skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or in my experience, testing out some slight mis-dial 1-800 numbers to see what kind of fraud they take me to without it linking back to me).

It’s fun: take the number on the back of your credit card or an airline and see what happens when you’re a number off or dial 800 instead of 888.

(How big companies manage to get an 888 number while someone else squats the 800 for fraud is beyond me).
> Frankly, the EU is only able to "think long and hard" but never to actually do anything. They have no warfighters anymore and it will take years for the member states of the EU to rebuild anything resembling military capability, if the EU even allows it.

What are you on about? EU countries + UK have over a million professional military personnel.

> Brussels is the equivalent to the Deep State in the US but with official status, instead of being a shadow government.

The EU parliament has members elected from each country in the EU, there's no deep state conspiracy there.

> The member states of the EU are soon going to realize they are "a peninsula at the tip of Eurasia" and their best interests lie in close ties to the US.

This is the complete opposite of what's actually going on, EU countries are realizing we need a stronger EU and we need to fend for ourselves and will be moving away from US ties.
Sadly it's the nature of (EDIT: the US system of) democracy, you don't get to pick and choose which parts of a candidate's agenda get enacted. Voted for Trump because of inflation, found the country in an alliance with Putin.

Very broadly I think the US has done a poor job explaining just how beneficial America's position in the world is to America itself. You see it reflected in the USAID stuff too. Soft power pays dividends in ways that aren't immediately apparent so when it's gone people just don't care all that much. It'll be interesting to see where this all lands 20 or so years from now and how the US public feels about it then.
Paid traitors are repaying their debts, hopefully they'll get what they deserve.
No slandering laws in the US? I don't think so.
may not have been a mistake - I think Z was trying to maintain the high ground and force Trump to act poorly (by saying no); bad optics for Trump (unless you're MAGA)
> Billions of dollars were going to flow into the coffers of the cartels either way

There is no evidence for that and prohibition in the US provides a strong counter argument.

> There's no such thing as a peaceful hard-drug manufacturing operation.

Because it has never been tried in the modern era.
Haha yeah I recently learned this too.
There’s a third solution: Russia could just stop its aggression and leave.
The two that I know of are SWE-bench and CodeElo. SWE-bench is oriented towards "real world" performance (resolution of GitHub issues), and CodeElo is oriented towards competitive programming (CodeForces).

https://www.swebench.com/

https://codeelo-bench.github.io/
My hope is that I have good enough skills to build machine/deep learning model which will be able to recognize patterns base on historical data.

I am more wondering how big is opportunity for solo trader and if I should try to do this or work on some other ideas.
I seem to be much more confident that technology could solve the aging problem. Two routes come to mind:

1. We can already splice up DNA with decent accuracy, so it's just a matter of finding what DNA to splice in/out to have the desired effects, and then a method to apply this to every cell.

2. We're close to being able to disassemble someone's nerves and simulate them with a very high accuracy. So, at the very least we could give people new robot bodies.

Now, it's true that even the wealthiest people in the world several hundred years ago had no hope to get either of these done. But it seems entirely plausible that if everyone came together to work on this now, it could be solved in a few decades. I think it isn't happening because (1) people's discount factors aren't high enough to throw everything to their future; (2) the wealthiest people are older, and have the least chance of success; (3) it's a coordination problem that most people aren't even aware they can coordinate on; (4) a significant number of people don't even think it's a problem (because of the stories their ancestors told about death maybe not being the end). The last two are solvable, but the first are just mismatched preferences that you can't really get around.
The value of having a front-row seat to this, from a doctrine and R&D point of view, is staggeringly high. Anyone who's getting copied on the reports is going to be a full generation ahead of countries that aren't.

... that goes for Russia's partners, too. Meaning it's even more important for us.
Money. US profits immensely from a stable world order. Peace and predictability is good for business.

Security guarantees also prevent nuclear proliferation. If Ukraine is defeated, the lesson many countries will learn is to have a strong nuclear deterrent.
> But what Trump is betting on is that it could be the US + EU + Russia vs China.

And his plan to achieve that is by pissing off EU? If anything Trump has done a great job to make EU look at China more favorably.
I'm shocked at how impotent they seem against Russian cultural warfare.
> and of "reigning in" speech deemed by some as harmful.

Can you cite any legislative efforts anywhere in the USA by any elected Democrat that limits, coerces or in anyway "reigns in" speech of any sort?
My phone has hardware kill switches for modem, WiFi/BT and camera/mic. So I can be sure. The schematics is available, too.
> Europe has its disgraces as well

The "whataboutism" game doesn't work here, because none of the pro-Ukraine Western countries is currently even remotely as chaotic, clownish, cruel, capricious, and conspicuously corrupt as the Trump administration and their broligarchs.

And other comments have already pointed out that Europeans are protesting.
>We can and should compromise on this.

With an insane 50% mineral rights demand by the USA in particular which should not be on the table in a deal between Ukraine and Russia?

I'm not sure how you can post what you've posted with a straight face.
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I don’t know what to believe much these days. So instead, I look to see at what actions are being taken instead of endlessly reading news and forums for consensus.

And what I see is Europe doesn’t seem to care much if Ukraine falls. The United States, has been supporting Ukraine far more up to this point, and they are not the ones facing the prospect of having Russia in their backyard breathing down their back. So if Europe doesn’t give a fuck, maybe it really means the fall of Ukraine ultimately doesn’t mean much to anyone except the Ukrainian people. The world will move on. This helps keep me calm and prevents me from stressing over most world affairs.

And another thing I wonder is what exactly is so bad about Russia anyways? Their leader sucks, but so does ours, and don’t people of both nations just want a good life at the end of the day? How different are they really from us? When I see TikTok interviews of everyday Russians in the streets, they are just like us, similar beliefs about their own country and what is wrong with the world. I understand less and less the source of our conflict.
I mean, are Zelensky or Syrskyi willing to share truthful information with you in private? If so - good for you, otherwise I'm not sure what "first hand" reports you can use. I'm relying mostly on data about obituaries collected on both sides as proxy for true figures.
Zelensky is not responsible for this exchange. Are you honestly suggesting cower to a false autocrat? That is not leadership.
The US has literally sided with Russia in the UN.
China can be pretty sure that the US will not act if they attack Taiwan. Trump and Vance are weak. All talk, no walk.
Lick his wounds for years, and die.

This Ukraine debacle wasn't the clean win he wanted.
Original Expose ca 2003 minimised windows from their live positions on the regular desktop to thumbnails in a quick and smooth animation and would leave minimised thumbnails at different sizes resembling their relative live sizes and aspect ratio.
Imagine you're studying for a test where you are given an image and need to answer the correct class. To prepare, you're given a deck of flashcards with an image on the front and the class on the back.

(Random) You shuffle the deck every time you go through it. You're forced to learn the images and their classifications without relying on any specific sequence, as the data has no signal from sequence order.

(Fixed order) Every time you go through the deck, the images appear in the exact same order. Over time you may start to unconsciously memorize the sequence of flashcards, rather than the actual classification of each image.

When it comes to actually training a model, if the batches are sampled sequentially from a dataset, it risks learning from correlations caused by the sequencing of the data, resulting in poor generalization. In contrast, when you sample the batches randomly, the model is biased and encouraged to learn features from the data itself rather than from any signals that arise from artifacts of the ordering.
If your country was invaded by your neighbor would you want to fight them or just capitulate?
> no-one, I mean no-one would ever do that inpublic

I agree. It seemed to me like Zelensky initiated the public display. Both trump and jd Vance we also commenting on his inappropriate public statements.
No mineral rights: just gold up front.

The UK paid the US all it's gold reserves. Next it stole of the UK people's gold to use that to buy weapons.

The US was not giving the UK when it exported, it was selling. Lend lease came in once the UK ran out of gold. So the US gave them credit: which the UK tool until 2006 to repay.
> They rejected me because of this.

Unless they explicitly told you that you cannot use AI in the rejection letter, they won't tell you why you got rejected. Or maybe they chose another person that used AI to get the position.

We don't know and every company has different requirements and there is no point risking it with AI.

> The irony? This was an AI startup.

Are they really an "AI startup" or just a wrapper onto someone-else's AI model? (AI powered)

Given the position and you being good with AI, I think you should clone their entire startup and compete against them.
Except there is no reason for a compromise. Russia invaded Ukraine, they're free to withdraw any time they like. I wonder how anti-war you'd be if another country decided half of yours suddenly belonged to them.
And they way they are trying to bully Ukraine into a minerals agreement and rebuilding agreement to strip Ukraine of everything it has. Trump doesn't care about peace, he wants to make money
At least some of them are written by humans and some of them are good. Maybe good 20-50% of the time, still better than 100% SEO crap.
At 11m40s in it still seemed to be going well... an almost adorable exchange between the two leaders about who gave more EU or US.
I've noticed that most submissions involving anything that might invite the slightest criticism of Musk routinely get flagged. My conclusion has been that there's an army(or just a handful of people with too much time on their hands) of Elon fanboys patrolling the site, flagging stuff that causes them cognitive dissonance.

Doesn't even have to be political. I've seen it over and over with submissions about cybertruck recalls, twitter related stuff, etc.
Civility is overrated. Maybe you felt like tired rhetoric from prior admin about Israel or Putin was more effective but I sure don't. People are awfully afraid to rock the boat in American political discourse. It's probably been too polite as a cover for a lot of ugly policy on both the left and right.
I am quite unlikely to ever read this, but I would love to hear of some medieval tropes which are hilariously incorrect.
>a minerals deal with the US ensures that the US will have a stake in defending the postwar ukraine.

It will not. Trump will simply use the deal as an excuse to betray Ukraine (more than he already has). I can practically hear it playing out now.

"I had to force Ukraine to completely surrender to Russia. It was the only way to make sure Russia honored the mineral rights granted to my billionaire friends."
Secret Service is telling Trump to help Ukraine?
I support Atlanticism, but this overestimates the US's need and relations with Europe (EU and non-EU) in the 21st century.

Our trade with APAC dwarfs total European trade, and America has ~150k armed personnel deployed in the Pacific versus ~65k in Europe.

Europe can and should be able to manage Russia and Africa for us - this is what they did well until the 2000s. Both Dem and Republican admins since the Bush admin have been pushing for Europe to regain it's strategic autonomy.

Trump is absolutely mismanaging this relationship, but a broken clock is right twice a day.
Citigroup Makes (and Then Fixes) an $81T Mistake
Why does it matter to the American people what happens to Poland in WW2?

Do you think we exist in a vacuum? The whole reason we have foreign policy is because there are major dire ramifications to conflicts across the world. Especially, as we've seen the past century, in Europe.
It is quite clear that Trump does not have the temperament to be a president or a leader of any kind. Clearly, he was venting and has not calculated the consequences of his words to US (and his own) interests. Also clear is the glaring absence of any counterbalancing influences from his cabinet and staff. It is so easy now for this government to make a huge mistake that can cause irreversible damage to the US and the world.
I think most Americans have already made up their mind on Donald Trump. Nothing will matter until individuals' personal financial situations are affected.
It's a bit odd that literally every single top comment is pro-Zelenskyy and anti-White House.

I haven't seen a single thoughtful critique of Zelenskyy or his behavior on HN; it seems very one-sided and strange.

(also interesting that the BBC mispelled his last name, even though they're obviously big fans..)
Hah, my bad for missing it. ;)
"No, we are absolutely not prepared to [fork Firefox]"
Love all this things but threw up in my mouth a little at the idea.
We don't actually really do that.

The majority of the "funds" pay for products like shells and missiles made by American labor (which encompasses quite a few Trump voters!) in America with American parts and American steel and American know-how. We're donating no-longer-used Bradleys, F-16s, Javelins that are reaching (sometimes past!) their expiration date, etc.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-ukraine-aid-package-and-w...

> The notion of “aid to Ukraine” is a misnomer. Despite images of “pallets of cash” being sent to Ukraine, about 72 percent of this money overall and 86 percent of the military aid will be spent in the United States. The reason for this high percentage is that weapons going to Ukraine are produced in U.S. factories, payments to U.S. service members are mostly spent in the United States, and even some piece of the humanitarian aid is spent in the United States.

(As a bonus, we're getting to try out all our stuff against Russia's best, in a way we've never really gotten to. It's an incredible ad for American defense contractors.)

If you'd told the old Cold Warriors that a small fraction of a single year's military budget could turn the Russian military into a shadow of its original, they would not have believed you.
MORE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209538

This is what I'm thinking.

Now would be a great time for China to start an invasion. It would be a crime. China today, that government is not above committing international crimes.
"That's all" is a major deal. There's a reason you never see that.
> This makes me wonder whether the usual order for function application is an artifact of the S-V-O sentence structure in western European languages. Maybe if Euler had been raised in a language with a S-O-V sentence structure, we would write (x)f instead.

Herstein's Topics in algebra uses that notation for function application. It's surely not a coincidence that he was Polish, and that that reminds one of RPN.
DT: "This is good TV"

Wow!
I think your vision of Mars is based on Hollywood.

The Sabatier reaction is inefficient; as Wikipedia notes, it requires 17 MWh to produce a single ton of methane, not including the energy costs associated with electrolysis of local water sources for the H2. Hydrogen represents about 1/4 of the weight of methane, and so you'd need another roughly 0.4 MWH for the electrolysis, for a total of 17.4 MHh to produce 1 ton of methane.

Each MWh is roughly the energy needed to power 1000 homes. That's not some "largish radioisotopes." That's a full-scale power plant. We don't have many power plants that can produce that sort of output but which are light enough to launch into space or simple enough to be assembled on-site. Solar (the easy option) would require a minimum of 15-20 acres on Mars, and approximately 120 tons of solar panels, not including wiring and other supporting infrastructure. We don't have any spacecraft capable of taking that much weight, so that's multiple orbital launches and multiple spacecraft just to get the solar panels to Mars, and we haven't even started discussing the weight or other equipment needed to get the solar panels down to the surface, let alone transport the habitat modules or other equipment, or the astronauts and colonists making the journey.

TLDR: Mars is a pipe dream with current technology.
Hahaha, do you honestly believe that Putin has any interest in stopping?

This isn’t the first time Putin has invaded another country, had the west capitulate for “peace”, then two years later Putin invades somewhere else.

Hell, Putin originally invade Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Every one made “pease” with Putin, and few years later he invades the rest of Ukraine. If Trump sell out Ukraine now, it might end the “official” war, but there will be endless civil/insurgency warfare in Ukraine for decades. The Ukraine’s have zero interest in allowing a foreign country simply take their land without a fight.
Carlson was destroyed, but he did not attempt to escalate. He wanted Stewart to get back to "being funny" and got angry when Stewart refused.
Also, instead of compressing files live on every request, you can pre-compress them, put them next to the uncompressed files with the same name but .gz extension, and tell your server to serve those if the client support it [0].

Useful in case of bigger files (so you don't have to compress them on request), and also if you want to use a higher compression level: you're only going to compress them once, not on every request, so you can use a bit more CPU on making them a bit smaller.

--

0: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_deflate.html#precompressed

(I guess you're using Apache, but other servers can do it too)
See this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207606
Yes, not having GPS is one reason. The other one (less good) is that you can continue to track the device even when it has no network connection (as long as it's turned on and near an iPhone).

But there probably aren't many situations where someone has a network-enabled device turned on, disconnected from the network, but in range of at least one iPhone that has a network connection. Perhaps on a plane?
Russia is Israels adversary, despite the appearances.
I normally avoid commenting on politics entirely but I feel compelled to comment here. I'm sure anyone who's ever been bullied in their life will feel exactly what's happening in that video clip. Two big kids, confident in their position and backing each other up, gang up on the outsider. Did they ever really want to make a deal at all? Absolutely infuriating and saddening to watch.
Are there actual, living people thinking that donating to Ukraine will influence anything? These donations might as well be a margin of error compared to government funding, aid packages and what not.

The Ukraine is simply too small of a country to actually win a war against Russia, all that these aid packages are doing is prolonging the war that Ukraine cannot win.

It's like saying "if only Germany had <insert Wunderwaffe> it would've won WWII". At some point they were going to run out of men anyway (they did). Sort of like how Ukraine will eventually run out of men if they continue.
It's commendable and brave to publicly stand up and show that you have values. I wish more people understood that by watching Zelensky over the past three years.
it’s not as user friendly, but VoIP.ms is cheap and powerful.
> When the company lies and says it did not have access, then later admits that it did have access, is means the data is less trustworthy from my outsider perspective.

This isn't what happened? I must be missing something.

AFAIK:

The FrontierMath people self-reported they had a shared folder the OpenAI people had access to that had a subset of some questions.

No one denied anything, no one lied about anything, no one said they didn't have access. There was no data obtained under the table.

The motte is "they had data for this one benchmark"

The bailey is "they got data under the table"
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You cannot compromise with an aggressor, it encourages them to be more aggressive. Being anti-war to the point of allowing allies to be overrun by totalitarians is just foolishness, and a great way to create more war.
Left - at least the moderate left in italy, I don't know what kind of American left you're talking about - is anti war in an anti _offensive_ war sense, not against a defensive war or against defending another more or less allied country from being invaded by another country

I am not sure of course, but I guess the same would be true of other similar center left parties in europe
You're mistaken. This is no joke.
What compromise do you suggest? So far what trump has been offering is "give us a bunch of stuff and get nothing in return".

Compromise would be a peace deal that actually guarantees Ukraine's future safety (e.g. NATO membership or nuclear weapons) without further compromising their sovereignty (forcing them to give up more territory or recognize Russian territorial claims).

We don't have the ability to compel Ukraine to take a bad deal, and if we did it would be wrong to.
Not gonna happen, the only hope is his approval ratings tank and he decides to chill out, stop trying to be king, play golf for 4 years, and step away beloved by his cult.
You can go to jail for criticizing the government in Russia and Belarus... Not in any of the EU countries. It's sad that you believed whoever sold you this lie.
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And pretty much most of them just resell OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Meta's APIs and model access, with something repackaged on top.

And none is remotely profitable.
Colonize it while it remains nominally Russian, would be a pretty good move. "Sick Man of Europe"-style. "Oh we British are just, just, like, helping the Ottomans administer Egypt, we're good chaps like that"