChatGPT would ban you for asking the wrong kind of question instead.
You may have a point buy how do you reconcile their severe shortfalls?

Namely their population growth is downright abysmal(one of the worst in the world). Without this the steam will be running out in 10-15 years.

There is no meaningful immigration to China so they can't solve it that way.

Their empire efforts have been quite a failure in many regards. Look at Pakistan.

Maybe the US just has to outlast them? It worked against the Soviets.
Who is "we"? Are you a soldier in Ukraine? More death is not going to help and neither side will stop. The only chance to stop killing is an agreement.
I don’t know what YIMBYs like to cast people who oppose housing. I am pointing out an effect of the lack of new housing.

I reccommend you read, if you haven’t already, Katherine Einstein’s book ‘Neighborhood Defenders.’ It accurately describes the housing politics in Massachusetts.

Any housing analysis is incomplete without taking into the geographical effect: The only people who care strongly one way or the other about new homes are the people who live near the proposed construction. Almost invariably, people who live nearby are against the change. Those who live far away are actually fine with new construction, at least in the abstract. The very same people who show up to protest nearby construction are also typically fine with housing on other side of the city. People just don’t want new housing in their neighborhood.

This has a practical lesson: control of housing policy, particularly, density, must be ripped from local city councils, where it now rests. Local city councils are beholden to their NIMBY homeowners, as homeowners are the only one who typically vote in city elections. The states thus need to reclaim their legal right to set housing a policy, a right they have ceded to municipalities.
So where are the economic gains? So far it's just been losses.
MCAT != board exam, for one thing.

There have been studies suggesting that elimination of the MCAT does little to nothing to prediction of student performance beyond the second year or so.
I’m a skeptical of the interpretations. All we have are percentages without knowing the size of each group.

Among other things, it reeks of of Simpson’s Paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
Totally agree with this. It’s also totally irrelevant and a false equivalency. Seeing how quickly a conversation shift to antisemitism is disheartening.
Well, from what I gathered, people think the Earth is flat. And I think the way I gathered that data is considerably less creative than the way you did if you managed to come up with that inane conclusion.

In fact, you're so wrong that we're no longer in the realm of having opinions. You're objectively wrong. Look up comparisons of the economic growth of nations to the west of the Berlin Wall and to its east. Germany's alone would suffice, but have at it.

And then you think bringing up outliers means anything... If chess is so difficult why is Magnus Carlsen so good at it? Therefore, chess is an easy game, gotcha. yawn
He's obsessed with the idea that Russia is vulnerable to invasion via Ukraine and eastern Europe, which is why imperial conquest of those areas is a non-negotiable. The question he can't answer is why the hell anyone would want to invade Russia in 2025 the way Napoleon or the Nazis did.

They have nothing of value.
I totally agree that we’re not the audience. But when a patient gets a result and their doc doesn’t call them for nearly a week, the patient is left to fill in the blanks in the worst way possible. In this scenario, the practice screwed up by taking so long.
I have genuinely some questions:

Are these world class leaders that manage trillions and more importantly human lives?

Where is the f... nuclear weapons threat that would convert the war to a cold one?

Why doesn't EU cooperate/negotiate directly with both Ukraine and Russia to end the war? US can be ignored for now with such incompetent leadership.

Just a reminder: Uk and Ru are sister countries. Kiev was the first capital of the Russian empire. Its loosely like a civil war.
From the article:

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar.

And remember, they’re citing CCPA’s definition as meaning “… in exchange for ‘monetary’ or ‘other valuable considerations’”. This is exactly what people mean by “selling”.

It’s not the innocent thing you’re contemplating, about a browser doing its job. It’s specifically about things like serving ads, making that browser “commercially viable”.

Mozilla is stopping claiming they’re never selling your data because they’ve been selling your data for the last few years.
For what it’s worth, I’m a student, and have had the benefit of seeing both the AWS and Azure web interfaces for the first time in the past couple of years. Azure was astoundingly more intuitive and less bizarre than AWS as someone with no experience working with the big clouds.

Even doing classwork involving AWS was an exercise in frustration. I couldn’t actually believe the sort of button trails and on-hover menus I was told to use to access various functions.

I don’t have the experience to evaluate the technical functionality, or whether AWS’s interface is better for experienced users, but I can definitely say it was far less approachable as a novice.
Agricultural land is far from large population centers, so the value is relatively constrained. The real losers on an LVT is not those owning rural land, but the operators of a surface lot near a stadium, or people living in mansions in the innermost suburb ring.
Great example. It is easy to forget how expensive everything was prior to mechanization. Every bit and bob required untold hours of human labor. Senseless destruction would have been unthinkable.
Ya too many people think it's a great idea to raw dog your ci/cd on the net and later get newspaper articles written about the data leak.

The number of packages that is malicious is high enough, then you have typo packages, and packages that get compromised at a later date. Being isolated from the net with proper monitoring gives a huge heads up when your build system suddenly tries to contact some random site/IP.
I only really thought of repackaging Firefox to avoid their new ToS, a tiny set of patches should be very maintainable.
> However if a dev who gets caught doing a bad is forced to resign.

then nearly everyone involved has incentive to coverup problem or to shift blame
Some countries conduct the exactly amount of war they are capable of doing, kill as many people as they have the capacity to do, until they are stopped. Russia is one of those countries.
How ironic considering that the modern day use of the term "axis of evil" was coined by George W. Bush of all people to justify the Iraq war. And I thought Republicans couldn't get any worse back then.
From the page:

> TL;DR Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”)

Three paragraphs later:

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar.

Sharing our data with advertisers in return for money is exactly the way most people think about "selling data".
Right and in this case the doc hadn’t called in many days which I feel was negligent on their part, leaving the patient to self analyze.
Then the remaining Democracies better take action sooner than later, no?
And I can't decide whether you are suggesting that an onager (Asiatic wild ass) or an onager (catapult) is better than a trebuchet.
Even if so, it's a poor course of action to invite the defending leader to a talk, and ask publicly for his unconditional surrender _under a threat and praising of the invader_
Fixed headline: Mozilla adds insult to injury by trying to PR-talk their way out of their Judas-level piece of shit license change
The Knights Templar in Gaza
If Trump was taking direct orders from Putin, what would he be doing differently?

Just the fact that something is fantastical and hard to believe on the surface does not make it untrue.
Agreed. I recently stumbled upon the fact that even Hacker News is using Firebase for exposing an API for articles. Caution should be taken when writing server-side software in general.
Azure tend to bite back when they upgrade their backend and everything breaks

Happened twice with my kubernetes deportment, first something with node groups made them incompatible and had to recreate the cluster from scratch, then one of their scripts to rotate key access to volumes (that one has to run manually, go figure) stopped working and caused my volumes to detach from pods, and has to recreate the cluster again, and I just give up.

I was super happy as well, the first two years. By years six I was fully migrated out.
> And if there is too much malpractice, the state can revoke the license, like a regular doctor.

That particular safety-net is reportedly full of holes, at least in terms of protecting consumers in certain states.

Ex: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/11/30/medical-board...
Ahh, the Unity game engine special.
Yeah I wondered how much of this is accounted for by some general resiliency thing or circumstances during residency or something along those lines.
I thought Andreesen on the surface publicly "heel turned" because the Biden administration and SEC made some really weak motions at regulating cryptocurrencies. I believe Andreesen's words were "CRYPTO REGULATION TERROR REGIME", or something like that. Every day there is a bigger and bigger crypto token scam becoming public, not always but sometimes involving the most powerful person in the United States.
Can you give us a source for those plans? i’m really interested in that.
This is exactly it, millions spent on the product, but no noticeable changes? The money is going elsewhere.

Wikipedia is doing the same.
It's a typical garbled Trumpism. But what do you know about the history of the end of the Cold War? You knew that the U.S. assured Russia at the time that NATO would not expand to Russia's border, did you not? https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
they never ran the program they claimed couldn’t exist ??

Also, why directly run the programs? What about running them with a wrapper program that crashes em if they invert the output of their input?

All this undecidability stuff reads like regurgitated hokum to justify giving up on a problem just because a single oversimplified case can’t be solved for all pathological inputs in a particular way (without bothering to look for a workaround)
Ok for your other questions

Zelensky was disrespectful in many ways. He’s only still in this fight because of the US. He knew damn well why he was flown to Washington this time. Trump wants the ceasefire. He should be thankful for what he’s getting instead of confrontational. He is owed absolutely nothing.

> When considering your answer, if you had children, would you be proud of them if they behaved this way?

If they were genuinely wanting peace, yes.
If it was theatrics with bad intent, no.
He might develop a bad case of Azov Battalion.
Does this work for Claude? I have a Google voice number, and Claude rejects it.
Verily winds converge with force
There seem to be at least two kinds of experts. First, there are those who have actually worked as foreign ministers, presidents, chiefs of armed forces, heads of intelligence services, and in other similar positions. Their expertise comes from direct participation in events and first-hand knowledge of how things work. Carl Bildt, Alex Younger, Ben Hodges, Radoslaw Sikorski are people like this.

Then there are the kinds of experts like Mearsheimer and Zeihan, who are little more than avid book readers. They are often wildly off track without understanding it, because they have no real experience to ground them.

The second kind is best avoided.
People are hostile towards all types of spam, but it still happens.
> Please explain when Brendan Eich said anything about anyone being subhuman.

Prop 8 says gay people don’t deserve the same rights as straight people.

> Did you read my comments? The bill won the election. People you work with supported it.

Ok... and?
A very good article, but I was disappointed to see the misunderstanding about the de Havilland Comet failures repeated

> fatigue failures around its rectangular windows caused two crashes, resulting in it being withdrawn from service

While the accident investigation reports refer to "windows", which really doesn't help matters, the failure point was the ADF antenna mounting cutout. The passenger windows had rounded corners and did not fail in service.

The Comet was not withdrawn from service, they re-engineered and launched the Comet 4 (with oval windows, but that choice was to reduce manufacturing costs) in 1958, but the Boeing 707 was introduced that year and the DC-8 in 1959, ending the Comet's status as the only in-service jet airliner it held between 1952 and the grounding of the Comet 1 in 1954. The Comet 4 continued to fly in revenue service until at least the mid 1970s with lower-tier airlines.

The decision to bury the engines in the wings was one of the deciding factors for airlines - engines in nacelles are easier and cheaper to service and swap if required. Re-engining the Comet 4 to new more efficient turbofan engines the DC-8 and Boeing 707 introduced in 1960 and 1961 respectively required a new wing, but a podded engine was much easier to swap on to an existing airframe and this was done for many of the Boeing and Douglas aircraft.

The last Comet-derived aircraft - the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod - flew until 2011 in the RAF. They did look at upgrading them with new wings and avionics, but the plan was scrapped when they discovered that in the grand tradition of British engineering every fuselage was built slightly differently and they couldn't make replacement parts to a standard plan.

Anyway that's my rant in to the void today :)
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