skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Controlled hospital quality? I figure the best credentialed doctors go to the best hospitals, where patients receive a lot of other care aside from the MD.
> NATO must always act as a cohesive unit

In order to do that they need to have a defined leader, not twenty some people each one pursuing their own interests

Who would that leader be? Certainly you don’t want Trump because in that case things would hardly be any different
I think the heart of the matter that I haven’t seen discussed yet is: Who’s going to pay for it? The current administration is cutting expenses across the board. There’s a lot of talk about the deficit and defense spending. I don’t see much appetite in the US to keep sending blank checks to Ukraine. Hence, the minerals deal: this was to recoup costs.

Of course, it would be great if defending democracy was free. However, with politicians already talking about cutting Medicaid spending, it was only a matter of time until defense spending came under scrutiny
No, that was not the point the post made. The point was to slag Marcus with an unsubstantiated insinuation that he's not a scientist. Revise all you like, it's bullshit.
That was a shameful display and a stain on our republic. Is it possible our nation is bankrupt (and we haven't been told) and these theatrics and all this talk about deals is in fact about settling debts?

One thing that is certain that such reckless behavior by the US executive will increase geopolitical instability. Nuclear proliferation is very much in the cards. And you can be certain the event was viewed with horror in Asian capitals where the notion of 'face' is a matter of cultural sensitivity. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan decides to go nuclear post-haste.
Under what theory of psychology are you operating? This is along the same lines as the theory that punishment is an effective deterrent of crime, which we know isn’t true from experience.
Google is your friend:

> did the us held elections while world war 2 was happening?

> Elections were held on November 7, 1944, during the final stages of World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was easily re-elected to an unprecedented fourth term, and the Democratic Party retained their majorities in both chambers of Congress.
> continuing to pay checks after terminations and they would deserve the loss of every last cent

that is literally a subplot in "office space"...

(if you haven't seen that movie i'd highly recommend it)
It doesn’t help that they make it hard to donate to a specific product’s development. I’d donate to Firefox. I wouldn’t give a penny to anything of their other distractions.

(And others would support exactly the opposite, I’m sure. But no one gets to sponsor what they personally care about.)
Haven't seen that documentaty but unfortunately it seems to be geoblocked in Finland :(
At least in the US, you can just make something complicated enough to show some skill and get a real job. That's what I did, anyway. I used to work in a factory.
The ToS has a link to the Acceptable Use Policy and says that use of Firefox must conform to it.
Biden passed more consequential legislation than almost any president since FDR. The chips act, the inflation reduction act, the infrastructure act. The list goes on and on. He even had a bipartisan immigration bill that was closer to being passed than any other bill. He was an incredibly effective legislative leader while in office.
Posting to keep it higher in ranks
So do you think the world should have let Hitler take it over in WWII? Not just Europe, but an empire stretching continents?

People are willing to fight for freedom, even if they might die in the process.

By your logic, you're saying everyone should just surrender to violent bullies. Most people don't think that kind of subjugation is a life worth living -- not if they can help it.
I have a very different experience. I did all the right things, more or less, got into a good field with a secure job in the broader tech industry, and indeed I make very good money.

Despite this, I can not afford to buy the house I grew up in; a 3 bedroom SFH with a decent sized yard and a pool, around 1400 square feet, 45 minutes away from downtown without traffic in a hot real estate market. My father was able to purchase this home as a tradesman with 4 kids, being the only parent who worked outside the home.
I'll never forget when I read the question, "Who is the mayor of San Jose?" on Quora, and the answer was "Joe Bloe is the mayor of San Jose. Source: I'm Joe Bloe, mayor of San Jose."

Reading that defined Quora in my mind for the next few years.
Cookie Autodelete is probably close to what you want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
> proprietary bullshit services

> S3

Hasn't this recently been an issue where Amazon arbitrarily changes the S3 contract and all software following it as a spec has to play catch-up?
> I read this sort of critique often, but what are people living with debilitating depression supposed to do?

Not waste money on useless treatments? Seek out other treatments like TMS (SAINT protocol), ECT, ketamine?

I don't know why you suggest that useless treatments are better than nothing. You could also throw in prayer, naturopathy, and seeking a psychic.

Americans hate to hear this: Not all problems have solutions. Really.
> Don't act like then entire purpose of USAID and the entire definition of soft power is whatever 0.08% of one year's budget you've been told to hate today.... Supporting democratic elections is soft power.

Don't talk down to me--I grew up around USAID and almost certainly know more about it than you. Nearly all our family friends are USAID or World Bank people. Virtually all of the people talking about USAID didn't know shit about it until it became another vector to play out their impotent rage at Trump.

Interfering in other countries' politics undermines American soft power and the mission of USAID. All the things you and I both like--vaccinations for kids, maternal health, etc.--require working with governments to executive effectively.

Interfering with domestic political affairs completely negates that. Governments will not trust a putative AID organization that is also bankrolling activist organizations in their countries. And approximately zero people in Asia/Africa/the Middle East have uniformly negative feelings about the U.S. meddling in their internal politics.
I think our news cycles are very different. All I heard about from our allies in the wars was how they didn't want to be there and America should ramp them down. Also their contributions weren't exactly "overwhelming" aside from Canada and British they were more token then anything.

Line of "The US does nothing for free or out of goodwill" comes up all the time. Please tell me what country does? Then the next thing they do is go right into some form of name calling or denigration, just like you did.

Nothing in your response was about the main points of my comment. Which were firstly that America doesn't have to negotiate peace for/with Ukraine in a way that Ukraine really wants. Secondly because of how Americans feel they have been treated by Europeans over the last century a large portion of the population no longer views them as worthy allies, they feel more like fair weather supporters than allies tbh. So they feel it would be unwise to send our children to die for Europe's safety.

The last point is Europe has been neglecting its own commitments to NATO via its annual spending. So it feels like they are expecting free protection from the Americans which feels like a form of entitlement which leads back to the second point.

I get that these are contentious issues and controversial topics at times but trying to insult or insulate things about someone based on perceived political alignment is not what this site is about.
Ironically, Soviet Union was the product of the far left ideology.
Or... here's another strategy collect as much money as you can for yourself, and maybe your family... making hay while the sun shines... drilling and selling oil and gas... Demolish sanctions, play the stock market, kill off carbon taxes and environmental measures...

Sprinkle a little cryptocurrency backed money laundering here... some tax cuts there... Make sure your closest friends are well taken care of...

Then hole up in armed compounds with plenty of fresh water and air conditioning ... and say "f you" to everyone else.

Now you understand the rationale of America's new ruling class.
"Trump opposed NordSream 2, for example."

Incorrect.

> The Nord Stream 2 pipeline went from zero to 90 percent completed during Trump’s presidency. The Trump administration rejected years of bipartisan congressional calls for imposition of sanctions to stop the project. Only when Congress, in frustration, passed mandatory sanctions they couldn't stop did the administration finally take concrete action. But by then it was too late.

> Trump’s first secretary of State Rex Tillerson was a 2013 recipient of an “Order of Friendship” from Putin in recognition of Tillerson’s contributions to cooperation with the Russian energy sector while he was CEO of Exxon-Mobil. Tillerson issued the fateful public guidance to energy companies that CAATSA sanctions would only apply to new Russian export pipelines — those contracted after August 2017. Contrary to the will of Congress, Nord Stream 2 was thus grandfathered in and outside the scope of sanctions.

> Under the Tillerson guidance, the five EU companies participating in Nord Stream 2 with Gazprom had no legal grounds to declare force majeure, and the project went forward at a rapid pace.

> But where it counted — actually imposing sanctions against the project at the key stage when it could be stopped — the administration did nothing. Indeed, Trump’s posture amounted to the worst of both words: alienating our German allies while failing to take action to stop the pipeline.

> As the Biden administration took office in 2021, Russian vessels were laying pipe for the final segments of Nord Stream 2. While U.S. sanctions in 2017 would have killed the project, by 2021 it was a fait accompli. The Biden administration denounced Nord Stream 2 as a “bad deal” and a danger to European energy security. But given the unlikelihood of stopping it at this stage and the need to rebuild relations with Germany shredded under Trump, the administration elected to waive sanctions.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4726844-trump...

He took a public stance against it while enabling it in private. Apparently that worked to fool enough people.
Piketty is a hack. Most billionaires don't spend anything even close to their net worth. In effect, they have a bunch of IOUs from other people and never cash them in.
> "private" ad tracking

My guess is that they're aiming to pivot to become a Brave competitor, and either find a new (profitable) niche in the market, or just ride the business down to collapse.

Don't forget that private, hard-to-access data is now doubly valuable as AI training data.
What does SFZ mean?
This. The tech works and is great. But it's not in the interests of the megacorps that took over from 2008ish onwards.
Didn't NATO member Turkey invade NATO member Cyprus, with no consequences?
> and Rust are first class options, plus generic wasm

Rust is still a wasm target. Not everything easily works. It doesn’t have all the Cloudflare sdk features js/ts has either.
You don't understand software engineering. The goal isn't to produce a bunch of code. The goals are actually:

1. Build a computable model of some facet of reality to an achieve certain goals.
2. Realize a system that manifests the model, satisfying a set of other constraints, such as resource constraints and performance.
3. Ensure a community of system owners comprehend the key decisions made in the system and model design, and the degree to which certain constraints can be relaxed or increased and how the system can evolve such that it behavior remains predictable over time.

Basically none of that, in my view, is supported by LLM driven "vibe" coding. Sure your hobby project might be ok to treat like an art project, but, oh, I don't know, how about software for train communications, or aircraft guidance systems? Do you want to vibe code your way then? Do you want a community of engineers who only dimly understand the invariants satisfied in individual components and across the system as whole?

LLM fanatics are totally ignorant of the actual process of software development. Maybe one day we'll find a way to use them in a way that produces software that is predictable, well-specified, and safe, but we are not there yet.
If you've been watching the war you'll notice that tanks are largely absent from battle these days. Russia had thousands more tanks than Ukraine 3 years ago, and now is scrounging the last of its inventory leftover from WWII.

The Super Tank™ you've described sounds cool, though. Can Ukraine order 1000 of the upgraded version with lasers for Spring delivery?
>The Llama is not a very good pack animal, you would know this if you ever looked at one.

They are pack animals with carrying capacities comparable to donkeys and slightly less than horses.

>America was among them precisely due to the lack of pack animals barring further societal advancement.

You never addressed the issue of Tenochtitlan, which was constructed without the use of pack animals, so this isn't a compelling claim to begin with. Even so, North America had plenty of candidates for domestication that would have made serviceable pack animals (e.g. moose, caribou). Diamond makes some weak attempt to claim that the animals available were too temperamental to be domesticated, conveniently forgetting that the ancestor of man's flesh-eating best friend is the wolf.

> By the same token, aboriginal Australians and Polynesian islanders had little chance dominating the world.

You're making this argument because these places are islands. This was not a hindrance to the British. You'll then make the argument that you were really arguing that these places are isolated (which is maybe valid if we're talking about Polynesia, less so for Australia), to which I'd reply: "Isolated from what?" to which you'd reply: "The pack animals, the germs, and the steel," to which I'd inquire: "Why were these things found in Europe and not Australia?" and that is where we get to the root of the matter. Europe's conquests were not a matter of luck or an accident of geography. There was something in their method that simply worked better than the methods of those peoples that they conquered. I haven't reached a conclusion as to what it was in that approach that led Europe to becoming the dominant power of the last five hundred years, but there's no compelling case to be made that this method didn't exist.
Why don’t you tell us what you think is wrong with our perspective instead of lazily painting us all with the same coarse brush?
It’s Bicep
I don't think it implies that at all.
Single family zoning. A residential lot can only be used for a single, freestanding house; not a 2-flat.
Tangential question: Is housing activist your occupation? And if so how did you get into that line of work?
Probably single family housing zone
I'd rather this than a useless meeting in secret with prepared press releases full of pablum and platitudes.
I’m all for diversity but that admissions gap is just racism.

You can’t have separate entrances for your establishment based on what folks look like, the group you prefer getting better service doesn’t make it equality.
As long as most millionaires are self-made, we are ok.

My dad worked at a gas station and I run a tech company.
When literally everything he does it to the benefit of Russia, "Trump being a Russian asset" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's called "barely paying attention".
Perhaps it's justice that Canada experience the very thing they supported the US for in Iraq.
Contracts in the US require consideration. A promise made in exchange for nothing is not a contract because there's no consideration.
Most people here are assuming that they mentioned that one specifically because it was one of those that Mozilla feels is too broad or difficult. It could be simply read as a random example, but I think that's quite a generous interpretation.
I work at Fly.io as our Chief Housing Activist.
I honestly think it comes down to preferred work style in some cases. Once a codebase gets decently complex, it’s true that you have to supervise the AI extremely closely to get a good result. But at least for me I tend to enjoy doing that more than writing it myself. I’m a fast typer of prose, I like to plan my coding ahead of time anyways, so whether the AI does it or me is kinda immaterial
This is so absolutely right. Trump is undoing all of the intentional institutions that the USA created. He is literally dismantling nearly one hundred years of consistent effort across every administration to serve US interests by structuring a global system based on a reliable and coherent US foreign policy. It just so happens that this is also the same global system that was used to isolate Russia with sanctions and defense agreements. The amount that Russia gains here is hard to fathom. The US just permanently lost world power status. No one will ever trust the US to be the world leader again. This will be a fundamental and permanent shift.
"Ah," says the optimist, "but we will clearly invent FTL travel just by throwing enough money and AI-hours into researching it."

(I've seen this 'enough money ought to surmount any barrier' take a few times, usually to reject the idea that we might not find any path to AGI in the near future.)
You can't download Google.
Even worse, our housing policy is corrosive to the fundamental social contract. When I was young, I was taught that if you worked hard and kept your head down, you could have a comfortable life. You may not be Bill Gates, but you could have a successful middle class existence.

Our housing policies have broken this social contract. Many younger people cannot afford to live in high opportunity but high priced cities. Those that can, often only do so because of help from family. [1]

NIMBYs dominate both sides of the political spectrum, especially among older people. It will take younger people getting involved in the YIMBY movement to effect change.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213546
You can make text selectable, but it still won’t behave at all like normal text. Selection word boundary things won’t match the local platform behaviour, touch behaviour cannot possibly work properly, things like context menus won’t work properly, and more.

The only way you can get the proper behaviour for these things on the web is to use actual DOM text. Some parts of it could in theory be made possible, but I doubt that anything meaningful will ever change—it’s too antithetical to the nature of the web.
You can run a desktop app that runs a Linux VM that runs containers on a Mac, but those containers have no way of rendering anything on the desktop.
Greenland has coal, criolite, and most importantly is next to current and future shipping lanes.

Some geologists think there might be tons of other deposits under the ice.

The US has been trying to add Greenland since 1867.
Part of that treaty was they had spending requirements to meet as well. Yet that gets frequently forgotten by the parties who didn't meet those obligations. It is like Europe wants all the benefits of the treaty but don't feel compelled to keep up their end of the agreement.

Because they didn't keep their end of the agreement this means a greater burden would fall on America if we actually got lassoed into another European war. It seems the height of hypocrisy for Europe to demand America do the hard part in wartime when Europe couldn't even be bothered to do the easy part in peacetime.
They're saying that self-made billionaires didn't inherit their wealth. Which means they created it. Which means that it created useful economic activity. And since rich people dont optimally pass on their wealth, those 1000 billionaires' spawn are likely to piss away that wealth while 1000 more economically active individuals create more healthy economic activity in pursuit of becoming billionaires so that they can pass on their wealth to their children to piss away, ad. Inf.
outsized influence =/ blackmail, even if the outcome might be similar.
Could this be due to amazon lobbying? They are trying to capture the pharmacy market; if they can leverage their assets to roll in an AI "pharmacist" that could be extremely profitable.
Nah, it'd be as useless as Obama's "red line" in Syria.
>they are definitely not seeing their purchasing power increasing yearly

In the US? Real Disposable Personal Income has been growing very consistently over time [1]. The rate of growth did stagnate between 2000 and 2013 but the trend has been remarkably consistent.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96
Agree. Contrary to many comments here, I believe this was a disaster meeting for Zelenski personally, and for his political future.

This was a photo op opportunity. His job there was to make Trump look good, so he could secure additional support and funds. He was there to stroke Trump's ego for the media, likely join Trump on the lets-play-the-tough-guy pushing Europe to open the wallet, and maybe, just maybe, lightly mention that ceasefire is a good first step, but it alone is not enough.

Instead the tried to pick a fight with the bulliest of bullies, in their home turf, in front of a hundred journalists recording every second. You don't try to be a smartypants and teach history to the guy who got elected in rewriting history (see them debating the who-did-what in 2015-2016).

I think this was a colossal mistake in the 3D chess of this invasion.

Now he gave all the reasons for Trump to wash their hands of any responsibility, and let Europe fix the mess.

The only thing that may still keep Trump engaged is Trump's own ego. He was seeing this as an opportunity to go in the history books as the biggest peace dealmaker, and potentially a Nobel Peace prize winner. Now.. not so much.
Tweaking that list of capabilities yields integrated pervasive user observation, user interviewing, UX refinement discussions and prototyping and validation.

Friday AI report: A user was observed seeming to struggle a bit with X; we had a pain point discussion; they suggested some documentation and UI changes; they were confused, but further discussion turned up plausible improvements; we iterated on drafts and prototypes; I did an expanding alpha with interviews, and beta with sampled surveys, and integrated some feedback; evaluation was above threshold with no blockers; I've pushed the change to prod, and fed the nice users cookies.
Another Verge [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201709
Kaizen: A Factory Story (Open-ended puzzle automation game) announced
1. Yes

2. Because that requires you to know how to find the hash and add it.

Truthfully the burden should be on the third party that's serving the script (where did you copy that HTML in the first place?) but they aren't incentivizes to have other sites use a hash.
That contract is made in exchange for your willingness to use their product and your willingness to use Mozilla is what gets them big contracts from companies like Google.
I'm so glad I learned how to program a computer before the era of vibe coding.
Deep Learning's Memory Crisis Solved? Introducing the 'Lean Model' Revolution
What we really need is the quality of a Deepseek 671b on a normal computer. Period.

It all needs so much memory because it's just badly programmed, there's a lot of unnecessary stuff in the models that bloats them.

Of course, cutting-edge hardware wants to be sold and if you claim that the big models needed it, then someone will buy them.

Until someone publishes a repository on github that does exactly what I described.

This will be described in a few papers in the near future and then nVidia will be stuck with its overengineered, overpriced machines.