skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Russia has the economy of a medium-sized EU nation. The EU is vastly more powerful.

This is why GDP is a useless metric. Last year it was reported Russia was manufacturing 3x more artillery shells than the US and whole EU combined.[1] Billion-dollar cosmetics and luxury goods industries don't translate well into battlefield success.

>If the EU wants to, they can give Ukraine everything they need to win.

Except manpower, which Ukraine needs and doesn't have.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery...
A Perfect Search Engine
I actually laughed out loud at this. “We can’t say we don’t sell your data because some places have definitions of “sell” that are legally difficult to interpret, for example”:

<completely unambiguous definition of selling follows>
Mozilla were pulling in ~$500M/year on those search deals. So on year one, spend $15M on a team of 20+ highly competent full time developers for Firefox, put $450M into a trust to fund future development, and find something to waste $35M on. Then for the next 15 years, find something to waste $500M on.

The amount of money they've squandered is mind-boggling. If their goal had been to develop Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla Suite, and they had focused on how to sustainably do that, they never would've needed to diversify income sources.
I originally used attack surface imprecisely in terms of how many people you compromise with a single vulnerability. In other words the economic value of the attack. But also in the formal term of art, it's still true that NPM has a larger attack surface with many more weak points than something like Debian has. VSCode is trickier since it's a single application, so may not be from that perspective. However, it is basically running Chrome so it is still quite a large attack surface area.

But sure, let's use "amount of code" as a proxy. Debian has ~123GiB of source code [1] across ~65k packages [2] while NPM has 74 GiB [3] if I'm reading it correctly (other sources say 128 GiB) across 3.3 M packages [4]. Given that JS requires less code than C for equivalent functionality (due to a richer runtime & no memory management), any way you slice it, NPM is a much larger attack surface both in terms of number of opportunities and how valuable the attack is.

[1] https://www.debian.org/mirror/size

[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/basic-defs.en....

[3] https://replicate.npmjs.com/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm#Registry
I've used 4.5 for a day now. it is noticeably better (to me) than 4o. it "feels" more human in its cadence, word choice and sentence structure—especially compared to the last month or so of 4o.
> the Ukraine

It’s called Ukraine. It would be particularly prudent to avoid using the Soviet-era nomenclature given the context of the conversation you’re participating in.

> "The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically and politically, says Oksana Kyzyma of the Embassy of Ukraine in London.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844
It's possible they have a higher percentage of AMD users than other communities, but I highly doubt given the market share that it's statistically possible for AMD to outnumber Nvidia.
First British tourists allowed back into North Korea tell BBC what they saw
to disregard the context in which the founding fathers' ideologies developed is to ignore the utter hypocrisy of their views.

these were wealthy men who owned other human beings for personal economic benefit.

whatever high-seeming notions may have underpinned their political project, their goal was to build a new nation in which they could continue to accumulate dynastic wealth free from monarchial control, at the cost of the very freedoms they claimed to stand for.

the hypocrisy is inextricable from the legacy.
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It's interesting to see a lot of senior folks are against this arguing that if you're working on a larger software project this falls apart. Two things can be argued against this:

1. Context sizes are going to grow. Gemini with 2M tokens is already doing amazing feats

2. We all agree that we should break bigger problems into smaller ones. So if you can isolate the problem into something that fits in a LLM context, no matter how large the larger software system is, you can make a lot of quick progress by leveraging LLMs for that isolated piece of software.
No more folksy Bush with his boldfaced lies about WMDs leading to a million deaths.
No more stately Obama redefining every dead 18 year old as an "enemy combatant".

Alas, time's cruel arrow!
>the us is at least a generation ahead of that equipment.

Can you list the in service equipment that is a generation ahead of M777 and ATACMs? I sure wish we could get some of these wiz-bang fires assets out here in the First Island Chain.
Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of doing online classes for fun? You use an AI to look everything up, write in your tone, and be done in a fraction of the time?

So you're paying for online classes to learn, then paying $200/month for AI to do the online classes for you that you chose for fun?
it blows me away that this is even a product. it's like a half day of dev time, and they don’t appear to have over-engineered it or even done basic things given the exploit here.
A lot of European support to Ukraine is loans not aid. Also, there isn’t a substitute for the US military aid.

Leaving that aside shouldn’t Europe be donating (not loaning) many times more than the US? Why draw a comparison at all, as if the two should be equal?
For housing to stop increasing in price, a lot of it has to be built.

The YIMBY movement is pushing in the right direction, but doesn't have the political power that they need. Particularly in California. And, as long as they don't, those with houses will continue to win against those who don't.
This episode for sure would change some minds regarding our Mutual Defense Treaty with the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_(United_...
Alternately everyone is just trying to ensure they have a dominant position in the next wave. The history of tech is that you either win the next wave or become effectively irrelevant and worthless.
Frankly what's worse is seeing such a magnitude of evidence to the contrary of popular discourse, yet being entirely unable to help bring context into the fray.

Instead, we get regurgitation of tired propaganda and heavily misleading narratives. If the world looks exceptionally confusing and chaotic, or if the world is fully of irrational boogeymen, that's just because you don't have the right perspective yet.

The geopolitics community knows the situation well, and doesn't look at Trump as a big scary orange man. They look at Trump as another American elite, who's been elected during a chaotic time in American society. You can also look up Jeffery Sachs (social democrat) who speaks at length about these issues.

I've mostly lost faith in the conversations on here. HN mostly is a competition about who can sound the most fancy. The actual content of the discussion has become tertiary. At this point, my only goal is to reach out to those who are open minded and haven't heard these other perspectives. To hell with internet points.
Don’t victim blame.
I did not expect him to have such a messy room lol.
I watched the entire press conference with Zelensky. There was 40 minutes of discussion up to the argument. Most people saw at most the last ten minutes. The whole video gives the proper context.

When I first watched the argument without the proper context, I thought it was possible that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky or were even trying to humiliate him. That's not what happened.

You had 40 minutes of calm conversation. Vance made a point that didn't attack Zelensky and wasn't even addressed to him, and Zelensky clearly started the argument.

In the first 40 minutes, Zelensky kept trying to go beyond what was negotiated in the deal. When Trump was asked a question, it was always "we'll see." Zelensky made blanket assertions that there would be no negotiating with Putin, and that Russia would pay for the war. When Trump said that it was a tragedy that people on both sides were dying, Zelensky interjected that the Russians were the invaders.

For his part, Trump made clear that the US would continue delivering military aid. All Zelensky had to do was remain calm for a few more minutes and they would've signed a deal.

The argument started when Trump pointed out that it would be hard to make a deal if you talk about Putin the way Zelensky does. Vance interjects to make the reasonable point that Biden called Putin names and that didn't get us anywhere.

The Zelensky/Trump dynamic was calm and stable. It was when Vance spoke that Zelensky started to interrogate him. Throughout the press conference to that point, everyone was making their arguments directly to the audience. Zelensky decided to challenge Vance and ask him hostile questions. He went back to his point that Putin never sticks to ceasefires, once again implying that negotiations are pointless. Why on earth would you do this? Then came the fight we all saw.

Zelensky was minutes away from being home free, and he would have had the deal and new commitments from the Trump administration. The point Vance made was directed against Biden and the media, taking them to task for speaking in moralistic terms. This offended Zelensky, and that began the argument.

I've been a fan of Zelensky up to this point, but this showed so much incompetence, if not emotional instability, that I don't see how he recovers from this. The relationship with the administration is broken. Ukraine should probably go with new leadership at this point.
FWIW I suspect it's related to the frosted glass effect, scrolling is much smoother after zapping those elements with uBlock.
There are 1000's of them so I wouldn't consider them a monolithic bunch. I will also say it could depend on how long they have been a billionaire and how they obtained it could play a role. The longer they have been a billionaire the longer they have had people either kissing up to them or trying to sabotage/use them. So they can be expectant that things will go their way, I have seen this happen with Hollywood stars who have been famous for a long time. It is almost like they forget that people don't exist for their benefit.

Also could you provide us some insight into the nature of the interaction? Was it just social, where you pitching something to them, or you kicked their butt at pickle-ball and they were poor losers?

We are all able to be jerks on any given day so maybe you just caught them before their lunch and nap lol!
i've been thinking a lot about this lately. how do we move from asking rhetorical questions of elected leaders into actually compelling them to act on our behalf? there's little to no connection between public will and its representation.
Not for nothing, it is standard legal boilerplate. I just checked two randomly selected terms of service--one for ReadAI, the other for Google--and they both include a very similar clause with those exact parameters.

That said, I'm not suggesting Mozilla isn't also being wildly hypocritical in their behavior, and hamfisted in their PR.
This is not how the law works anywhere, thankfully.
When people tell me the Russians deliberately plotted to crash the Smolensk flight, I ask them to read

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/all-the-presidents-men-t...
The AI Hoax Is Destroying America with Ed Zitron [video]
Question.

I've noticed a lot of websites import from other sites, instead of local.

<script src="scriptscdn.com/libv1.3">

I almost never see a hash in there. Is this as dangerous as it looks, why don't people just use a hash?
This is a supremely bad take. Completely devoid of true understanding of the situation.

Satellite imagery exposed China's has new landing barges at the Guangzhou Shipyard. These barges, equipped with 120-meter-long bridges and stabilizing pylons to land troops and vehicles on Taiwan's rugged coastlines by creating mobile ports[1]

You don't build these things if you don't need them. they have no other use except invasion.

1. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/built...
Ironically, it actually helped me stay focused on the article. Kind of like a fidget toy. When part of my brain would get bored, I could just move the cat and satisfy that part of my brain while I keep reading.

I know that sounds kind of sad that my brain can't focus that well (and it is), but I appreciated the cat.
> If Google didn’t tell you the job involved unpaid overtime before you accepted, they’re giving you a pay cut now.

Yes. And you have a choice. Agree to it or find some better place.

Demands of both employees and employers can be as unreasonable (within the law) as they want. As long as the whole process is voluntary and legal, I'm fine with it.

You don't like working long hours for extremely high pay, that's fine. Many people will happily take that deal.
Oh wow, I actually completely blacked out that they attempted their own first. Those were interesting times to be a web developer.
This is the wrong response, because that means that the learning would be lost. The security community didn't want that to happen when one of the CA's got a vulnerability, we do not want it to happen to other companies. We want companies to succeed and get better, being shameful doesn't help towards that. Learning the right lessons does, and resigning means that you are learning the wrong ones.
I moved to macOS two years ago, after buying a Mac Mini with M2 Pro. I used macOS in the years before from time to time, but never committed to it, so I was surprised by the level of quality of so many small apps (both free and paid), that improve your productivity and experience of using a computer. But, without those apps, using macOS would be kinda crappy comparing to Windows.

I’m really wondering why there are no quality Windows alternatives to such apps like Alfred, Dropover, BTT, Karabiner, etc.
But it has always been like this, and people from the global south and former USSR republics have always recognized this. It's only now starting to become apparent to naive and propagandized Americans/Westerners.
Wow, that's pretty high-effort blog post (taking time to compare across 12 mainstream languages).
Yes, so you claim you can do whatever you want with everything you can get your hands on and then social media blows up because it's batshit insane, but don't worry because you're _legally in the clear_.

You're acting like they didn't have the 2nd option of just not selling the data so the current wording is accurate...
JD basically said "why don't we try diplomacy?" and Zelensky rightfully pointed out that they have already tried for multiple years, including a full ceasefire agreement in 2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements). Then Russia invaded Ukraine and tried to takeover the whole country. Either Vance has no idea what he's talking about or he wanted to provoke Zelensky.

Also, Vance's claim that Trump is the first one to actually engage in diplomacy is pretty wild, considering that Trump called Zelensky a dictator and essentially succumbs to all of Putin's demands, going so far as to side with Russia in the UN.
How about saying Ukraine started the war, calling Zelenskiy a dictator (while refusing to call Putin one), saying Ukraine needs to give up land to Russia, calling for elections in Ukraine (again crickets about Russian elections), calling for improved economic relationships with Russia, while at the same time trying to force Ukraine into a ridiculous "deal" where they give up all their natural resources for essentially nothing... Can I stop?
The "Trump is a Russian asset" conspiracy theory is popular in BlueAnon circles but it really doesn't fit the facts.

A good example is the first Trump administration's opposition to Russian energy expansion in Europe because this would make Europe vulnerable to Russian influence. Trump opposed NordSream 2, for example. In 2018, Trump basically bullied Germany into building an LNG port [1].

Now Trump's energy policy as a whole was generally a disaster, which led up to the 2020 OPEC deal that basically caused Covid iflation but on the security of European energy, the Trump administration was correct and was proven so by the Ukraine invasion and the cutoff of Russian energy.

Trump idolizes strongmen and autocrats. It doesn't matter who. Putin. Kim Jong-Un, Victor Orban. Trump backs fascist political movements like AfD, Reform (UK) and National Front (France).

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/energy-environme...
In WW2 is a key factor here. 80 years ago

Driving a new Tesla now especially a Cybertruck is signalling a lot about yourself. To many people it shows at best you don't care at all about politics, and the worst is much worse. I'm sure that won't deter some but it clearly has influenced other consumers especially for a company who's consumer base has been environmentalists
These are the macro effects of housing. I buy all of them. I'm a housing activist involved in local politics in Oak Park, IL (one of Chicago's two equivalents of Berkeley or Brooklyn, the suburb of Evanston being the other). Some micro/local impacts of housing restriction:

* Retail business stagnation; retail is dependent on foot traffic, and SFZ residents do not understand what it takes to support the kinds of businesses (yoga studies, coffee shops, art galleries, bookshops) that they actually want to see sited near them. The result is that city plans for commercial corridors create near-blighted streets with gas stations, vacant lots, and the occasional nail salon or Domino's Pizza.

* Public safety issues; those same underutilized commercial drags are dead once the sun goes down; without people walking on the streets, nobody's watching, and you can see on a map clearly where crime gravitates.

* Escalating property taxes; lots of people want to retire in the same community they spent their adult lives in, but in an overwhelmingly SFZ muni with good schools, the top bidder on any residential lot is a family with school-aged children. Schools make up over half (in our case, 2/3) of the property tax burden, and it gets worse as the demographics shift more and more to school-aged families who move out when their kids graduate high school; housing diversity could give retirees an economically rational place to move (and remain in the tax base), but we outlaw it.

The problem with all this stuff is you start to sound like a crank, because almost every problem a typical urban muni faces will probably stem from many generations of outlawing housing.
The first quarter is on track for negative GDP growth, Atlanta Fed says
Humans and horses probably did that thing where you're looking for someone and you go to where they are then they go to where you are and you both miss eachother.
The Georgists agree!
Well, in 3rd World and developing countries where developers work for salaries that locally put them into a rich class yes they likely do play cool.

In developed counties developers are quite down to Earth decent earners and generally are not playing “too cool for school” games.

It’s slightly misinformed comment or, better to say, context dependant to be facts based.
>What is true dishonour if not to betray a friend in need?

Great Powers don't have friends. Nor do they have enemies. They only have eternal Interests. (paraphrasing a quote often attributed to Henry Kissinger)

As I was looking for a more exact source for this quote, I stumbled upon this interesting piece in Time Magazine....from 1955:

https://time.com/archive/6798908/no-friends-no-enemies-just-...
IT is high time the United States quit throwing money and materials around the world like a drunken sailor and settled on a foreign policy clearly consonant with our national interests first and foremost. We pile deficit on deficit until we threaten ourselves with bankruptcy.
There is not in fact plenty of cheap land near jobs in major urban centers.
How about "more capable"?
Huh, how would this seizure take dollars away? These assets are held in Europe, their valuation is stated in Euro terms -- are they actually being held as dollars?
Honestly, the fact that this is even a concept assessed with any seriousness shows me how much bullshit the label "engineering" is when applied to software.

You want to have an LLM help you crap out a script, sure, but you mean to tell me you'd seriously consider using an LLM for a production systems that affects real people that deals with real people's real data and call yourself a software "engineer"?

Engineering is about designing systems that serve society and provably meet well specified constraints. You don't want the god damn bridge to collapse under load. If you feel comfortable using an LLM to "engineer" a software system, you ought to feel comfortable letting civil engineers "vibe out" their bridge designs. God this hype cycle has just made a complete mockery of this whole industry and I have no respect for the clowns pushing this shit.
Yeah, the endorsement was mentioned - while the assassination attempt was not.

Here is a quote from that study:

> In Phase Two, comparing Republican-leaning and Democrat-leaning accounts, we again observed an engagement shift around the same date, affecting all metrics

It's so obvious that an assassination attempt on a republican candidate will boost republican engagement MORE than democrats. It's just as obvious that a corona virus outbreak in close proximity to a laboratory which works on corona viruses, escaped very likely from that lab. Common sense. Also for weeks after the event, of course republicans continued to be more riled up about it.

This is not science. If the claim is that Musk tuned the algorithms at that special date, you have to prove it by other means, other than engagement being boosted at that day and weeks to follow.
Love this. I'll look forward to reminiscing!
Choosing not to use JS on the frontend is much riskier than choosing to use JS on the backend, IMO.
Some ISPs do run DNS servers to improve performance for their customers, not to snoop on them. My company is one of them. Being able to answer DNS queries in <1ms is far superior to the 8-25ms of latency over the transport network to the nearest peering point, especially when most clients are hitting the same names over and over. It's not like any of the public DNS servers are more trustworthy.
True. But AI does not close your question because it didn’t like your phrasing.
I think you mean Pax China. China is already making big headway into countries where the US support has been flagging and leaving a power vacuum.
I see them as fundamentally different because PDAs mostly didn't have network connectivity at all, while modern phones are connectivity-first and gained functionality from there. It was novel to have a PDA with a modem that did anything, much less provide connectivity back to one's home computer.
I started to use

-paid operating system (rhel) with a team of paid developers and maintainers verifying builds and dependencies.

- empty dependencies. Only what the core language provides.

It's not that great of a sacrifice. Like 20$/mo for the OS. And like 2 days of dev work which pays itself off in the long run by avoiding a mass of code you don't understand
Ha, I worked on that project. That drove a lot of good requirements into Windows that set us up for web based services (eventually)
Stealing radar tech (go read how Raytheon got started), and blocking the UK from nuke development tech after British scientists helped thoroughly the Manhattan Project are the ways the US bullied the UK during WW2.