skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever thinks that Russia will ever consider the US as an ally probably doesn't have a great sense of how Russia views itself and the US.

They'll play the part of ally, to a limited degree, when their stooges in Western Democracies don't have any demands of them. But no amount of trade will change their priorities as far as diminishing the dollar with something they at least partially control.
As an American I can't blame you. It looks like that from inside as well and it's terrifying because we feel completely powerless - unless we can muster tens of millions to march in the streets in a country the size of ours it won't have any impact. And most people here are still completely apathetic.
Neutrality is bullshit for cowards who want to profit from both sides. Neutrality is siding with the aggressor.
I think it’s better to describe methylation as up or down regulation.
This is severe whataboutism. I'm not a fan of the MIC, and much money given to it could be better spent on other things.

But the reality is that money poured into the MIC to replace equipment we sent to Ukraine is not money that leaves the US economy, and it is absolutely essential to understand that when discussing the "cost" of this war to America.
That seems somewhat laughable? Pro-Russian folks who are grasping at straws to spin what's happening so it doesn't look so bad?

I can't imagine Putin allowing his country to be "used" like that (regardless of how desperate his situation gets), especially considering that China is literally next door and would absolutely destroy Russia in any kind of military conflict.
Yeah, probably pays much better.
I totally think the people saying that KGB has video or photos or whatever from the late '80s of him sleeping with KGB agent/call girls or similar are plausible. But I have a really hard time imagining Trump being embarrassed by anything like that. He'd be like "Of course I slept with beautiful women! who wouldn't?"

I'd love to have some idea of what they could actually have that he'd be ashamed of, but he's so shameless it's hard for me to imagine. Which makes me more inclined to think that he just hasn't met a dictator that he's not jealous of more so than anything.
> Is it in our interest to continue to run up debt, send overseas ammunition and hardware?

Whose economy gets the money spent? If it's ours—and it is—then yes, it's obviously in our interest to continue to run up debt.
All speculation and the non voters said: I do not care
JD is a big fan of Curtis Yarvin who popularized the idea that democracy must be overcome and be replaced by some kind of oligarchy.

This is what the global alt-right movement, which the AfD is a part of, wants.

They see democracy as a weak system and want to replace it by a kind of neo-feudalism.

It’s clear that Ukraine, that fights against the Russian version of that system, must be made to be an example than democracy can not win.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And this is a pivotal moment in US history, the moment where the world realizes the emperor has no clothes.
Fair point about the Smolensk Incident - confused it with the Netherlands incident - but it was that incident that sparked Poland's fears about Russia again [0], and most of Poland's military buildup and modernization only began in the 2012-13 period after the partnership with South Korea kicked in [1][2]

[0] - https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2015/0...

[1] - https://www.president.pl/president-komorowski/news/poland-so...

[2] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2020.1...
I would think the logic runs exactly the opposite way. Browser diversification would make not using chromium the good thing, rather than not using gecko.
You're making the assumption that even more outrageous things aren't coming down the pipeline. I think that's unwarranted. They will continue to escalate.
49% is a plurality, not a majority.
This.

People abroad don't realize, the average American person is completely powerless.

Yes, we may lament the troubles that the current administration is causing for our allies, (or, I guess, former allies) abroad, but there's next to nothing we can do about it.

Again, buyer's remorse is all we can muster right now and it doesn't do anyone any good. At this point, we have no choice but to search for what positives we can work with that come out of the current administration, and just live with the consequences of the rest.
I'm playing the KCD2 middle ages simulator and maybe the most surprising finding is that one or several bandits will try to kill you every few kilometers as you travel down the road. I suspect that the distance per murder statistic may be inflated a bit for entertainment purposes. But from a quick check it does look like feudal Europe had around 10-150 homicides per 100k, where currently Europe is around 2. For comparison Dodge City in the 19th century was around 150 and Chicago is currently at around 22. So while the game is wildly exaggerated it's in the right direction.
> Trump is trying to carve up Ukraine along with Russia. That's not isolationism

Yeah, calling what Trump is doing wrt Ukraine “isolationism” is like calling the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact “isolationism”.
Ukraine is sending troops over 26 or so years old now. They will need to dip into their prime-aged young population eventually, the 18-to-26-year-olds. That will be a hard moral choice they apparently want to avoid, but perhaps necessary.
I really don’t know. Back in 2009 I was contracting for this company in Worthing. They have a US location in Florida, and are selling aircraft spare parts. I have built an application in Flex for them which was used for taking all sales orders, place purchase orders, manage clients, suppliers, stock, and invoice by people on a call floor. It was great, it worked in every browser where Flash Player could be installed. When AIR came out, in became a standalone application with a wrapper loading the swf file generated for the web app. It worked on Windows and Mac, Snow Leopard back then. It was great, app could be updated by making the new swf available for download on the local network, and waiting for users to restart the app. They did that twice a day: when going to lunch, and when going home. The app remembered everything they were working on. It was great.

It took us good three years, it was eventually feature complete and used by 120 people on two local installations synchronised back then with Dropbox (hey, I didn’t know any better and it actually worked great over a hurricane m). We have replaced a home-grown COBOL app.
In addition to looking like a terrible President, Trump is also very bad at governing, especially in a crisis. Last time he was President, he inherited a great economy that he was focused on looting (giving himself and other billionaires a massive tax cut and trying to kill the Affordable Care Act to steal even more). He left office with unemployment at 15%, the country $8T further in debt, crime skyrocketing to 30 year highs, cities were literally on fire, and everyone's quality of life was horribly harmed by his terrible management of pandemic.

What was Trump good at?
It's getting to be about time for pitchforks and torches in front of the offices and homes of your elected Senate and House representatives demanding they exercise their constitutional duty of checks and balances against the executive.

At the very least send letters, make phone calls. Let them know if they don't stand up to a dictator they've lost your vote.

Comment on all of the elected Democrats' posts "oh no repulicans just did this!" and let them know that whining isn't leading and they need to shut up and do something.

I'm encouraging every Democrat to register as a Republican, vote for the most centrist candidates in the next primary, and if they win, vote for any Republican that has an independent thought over a Democrat who knows nothing but how to sit around uselessly and complain.

And when the revolution comes, the first people who should get the most blame are those who chose not to use the power they had to do anything about it.
History will hopefully record how quickly they bowed to fascism when it benefited them.
I saw a lot of people justifying Trump's moves because "the US shouldn't be spending so much money helping Ukraine in the war".

I understand that argument, but what about security guarantees? Zelensky has been simply asking for security guarantees so that Putin doesn't start another war in a few years (like he did in 2014 and 2022). Why can't Trump provide that? Why should we just trust Putin's word? Or is there something I'm missing?
I want a million dollars. Very much!

That doesn't mean I'll accept your proposal to rob a bank.
yes soviet union had diplomatic relations with Syria as well as other arab states, but Russia didn't involve in Syrian civil war instigated by the CIA (so called Arab Spring) and completely fumbled by Barry Soetoro
Right, but study power is really the responsibility of a pharma company. It's not like this is some new and novel medication, it's been used for decades and has been questionable for _literally the entirety of the time_.
Don't let Mr /r/iamverysmart duck the question about Donbas by diverting into a conversation about Iraq.
I'm pretty torn to self-host AI 70 B models on Ryzen AI Max with 128gb of ram. The market seems to be evolving fast. Outside of Apple, this is the first product to really compete in this category Self-host AI. So... I think a second generation will be significantly better than what's currently on offer today. Rationale below...

For a max spec processor with ram at $2,000, this seems like a decent deal given today's market. However, this might age very fast for three reasons.

Reason 1: LPDDR6 may debut in the next year or two this could bring massive improvements to memory bandwidth and capacity for soldered on memory.

LPDDR6 vs LPDDR5 - Data bus width - 24 bits, 16 bits Burst length - 24 bits, 15 bits Memory bandwidth - Up to 38.4 GB/s, Up to 6.7 GB/s

- Camm ram may or may not be maintain signal integrity as memory bandwidth increases. Until I see it implemented for a AI use-case in a cost-effective manner, I am skeptical.

Reason 2: - It's a laptop chip with limited PCI lanes and reduced power envelope. Theoretically, a desktop chip could have better performance, more lanes, socketable (Although, I don't think I've seen a socketed CPU with soldered RAM)

Reason 3: In addition, what does hardware look like being repurposed in the future compared to alternatives?

- Unlike desktop or server counterparts which can have a higher cpu core count, PCEe/IO Expansion, this processor with its motherboard is limited on re-purposing later down the line as a server to self-host other software besides AI. I suppose could be turned into a overkill, NAS with ZFS and HBA Single Controller Card in new case.

- Buying into the framework desktop is pretty limited based on the form factor. Next generation might be able to include a 16x slot fully populated, a 10G nic. That seems about it if they're going to maintain the backward compatibility philosophy given the case form factor.
He won by plurality, not majority.
I mean, I think it's worse than that. I grew up in Austin, and still have family there. The fact that a lefty like me is regularly siding with state Republicans against local Democrats on housing policy is legitimately insane.

Austin is basically the only city with dropping housing prices right now and that's happening in large part in spite of city policy, not because of it. Yes, the Republicans are creating tons of new sprawl there, and that's bad, but it's a crisis, not some long term concern we can fiddle with the knobs over. Obviously, the sustainability parts of me don't like sprawl (especially from a Strong Towns perspective), but it's not like the Dems there are upzoning anything more than a token number of corridors.

I've had a perpetual criticism of my fellow Dems since my days of naive urban-enviornmentalism: as long as "the bus is for other people" we won't have good public transit. The same goes for housing. As long as lefties don't actually want to live in a multi-unit European-style townhouses in walkable neighborhoods, we're not going to actually do anything substantial about housing or climate change, but with token projects we can pretend we will... and proceed to keep failing working people.
It "fails" in that I cannot use it to debug my code or print out outputs like the . In general, Terraform's debuggability story is very poor, and the DX tools (like the VS Code plugin) are lacking
Europe needs to deploy troops to Ukraine to secure the current border.

No other way from stoping Putin.
Brian further comments:

We are so getting cut out of intel sharing agreements by our allies over this. I mean, if they have a brain. Anyone with intel training 101 (that isn't Israel) will conclude that the US cannot be a trusted intel sharing partner anymore.

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114083681956432034
To MAGA, he spoke louder, and with more confidence, therefore he won.

Unfortunately this will not shake support of him in his base.
Section 127 is problematic and should be updated for the internet age, but it’s disingenuous to imply that any “indecent, obscene or menacing” tweet will send you to jail.

In particular, the European Convention of Human Rights article 10 guarantees freedom of expression and overrules both of those acts: “This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.”

So really S127 and the MCA cover extreme cases of harassment or abuse. Where it’s a problem is what makes something “grossly” offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing; the interpretation is down to the layers of magistrates and judges overseeing each case.
The USA is such an embarrasing country. Zero dignity left. It's all coming down now.
>Why? Variety for variety’s sake is just inefficiency.

It's more than that. It prevents monopolization of the web by a single company. This isn't like picking a different version of Ms. Dash from the grocery store.
By definition, it is impossible for a single winner contest like the Presidency to be proportionally elected. Proportionality matters for multi-member bodies like legislatures or parliaments. I.e. 20% of the vote nets 20% of the seats. Single winner contests can only represent at best, half or more of the population when working well.

Winner take all (one winner): FPTP, single member district ranked ballots

Proportional (multiple winners): Party lists, MMP, multi-member district ranked ballots (STV)
DevSecRoLLMOps is the key trend your organization is missing out on to securely take advantage of advances in OpsOps!
Uhhh. I believe you have misread the post. The only thing I said was that an invasion was not imminent. And as you yourself are pointing out, they would not be ready for such a thing until 2027.

But I also don't see your point. "Don't believe the CIA, but do believe the Pentagon (according to this article), and also do believe China's propaganda minister". Clearly it's a thing the US Intelligence community disagrees on. But if Xi is saying China needs to be capable of having a massive sealift operation by 2027, arguing over whether it will actually happen or not is not actually relevant.

As a word of caution. Hitler denied plans for an invasion of France, as did the US for Iraq, or Putin for Ukraine - to give a variety of examples. If a dictator says ahead of time that they have a goal, we should not be surprised if they actually go for it.
> The problem with SSRIs [...]

Yah, serotonin is involved in a lot! I don't think that's a problem? You aren't saying it directly, but I feel like you are pointing to SSRI side effects as if they invalidate that SSRIs help depression. That's not true! People can choose if they want therapy or SSRIs or both. If your doctor has been telling you serotonin dis-regulation directly causes depression that's probably wrong - but if they tell you that SSRIs help many depressed people that's right.
For those interested in getting informed, I strongly recommend listening to John Mearsheimer's thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 is a great talk on this).

Once you understand the history behind NATO's expansionism, the unfortunate role Ukraine serves as a buffer zone, and the failures of US foreign policy under Obama, you will see how the crisis in Ukraine started. Then, once you factor in Zelenskyy's "non-negotiables", you will see how this exchange, while unprofessional, is not surprising in the slightest.
I am at the point where I would happily pay an annual subscription on the order of a few hundred dollars per year just to avoid the headaches of today's browsers. Don't add new features, don't change the look of anything, just give me security updates and bug fixes. The only problem with this model is what we saw happen to the streaming services; paying to avoid ads just means your data is worth that much more. Paying for a higher-tier plan is a signal that you have a greater level of disposable income, and are hence more valuable to advertisers.

When this topic has been discussed on Hacker News in the past, it has also been pointed out that developing a browser with feature parity to Firefox or Chrome would be prohibitively expensive.
Put aside the Musk hatred. Maybe the company that has 8k satellites in orbit and can bring internet to anywhere in the world, is a better fit than a cell phone company?
Donald Trump doesn't show stregnth, if anything, he's cosplaying as an effeminate she-male with the lifts, the makeup, and the wig.

Donald Trump is not a strong man. He is a weak baby with no self-control and very little knowledge about anything useful.

He also sucks at golf.
Blueanon is so hot right now.
You didn’t “debunk” anything. You have no understanding of the history of State Department involvement in that region over decades, and are just reflexively assuming Elon is lying.
By the title, I was concerned, thought maybe musk's doge and the likes were leaking data.

But it seems to be about Russia. It's a security researcher posting about politics. He may be out of his element and this would be equivalent to posts from any citizen.

Otoh, another possibility is that his insight from the cybersecurity aspect might reflect on a bigger trend.

I'm going with the former interpretation (out of his element) cyber is only one aspect of the US-Rus relations and a cybersecurity specialist might overweigh it. There's other concerns, including actual proxy wars going on. We don't know what the priorities are.
"Their refusal to do so is now coming back to haunt the world order."

I would think, the US going against the International Court of Justice, threatening allies over land and making deals with a official emperor is doing worse.
Usually this is for one of the following reasons:

(1) negligence on the side of web devs
(2) the site in silly ways relying on shit like google fonts or other trackers, which a privacy consciou user will block
(3) the site relying on being able to plaster your face with ads, which u block (ha!)
(4) stronger fingerprinting countermeasures on FF and again site stupidly relying on that
(5) incapability of web devs to test their stuff properly
(6) junior web devs being very green and not adhering to standards, that will work in any mainstream modern browser

In 99.9% of the cases it comes down to bad engineering or even intentionally ethically highly questionable methods.
Yes, there's a difference, and what Trump is doing is clearly siding with Russia. His "negotiated peace" is neither negotiated nor peace. It's a surrender.

You don't have to support Ukraine indefinitely; only until Russia stops. Your options are to support Ukraine until Russia stops, or to surrender until Russia stops.
One example action is not enough evidence to be able to use "completely". More data required.
The word "moped" is literally a portmanteau of motor and pedal. Its pretty fair to call it out.
mersheimer, who premisses his theory on 'Putin never lies'. Such reality.
Vance didn't believe for a second that Zelensky was grandstanding. He was trying to manipulate his video audience into believing that Vance wasn't grandstanding by accusing Zelensky of misbehaving as he was obviously doing himself.

It's an old propaganda trick that Vance probably learned from the Russians (who used it heavily for 70+ years). But it works only on an easily intimidatable audience that doesn't know any better. Nor care.
It's useful to remember the distinction between an agent and an asset, which isn't under direct control but can be highly profitable to exploit.
I saw a lot of people justifying Trump's moves because "the US shouldn't be spending so much money helping Ukraine in the war."

I understand that argument, but what about security guarantees? Zelensky has been simply asking for security guarantees so that Putin doesn't start another war in a few years (like he did in 2014 and 2022). Why can't Trump provide that? Why should we just trust Putin's word? Or is there something I'm missing here?
Trump is probably in it for himself and also helping himself by representing Russian interests. He's no doubt had a lot of money and support from Russia and probably wouldn't even have become president without them.

I think he's hoping for some deal where he / the US / the minerals corporation control half of Ukraine and Putin controls the other half and Zelensky and Ukrainian democracy just get in the way of that.
I recently signed up for Vyke when I couldn't get Skype to work for international calls. Worked well for me. https://www.vyke.com/
I would argue that it was much bigger at that time. How many days of sailing would it take to cross the ocean? How undeveloped was the entirety of what we now have as the US?

Edit: I'm a fool and read the parent completely incorrectly. Ignore this comment.
Unionize and go on strike. Like nationwide.
every.io is a great solution for this if you haven't tried it yet and it goes beyond some of the scope of what you listed.
I agree with your point about Putin waiting for the WH administration to change. Were the president hawkish on Russia, however, I still doubt Putin would back down.

Putin needs to be seen to win at home to play to his core base. Biden wouldn't let him, Trump will, but to Putin that means:

1. Control of annexed territory.
2. No Ukrainian nukes.
3. No NATO/EU membership for Ukraine.
4. Zelenski removed and puppet/anti-democratic leader installed.

What we're hearing post-meeting is Trump laying the groundwork for point 4 and taking a firm position on 1.
The actual study doesn’t make that claim, the article is presenting it incorrectly. They’re talking about a methylation on certain genes. Think of it as amplification or attenuation and of a signal. The signal is the same, just weaker or stronger.
> placing a large US business interest in Ukraine (as opposed to backdoor dealings) is actually a way of strengthening the US's commitment and investment in Ukraine, right?

If the US is not willing to militarily defend it, it doesn't mean anything. Russia can just take the land, and cut a deal with the US to let them extract there for some time.

A security guarantee or NATO membership would be an effective deterrent to further conflict, but Trump doesn't want it.
Didn't work for Clinton, didn't work for Bush, didn't work for Obama, won't work for Trump.

This is the siren's song of Western Geopolitics. Believing that it will work This Time (tm) is a surefire way to get wrecked.

Russia borders China, unlike the rest of The West. Why would Russia ever sign up to put themselves on the front lines of tensions between the West and China. But people delude themselves into believing that they will, because it would be very convenient.