skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am against meme coins, but ruling them to be collectibles like a trading card makes sense to me. How is a meme coin different than a baseball card? What about a virtual baseball card or other virtual item from CSGO or World of Warcraft?

To bolster my point, one could face the same corruption issue we face today with baseball cards: Trump could own a limited-edition baseball card; foreign governments then could then buy all the other prints of the same card, lowering the supply and raising the demand of Trump’s collectible. One can thus see how anyone can use any collectible as a means to corruption in the same ways that meme coins can be used.

I am illustrating why the SEC ruling is not completely unfounded on first pass. However, I think meme coins have a higher chance of being used for scams (and corruption, but that is a separate point) because there is an implicit promise that this product will induce a return and because the coin is rarely an ends in itself. But how do you regulate people’s intention? You can’t read people’s minds and force people to not to buy a collectible for the sole purpose of making a return on investment. I think people would find it ridiculous to tell pawn shops to not buy a Pokémon card if the shop treated the item solely as a means to flip, for example. Moreover, such market participants are beneficial because they offer liquidity to more sincere buyers and sellers.

I am not sure what logically consistent and beneficial regulations around meme coins would look like, but with more thinking than I have been able to put into this topic, I am sure one could come up with some. My instinct is SEC regulating the tokenomics to maximize transparency and force the creators to release the tokens in a way that won’t allow them to “rug pull” would be a good starting point. I think I would not be opposed to such relegations in any collectibles market, making the regulations logically consistent.

Regarding the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was forced to sell his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest. I think that anyone who becomes the president of the United States should have to liquidate their whole net worth — collectibles and all — and put it into an independent fund that they have no control over. They will then get a set percentage amount of money from this fund every year, and everything left over when they die goes to their presidential library. They are not allowed to take money from anywhere else ever again. That would fix this corruption problem for good and has the added benefit of deterring people from running who just want to use the office for their own personal gain.
and Rubio was there to.....

sit and do nothing in an ill fitting suit
What an embarrassing and shameful take. Truly breathtaking.
That would be a tremendous amount of work, at best they might be forwarding it to some CERT. But I doubt even that. Shutting down the accounts is probably the best they can do.
Not sure how to answer that because I’ve always had enough money and enough free time since I was 25 or so. I’m 40ish now and that’s not because I earn a ton but because I don’t need a ton and don’t dream about having a ton of money.

I’ve been using ChatGPT for about the past 18 months to write scripts in minutes that would’ve taken me hours before (my role is not programming, I just learned how to do it because it was interesting and helpful).

I try to set aside most Friday mornings (7-9AM) to automate tasks and work on scripting projects for the agency I work at. After 9AM I stop working unless I want to do something else. Without ChatGPT, I’d be getting less done even if I worked until 12 or 1PM.

Is that a ton? It doesn’t feel like it to me but I work 30ish hours most weeks.

In my opinion, the real value is that in the past, I was limited by my programming skill but am now limited by my creativity and knowledge of how our business works.

It’s fun and interesting and I get more time where I can think more about the underlying business and spend almost no time learning how to do something technically.

I’ve made quite a few things that have cut hours or days off of different projects or processes done by other team members I work with. I’m sure they don’t mind having less to do.

I think about hiring someone to take this kind of work on for us and am sure I wouldn’t hire a trained programmer to do it. It just needs to be someone smart and curious regardless of background.
Of course there's a conflict of interest. It's their right to promote their solution but I would never take their word for it.
Thanks for the link, glad to donate
Credit to Biden who set the tone. He was very fast and forceful in backing Ukraine even when the general assumption was that they had no chance. Europe was willing to step up since then and will have to carry them from now on.
Do you have any evidence of this "Lebensraum" Putin seeks?
I've been very happy with Wipr.
The public bullying is intentional.
Trump pardoned the January 6th rioters for the benefit of a certain segment of his supporter base. I have a feeling his childish humiliation of Zelensky is more of the same.

It's no coincidence he dropped a "World War 3" reference, a common talking point of a certain segment of the online populist right (to be clear, this isn't to say some fear about such a scenario is unjustified; only to point out that it is cynically used to steer the discussion about the Ukrainian in a certain direction).

Shame on everyone who continues to be an apologist for this administration. People can make mistakes – I've supported my fair share of dodgy people in the past – but anyone who doesn't see things clearly at this point isn't looking.
> But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot.

If you're a wizbang mechanic working for an import car repair, you can get paid a lot more in hourly labor fees than some of us make.
I find it utterly bizarre that some Americans seem to be under the delusion that the US ceasing its military support for Ukraine will somehow save lives. It is the same kind of delusion that causes President Trump to list off the US presidents under which Putin has disregarded its negotiated deals with, but obviously that would never happen under his watch.

I suspect that this exchange will become an infamous moment in history. Utterly shameful.
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Most informed analysts say Russia has the opposite problem. They don't have any more meat for the grinder without tapping the middle and upper class of Russian citizens, which will have repercussions, potentially serious ones, for Putin.
I try to look at actions and not words. Trump/Musk have not shut off Starlink yet, but maybe this manufactured confrontation is a prelude to that? It also seems to me that Europe could adequately support Ukraine in defending itself, so maybe it matters less what America thinks and more what Europe thinks.
> Ukraine’s situation is better than many people realize

What makes you say that? I thought it was generally agreed that Ukraine has been on the back foot for a while now. People used to be quite optimistic about Ukraine recovering the occupied territories.
Hackers will never go away, they will simply need to adapt to the ever changing environment in which they exist. But that is what Hackers do best.
Did trump fold?
We'll see in what way Putin will respect Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if they both want nothing to do with the US anymore.
We have too much to lose to do anything. It's not until we've lost a great deal of our freedom, our wealth, the basic guarantee of order in our land, that the formerly comfortable will finally act up.
multi-modal database means that we treat multi-modal data, such as images, audio, and video as first-class citizens and provide natural language search over them. That is, you can ingest multi-modal content into DataBridge the same way you'd ingest structured data into a database. You can perform updates over this information, extract metadata, or define custom parsing/processing rules (eg. redact any PII).

Your search queries would go through a planner which - depending on the kind of data we're retrieving - will call the correct tools to extract information from the data and respond to your query.

For instance, this could be function calling over object-tracking data if your query relates to object movements over a video. This could also be a call to ColQwen in case we're looking for particular features within a diagram-heavy PDF. It could also be a simple semantic search if thats what the planner deems most useful.

The idea is that traditional databases work the same way - query planning systems figure out the best path to execute the user query, and pass that to the query execution engine. We think a lot of this complexity can be abstracted away from the user - as long as we can provide them strong retrieval guarantees (the same ways Databases have SLAs).

Let me know if something is unclear here!
> it’s hard to understand

It's not. If you're a remotely rational American right now you are experiencing large amounts of grief.

This is just the denial stage of grief.
Please donate drones to Ukraine https://www.dronesforukraine.fund/
Why? Variety for variety’s sake is just inefficiency. There are plenty of Chromium forks that work just fine.

FF’s legalese may have burned through their last bit of good will, and if that’s the last nail in their coffin let it be a lesson in terminal enshitification and not understanding or caring about your users.
Yep. The warnings have existed for a long time, but most European states have continued to ignore the hallmarks.

Even Poland only started rearming after Kazynski's plane was shot down in Smolensk in 2010 (edit; not shot down), Romania only (started after Crimea and it's implications of a similar incident in neighboring Moldova in 2014, Turkiye began due interventions in Syria and Libya that lead to Turkish and Russian soldiers fighting against each other in 2012-15, and Netherlands after over a hundred of their citizens were shot down in an Air Malaysia Flight in 2015-16 (forgetting the exact date)

Trump is absolutely wrong in publicly abandoning our European allies, but this is something every administration since 2008 has been saying would eventually happen.

The failed UK-France intervention in Libya should have been the warning call (France and UK's air forces couldn't disable Libya's A2AD and ran out of precision muntions, forcing the Obama admin to intervene and spark the Benghazi crisis which helped bring Trump into the Oval Office in 2016). In fact, that incident probably further emboldened Russia as Libya's military apparatus was heavily Russian/Soviet in armament and strategy.
That would not be directing him to vacate the office, but yes he could probably do that. But he wouldn't elect Musk, he could nominate Musk. He'd still need Congress (beholden to Musk for their future seats if GOP) to confirm him. But you also have to be qualified to be President to be Vice President, so Musk would be disqualified anyways.
It's likely cyclical. Check again in 2040.

The glamour of a "hot startup" was a side effect of ZIRP.

The glamorous 'day in the life' videos were a result of ZIRP.

Tech optimism was a dream that was only insulated from reality by the easy money of ZIRP.

The inevitability of big corporations is a result of them actually having to make money now, not just expecting to make money at some point in the distant future, is a result of higher interest rates.

Decline of the open internet and the rise of proprietary services is because companies want to actually make money.

Being a programmer doesn't seem as desirable or command nearly the respect that it did just a decade ago because tons of people who wanted easy money, because of ZIRP, became programmers and diluted the pool.
> As a European, I will vote against any politician that keeps talking about EU-US special partnership and doesn't put 'EU First'.

Isn't that exactly the logic behind Trumpism though? "Our partners suck, we need to put our own interests first" is how you get isolation and trade wars. And sometimes real wars.

I mean, maybe that's where things are going. But "as a European" you should at least recognize that's the policy you're arguing for.
Is this actually the case?
what about people who were promoted or moved positions?

Is this the case for all federal jobs or can it be longer for some roles?
Major amphibious operations take 4-6 months to plan and prepare if rushed. I cannot imagine the Chinese watching the feed from the White House without seeing it as a row of green lights blinking for them. The unholy alliance of tech companies and Russian astroturfing on their unregulated social media platforms has delivered a decapitation strike on Washington. The US government is rapidly severing long-standing alliances, and showing utter unwillingness to defend its strategic interests - all out of sheer incompetence, no less.
Not on WWII levels, no. Also, not without serious blowback inhouse.

And fighting Ukraine has made Russia vulnerable in all other proxy wars and fronts, such as Syria recently.
^ people downvoting your comment are wrong; it's completely true. The nation-state is a martial construct; the difference between it and its neighbors is a line of demarcation upheld by an external-facing military, and its own legitimacy, economy, and system of laws and conflict resolution is enforced on the populace via an internal-facing "military" (police force).

(Edit: when I wrote this the parent comment was light grey, but now it's back to black. Perhaps it's a controversial comment.)
Perhaps (hopefully) you are right and its just bread and circuses for us. They really are playing 6D chess and it's really about just being irrational, art of the deal style.

Perhaps related to the discussion:

The Scientific Art of Negotiating with a Possibly Irrational Opponent by William Spaniel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGO1gvNgG6k
FYI: you can end up in jail for posting "wrong" things on Facebook in Europe and the UK. And the UK doesn't permit backup encryption. As far as freedom of speech, we have a _considerable_ advantage. In some European countries (including, ironically, Ukraine) you wouldn't even be able to criticize the government the way we do it here in the US.
Can you explain why low percentage improvement over placebo is not important?
The EU has donated more to Ukraine's war effort than the US, despite coverage suggesting otherwise.
Isn't Trump giving access only to just a select group of journalists?
There are protests in Germany against AFD, Slovakia against the pro-Russia prime minister.
You get more credit for putting out fires you started than building something that doesn't catch on fire in the first place.
Flow analysis, especially propagation, is a hard problem to solve in the general case. IMO, the one tool that had the best, if language-specific, approach was Pyre – Facebook's type checker and static analyzer for Python.
He’s also a former stand up comedian. If you’re going to heckle the guy you’d better be good at it if you want to come out looking good.
Zelensky left the White House without signing the agreement.
It is absolutely the perspective of most conservatives I speak with in blood red Ohio
Shame on republicans who voted for Trump. Why are none of you confronting him when he claims insane shit like "Ukraine started the war"? Have you gone full doublethink? Or are you actually just fine with allying with fascist Putin against Ukraine and Europe?
I agree, but they have still sent more aid than the US
Maybe this passes as insightful in some circles but it's completely untrue when you consider how much of his base is currently fuming about weak Epstein annoucement and Israel more generally.
Russia feels like its getting a good deal because its everything Russia wants. Trump behaving like a baby in front of the world is just a bonus.
Do Verizon shareholders have a lawsuit here against Starlink?
Out of curiosity, what are the other similar public meetings/negotiations you’re aware of that were conducted in a similar way?

Or generally, since you say this did not deviate from your expectations, what are the past events that influenced your baseline expectation for conduct on the geopolitical stage?
> Zelensky went there under the pretext of signing the mineral deal, but changed his mind before arriving.

That's not true. The agreement that both sides drafted was agreed upon and Zelensky planned on signing it.

> Sorry, but Ukraine, which is not in NATO and thus not entitled to unconditional defense, is not worth starting WW3 over.

No one ever said they needed to. What gives you that impression.

> Its sickening watching Zelensky and Europe act like my country is obligated to go into unlimited debt or die on the battlefield to protect them.

To be clear European NATO partners do expect the US to go unlimited debt or die on the battlefield to protect them. It's called NATO. And the only time it's been used so far was for 911 when all NATO countries came to the US's aid after it was attacked.

As for Ukraine. Firstly the US has give much less than the EU. The number Trump keep pushing, $350BN is lies. Ukraine has seen about $70 Billion. Which Zelensky has thanked the US for on may occasions, notably in front of congress.
The US owes no one anything, but is it too much to ask that Trump goes hard on the ones who started the war, Russia, who commited war crimes and abducted children, and continue to bomb civilian areas say after day. Instead of shaking down a country and people at their weakest hour for money that was given to it by the previous president?
Europe is happy to let others do the fighting and dying for them. They want Ukraine to fight the Russians so they don't have to. Sounds like a continent of cowards.
I don't agree with the execution, but here's what I think this is what Trump is really trying to do:

Right now, it's basically the US vs Russia and China.

But what Trump is betting on is that it could be the US + EU + Russia vs China.

In order for this to happen though, the EU must build their own military.

The EU could and should be a superpower, but they're not. Instead they're living off the US military.

The US has been gently trying to get EU to boost its own spending. This goes as far back as Obama, and maybe even further back.

The difference is that Obama was somewhat passive aggressive with his approach. Whereas Trump is tearing off the band aid.

The public belligerence and positioning against the EU is an effort to kick them out of the parents' basement and get their act together.

Now, what is he doing regarding Canada and Mexico? That I have 0 clue. And his current stance honestly seems stupid.
Agree with you, too much focus on optics over getting things done.

Trump doesn’t seem to care if people are unhappy or uncomfortable, it’s like he has his list of things he said he’d do and he’s sticking to it.
Ah... A student of the clown school of negotiating where bluster, threats, and tantrums take the place of compromise.

Here's the real deal: Trump is a Russian asset, and it is already a foregone conclusion that Ukraine is getting fucked. This is just theatre so he can pin the whole thing on Zelensky.
Europe has a military.

Combined, the second military power in the world if you look at military budget.

It is as people totally forgot about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highe...
>fighting for his countries freedom against a totalitarian regime

He sent hundreds of thousands of his own people into a meat grinder to fight for the privilege of being ruled by his corrupt government (recognised as one of the most corrupt governments in Europe) instead of a different corrupt government, with his thugs literally going door-to-door dragging unwilling youths off to die. The average Ukrainian wasn't any better off under Ukrainian government than under Russian government, and they'd certainly be much better off alive than dead.
King as head of state, as of 2022.
What trackers actually obey said consent?
Marco Rubio was there with an expression like his soul had left his body.
Thanks! We ended up merging that one (and a thwack of others) into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909.
I am an independent and Trump supporter. I generally like his shows of strength, but I didn’t like the confrontational nature of this exchange. It lacked diplomacy and respect. Trump yelling things like “you’re gambling with World War 3” was inappropriate and aggressive, especially considering he was a guest. This caused an unprecedented tension between wrokd leaders on live TV and in my opinion has the potential to spiral out of control.

To quote Dean Acheson from Thirteen Days, “Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before we reach the next step.”
I don't think I understand this comment
What I'm trying to figure out is the interplay between the transmitters, and "semantic" (sorry, making this term up, not a neurologist, basically your representation of the world) layers in the brain. What interpretation mechanism are affected by brain state to distort your perception of so many things.
People have known how to make very large bombs for a long time (e.g., in 1961, the USSR tested a bomb with a yield of 50–58 megatons) so it says something that for decades, no military has had any bombs larger than about 1.3 megatons.
Oh sure, I wasn't trying to propose that the coupling of usage to payment be mandatory. It's just that that's the setting I'd use because manually adjusting my payment settings sounds like work to me.

I'm just saying that paying the artist and handling the bits are totally separate things and if we want to challenge the existing model we should use something that decouples them in a way that demonstrates that the bad deal that artists are getting from Spotify is not the only option.
FYI like Nazi stuff, I believe in a lot of European countries doing Nazi salutes to an audience would mean jail time, and rightfully so.
Ah trump and vance playing the 4D chess no one else knows about.

Why does Russia care if US are being tough on Ukraine? POTUS can issue an EO saying all fundings are cut and not be an asshole about it. If the US wants to be isolated from the war, they can do it without insulting Zelenskyy or trying to get a mineral deal done.
This is not about not going into the conflict. Trump is seemingly siding with Russia while undermining allies and calling Zelinsky dictator.
I'm building an integration platform, would love to have a call with you and share ideas.
The only recent historical comparison I can think of -- and it's a weak one compared to today's meeting -- was when Obama firmly reiterated to Netanyahu his insistence on the 1967 lines as the basis for a two state solution, and Netanyahu in front of the cameras forcefully rejecting that to Obama's face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28xJitnP78
They're throwing North Koreans at the fight, which shows how desperate they are for bodies.
Europe United would be an awesome football team.
To me it seems like at least as much work to move the Democratic Party to the left as it would be to just create a new party. The creation of an entirely new political apparatus versus replacing an existing system which is designed to prevent exactly that kind of change.

We know revolutionary political change is possible in the US, Trumpism is unfortunately evidence of it. That shit started out as a meme and now it's the de facto ideology of the American imperialist establishment. The question is, is this only possible from the right? Does the left need to do to the Democrats what the Trumpists did to the Republicans, and if so, how?
Today was probably the end of the post- cold-war liberal consensus.
I can understand them being frustrated
He likes bullying people and it makes him feel good.

People often attribute 5D chess strategies to Trump when base instincts are a far clearer explanation.
I mean... I hope so? Nothing I've seen so far suggests anyone is playing 3d chess, but if this turns out to be true, then I'll give full credit.
The only humiliation that I saw was that of the United States by Trump's conduct. I was amazed at how calm Zelensky remained during that meeting.