skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad feelings about this, bad diplomacy bad manners and usual bunch of false facts agains a leader fighting for freedom of it's own country, seems a one more act in these bad story where there are no more allies but servant. One more step in the takeover of freedom and democracy by a planetary oligarchy, beyond borders and states, this economic and financial power do not care aboout states and citizens, nor freedoms and basic rights, eg: i see so little differences betweed the power of Musk and those of Putin, at these levels the far right is only manpower.
All these 18 year old cohort - they dont exist in Ukraine anymore, a lot of them escaped Ukraine while they were minors before reaching 18, because this issue of conscripting 18+ has been discussed for quite a while.

If you look at the reports from Ukraine high schools - its all girls class, no boys
It’s exactly that.
Ugh. Can't someone please just let us customize how we want to experience the Internet? It seems like a right to repair law. But right to remove. If I know how to take out ads and I want them gone, I should be free to do so.
It's not "boundaries".

It's about living in a democracy.

Is it worth dying to ensure your children live in a democracy where they have control over their future?

Or is it better to allow a dictatorship like Russia to engulf your country, and your children grow up under authoritarianism?

It's not boundaries as much as an invading political system you despise.
Thankfully there is reader mode. That dumb cat is so obnoxious on mobile.
I think that's probably a good estimate for the Russian side, while 200k casualties total for Ukraine is a joke. Aren't even their official figures for wounded in the 400k range?
I wouldn’t be so sure, Russia is already doing so bad they need to deploy North Korean troops, motocross bikes and even donkeys and camels.
EU alone has provided more than the US, add UK and NO, and the difference is substantial.
The Kafkaization of the Economy
TL;DR as technology gets more efficient we do more of the worst kind of paperwork. Increasingly jurisdictions’ relative economic strength will ≈ the burdenlessness of their regulatory regimes. Either China, Texas, or Mars will win

Not sure how this interacts with AI doing/evaluating paperwork, or the necessity for sales/distribution of products. Maybe it’s all distribution and paperwork all the way down? Not sure, would love thoughts
No, there aren't. There are no examples of this. The exact reason humanity didn't develop economically for tens of thousands of years was because of the very ideas that you have, almost every human has.

Do you not look at the rest of the world and think: if this is so easy then why is technical innovation limited to a handful of countries? It makes no sense. How can you look at the economic history and think this? It makes no sense.
My point is that the article doesn't give any concrete reasons _why_ this man's family cut him off other than that they disagreed with him. It doesn't explicitly say he was ruining them financially, or that he refused to talk about anything other than politics, it just says he started believing online conspiracy theories and the author was unable to convince him otherwise.

I have some personal experience with that situation, and I find it unconscionable that his family would leave him under those circumstances. That's all I'm trying to say. If that comes off as "willfully misleading" to you, then so be it.

Now maybe there was more going on with this guy which would explain his family's extreme response, but if so the article doesn't explicitly say so. Re-reading your other response to my initial post, the reason I didn't feel a need to respond was because I felt like I had already addressed it in a reply to another comment. Your situation includes additional factors beyond what was described in the original article; that's totally fair. "It's one thing to hold different beliefs, and another thing to be constantly starting arguments over them and refusing to discuss anything else."
Old video, seen it, has some more or less valid takes, but at the end of the day it's been Russia that attacked Ukraine.

And pundits and scholars about this being geopolitical chess games in eastern Europe are largely, albeit not completely, mistaken. This has always been about Putin's fear of democracy in Russia and him losing the grip in his own country. It is no coincidence that Russia attacked Ukraine a month after the unrest in Kazakhstan[1], few weeks after Russian military helped crush it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kazakh_unrest
> Another concern of mine is that there are now warnings for some popular SSRIs that ED symptoms in men might be permanent.

They are for some of the unlucky 10%. Buspirone might help.
There’s even the CNN tape for the occasion.
Did you post it because you agree with it or just for fun? It's a 250 year old statement in a world that didn't look anything like ours does today. In 1796 the United States was not a global power with nuclear weapons whose entire strength is derived from the global order of trade that we imposed after World War 2.

All of this realignment away from our allies is actually throwing away our greatest strength. I understand why people voted for Trump or a figure like him on the domestic front - people want to bring back manufacturing and lower-middle class jobs? Great, let's work with our allies to do it. To throw away the world order that we won instead of iterating on it is a travesty and a fucking joke.
It’s amazing to me how fast the VC tech world fell to their knees in front of king musk and his orange jester trump. I’m almost ready to invest in knee replacement surgery supply companies.
> and enabling them to retake their country.

The West has provided hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons and money, yet the Ukranians have made near-zero progress. They are incapable of retaking their country without direct intervention from NATO, which is not an option.
I mean Russia could leave, pull their troops back in Russia. It's not like the Ukrainians invaded Russia, or have annexed any Russian territory that they want to keep. The Russians were not in fact forced to invade.
> > race conditions […] I never though it could cause performance issues. But it makes sense, you could corrupt the data in a way that creates an infinite loop.

Even without corruption a race condition can cause significant performance issues by causing the same work to be done many times with only one result being kept.

> Food for thought. I often think to myself that any error or strange behavior or even warnings in a project should be fixed as a matter of principle

For warnings: at least explained in a comment, where it has been decided irrelevant (preferably with a pragma to turn off the warning as locally as possible).

Strange behaviour I prefer to get rid of. I've found code marked (by me at least once!) "not sure why this works, but" which very much no longer works, and had to rewrite in a rush where if it had been addressed earlier there would have been more time to be careful.
the only way to get euros is with gold. The grain & minerals aren't being produced because he killed off his labor force (young men, and the old ones)
US bill allowing AIs to prescribe FDA-approved drugs
> I believe you have misread the post

Very likely. I interpreted your comment(s) to say that "The CCP said that they wanted to invade Taiwan by 2027", but my interpretation is seemingly wrong, and I ended up trying to address what I thought you said.

> we should not be surprised if they actually go for it.

Whether Xi invades Taiwan or not, I wouldn't be surprised either way. I'm not doubting at all that China has expansionist designs on Taiwan and the South China Sea. But there are many paths to reunification with Taiwan without starting a direct war. Why would China invade, when its leaders can clearly see that Russia, through strategic patience, bribery, and aggressive hybrid warfare, has finally won the Cold War without ever having to invade the US militarily?

Bribery is rampant among high-ranking military officers in Taiwan, for example. Many of them have been exposed to have sold classified information to the Chinese government for trifling amounts of money. China has also managed to poach a lot of former TSMC engineers to work at SMIC by offering generous salaries. Why take military action against Taiwan today (or in 2027) when China just has to be very, very patient, especially with Trump dragging the US into the realm of irrelevance?

All paths lead to Rome. China's war on Taiwan might be much more insidious and subtle than we expect.
There’s a grok app for iPhone that’s basically the same as ChatGPT/deepseek/mistral/gemini/claude
My god, the conduct by the administration this morning was disgusting. I have been an American my entire life - I have never seen conduct this shameful. Congress must act to reign this President in, we cannot abandon our allies like this.

I am calling my representatives and DEMANDING action, and if you care about this nation, the security of Europe, or defending a democracy against invasion then I recommend doing the same.

It has reached the point where I cannot express my full thoughts on this matter without reckless language. But rest assured, if we (Americans) do not speak out and stop this NOW, it will get worse.
Unfortunately, EU is not an entity with single and unified view on things. In the case of Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a surprisingly strong opposition to related policies in Brussels amongst the people in quite a few member states. In fact, many support Putin and now his best buddy Trump - with plain stupid belief that Putin/Trump wants peace and Zelensky wants to continue war. In short, EU (+ UK, Norway, maybe Switzerland) is simply not as unified against Putin as it may appear in the Brussels press conferences. Putting more effort (in money, materials, soldiers even) in this conflict will be hard to pill to swallow for large percentage of citizens and by extension politicians. What I see happening in the near future is more money flowing into militaries of the member states, which is a sad necessity by having Putin as neighbor. But I'm skeptical of EU countries becoming much more involved in the Ukraine conflict.
No one is going to go to war for Canada lol. Would be fun to watch though. Would be like the US going to war for Mongolia.
> the wealthy were no better off than the impoverished here

Eh, in some ways but not all ways.

The wealthy, for example, were much more likely to receive proper levels of nutrition. They could afford to eat well balanced meals.

If you are poor, you're living off of whatever you can scrounge up or grow.
> Finally, Jauhar et al. argue that serotonin must be involved in depression because drugs which target the serotonin system are effective and other authors also argue that antidepressants ‘work’. However, whether antidepressants produce a genuine and useful pharmacological effect that is independent of the placebo effect, has not been established. Antidepressants show marginal differences from placebo, which do not fulfil criteria for clinical relevance, and may represent amplified placebo effects due to unblinding [31,32,33]. It is hard to reconcile even the most generous appraisal of their efficacy with the vast numbers of people now taking them. Contrary to Bartova et al’s claims, the idea that antidepressants reduce suicide has not been established, and evidence from randomised trials suggests they increase the risk of suicidality in some age groups [34, 35].

-- Monicreff et al. (2023), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02094-z
If everyone has 1/2 kids, the outcome is the same as having no kids, just with more years to get there. That’s Japan’s biggest problem right now. People are having kids. Tokyo is fairly kid friendly, and infrastructure/culture is there. But nobody wants to have 3 kids.
Three years on and Ukraine is still holding its own. There's no reason this couldn't become Russia's Afghanistan 2.0.

Moreover, Ukraine's rules of engagement have been severely limited. They've been unable to strike airfields inside Russia even though they have the capacity to do so.
I've been using this here:

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock
> It's usually all your Pythons, Gos, and anything else with a GC is doing anyway.

GC langs don't do clones (copying), that's the point of the GC.
Fair point. Perhaps better phrased as "to ensure this scenario can't recur.". I'll edit my post.

Yes, we re-architected our build container as part of remediation efforts, it was quite significant.
I read that as khat for a second, and I was happy he found a new drug
Greenland is about the arctic. It's not some farce or meme. Look at an actual globe and when the ice melts that white stuff is going to be a navigable ocean between Canada Greenland and . . . Russia.

We tend to think of the world on a flat world Google map and Russia seems so far away, but when the pole melts Russia will be closer to north America and they will be wanting that area too.

No ice means it's easier to drill for natural resources. The US is preempting the melt and trying to get ahead in the race for the arctic. It's much more valuable than at first glance.

I laughed first too. I then felt that my laughter was due to not understanding it. "How bizarre, LOL". Then I felt like I was missing something big. Now I try to use these "bizarre jokes" as a sign to look deeper.

In a way (although this info isn't secret at all, just boring) we can use Trump's inability to have a filter to leak the advice that his advisors are giving him more than past statesmen would.
So go make an LLM manage the fork or something. Everyone keeps telling me they are amazing at code these days. Surely it can do a task like that if that's all it's doing all day.

If not today maybe soon...
Your attitude is commendable! It’s what a true leader should do, and you deserve to be promoted for it.

My comment was a statistical observation of what typically happens in ordinary organisations without a strong-willed, technically capable leader at the helm.

Disclaimer: Also, I have a biased view, because as a consultant I will generally only turn up if there is something already wrong with an organisation that insiders are unable to fix.
> this is very simply a war for the protection of Ukraine's sovereignty

This is objectively not true. The US government absolutely participated in over throwing the existing pro-Russian government around 2014. The US does not fight wars for "moral principles" like sovereignty, they do it so they can maintain control over fossil fuel resources.

This war, like all wars, is a war of different wealthy individual and organization to control resources. All other views are propaganda generated to gather support for the loss of human life in the interest of oligarchs across the globe.

> Now that the US changed into a wannabe imperialistic nation,

I'm not sure I know anyone who has paid attention to global politics since WWII who would not describe the US as an "imperialistic nation". If you earnestly believe this is some new turn in US history you have a lot of catching up to do on our involvement in overthrowing governments around the globe to maintain US friendly leadership in counteries that control key strategic resources.
Vance has always been an obsequious pillock.
I was referring to those specific territories Russia claimed to want.
This site personal site is in stark contrast to my previous personal site which now lives at https://3d.dement.dev I plan to update the 3D site and provide a choice to users whether they would prefer a simple 2D site or the 3D experience.
Yes, it would be hard to avoid stepping into the scope of psychology to truly answer the question, because what might be easy for you might not be for me, even if we had equal elo ratings. (Trivial example, we might have equal elos but I try out a new opening you normally play.) You can probably learn a function to give a reasonable estimate though.
> Don’t assume it’s complicated

There are problem areas where it is a lot easier to assume everything is a 10/10 monster.

If you start every journey with "power cycle the device" and always wind up with a bridge call between 3 vendors, you might as well get the bridge warmed up the moment something throws a warning.

Oftentimes, getting someone on the phone can be a bit of a circus act regardless of what the contracts say. Over reacting early on can minimize total time to resolution.
That and your snazzy HN club jacket :D
Keeping Russia in check through a European alliance, and China in check through the Japanese alliance, is central to protecting US economic interests.

This is choosing to be involved, for your own best interest, exactly as Washington described.

Also, in 1796, the USA was distant to Russia and China.

This is no longer the case; all possess through the nuclear weapon the power to strike upon each other devastating blows.

Given the existence of nuclear weapons, the goal is now is to avoid major war completely, between any nuclear power.

A major nuclear exchange will lead to devastating environmental consequences, no matter whom is involved.

Finally when Washington wrote that, no one imagined the possibility of any one power conquering the whole of Europe, or of China rising to great power. The USA cannot withstand Russia, Europe, and China, combined.
I know rayiner is a troll who misunderstands things on purpose. Defining "interests" seemed like a fun exercise.
While I can see how it can be retold that way, the core plot-mechanic is still (A) fraud by pot-stirrers and (B) greed by participants.

At each step, the participant (especially the first) is deliberately misled to believe that they can secure valuable soup for less-valuable ingredients.

It is not an appeal to their better nature--in many tellings the travelers have already tried that--but an appeal to their baser nature. For it to be a positive story, one must accept that the ends have somehow justified the means.
why do the stars shine? why does rain fall from the sky? using upper case is just a social convention - throw off your chains.
Takes a while for buyer's remorse to fully set in.
As a graybeard with teenage kids, this is terribly disheartening... I would rather be cannon fodder than my sons. After all, I have already reproduced and I have taught hundreds of youngsters all what I knew. I would gladly accept that my contribution to mankind is already done and gone, before seeing one of my children go to war. Is youth so important for soldiers? Wouldn't it be better to send forty and fifty year olds to the front? Anything before 18-26 youngs? It makes no sense. Are they so much more competent than any random middle-age?
Is there better footage than this weird livestream which abruptly cuts off at 2h:20m?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmea-M9BvhE&t=8175s
Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts:Before Word Processor and Wite-Out
This is what people don't get. US military spending IS a huge part of the economy. It's jobs. It's not like all the money goes up in smoke. Some of it does, in the form of munitions, but someone has to make those too and the US pays for them.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973
I mean, Signal works as TOFU if you're not sharing state secrets or anything.
I'm not religious, but if I was, this is what I'd be praying for. Most alternatives I can imagine seem pretty dire.
Can someone please make this make sense?

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.”

https://therecord.media/hegseth-orders-cyber-command-stand-d...
how much of a bounty was paid to Eva for this finding?
> America is experiencing a decapitation strike, and our military is not defending us from these domestic enemies.

There we go, democracy is fine until it goes against the "liberal" zeitgeist. It's not really liberalism just like "far right" now seems to be regularly slapped onto viewpoints which were considered normal or even centrist a decade or two ago. It dilutes any chance of actual conversation between right and left.

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, as even liberal publications recognize [2, 3]. However like the OP here, there's increasing trends toward using USAID programs to "protect" America from stupid Americans who begin to "wrong-think" about things. The UK has a similar problem where public funding is used to influence politics where it's easy to see the absurdity [1].

I'm sorry but a few bots on X don't compromise Americans and make them some sort of far right extremists any more than me reading Lord of the Rings or 1984 does. We do need to protect ourselves from actual sabotage, bribery, etc but not use it as an excuse for blanket manipulation.

Yeah, that should be an absolute no on even considering it. The US military and state department apparatus does not have a role in deciding what Americans should believe.

1: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/right-w...
2: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/usaid-trump-musk-...
3: https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/foreign-aid-is-unpopular
Zelensky has said he will step down if US provides security guarantees.
Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/23/europe/ukraine-zelensky-resig...
Zelensky is an adult, a leader of a country, who has many lives in his hands. He is not a baby that needs to be coddled.
As a Ukrainian, I'd like to caution that perhaps there are two funds you may want to consider over UA24 - one of which has full transparency and spotless track record (there have been concerns over UA24) where-as another used to be a political activist for a long time turned media personality turned biggest fund who directly sources thousands of FPV drones (more than 150k at this moment) and has the best proven quality of the "produce":

- "Come Back Alive" fund https://savelife.in.ua/en/ which have full transparency, checks and balances

- "Sternenko Community" which until recently was just a set of bank accounts, which directly funds strike drone production https://x.com/sternenko/status/1894360283595800643

I donate monthly to the latter (alongside donations towards my ex-colleagues and acquaintances serving at the front lines and supply, but those are usually private), but I think western audience may be more comfortable with the former. Either way we appreciate your support in this tragedy of a war. Thank you.
With eyeliner.
Lol why would they be able to keep the interest but not the money?
If you are fine making other people live under putins thumb... Are you willing to put yourself in that position?
There's basically no proof that software used to be more "professional". Sure the process was more formal, but I've not seen any proof (and I'm not talking about peer reviewed stuff here, but even just anecdotal examples) of the "end result" of those processes being better, more robust or even less buggy than what we get out of what some may call "move fast and break stuff" development.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201709
It should perhaps be of american interest to support its allies. As its allies did to support the so-called war on terrorism with Afghanistan and Iraq.

Those two wars imo changed USA and put the country in debt and misalignment internally. Bush was an absolute catastrophy.

You can't point the fingers at the leaders. Even though the country is not a democracy, but a business club with only two parties, being funded by companies.

USA is no longer, and hasn't been for decades, very far from Russia in its cribbled walk towards war and destruction.

I can't see how the country can uphold its stance with their allies and when China makes their move, it will leave US on its own.

As for Europe, it might be a slow starter, but rather that than having to fight for even then smallest equality rights and options.

Wow, how I really dislike american politics and leadership, and its not just its current government.