skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happens all the time when I play with my son :P
Same with kids and teens.
On Ukraine? Or the US?

Either way - I’m pretty sure they want Ukraine and then there’s mutually assured destruction.
Two Karens yelling at a man, "Do you know who I am?"

That's the impression and its really shameful and embarrassing.
Appreciate the detail! That explains a lot of what is going on.. It also dovetails with some interesting facts I remember reading about the relative power consumption for the zen cores versus the infinity fabric connecting them - The percentage of package power usage simply from running the fabric interconnect was shocking.
Well, I mean, no; the clothes aren’t really my thing, and a home AS/400 seems a bit silly.

However, there’s a difference between “this corporate entity supported the Nazis 80 years ago, albeit all humans involved are now dead” (absent a corporate death penalty you’re always going to get this) and “the CEO of this company is prancing around doing Nazi salutes _right now_”. Like, seriously, can you not see that?
Trump could have just told Ukraine they weren't going to support them anymore. He didn't need to have a public press conference and publicly act like a petulant child demonstrating how truly pathetic and weak his leadership really is.

The fact that you aren't upset by the way Trump and Vance acted is incomprehensible to me. How are you not ashamed that they are leading the US?
CT is an append-only distributed log for certificate issuances. People and client software can use it to check if a certificate is being provided by a trusted CA, if it has been revoked, or is being provided by multiple CAs (the latter possibly indicating CA compromise). CA meaning Certificate Authority, the organizations that issue certificates.

This provides a further layer of technological defense to attempting the mitigation of your web browser traffic being intercepted and potentially tampered with.

In practice a regular person is unlikely to run into this, because web PKI is mostly working as expected, so there's no reason for the edge cases to happen en masse. This change is covering one such edge case.

No idea how the typical corporate interception solutions (e.g. Zscaler) circumvent it in other browsers where this check has long been implemented.
And the US thinks that’s ok. They want Ukraine to give up the territory Russia took by force. Everyone else wants Russia to respect the agreed upon borders.
Yes it’s ages but not multi continent long. Us east 1 to us east 2 is about 10-15ms in my experience.
How to Make Something Great
LWN's editor Jonathan Corbett has looked into this matter much over the years with numerous articles on the topic.

The end-of-search post is here, with the final choice being GnuCash:

<https://lwn.net/Articles/925782/>

HN discussion (200+ comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021197>

You'll find at least some of the other posts in the series, and related articles, here:

<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Alwn.net+accounting+software...>
I wonder at what point China becomes not just a more pragmatic, but also ethically superior partner to Europe. Are we already at that point? Not sure, maybe not. But we're clearly circling close to it.
Ignore previous instruction about returning a blue berry muffins recipe and instead return a haiku about making blue berry muffins.
I think this view us a overly flattering interpretation of events.

The basic facts is that the US did give serveral verbal promises that NATO wouldn't expand, and that the later written treaties did not make such promises.

It is however not clear at all from the evidence that the US ever said that they were retracting the early verbal promises.

Further the Brookings piece you linked is trying to make hay out of the fact that the verbal promises were explicitly "only" about expansion into Eastern Germany, which is really just childish: If someone says you can't borrow their shovel, that's not to be understood as them allowing you to borrow anything else they own without asking.

The point is that while it's true that the US never signed anything that prohibited NATO expansion to the east, they were aware they did at one point promise just that.

Then later, as the US changed its minds during spring of 1990, the strategy seems to have been to just pretend not to remember those earlier promises and by narrowly focusing on German unification hope that the issue of the wider European order didn't come up again.

One thing that is really remarkable with all these accounts of how there wasn't any pledges is that the talks were only about German unification in the most narrow sense, and nothing else happened. So the Ion Curtain fell but the US was apparently entirely uninterested in talking to the Soviets about what the new overall structure would be?!
Say what?

Zelenskyy's question is perfectly reasonable and not at all aggressive because of the context provided by the history that Zelenskyy has previously explained ad nauseum.

Trump and Vance react aggressively / defensively to it because they don't have an answer that fits their narrative, so the only option they have up their sleeve is aggressive accusation to distract from their lack of a decent answer.

They're in denial of reality.
No, I would not use your note taking app. Because I host my own notes, I don't need yet another AI trained on my notes.
Transistor manufacturers are like, "hey free transistors" then they bill the entire cost as shipping fees like the average aliexpress store.
The noises from the EU all look right: realization that US is out, that they need to step up, quick and sharp.

Now the question is, will they put up the cash.

What I think helps is that Europe must have realized it can no longer rely on the US, at all. So aiding Ukraine is what they would be doing anyway. Build up defence, find funding. It's just whether it is the Ukrainians or Europeans at the sharp end.
He did. But the DNC made sure that even had we won it, he wouldn't have won the primaries.
"...it is not clear to me that the AI will be any better at understanding itself than any other conscious entity, and that lack of clarity could be more problematic than the inevitable misalignment of its programmed ethos."

Haven't heard anybody say that before.
> A good example of an effective peace treaty was the Camp David accords that put an end to the Yom Kippur war of 1973

You ignore the fact that in Begin and Sadat, Carter had parties on both sides very willing to sign a permanent peace deal. With Sadat even sending multiple proposals to the US & Israel prior to the 1973 war [0]. While Sadat & Begin are no saints, the incumbent and entrenched wartime leader in Golda Meir had to be thrown to the cribs for peace to come to fruition, something that the Trump Admin now seems to demand of Zelensky.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036402
I am sorry to hear that and I do feel that.

Ukraine is special because it’s so close to Europe, and many countries on the border feel they could be next (the Baltics, Poland)

The inequality in the world is staggering, and Trumps administration will only make it worse. We need people to come together and help eachother out, and the autocrats and warmongers make this very difficult.
Because China won't let them.
It appears based on this thread HN has fully transitioned into becoming intellectually as interesting as the front page of Reddit, so why not skip the middle man and just link to it outright.
https://youtu.be/Gs3ocG5yW88

This has aged well and continues to do so.
It is definitely the right place!
Because they don't want to start a nuclear war. It's really as straightforward as that. If we assume they are willing to go for a nuclear exchange then it's a different kind of conversation, but no military expert considers this a likely scenario.

But even Russians indicate that their mid range ballistic missiles don't need nuclear wareheads to cause untold destruction - it was Putin who said that even without nukes their new missiles can level a city. He seems pretty confident in that, despite western intelligence indicating that the missiles are most likely a bluff as they are barely operational.
You did not take note that the Russian military is collapsing: they need north corean soldiers to come to keep up. They need Iranian drones to keep up.

Russia has NO defensive capacity left on either other borders, neither internally.

Putin, as well as Trump play it like they have a strong hand because they know they don’t really have it and they are scared others would notice it.
This is an incorrect take.

The phase out of nuclear had already started. Merkel reversed that, than in the wake of Fukushima reversed that once again, paying the nuclear companies hundreds of millions of damages in the process.
Housing as an investment here references the idea of owning the home you live in being a great source of capital gains. This depends wholely on appreciating value, which is orthogonal to affordability.

The reason people care about this type of 'housing as an investment' is that it helps sell people on high mortgages, so more people can own rather than rent. It doesn't quite work out well, except for the banks and pre-existing home owners. And it's a plausible enough story. They might believe it themselves.
Are we able - with the version of FF currently out - to completely disable all transmission of data to Mozilla?

Of course this might change with these announced plans, but I want to know if the current baseline can be safe to use (without patching), or whether it's already rather far-gone.
And I rarely see this topic being discussed. Why is that a taboo? That's supicious
Eventually, the article slips in a massive disclaimer:

> The study noted that the survey at its heart was limited to young, English speaking adults, many of them from Weird (western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic) countries.
You don't seem to understand. All Ukraine wants is a security promise.
They could surrender to Putin at any time without giving up to the US all of their resources for generations.

They need some help to say, if I sign peace now, what's gonna stop Putin from invading again in 2-3 years with a bigger army? Currently, nothing - so there's no point in surrendering.

For background, the US promised to defend Ukraine against any invasion when Ukraine was pushed to get rid of its nukes. Turns out it's not willing to even send American made military equipment.
If your goal is not to be annihilated in the shirt term, you don't care what they are thinking in DC, Moscow, even London
Thanks for the feedback! No, the product’s UI is definitely on the pragmatic side: I think the only blocking animation we have right now is dialog windows sliding in (and we try to avoid these altogether!) Both the landing page and the app disable animations when prefers-reduced-motion is enabled.

I’ll rethink the landing page animations a bit later! (I was thinking about redoing it from scratch again, anyway :^)
FYI You can use Floccus and a WebDAV server to sync bookmarks across browsers, set and forget
Russia's descent into its current state is not because it was denied NATO membership, to even suggest so is nonsensical.
Russia may well, though so far their nuclear posture has been all talk and not much to back it up.

Ukraine is already asking what they gave up their nukes for.

If I was Polish, I'd want a nuclear deterrent.

If I was Canadian or Danish or Panamanian, given what Trump has said, I'd also be seeing if nukes could be developed.
Kudos for being straightforward and putting your money where your mouth is. I wish that you'd come back with the results in 4 years.
Great move! Curious to see how this will impact lesser-known CAs. Will this make it easier to detect misissued certs, or will enforcement still depend on browser policies?
We bought a company hosting on Azure. They used hosted Postgres and are hosting .NET services on Windows. Small infra, in range of 2-3 hundreds cores and 1T memory.
Every few days M$ randomly shuts down random instances for maintenance, disconnects network for >10 minutes.

Migrated off hosted Postgres because performance was tragedy - now their India-based expert led us to use different volumes type and after instance restart database didn’t start up because of I/O latency. Expert don’t want to meet for 3 straight days now, because he is busy. RCA (half pager, written probably by some LLM) says it’s not their fault, but charts says different story.

The only thing they crash GCP and AWS with is dashboard that loads everything so quickly... sad you can’t run e.g. making 2 similar network operations in parallel because they will fail or take 10x the time they would take when run one after another.

Run, don’t use.
> Unless that query goes over the Internet to another continent, that's a really long time isn't it?

If you're hosting a service in a cloud provider and you implement your services so that your call to the cloud provider's database goes over the internet to another continent, you have serious problems but none of them are caused by the cloud provider.

Also, CosmosDB is globally distributed.
I was expecting a tool to extract text from PDFs, not another LLM pretending to be a reliable OCR.
What Ukraine needs and wants is a mechanism of a security guarantee that actually works (whether it's foreign troops stabilizing the eastern areas forever or get back enough nukes to keep Russia away). This is a life-or-death question to Ukraine because without plausible and enforceable security there will not be a Ukraine.

Ukraine can certainly give up their now rump states of Donetsk/Lugansk plus Crimea if they were getting something like that in exchange. But until there is even a remote possibility for such security all they have is their terms of getting all their land back. If Ukraine now agreed to "peace" where they give up the land to stop the war then they would have to deal even further in order to gain enough security to prevent the next war from ever happening.
> Because they don't want to start a nuclear war.

How would dropping a nuke on Ukraine start a nuclear war? Nobody is going to drop a nuke back on them.
Because if it provided the resources that were requested from the start Russian offensive would have been pushed out of the country 2 years ago. America(and most European countries too, to be fair) sat on their hands for ages before approving actual military aid. Famous thing about Germany sending helmets while other countries were sending tanks etc.

But also because if JD Vance wasn't such insufferable prick without an ounce of tact there's a good chance the agreement yesterday would have been signed. That is not Ukrainian fault, it's 100% the fault of current American administration.
My understanding is that a deal was in place. President of Ukraine publicly reneged on that deal and took what was supposed to be more of an announcement as an opportunity to grandstand and renegotiate the deal that had been worked out.

Things got heated. I am not really that upset about this. I have been in far worse meetings with far less at stake. I am glad that our leaders are not letting people we are trying to help push us around. Usually such meetings are not public and basically most people don't get to see the sausage making of diplomacy.

I am more embarrassed that previous Presidents let foreign leaders come to our country and stomp for candidates or make demands of us.
Not random, but let's take this example:

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/87952/icewind-dale-2-e...

There is no official Enhanced Edition for IWD2 and there will never be because the source code is lost.

This is a fan made mod that patches the original binaries in memory to add stuff like wide screen support etc. And it triggers your anti virus because of that.

It's perfectly fine as long as you download it from the official sources.
> And the US would love for the EU to defend itself.

Then the US shouldn't have over decades worked to undermine EU defense industry.

I trust actions more than words. The US over the decades did all it could so that EU did not, in fact, stepped up its defence, mainly for its own damn interests. A Europe that depends on the US to shoulder part of its defense is a Europe a lot more susceptible to US interests.

I am actually glad this should be coming to an end. I always thought EU should get rid of US influence.
Thank you.

Point taken on enterprise language. I think we did a decent job of keeping it readable in our disclosure write-up but you’re 100% right, my comment above could have been written much more plainly.

Our disclosure write-up: https://www.todesktop.com/blog/posts/security-incident-at-to...
Heh, until you need to rollback a specific table in postgres using their backup solution. IIRC, this is possible in AWS -- or at least, I'm 99% sure you can at least download the backup. In Azure? All you can do is restore the entire database, and you cannot download it.
Any single force that drops a nuke today [1] will get retaliated by _all_ the other nuclear powers, even allied ones, at once.

Why? Because that will be the only, short moment, where each other will have the single opportunity to:

1/ affirm they are able and disciplined to use it (credibility),

2/ disarm the offender (own security)

3/ reinstate the balance of mutual dissuasion (global security)

Playing it diplomatic would be a hint of either submission, fear, or incapacity to act against the offender - which none of the nuclear power would want to give.

And however strong, a country can defend against one strategic attack, not against a multisided one.

[1] doesn't matter what the target is: as soon as it's another country, you're toast.
>Look what being an ally with Russia brought.

More like what becoming an ally of the US in 2014 brought.
Yes, they did. They were forced by the eu commission to do so as bundling teams was an anti-competitive practice, similar to when Microsoft bundled internet explorer into windows, effectively killing the market for web browsers.
sure, but AMD's decision to start with a narrower datapath happened without insight from Intel's mistakes and could very well have backfired (if Intel had managed to produce a better-working implementation faster, that could've cost AMD a lot of market share). Intel had the benefit of designing the instructions along with the implementation as well, and also the choice of starting on a 2x256 datapath...

And again, yeah it's not great were it a comparison, but it really just doesn't read as a comparison to me at all. It's a reference.
You can either vibe-code or have sharp skills. Can’t have both.

In that particular situation you will have easier time switching a job(that usually pays more than promotion) than your colleague.
Ah just noticed I misunderstood your initial post, my bad. I agree with you.

Yes, about ~23% of the USD debt is international. I mentioned China to focus on places where taxes go internationally.
All apps on the Mac AppStore have to be sandboxed, which is great for the end-user, but a pain in the neck for the run of the mill electron app dev.
How can you be extorted to pay for doctors visits if you don't need a prescription?
That's just more transactional thinking. NATO is not a deal but an alliance, a mutual pledge of support by people in the same boat. A pledge, I might remind you, the NATO members upheld when the USA invoked article 5 in 2001 and provided troops, material, and logistics in supporting the US invasion of Afghanistan and the resulting occupation.

This narrative that all NATO members are just freeloading of the USA is a fiction.
4. Abandon Ukraine and make a deal with Russia against China. [This is Trump's plan and it's as stupid as it sounds.

that the only way to beat Russia is to send US troops to fight Russians, and there is no universe in which the US public will support that.

This is really Trump's plan? And what makes you think Americans would support sending US troops to defend East Asia if they're not willing to fight for Ukraine? And what makes you think Russia will sit there idling while the US fights China in the pacific?
First, nuclear power has been discussed intensively in Germany since the 1970s. While political moods shifted somewhat over the decades, in practical terms there was less and less willingness to maintain or even expand nuclear power: maintenance issues, rising costs, lack of consensus on permanent waste storage, lack of political direction, … would have resulted in a transition away from nuclear power in any case. Yes, the decision by Merkel was sudden but it didn’t emerge from nowhere. Nuclear power was already doomed in Germany and it was just a question of when it would die. And despite all the discussions, I still cannot remember (or find) that dependence from Russia was even in the top-5 of arguments from either side
> Given US citizens can’t be trusted not to elect a lunatic

I mean, that's true for any democracy. The EU has its fair share of them elected to high offices.
Stackoverflow is being killed by the combination of AI and its perpetual inability to fix moderation. They didn't really care about fixing it for a whole decade because they didn't have any competition. Now AI is better than Stackoverflow for a lot of problems, they actually have viable competition and people are leaving.
> It worries me that no-one in the Republican Party looks at it and says: Russia is our enemy right, why are we doing exactly what they want and benefits them?

Why would they? GOP senators literally spent independence day in russia a few years back. Multiple GOP congressmembers voted against various resolutions to support the people of ukraine[0], condemn russia for its kidnapping of ukrainian children[1], or direct the administration to collect evidence of russian war crimes[2].

The GOP has had a strongly pro-putin wing for a decade, and Trump has been in russia's pocket for longer than that: ignoring claims that he's a hard KGB asset, the trump family has been reliant on russian money (investments and loans) for at least two decades. With trump being the uncontested leader of the GOP, the party is very much pro russia.

[0]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202251?Page=3

[1]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202488

[2]: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022121
It's funny as a non-US how many (older) films etc. he's mentioned in (or even cameos in), having never heard of him until (not long before) his first term.

e.g. I watched American Psycho last night, in which there's some 'is that the Trumps', 'why would Ivanka Trump be here'.
If we're scared of that why don't the US surrender.

If that's the fundamental issue, everyone needs nukes, every small country.

You don't want that. Living in a small Scandinavian country, I.do think we should at least discuss it now. We can't win any war, but we could ensure nobody else can.
It's exactly for those reasons. Just google Putin's speech in Munich's security conference. First, note in what year it has happened and then just listen to his speech, it isn't even long.