skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"is derived from the pioneer days when land was plentiful."

Land is still generally plentiful. The need to all live in one spot is more social/artificial and really accelerated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to rapid urbanization.
I am not clear about your description.

Electric propellor planes have similar problems at high altitude that you're pushing thin air.

What are the efficiency gains you're thinking about?
pushes glasses up nose

I can’t decide whether to engage in an argument of a trebuchet being a catapult, or an argument about onagers being better than trebuchets.

How unfortuitous.
That would be Computer Science.
In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth.

This is way way less than the observable universe.
No they are not. They are saying exactly: "You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to[...]Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence"
Sure. "Please work 60 hours a day working on a technology that may well put you out of a job and also have disastrous consequences on society".

Why the hell do people accept to do that?
This is why I believe the Financial Independence movement is too rearward looking, if you have children. Parents now need to plan for the college (and graduate school) tuition and the house downpayments of their children, because the cost of both have increased by an order of magnitude in the last 50 years.
Oh, sure, mess up their logistics network enough and they'll have trouble keeping their front resupplied. I don't see evidence that it's happening yet, but sure, saturate important targets with enough bombs and it will eventually, hopefully Ukraine finds a way to do just that. I'm sure it's at least helping, even what they've managed to do so far. It might be a big part of why Russia's having trouble putting together major offensives.

I'm not disputing that there are ways to win a war other than killing all the other dudes, I'm just pointing out that if Ukraine got backed into a corner, the smart money very early on was it'd happen either because "allies all pack their bags and go home" or "they run short of manpower".
This kind of thing makes the US look disorganised, unpredictable and ultimately weak.

China and Russia and many others will be very pleased.

I expect a number of military "provocatives" from China in particular in the coming months.
Firefox has had site isolation since 2021: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-sit...
some work hard and get successful; some work hard and fail

all who don't try fail
Yeah, "Calm down everyone, the only issue here is that certain jurisdictions have sensible definitions that mean we can't legally claim we're not selling data because we are" is arguably clarifying but it's not particularly comforting.

Seems safest to assume that if it can be tracked, it will be. And traded too.
Listen to JD Vance speak about Europe, and listen to the way he bullied Trump into increasing bullying in this meeting, and you'll never think that.

If Ukraine signed this deal they would lose so many more lives than with what Zelensky did. I can't imagine how cowardly and easily fooled you'd have to be to think that giving into Russia will make the genocide stop.
Why were you offended by AWS?
So this is true, and if I piece apart what you’re saying, it’s that you think that liberal propaganda has turned people away from MAGA, convincing liberals of Trump’s inherent malevolence.

But I have a different theory. I think that in this case, the propagandists are trying to convince the other of their own inherent malevolence.

Not to say liberal media doesn’t try to do this, but let’s be honest? Trump is a world’s better marketer than the folks at MSNBC.

And I think he thinks it is useful to be so extreme that it also creates that divisiveness. Like as objectively as I try to look at Trump, I think he intentionally obfuscates his intentions to increase divisiveness.
Even if not “operational” you could strap the warhead to a conventional bomb and really ruin a cities next few hundred years.
Don't think I track. Some people withdrew some money and it makes you think something big is coming?
It's hard to understand what you're saying here. Being better off than your parents implies that you are a beneficiary of generational wealth? Connect the dots for us.
I thought I remembered reading that Ukraine was the largest source of neon gas in the world and that it was necessary for lasers that make advanced microchips?

Remember reading that sometime on here when the war started I think.
I see that. However, it seems weird to broadcast this whole negotiation/talk/hour itself. Even the parts before that weren't really insightful or well formatted. It seems unprofessional and embarrassing for the US to do it in this way, even without the eventual climax.
This is what Russia does when it buys off politicians. Brexit for the UK, and Trump for the US.

Make no mistake that the Republican party is bought out, through and through, by foreign powers.
from todesktop's report:

> Completed a review of the logs. Confirming all identified activity was from the researcher (verified by IP Address and user agent).
They just lost a monopoly case because they paid Mozilla all that money, this theory has always made little sense and sticking to it now makes even less.
30% of the population protesting - that would be absolutely enormous! Revolutions are made by single digit numbers
Thank you for passive-aggressively outlining the infinite growth mindset.

Falsely equating economic growth with cost of living metrics, and assuming that with more money everything can just continue happily. It’s been a very successful evolutionary niche for a handful of centuries.
> Not that you might care about the moral aspect of it, but we also finished Nazi Germany and prevented that horror from taking over the world.

There's a lot of research on how the Allies helped move many Nazi war criminals to safe havens in other countries, help the remaining Nazis into positions in government and business in West Germany, used the remaining Nazis as intelligence networks, helped them organize into wild-eyed anti-Communist cells all over the world, and of course absorbed several Nazi scientists into research institutions in the US.

In a moment of madness Churchill put out a plan to hire the Wehrmacht after their defeat to go invade the real enemy, the Soviet Union.
and they continue to dig themselves a bigger hole

"we are selling your data, not necessarily anonymised, even though a month ago we had a text on our website said we NEVER would"
The boundaries of LLMs’ capabilities are really weird and unpredictable. I was doing a very basic info extraction task a few days ago and none of Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 3.3 70B, or GPT-4o could do it reliably without going off the rails. With the same prompt, I switched to the open-weights Gemma 2 27B - released last spring - and it nailed it.
Europe has been dependent on Russian oil and gas for some time correct, but has dramatically reduced imports since 2022 - cutting Russian gas by 80% and oil by over 90%. Additionally more and more european and baltic countries are disconnecting from their grid see ("Baltic states unplug from Russia and join EU power grid"

- Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlkwyljl8lo
This is all total sophistry.

Realists try to wrap Putin's decisionmaking in layers of geopolitical reasoning, when the dude literally compares himself to Peter the Great and uses 17th century maps to claim that Ukraine is an illegitimate nation. This is bog-standard nationalist stuff.

Tucker Carlson literally sat down with Putin and did everything he could to tee up this nonsense about NATO that Westerners want to hear and believe was the real reason, and instead Putin dropped 45 minutes worth of nationalist pseudohistory on him that had nothing to do with NATO. Nobody in Russia pretends the war is about NATO. It's just not really part of their narrative at all.

In summary: https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1amqoq9...
Nitpick: Europe spent more on Russian oil and gas than it gave to Ukraine.

We're comparing spending and giving there.
Source?

Some of the nations were large, such as the Aztec. And at least a few of them understood right by conquest. They also had extensive trade routes across the continent, seeming to disprove the lack of ownership.
I got into a fight with them kind of like Trump and Zelensky just did. Not a technical reason.

Sometimes in business the deal falls through

I was on the receiving end and didn’t appreciate it.
Can you recommend a place to learn more about this? I have been curious about this topic but have struggled to find resources online describing the basic physics of electric flight propulsion.
> I have an older mac with older FF. Results: librewolf and waterfox wont run (10.15 min)

That's just because Firefox itself requires at least macOS 10.15. IceCat only works because it's based off of Firefox ESR; once the next ESR comes out IceCat won't work either.

There is a fork of Firefox (which is in fact the web browser I use) that adds back support for older versions of macOS. At the moment, it supports all the way back to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. However, this is all it does; it does not contain any additional privacy features above and beyond mainline Firefox. However, I guess it technically isn't a Mozilla product, so you won't need to agree to Mozilla's Terms of Service.

https://github.com/i3roly/firefox-dynasty/releases
> clean up your information diet

I'm going to try and keep this in mind now whenever I'm reading anything.
Been working in this industry for about 30 years, every time there’s a pivot or a gold rush, it’s the same old song and dance from management/ownership/shareholders. There’s a huge difference between a properly motivated and focused team (in my experience, most engineers don’t care about the hours and hardship if it’s balanced with reward, respect, and a reasonable amount of autonomy), and a team suffering under a bunch of dipshit managers/owners/stakeholders who are flinching and trying to push leadership failures, unexpected changes to the business, or just plain bad luck down on workers. It’s insulting, entitled, and exacerbates problems. Acting like a hard ass and you’re the lone sensible adult stuck wrangling insolent children is exactly how you turn a team into insolent children. In this case it’s worse because I don’t think he’s being entirely on the level, that whatever set of things making his asshole pucker is because people aren’t working 60 hours a week in an office. Plus, you know, fuck a guy worth $144B who’s throwing something of a fit that his thralls aren’t tearing themselves apart to make him more money.
Serious though. What 100% means on cpu dashboards is as inconsistent as what time zone dates are in.
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
> But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot.

Not a great analogy. Reliable car mechanics often get paid very well in comparison to their peers. Used to be one. Got into tech as a result of how much tech got into cars. Do they pay as well as tech jobs? Depends. I made more money and worked less hours than my buddy in IT at one of the largest corporations in America in the same city (granted not a techhub like SV, Seattle, NYC, etc, but most places aren't).

The key differentiator here is not time spent building vs time spent repairing (troubleshooting). It's knowing what's worth spending your time on, and when to say "No", because not everything needs fixed, nor is every problem necessarily yours to solve.

Truly good diagnostics skills is knowing what's worth spending time on, regardless of whether it's repairing something that exists or building something that doesn't. A tire with only 10% of treadwear could technically be replaced with something better, but is that worth anyone's time or money? Probably not. But if the tire on the opposite side is still brand new, and they were replaced at the same time, diagnostics tells you the alignment is off, and that issue - whatever it may be - very well could be worth everyone's time and money to fix.

Code is no different. Don't try to fix/improve/build everything. Focus on what matters. Good troubleshooting/diagnostic skills is a big part of knowing what does, and doesn't.
In the EU, they are legally obliged to do so.
What is owning a home? It is having the power to legally demand other people leave it. Hence owning a home requires the ability to rent out a home, and to to rent out many homes and drive up the price. Likewise we have much land, but it has not been developed because people own it. In a system of government ownership, they would eventually be outbid on the lease for their land and it would be developed into a larger amount of affordable and higher density housing. Instead people own that land and are able to keep it underdeveloped at the cost to everyone else, then use this leverage to enrich themselves through the increase in house prices. There is no positive argument for the private ownership of land over public ownership.
Well, for starters ublock origin is the gold standard, and it's free, and it's open source, and it's been refined over many years, and etc. etc. etc.
A groundbreaking 20-year study conducted by wealth consultancy, The Williams Group, involved over 3,200 families and found that seven in 10 families tend to lose their fortune by the second generation, while nine in 10 lose it by the third generation.

This study matches my anecdotal experiences. Second and third generations of wealth don't respect money and this manifest in all kinds of bad behavior that leads to wealth destruction.
It is not bullying to say that American monetary support means basically doing what the United States want you to do. This is basic human social interaction.
Remember Ukraine doesn't need to take Moscow to win. Russia is burning resources hard to keep the initiative and achieve Putin's war goals. All Ukraine needs to do is continue to bleed the Russian army and wait until Russia has a hard economic crunch.
I have used all the platforms personally and professionally. GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud.

I will just say that Azure seems to want to do shit different for the sake of being different.

It is really annoying to write infrastructure as code for aws/gcp then go to do the same for azure and realize how dumb some of their stuff is.

Just my personal experience.
Calculus Rhapsody [video]
Europe has also shown orders of magnitude more respect to Ukraine than the US, if it counts.
IMHO, they are already there. There's no spine in the Republican party to prevent bowing down to Putin, they have always been anti-Europe, and Putin is a big daddy that they actively court when they idolize Hungary's dictator and hold CPAC meetings and try to emulate Orban.
Your brain is still physically continuous and dynamic. ANNs are not, there are distinct frames.
Spherical linear interpolation, slerp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slerp (which can sometimes wrap around the wrong way)

For levity, see Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him.
π is a transcendental number meaning that it is not algebraic

It is NOT an algorithmically random sequence.

Chatlin's halting probability is normal, transcendental, and non-computable.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.1149
> Chaitin [G. J. Chaitin, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach., vol. 22, pp. 329–340,
1975] introduced Ω number as a concrete example of random real.

Being non-algebraic is not the same as being algorithmicly random in the formal sense.
We are burning generations of alliances, goodwill, and our own enormously successful system of government for what? Absolutely nothing. Our entire country is being sold out so a few corrupt billionaires can make out like bandits.

This it the end of an 80 year era. The US will never have as much influence and prosperity again.
HSBC is effectively fully exiting the west. US, Canada and this year UK was announced, also noticed the floors in our building that the ICBK are on are coming up for availability.
I think there's two (perhaps more) possibilities you've overlooked, that may go some way to explaining this.

First, that Donald is not the master negotiator / business genius he claims, and is not open to taking advice from smarter people.

Second, misdirection. It may be something to draw attention - the whole 'who needs batteries for their car company?' thing - or it might be a decoy offer, never intended to be seriously contemplated, but will serve as an easy-for-the-dumbs-to-understand future-date hand-wavey explanation for why negotiations failed. (This seems more palatable if you already believe the current US administration is compromised.)
This pretty much confirms that this is what everyone thought the change was about. So we get clarity, but no actual change in course from Mozilla. Good. We now know very clearly where Mozilla and Firefox stand on privacy.
Skype mobile didn't matter as long as you still have a decent pool of desktop users online.
That was mostly because ActBlue (the DNC's fundraising platform) is well built while GOP's WinRed is a hot piece of garbage, and donors now sidestep the GOP to create SuperPACs for Trump and Trump-affiliates directly.

What you end up seeing is the GOP raises nearly as competitive as the DNC when you add Trump PACs plus WinRed.
> And China currently follows the Russia's curve exactly there.

I still think Xi Jinping fears his people far more than Putin ever did. There's a huge powerful class of people who made tons of money off global trade in China, not just a few token Oligarchs from the 1990s like in Russia. They are the worlds factory, with a love of money and success. A global conflict is not something their people would easily stomach. While Russians seem to revel in their ability to withstand poverty and backwards systems I'm skeptical the same cultural malaise exists in China, even if they have strong national character (on paper).
Same. I've been somewhat Georgist pilled lately.
The thinner the air, the more efficient your flight can be, but I never saw this as a temperature problem. My understanding is that there just isn't enough oxygen. Maybe there's an issue with the amount of heating that occurs when you try to compress enough air to get enough oxygen to run your engine?

In any case, electric engines don't need oxygen.
part of the reason marriage was invented as a social technology was intergenerational transfer of wealth. so, inheritance has been 'nearly as important' as working for millennia.
Are you in the black as a household overall?

We aren't yet. Our projection is that we will be in 5-7 years. I'm turning forty soon.

Just to give you an anchor point.
Don't fall for this argument, it just keeps ratcheting things in the bully's favor. Game theory offers abundant demonstrations of the fact that cooperation is the best default, but cooperation with a serial defector is a losing strategy. At some point they need to experience suffering in response to aggression.
Conspiracy Theories about Willow Chip on YouTube with 2M views [video]
I think this is an evolution thing but not in that way. I believe when our diets changed due to agriculture the foods we ate got softer and our mouths subsequently changed [1]

[1]https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/cur...
I agree… I was responding to GP who said it’s surprising that the IC has been “incompetent” at mitigating it. I believe, like you, it is not a job for the IC.
Putin could have kicked back and enjoyed his dacha like other less powerful dictators do all over the world, but no, he had to write a "scientific" treatise about Ruski Mir and how the Ukraine isn't actually a thing. He wants a legacy.

Well, he got it and whatever happens in the war, Russia is cooked. It's never coming back from this.

It will either fracture from the war going badly, or it will become a vassal state of China, and ironically, perhaps the US, the way things are going with the White House these days.
Plenty of European countries joined the US in Afghanistan and Iraq when the US asked for help.
I don't think I did any personal attacks. I simply pointed out that, if they think Neutrality is for cowards, they should probably join in the fight that they believe in instead of not acting, aka neutral.
That's now how "official" works. ;)
Everyday is a new low for this administration, but today was an absolute disaster for America. Ashamed this is the America we live in now.
2000's era P2P was wickedly good.

P2P was such an interesting part of internet history. It's a shame client-server prevailed over it.

Decentralized systems are so much more liberating. It felt like being a part of something rather than being a serf in someone's platform.
Sure, each one of his kids will probably only inherit a few 10's of billions. What do you think the effective difference between 10 billion and 100 billion is? You're rich AF either way.
Can you explain more about being bamboozled? Bamboozled about what? Bush tried to convince us that Iraq was creating WMD’s when they weren’t, but left and right were pretty united at the time as a reaction to 9/11, like it wasn’t just the right that was bamboozled, it was bipartisan.

Left and right were pretty united in defense of Ukraine until Trump came along, but what’s the lie they were trying to convince us of. That Russia started the war when really Ukraine did?

Trump said that the other day, but if he really believes it, why doesn’t he seem to stand behind it?

I haven’t heard a clear confident description of what the lie is???
I agree. It'll be hard to get hired in security due to your location.
>how quickly the US can turn from ally to bully

This is not at all consistent with U.S. foreign policy. It is one regime, that clearly has different thoughts about our alliances. It's an anomaly or, more accurately, an aberration. And it's similar to what's happening here domestically as well.
Oh is China going to guarantee Ukraine's security now?

At the end of the day, Zelensky had the most obvious proposition in the world -- allow American companies access to Ukrainian minerals. He kept asking for a security guarantee as if he needed anything more.

If he expected Trump or Vance to publicly announce they would go to war with nuclear-armed Russia over these mineral deals, then he's not fit to be president of any country.

The security implication was obvious... if Russia threatened American mining operations, the United States would obviously respond.

But the demand that Trump say he would go to war with Russia.. what purpose would that possibly serve? Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows the implication.

So maybe he can now turn to China, but I'll tell you that China's propositions for Ukraine's rare earth minerals will likely have Ukraine losing a lot more sovereignty than the scenarios where America took them over instead of the one where Russia wins.
That's not true for the kind of searches we're talking about here. If you are looking for "best mechanical keyboard" or "reviews of shimano bicycle gearsets", reddit will regularly be of higher quality than the median google first page.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00527-6

The Information Theory of Aging
I was not leaning on the credibility of this person in any way except to say that it changed his mind on this one specific issue.

When a reply mentioned unrelated past statements from the same person, it was clear that they wanted to tar the statement by association rather than discuss it substantively.
The analogy I've used with friends is that neurotransmitters are to brain communication as letters are to language.

If something gives you "more E" or "less L" in your writing, the change in letter frequencies is probably not the thing that's directly making your sentences better, but the change shows it's clearly making a difference. There is an effect that is occurring on a level of complexity that we just can't fully decipher yet.