skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only farce would be the US.
Check out the Auto Tab Discard extension for Firefox. It removes the contents of tabs from memory after a period of time, but keeps the tab icon/title around. Next time you click the tab, it acts like a bookmark and reloads the page it was on. As a tab hoarder, I've found it very helpful to keep CPU/memory usage down.
And then I see people use it like this:

"Format the below JSON document for me"

<50KB of JSON pasted>

AI is already making people dumb, including IT folks.
I would like to know this too.

I have no idea, so this is pure speculation, but as charge cycles for batteries keep increasing I'm guessing they'll become more valuable, especially if they're made from finite resources. Consider a scenario where you never own the battery and have to lease it forever.

The opposite side would be choking off the supply of the rare minerals needed to make batteries with the intent of making it more difficult to switch to renewable energy. You'd need all of them though and I just don't see them improving their position in Canada.

Or it could be as simple as "gold is shiny" and Trump wants them because he's heard they're valuable.
Look at the comments on FoxNews, it was America's finest hour.
Have you seen the summer AI school advertisement at the bottom of the home page?

It mentions that Elon will be there. The conflict of interest is pretty clear. Not to mention the recent post about YC boss-ware that du-humanizes laborers. Capitalists/industrialists are generally pro-nazi at an ideology level.
@dang perhaps you could pin https://u24.gov.ua/ to the top of the comments?

Either way, I've donated 50 bucks; seems like a great way to show support on a difficult day for Ukraine.
Matches reports that Reuters and AP were excluded from the meeting, while a TASS reporter was “accidentally” present in the Oval Office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy
There's actually far more research into what happens after starting an SSRI than you're implying. We know, for example, that certain downstream adaptations takes weeks to fully appear. We also know that the initial increase in serotonin concentrations is limited by 5-HT1A negative feedback, but 5-HT1A downregulates over time and allows the synaptic concentrations to increase again.

> the very fact that scientists can't explain how all this works made me want to stop my treatment and just do more weightlifting and running

Weightlifting and running are complimentary, not substitutive. Most people can't simply replace a powerful medication with more running and weightlifting.

You might also be surprised at how many modern medications operate on partial theories. There's not actually anything wrong with that. There are a lot of medications that hypothetically should work based on scientific understanding of the brain but don't seem to show efficacy in studies.

It's more important that we validate the safety profile and efficacy in real-world testing.
It's best to read HN in reverse order to get true diversity of thought.

Also recommend custom stylesheet to unhide the grey-text posts.
Ah, I recommend LibreWolf - A hardened fork of Firefox, stripped of telemetry, with privacy settings locked down by default.
I’m beginning to suspect this invisible hand isn’t as clever as it was made out to be.
And what will happen? Will the GOP do anything? Will the rest of NATO deal a devastating enough blow to Russia that it is forced to retreat? Will Russia not retaliate with a limited nuclear escalation?

Don’t forget that the whole “Iron Dome” thing Trump has been talking about, if viable, would necessarily prompt immediate attacks before it becomes operational.
You're right that it's theater, in the sense that the deal is already struck. But Zelensky's anger is real, because Trump's deal is---and always has been, since before the Russian invasion---the surrender of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin. Zelensky understands that he's going to be forced out of office and a Russian puppet will be installed in his place. He is understandably frustrated and angry, and is at least looking for ways to cost Trump as much as he can on the way out the door.

If you doubt any of this, then as you say, watch and learn.
I created an MVP for an AI SVG maker in a week! Check it out!
Alas the person who got the AG slot after Gaetz dropped is just as willing to be a corrupt official personally loyal to Trump. Just without Gaetz' baggage.
They still do, and the fact that most of you don't see that this farce was scripted just proves that
> The deal is already made. After this show, they sign it...

You mean the deal Zelenskyy didn't sign prior to leaving? That one?

It's an awfully poor look trying to come off so confidently snarky when you don't even have your facts straight.

Edit:

>(somebody says something unique, from a different perspective in the middle of a circle jerk, and all the tossers lose their shit)

"Unique"? There are multiple responses highlighting that your facts are wrong. You're choosing to ignore those points and instead gripe about having a "unique" take?
Every day I feel more ashamed of my country. Especially because nothing that's happened since Trump returned to office is a surprise (including this): apparently the median US voter wanted this.

Horrible. I feel so badly for the Ukrainian people.
In the short term, certainly. In the longer term? I'm pretty glad not to have been born into an occupied British puppet state. If not for a man with the obstinacy of Zelenskyy, I might have been.

It was always ironic that Trump kept a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office but after today, it's almost obscene.
fsckboy, when answering mrtesthah’s question please remember that the best interests of Donald Trump do not align with the best interests of the United States.
Wow this is just so sad and shameful. Zelensky obviously understands the position he and his country are in and even with all that disrespect from the US leadership he’s obviously trying so hard to maintain composure and do what’s best :(
Mozilla needs to pay their developers. Donations alone don't cover the wages. The way money is divided is rather suboptimal at the moment in my opinion, but most of that money comes from Google, which may be ruled illegal in the coming months if the antitrust case against Google pans out well, leaving a hole where 86% of Mozilla's funding used to be. They _need_ to make money.

Developing browsers is very expensive. Currently, the only people doing that are Google+Microsoft (Blink), the megacorps in it for the ad money, Apple, in it for their own independence, and Mozilla, trying to be a third party. Forks are made constantly by individuals or small teams, and are often lagging behind in quality, maintenance, and security; Palemoon simply cannot keep up with Firefox, KHTML is effectively broken, and even the maintained Gnome fork of WebKit has tons of issues that make it hard to use it as a daily driver.

Everyone wants a super duper privacy friendly browser that only does browser things and preferably only works on their personal requirements, but nobody wants to actually spend time and money to develop one. I hope Ladybird turns out well, or maybe Servo will get revived into a functional browser, but how those browsers will be developed and distributed is entirely up to those browser vendors.

You can use whatever browser you like, but unless you're paying a significant sum for it or are part of the dev team, you'll have to succumb to the terms under which the browser is made available. I'd rather have parties like Mozilla funded by donations or independent government funds than by big tech, but nobody is willing to spend the millions necessary to catch up to Chrome just yet.
I don't know if it's 6D chess but it probably was more of a chaos monkey/bury the lead strategy that doesn't take much brain power (i.e. flood the zone).

My hot take is Matt Gaetz, the Greenland purchase and the Canada as the 51st state were all distraction techniques to get the other nominees through.
American journalists are already getting silenced when talking up about the government. What EU county are you even talking about? Nowhere is it this bad in Europe.
Saw it live, and was legit feeling a panic like, this is the end.

Timely. Netflix has series "Turning Point: the Bomb and the Cold War" that is a good watch while the world burns.
Yes, please show me more political drama, especially of the US-based comedy show you guys call "politics." Can't get enough of it. Only 60% of my HN feed has "Trump", "DOGE" or "Musk" in the title, that's not nearly enough for my taste, I'm gagging to see more of it. There must be some conspiracy going on, I'm sure of it.
It should be crystal clear now who the leader of the free world really is.
Admirable effort :)

But in its current state I don't think it actually replaces any of CodeQL's use cases. The most straight forward way to do what CodeQL does today, would to be implement a flow analysis IR (say CFG+CallGraph) on top of tree-sitter.

Even the QL grammar itself can be in tree-sitter.
That’ll be water for the Russian propaganda. America, what have you chosen. It’s clear you have a Russian insurgent in the White House.

They have already started dismantling the government. Next they’ll shake up the military. Every totalitarian regime shakes up the military.
> It no longer represents American interests, but Russian interests

And Israeli interests

And that’s across pretty much all branches of governments and administrations, for quite some time now

American people’s needs be damned
> I do not feel this has held me back professionally. I have been loved by management and peers in all of these jobs.

If only your experience was universal in that regard! I once had that role in an early-career job -- but I was looked down upon by peers and management because I was doing mostly maintenance work. The "good" developers, in their minds, were the ones shipping the most new features -- the irony being that those features would then blow up out in the field, at which time they landed on my desk to turn them into production-worthy code.
I want to thank @dang for that.

It would be wonderful if we lived in time where we could put on blinders to what is happening around us. The times are getting a little too "interesting" though.
It makes more sense when you interpret it as an attempt at humiliation, not diplomacy.
Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
A lot of promise about Ukraine "knockout blows" that turn out like woeful summer offensive or the dalliance in Kursk.
Current (by some of course) long-term analysis is that Ukraine is better commited to a long-term strategy of fiercely defending its rights, and it can grind Russia long term.

If you like Game Theory, is more as if Ukraine is much more prone to Total War than Russia possible will. Russia is spending their own GDP maintaining the war, Ukraining is "spending" its infrastructure but has foreign money being poured in.

That's why USA withdraw by Trump is so important to Russian interests.
thanks, I once again donated a bit even though cannot much.

I just feel for the guy, and for the country, too. What a friggin mess we've left them
Because the responses I crafted myself to someone who uses a thought experiment starting with "it should be no problem to teach about Christianity in a school context, in terms of informing pupils that this is what many people believe." were less courteous than I wanted my posted response to be. Teaching anything about religion in public schools should be considered complicated, in my opinion. You are never just "informing pupils" in a public school setting and, as an example, if you botch your lesson on 9/11 you might get a muslim kid bullied or beat up. "But I simply informed the students that all of the terrorists who attacked the WTC were muslim! it is the truth after all!"

Furthermore, I had the gut reaction that your portrayal of how gender identity is taught in public schools is likely bad, but I did't have the time to run that stuff down. So as a consolation prize I offer one of GPT 4.5's takes on your response; Specifically I asked it to identify the hypocrisy in your response. I should probably have a more nuanced prompt in this case, and I would also encourage you to have a more nuanced view of teaching religion in public school.
I have long loved https://hckrnews.com for the chronological timeline, but the trail of [dead] across the timeline has been jaw dropping & horrifying to see & so so visible here.

A top tier concern of our age is disinformation & propoganda. The lies are absurd & out of control. But denial of information is also a huge issue, and the ability of a couple few to suppress & deny here is remarkable.

I'm so glad there's this timeline based site, showing what's really happening & the many many things denied.
Or whatever interests have compromised or bribed the administration
> This is nonsense

What is "this"?

> obviously the problem with getting "data under the table" is that they may have used it to training their models

I've been avoiding mentioning the maximalist version of the argument (they got data under the table AND used it to train models), because training wasn't stated until now, and it would have been unfair to bring it up without mention. That is that's 2 baileys out from "they had access to a shared directory that had some test qs in it, and this was reported publicly, and fixed publicly"

There's been a fairly severe communication breakdown here, I don't want to distract from ex. what the nonense is, so I won't belabor that point, but I don't want you to think I don't want to engage on it - just won't in this singular posts.

> but the only reassurance being some "verbal agreement", as is reported, is not very reassuring

It's about as reassuring as it gets without them releasing the entire training data, which is, at best, with charity marginally, oh so marginally reassuring I assume? If the premise is we can't trust anything self-reported, they could lie there too?

> People are free to adjust their P(model_capabilities|frontiermath_results) based on their own priors.

Certainly, that's not in dispute (perhaps the idea that you are forbidden from adjusting your opinion is the nonsense you're referring to? I certainly can't control that :) Nor would I want to!)
> I'm a troubleshooter. I fix problems. I keep my head straight in a crisis. ... People call me when they can't figure something out. ... Even if I'm not an expert in the broken thing, they call me in. They call me because the experts are often floundering ...

This describes a sizable portion of my career. It's lucrative, it's gratifying, and it's fun. It's as close as I'm going to get to being a "kick-ass mercenary".

Seeing new environments, new applications, and new problems never gets old. The stories that come from the work are priceless, too.

> I wish troubleshooting skills were as common as typing and document formatting skills.

When I conduct interviews this is the main skill I screen for. I think it can be taught, but somebody who already has it and is missing some particular technical experience is vastly more valuable.
That's exactly a "think of the children" argument. CSAM moderation was always fairly strict on the big sites -- they knew it was both an existential threat and the route through which puritans such as "duped" here (nice name) would try to attack -- but they really tightened up with the ban on third party content. Now they have a chain of responsibility for every video. So, "duped," if you actually have an example of the problem you claim is rampant, why aren't you acting on it? Why aren't you lighting the fuse on that chain of responsibility? Do you want to promote the abuse of children? Or do you admit to making it up so that you could use it as a pretext for your agenda?

Also: yes, building a government blackmail database is draconian.
Ukraine’s situation is worse than many people realize. Ukraine is losing the war right now with roughly equal support in monetary terms from both US and EU! They have huge manpower problems because of losses and apparent political inability to mobilize enough men. Even if EU suddenly doubled its aid to compensate (which I think is _very_ unlikely), there are gaps in weapons production in Europe, e.g. for SAMs.
Zelensky used to be a stand-up comedian. He has plenty of experience thinking on his feet in front of a tough audience of drunks and fools.

I'm wondering what all the people in the US military and government who swore to protect the US from "all enemies, foreign and domestic" are thinking now.
I mean, if Starship works well, it could theoretically retrieve the ISS in a piecemeal fashion.
That is the real disgrace. This was a setup from day 1. A win-win to degrade Russia either way at Ukraine's expense.

I wish Zelensky made those points instead. "The US voted to open a NATO path for us, The US asked not to renew the base, and the US refused to negotiate with Russia when tanks were on our boarder. And now you want to walk away?"
You keep saying peace, but if Ukraine stops fighting without security guarantees from countries like the US they get murdered, raped and their children abducted by Russia. How do we know? The war started in 2014, not 2022.

That's the truth that Trump won't acknowledge and common us opinions don't have the understanding of. It's inconvenient and annoying. The only person who can stop this war and bring peace is Putin. Trump could try forcing him, but it's easier just to sacrifice the entire country of Ukraine?!
Read the original source, it's just another malicious script that the user needs to run manually. Oh, it doesn't make use of any OS/kernel vulnerabilities either.

It's like putting "rm -rf /" in a script and calling it "malware".
The body languages of Zelensky and Trump are fascinating to look at. You can clearly see that Zelensky is not playing. Also Marco Rubio, drowning more and more on his chair.
And this explains why Flash is dead? WebAssembly lives on. Embrace him.

WebGPU will make you happier.
I disagree with you, but you are making a falsifiable prediction. Lets check in two weeks. If it turns out your claim was incorrect, do you plan to update the world that lead to this conclusion?
Does librewolf maintain their own browser engine? I thought it was just a repackaged Firefox fork?

As for your Firefox account, you could consider hosting your own sync server. The documentation for it is of varying quality, but you can keep your data off Mozilla's servers without sacrificing some pretty useful functionality.
Wow I was not aware of that.

It's understandable that some personal biases may creep in to the moderation processes, and I believe that this is a much preferable situation than allowing it to devolve into an unmoderated forum.

I assume that Elon the Nazi is too inflammatory for an HN discussion subject, where the emphasis should be on polite discussion of nerdy subjects, as per the guidelines.

As an aside: I posted a link about accelerationism (a worthy HN topic methinks) but it had the word 'capitalism' in the title and got flagged - it is a well produced and thought provoking video by the way [1], and not partisan-political at all.

[1] https://youtu.be/wlrjdCVAuG0?feature=shared
Wonder how long until donating to UKR gets you put on some sort of government list.
Good bye Terraform :joy:
I’m using it too for now, but considering stopping. afaik the tool is not open source (even if it is, still happy to pay for the app), and to me feels a bit too magical and makes me uneasy. I have no idea what it’s downloading, what lists it’s fetching, what kind of content it’s blocking, what it’s blocking on a specific site, whether some site is broken because of it, or even if it’s working at all. I do like how in ublock (or brave), it shows some info like number of things blocked on current site. And then in ublock you can go arbitrarily deep into logs / custom blocking etc.
Handy rule of thumb: Nobody plays 4d chess. Especially with Trump, what you see is what you get. He does not have a complex ulterior motive. He is capitulating to Russia because he thinks it will be better for himself personally.
The vast majority of them volunteered. And that's just conscription -- every country would do the same in such a situation. The US pursued and prosecuted thousands of cases of draft dodging in WW2, forcing most of them to go and fight.
Review/look at anything that has an abstraction / implimentation aspect (aka protocols / specifications / design implimentations / public "source material") .

Examine how things are stratified (deterministic vs. context sensitive 'deterministic group(s)' -- and what influences determinism/context sensitivity). aka iso/osi network communications model[4].

Keep in mind K.I.S.S. / occam's rasor philosophies!

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a) pick just a single logical plane/level to look at within a design stack.
aka -> database & sql; database & hard drive storage; hard drive storage layout (OS vs. drive physical layout & drive storage/reterival (scsi vs. non-scsi api)

a) Any foundations of math class.

b) Simple physics problems with single logical type that be described by math eqation(s). aka no multivariate analysis.

c) "LISP: A Lanaguage For Stratified Design"(1987)[0] by H. Abelson and G. Sussman.
(vs. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

d) A "Git" softare repository (where should be separation between OS, main mechanics of program, libraries, "implimentation details", etc)

e) Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by P van der Linden

d) Look at comparisons between types of mechanical engineering geers and associated logical groupings & how that'd correspond to electrical engineering boolean logic / pc 'units' aka add-in boards; processor types, gpu,cpu, etc
aka rotational to linear motion / find that info on the hard drive disk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-1PQGlrmY

e) picture to excel[1] :

f) design / implimentation of <insert relevant programming language / kernel / system> [2][3]

From Civil Engineering aspect, pouring concrete, logistical decomposition done by determinisic tasks with respect to external/intermal time effects on 'density changes'. aka getting everyting (including mixed concrete) on site before concrete goes from indeterminate/non-finite form to deterministic/final form. (where different material densities of concret make for a more complete manuver than just a move from pt a to point b logisics). aka acutely aware of gravity of situation.

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[0] : http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6064/AIM-986.p...

[1] : picture to excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I

[2] : smalltalk : http://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/512760.512762

[3] : unix file system : http://www.r-5.org/files/books/computers/internals/ifs/Steve...

[4] : network models : https://medium.com/@gwenilorac/understanding-network-models-...
Full video of the entire meeting https://youtu.be/um19Mf4dYes
Search images like text using Vision Language Models
I'm quite curious how the current NGO inquiries in Germany are going to pan out. It's no secret that we need a DOGE initiative as well - and that very urgently.
any specific reason you are posting that?
What can he really do in that situation? He can defend Zelensky or join in for a triple teaming. There aren't good options.
https://archive.vn/velej
I'm happy to hear that you agree that we must fearlessly follow the science no matter where it leads us.

Unfortunately in this case, this news item deals with epigenetics that affects gene expression, not changes in actual genes. The same thing would happen to humans of every race and ethnicity, given the same conditions.

It might be uncomfortable to confront things you'd rather take for granted, but as long as you're willing to accept the truth when facts don't align with your feelings then have no worries. You're on the right path.
> World needs to help out Ukraine because if Ukraine falls it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty.

This is, unfortunately, already the case. No country will ever fully trust such treaties again, and we are closer than ever to a new era of nuclear proliferation.