skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the Shuttle was more complex, expensive and dangerous than Soyuz, and yes, those are forms of technical inferiority.

But the Shuttle was capable of solo flights for couple of weeks without adverse effects of Soyuz - that is, Shuttle was bigger, and that's useful.

Shuttle brought the bigger crew - more than twice bigger, so there could be better specialization and division of labor, and even the amount of tasks done per unit of time.

Shuttle brought significant payload capability - so the crew could make final preparations before the payload would be launched. Similarly Shuttle can "dock" to Hubble to service it. Or crew could work on orbit in SpaceLab which Shuttle carried to orbit and back. Those are advantages.

Shuttle was more gentle in landing - of course, when things went well. Landing on the strip without passing significant acceleration moments before that - that's another advantage.

I don't think SU and Russia had technical superiority over US - except admittedly safety of the Shuttle, and except those periods when US hadn't have the capability at all. Safety is a big item, so Russia can claim superiority for this reason, and also for simplicity and cheapness, but better US solutions - e.g. with Crew Dragon - suggest it's normal that flying to space better - for many reasons, some of which are shown above - may be either more expensive or will require significant changes, like e.g. modern America companies are pushing.

Now Russia doesn't have much of superiority left, and little capabilities to attain it, or at least it seems so. It's arguably better to have the ability to develop to the needed level, than just to carefully preserve achievements of the past.
This seems similar to how mine works too.

It’s as though the connections among things are dimensional rather than visual. I can “render” blueprints as this thread discussed, or know which way I’m facing deep in an intricate tube station, but am not “picturing” it, it’s just, this is how these things relate in space time. Although I can do the same with exterior architecture (is that an image?) or street corners. I don’t think I’ve ever “seen” anything: picture yourself on a beach, counting sheep, always assumed were metaphorical expressions.

I also feel concepts are dimensional, and can tell if a piece of a concept is missing because where it should be is empty. Think how periodic table of elements worked.

A red ball on a green table maps to billiards in dimensional concept space so I can render that too.
I really love that you can play around without creating an account. Kudos!
Define "giving up world power." Because last I checked, being a world power means taking care of your own nation first, ensuring its security, economy, and people are strong. If America can’t even secure its own borders, prevent foreign influence on its soil, or manage its own spending, then what exactly are we protecting?

Prioritizing America isn’t weakness it’s a strength. No empire in history lasted long by neglecting its homeland while overextending abroad.

Ukraine isn’t America’s priority or ally, our borders, economy, and strategic position in the Pacific are. Europe is more than capable of handling its own security, and if they aren’t willing to, that’s on them not us.
Cute, I guess, but this is the distinction between the language of the model and language of the implementation (the author sort of arrives at this distinction at the end). Programming involves modeling in some language. The model is mental. We model and simulate using a language (still mental).

Now, we incidentally also have these neat devices that can simulate some language for us that we can target it with a compiler. But the point is that while the implementation language may be composed of certain constructs, we can use them to simulate others.

So in the model language, or the user’s UI language, we have cursors that can exist in the in-between visually. The rake exists in the implementation language, but this doesn’t make it any more or less real than the super-rake or whatever of the model language.
>most root-avoiding/ROM-block-avoiding features just aren't available on it

this isn't really an issue, I've been an happy GrapheneOS user for quite a while and I've found 0 apps that refuse to run on it, even several banking apps, paypal and other "sensitive" applications that usually block "tampered" devices.

Do note that I've relocked my bootloader and haven't installed magisk (but I'm confident in saying that hiding magisk is easy since before GrapheneOS I used LineageOS + microg + magisk without having trouble running banking apps)
An interesting part of the payload is LuGRE, an experiment designed to test reception of GNSS (GPS, Galileo) signals on the moon, which would be double the maximum distance tested until now.

I never imagined that geolocation systems could work outside of the earth.
Mearsheimer and others, by omission, are denying the influence of past Russian behavior. Why are you focusing on purely hypothetical Russian security concerns instead of the very real security concerns of countries that have been attacked many times in the past, are under attack now - like Ukraine - , or fear they will be next?

The narrative about NATO being a threat to Russia is also ridiculous in how detached it is from reality. If NATO were truly a threat to Russia, then why aren't Russians building air raid shelters as a mandatory part of every building, preparing their bridges for demolition, and carrying out other preparatory work like the Finns are doing? Why are the Finns digging anti-tank ditches and mapping border areas for minefields, while Russia's side is completely open and doesn't even have a chainlink fence? Where is the fear of NATO in real observable facts?

The problem Russia has with NATO is not an imagined threat, but the fact that NATO stands in the way of Russia conquering Eastern Europe again.

If Finland were not allied with anyone, Russia would face only Finnish regular forces with limited foreign aid when invading the country. The maximum opposing force would be relatively small and predictable. With NATO, Russia faces potentially everything, up to American carrier groups and nuclear missiles tucked between cornfields in Ohio. For Russia, demanding that European countries be kicked out of NATO means significantly lowering the cost of invading them, but does nothing to shelter them from the most powerful NATO countries, like the US, which constitute the overwhelming majority of NATO's military force. This too reveals where the true concern lies.
Hi, please finish this thought.

Google engineers are paid well so they should have to work twice as hard?
Google engineers are paid well, so they shouldn't complain about the contract under which they get paid changing to expect them to work 60-hour weeks?

This is a leading comment, but you're not willing to say the quiet part out loud, which is that you think they shouldn't get paid as well because others aren't paid as well. You're arguing for a race to the bottom which doesn't actually help you. You should be arguing for a race to the top (everyone should be paying their employees more), which might actually benefit you.
Loved it! Is the code publicly available? When I built mine[1], I did the mistake of keeping each row as 26 weeks and 2 rows roughly as one year of life. This causes some rounding errors!
Loved this design as its responsive.

Question: The wider cells, do they represent one week and its simply wide just to fit in the text?

[1] https://rishikeshs.com/timeline/
Can you please not harangue another user like this, regardless of how much you feel they should or shouldn't be spending?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The German part of Rolls Royce - that's where the new B-52 engines are coming from for example.
I'll take boring scaffolding code over libraries that perform undebuggable magic with monkey patches, reflection or dynamic code.
Yep, it's super annoying to pull up a movie on your machine and want to cast it over to the TV to watch and only getting a black screen because you didn't do the DRM dance correctly.
I think we’re making everyone our enemy…

Considering the US administration’s childish choices yesterday, what do we expect? Hugs?
I think it is unlikely (of course not impossible) an LLM would fail in that way.

The underhanded C contest is not a case of people accidentally producing highly misleading code, it is a case of very smart people going to a great amount of effort to intentionally do that.

Most of the time, if your code is wrong, it doesn't work in some obvious way – it doesn't compile, it fails some obvious unit tests, etc.

Code accidentally failing in some subtle way which is easy to miss is a lot rarer – not to say it never happens – but it is the exception not the rule. And it is something humans do too. So if an LLM occasionally does it, they really aren't doing worse than humans are.

> You can't substitute an automated process for thinking deeply and carefully about the code.

Coding LLMs work best when you have an experienced developer checking their output. The LLM focuses on the boring repetitive details leaving the developer more time to look at the big picture – and doing stuff like testing obscure scenarios the LLM probably wouldn't think of.

OTOH, it isn't like all code is equal in terms of consequences if things go wrong. There's a big difference between software processing insurance claims and someone writing a computer game as a hobby. When the stakes are low, lack of experience isn't an issue. We all had to start somewhere.
I like the phrase "on alcohol". Indeed it is also a psychoactive drug.
I think GCd languages are not a great fit for WASM right now (though that is quickly changing).
The USSR didn’t "come back"—it collapsed, shattered, and never recovered. What remains is a weakened, demographically dying, economically struggling Russia.

Territory lost by the USSR/Russia since the Cold War began:
The entire Soviet Union dissolved—Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are all gone.
The entire Warsaw Pact flipped to NATO—Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. Germany, the biggest Cold War prize, reunited under the West.

Territory lost by the U.S. and its allies? Zero.

Russia isn’t a rising empire—it’s a wounded animal lashing out, terrified of its own irrelevance. They’re afraid, backed into a corner, and desperately trying to hold onto power. They don’t dictate world affairs.

And as for negotiating with Russia? The U.S. has been doing that for 80 years—and it never made us weak before. Why should it now?

America dictates terms not Russia, and certainly not Europe. If Europe wants to keep playing games, let them but America chooses when, where, and how we engage.
> with a huge defense industry and ability to make war.

Even that is in jeopardy. The budget remains high, and I doubt it will drop. Recruiting is a big problem. But the ability to produce munitions in quantity any time soon is not likely. The US has depleted a significant portion of its "ammo" in the last few years. There has been a successful effort to improve the ability, but it is still a years long thing. There was an article in The Atlantic[0] by Mark Bowden on this, particularly about the production of 155mm howitzer shells. Interestingly enough, it says that the US doesn't produce any TNT, it gets it all from Poland. That article also references an Army Research Board report[1] from 2023 about the Defence Industrial Base, both government owned and commercial. Here's a quote:

"Fragility across the OIB and commercial DMIB includes World War II-era (or older) facilities, outdated machinery and production techniques, inadequate tooling, foreign sources of supply, poor visibility of suppliers, insufficient tested and validated long lead-items, and workers who have exited or retired. In several cases, key parts required to keep manufacturing lines open no
longer exist and are difficult to replace."

Another example would be the Navy. Aside from the aforementioned munitions problem, the ability to actually maintain the fleet, even at its current size is poor. There was a recent GAO report on the state of US shipyards[2], which I'll quote (emphasis mine):

"The Navy's four public shipyards are critical to maintaining the readiness of its fleet of aircraft carriers and submarines. However, the condition of their dry docks and facilities is poor, and their equipment is generally past its useful life. Further, the Navy reports that without improvements to shipyard infrastructure, it will be unable to support almost a third of the planned maintenance periods for aircraft carriers and submarines through 2040, hindering fleet readiness. In 2018, the Navy estimated it would require $21 billion and 20 years to implement the SIOP; however, the projected costs and scope of the effort have grown."

The US could certainly invade smaller countries, but then what? Occupy them? That didn't work in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/weapons...

[1] https://asb.army.mil/Portals/105/Reports/2020s/ASB%20FY%2023...

[2] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106067
I think the issue is Hacker News users are so deep in the space that they're surrounded by AI noise at work every day and might even be forced to use it every day. So they've essentially accepted that it's a useful invention. There's this foundational, overwhelmingly positive assumption that goes unsaid, while 100% of their comment text is pure criticism and negativity. But in their brain, it comes across as maybe like 1% criticism and negativity and 99% positive lived experience. So they don't realize how bizarrely negative they're all sounding about a good thing. Of course, there are some people do really completely hate AI coding, but I don't think the general sentiment one gets from reading hacker news comments literally is accurate. It has to be read in context. At my work, people prefix their critical comments with "nit -" to reassure the reader that it's overall good.
A Letter to the American People
Trump administration is weakening the US in ways and with speed that our enemies could never accomplish.
What I've found is that the quality of an AI answer is inversely proportional to the knowledge of the person reading it. To an amateur it answers expertly, to an expert it answers amateurishly.

So no, it's not a lack of skill in prompting: I've sat down with "prompting" "experts" and universally they overlook glaring issues when assessing the how good an answer it was. When I tell them where to press it further it breaks down with even worse gibberish.
Same for me, I don't recognise those symptoms (loss of taste, loss of impulses). My understanding is that all it does it to replicate the signal the stomach sends when it is full, and so you just feel full / a bit burpy, even on an empty stomach. But you do enjoy the same taste than before the drug.

That being said side effects vary and lots of people mention it gives them nausea. I can easily imagine how that would interfere with taste.
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When he came to the White House during WWII? Was in soldier outfit.
> An issue tracker, on the other hand, requires active engagement from the developer. Every issue, even low quality ones, require some form of processing

Nope.
thanks for the update. that wasnt stated when the blog post first dropped.
I've been on tirzepatide for 8 weeks (2.5mg then 5mg) and have a very similar conclusion as you. I started off at 160kg 8 weeks ago and now I'm down to 145kg. No other change in my lifestyle except eating radically less. Two 500-calorie-ish meals a day and some fruit as a snack, that's about it.

For decades I've struggled with diets but tirzepatide is the only thing that's made me stick with it. Will power alone wasn't enough, but with tirzepatide I'm very confident I'll get down to a under 100kg for the first time since I was a teenager, within a few months.
That's not just small, it's utterly miniscule. It's most certainly not large.
Innovation is an interesting wrinkle in the comparison for sure (I used the comparison only to continue with the previous commentor's point). Innovation only increase the potential usefulness of resources though. Assuming that will always avoid hitting the boundary of the zero sum game assumes perpetual innovation at a good enough pace to keep up.

Trade is an interesting one because it can be mutually beneficial, though it rarely includes everyone. Two countries can trade and both be better off, but other countries excluded may now be worse off. Trade also can't be mutually beneficial with regards to relative gain. Both sides can gain in trade or cooperation but one will always have gained more than the other. That doesn't make my point by the way, but an interesting related dimension to the whole topic.
There is more than one way to stop being the leading economic and military stabilizing force in the world. The "table flip" doctrine is not generally considered to be among the top candidates for "responsible and stable" transfer of power.
Hard to see where all this will end.
I've read most of the comments on this post and I can honestly say none of them make me want to try hallucinogenics. It just seems like playing with fire and asking for trouble, especially for those of us with severe anxiety issues.
Is this like the sophisticated version of negging? I think itd have been easier to just give me few worss to look into.

I bought into the whole "I have Adhd thing thats why Im failing at school" thing 13 years ago and have since then spent countless hours thinking and talking about it.

Im glad it helps people, but unless someone can prove definitive facts about my brain, I have all the answers I need as to why I am who I am or why I do what I do. And yes stimulants help sometimes when Im forced to do shit I have zero interest in for prolonged periods of time, simple as that
The reality is nobody cares. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to take a screenshot of a movie and I’m sure most people haven’t either.
If the user requests a screenshot, the CPU can request a frame from the GPU.
Is anyone filing a lawsuit on your behalf?
> Does having your own, 500 kloc C++ real time video chat stack make sense any more?

Yes, if it is less bloated than Electron-based. See Jami, which is a native app and it's distributed and open source.
and lots of people are saying "SQLi is bad"? But again is this really where the connection comes from? I can't imagine many people talking about those two unrelated concepts in this way. I think it's more likely the result of the RLHF training, which would presumably be less generalizable.

But we don't have access to that dataset so...
You ask me how to account for it. In accounting, that’s how, and you can get creative too.
This same issue prevents AirPlay from showing DRM video content on TVs. It's incredibly frustrating since Samsung TVs don't support Chromecasting.
I agree the "negative" artifacts are almost impossible to see, and came here to the comments to see what the heck the author was talking about.

> People who work deeply with codecs are usually hypersensitive to these sorts of issues that mere mortals like us need to try to see.

I think that kind of shows that the author is unfairly critical.

They're saying "this should not have shipped", when it seems just fine to us "mere mortals".

Yes, video encoding requires using your eyes. But it also seems like it should use normal eyes, not hypersensitive eyes...?
Converting to Islam feels like a bigger commitment than reading side effects of the drug you are about to take.
I reached the same conclusion. Ultimately I do not believe my children will own a house unless I give them down payments. Ensuring your children don't start life saddled with education loans + ensuring they can own a house are the two biggest legs up you can give them going forward.

The alternative is indentured servitude and variable housing costs keeping them impoverished forever.
Is it just me, or is the entire internet half broken?
Since the beginning of this year, I've noticed a small but noticeable uptick in errors, broken APIs, and just general degradation in everything SaaS. LinkedIn has random <br> tags creeping around, unresolved variables, etc. Travelocity's seat picker API has been broken for weeks. Is it just me, or has everything just started breaking since January?
The budget is the crunch point. They'll pass huge cuts, the impact on the economy starts to become real, and people who only pay attention to gas prices their 401k will start noticing.

Liz Truss effect.
My god this site freezes my browser and i have a beefy machine. What's going on with that site lol.
This is where it gets tricky. Aren’t China and Russia allies too? Holy fuck. The new gang is rewriting the rules to foreign policy. So much that my head hurts to try to make any sense of it.
We (New Zealanders) are already getting taxed 1.4% on wealth effectively, if your on a tax rate of 30%+ (most people).

Most people just don't know about it. Due to the FIF rules. Any international investments you have get taxed like this (it's not so clear cut, but more or less). The only exceptions are NZ investments and Aussie investments, maybe. There is a tool to check if an aussie share is except from the FIF rules. e.g. Aussie ETFs aren't, even if they invest in only aussie stocks...

So everyone with a Kiwisaver (retirement scheme), aka most people, have large portion invested overseas, and thus are paying the 1.4% p.a.

It also discourages high net worth people from moving to NZ, as they usually have investments outside of NZ, which will get taxed once they move here (after a few years exception).

The small "win" we do get is you can (cost bases) invest up to $50k overseas without the 1.4% FIF rules applying, (though dividends are still taxed). But like no one knows about it, and managed funds can't take advantage of this, so most people don't utilize this, especially not low income people, who generally aren't that well educated on finances.

Don't get me started on our lackluster retirement scheme, Kiwisaver, with near 0 tax incentives, and propping up the housing market prices.
Some comments below someone claimed the opposite... do you have any studies?
I’ve been using Maestro for two very large Flutter apps and it’s been so ahead of every other option is not even funny.

No long compilation times, no half baked testing dev experience, supports iOS and Android, no pumpAndSettle BS, No Flutter hacks, multiple cloud providers (cloud.mobile.dev, moropo), you can interact with native elements, so you can work with push notifications, system dialogs, system settings, email clients, web views, browsers, and a very simple test definition files that every capable QA engineer can maintain with very little supervision from developers (no need for dart expertise for writing tests).

I can only recommend it.
Why not open source Skype then?
'Trump is abandoning Ukraine and wants a weaker EU': says Dominique de Villepin
How long until this is removed from the front page?
Civil War
And a Norwegian cafe renamed one of their dishes [edit: American pancakes] to "Canadian pancakes"!

Reminds me of "Freedom Fries"...
original title: ‘Trump is abandoning Ukraine and wants a weaker EU’: Dominique de Villepin on Europe’s moment of truth
I don't know much about Ketamine. I thought it was just what they use to knock you out for surgery.