skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He won 49% of the votes cast. He did not get a majority, but a plurality. The turnout was ~64%, so he got ~30% of the possible votes. His main opponent got about ~28% of the possible votes.

He doesn't have the mandate he thinks he does, but he's a megalomaniac led by his nose ring by the psycopathic megalomaniacs behind Project 2025, which ~90% (more?) of Americans said that they didn't like when they saw it.
Israel's maybe, but not of Netanyahu and his government. He was cozying up to Putin already during the first Trump term [1] and is currently right at work doing the same again [2] to the point where they push the US to keep Russia in Syria rather than Turkey. [3] This despite Russia being closely allied with Iran.

An Israel-Russia alliance makes even less sense than an US-Russia one, yet both are currently happening.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-07-26/ty-...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-25/ty-article/.p...

[3] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2025-02-28/ty-artic...
The population of Russia was widely disputed even before the war(With most estimates placing it at below 100M), and now it's basically a guessing game.
Dear god we need to stop producing Foundation-style and other imperialist sci-fi TV. Clearly Trump and his crew are way too convinced they're emperors. Next up I guess: cruel and unusual punishments for political enemies. :|
Russia is not acting in good faith, so a compromise doesn't help. If both parties had legitimate grievances and acted in good faith, they could come to a peaceful lasting compromise. But instead, one nation aggressively invaded another with constantly shifting narratives for the reason why.
Wow what on earth did I just read xD
Because you want the world to trust that the US won't turn their backs on agreements especially when it involves a country giving up their nukes. Which would have helped protect them.
This comes directly from Xi's speeches at the People's National Congress, going back to 2023.
> Any compromise at all which brings the meat grinder to an end.

Which would entail trusting the US and Russia.

Under Trump the US signed a trade deal with MX and CA and is now going after them. So why trust Trump?

And why would you trust Russia when their goal is to wipe UA from the map?
>Effective antidepressants are marginally better than placebo in the studies because the placebo group improves so much, not because the antidepressants don't do anything.

Not outperforming a placebo means they don't actually do anything.
These people got into bed with Trump of their own free will. Maybe there wasn't much to respect about them in the first place?
It sure looks like it.

Let's ask the question - if Russia was able to compromise the US president, what action would he take ?

I don't have answers very different from about what's going on right now.
the US was just enjoying its favorite hobby of funneling US and EU tax monies into arms production. idk what Putin promised that was more satisfying than that, but no one was being sent across the Atlantic to fight. you'd think the US would be happy enough watching Russia waste lives and money just like the they did in the Middle East.
I especially like the response from Mrs Gleason upon learning she was in charge of DOGE.

"Wait, I thought you told her!" was said by pretty much everyone involved
I would argue that we did our bid for European stability,
that everybody thought Ukraine would be quickly overrun.

Have we? I think we've taught Russia and China that they can annex whoever they want to annex.

We've taught them that it may or may not come at a high price, depending on which party happens to be in power at the moment.
Yeah… who dares interfere with US intervention of a country?!
Honestly I'm glad, for a bit there it seemed like there were some idiots that thought they could win in a direct conflict against Russia and China including going nuclear. Trump was the wost possible candidate in every aspect I can think of except one, he will put his self interest above everything else and is very flexible without any ideological beliefs that supercede his self interest.
The dark humor in me really wants Russia to be colored dark blue in that map.
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[^1]: https://www.carnisostenibili.it/en/methane-emissions-cows-ar...
Grief is a good way to put it. I know everyone is reinforcing their priors, and mine has been the "Housing Theory of Everything" for the last decade -- and longer than that if you count my mid-2000's (admittedly naive) urban-environmentalism advocacy. It's was a pretty niche area for advocacy until recently... I'm pretty sure I was the first official Strong Towns member in SF.

I'm just blown away that even after the first Trump presidency, and now during the second, that the left still has no serious intention of addressing any of the legitimate grievances that working class has. It's genuinely bananas to see so many people fleeing California for Texas and hearing "good riddance." I'm basically broken at this point, and I feel like fighting for basic, practical and sustainable policies, policies that just make sense, is pointless.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

https://www.strongtowns.org/about
I think GP is probably looking for sealioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
I'm not sure his examples are good. The "apps" he vibe-coded are trivial, and don't have to be correct. Do we really really want banks to run code that nobody can figure out, and is only kind of correct? How about scheduling algorithms? Do we want elevators that mostly get you to the right floor, or mostly get airplanes to the correct airport, and a majority of the time, don't double-book a seat?

I mean, it would be hilarious if all of those things were true, because one of the big things it would imply is that "business requirements" are just a fig leaf covering executive director's megalomania and desire to take all the credit and distribute all the blame.
And how did you stop it?
What's so bad about giving people the choice to do something to a device they bought? If they want to have the option to circumvent the walled garden that does not have any effect on you who resides inside those walls. Mandating a hardware vendor to make its products useable outside of the hardware vendor's control is just common sense and it is the way things tend to work after the resistance of colluding vendors has been broken down. Car vendors are not allowed to block car owners from using third-party parts but do not have the obligation to service those parts. White goods vendors similarly are not allowed to lock in white goods owners into using only 'certified' consumables and spare parts. Why do you feel compelled to try to justify these attempts by this vendor to be treated differently? If you feel happy inside the walls they built you why do you insist others remain inside as well?

Mandating Apple to allow sideloading is not at all like saying there is no hope of developing an open platform - a silly statement given the dominance of such a platform on the world market. It is like telling Ford they can not force car owners they're only allowed to use Ford fuel, use a Ford navigation system, use Ford tyres, Ford oil, Ford customisation parts, Ford anything. It is like telling Chevrolet they do not get to syphon off 30% of the revenue a cab driver earns when he uses his vehicle to transport customers. It is like telling GM they're to refrain from mandating drivers only to shop at GM-approved stores, taking 30% of the revenue generated. That they only can have their vehicles serviced by GM dealers. Many of these things have been tried on the market, tried in court to be forbidden by law. Owners of these products still can choose to use only 'genuine' parts and consumables, only buy service from vendor-approved providers just like you would still be able to remain inside the walled garden even if others prefer the freedom outside of those walls.

Why defend the indefensible?
Care to explain? Genuinely interested.
Windows 11 Arm VMs on a Raspberry Pi, with BVM
Good - they can pay for their own defense instead of milking the American tax payer.
It would be closer if there had been newsreel footage of Neville Chamberlain barking
"Say Uncle! Say Uncle!' at Edvard Beneš.
I’d recommend watching Perun or Michael Koffman’s videos on European militaries.

The TLDR is they’re either set up for low intensity expeditionary warfare (Britain/ France) or the defence of their own territory (everyone else).

None have the capacity to send 500k soldiers to trench warfare in the Donbas or even operate in non-US led coalitions to the same purpose.
Vance is currently trading sideways to slightly up on Kalshi's market for who will be the Republican nominee in the next election.
Here, I have just the thing, a study of how much it ultimately costs to appease belligerent European powers:

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

Now remember that this time everyone has nukes.
Technically, Zelenskyy instituted martial law and cancelled Ukrainian elections, so although he is the undisputed leader in power in Ukraine, he's not an elected president.

Do actual presidents show up in sweatshirts and insult their benefactors?
What peace process? This was a minerals deal. No peace was being brokered here. Not even solid assurances. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/framework-agreement-us...

> WHEREAS the United States of America has provided significant financial and material support to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022;
> edit: not sure by which part of the world this is downvoted ;)

It's downvoted because of this:

> Well most of the nations of the world didn't do anything for Ukraine, or supported Russia one way or the other.

Most of the world supports Ukraine or at least is not pro Russia, as you can see in UN votes. In latest vote, USA voted like Russia, North Korea and Israel, China abstained.
More like department of education.
That's not even factually correct. He won less than 50% of the popular vote.
Sure, because KHTML and the Epiphany project predate Safari. Gotta mention it for legacy reasons.
Russia is paying $40000 for people to get enrolled. It can't afford mass casualties at this cost.
> It matters when professionals speaking to lay people misuse professional jargon.

Who is the grand arbiter of whether or not use this use is "misuses" or, perahs "correct", whatever that means—the professionals, or the lay people?
Possibly there isn’t a critique of his behavior because there isn’t a critique to be made: from a website like hacker news where every reasonable position is usually represented, it should tell you something that this is unanimous.
And the mother that didn't check on her baby in the bath didn't mean for them to drown. In real life there's consequences for being negligent and careless.
Because 1.2 + 1.1 means much greater rate of success and less deaths? If you would care about your country, why wouldn't you want as much support as you could get, even if you would have the upper hand?

Zelensky wanted security guarantees to further help to defend his country from murder and death.

Why is that so strange to you?
Yes, we are all state actors paid by Macron and von der Leyen.

How is what happened today surprising to you? Only if you live in American or Russian disinformation bubbles.
That may be the game theory, but the reality is it will galvanize non-US support for Ukraine while further isolating the US from historic allies.

Europe cannot let Putin win. It’s obvious that Poland or the Baltics would be next, and the further they let Putin go the worse it gets.

So instead, the US will either be neutral or supporting Russia. Not a great outcome for anyone except Russia.
If the US stops support would the war end? I don't really think so, but maybe. If it did, though, I would guess lives would be saved. That doesn't seem like a delusion.
If the seasons vary that much in length, why do they have to contain the same number of months?
That is irrelevant considering the quote was “those cards frequently have issues with newer hardware”. I was asking what this referenced newer hardware is.
>the barrier, is the computational cost of it. Once 4.5 gets down to similar costs to 4.0

Well, did 4.0 ever become lower cost? On the API side, its cost per tokens is a factor of 10 higher than 4o even though 4o is considered the better model.

I think 4.5 may just be retired wholesale, or perhaps a new model derived from it that is more efficient, a 4.5mini or something like that.
Right, but that's not a free speach issue. I can critise a public officials handling of a situation, or disagree with a policy, or publicly protest a law, and not go to prison.

I cannot be wantonly offensive about a minister just because I don't like them, up to including threatening behaviour.

Free speach doesn't mean no rules/consequences.
RT or TASS URL would improve this argument.
Why does the fix need to remember all the nodes we have visited? Can't we just keep track of what span we are in? That way we just need to keep track of 2 nodes.

In the graphic from the example we would keep track like this:

low: - high -
low: 11 high: -
low: 23 high: -
low: 23 high: 26
Error: now we see item 13, but that is not inside our span!
Despite that being a lie... If it weren't, I'm not sure how that's relevant?

The EU isn't demanding that the Ukraine becomes an effective colony to be exploited at will by thenn for dubious claims of a solution. Neither did it have the treaty. Both of which were the things that made it ironic.
> Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for either of the presidential candidates.

You really looked at both candidates and decided both were equally bad?
I recommend: https://hn.algolia.com/

set for top stories for the last 24 hours

it's the best homepage for HN, shows all stories, flagged and flamed stories too
Fair, I've updated my post. I'd argue it's not just FPTP presidential systems, though. Even in proportional representation you still only get one vote so you pick the candidate that's the best fit for you, you still don't get to pick and choose which parts of their agenda get enacted.
In the EU, right-wing parties continue to grow. AfD, National Front, and others have all recently scored their highest levels of support. It is not impossible to imagine that they will eventually cross the threshold to actually governing, and at that point, the EU and Trump will be much more aligned.

That's what Trump is betting on, and I'm not sure he will lose (as much as I would like him to lose).
Zelensky is just one person, rest of the Ukraine govt will play realists
Sure - moving a few dozen nuclear warheads to Kiev and telling Russia "Kiev has nukes now, make one step further into Ukraine and we'll make sure they'll hit the Kremlin by end of day today".

And then tell Putin "hey Putain, feel free to call our bluff".
There is precisely one way in which the will of the American people is measured. When we talk about "what America wants", it doesn't include the opinion of people who didn't show up in November. People who choose not to vote throw away their right to be included in the "what America wants" bucket. This shouldn't be a controversial statement.
You’re a very smart guy. You can’t seriously be wondering how allowing a major power to wage and win a war of aggression in Europe might be contrary to American interests? He’ll surely be appeased by the Donbas and stop there, right?
> CSAM moderation was always fairly strict on the big sites

Except on the largest of the sites which was successfully sued just a year and a half ago over it's years-long policy of looking the other way.

I'm no puritan, I'm just not an absolutist. The real world is complicated and I find arguments like yours annoying and naive.
He’s been very outspoken about why he doesn’t wear suits.

And my god if you think he showed up and insulted Trump, think how anyone would feel if you showed up for a photo op and got tag team bullied by the US president and vp.
Sure it can be done, but there's no denying that a simple scan of a QR code instead of manually typing a URL would make life easier, as would some kind of alternative encoding technology that is more pleasing to the eye.
Until they decide to subsidize AccuWeather as party the buddy system as the create a new swamp of their making by draining the existing swamp

Getting life saving weather reports should not require a paid subscription. I know I'll get laughed out of the room, but medical care should not be either.
Well Fischer wasn't an amateur and there's no evidence he just missed a one-move refutation
I was somewhat interested in this book but the answer seems to be no per the contents from https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781805434504/the-middle-ages-i...

$30 definitely isn't much for a niche book, I would've preferred a short preview or a longer brief.

As an aside, an idea I find underrepresented is gift economies[0]. There's some representation of it in the form of `goodwill` and `relationships`, but this was [likely] a huge part of the economy. Consider the consumption of the average person, and it's going to be more fish and eggs and less MacBooks, and you wouldn't be buying eggs the same way you buy them on the market today[by barter or trade]. You would be definitely using currency for the highly specialized armor, though.

All of this doesn't matter too much in the grand scope, it's perfectly fine to trade 2 shoes for 5 eggs in Skyrim, but some additional depth would be interested if incorporated correctly.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
No. vardump specifically said that the money from stability justifies spending money to support Ukraine. That is only true if the latter is outweighed by the former.

We know the amount spent in support of Ukraine. The only missing piece of the puzzle is the specific dollar valuation of the deterrence value of further assistance to Ukraine to resist the Russian invasion.

If Ukraine regaining its pre-2022 (or pre-2014) borders is not worth a dollar value that exceeds the cost to achieve that outcome, then vardump's assertion of "money" as the reason is insufficient.
It's lost, at least till mid term.
I'm skeptical that it is only the Right. Maybe predominantly, or more explicitly, but anyone wanting power and control on either side would want to sell themselves out, too.
The funniest thing about all this is the absurd joke that Trump is compromised by Russia. A clearly populist and baseless propaganda to wash off the cold self-interested policies that America always (obviously) shoved down the throats of it's allies and enemies.

The inability to see how this policy benefits usa (by giving an end to a dead-end spend to a lost war, claim some losses, attempt to not go head to head with russia since china is the biggest fish to deal with right now) is trully laughable.

I know the downvotes are going to come raining, i don't care.
> It's what America wanted.

Yeah…

Egg shortages.
Fatal measles outbreaks.
Airplane crashes.
Crypto scams.
Tariffs.
Betrayal of allies.
Pardons and special favors for insurrectionists, crooked mayors, and online pimps.
The American people voted for change!

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1895150416738033992
Yes we raised the stakes considerably. Russia thought the Ukraine operation would be over in weeks.

Fast forward a few more years. Russia is encircling Kiev. Are we supposed to put American boots on the ground? Give them tactical nukes? Wouldn’t giving up then just “teach them” the same thing?
During war seems like the right time to institute martial law. Their legal system allows for the pausing of elections during a war.
What’s the phrase, never let a good crisis go to waste?
> They could do a shitty job and keep the contract, so why would they bother to do well?

I think this is probably the key piece I didn’t consider. SpaceX’s previous work was done under heavy competitive pressure so they had to do good. Here it doesn’t matter what they do.

With Verizon, my doubts came from all of the reporting that’s happened on rural broadband funding. A lot of the companies, including Verizon, essentially took the money and ran without doing all of the work (from my understanding).
> I suspect this'll unblock the Chromium team making a very substantial refactor of the networking layer

I'm curious as to why you suspect this. Have they stated so?
> What happened to the left that used to be anti-war?

The left is still anti-war. But most people on the left have paid enough attention to Putin to know that surrendering to him is not going to bring peace.

This war didn't just start in 2022; Putin invaded Ukraine twice in 2014. He invaded Georgia in 2008. And very early on in his career, he completely demolished Chechnya. He's not a peace guy. And all those wars by Putin were rewarded, and so he continues. Now finally, people understand that giving Putin everything he wants is just going to make him want more and attack more.

In Russia, they're already talking about Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania and even Poland. The only way this will end is by stopping Putin.

The left didn't compromise with Hitler either. Surrendering to Hitler didn't bring anyone peace. Peace came only after defeating Hitler. And unfortunately, it's exactly the same with Putin. Except nobody is going to march on Moscow, because Putin has nukes. So the only way to stop him becomes letting him exhaust his country until it collapses. That sounds terrible, but Ukraine is actually willing and eager to be the anvil on which Russia destroys itself. All we need to do is continue to support Ukraine with everything they need and more.

I know it's terrible. You can blame Putin for that. But this may be the only way to put an end to Putin's bottomless aggression.
From all the attempts I've seen in the past few years, we haven't been able to get AI to successfully complete a lap of wheel to wheel racing at full speed on a real track[1], I'm not sure if they're exactly competing for a seat as a pay driver at Haas let alone racing for Red Bull anytime soon.

[1] https://youtu.be/TPzBH-7ckO0
Do they not want to use a smartphone?

FaceTime is about as seamless an experience as you can get, and it's basically like receiving a phone call because it's indeed a call on a phone!