skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simply not the case.
There US has very successfully used it’s military to enjoy the position of absolute top dog in the world, but a major part of why they could do that was that the US has made very strong allies in the whole rest of the western world who have never, until now, seen any reason to try to compete with the US in this regard.

A well placed network of foreign aid has also generated influence in other parts of the world.

The United States has now irrevocably destroyed this position.

There will be enough time for the Trump Family and Elon to make out like the bandits they are, but the US position long term is diminished.
Some might argue that the US Navy enforces trade to be more free for some than others.
No one will bother about those loans when a Ukrainian victory will give the EU access to at least the Ukrainian market if not also the market of a new democratic Russia. Please do some long-term thinking on this.
The NATO declaration from the 2008 Bucharest Summit was that Georgia and Ukraine will eventually become NATO members, both unacceptable for Russia. Georgia was promptly invaded in 2008. Until 2014 under president Yanukovych Ukraine did not seek closer ties to NATO. That changed in 2014 and Russia annexed Crimea. [1] While Russia wanted the Minsk agreements to work, the West just used them as tools to buy more time. Despite repeated protests and demands from Russia right until the invasion, NATO position did not show any signs of change. So in my opinion that is all just escalation to get NATO to accept the demands or prevent a NATO membership with force. Even in the negotiation in the first weeks of the war, Russia was willing to end the war for non-membership of Ukraine.

[1] The timeline in late 2013 and 2014 is somewhat confusing with respect to my point of view, the turn towards NATO seems to come after the annexation and the events in eastern Ukraine. But there might have been an element of anticipation or non-public information.
Ukraine is a buffer state to constrain Russia's westward ambitions. Think of it as an unfortunate flat road connecting Asia and Europe, ideal for military movement (especially Russian tank warfare). It is seen as a linchpin or "heartland" of Eurasia. Unfortunately, there is no strategic option to let Russia dominate it while maintaining US global hegemony. Whether that's "right" or not, it's the consensus opinion in the American foreign policy apparatus. The hope is that it can be Europe's responsibility and the US can "pivot to China."
In an ideal world I'd agree with you, but the world is unfortunately very far removed from that. You don't have to agree with everything to look for common ground in other areas. Support the good, criticize the bad.
The thing about the second amendment is that if only the side in power believes in it and is willing to uphold it, then you don't really have a right to bear arms, you have a right to oppress the citizenry with violence.
Ask HN: How do you feel now about your Tesla purchase?
Now that the cat is out of the bag, how do you feel about your Tesla purchase?

I traded mine in for a Rivian this week, couldn't stomach it anymore.
Whether we like it or not, politics pervades everything. Attempting to keep certain forums sanitized and "apolitical" while a regime shift is occurring and people's civil liberties face very real threats is to live in an amoral and ahistorical fashion.

Desperate times...
It looks like this allows individual States to truly enable whatever-it-is within their own borders.

Still, I don't like it: If a pharmacist wants to use a tool and they validate the result and take legal responsibility for it being accurate, that's different and fine.

But this looks more like enabling states to have robo-pharmacist, and then where's the legal responsibility and liability now?
It does give an impression of diminishing returns on this family of models. The output presented in samples and quoted in benchmarks is very impressive, but compared with 4o it seems to be an incremental update with no new capabilites of note. This does, however, come at a massive increase in cost (both in terms of compute, but also monetary). Also, this update did not benefit from being launched in the wake of Claude 3.7 and DeepSeek, which both had more headlining improvements compared with what we got yesterday from OpenAI
Group calls weren't perfect. P2P doesn't lend itself well to group calls.
I'm not arguing my opinion, I'm quoting the laws that Congress passed to govern the IRS. We could pass a law to make web browser development an explicitly legally charitable act. But that's not how the law has been interpreted up to this point. You want to take it up with your senator. Until then, Mozilla's legal counsel isn't going to play games like this with a judge.
The deal was a sham -- it came with no guarantees.
a.k.a. Emacs.
Literally the same country
Of course, everyone in Slovakia (or Hungary) are not firmly aligned with Russia. I hope the scales tip west-ward in the next elections.
Placebo could be reversion to the mean. If you're cherry picking people who are elevated in X it should not be surprising to see X mean revert during the study period.

For example, cherry pick people who have the flu. Some people in the placebo group curing their flu in the study period shouldn't be surprising. That happens by default.
In a protracted conflict that wears down all multipliers, it's just that and supplying enough food and bullets
I mean, it is expensive. It’s just that the alternative might be more so.
I was thinking about this recently, and wondering the EU will start moving away from the USD, further weakening the global strength of USD and America. They are already dealing with BRIC, and the potential of crypto (likely Bitcoin) to remove any single currency as providing power to any country.

The US has benefitted hugely by being the reserve currency, but that strength is also a weakness that can be used against them, but only if the other countries collaborate, which the EU is most capable of.
The thing that I find strange about it is that it's being pursued actively, from the inside, as opposed to it being forced on them by an stringer outside force (ie. China). The US has chosen to retract from it's global power and influence.

Mind-blowing, except, kinda-sorta, for the fact that the effort is helmed by a (short-term thinking) businessman rather than a seasoned politician with familiarity with, or even the ability to consider, long term consequences of actions and decisions and the interplay of other countries and their leaders.
I have four and I won’t buy another until he’s no longer associated with the enterprise. Test driving an F150 Lightning tomorrow.
49.7% of the 30% of Americans who voted.

Still nowhere near 50% of Americans.
Unfortunately it doesn't matter what I say, it matters what the US government says.
i have no way to verify, just judging from the news headlines from what I read

https://lenta.ru/news/2025/02/16/ukrainskie-klassy-ostalis-b...

translated: https://lenta-ru.translate.goog/news/2025/02/16/ukrainskie-k...

There are almost no boys left in senior classes of Ukrainian schools. This was reported by the publication "Strana.ua" on the Telegram channel with reference to blogger Alena Yakhno.
As the blogger said, the 17-year-old son of her friend studies in Kiev , but all his classmates have left. "Only girls are left in the class. There will be no moral. It's just a fact," she wrote.
The publication recalled that upon reaching the age of 18, young people from Ukraine are no longer allowed to go abroad. In addition, the report notes, information about Ukrainian schoolchildren aged 16-17 leaving Ukraine en masse has appeared before.
Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada reported on hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren who left the country before the start of the school year. According to MP Nina Yuzhina, about 300 thousand students, mostly high school students, left Ukraine in July and August. In addition, due to the departure of young people, 2,114 schools have been closed in Ukraine over the past four years.
The last time the US had an unambiguous win by fighting was 70 years ago when they got involved in a fight very late.

No, it was in 1999. A short aerial bombing campaign that lasted less than 3 months and cost less than 600 lives ended a decade of wars in former Yugoslavia that had killed 140 000 people and made millions refugees. What an incredibly small price to pay for peace.

Ukraine needs the same kind of support, but instead, they got misguided "de-escalation" that only boxed Ukraine in and gave the initiative to Russia. By knowing that the US would force Ukraine to throttle back every time the Russians made a large misstep, Russia was encouraged to keep escalating without the fear of triggering an overwhelming response.
I still have clients who run Skype for Business on premises. It feels so ancient when I have to use it.
Where can one reliably learn about rare earths in the supply chain, refining abilities, what’s actually important for which tech, etc? I feel like I read very different views on this stuff all the time at different levels of granularity.
Keep in mind that studies find a strong effect for placebos: the numbers are not saying "these pills do nothing" they're saying "these pills seem to do a lot, but placebos do almost as much".

Obviously the effect feels extremely real to you, but we wouldn't see a strong placebo effect in the numbers if people on placebos didn't genuinely feel much better.

I get that it feels like the second drug worked much better, but expectancy effects and internal narratives are extremely strong, and they're impossible to untangle at the level of an individual.
Why a separate alliance? In 2015, only 5 nations meet the 2% funding requirement for NATO, with all previous US administrations asking for increases. That's concrete evidence of disinterest in the concept or intentional reliance on the US. Only recently, with threats of the US pulling out of NATO, have the numbers improved.

If the US scaled back the 2%, and was less involved, I would think Europe would be in a better position than a brand new alliance.
This will mostly just weaken America.

Europe can defend itself against Russia just fine. Maybe it will be a bit poorer, as it has to spend more money on defense, but it can do that. The bigger threat is that European countries start fighting each other again. That could happen in a few decades, if Eurosceptic parties become too popular.

On the other hand, Europe does not care about China. It has no interests in the Pacific. In the absence of mutually beneficial alliances with powers that oppose China, Europe would rather see China as a (somewhat unpleasant) trading partner than an adversary. If China is not a threat and the US is not an ally, it doesn't matter much which of them is the dominant power in the Pacific.
I guess it shows how critical is technology that keeps the human away from harms reach. Drones are a great example of that, especially how costly/hard it is to train a jet pilot.

With (almost) fully autonomous weapons and systems it comes down to simply who has the better economy and production lines.
What about Servo? That's coming along and already has a company/coop behind it.

https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
Not to mention that maintaining M1s must be a nightmare.

The Ukrainians seem to prefer the Bushmasters. This kind of makes sense, given it seems a lot of what Ukraine is doing is guerrilla warfare then equipment that is easily serviceable likely is more useful.
The short answer is that upvotes alone don't determine rank; upvotes and flags do (and other factors - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

If you want more information, I posted a longer answer at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212835. If you read that and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
I think you linked the wrong steam game, it's https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...

:)
Nation-state politics often devolves to the level of children on a playground. This was one of those occasions.
>The US government absolutely participated in over throwing the existing pro-Russian government around 2014.

This is explicitly Russian propaganda. There is no evidence of this. Euromaidan happened because Ukrainians wanted to get closer to Europe, which is why they voted for people who said they would get closer to Europe, and then aggressively erupted into protest when that leader went to Russia and came back with a 180 degree different plan.
ok, yes and no.

why does trump need augurs (like scop) to divine a cogent narrative. trump obviously can't and none in his administration can.

the simple explanation; trump is spiteful (e.g. all the references to obama, biden), vance a toadie (unreal, the petulance) , and they can only talk in terms of "deals", TV soap opera trash dialogue. zelensky argues that deals need guarantees. all that is in that 10 minute video, for all to see. clear as day. and we've have observed, with the the same clarity, similar displays (maybe of lesser intensity) the last 10 years or so.

the 4d chess explanation; scop needs to come along (sorry scop to pull you in!, I like your optimism), and we need to trust there's a deep bench actually acting with any sort of cohesive purpose on that vision. unlike the simple explanation, there's very little evidence. usa foreign policy is untethered now, only thing left to do is reading the flight of the birds.

i want to believe, but there is a ton of posthoc rationalizing going on the trump side. it was like this after 2016, a different stable time, after 8 years of blissfully dreadfully boring obama stability. it is not such a time now.
How can -let's say- Cursor users be sure they were not compromised?

> No malicious usage was detected

Curious to hear about methods used if OK to share, something like STRIDE maybe?
Says who?

They don't even have enough 155 shells, long range drones, body armour, training facilities, fighter jets, bombers, cruise missiles, tanks, howitsers. The list goes on and on. It's exactly the opposite of what you are claiming.

They had to develop their own long range drones instead of getting off-the-shelf stuff. Germany blocked Taurus, Tomahawks were a no-go.

(The US gave 31 M1 tanks! That's pitiful...)
Sounds like a classic Chomsky-esque "I'm an expert in [niche topic] so therefore also on US foreign policy".

Somehow, this line of reasoning flies, despite its absurdity.

Krebs is an expert in cyber security, not diplomacy. On the latter, he's an armchair quarterback. This isn't some purely technical cyber security matter. It's obviously a "let's minimize poking Russia during trying to negotiate a peace deal" action.

So no, he's not an expert "in this".
> microsoft

> had no idea how to manage a B2C product

What does this mean? MS has enough of b2c products. Windows is. Office is. Not enough?
> The EU should have visa programs for skilled professionals looking to leave the U.S.

We don't have a skilled worker shortage in EU right now, we have a skilled jobs shortage. All white collar skilled job ads are flooded with local applicants, we don't need more immigrants to water down wages and push up rents. My (f500 company) company just laid off 70 SW & HW engineers at one office while I've been part of the layoffs before.

The real shortages are in healthcare, and tough jobs people don't like to do for little money, like construction or elderly care, but there's enough Europeans willing to work cushy office jobs there's no need to import foreign competition other than to appease the corporate pushed propaganda.
You're right, but for Trump, there doesn't have to be an actual deal, there just has to be the _appearance_ of a deal. He just needs to be able to repeat that $500 billion number -- it doesn't matter whether it's realistic or not or will ever happen or not. It's like Mexico paying for the wall.
Lebron also said there ain't no party like a Diddy party.
ATACMS... The ones Biden reluctantly donated after Ukraine begged for them because they can strike deeper behind the frontlines and inside Russian territory? They may be an older platform but they appear to be highly desirable and still brought out for juicy targets.

It was 31 M1s donated, last time I looked. And they survived a helluva lot longer against the droneless Iraqi Army, which helps explain the low number. A $500 drone can ignite a $5M tank. Drones have changed the calculus of tank warfare.

Maybe the AT4 and NLAW didn't have the same effectiveness of Javelin? The Javelin has had a pretty good PR campaign with it's point and destroy videos.
Hot take: Gary Marcus isn’t an expert in AI and his opinion is irrelevant. He regularly posts things that reflect his very biased view on things, not reality. I really am not sure what some people see that makes him worth following.
> This is also a historic day for the world. US dominance over the West is over.

Seeing the US part ways with "western allies" firsthand - a true paradigm shift, and one I'm not looking forward to.
Trump probably wouldn't care, but if you tweet that at Elon...
IMO it’s not a toss up, it’s just dishonesty. After a certain point we have to call a spade a spade.

Hell, even Trump supporters know it. Half the reason I’ve heard for that vote is that they know, and are relying on, Trump lying about various things.

Why vote for someone you know to be a liar? Not sure, but I did learn that non-Trump supporters generally take him much more at his word than Trump supporters.
I agree, but until you have large crowds doing a general strike, shutting major and minor cities, it's going to continue and observers abroad are going to conclude that the population is OK with it.
Maybe it goes up 100% from 1% to 2% within the next 4 years
I’ve heard (can’t recall source) that a good proportion of Russia’s nuclear arsenal hasn’t been maintained and is no longer operational.
> The administration can't just kill an act of congress.

The current SCOTUS has been extremely sympathetic to Mr Trump for some years. Even if the current majority party was not giving up their responsibilities, SCOTUS just might agree with Mr Trump that Mr Trump can indeed kill an act of congress, as odd and apparently unconstitutional as that seems.
Your link includes the following points about the law that established the Merlion as a symbol/logo for the tourism board, which makes me think their variation is fine:

STB does not own copyright for variations of the Merlion Symbol, unless these variations were specifically commissioned by STB.

STB does not own copyright for any works which incorporate variations of the Merlion Symbol.

Users are solely responsible for obtaining any other necessary approvals, permissions, and licences as may be required under law, e.g., Copyright Act 2021.

In other words, they don't own the concept of a mermaid-lion chimera. Or the name "merlion".
7am-7pm

60hr/wk implies that after accounting for traffic etc, they are essentially signaling the need for sweat labor from ppl in their 20s without family etc.

It’s ofc Google’s right to demand whatever.

I hope this opens up other brilliant folks for the other companies. Google’s loss is hopefully others’s gain.
It's a miracle he's survived all these years.
I agree Starlink is poised to be very successful at providing high speed internet to rural areas. But that doesn’t negate the point that it required the govt to do so because SpaceX would not exist if it didn’t get high risk govt contracts. Also, I wouldn’t compare it to terrestrial internet unless you advocate it being a regulated utility in the same way, which I doubt Musk or investors would want. Different rules, different constraints.
America looks weak because it has just lost the cold war. All the effort spent since 1945 to counter authoritarian superpowers have been thrown in the bin. Instead it turned into one itself. It is pathetic.
Ukraine has been loosing a three-day-special operation for three years.

Russia's refinery's are getting hit and all that crude oil is worthless with a refinery. In the case of the campaign again Nazi Germany's refineries funny enough it's the allies who didn't think it as critical as the Nazis did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II#O...
I looked the fox news host, he is military.

That was just a low shot.

I get that cybersecurity is his domain. But this is about national defense and international politics no? He is taking a jab at a different (bigger) topic based on his domain.

In my experience when people do this, it doesn't play out, people get overconfident and explore the limits of their competence. But he might be on to something, who knows, time will tell. It's just not statistically likely for me

And in Krebs defense, the topics are interrelated, it's not like he just gave his opinion on a completely unrelated manner like covid (remember when everyone had an opinion on that?)
Bit of a tangent, but I wondered if anyone here is particularly into the serious business of foreign affairs/international relations, and can recommend a primer -- or even a curriculum -- for someone wanting to become more knowledgeable about the field. As with anything, I suspect one is better able to appreciate the ramifications of events of this sort with a more nuanced and informed perspective.
It's the stuff from the 80s and 90s designed to turn back a Russian land invasion in Europe.

It's proven to be perfectly adequate for the job.
Says Michael Kofman.
It seems unlikely that an 8.48% one-day drop in NVDA would be a referendum on how much better GPT 4.5 was than GPT 4.
You clearly have a bone to pick with large lte carriers, but there's a lot of licensed and unlicensed wireless providing service to millions of people all over the world.
RIP Dan Kaminsky.

I didn't know Dan personally but I'm a big fan of his work. I still remember where I was when I learned he'd died.
Only about 18% of which is actually owned by Russia. The rest is money that happened to be in transit between private persons at an unfortunate time. Do we really think it's fair that a lady who happened to be selling her house at exactly the time the war started... should have that money donated to Ukraine's war effort?
> before Microsoft's corporate hug of death

Abuse of the law to buy a competitor, form a monopoly, and then price fix an entire market. It sounds cute when you say "hug of death" almost like they didn't intentionally seek out this precise outcome.

> It was also available literally everywhere

Funny how that was literally the first thing to get the axe. I guess some "hugs" are like that, huh?

> Rest in peace!

Justice for Skype!
They didnt send their newst javelins. They send their oldest.
It's not great to ignore inflation and debt. There's a long list of failed governments who tried.
There is one way in which it could make sense. If the US is able to extract economic benefits from Ukrainian territory, then it is likely to help Ukraine defend that territory in order to get those benefits.

Now whether those benefits are lucrative enough to warrant the US' help, I think not, which is why the deal apparently included no guarantees. The $500 billion is completely bullshit - they're not worth that much.
If Ukraine falls (which I doubt will happen soon fwiw, but what do I know), Moldova and the Baltic countries are in big trouble.
Technically, yes, but Nition was just drawing parallels between their behavior and that of children to show how incompetent and immature they are.
cancelling a scheduled press-conference without signing a deal is not major?
If it were “uniquely provided” by Starlink, how do you think Verizon got the award?
Slovaks are protesting, Uktainians protested with their Euromaidan. Where are your protests?
The cat is cute but I'd rather not have it running in front of the text while I'm trying to read and use my cursor.