skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, Ukraine should be supported as long as they are willing and able to fight, allowing whatever strategies and tactics they consider necessary.

That's because I believe there is a moral and (geo-)political duty to support Ukraine, also in order to make future territorial wars less likely, and Ukraine is a sovereign country with democratically elected leaders and parliament.
> Note the date on that video.

Seems to be 2 years after Russia first attacked in 2014. Why does that matter?
I think defending Zelensky would have been the honorable thing to do. It could have inspired other Republicans to start turning.
>What "sale of data" falls under a legal definition but would be understood by everyone to not be selling data? An example?

I assume probably data that's anonymized (in some sense) and/or aggregated (in some sense). But there's so much grey area there that it's a lot less reassuring than a straight up blanket statement that they used to be able to make.
> Unfortunately this will not shake support of him in his base.

That will probably come when they lose Medicaid and food stamp benefits.
You've see the weird Trump Zionist video, right?
It's gone. It's been going for a while, but now it's gone. I say that as an American. Take heed lest it happen where you live as well.
How much productive writing is too much productive writing?

As a teenager I got wound up in the narrative of productivity, note taking, and all that. Since then, I've had to unlearn that writing (well, note-taking) just for the sake of organizing some information nobody will go back to is not the best use for my time. I've discovered that having the best notes doesn't magically make me better prepared to get something done at work. The best way to create something new is to JustDoIt tm (and fail, and do it again, ..). To me, it's important to trust your brain to do the magic. Your job is to help it do it's magic. Paper doesn't think. It may help YOU think, but IT doesn't think.

However, I'm in my 20s, and I do keep a journal and I write frequently. But I've shifted my writing from productivity to emotions. I've found that expressing my own emotions and non-productive thinking on paper helps me understand myself.
The US had no interests in Ukraine, it had no interest in Iraq, it had no interest in Kuwait, it had no interest in Vietnam, etc.

Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union since 1917. Was it hurting America to not have Ukraine as an “ally” that whole time? Clearly not!
I find it interesting how the Russian news agency TASS quotes the presidential aide of Russia:

"The election campaign is over," Patrushev noted. "To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them."

https://tass.com/politics/1870713/amp
Probably yes, but he premise is wrong. You know P being a villain and all that.
You're more embarrassed by Trump tactlessly trying to end the war in Ukraine than you are about anything in living memory? Is this a serious comment?
Big tech engaging in censorship is unconstitutional? I don't understand America.
100% exact analogy.

In any case, it's not possible to post-facto have some sort of isolation here. Any withdrawal of American power is just its replacement by some other. Which America in turn will be enraged by, and the next round of the cycle will be explicit imposition of American power in some fashion by military means.

Because that's the only thing that will keep $$ flowing.

Why do right wing American isolationists somehow imagine they're running some sort of charity for the world that somehow Europe and others are "ungrateful" for? American military intervention exists for nakedly avaricious reasons. It is for maintaining the supremacy of American capitalism, and enriching American businessmen and to some degree some of the American people.
I hadn't heard about anyone becoming officially an emperor recently. Who are you referring to?
Ukraine cannot win without manpower from either the EU or the US. That's the reality on the ground. No amount of equipment/weapons (conventional) is going to change that.
Wouldn’t surprise me if this OP gets flagged or has all anti-trump comments downvoted to oblivion by bots lol
Forget the theatrics for a moment, and look at this map. These are the facts that will not soon be forgotten.

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ixbbr9/countries_t...
Goodbye to Americas standing in the world.

We don't have to suck up to the US any more
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"The fact that I'm sitting here talking to you and not flipping burgers is pretty much proof of that."
You assume that Putin wants a cease fire or peace. But he doesn't.

Zelenskies aim is for his country not to be conquered. There are no open demands from Russia to satisfy.
That is the parent's meaning.
>And that will cost Russia a great deal.

How much is Russia spending on the war compared to Ukraine?
Pretty sure Russia invaded Georgia before that in preparation for invading Ukraine
Essentially yes, and the article makes pretty clear that the changes last for generations.

It's in the title and it's clear throughout the text of the article.

So that's a totally moot point.
Seems to me like you're the one tilting at windmills unprovoked. Capitalism doesn't decide what gets made, it decides how profits are distributed. Believe it or not, things were invented and produced prior to the capitalist era.
You're greying-out because you used the M word. I learned a long time ago to present the concepts, not the name, while on this forum.
I have said this many times. I feel, as an American, many people are tired. WE have no insight into the vast sums of money that are being spent by the DOD and where it is going. I see debt climbing and I have to ask myself, do I want my country to spend money on other countries or maybe focus on cleaning up our own house first? I would rather America focus on putting its own house in order, wasted spending, corruption, cartels, China buying up land, and the erosion of our education system.

Many of us no longer feel the juice is worth the squeeze in supporting Europe. We have done enough over the last 100 years. Yes we have benefit some from their troubles, which they caused, but that doesn't mean we have to continue to support them.
Isn't Trump now trying to make Ukraine give up natural resources now? That doesn't quite meet my definition of "donation".
WebKit has this: https://webkit.org/team/

https://www.igalia.com seems to the other major contributor. Sony is in there a little too.

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations... too but that's 12 years out of date.

I would love to see a WebKit browser for Windows that's released, but https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html does exist too.

As for the Mastodon link, I'd ask https://front-end.social/@jensimmons
As plausible as the pee tape?
Might as well get it over with at that point. If Putin does decide to strike first, yeah, Washington or NYC gets hit. OK. We'll live. Russia will be flattened by the entire world's nukes at that point, and the likes of China will be inclined to join in on the fun and take a whole bunch of Russian land.
EU+UK aren't conscripting at this time and also have much better training and equipment than Russia, so the comparison isn't apples to apples, I was just saying that we do in fact have "warfighters".
How did you determine that the side and negative social effects aren't large enough to outweigh that difference?
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I took a look at the mutual funds in my IRA last night. Most of the market index ones hold a lot of TSLA - it seemed to be in the top 5 holdings of several of the ones I have (had). I put in sell orders last night. Not just because TSLA, but because of all the chaos this administration is causing re tariffs and everything else. I'll hide out in treasury money market fund for a while.
I know about Wirecard and the Marsalek story, but not about this:

> Wirecard [...] Funding people smuggling into Europe

Can you elaborate?
With Trump's fragile ego, there's a chance he will designate all humanitarian charitable organizations, and military-aid organizations, to whom USA citizens might want to donate, that have any ties to or otherwise benefit Ukraine, as terrorist organizations. I will be evaluating these ... if you have plans to assist, it may be better to do so sooner rather than later.
Circumstances did not change? I am not too familiar with those treaties but I assume you are referring to the treaties in the context of Ukraine surrendering Soviet nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War, correct? At that time the Soviets almost certainly did not consider the possibility of their neighbor becoming a NATO member and potentially ending up with US troops and weapons at their border. Circumstances most certainly changed since then.
Here's more reporting on this if you don't like Mr. Krebs:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia...
You said it:

> the fault of the USA was that they did not accept Russia's demand - or at least tried to find an acceptable compromise - for Ukraine not to join NATO which caused this tragedy

The US basically accepted that demand, and Russia still attacked Ukraine. They wanted the land no matter what.
There isn’t a single other human study showing methylation persisting on the same genes across 3 generations. It’s only been demonstrated in mice once prior and with some controversy.
Haha, every politician is learning that they win by manipulating the press and algorithms these days. Is there an option C for both?
The second amendment was put in place very explicitly as the final check against a despotic overthrow of the Constitution. Realize we're at the very brink and prepare yourself for a revolution. And stop fooling yourself into thinking things can't be that bad.
It does seem there's been plenty of actual arms, vehicles etc in military aid from European countries to Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

And the share of NATO members meeting a 2% of GDP target is now a majority, after recent marked increases.
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pd...
Supporting peace via the 2025 version of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact? It is very important for future world peace that Russia not be successful in this war.
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I'm sure it already does put you on a list. That's just the way any government works. That information is valuable.
We can afford it, but it is very difficult to do politically. The rise of far-right parties has everyone spooked, and in ageing societies pensioners cost more and more money, while holding most of the wealth, and constituting the majority of the voting power. Working people feel increasingly disenfrenchised, and it is only going to get worse. At the same time we are judging climate change to still be a larger problem (or we are at least investing a lot more money into it), and there's this horrific fetish for fiscal conservatism in law and in practice.
When you use an active placebo like atropine, something that makes you feel "different" like SSRIs do, it is even worse.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7037102/

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy...

>Many years ago, adequately
blinded trials of tricyclic antidepressants were done,
in which the placebo contained atropine, which
causes dryness in the mouth like the active drugs do.
These trials reported very small, clinically insignificant
effects of tricyclic antidepressants compared with
placebo (standardised mean difference 0·17, 95% CI
0·00–0·34).
> On the minerals front, the US doesn't need anything from Ukraine.

Need's got nothing to do with it. Bullies don't take what you have because they need it, they take it because that's what you have, and they want to take it away from you, just to be taking it away from you.

For Trump, it is not enough that (as he perceives the situation) he wins, rather than (as he perceives) everyone else loses. Even people's whose backs are up against the wall. Especially people whose backs are up against the wall. If you don't exploit the weakest player at the table, why are you even playing?

(Not that Trump knows anything about gambling... who the fuck loses money running a casino... on multiple separate occasions...)

Trump isn't making deals based on carefully considered advantages and concessions. He's just grasping his tiny hands at whatever comes in reach, whether or not he needs it, like the half-wit schoolyard thug he is.
Under half of voters selected him - roughly a quarter of the population - and many of them claim to have done so on the basis of the policy positions he made during the campaign which have been reversed (Canada, Gaza, Ukraine, Project 2025, etc.).
Lol. What is your channel name?
Shall they give their children to Putin instead?
So just borders?

In the end, it’s the people who fight that determine if the thing they are fighting for is worth their lives.
Dying for some lines on the map sounds bad, but if it were only lines on the map, then the people probably wouldn't choose to die for them, would they?

Nobody wants to die, but if someone is ready to give up their life for some cause, then who are you to tell them they can't?

It's the fate of Ukrainians that is at stake and its the Ukrainians that determine if changing that fate is worth the costs of their lives.
Oh, you mean their children would be so much happier under Russia's rule once it invades more European countries? Those people may argue with that.
Deeply embarrassing and disturbing. What a sad spectacle to see the President and Vice President of the United States so beholden to a foreign dictator that they would debase themselves in this way. Unpresidential doesn’t even begin to describe it.

My heart breaks for Ukraine. The outcome of the November 5, 2024, election will prove to be a tragic mistake.
Gopnik is a great writer, and this is a very good take. She has a great sense of how to bring psychology to tech. Also fun fact: She's married to Alvy Ray Smith for all the computer graphics/pixar fans out there. I'd love to here them debate tech takes!
The ascent of Europe is the sort of outcome I might hope for — speaking as an American who believes in American values that my country no longer represents.
The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged. Depending on the country, bad decisions have been taken either due to incompetence, bribery, political pressure, and psyops.

Psyops doesn’t just work to incite… an equally powerful goal is to normalise. Like normalise how a country that has unlimited sun and wind elected to use oil and gas from Russia.

A different nuclear energy policy would have changed Europe’s fate. It will do so again…
fwiw, Google kills a small part of me every time their captcha asks me to identify the motorcycle but shows me scooters and/or mopeds.
Serotonin syndrome is a low risk, I believe. If it is as common as they make it out to be, I should have had it a million times, unless I am somehow the exception.
From the ashes of the fall of Pax Americana will rise Pax Europa.
It's clearly not unwinnable. Russia is doing serious structural damage to its economy and can't get enough Russians to fight, so they're pulling North Koreans in (who think they're going to fight South Korea). At worst (for Ukraine), Russia is piling up dead bodies at a 2:1 ratio, and in the process Ukraine is now the world's leading drone combatant. And all the whining that Trump has done about Europe not pulling its weight, is going to be answered with Europe now understanding that US aid is over and they're all publicly pledging to step in.

And the US has more than enough money to build high speed rail and continue or double its support for Ukraine. Available money isn't the problem.

The US has cleared out vast reserves of older armaments that they no longer have to pay to warehouse or retire safely. Besides most of that aid money going into American pockets, the inventory has been cycled for America's benefit.

If the US had chosen to be a steadfast ally and actually help Ukraine win, it could have reaped the same rewards it received after WW2 once Ukraine won: rebuild it as a bastion of capitalism and democracy and let the rising tide lift all boats, especially the leader's. Instead, you're walking away, destroying NATO and transatlantic co-operation in the process. And by doing so, you're making Europe independent of the US, when dependency on the US was the cornerstone of 80 years of peace in Europe as well as a strong world economy. Congratulations on kissing goodbye the very thing that's made America so wealthy and strong for the last 80 years.
What can europe fund the war with? Even if they can come up with the gold, who are they going to buy the weapons from?
My favorite bosses jumped in on a fairly regular basis and worked alongside their teams, and knew their business well enough to actually be useful and helpful in that regard. They also treated their employees like actual fellow human beings, and when they profited, so did their employees, so it was kinda all-around win-win scenarios for everyone involved. Sadly, those bosses were a bit of a rarity. :(
For a 40 hour a week salary, of course.
Supplying weapons to whom? It was bona fide weapons purchases program from one state to another, like all other states procure their weapons.

Syrian war was civil war financed by the NED, USAID and other US entities to topple Assad, like they did in other arab spring states.

It took several years of civil war and unsuccessful bombing of civilians by Barry Soetoro, unsuccessful funding of various jihadi groups by the Pentagon and CIA (separately), the same groups that led to the rise of ISIS. Only then by the request from then president Assad, did Russia help with strikes against ISIS
Good point! Using Git’s conditional includes is a solid approach if your repos follow a strict directory structure. But gguser is designed to be more flexible and user-friendly, especially for developers who:

- Work on multiple Git accounts across scattered directories

- Want a simple CLI-based profile switcher

- Prefer explicit control over which profile is used

- Don’t want to manually edit .gitconfig

- Need SSH key support per profile

With gguser, you can quickly switch profiles interactively, auto-switch based on any directory, and override profiles on the fly—without relying on folder-based rules.

If the .gitconfig method works for you, that’s great! :) But for devs who don’t want to tweak configs or need a more dynamic approach, gguser makes managing multiple Git identities effortless.
Interestingly, it looks like the “BEAD program” - a rural broadband initiative was allocated more funding ($42b) than SpaceX and Tesla combined ($37b).
That last number includes loans, too.

I chose that example in particular because Starlink has done more for rural broadband access than everything else the federal government has done combined.
That is very true... unfortunately, the level of analysis performed in the article wouldn't distinguish that.
Granted, I don't know that there's not something to the idea of some kind of special benefit or effect that only handwriting has. It does feel meaningful and important in some way. But I more strongly suspect that it's a matter of fluency. If someone types fluently enough that the act itself takes no conscious effort or deliberate attention, then maybe they can engage and form associations comparably well as if they were handwriting. Most people, I think, don't -- that is, even if their typing speed is more than adequate for whatever work they do, I'm guessing it remains a bottleneck in this sense. Handwriting is slower, typically, but I don't mean a speed bottleneck, even though speed is part of the point. I mean something more along the lines of whether the conceptual task at hand enjoys dedicated resources, or has to share mental bandwidth, attentional control, working memory, flow, etc. with the mechanical task. I get the same frustration as you, of course: I don't handwrite painstakingly, but I do it slower than I type for sure. Both are low-effort, but handwriting loses out in terms of speed. If my handwriting and typing speeds were the same, but typing were a higher-effort activity for me, it's then that I suspect handwriting would have the advantage. Then, how much faster can the typing get, while remaining high-effort relative to handwriting, before the speed advantage overcomes the cognitive load advantage?
Their Peace is Ukraine laying back and taking it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1aywc5a/europe...
The problem with being barely measurably better than a placebo is that each study is a coin flip whether it supports your drug or not. And you can just file drawer any study that didn't go your way (as happens with the majority of null results).

So the published results are over-sampling studies where the statistics happened to work and under-sampling studies where they didn't.
> Notably, developing a free web browser is not one of the charitable activities that the IRS recognizes.

I find your argument uninsightful. If I were on a jury, I would find developing a free web browser to be charitable under multiple statements:

- preventing cruelty to children

Childrens' browsing habits should not should not be available for sale.

- relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged

A free browser will help the poor, and the distressed, and the underprivileged. There are poor people who are poor because they are data-mined by advertisers. There are people who are distressed about their privacy. There are underprivileged people whose livelihoods are abused by corporations.

- advancement of education or science

A free browser is both educational (handy for learning how to write software or build websites) and scientific (generating studies and reports on internet capabilities and safety).

> defending human and civil rights secured by law

Do you really want to argue that a free browser does not defend freedom and privacy in the US (since you cite US definition of charity) as heavily implied by the US Bill of Rights and as supported by US Courts [0]?

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/privacy
Just saw on the other thread that you're using AI for asset production, maybe code as well though you didn't mention that. I know it takes longer, but I'd highly recommend, even say it's essential, to learn how to do this yourself rather than relying on AI. Just like with programming, knowing how to do something isn't just about knowing how to produce the end result, in fact more so in teaches you what the end result should be.

All that's assuming that AI is up to your job in the first place, which I'd argue it is not.
And it all amounts to a bag of beans. If it's so impressive they can support Ukraine and render irrelevant any contribution that the US might make? One wonders why Zelensky is in the US pleading for US help?
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Why do they empower a war lord such as Putin? In what universe should the US care about if they offend Russia? Will they put Iran over Israel next?
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I wouldn't really view "avoiding foreign entanglements" as meaning "let's insult our guest unless they slobber at my feet like a groveling and servile mendicant."

That said, I think Washington's advice should be considered as defined by a pre-globalization economy, and travel times substantially greater by orders of magnitude when compared to ICBMs. Imperfect analogy, but in some ways Europe was further away from the US then than the Moon is today.
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So anecdotes from biased sources?