skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what world do you have a machine which downloads source code to build it, but doesn't have outbound internet access so it can't download source code or build dependencies?

Like, effectively the "build machine" here is a locked down docker container that runs "git clone && npm build", right? How do you do either of those activities without outbound network access?

And outbound network access is enough on its own to create a reverse shell, even without any open inbound ports.

The miss here isn't that the build container had network access, it's that the build container both ran untrusted code, and had access to secrets.
I think a lot of Americans are truly taking the "both sides are bad" stance and thinking that it makes them superior and choose not to vote.

I think they're actively harmful. "Both sides are bad" is a thought-ending cliche.
The needs of America, never hand anything to do with it ( except under Democrats who view has us resist oppression ), its Manifest Destiny, Law of Nations all the way.

1. We are not footing the bill, we are providing for part of the cost.
"Europe gave $275 Billion. United states gave $125 Billion"
2. The U.S. has citizens in Ukraine, just as Ukraine has citizens year.
3. It is not about needs... Americans have needs to feel safe from oppression, and a stable economy, both of those are out of the question now, thanks in no small part to this type of information manipulation/Disinformation.

Rather than counter all your claims with facts, who needs facts, and your inflammatory language. I shall leave you to Minos.
Pathetic is to have an authoritarian superpower on the same continent as you for 80 years and still opting to rely on a superpower an ocean away to be the primary defender of your interests.

Some of the countries in Europe to take a cue from Finland and not outsource its defense.
So about 1 request per second?
Anduril Takes Helm of Army's $22B IVAS Program
Yes this was my first thought. But then I understood that it's most probably the fact that the administration wasn't interested in the outcome of the conversation. My hypotesis is that Trump is living each day as unique, disconnected from the others, in a selfish way. So he didn't care about the consequences of this meeting for Zelenskyy and in general everything else.
It's not really a hot take, considering the price, they probably released it to scam some people when they to `benchmark` it or to buy the `pro` version. You must be completely in denial to think that gpt4.5 had a successful launch, considering that 3 days before, a real and useful model was released by their competitor.
To paraphrase Horselover Fat.
> Realpolitik is (correctly) in vogue as a correction to bad policies, but ideas and justice still matter.

Realpolitik is, first and foremost, about (arguably ruthless) pragmatism. What's going on — the US antagonising all its allies and forging new alliances with unreliable partners —— is not pragmatic in the least.
Yeah, it is their fault. I don't download "todesktop" (to-exploit), I download Cursor. Don't give 3rd parties push access to all your clients, that's crazy. How can this crappy startup build server sign a build for you? That's insane.
As I understand it HN ranking algorithm penalizes controversial threads, as indicated by roughly equal or higher number of comments compared to upvotes or something along those lines.
I have found myself lately to feel indifferent to many threads on HN that would otherwise have exicted me because of the insane world politics events which were occuring simulatenously but without mention. There is an intelligent crowd here, and important topics ought to be discussed, not just the latest hacker news.
> 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?

They imagine this because American interventionists routinely tell them that this is so, and American interventionists say this because it's the only politically viable justification. If you convinced everyone who believes in the fundamental goodness of US military intervention that it's really about Lockheed's profit margins, isolationism would have a bipartisan supermajority.
He likes Russian representatives. They speak his language and have a similar outlook. Allying with them will personally enrich him and his family. That’s about it really, which is kinda pathetic with how small it is.
Inheriting is the root cause of all corruption. We can never, ever, have a just society based on the principle of giving our children wealth that they did not earn nor deserve.
One of the things that was highly propagandized was the "deep state" relationship with big oil and the whole conspiracy theories of billionaires influencing policy and pushing for war to get access to oil.

I get that people got into this narrative.

What I don't get is that you're now supporting a new groups of tech billionaires influencing policy to get access to rare earth, to the point of threatening to annex USA allies like Canada, and Greenland, and doing deals with Russia to capitulate Ukraine.

Yet Americans seem to be cozy with this idea, and support it, when in reality it's the same. In fact, it's worse because it's not even a conspiracy theory, it's out in the open.

Imagine if Biden or Obama had the Black Rock folks behind them when they took the presidency, it would drive some folks up the wall. The same folks don't mind having the Twitter Guy, Bezos, Zuckerberg... Can you help me understand why?
It’s a grave mistake to assume that some “old” America is ever coming back.
> Do we really think it's fair that a lady who happened to be selling her house at exactly the time the war started... should have that money donated to Ukraine's war effort?

You know what's not fair? The lady's government invaded a sovereign nation, committed genocide while doing it, and continues to do so. If that lady lost her fortune from it, then she should be vocal about justice for all parties.
Batteries can be nearly fully recycled. At least the critical materials can be (might lose plastics or epoxies). In fact the co-founder and former CTO of Tesla left to start a massive firm doing just that. That places a theoretical upper limit to demand for new materials.
Quora was fantastic back around 2011. It did provide value. That has been decreasing gradually as the site declined.

No you don't have to pay on Quora to get answers; that's incorrect. Having said that, these days most questions languish without good, or often any, answers. The only ones that get traffic from humans are in what Quora calls Spaces, i.e. a group for Q&A around a certain topic, and/or a certain point of view.
> You can't therapy your way out of epigenetic changes.

That's a leap. After all, emotionally distressing experiences presumably caused the epigenetic changes to begin with, so why couldn't other mental experiences alleviate them? Not that we know how to do this at this point, I'm just stating that your claim is not a fact.
Here:

https://youtu.be/Ujh_h0TsI7E
> From what I gathered, people above a certain age say that their country was better under Soviet Union.

Rather a minority of people above a certain age. Like, these days you can go to the shop and buy a banana. Other things, too. I still remember the queues, at the end of which... there was nothing.
I can recommend every Dwarkesh Patel pod and lecture with Sarah C. M. Paine. History is the best teacher, and that's her specialty. I learned a lot from each of the following:

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine (WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers)

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-india

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-japan

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine-china
> But also there is a lot of upwards mobility.

There's increasingly less in the USA. In fact, most people today will end up worse off than their parents.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/09/social-mobility-upwa...
Selling yourself as a Cybersecurity dev from Iraq will probably be harder than selling yourself as a frontend engineer. So I would focus on improving frontend skills and marketing.

You didn't mention it as an option, but if you are tiring of frontend, I would consider pivoting to doing backend/fullstack/data engineering. Boost your database/analytics skills. Your front-end experience can help you have a nice niche in that backend space once you master backend work.

But this is just a guess on my part from an American developer/architect/hiring manager in both startups and large companies whose frontend skills plateaued 20 years ago at the expense of backend skills but who lightly follows frontend technologies.
"Teeth pulled, fingernails spiked" torture?

Or put in prison during wartime and given a "similar level of healthcare that many in the US prison system receive" torture?
Because as wealthy families produce offspring who do not need to work or earn income in order to compete for finite resources with those who do, the cost of those resources increases, while the burden of labor and stress falls increasingly on the employed.

Eventually the man dying while making an income and spending no time with his child will grow to resent the one making the same income through family wealth who has enough time for that and more.
If he keeps saying it, eventually, he'll be right. He's been looking at the latest LLM and calling it a dead end since GPT-2.
Just makes it so much worse doesn't it?
Dude Gary Stevenson is so good, great to see him shouted out on these conversations.

I've long wondered why so many economists get inequality so incredibly wrong without any hint of self-awareness whatsoever, and the answer (in part 3 of that series) was mind-blowing. So, so well put together.

I won't give the spoilers here, but do watch it. It's an experience.
> Quora has never, in my memory, provided any value to the internet.

In the very early years of Quora, quite a lot of answers there were written by experts in their area.
Seems more like people now are taking to Yarvin's ideology. Who is going to stop anyone? Everyone is so sucked into their devices.
Russia, got the Propagandists from Germany in World War II. How much have computers gained in power? The Military grade disinformation has gained a lot of power, and yes, they weaponized it, and now own...
The idea that an average person, working hard, can eventually own part of a nation's land and resources, setting up their family with generational wealth, is derived from the pioneer days when land was plentiful.

This was never going to be able to last forever as long as the population keeps increasing. This is why settlers left Europe etc in the first place to seek fortune overseas. And since there is no un-owned land remaining, the market price for land will match or exceed regional population growth worldwide forever, unless a whole lot of people start dying.

Working hard is necessary in its own right for many reasons, but promising everyone that if they "work" hard enough, they too can set up their heirs, is pure marketing. So is shaming anyone who fails to achieve it as "lazy", when it was never going to be possible for more than a fraction.
That'll end up being the real test of whether or not we still have checks and balances.
Re: "Only about 18% of which is actually owned by Russia." - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Care to show some?

(I do not understand your example with the lady that sold her house when the conflict erupted. Lots of people sold their houses at that time and somehow their money is not being frozen....)
It’s hard to take Gary Marcus seriously. There is a mix of correct-but obvious, uncharitable, and confusing multiple things into one generally pessimistic screed.

Yes, scaling laws aren’t “laws” they are more like observed trends in a complex system.

No, Nvidia stock prices aren’t relevant. When they were high 3 months ago did Gary Marcus think it implied infinite LLMs were the future? Of course not. There are plenty of applications of GPUs that aren’t LLMs and aren’t going away.

(In general, stock prices also incorporate second-order effects like my ability to sell tulip bulbs to a sucker, which make their prices irrational.)

Sam Altman’s job isn’t to give calculated statements about AI. He is a hype man. His job is to make rich people and companies want to give him more money. If Gary Marcus is a counterpoint to that, it’s very surface level. Marcus claims to be a scientist or engineer but I don’t see any of that hard work in what he writes, which is probably because his real job is being on Twitter.
I imaged you would use both.
> No you don't have to pay on Quora to see answers; that's incorrect.

Some authors decided to join the Quora+ program where you do have to pay to see some of their answers.
"together on the same space and with equal space".

If you do that, you are telling anyone that just overviews the articles that both views have the same validity and that is just a manner of disagreements between peers, and that is falling into their trap, by doimg that you are actively working FOR the flatbearth cause, even if you want to feel "fair", ypu are just the useful idiot they need to keep spreading and legitimizing.

Flat earthers should no be given even a second unless it is to mock them, we have known that the earth is "round" for 2 millenia, we cannot keep discussing the same things over and over just because a bunch of narcisists want to feel like "the know better".
Whats your source on that?
The US did nothing but benefit from the war really. So any talk about ending support being in the United States' interest is a serious misreading of the situation.

The US was sending old equipment. To replace it they were and spending money on R&D and manufacturing of current and next-gen equipment for the US military, not Ukraine.
The US got to observe and study the use of it's older equipment in an actual land war against a geopolitical adversary.
The war has demonstrated US equipment superiority over Russian equipment.

The US did not send any troops, only old equipment and some money.

Regarding "hopes to end the killing".
The killing can end today if Putin withdraws. He is the aggressor who attacked without any justification or provocation.
If somebody invades your neighbour's apartment and starts looting and hurting them, do you just say "give up, it's easier"?

Some might but those are not people we respect.
It was an absolutely fair question. Trump and Vance are saying let’s solve it with diplomacy. Zelenskyy provides facts confirming the impossibility of doing diplomacy in good faith. Agreements don’t have any value when history shows the other party not respecting the agreements. So, “what kind of diplomacy you mean?” is a fair question.

Vance’s answer “I mean the kind of diplomacy that would save your country” is a meaningless bullshit sentence.
I think we need to shift from seeing inheritance as something we benefit from.

Every positive comes with a negative, nothing is created nothing is destroyed.

Chemistry found it to be so in the physical domain, confucians in the spiritual domain, and accountants in the wealth domain.

I won't deny that you CAN ignore the responsibilities that come from inheriting wealth, yes you can sell your father's company and life mission, but you destroy your legacy, and your children will destroy yours.

Wealth comes with its own set of problems if taken. Sure we may argue about which problems are worst, but must we? Each is born into a place, each is born into a class. And the principle of balance shall bring equity in the form of responsibility (to paraphrase Spiderman's uncle).

I just feel it's a more appropriate response to tell your parent "I will take care of it" rather than "thank you" and selling it to go on trips and snort cocaine. I'm not saying I'm free of sin and don't indulge in the pleasures of hedon, be it in a coffee (brought to me by a less attractive waiter of a distinct race from other commensals serving a publicly traded company, and made with beans grown and brought under a veil I can assume hides even more injustices) or in the wasting of my intellectual and physical talents on the pursuit and satisfaction of short term audiovisual novelty, but I will do so in guilt damnit!
Yes. They are bad in very different ways.

Trump has no moral compass; and the only thing that matters is his ego.

Harris had domestic policy that I almost universally disagree with.

I did vote in the primary, but it didn't matter at that point because the only other option was Haley. I would have been enthusiastic about any other Republican primary candidate.
It's almost a self fulfilling prophecy. Many people who have owned a house for the last 20 years got in at a lower price compared to their salaries. The only way younger people can get a house now is to inherit their parents wealth.

Even if I work my ass off, I won't be able to afford a house the same as my parents did. My only hope is that I inherit their house when they pass.
One obvious alternative is to not to behave like a bully but like a real leader. The US could disengage in much more orderly fashion, if it so pleased.
Out of curiosity, why is posting the same link repeatedly abusive? This is a long discussion, and I can see some particular information being relevant in many different conversations that are taking place here. In a discussion with only a few comments it would be easy to scan the entire list of comments for interesting information. But I feel like in such a large discussion where everything is drowned out, sharing the same link repeatedly in different places (if relevant to each of those sub discussions) isn’t so bad?
What makes you so sure? They have already said that certain events (e.g., Russia itself being "threatened") would make them use nukes.

We are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine and Russia/Putin knows this. If he decides to use nukes what are we going to do? What can we do?
Nothing like being stuck betweentwo hegemons to galvanize a continent.

As an American: I stand with Europe.
Especially since Nvidia just released quarterly earnings this week. That's the real reason for the big movements.
I mean I'm real content to blame the environmentalist movement on this, which very obviously bifurcates into "pragmatists" and "anti-nuclear". The anti-nuclear people will pay lipservice to everything else, but it's abundantly clear that their top priority at all junctions was eliminating nuclear power regardless of consequences and they'd believe convenient lies to that goal ("the natural gas is just temporary. We'll definitely stop using Nordstream voluntarily...")
It's common, doesn't mean it's secure.
A lot of linux distros in their packaging will separate download (allows outbound to fetch dependencies), from build (no outside access).

Unfortunately, in some ecosystems, even downloading packages using the native package managers is unsafe because of postinstall scripts or equivalent.
Europe in the late 1700s is VERY different than Europe today. I don’t mean in technology or culture. I mean in foreign policy.

These are formally imperialist nations.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5170019-european-union-diplomat...

> EU’s top diplomat: ‘The free world needs a new leader’
> you must own the game.

Really weird choice of word, considering how “you can’t own the game, into a licence for it”.
63.9% of the voting eligible population voted. Meaning the other 36.1% voted for "whoever the 64% pick", giving Trump 67.7% of the total vote.
If you want the actual number, about 13 bucks per month per taxpayer[1]. So about what, three to four coffees a month to protect 40 million free people from defending themselves from autocracy?

[1]https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958571
This is where tariffs would actually be appropriate since there's already an established domestic manufacturing base to protect. Don't let the Chinese drive you out of business so they can jack up prices later.
The only sovereignty being threatened here is Ukraine's.

That's the important bit. Russia needs to source soldiers from prisoners and North Koreans.
> the pioneer days when land was plentiful.

I think you mean to say "When we could steal land from the people who were originally on that land"
I've found past a certain point career-wise, troubleshooting really can't be taught. It's sort of a a mindset/attitude to me. I you are 5+ years into your career and haven't gotten there, you probably just don't care. It's the attitude of a developer who is indifferent to the craft and just wants to cobble together found code as quickly as possible to move onto the next thing.

A good troubleshooter can enable higher output across a team because they are like grease in the machine. Particularly indifferent troubleshooters become a net drag because instead of being able to help others they are always interrupting others for help.
If skills and knowledge matter less and less because technology and automation grow over time, what matters if not already existing wealth? Might be an hyperbole dictated by the current times, who knows.
Not marttt, but I'm a big fan of beancount after using it for the past few years for my company's books. Recycling an old comment of mine that might be helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37937942 (more upthread from that as well)
Musk suggests retired air traffic controllers consider returning to job
Because all the allies signed a treaty promising exactly that: we'll come and die for you. It's the whole point of an alliance! You don't consider someone an ally if you can't count on them to show up!
> I honestly don't think there's anything Trump could do to lose the support of his MAGA base.

We have ample precedent: Germany in 1945.
Perhaps because it impacts crim groups daddy Putin likes.
$$$ probably...
It already does, don’t go to russia in any case if you’ve donated even few bucks.
I'm not suggesting the US has ever been literally the only NATO member supplying arms. I'm suggesting US companies have gone from the top of the list for a lot of procurement contracts to the bottom.
Please see this helpful clarification post:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...
I guess we'll see, but I'm not holding my breath.