skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media operation Strana is mentioned as the source for the lenta.ru story.
Strana is sanctioned and banned by the Ukrainian government, though Ukraine government hands out a lot of media bans.

It's a bummer that just about every media outlet in Ukraine is either tightly linked to Russian propaganda, or on the other side its mostly super pro Ukrainian (formerly funded by USAID) outlets with ties to weird libertarian billionaires who want to turn Ukraine into free market paradise. Hardly any middle ground.
Ok, turns out there are separate ToS for the official binaries: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
Humans are deuterostomes, which means the butthole forms before any other openings, and organs during development. Some people never just fully develop after that.
I feel like these categories are different. Warnings should generally be treated as errors in my book, and all errors should be corrected. But "strangeness" is much more open ended. Sometimes large systems don't behave quite as expected and it might make sense to delay a "fix" until something is actually in need of it. If none of your tests fail then does it really matter?
At the very least, protecting Ukraine's skies when Russia started targeting its cities with missiles would have been exactly the right move, an appropriate international response to warfare against the civilian population. A huge missed opportunity.
Ask HN: What use cases have you found for AI in database?
I've been looking at pgai extension.

It looks cool, but I cannot fully grasp what are practical examples of use cases.

https://github.com/timescale/pgai/

For clarity, I am not talking about the embedding capabilities. That I am clear about.

I am referring to the ability to call external models.
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
And that will last until the regulators start cracking down on that monopoly like they started cracking down on Google...
If Ukraine loses, the right wing militias will exit Ukraine, settle in Europe and start up The Years Of Lead Part 2.
The P2P aspect of Skype was really interesting. I remember there were even physical handsets you could buy that had Skype built-in, which I thought were cool. I remember seeing business cards with Skype username on them also. That's how popular the thing was!

It's honestly baffling how we're still relying on old PSTN/phone numbers to reach people in 2025.
When Trump jumps in like that, it's a real fear he has. Trump is really for real scared of the Russians. Why? Well, one can muster a couple of hypotheses.
ok but that is just moving the goalpost from the plugins are crap to i don't like electron. idc what you do but for anyone that wants vscode with vim bindings the neovim ones are great.
It is consistently misattributed to Churchill and misquoted to be about Americans. The quote is actually from Abba Eban, and what he said was, "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
It's hard to tell the difference of a log and a sigmoid with an upper asymptote
Yeah, and I can be a novel writer with AI. I'll have my Amazon best seller in no time thanks to AI!

It completely misses nuance. Are any of these apps actually useful?

I'm not sure how this is any better than jamming a bunch of Wordpress plugins together to kinda get the software to do what you want.
Someone needs to figure out how to deprogram MAGA voters.
Maybe this will provide some momentum to SeaMonkey or other browsers?
Trump and MAGA people are really 'till death do us part.....

The people that suffered the most from the first Trump administration are the white republicans: they died because they did not want to be vaccinated against COVID nor wear masks. In 2024 white republicans voted for Trump even though they were personally hurt by Trump's COVID advice.

One of my friends is a Trump supporter who almost died of COVID (he got intubated!!). His wife also got COVID. Never you mind: both of them voted for Trump in 2024.
I can’t believe the DoD even considered to pick them for JEDI
I know they said that, but, really? Since when does an unauthorized person get access to the Oval Office? That would be a huge fail by the Secret Service.
Genuine question: is your comment satire? If not, that's hilarious, I find myself on the completely opposite end of the spectrum. To each their own!
it seems like a huge imposition to ask someone to kick off a great power war that would likely leave millions of her children dead, yes. that's true in any case, but especially when one's entire geopolitical relevance is as a border state. not all alliances are or must be "we will do literally anything possible to protect your territorial integrity". it probably wouldn't make sense for us to make such an alliance since our territorial integrity hasn't been threatened in substance since the war of 1812. and because such an alliance would be a charity program where we give away young American lives to enable one political entity, rather than another, to govern scraps of low-value land an ocean and a continent away.

the whole "sending ukraine materiel is going to cause WWIII" thing is sort of bs russian propaganda. the idea that direct American military intervention isn't risking that is very much not.

again, how many Americans do you think it's appropriate for their own government to sign up to die for this cause? i think the number is zero. if you think it's higher, i'd very much like to understand why and how many you think is a reasonable number. i understand it'd be a ballpark figure, not a bright line, but i'd like at least an order of magnitude grasp of what people think is appropriate and why they think so.
Don't worry man, it's way more embarassing for the people that downloaded your dep or any upstream tool.

If they didn't pay you a cent, you have no liability here.
Don’t most developers have ultrawide 4/8k monitors these days though?
Are you using anything new in iOS 17?

It would be nice to be able to run it on my iPhone which is stuck on 16.2 because of TrollStore and Dopamine
> And yet coincidences happen. So of course it can be

For some reason, those 'coincidences' seem to always coincide with something China is doing. China has a revolutionary cancer drug? Cue misleading articles in the Western press about some drug that doesn't even compare. China reforests deserts? Cue numerous articles in the Western media saying how "Deserts are good because they help rainforests". And that also was misleading - no other rainforest on the planet receives any kind of dust as the Amazon receives from the Sahara and they are just as good.

So all these 'coincidences' seem to 'coincide' with China's stuff. That couldn't possibly be because of stuff like the $500 million fund that the US Congress allocated to doing propaganda against China now, could it...
Mozilla is continuing to dig its own grave
so did Israel.
bully? the ukraine has been DEMANDING more money from pretty much everyone.

what kind of entitled mindset is that? he should be down on his knees BEGGING for money if he wants it.
In a normal timeline, the way this was going to get hammered out was behind closed doors where very serious people from the State Department presented a spreadsheet of options for Ukraine's renewal of the Democracy Plus DLC and the ukies, through gritted teeth, chose a mortgage they could live with. This should not be a surprise.

(Absent, say, Europe committing more men or material.)

The US, absent anything else, needs to choose between direct military intervention, continuing sending over material (which is unpalatable long term), or cutting Ukraine loose. Again, none of that should be a surprise--if it _is_, you should get your head examined.

The problem today is that these conversations were had out in public, and in so doing we got to see the top two rungs of the US executive branch act excessively cruel on the one hand and like somebody completely ignorant of the stakes on the other--the "it'll make great TV" being perhaps the icing on the cake. Even worse, it'll probably work, because Zelensky seems to care more about his country than his ego.

Even to the extent that I agree with some of the realpolitick, I cannot abide by the odious behavior adjacent it. Kissinger was evil, but not impishly cruel.

(I also would caution people not to buy into the "Russia owns Trump" narrative when the more depressing--but probably accurate--explanation is simply that he wants the "Look at me, I ended a war I didn't even fight in!" merit badge.)
Italo Calvino was noted as being of great inspiration to Jonathan Blow (as a relative point of interest on the OP's question)

I think during one of the Braid 20th anniversary podcasts[0] he talks to it which I loved listing to (from a historic viewpoint; well moreso than a game dev/design)

[0]https://open.spotify.com/show/7t7FUL1e9vMCLWpKqcknAL?si=B_Bd...
Which words did I redefine? Our free speech doesn't include hate speech but it is still called free speech in our constitution. And it's boundaries are still clearly defined, just like yours.

Also, I don't feel like there's anything to argue, look where allowing rampant misinformation and lies proliferation got your country. Your president is spitting Russian propaganda to Zalensky's face: "you started the war", "Russia will respect peace", "Europe only loaned money", etc. Your country is falling apart, not mine.
Related to this, I find the Azure Subreddit terrible. Each critical question is punished with downvotes.
"Still up" means 'holding', and that confirms my argument. And you pulled only 2 stocks out of that many you mentioned at the start. No worries, they will likely take a nose dive in the coming months.
I use Firefox Nightly on Android, and originally had location sharing on for the handful of websites where I'm fine with sharing it. But today, my phone notified me that Nightly updated what it does with location data on the play store to include using location for marketing or advertising purposes.

Changed it to ask every time instantly, and I'm not going to be giving Mozilla nearly as much trust ever again.
I personally haven't worked with many of the github apps that you seem to refer to but the few that I've used are only limited to access the specific repositories that I give and within those repositories their access control is scoped as well. I figured this is all stuff that can be controlled on Github's side. Am I mistaken?
I agree with this poster, you should watch the full video before forming opinions:

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1895606614302019688

(The full video is in the post)
USA could guarantee a deployment to European NATO countries large enough for them to be able to move much of their forced into Ukraine.
And just guarantees on being able to buy armament would be useful.
If there had been any ounce of political will something would have been possible.
Your gems are in the back of the stack: [shit, shit, kinda shit, sorta shit, gem], gotta keep popping the stack.
How many non-US combat troops do you think were involved in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many troops do you think European NATO members will commit to a hot war in Ukraine? I agree that the Ukrainians are battle-hardened in a way few other countries are now (besides Russia of course). Ukrainian soldiers also have valuable experience in drone warfare and will have much to teach the US and its allies about 21st century conflict. US military is going to have to modernize some of its personnel and capabilities for new technology, but at this moment, I'd pit the US military against any other in the world. And it's not close.
Literally in this case meaning staring at a spirograph blocking your view of the screen, I suppose, because he never said that once. Trump did accuse Zelenskyy of having hatred for Putin, and didn't get much of a response, but that's not quite the same. What he did say was that Vance's characterization of Ukraine's path as warmongering was at the very least misleading if not much worse. He did this by pointing to a decade's worth of ceasefires that were brokered by the US and Europe that Russia broke with impunity, and held Trump and Vance's feet to the fire about bucking that trend. Pretty wild that you see that as emotional framing, and not the literal shitfit of a response it elicited from a head of state and his deputy.
People underestimate how valuable this is. If you can get an assistant that is capable of being the devil's advocate in any given scenario, it's much easier to game out scenarios.
> But Teams, at least today and on Windows, is GOOD.

I don't remember the last time I had a meeting on teams that didn't include a rant about teams
Yes, the only people responsible for Russian leadership are the Russian people. The Russian people should pay to rebuild Ukraine.
Best part is people downloading them and turning EVERYTHING off - running it as admin, antivirus off, everything. How can you trust something random off the internet that much?
I'm using these things to evaluate pitches. It's well known the default answer is "No" when seeking funding. I've been fiddling for a while. It seems like all these engines are "nice" and optimistic? I've struggled to get it to decline companies at the rate Iexpect (>80%). It's been great at extraction of the technicals.

This iteration isn't giving different results.

Anyone got tips to make the machine more blunt or aggressive even?
To me the HN comments are even more interesting than the event itself. Politics is rarely at HN so it was a rare chance to see the opinions about this topic.

Most commenters have highly inadequate view of the Ukrainian situation. I wonder why. Even in highly censored and manipulated universe of western information space, there are enough facts to form more adequate views. What makes people ignore the facts and stick to the wrong views?

I suspect it's because of a feeling instilled, that sticking to these opinions makes them good people. If you #StandWithUkraine you become a kind of a moral hero.

Paradoxically, this confirms the need for brainwashing in mass politics. If normal, sufficiently intelligent and developed audience can not form adequate views of political questions, somebody needs to guide their views.

Unless some new technology or social organization emerges, that allows public to form a balanced and adequate opinion, some guides will need to brainwash the public.

But when the guides are themselves inadequate, troubles happen.
It is definitely going to become a meme, the way he sat there like a scolded kid while Trump said "No. You've talked a lot today. Look, you're not winning this. You're not gonna win this"

Felt like watching your friend get scolded by his parents when they find a cigarette in his backpack
Ukraine needs to be allowed to be a sovereign country, but it currently is not. Here is Victoria Nuland choosing the next leader of Ukraine in 2014 in a call. Mind you, she apologized for her comment saying 'fuck the EU', but not for meddling in another countries politics. So it's confirmed if you're doubting the validity.

The call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE

I do not, and will never regard a country as sovereign at this level of intervention.
I don't think it's fair to include the entire population of the US in that total, even the 78 million children who can't vote. And people who didn't vote made their choice as well.

By that logic, no democracy in the world elects their leaders with a 50%+ majority, not even countries with mandatory voting laws like Australia or Belgium.
I don't know what answer you expect. I think you didn't really miss options (broadly speaking), but your interpretation of each option is opinionated, and this is extremely opinionated topic (obviously). So I wouldn't say you are wrong, you are just... opinionated.

1st one isn't really about "buying time". The prolongation of conflict is not a "side-effect" here, it's the whole point. And IMO it's a solid plan, honestly. If I was a citizen of the USA without any morals or inclinations to travel abroad, I would probably support it. This isn't a 100% solid plan, there are actually some questions if it works as it was supposed to work, but the incentive here seems blatantly obvious to me: war weakens Russia, weakens Europe, and nobody cares about Ukraine anyway, so by investing into the war carefully USA ends up winning, same as after WW1 and WW2. To me, the game plan is obvious here. It's just cynical, and that's why Biden (and other public-speaking supporters of the plan) would never say it as it is. No real politician would.

As to Europe wanting that... well, I would say it seems current EU leadership wants that, and I have pretty hard time explaining why, so I'll leave it aside. If you want some random data point: I, as a European citizen definitely don't want that. I don't doubt the majority of my fellow EU citizens would say they "support the support of Ukraine", but I don't find it surprising, given all media outlets chant 24/7 about how horrible Russia/Putin is.

I mean, yes, that's kinda saying "I think I know better than these guys", but I just don't see any benefits for the actual people (not governments) living in EU. This war hurts the economics, it hurts the relationships, and I personally have relatives in Ukraine, so I just want it to stop. I don't care on which terms, and obviously it cannot be the terms on which the war started. It's way too deep into the conflict and too many lives lost to call it a good outcome, but it's the best outcome.

So, not being a citizen of the USA, I am in favor of that alternative which is "as stupid as it sounds", the last one. I mostly have problems not with the option itself, but with the fact that for Trump to want it is not enough for it to happen. Because, as stated, a lot of people don't want this to happen, and it almost seems like Trump is mistaking being POTUS for being God. Meaning, the way he is doing things is stupidly blunt. It might work, it might escalate things more. In any case, having all of HN whining about how ashamed they are of their president is not a good start. And that product he helped BBC to make works awful for him and his plan.
Wonderful description. Thank you for capturing a snap shot that conveys the power of troubleshooting.
Yeah, sorry about that - there is specifically an issue with Firefox on Android. It’s a very small % of my traffic, and remote debugging Firefox seems a bit tricky, so I haven’t prioritized it. But I should spend some time and at least take a look!
All the professors I pair with recently for papers are pro-chatgpt with some minor grumbling of content refactors.
IMO that ended during the last European migrant crisis. Europe will never be the same. The culture of emasculation brought us to where we are now.
The point is that being a scientist doesn’t make everything one says science. He doesn’t even attempt to, anyways. There are actual researchers measuring the performance of these LLMs on various tasks, which is science. And then there is self-aggrandizing Substack posts with selective callbacks to vague claims, and goalpost moving for the rest.

The counterpunch to hype man bs isn’t more bs stating the opposite.
could you perhaps give a few non-imaginary examples of this?
It was never implied that this mechanism was magical.

If you reread the original post, the claim being made is:

> The idea that an average person, working hard, can eventually own part of a nation's land and resources, [...] was never going to be able to last forever as long as the population keeps increasing.

This is manifestly not the case. My response was that, insofar as a pyramid scheme exists, it has nothing to do with some fundamental Malthusian limit on how many people can fit in a given space; this limit exists, but is not the reason that the rich are getting richer, which instead has to do with monetary policy.

You make cheap money available to those with good credit. These people take out loans and use the money to buy real property with the expectation that they will be able to rent it out for more than the carrying cost of the loan. This causes the price of real estate to rise artificially beyond what it would if the cheap credit had not been made available. The key issue here is that this credit isn't being made available to everyone at once - you have to qualify for the loan first.
What facts do you think people are ignoring?

I think everyone knows Ukraine is at a disadvantage in this war in terms of manpower, ammo, money, resources, allies, etc.

But what Zelensky said in the meeting is true. Ceasefires and agreements don't mean much to Putin. He has broken them in the past. He's not someone who can be defeated in diplomacy.

It's a tough issue without an easy resolution. I don't think people here think otherwise?
> I've never even heard of the term "app coin" before but surely it's just yet another crypto token with similar constraints and lack of obvious use.

It's in the name. It's a token for use in an app. It derives value from the utility of that app and therefore the need to acquire the token to use the app. E.g. Filecoin. That pretty directly meets the Howey test.

A memecoin is explicitly pointless and of no utility. Its only purpose is to be a collectable associated with some pop culture. There is no expectation of value derived from its creator's efforts.

Bitcoin and ethereum are more complicated. Note that the SEC has previously ruled that bitcoin was not a security issuance, but ethereum was (though grandfathered in: the SEC declined to prosecute).
> Building the understanding required to push jet engine capabilities forward takes time, effort, and expense.

This occurs in a broader cultural context. A society that dreams, enjoys science fiction, rewards hard study of advanced topics and so forth, can produce the work force to staff companies capable of going to the stars.

Let us encourage that.
Probably a few ways to drive that thru the roof and run a bunch of scenarios at once.

Do you input anything with the prompt in terms of investment thesis?

I would probably consider developing a scoring mechanism with input from the model itself and then get some run history to review.
they also couldn't have timed this better with the manifestv3 thing
> Ownership is theft

You are trying so desperately to put those words in my mouth, but I will not say them as I don't know what they mean.

> taxes are double secret ownership

I'm not making an ideological point here, simply pointing out that the proposed systems are isomorphic in their objectives and execution. They both aim to increase the productive use of land by charging a periodic fee to the occupants of said land based on the market value of the land. There are two differences: the first is one of language (rent vs. tax), and the second on how the rate of this fee is determined. Under socialised land, the market price of land is the same as the fee charged. Under Georgism, the fee is charged by a bunch of politicians looking at the market price of land and trying to figure it out based on that.

Given that the two systems are essentially identical, but the second brings in undue political meddling, I see no reason to prefer it to the first solution outside of the practical situation that many people are afraid of public ownership and therefore would be more likely to vote for the worse option. Do you have any real argument for Georgism over public ownership?