skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mozilla doesn't sell data about you (in the way that most people think about "selling data"), and we don't buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of "sale of data" is extremely broad in some places, we've had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love.

Am I the only one who reads that as "Mozilla will sell data about you, but we'll be indirect about it"?
The core problem with the EU is that the EU was never a nation. We saw this with Grexit 10 years ago. There was a common currency with no common fiscal policy. A military is yet another thing that the EU does not have because the EU is not a nation. Making the EU a nation (the way the US is) seems to be a project of very few people in Europe. They like their nations the way they are.
This is not a popular analysis. Russia has ramped up their war machine significantly over the last 2 years and have been successfully grinding Ukraine down. They can and will continue to do this. They’ve reoriented their economy around sustained military production, and the tariffs issued against Russia by the US and EU have proven to be ineffective.
It's not beyond imagination
that this will happen to the Canadian Prime Minister next.
Please elaborate how sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine is in the interests of the average Trump voter.
The regions Russia is taking from Ukraine have some value in terms of GDP. It's interesting that the Freudian slip US offering involved an additional minerals deal (as in, this is the main interest of the taking parties). Russia is not going to give back GDP, and that's probably behind the break in negotiations. Russia is not relinquishing any gains, and the US wants more resources, and there is no guarantee given to Ukraine regarding its remaining territorial integrity. They are trying to make Ukraine eat shit.
Trying to follow up with people's absurd claims here is generally considered harassment, so I find it unlikely we'll get something from your parent comment.
Can anyone tell me what the alternative is that would result in less people dying? This needs to stop NOW.
He did one mistake though, when he asked "Can I speak/say something?" to Trump, and Trump said no. This is lesson learnt for the future (for myself too in terms of public speaking).

But overall, he did rather well, considering the shit-show it was.

I still can't believe Trump publicly tries to humiliate an ally like this, and at the same time calls Biden "the stupid President".

Stupid or not, perhaps he is, but not to stay in public like that. It shows Trump doesn't respect the function of the US President and shits on the vote of the citizens.
"Peace for Our Time"/Chamberlain was at least motivated by a genuine (albeit naive) desire for peace. This is much worse insofar as motivations are concerned.
And what exactly do you think Putin will do after he successfully exits this particular engagement?

Past performance is, in fact, often quite a reliable guarantee of future results.
Ukraine knows the future of warfare and will prosper if they survive this. They will be the ones with the technology and experience in future warfare, and the USA is throwing away a chance to partner with Ukraine and guarantee such a victory.

In 20, 15, or 7 years from now when terrorists are sending drones into medium-sized cities in Alabama to kill indiscriminately, it would have been better for the USA to have been on Ukraine's side.

EDIT: better grammar, maybe
Hang on. The EU doesn't pretend to protect it's members militarily. However it's members can muster far more military force than Ukraine had. Modern tanks, modern aircraft, modern ships, modern submarines, modern artillery, more professional soldiers. NATO without the US is still a formidable force.
And an ally that was stripped of nuclear weapons with security guarantees made at that time including by the US.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-put...
"Weaker" is a function of not just your own strength, but that of your allies. Russia wants Ukraine as a way to hit at Europe.

Ukraine and its allies are a match for Russia and its. Perhaps more so, since Ukraine's allies have limited its use of force. With the US out, Ukraine may be able to exert much more force.

Which is to say Trump's judgment of who is weak is deeply compromised by his belief in single strongmen. This will not go well for him.
If SCOTUS says it's ok, then the US Constitution is completely tossed out and SCOTUS has no authority to say anything. That's not to say they wouldn't make a decision like that, but to disregard the literal text of the Constitution would make both Congress and SCOTUS unnecessary, they can be scrapped in seconds with an EO after a decision like that.
The back foot is not a terrible thing. The rate of Russian advantages is very costly and slow.
Was what happened today in the White House the best outcome for Ukraine? It is hard to see how that is the case.
What is a modern equivalent of this genre of game? I loved C&C
Or also try compiling it yourself right now.
As an American, I'm disgusted.

In my view the only way to solve this is through a complete and utter rejection of all things USA. People of Europe and the world, you can help by immediately stop buying American products, halt any travel plans you might have had here, have your goverments embargo us. Do everything in your power to crush our economy.

We need something extreme to make these MAGA folk and the Republicans in power break out of this authoritarian fever dream they are in.

I'd rather see this country get sick and vomit what needs to be expelled rather than have it die a slow death from this cancerous group-think that has overtaken half our population.
Worthless ?

Given it's natural ressources and geographical position it's extremely intresting. But of coures the second part is right - it's just not in the realm of possible, without going to an ugly fight with Europe.
Going to deter war in Asia by simply telling China, go for it, take Taiwan and the whole 9 dash line?

That’s not deterring war, it’s appeasement. Ask the great European powers (and eventually the US) how that worked against Hitler…
Horrible take. We’ve just told every supposed ally of ours that they can’t trust us. Trump just single handedly set back International relations by over a hundred years.

All that post WW2 good will and trust just went poof. You think Germany or France is going to support us after this?
Silenced as in, not given access to White House officials? Sorry but there is a difference between that and arresting people for things they say online.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/policing-speech-online-germany-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo
I don't think that it makes sense. Rare earth elements aren't actually very rare, they don't have a lot of market value compared to other minerals [1], and there are already abundant known deposits in North America (including the United States).

There are two main reasons that REE production is dominated by China. One is that Chinese production is low-cost. Two is that the total market demand is small, so that (absent some long term price guarantee) adding another big REE production center outside of China will probably tank the market value and lose the investors money. See the history of the Mountain Pass mine in California:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_Rare_Earth_Mine

This one mine produced most of the world's REE between 1965 and 1995. It closed in 2002 because it had a toxic spill that would be too expensive to remediate given the arrival of Chinese competition. In 2012 it reopened as a reaction to Chinese export restrictions on REE instated 2 years earlier. In 2015 global REE prices went back down and the Mountain Pass mine went bankrupt again. It resumed operating in 2018 after it was brought back out of bankruptcy. It relies on frosty US-China trade relations and government support to remain a going concern. There's not enough global demand for REE to keep Mountain Pass independently profitable whenever Chinese export restrictions get relaxed.

[1] In terms of total market value, I mean. Dysprosium has a high value per kilogram but the current annual demand for all rare earth elements combined is under $8 billion, compared to e.g. $20 billion for zinc alone.
The Scooter King*.

Mopeds have pedals.
PSA: Google Workspace users now have access to Deep Research
Google released Gemini 1.5 Pro Advanced to consumer subscribers to Gemini Advanced but, until recently, it wasn't available to Google Workspace subscribers. They could see 'Gemini Advanced' but there was either no model drop-down, or the drop-down didn't include 'Gemini 1.5 Pro Deep Research'.

Today I see (in two different paid Google Workspace accounts) that Deep Research is available. I don't know when it changed, but I'm pretty sure it was some time in the past 2 weeks.
True. Non-proliferation is dead, killed three years ago. Only when Ukraine gets Russia to the point of a Compiègne Forest railroad car end (remember how much of Germany had been occupied at that point?) there is hope for a future without widespread nuke availability.
if a foreign born person can not become president, i guess they can't become vp either?
You can end up in jail for posting "wrong" things on Facebook in the US too.. It's just a slightly different line.

> 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.

That's not true.
Monopolies are holding back innovation in the US, and I think we will start seeing the affects of which in the next decade or so
Yeah it's incredible when the mask drops this far.

Trump is a pathetic fuck, but this lines up with how he only ever plays to the domestic audience in advancing protectionist interests. We're feeling that dissonance because this kind of protectionist thinking is extremely rare, basically unheard of these days for world leaders.
Yes. If you don’t stand up now, you’ll just be in the same boat later with fewer allies.
I thought is was much ado about nothing until I heard Mozilla's clarifications. Now I suspect something really has changed in an unpleasant way.

At least all this nonsense only applies to the binaries and the terms don't apply if you build it yourself or use a build someone other than Mozilla made.
Try posting death threat about the US president on FB to see if you broke the law or not, and if it can land you in jail?

> 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.

I'm going to bet that you've never been to Europe and understand that each country has very different laws. Cherry picking some random issues from several different countries and making it seem like it a policy of the entire of the EU is silly.
The US has sided with Russia against European and Western civilisation. Don’t understate what we are witnessing. The betrayal of civilisation is almost complete.
It’s baffling. That’s switch suits some people, but how many, hundreds?

The connection with Europe would appear to benefit millions of Americans.
> I'm afraid we won't learn without getting our ass kicked.

Thats like truism. I don't see any country is learning before that.
> And the UK doesn't permit backup encryption

Apple disabled encrypted iCloud instead of giving the UK government a backdoor, or continuing to fight them on the idea in general. People in the UK can absolutely continue to encrypt my backups.
Not true. Germany can prosecute you for "insulting the public officials", Spain - for "insulting the royal family", Poland for "offending the Polish nation", Italy for widely interpreted "criminal defamation", in Greece it is illegal to insult the president, parliament or public officials, in Ukraine saying anything against the prevailing narrative lands you directly in a torture dungeon (like what happened with Gonzalo Lira, who lived in Kharkiv, and was arrested, tortured, and left to die of pneumonia by Ukrainian SBU).
I can’t tell if you’ve forgotten your sarcasm flag but none of the 9/11 terrorists entered the US through Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_conscription_crisis
> Rust has data race prevention not because it’s a good idea but because the whole language falls apart without it.

In terms of the design goals and evolution of the Rust language, this is exactly backwards. Rust was originally conceived as a garbage-collected, green-threaded language designed for concurrent programming -- think something similar to Go but with a stronger type system and no data races. The ownership model was created, first as foremost, not for memory safety but to prevent data races; and, more broadly, to help programmers reason about the correctness of their code.

Midway through development, as people started using the language & getting a feel for it, the language designers realized that the ownership model was powerful enough to express not just data race freedom but full memory safety without needing a GC (some writing from this stage in Rust's development: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/06/11/on-..., https://pcwalton.github.io/_posts/2013-06-02-removing-garbag...). So they removed the GC, and that decision positioned Rust where it is today: a nicer, memory-safe "C/C++ competitor", popular for systems code where the performance overhead or runtime complexity of a garbage collector is considered unacceptable.
How does this statement [0] align with the claim in the title? Much less that Mozilla 'announced' such a thing.

> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

Maybe we can all take a step back before jumping to conclusions so quickly.

This feels more like legal posturing than a malicious change.

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
Billions of dollars were going to flow into the coffers of the cartels either way; the people want drugs, the cartels are willing to use violence in order to organize who gets to distribute and at what prices they sell. There's no such thing as a peaceful hard-drug manufacturing operation.
American journalists aren't being silenced. One organization is being denied access to privileged executive spaces, which I disagree with and do not believe should be happening, but you need to be more honest in the language you use to describe what is happening. If you aren't, you're just as bad as the other side.
Risking American lives? How many Americans have died in the war as a result of US aid?
The French translation of the Terms of Use says they apply both to services and products:

> Vous ne pouvez pas utiliser les services et produits de Mozilla dans les buts suivants :
> elect Musk as the new VP

I think Musk is unconstitutional for that role? Not natural born Anerican.
I do something very similar for my public notes as well! I have `tn` to search for a note and open it in a browser, and `tne foo` to open my `foo.md` note in my editor, which in this case is not vim. I then commit them to git, where a post-commit hook uses mkdocs to build them, and gh-deploy to publish them EG https://danielhoherd.com/tech-notes/exiftool/ is the output of my exiftool.md note.
This is false. The EU has put up more money than the US but they have not _donated_ more money than the US. A large form of the payment from the EU has been in low interest loans.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o
Do you think maybe calling their citizens Orcs and insane rhetoric against Putin aka Hitler 2.0 might cause a great deal of tension for a country with nuclear weapons? What is your cool and calm strategy for this world dilemma?
It's not, you can do that under the video settings if you hover over the camera icon on the calling screen, or there's a device settings buried under the overflow menu as well. Haven't used Teams in a while, but I doubt it changed now.
We don't want WW3. I voted for Kamala and I still DO NOT WANT WW3.
I am sincerely curious what Andreesen and Horowitz believe at the moment.
I read that as currently but not solely or always Russia.
It's hilarious how some people actually believe Trump's lies that Ukraines support is actually freely given/a donation.

In reality, the support is literally the US selling the old garbage military equipment to the Ukraine for debt. You know, the stuff that the actual US military considers too old to actually use anymore.

Especially ironic in the context of Ukraines treaty with the US, which is why they dont have any nukes anymore. Which was most likely the reason why Russia finally felt comfortable invading them in 2014 and now.
Should've seen Athens today.
China takes Siberia. Soon. And maybe Taiwan.
An explicit endorsement of Ukraine seems a little weird as an official stance from HN.
He nearly got assassinated by the incompetence of the same people telling him to help Ukraine.
Maybe this is something that was changed on recent versions of macos but I can't reproduce this. I've tried terminal, iterm, browser windows, etc.
Same here. The open source space here is neglected. I just heard about Grafana's augurs: https://github.com/grafana/augurs
> If Europe's military were so strong, why does the US need any involvement?

Because Putin is all-in, willing to sacrife the lives of big parts of his population for this purpose. And this makes him a formidable enemy. Does it have to be more complicated than that?

If that is the first question you ask when someone needs help, I guess you will not have that many friends.
There are two truths when it comes to Ukraine. The one quietly stated in dispassionate terms by actual military and geopolitical analysts which is that in the long run Ukraine loses in virtually every scenario, but it’s in everyone except Ukraine’s best interest to drag it out and for the West to weaken Russia via aid without the political fallout of actually putting boots on the ground.

Then there’s the “Ukraine will win as long as we keep sending aid” truth that the pubic needs to believe in order to accomplish that goal of weakening Russia since the alternative is Ukraine still loses but Russia doesn’t suffer for it.

I suspect someone misguidedly told Trump the first one, and his takeaway was that if Ukraine loses anyway, why should the American taxpayer be funding needless deaths.
Nothing can get quickly implemented in the medical field.
So will we get people admitting they've been total jerks to Gary Marcus yet? Is he hyperbolic and over the top sometimes? Sure. Is he right about scaling not getting LLMs to AGI? Sure is looking like it.

I, for one, am so sick of listening to LLM fanboys wax on about "AGI" when they don't know the first goddamned thing about actual human cognition. For all his faults, Marcus studied human intelligence at a PhD level. I have only done a wee bit (music cognition as part of an interdisciplinary PhD I'm doing) and it's obvious to me, my supervisor (AI prof for 25 years) and anyone who knows anything about human cognition that LLMS are not going to get anywhere close to "thinking as well as a human" by scaling.

Bubble can't burst soon enough for me, sigh.
What an ugly thing to say.
Beyond timeline predictions, what's interesting are the Singularity's hyperstitional effects - how the very concept creates real causal impacts in the present:

"The Singularity prediction ripples backwards through waves of pre-adaptation, responding at each stage to eventualities that are yet to unfold. Change unspools from out of the future, complicating the arrow of time." [0]

[0] https://retrochronic.com/#hard-futurism
I find the idea of Trump playing "3D/4D/5D/6D chess" frankly hilarious. Hell, the man probably can't even play 2D chess. I honestly doubt he even has the patience to learn the rules. He's the kind of person who would get checkmated in 4 moves, flip the opponent's king over, claim victory, and walk away bragging about his genius victory.
Is Math a Science? (1996)
I do not see why doge didn't just **** follow the pre existing reports compiled by several different agencies that were actually studied to produce real results, rather than just shooting blinding and firing people while calling it a day
I think in this era of misinformation Trump+Elon can convince their falolowers that is the greatest idea to help Putin, and that Putin is the second greatest leader in the world history after Trump... you can still see USAians claiming USA paid more then Europe even if the lie was exposed days ago
How does it matter to the “needs” of the american people what happens to Ukraine one way or the other?
And most of that money is flowing back. If the US government buys American weapons and ships them to Ukraine, then the money circulates in the US and leads arms manufacturers to employ people.

With Russia at war with Ukraine, Europeans have turned to US fossil imports and funneling money back to the US.

The arms in Ukraine then hurt the Russian military and degrade it. So it is effectively spend to further American goals even then.

The mental gymnastics performed to make it seem like a loss of US taxpayer money is really insane.
In these regards, I think the US's unfortunately very hard to dislodge advantage is less the ships missiles & guns, and far more the "secret history of silicon valley" style signals intelligence gathering & processing. Very very specifically our massive massive government aggregators/analysis systems (not the focus of these amazing talks). https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://hn.algolia.com/?query=secret%20history%20of%20silico...

The NSA built them released Apache Accumulo & Apache Nifi, to offer extremely fine grained control of massive massive data systems. Unknown if this is still the state of the art, but they're still contributing. The platform infrastructure to be Five Eyes feels like it must be absolutely vast, >50% of the job of Five Eyes. Its hard for me to imagine an alliance of nations taking this task seriously enough to build their own, to serve as the hub.
Hate speech isn't free speech.

Any free speech isn't necessarily hate speech but any hate speech surely isn't free speech.

There's a huge difference and that restraint is ingrained in these societies based on their past experiences.
Consider the space of possible paths towards peace in UA that the current administration can choose from. Do you believe the paths with the highest likelihood of success for reaching a mutual peace agreement involve making one of the sides unhappy, uncomfortable, angry, or by publicly berating them?

It is true that he doesn’t care if people are unhappy or uncomfortable, it’s true he doesn’t care about optics, it is true that he has a set of things he wants to get done, and it’s true the first two points influence his approach to achieving the latter. However the question - the only question that matters - still remains: is this approach the most effective course of action to choose? Maybe it’s not reasonable to assert with complete confidence that it isn’t, but it is certainly unreasonable to assert that it is.