skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think that housing shortages are more a result of inequality than a cause of it. The large disparities in wealth result in a situation where a disproportionate amount of land is controlled by a relatively small number of people. Those landowners may be fine with owning "trophy" properties that do not produce any income stream but take up a lot of land that could be used for housing a lot more people. Also in some areas an increasing amount of "housing" is not used as housing but rented out as AirBnBs.

Simply allowing landowners to build more housing on their existing land, and thus increase the value of that land even more, will exacerbate this inequality. Again and again I see unaffordable housing built because the developers complain that they cannot make a profit otherwise. I am suspicious of "solutions" to housing that amount to "remove regulations to allow rich people to build in a way that increases their wealth". Instead of allowing greater density, we need to require greater density, i.e., go to people who currently own a lot of land saying "Either you build a lot of housing on this land, even if it causes you to lose money, or you forfeit the land."

The housing shortage should be reduced by taking from those who already have a lot, not giving more to them.
My-not-much-better-than-placebo sertraline sure has been working its placebo-like magic for 30 years next year.

How long are these double-blind studies? Surely they're not years long to show that the placebo effect is maintained over a decade or something.
Could you quote where it says that?
Including loans that they want Russia to pay off, with millions in seized russian oligarch assets used as collaterals
gold :-)
send a pr.

but don't know how adding a key owned by moz would make this more trustworthy
Not quite:

> Europe’s dependence on the United States for its security means that the United States possesses a de facto veto on the direction of European defense. Since the 1990s, the United States has typically used its effective veto power to block the defense ambitions of the European Union. This has frequently resulted in an absurd situation where Washington loudly insists that Europe do more on defense but then strongly objects when Europe’s political union—the European Union—tries to answer the call. This policy approach has been a grand strategic error—one that has weakened NATO militarily, strained the trans-Atlantic alliance, and contributed to the relative decline in Europe’s global clout. As a result, one of America’s closest partners and allies of first resort is not nearly as powerful as it could be.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/case-eu-defense/
Territorial disputes, when the negotiation terms involve only territorial changes is a zero-sum game. It stops being a zero-sum game once you add more terms.

A good example of an effective peace treaty was the Camp David accords that put an end to the Yom Kippur war of 1973. That used interest based bargaining instead of distributive bargaining.

The outcome that Russia is interested in this conflict is:

- annexing territory (Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, etc)

- help Ukraine facilitate the international recognition of that annexation

- Ukraine should not join NATO (this makes another invasion viable in the future)

In this deal, Ukraine gets:

- a ceasefire

- some peacekeeping help

These terms are pretty mediocre for Ukraine. This administration seems to be inclined to think that's the best Ukraine can get and they should take the offer to prevent further losses.

Oblasts like Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, etc. have a high percentage of ethnic Russians living there. That would remain a barrier for Ukraine to achieve peace even if Russians retreat to pre-2014 borders. Nobody knows exactly what percentage of Russians live there because the last census was long time ago.
The is sort of petty, but… your web page does the horrible scroll-and-watch-the-content-fade-in thing. This is annoying and makes me want to stop reading. It also makes me wonder if your product does the same thing, which would be a complete nonstarter. Seriously, if I’m debugging some container issue, I do not want some completely unnecessary animation to prevent me from seeing the dashboard.
When it comes to Google's success, another founder's experience, knowledge, other business competitiveness contributed most.
Here's what Nazism means for Putin: anything and everything done to defend against Russian aggression.
> After all, where is GPT 5 going to scrape the next set of answers for new libraries and frameworks..?

From its own incorrect answers that got parroted around the web.
because they can update the client tomorrow to not use e2e...

meta did it. google did it. so not without precedent.
Note that without a reverse shell you could still leak the secrets in the built artifact itself.
> According to CA and other states Mozilla is collecting and selling your data.

The definition requires Mozilla to do it "in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”". What consideration is Mozilla receiving and from who?
The benefit of the reserve currency is our ability to run huge deficits and the result is a loss of our industrial base. It's a double-edged sword but one that ends up leaving us vulnerable. If we had a major non-nuclear conflict with China, for example, they would out build us the way we out built the Germans in WWII.
You are correct, I should have said "again".
> I think the goal posts keep moving, and that if you showed a person from 2019 the current GPT (even GPT-4o), most people would conclude that it's AGI

Yes, if you just showed them a demo its super impressive and looks like an AGI. If you let a lawyer, doctor or even a programmer actually work deeply with it for a couple of months I don't think they would call it AGI, whatever your definition of AGI is. It's a super helpful tool with remarkable capabilities but non factuality, no memory, little reasoning and occasional hallucinations make it unreliable and therefore non AGI imo.
It pays a fair bit in direct costs, it gets multiples back in return by being at the center of many systems.
The US has legal reasons now. Ukraine is a sovereign country and would be more than happy to accept US military bases. The US hasn't sent soldiers because they don't want to go to war with Russia
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That's an interesting perspective, do you have some links to better video? My wife saw it live, but I watched a 4min video from the BBC and it certainly seemed as though a lot of the aggression was on the US side.
The speechwriter was apparently Michael Gerson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerson#Lines_attribute... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/01/axis-of-evil-aut...
I also believe that the two biggest domestic problems in the US are housing and transportation. I’m not sure if it’s a recoverable situation
What would you recommend these days? All I know is 2000s software like Shareaza, LimeWire, Gnutella, etc.
What part of "we have x million monthly users" is "a consumer’s personal information"? That's information about how many consumers you have, but it's not personal
I look at the regulatory capture of tech in the US and applaud the EU regulation that can't get traction in the companies' originating country.
I can only comment on my own field, programming. AI can write code at a junior level, and sometimes help explain and debug.

The hard part of programming—the expertise that comes from experience—happens when gathering and defining requirements. Writing code takes skill but got more automated over time, from compilers to IDEs to LLMs.

Getting to “almost working” with AI coding looks impressive, but like a car missing only one wheel it has zero utility. AI coding looks impressive to people who could not write code at all. It seems less impressive to those who can.

I won’t call it useless but at this point the time spent chasing down hallucinated library functions and API endpoints, and auditing code for security problems and missing edge cases more than offsets any benefit for experienced programmers. Maybe it will get better over time.
Sure, the mutual-defense guarantee can be a moderating force, or it can be a ticket to rapid escalation (case in point WW1) and, potentially therefore, nuclear war.

The fact that the Cold War ended peacefully, and with the USSR‘s dissolution to boot, is one of history’s great miracles. With the world’s return to its default multi-polar state, we really shouldn’t press our luck.

Give Russia and China their spheres of influence while we protect our own. The tail risk of nuclear war just isn’t worth whatever gains Neocons promise. After all, how did their Iraqi and Afghan experiments in democracy turn out?
God, you never tried Oracle Cloud. It's not an UI, it's an escape room. I would pay to switch to Azure.
> Ukraine is war torn, deeply in debt, and no longer provides the strategic benefit to Russia it might’ve in ‘22.

Expanded access to the Black Sea and natural gas/minerals were and still are very important to Russia. Aside from these, a total victory would allow Putin to cement himself as a conqueror in Russian history books.
It very much depends on the specialty, too.
I can't believe so much war mongering is going on this site. So much support for perpetual war, US to become world police. A decade or so ago the sentiment was against these. Where are those people, did they change.

If nations beleive this is a just war then they should send troops to the ground. Otherwise it seems like Ukraine citizens are sent to their graves while west is again virtue signalling.
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I didn’t mention NATO, Ukraine, or the Budapest memorandum… Defence is only a part of this. The economy is a big part. Europe is far too reliant on US tech for example. Given US citizens can’t be trusted not to elect a lunatic the US should no longer be relied upon in any capacity.
Putin's aim is the complete destruction of Ukraine as a nation and the removal of the current democratically elected administration. Until that he can be only stopped with force.
> After you liberalize housing, you still run into the trouble of economic forces trying to turn housing into a sensible investment.

Karl Marx made this crystal clear 150 years ago. You have to socialize housing, not "liberalize" it, whatever that means. And the Georgist solution will face a similar problem - the political one. The rich will always undermine mere tax law. You have to get rid of the rich, plain and simple.
The article is describing just lobbying.
missing from the article is that you need execute the following command to install Deno jupyter kernel:

deno jupyter --install
Europe could remind Trump that he's going to need our alliance if he plans to confront China. It looks less and less like he does though.
the first part of your comment is exactly what i said.

the second part, it looks like you ignored my whole comment.

there should be no more mozilla. if they exist by means of opensource contributors. i question if they have their own developers on payroll still? which might be slightly harder to replace.
I was under the impression that selling anonymised data would also fall under this category. Either way we need more transparency here.
You’re looking at the burning pile of shit that president Musk is creating and still thik that a Harris presidency would be worse?
He can but it’s not a huge issue because the countries that want to act can do so outside of EU structures, which would be necessary given the UK isn’t in the EU.
He is talking about Schroeder, who was in on Gazprom after his tenure.
there is some functionality builtin to windows. It should do what you need without running a full vm on your host.
Thanks for giving a different perspective here. Unfortunately, I have to respectively disagree.

> was so incompetent on the Afghanistan withdrawal

That was based on a deal Trump made with the Taliban. I don't know if Trump would have botched it too. I would put that on Bush who f*ed up that war completely.

But ultimately it boils down to the moral inability of Americans to fight an uneven war. The problem here is the appeasement policy that unfortunately both sides suffer from.

> projected tremendous weakness

I think that's overblown. There are cases where it was true and others (such as Ukraine) where Biden showed how he can hold back Russia without risking a single US soldier. That was pretty good.

> Biden did nothing for Silicon Valley

The CHIPS act? Intel etc. got a ton of money. Battery manufacturing moved back to the states with multiple factories opening up.

He brought back manufacturing to the USA and gave a lot in that sense. The fact that he kept policies going (no tariffs etc.) was a huge benefit to tech which relies on stability and globalization.

> Freethinking requires courage, and I see none of it in the typical SV limousine liberal.

I think using language like that goes counter to free thinking. I despise Trump as a person, but I accept that some of the policies and stances aren't wrong. Unfortunately, discourse is at a level where we can't even have adult conversations on the issues without name-calling.
This has nothing to do with being left-leaning. If you disagree with HN's sentiment here, it just means as you have completely lost the plot.
You can't have diplomacy with Russia, they don't respect any agreements, EU tried to partner up with them on trade as a "diplomatic" route, hoping that cash flowing both ways would be enough to keep Russia happy, but their ambitions go beyond a peaceful coexistence.
Of my friends only one set lives in London and I have no idea how they afford it, one or both of them must be on silly money and it’s pretty clear most of the money must go into the mortgage. I started my career is a very cheap part of the UK so I sort of have to carve London out of any generalisations I make.
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Are political bots now on HN as well?
This is such a polarizing post willfully ignoring legislation and historical background. Aimed at dividing public opinion instead of discussing the topic at hand: political influence of X through feed aggregation.
If you self host, you don't need to wonder whether you need to respect their acceptable use policy.
Maybe you didn't read the part where I said we don't care?

We, as a people, don't care. We don't even care about the problems we have. It's not gonna be easy to make us care about the problem some other people have.
typical abuser mind games. Nothing Zelensky said is proportional to what Trump or Vance said.

For his base, they won't care, and this event will justify the next few actions that the US takes.
> In hindsight, it was premature by Germany to shut down theirs so early

What hindsight? Everyone knew at the time that it was premature. It was a deliberate choice to bear the burden of increased pollution and to make the country more dependent on the whims of a foreign dictator, because nuclear bad.
Not exactly to get enrolled, but in Moscow websites officially advertize 2300000 rub to sign, which is about $25000. Then monthly payment is 190000 rub so for first year it'll be about $50000 which is 5 to 10 times more than average salary (depending on the region). Initial bonus for enrollment is city-dependent but as far as I understand anyone can just travel to Moscow and sign in there.

I heard that volonteer numbers right now are pretty high so army became more selective - people expect that war will end soon and hope to get sign in bonus without spending much time on the battlefield, if any.
Firefox can't compete with iOS or Android for what should be obvious reasons - it is structurally impossible. Also, the competing browsers are way better today than in Firefox's heyday. There is very little reason to use Firefox today outside of ideological.
Please explain how Trump stops the war short of allowing a Russian genocide of the Ukrainian people.
He has veto power as Hungary is part of the EU. It might sound strange from the point of view of the big guy that doesn't even recognize the International Criminal Court, but in the EU small countries have a voice too, although in this case it sadly works against the common good.
He is totally willing to give Ukraine to Russia. Such generosity!
It isn't exactly news that doctors with better test scores are better doctors, but this is additional evidence. The article doesn't touch on race, but very deliberately. To anyone on the inside, the silence is deafening.

In the U.S. med schools been matriculating many unqualified "underrepresented minority" (black, hispanic, native American, Hawaiian) medical students for a long time. This is unfair to patients and doctors, especially competent brown doctors, because it is now the case that you get a very strong signal about how how good a doctor is simply by the color of his or her skin. Which is messed up.

AAMC has the data (https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/data/fa... , table A-18). This is after the 2023 Supreme Court decision, so the spreads are a little wider in e.g. 2022 data. MCAT scores range from a minimum of 472 to a max of 528, which is stupid and a deliberate tactic to make the differences between groups seem small. Subtracting 472 from each average score, 2024 average MCAT scores look like this for matriculants:

41.9: Asian

40.2: White

36.9: Hawaiian

34.4: Black

33.9: Hispanic

31.3: American Indian

These are very large differences which you can absolutely expect to show up in doctor performance. Everyone has to pass the same boards during / after med school, but that's just going to cut out some of the worst. Among those who pass, the unqualified minority students who were admitted to med school because of their skin color will still be concentrated at the bottom of the distribution.

Do you know what they call the guy who finished last in his med school class? "Doctor".
Would it be better to post is as Show HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
That would not be a barrier for peace in Ukraine. The war is not between Russians and Ukrainians, but Russia and Ukraine - in fact, that area voted for Zelenskyy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_el...
I’m personally thoroughly unimpressed by the bare metal S3 implementations I’ve tried.

And there’s also an issue with client libraries and their compatibility with various implementations. I recently discovered this issue:

https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/3394

This is GCS implementing the S3 API incorrectly in a way that really ought not to break clients, but it’s still odd because the particular bug on GCS’s end seems like it took active effort to get wrong. But it’s also boto (the main library used in Python to access S3 and compatible services) doing something silly, tripping over GCS’s bug, and failing. And it’s AWS, who owns boto, freely admitting that they don’t intend to fix it, because boto isn’t actually intended to work with services that are merely compatible with S3.

As icing on the cake, to report this bug to Google, I apparently need to pay $29 plus a 3% surcharge on my GCS usage. Thanks.

Time to check out OpenDAL, I suppose.
> buy the arms from the US in the meantime

I'm not so sure that's a realistic option when there's US officials saying to allies they should buy less US equipment.[1] It doesn't inspire confidence.

> A British defence figure, who is not part of the government, was told privately by US officials that it should “recalibrate” its reliance on US equipment.

And then there's this.

> They said that a US administration could put restrictions on kit from the US and that if countries are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful.”

When allies buy less US equipment, what happens to the US citizens employed in the defence industry?

[1]: https://archive.ph/q2hgi
Excuse me sir, to me all topics here feel like a wendy's so I thought this was the right place. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll post it there too!
You can't have elections when you're being invaded or under attack, it's not unprecedented and it's also constitutional. The UK for example didn't have elections from 1939 to 1945 due to WW2.

If part of your population is under occupation, they won't be able to vote how they want, and the rest of your civilian population becomes a target for constant bombardment in order to vote "correctly".
s/we/I/
Ah, I was wondering too but my reply button was gone, yes I would say we’ll be net > 0 around the same time as you age wise. If we hadn’t had to renovate a 60s property we’d possibly be there already but UK housing stock needs work sadly.
AWS pages are built by different teams, and it shows. We're all supposed to use IAC though, right?

In all seriousness, even in the face of IAC, the one thing Azure can do that AWS can't [at the time this happened to me], is have a global view of everything that's running right now and costing me money. It was years back, it was a $5 bill, but the principle of it had me livid. I did my best to tear down everything after my evaluation, yet something was squirreled away costing money.

So yeah, absolutely, sluggish UI all the way (I also find the Amazon storefront profoundly ugly and disorganized).
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This is a study my wife wrote regarding this exact scenario, trying to see if patients think they’re getting better care if they’re similar to the doctor (and team) treating them!
That may be the narrative that the GOP has sold to the right, but it’s simply not true. Crime is down from what it was decades ago. The US is far from perfect but it’s not the crime ridden hellhole that the right portrays it to be.

I’m also not sure how you think the Trump administration’s actions are addressing this. He pardoned Jan 6th rioters. He’s defunding federal infrastructure.

This is just so blatantly disconnected from what’s happening.
From HN guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, [...], unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

What is the interesting new phenomenon this is supposed to be evidence of? (The question is not intended to be a statement.)
Britain held elections in 1945, after VE day.
Forgot the link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37801560/
What if the US "pushed for peace" in WW2 instead of helping allies?

> America is using its soft power to resolve a war going nowhere.

The war could have been won if the same Republicans who are now in power weren't blocking military aid in Congress during the past 2 years.
So by that definition, if I click on your profile info here, HN is "selling me your data" no?

But anyway, if anyone thinks FF or any other browser can survive without such commercial deals needs to get ready to use Safari or other minor browser
Your parent comment's idea is quite sensible, no need to be contemptuous like this. Firefox branding is a mess, being both a browser and a set of services. It's reasonable to mix things up or to be confused.
this is not about outages
Omniblade from Thyme project [0] managed to get Generals to compile [1][2] but there is still work to be done:

[0] https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Thyme

[1] https://discord.com/channels/409121752921276426/409121752921...

[2] https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour/com...
That's why I voted for Harris. I hate her guts, but she would have at least tried to not sink her ship. Trump seems to think that a fire in the engine room will make it go faster...
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