skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but the other countries were already added, so the pressure for Russia was building up. So I don't understand why it would be an unexpected action of Russia.
I don't know but we're in a thread about Cursor... I don't think anyone is writing significantly better code using Cursor.
Makes me think of this neal fun game: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/
It is true that this does not seem to be their strategy, but the previous strategy to date was actually showing measurable improvements and specific applications, not "vibes". What I said is far-fetched, but still I fail to understand the whole point here, because they do not really explain it.

But maybe we just hit the point that the improvement of performance hit the slowing down part of a logistic curve, while the cost keeps increasing exponentially.
> 1. It provides a way for Ukraine to become a client of US defense instead of a an aid recipient. That is, it allows Ukraine to pay for the weapons it receives.

The text I saw was for the formation of a jointly (US/UA) owned entity which would decide how to reinvest 50% of the profits from UA State owned minerals/related infrastructure.

Unless "reinvest" means "give to US", I don't see this point happening.

> 2. It puts Americans on the ground in Ukraine in a non-military capacity. This introduces a new diplomatic dimension, as attacking or occupying land with significant American presence is not desirable.

In what way? we're not talking about any US State investment, and any US private investment would be crazy, given the war and possibility of future war. No one would invest there.

> 3. It provides money for an investment fund for rebuilding Ukraine.

It's money that exists anyway, only now it's in a fund jointly controlled by US/UA rather than being controlled only by UA.
I don't think Trump will bring peace to Ukraine and he seems to be operating on an "America-First, forget about Europe" policy.

However, if by "genociding Ukrainian people" you mean eradicating the population of Ukraine that considers itself distinct from Russia, Trump could conceivably stop the war by letting Russia hold onto territories it owns, while having the rest of Ukraine as a protectorate of various European powers that may eventually bring it into the EU.

This might result in a populatin exchange as Russian speakers get sent to the Russian-held parts of Ukraine and vice-versa. This would not be good but it would not be a genocide either. You can also look at the Indian partition for an example of how this could go horribly wrong.
You are also literally living in the comments.

Stop trying to make your opinions bigger than there are.
The whole point of magic cloud platforms is to upcharge for everything and convince people there's no other way to run software.
I'm not talking about the fact that Ukraine is seeking NATO membership now, I'm talking about the fact that NATO agreed to not expand to Russian borders and did anyway, putting pressure on Russia.
Why replace PGN, which any decent chess player can simply read and follow (1 e4 e5, 2 Nf3 Nf6…), or if needed play out on a chessboard, with such a huge, unparseable monstrosity?

PGN [1] already supports all the features of BGN. The only complaint of not having long algebraic notation can simply be added as a comment, maintaining the simple readability of PGN. And then it works with the extensive ecosystem of existing tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation
Interactive gmae embedded directly into an X post (web client only)
Little known, but there is already calendar(1) [1] in OpenBSD with much more sane format.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/calendar.1
EU and USA have provided immense support for UA, about 250 billion USD in total IIRC.

On the face of it, it's not obvious that he's doing a bad job.
Interesting how you overlook Japan's strong judicial independence, press freedom, and regular peaceful transitions of power to focus on ethno-nationalism.

Meanwhile, Hungary systematically dismantles judicial independence, crushes media freedom, and rewrites electoral rules to entrench single-party rule - but sure, they're the real liberals here.

The proposed alliance isn't claiming perfect members - it's establishing clear, measurable standards through indices *like* WJP Rule of Law. If Japan doesn't meet the 0.67 threshold, they're out too. That's the whole point: consistent standards applied equally, not convenient exceptions.

But please, continue defending Orbán's "illiberal democracy" while nitpicking flaws in actual functioning democracies. That's definitely a coherent position.
It's a funny kind of myopia that causes companies to generate 'consistency' in ways that only make sense internally rather from customers' perspectives. 100% of Skype on IOS users interact with other IOS apps, vs some considerably smaller amount use Skype on Windows Phone or even Windows Desktop. When the conventions disagree the choice should be obvious...
90% of all of that is just having a great product that is better then any other solution. Rest is details.
Thanks, I will check it out.

What I also don't understand is that I'm being downvoted just for asking a sincere question. What am I doing wrong?
Do the DHS estimates of the illegal immigrant population include those who have applied for asylum?

In any case, until 2023, the number of asylum applications per year was pretty low.
Your account is 1 hour old, your opinion is invalid.
Half the comments here are nitpicking the car mechanic analogy (naturally), the other half are complaining about the site shitting the bed.

Yes, debugging is important, and too many people can't do it, which is unsettling considering how many bugs those people are putting into the code in the first place.
They agree with you and the results are clear. I am not advocating anything, I left that mess behind because I am not interested in living like that.
The creator of uBlock is again trying to make uBlock Origin Lite work in Safari.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52#issuecom...

They might need some help, not much visible progress since it started.
If you asked some random selection of technical people, "hey if Mozilla just went ahead and made a ToS which gives Mozilla a broad license to anything you enter into Firefox, then removed the text 'Mozilla won't sell your data' from their FAQ pages, how would people react?" I think 99.9% of people would've predicted that the reaction would be negative.

These things aren't as impossible to anticipate as you pretend. This backlash is 100% predictable, 100% Mozilla's fault, and 100% deserved.
And every single one is "Microsoft".
> Incidentally, China used to think like a maritime power as well - until Xi became president.

Historically, China is probably the single least ocean-focused country of any country to have a coast.
Salesforce is building Moirai for that part
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/moirai/
France and the UK are the obvious candidates, as both are nuclear powers.
Ideally there would be some coordination at the EU level, but really hard to see that short term.
Just cut out the middleman and use Google directly.
> "The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically

That doesn't really make any sense. There is no magical deity that arbitrates rules of English. It is merely a tool invented by humans to use as they please. The only semblance of "incorrectness" that might be found is in failing to communicate with the reader, but in this case you clearly had no trouble understanding what "the Ukraine" meant and I suspect nobody else has either.

> and politically

This makes more sense and is a much stronger point, but political correctness is bound to intent. There is no evidence I can see that suggests "the Ukraine" was previously used with intent to offend or marginalize the people of Ukraine. Even if "the Ukraine" can be used as a politically incorrect device, that does not imply that all usage is politically incorrect.

> It’s called Ukraine.

Officially that is true, but there is typically nothing official about a casual comment made on Hacker News. As before, context is significant, and there is nothing in the context that I can see that suggests that the comment was made in some kind of official capacity.
Literally all “promises” mean nothing unless backed up by force.

The government was a nice backplane to ensure that, but now that its decisions are unreliable, all interactions with other parties are under these natural law rules.

I don’t think this being AI really changes the deal given that starting situation
> Former 11A, btw

You say that like it's a relevant qualification.

I would also like to mention that quoting past military service in a discussion on geopolitics is boot as fuck. So is referring to your trade by it's ID number and not just it's name.

So, y'know, okay boot.
Note this is from last October, this is already in place. A coworker uses it to commute more that 100km each way.

As the workers mentioned, this is a way to bankrupt the state company so it can be privatised or saddled with debt. These trains trips were profitable, and subsidized others connections. The state did not transfer more money for this service, unlike the Carris Metropolitana, a single bus brand that is operated by several private companies, mostly French anf German.
We need to come up with a name for that, considering how often it happens.
A lot of Americans missed that cue. I think that old-fashioned Americans avoid applying psychoanalysis to politics because they’re afraid to fit in with cynics.
So you're saying one more LLM?
Brightintosh is the same as Vivid (roughly) and is actually open source, but the author ships the binaries as a Mac app store purchase for $2:

https://github.com/niklasr22/BrightIntosh
EU reaps what the U.S. sawed.
China has little to nothing to gain from being an allied of Russia.

China needs to export to the West to survive. The Russian market is not able to absorb what China needs to sell.

China has already distanced itself from Russia. China’s happy to sell Russia what it can buy, but there is no real upside to that relationship.
I feel like you're deliberately ignoring the crux of the issue: a web browser's job does not require anything remotely resembling a copyright license from the user to the browser vendor.

Yes, Mozilla has been developing and acquiring a host of other services, many of which do involve Mozilla taking possession of user data and processing it. Those services need legal policies that cover Mozilla doing stuff with your data. A web browser does not, because the vendor of the web browser does not need to know what you're doing with your copy of the browser.

Mozilla the legal entity that can be the recipient of a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license is not the same as Firefox with PID 3808 on my machine. PID 3808 does not need, and cannot need, and cannot receive a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to anything. PID 3808 is not a legal person. This fundamental distinction between code I'm running on my machine and services provided by Mozilla is why the legal terms of use for Firefox should not be lumped in to the same document as the terms of use for Mozilla's various services.

Mozilla the legal entity does not need a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to the comments I post to HN using my copy of Firefox, any more than Netgear the legal entity needs a license to those comments because a Netgear box is transmitting those packets.
I'm arguing that, if a fertilised egg is really capable of fundamentally more than computers will ever be, then the only possible explanation is that the egg posseses extraphysical properties not possessed by any computer. (And I'm strongly hinting that this "explanation" should be considered laughable in this day and age.)
Also, why do you feel threatened by like-minded countries taking care of their own security?

The right way for you is only if they are bullied without complaint?

Perhaps you'd prefer an alliance where authoritarian tendencies are celebrated rather than scrutinized?

Or maybe you just find democracies protecting themselves too... inconvenient?
> I saw years of uptime on those systems

This just means security updates were never installed.

(Or you claim that all those operating systems never had kernel-level security issues which seems doubtful...)
The problem is it's a point widely pushed by Russian propagandists.

True or not, earnest or not in inquiry, people will reflexively judge it all the same.
> All that is needed is sanctions and enough resources for Ukraine to defend itself.

Whatever makes you think Russia won't drop a nuke?

Edit: Since people seem confused - I mean on Ukraine. Not on the US.
That's what a bad manager would do.

The employee made a mistake and you just paid for them to learn about it. Why would you fire someone you just educated?
Have been there, done that.

The answer is a support window. If they are in bounds and have active maintenance contracts, support them.

If not, give them an option to get on support, or wish them luck.

Then the other answer is to really think releases through.

None of it is cheap. But it can be managed.
I don't agree that it is a bad look. People on welfare are taking from the system and people who cross our borders and enter and stay in our country without visas are illegal. People who look at such things with "horror" dehumanize the conversation by refusing to admit the harsh truths of the world. It is like they bathe themselves in weakness and virtue signaling. They hide from how cruel the world is and try to bring everything down to some tame level that doesn't exist solely so they can control the discourse.
Diplomacy has been tried multiple times before, even with security guarantees from the usa. Still Putin invaded. There can not be lasting peace without actual guarantees (for which use is not even a trustworthy party anymore). Because Putin will rebuild and invade again as he did after the last time.

This is what Zelensky tried to explain to Vance before the discussion blew up.
Show HN: PG-Capture – a better way to sync Postgres with Algolia (or Elastic)
Hello HN!
Keeping Elasticsearch or Algolia in sync with Postgres is a pain when your data spans multiple tables. Traditional CDC tools like Debezium capture table-level events but don’t help when you need to index a full entity composed of related records. That's why I built PG-Capture.

PG-Capture lets you define a schema as complex as you need, aggregate table-level events, and reconstruct structured objects spanning multiple tables. It then publishes them as meaningful domain-level events to any queue (RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).

PG-Capture does NOT replace Debezium, it works on top of it (or any other event source). This keeps it flexible and tool-agnostic.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Does this solve a problem you've run into? Would you use something like this in your stack? Feedback is welcome!
> the only possible explanation is that the egg posseses extraphysical properties

This is wrong. Computability is by no means the same as physicality. That's the whole point and you're just ignoring it to make some strawman accusation of ridiculousness.
Hi, OP here. I love your suggestions, and I love the way HN comments turn. I play this for fun and never really thought of creative strategies like yours, but they are great ! I will definitely use them next time to win with my son :)
Yep.

And anyone who does will find a percentage of users figure it out and then just get back to work.
Regardless of whether there is a drawn up agreement, still the expansion of NATO to the Russian borders is putting pressure on Russia I would assume, and can cause conflicts.

But yeah it would certainly help if they would make the agreement more official.
It is not a new idea, but France would love to have others pay for their nuclear weapons, without giving up control. So yes, it will be a while to sort this out, but the box is open now. It is clear that own nukes are the only thing, the big powers respect. So many countries will pursue them now.

And building a simple nuke is not that complicated - when you have the nuclear material. Europe does.
> Those same people could hold up in a compound today.

If they did that, you'd be outside being happy or something happy-adjacent.

> if things go bad their 20 security detail won’t protect them later.

That's... very optimistic, to say the least. Historically it's not been the case.
You, Germany, need Hungary selling you Russian LNG, as you, Germany put your head up into your ass with sanctions against Russia.

You either change your position or your economy will continue to degrade and more of your factories will get closed and you will lose more positions on the market of automobiles and will get higher unemployment rate and higher unrest levels. And given your multicultural policy of welcoming Muslim immigrants - the unrest may get accelerated with just a few more "incidents" where someone rides into a crowd again or decides to start a jihad on some street in one of your cities.
Thanks for letting me know. That’s not my choice but AdSense. However, I can manually disable ads like this one, I’ll look into it.
My country was invaded many times. We have lost some chunk of land which we can't get back unless there is all out war with countless life lost. We are third world country we don't have backing of US to continue a prolonged war.
I think their point is that they build on top of Firefox. If Firefox died tomorrow, Librewolf would die with it.
SpaceX Flacon 9 nozzles contain nyobium which is mined in Ukraine. It has been a problem since that invasion, and one of the reasons SpaceX sometimes flies short stubby nozzles when possible.
I am super confused right now: "Hydrogen is typically impossible to study in liquid form — it becomes a solid at -259°C (-434°F)"

And yet if you Google "liquid hydrogen", there are hundreds of articles about liquid hydrogen...

I'm no chemist but ?!?. What am I missing?
Well if you are in war with a country, you should at least try to understanding their perspective from their viewpoint to understand their motivations. If you want to prevent more conflict at least..
Personally, I'm happy to see those empty spaces. It's a reminder of what we're up against and that my defenses are holding.
1. What property of a fertilised egg enables it to compute uncomputable things?

2. If that property is a physical property, what prevents simulation of it?
There will always be work for people who are smart, hard-working, creative, and willing to do exactly what their billionaire-owner asks.
The US was helping Ukraine because they were fighting against Russia. It was a proxy war in the US's interest.

Withdrawing from it, therefore, by prior US foreign policy, would be against US interests.

We'll find out eventually.
Yeah, and the emperor has no clothes
I don't think this is the future or anyone is boxed in.

Trump & Co are by no measure the sharpest tools in the shed. In Trumps own words they have been up against some really inept people, who have all lost credibility.

Therefore the counter-reaction, which is building, will come, and it won't look like what Trump & Co are used to dealing with in the past. I think that's what interesting about where the story goes next. Whose is going to lead? What are they going to stand for? How are they going to organize? Its an opportunity for the best in America to shine.
Riiight. Just when someone you don't like gets elected as a president - you instantly claim that that country isn't democratic anymore.
GPT-4.5: Silicon Valley's Most Sophisticated Con Artist
What is incorrect? EU buys a lot less russian gas than it used to - that is an undeniable fact. And how exactly is russian gas re-routed through India to EU? Have you looked at a map lately? There is nothing in any other country that can match the output that was being piped directly to the EU from Russia. The pipelines to India and Azerbaijan are a tiny fractions of what was going to EU even when running at 100% capacity.
The US hasn't been doing the heavy lifting. It's been Europe.

They were doing the bare minimum under Biden, and are now actively helping Putin.
Ask HN: AI tools for realtime answers in online interview, recommendation?
Hey HN,

I have some upcoming online live interviews and I'm looking for tools that can help provide real-time answers or assistance during these sessions. I've heard there are some AI tools specifically designed for this purpose.

Has anyone here used any such tools? Would appreciate your recommendations and experiences - what worked well and what didn't.

Thanks in advance!
> It's a design flaw. It should be nearly impossible to delete data accidentally. And it should be possible to roll back state in IIAC.

Still not envisioning what your expected solution would look like.

You check the plan, you asses the actions it will take and you either abandon the plan or apply it. You can't roll back destructive changes in cloud environments that's not possible today for obvious reasons.

What IaC does provide is a mechanism to quickly rebuild if you do accidentally wipe out resources.

I've worked in environments were our entire fleet was wiped out by AWS (thousands of VMs) and we were able to rebuild in hours because of IaC.

> No serious organization with any scale is going to have the only thing standing between them and a production database deletion being two over tired engineers rubber stamping each other's code changes.

Most "serious organizations" either have policy as code (Sentinel) or are running Terraform with credentials/roles that have reduced capabilities.

> Bad config pushes to prod do happen and they can cause outages like the 2024 Cloudstrike outage. You don't want a tool that takes a minor (but significant) error and turns it into a catastrophic one because of poorly thought out semantics. It's better to just start with a tool that requires at least two engineers to explicitly sign off on deletion.

This is a criticism of all software/infrastructure deployments with no guardrails. There's nothing stopping you from having two engineers sign off on a TF plan. You can absolutely build that system on top of whatever pipeline you are running.

* Funny you mention databases because that's one of the few AWS resources that can be guarded in TF directly - https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...
I bet the economy of U.S. will only prosper under Trump and Vance.
>they need to take control of their own destiny

They could've understood this in 2014 when Nuland said "Fuck the EU"[0], and the US pressed on with the coup in the Ukraine setting off the chain of events that has led us all to where we are now.

>Given the American people voted for this guy twice

American people voted twice for George W. Bush, the second time after the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. This might have given a hint.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
Could this be an employee retention strategy? Making people use bad tooling, so that they can be proud of knowing the bad tooling no one else in the industry uses and when those people feel like looking for something new, "no one values their knowledge" in those obscure tools, so they stay at IBM?
You know I don't actually follow that take to be honest. I find this an interesting and important topic. So I am responding where a statement trips my fancy. I mean I am getting down voted all the time so not like I am doing it for the attention. I have opinions on this and have been thinking about the geo political climate intently for the last few years, as such I see no reason I can't chime in. Is there some policy about not being overly engaged in a topic I was unaware of?
Oh that's where it comes from ! I couldn't find it, thank you so much ! I will edit my article with the link.
(autocorrect was vibes-based already: real-world engineering, not engendering)