skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not a private gathering, though. This was a public conference held by the President of the United States. That is the government choosing who is allowed to speak and who isn't.

I'm by no means a free speech absolutist, but there are certain things that are huge red flags for freedom of press and freedom of expression. The government moving against press that is critical of it is dangerous. We should always be wary when that happens.
Of course it was. Look at Trump's facial expression. He was calmly waiting to attack. Everyone had become desensitized to previous antics, so they had to escalate, just like on any good TV show.

People need to understand that who they're dealing with a trolls, not idiots or geniuses. The two negotiating strategies are to 1. provoke 2. create uncertainty. This seems to be extremely efficient at getting them attention, emotionally exhausting opposition, keeping counterparts off-balance and has the benefit of being able to make them a lot of money, considering that they're in control of market instability.
See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo
Well said. I completely agree.
time dilation
>if viable

Well, fortunately there's no way it could be viable, but that's relying on China and Russia to not fall for it.
Probably.

Given the systemic corruption elsewhere, I can’t summon anger about this until I can verify if the utility is necessary and uniquely provided by Starlink. If so, then this is just bad optics. If not, it should be aggressively fought.
And to fabricate consent, probably
Why is Europe our ally? Why is Russia our enemy? Can the entire world be divvied up between allies/enemies of America? Perhaps so, but does it need to be that way? Can countries just be, other countries? This is what I don't understand, ever since the Soviet Union fell, there hasn't really been a big bad. Capitalism won. America won. How did Russia end up being our enemies again, and will they be our enemies forever? Europe isn't our enemy today, could they be America's "enemy" tomorrow? I don't think the world is as simplistic as "friends" and "enemies".
Circumstances didn't change though. Ukrainian borders were guaranteed by Russia and US (and some European countries too I think) unconditionally. Ukraine didn't attack Russia, quite the opposite. And as per my first post, in the first attack Russia didn't even pretend they had a cause - they pretended it wasn't them.

> treaties [...] are worth nothing without the will and power to enforce them

Well, precisely. Russia has demonstrated time and again that they don't honor agreements. Any agreement where you give Russia something today in exchange for something tomorrow just doesn't work.
> it's completely untrue when you consider how much of his base is currently fuming about weak Epstein annoucement and Israel more generally

Yeah, but they're not going to do anything about it.
American liberal propaganda is so powerful because liberals sincerely are incapable of seeing it because they take it as fact.

What's odd is that, despite considering themselves "left", no one them seem to have gotten through enough Marx to understand the concept of "ideology" which is the basis for their distorted worldview.

I always felt this 4chan Harry Potter copypasta perfectly captured contemporary American liberal ideology: https://preview.redd.it/qiqe74sl19141.jpg?auto=webp&s=07645c...
Going to bat for AP and Reuters, golly
Even if Trump seems to behave like in case C there could be others like

D Russia can blackmail Trump

E Russia pay Trump to act in favour of of Russia even at the cost of US interest.
Zelensky would really like this war to end (he said so in the meeting), but he also realizes that Putin can't be trusted - give him an inch and he'll take a mile. The kind of "peace" that Trump wants is the "peace in our times" of Chamberlain or the "peace" of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact - the kind of "peace" that ultimately leads to more war.
Fractal branching structures (trees), which maximise radiating surface area, don't make good pressurised vessels.
For every dollar that we pour in, Russia is losing many more

It also can't be stated enough when dollar amounts are talked about...

Much of the value sent to Ukraine was equipment that was already purchased and was warehoused. In a sense, that cost us nothing. Some of that equipment was already slated for replacement. The equipment that will need to be repurchased is primarily purchased from American companies.

So it burns me up when people talk about how we sent $XYZ billion dollars of aid to Ukraine without understanding that the real cost to America was far far far less.
exactly, giving Putin what he wants is more important than "looking good", whatever that means.

Ukraine's only hope is that the US stays out of it now, rather than joins Russia. Europe has a losing battle on our hands now.
It was a setup
What specific problem are you looking to solve?
As others have mentioned, game jams really are your best friend here, though where I see a lot of people make a mistake is thinking that game jams must be an organised event, when in reality you can do your own at any time. You miss some of the fun and feedback of a proper jam, but it's certainly better than restricting yourself to doing it a few times a year (when your schedule and theirs happens to align).

As for resources, unfortunately game design isn't as much of a "studied" field (for lack of a better word) as something like software dev. There's some great YouTube videos and blog entries and even a few good books, but its such a situationally dependant field that you'll need to know how to at least apply your own spin on whatever is recommended to fit your own projects, hence why, for me, game jams are king.

A few other tips I've picked up other the years:
1. Playing games helps, but if you're playing familiar games, you're not going to get much new out of them. You need to go underground, far beyond the safety of the front page of steam (or steam all together). PICO-8 and its splore browser is great for this (incidentally, PICO-8 is also great for game jams too!)

2. Similar to the above, different experiences help you generate different ideas. This can be found through your work by trying new technologies, new ways of doing things, playing with different genres you wouldn't otherwise touch, but also in your personal life, doing things you wouldn't ordinarily do. Just like the above, if you don't change the input you shouldn't expect much of a change in output.

3. Have a little notebook on your desk and anything that pops into your head, write it down, even if it seems absurd. A lot of my breakthroughs haven't come all at once, but rather picking out the best bits from a lot of ideas that otherwise couldn't have stood on their own. In my view, a physical notebook is much better than using your phone or notion or whatever, but I don't really have any solid reason to back that up so idk, ymmv.

4. Not much to say on this one, but keep it simple. It's far better to spend your time making a solid, if simple, base game, than endlessly tacking on features and content to a core that isn't working.

5. Also not gonna say much on this one, because it's a rule I don't follow to my own, very much self-aware, detriment; you need to be disposable with your ideas and plans. Maybe Space Zero just isn't a fun idea, take what you've learnt, drop it and move onto the next project. To be fair, that one can be a double edged sword. New devs do this far too easily, not letting themselves ever finish anything, which is obviously no better.
Once again, DeepSeek continues with another home run.

Can't wait to see what they release next. DeepSeek should be studied carefully.
How is it not in American interest to stop wasting money on a proxy war? Yes, Russia should not have invaded Ukraine, but they did and they have basically won.

If news reports are at all accurate, our military isn't as great as we think (our of resources to send to Ukraine, poor ability to resupply quickly) it is and the theater of war has changed to be more drone focused than ever before.

Why have there been next to no peace talks since the beginning of the war? How much more money will we spend on another quagmire of intervention? There are plenty of issues here at home that need more attention and money than this proxy war. Like our unsustainable debt.
It sure is awesome having a president where whenever they say anything that's obviously false, it's a toss-up whether it's dishonesty, senility, or just plain ignorance.
Yup, I’d wager that given how the meeting had gone thus far, he made the strategic decision to specifically do this. He knew that this would be spun in whatever way Trump wanted, so it was better to win another point with the group that is smart enough to look past the talking points that Trump is going to push onto the media.
Factory Pattern: Producing Objects, Pooling Resources
It's WELL worth it in my opinion :) Cheers!
I agree. Although we should not downplay how vulnerable democracy can be to outside influence. And that can have significant negative consequences. Particularly as things like "national interest" are so debatable.
Browsers sort of went from a network document viewer with forms, to a whole application platform. It's sort of like grafting on changes to Acrobat Reader so it becomes a PDF viewer with WinForms + DirectX.

The fact that we expect basic text-and-image websites to display along side full online 3D games using GPU acceleration and might even interface with a few web assembly modules... is sort of insane. It's all just an application platform now.

I think that just means that browser complexity grows with the complexity of software globally.
1. The US has shed blood for far less serious reasons. Less than 5 years ago we were "shedding blood" for opium farms in the middle east.

2. As it stands today, the US comes out on top. They paid a measly sum to throw Russia in the meat grinder and it will take decades until Russia is threat to the US again.

3. Our military hawks now get to focus on China. EU still has to worry about Russia
You should continue to be cautious, as the Guardian article is pretty weak. It's first point is that Russia wasn't mentioned in a talk about cyber threats, which means very little by itself. It's second and final point comes from an "anonymous source". I'll believe it when the source becomes de-anonymized. Too many deep state "anonymous tips" have turned out to be lies. It should be noted that CISA has a history of strong leftwing activism:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-cybersecurity-defense-age...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-colluded...

Trump is not far right and never has been. He's actually moderate on most issues. The current far right position is the Tucker Carlson "isolation at all costs" and "Putin maybe isn't a bad guy" garbage. Trump holds neither of those views.
>It’s obvious that Poland or the Baltics would be next, and the further they let Putin go the worse it gets.

Poland would wipe the floor with Russia.
I think start participating in protests to begin with.
There’s something I don’t understand. Improving the low-light performance of CMOS sensors is a long-standing, well-studied problem—one that academia and industry have poured millions of dollars into, from iPhone photography to fluorescence microscopy. How is it possible that a young team has “cracked it” with performance that appears to be 100 times better than the state of the art in their demo photos?

As I understand it, AI cannot surpass the fundamental limits of information theory. This means their method should achieve performance similar to “classical” denoising approaches—unless they are “filling in the information gaps” using AI, which sounds like a really bad idea, especially if they’re marketing their technology for military applications!
They will not get any. Let us be real, nobody really cares about Ukraine. If a country truly cared, they would have sent their own troops towards Ukraine on day one of the invasion. Nobody will agree to potentially fight in a war against a nuclear [super] power to protect Ukrainian sovereignty.
Greenland and Gaza are just minor exceptions that confirm the rule, right.

There's one thing T cares about. T.

Zelenski said bad things about him to the dems. Noughty Zelenski, let's publicly humiliate him with the help of my dog V.
No real security guarantees also means tens of thousands of lives lost when Russia gets back into gear and tries to take Ukraine a second time.
Alex Krainer has speculated that Zelenskyy literally can't sign a mineral deal because those rights were a secret part of the UK/Ukraine 100 Year Partnership deal, making this all a bunch of theater.
On an SSD, random and sequential reads have nearly the exact same performance. Even on large arrays of spinning rust this is essentially true.
The killing won't stop until Russia is firmly stopped. There is no peace without completely and permanently pacifying Russia. They will attack again and again until we render them unable to continue. The best time to do this is thirty years ago, the second best time is now.
A bit of an issue is that the Firefox terms of use page [1] says "Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy", and the Acceptable Use Policy link points to their Acceptable Use Policy page regarding Mozilla services [2].

So either they're saying your use of Firefox, regardless of whether you want to use Mozilla services, must also follow the same acceptable use policy that your use of their services would, or it's a massively ambiguous way of saying your use of Firefox in combination with actual Mozilla services must comply with the policy.

If it's the former, their terms of use would be in conflict with the commonly understood definition of open source and free software licensing. If it's the latter, it's just poor legalese that fails to make its intent clear. (Interestingly, the Mozilla Public License does not seem to explicitly say that there are no restrictions regarding the use of the software for any particular purpose, although that is a commonly accepted part of the definition of free software and open source.)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250228155328/https://www.mozil...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/
At the bare minimum educate yourself on the matter before expressing yourself in public
Pretty sure Ukraine shelled its own people for ~6 years before that.
Is this similar to wBlock?
Isn't it heavy weaponry is mostly the junk that US military didn't want to use. Mostly expired weapons.
Harvard-Harris poll have a well known right wing bias, enough so that Harvard students are calling to disassociate from them. They’re especially flagrant in how they lead on the poll respondents. For example, they use Israel vs Hamas instead of Israel vs Palestinenin their poll questions.

A more neutral and far more informative and useful poll is YouGov-Economist poll. Their methodology is based on app polling instead of phone polling. They subdivide their responses based on demographics, and they poll every week, often repeating the same questions to gauge trends for very detailed analysis.

Wish more pollsters were like YouGov.
US population: 340M

- an American citizen who wasn't able to vote in multiple presidential elections due to nonsense like being unregistered without notification in a state with an early registration deadline
Like Belgium.

Oh wait...
>Yes, the UN has attempted many more resolutions against Israel than against China for its treatment of millions of Uyghurs, North Korea for enslaving its entire population, Russia for murdering tens of thousands, Iran for its direct terrorism, and the list goes on. Which is not exactly the ethical high ground you seem to think it is.

Whataboutism.

When China starts bombing hospitals, let us know.
”There is an app from Sindre Sorhus” is a complete sentence. :)

(Command-X is nice, even for a long time Mac user)
Out of curiosity, what sources of information do you trust more than AP and Reuters?
The following EU countries offer skilled worker visas: Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Denmark. Also non-EU places such as Aus and NZ.
yep, it can be detected in JS and even CSS with a media query: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Depends on how the dev wants to implement it, usually when I'm throwing a small animation on a site I'll silently respect the preference and skip the animation without an override option, but for a site like this I'd expect an override switch.
I am of the glum opinion that the hideously interwoven nature of our immune system is at least partly a security feature rather than an engineering flaw.

That said, we might still learn from the success of its contemporary attackers, who haven't been slacking over the past millions of years either.
The actual study is about exposure to pretty extreme violence during pregnancy having epigenetic effects beyond one generation to F4. This is the first study to ever present such evidence in humans since some caution is warranted here with any conclusions.
I don't know. People used to say during the Cold War that deterrence works. If it doesn't work, a nuclear war is unavoidable anyway.
It will always be a bad deal for Ukraine. This has never been about Ukraine, it as been about who will control their resources Russia, NATO Europe or the US. For that last two years Europe and the US have assumed they were on the same team and Trump is simply decided in might make more sense for us to side with Russia.

There was no future where the Ukraine was not exploited by fossil fuel companies and only propaganda separates which is the "good" side to control these and which is the "bad".

I'm genuinely surprised by the mass naivete surrounding this war.
It's preposterous to frame the whole thing about being isolationism or not. As if it's just a matter of "walking away" from Ukraine and letting them sort it out.

In fact the US under Trump doesn't intend on doing that. It's not content to let Ukraine fight it out with Europes support. It's actively trying to force Ukraine down a path of American & Russian choosing, and trying to take Ukraine's resources in the process.

Trump is trying to carve up Ukraine along with Russia. That's not isolationism.

This is not isolationism and walking away from Europe to leave it to its own devices, even if that's how some on the American right are trying to receive it. It's actually imperialism. And imperialism in coordination with another imperialist power.

Are you in favour of that?
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Unless Trump wants to start WW3 the US won't be able to do anything, and even if he did start WW3, Europe would be able to destroy those bases.

The whole point of them was to give the US influence while improving US security. Given Europe can't trust Trump will come to their aid, they won't give the US as much influence over Europe.
There’s 0 chance Zelensky signed with the UK if there was a possibility to secure the US instead
It's all about appearances with him, all the time.

The best way to get him to do something you want, is to stroke his ego, make him look good publicly.
I think there's a large portion (let's call it 22.47%... aka the percentage that voted for Kamala) know exactly what's going on, care a ton, and lost the election.

And then there's a large percentage for whom this whole thing just feels futile. It's not that they don't care, but they dislike Trump and feel like Democrats are unable/unwilling to rise to the occasion. (After all, 4 years later, Democrats just fired up the republican base and did nothing to protect Americans)
It does but most western countries have a double-tax agreement with the US so you won't end up paying any tax to the US
If you think it's fake you're misunderstanding its purpose.

Its purpose is not to describe how the brain works at a mechanical level, its purpose is to be a useful concept. And it is a useful concept.
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We charged the UK quite heavily for our support. Quoting from (https://yarchive.net/space/politics/lend_lease.html)

In a political sense, well, that's much more debatable. The problem there is that because the US itself did not feel threatened, US aid came with a price tag: the impoverishment of Britain and the demolition of the trade barriers around the British Commonwealth. US aid was on a cash-only basis
until Britain had spent all its hard-currency reserves (both gold and negotiable securities). Then came the Lend-Lease agreement -- arguably the point where the US truly entered the war -- and its price tag was explicit, although unadvertised: the agreement itself contains a clause
stipulating the removal of the Commonwealth's trade barriers.
Every single poll during the Gaza war has shown majority support from Americans that "israel has a right to defend itself" and "the US should support israel until the hostages are returned".

I don't understand why people think it's a conspiracy theory that Americans are fine with Israel bombing innocent brown people in the desert, since we did that ourselves for 20 years on the back of actual lies and a general hatred of Islam that is still here today, where we have re-elected the guy who made a literal muslim ban, and still insist that islam is a threat through "migrants".

Americans have very little empathy for brown people in the middle east. Israel has a much more "westernized" vibe for Americans, so of course they can empathize with them more. Remember that any American over the age of 20 have seen MULTIPLE TIMES that there was "relative calm" and then Hamas started killing innocent jewish people. If you are older, you remember when all these countries openly called for the extermination of Israel as explicit foreign policy.

As of a few days ago, 33% of DEMOCRATS still see israel in a positive light https://news.gallup.com/poll/657125/views-israel-ukraine-mex...

You can argue that the AIPAC influences american's opinion, but it is actual american reported opinion that we should support Israel in their extermination of "terrorists".
That's what "deterrence value" means.
> how quickly the US can turn from ally to bully

As if this lesson hasn't been conveyed for the past 30 years.

How anyone can sit here after the Iraq war and say any of this with a straight face is beyond me.
It's a weird world that objecting to genocide makes you an antisemite now.

Don't support Netanyahu's weaponization of the word antisemite. It endangers Jews everywhere, and does not help Israel. It only helps Netanyahu silence his critics.
Brave sells ads and discloses aggregate-level data to advertisers, and has a history of trust-undermining transgressions mentioned upthread:

>installs VPN without asking, overriding links to insert referral codes, collecting donations for YouTubers without YouTubers even knowing about it, etc, etc
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I am working on a new idea called Auto CSS which is an AI codegen that allows you to upload a web app and then writes all of the mobile responsive code for you, that works on all screen sizes.

I published it recently but haven't been getting much traction on it. I am wrong that this problem exists.
> The generals push for territory at great expense

…by focusing on controlling sectors in mainly the East?
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He was only pro-nuke through fear that Hitler would get them first. After the war, he was as anti-nuke as Oppenheimer and the rest.