skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My digital strategy is to use my iPad for notes. I can type, record audio (or, I guess, video), or write by hand and all of it is indexed, searchable, and can be shared. If I want to write on paper, I can do that and then "scan" it into the iPad (ie take a picture of it) and again the built-in OCR will index it. With a paper-like screen protector, writing on it is decent.
That, and Trump is incoherent. He has been for a couple of years now, unable to put even two sentences together that make any sense. He speaks entirely in applause one-liners. I think his dementia is significant now. If he were left alone with any world leader they'd realize almost immediately he's incompetent.

This is especially evident when you compare interviews today with those he gave 30 years ago. He was bright then. He's nothing like that today. That's also why he now refuses to be interviewed by unfriendlies.
> and this would mean the US will roll over for anything.

This is a war between Ukraine and Russia, not the US. Nobody should want western powers to enter this war because of the potential consequences. But if western powers make security guarantees, isn't that what you risk?
They wanted an excuse to drop support and they got it. They don't drop support because they are playing for team russia, they are peaceniks and it's Zelenskyy who rejected the shit deal. If they wanted to have those rare metals or whatever they would have just bought it and made a good faith effort to negotiate something instead of this.
Which is the exact kind of play Putin likes to perform.
Sure. All I’m saying is that Russia doesn’t need kompromat or some other illicit leverage over Trump. It’s all happening in the open.
Just a reminder not to impulse buy without first doing some research. IIRC serotonin syndrome is a risk, especially if already on antidepressants.

Some things to note in case you decide to go ahead anyway: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/28489u/comment/...
Yes, in the USA we vote for representatives who then make agreements on our behalf. That we don't have direct democracy on every level does not make our process undemocratic, and does not make all of our agreements null and void.

I want my people to keep their basic agreements and promises so that the rest of the world continues to trust our dollar as a reserve currency and our stock market as a safe place to invest.
Enough that it makes Trump very upset whenever another country talks about using a reserve currency other than the dollar. Why would you need studies when you have the leader's own words?
You know what hypothetical question is?
Appeasing nuclear bullies gets you more nuclear bullying, not less.

Because of Trump's betrayal of Ukraine, the whole world knows that US security guarantees don't mean anything. These security guarantees have prevented the spread of nuclear weapons. The US has treaties with dozens of countries promising a US nuclear response if the country is nuked. Therefore, those countries have not had to develop nuclear weapons.

They do now. Their trust has been completely shattered. I guarantee you that formerly non-nuclear countries like South Korea, Japan, and half of Europe are now full speed ahead on secret nuclear weapons programs. Trump has destroyed the US-led world order and we're now on a much scarier timeline. Nuclear war is more likely, not less.
"Ukraine was also part of the USSR, and is being just as hostile to American interests."

What does that even mean ... ?

The former Soviet Bloc was under the yoke of the central committee in Moscow. The people involved had no say in the politics of the central committee, they were coerced. But once its power failed, the newly free countries mostly turned their backs on Russia in a hurry. Only Belarus stayed in the orbit.

Contemporary Ukraine (or Lithuania, or Georgia) is not hostile to the US in any meaningful sense.
I agree with both you and AnotherGoodName - I should have been clearer.

It's not that I think Trump's actions here are equivalent. They are pretty clearly worse in motivation and objective.

I just think that we're going to head into a dark time for the world, and that future history books (if 2025-2035 goes roughly like 1935-1945, which I'm starting to think would be a horrific but "better than can reasonably be expected" outcome) that what happened at the White House today will occupy a similar place - a sort of last pretense of diplomacy before the storm, where one of the participants (Hitler in the original, Trump here) was never honestly interested in peace, just what they could gain in the short term via extortion.

Not identical situations, but ones that rhyme.
I certainly wouldn't expect another random country halfway around the world to foot the bill for my country.
Are you doing the program on your own or part of a class?
I'd consider doing the inverse and nice the JVM with a lower priority instead in certain situations.
Which is just one of many, many broken agreements.
You said I was looking at simply. I reported the election results. The majority of the voters did not vote for this administration.

> Democratic party machine as a whole are just as responsible for Harris's loss as GOP underhandedness is.

This we agree on.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-290-million-2...

It isn't just the money, but whom it benefits. Someone almost no discretionary income, 100 or 300 is a ton of money. Musk won't even notice the 290M.
Are you saying they got into the oval office accidentally? That seems really hard to believe.
Russia will just attack again. Ukrainans and their own poor and non-ethnic-Russian population are just subhumans to them and they literally don't care about any deaths.
Trump looked like a fool that let his target bait him repeatedly on national television, outing him as an extortionist.

Unfortunately, it will now be used as an excuse for the US to alley with Russia to receive compensation for it's prior defense investment.
Because Biden supports Israel, same story with Ukraine.
I'm not sure ad hominem is as convincing as you think it is. "Any compromise at all" is a very easy thing to say when it isn't your blood in the streets.
A link directly to the BVM project: https://github.com/Botspot/bvm

It's basically a script/GUI that lets you download and install a fresh copy of Windows 11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi with zero intervention, using the cloud VM license key.

Geekbench scores inside Windows 11 were only slightly reduced from native Pi OS scores, and the UI is generally usable, as long as you don't need any video/3d rendering. It'd be great if there were GPU drivers for the VideoCore GPU inside the Pi's SoC... or GPU drivers for external PCIe GPUs (none exist so far for Windows on Arm).
Have you ever sent anyone a message that later turned out to be false?[1] Do you have £50k on hand to defend yourself against the accusation that you knew it to be false when you sent it? Perhaps you'd rather spend 18 months on remand in the meantime, just to be sure you don't send anything else that might also be false, while we prepare your trial (which may or may not collapse due to a complete lack of evidence).

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/179
Putin: "Thanks for heads up as I left Kremlin. Also don't mind the ICBM to Washington and NYC"

Nuclear war couldn't be won.
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There’s a short list of people Trump is afraid to let speak.
It's a cultural problem that we let so much bullshit slide. America has come to love the spectacle, and loud wrong people can make quite a show.

In a just society, there'd be a price to pay for lying. Free speech has consequences. Be loudly and persistently wrong (even when corrected by actual experts with real facts) and you get penalized with turning down the volume. But it's the exact opposite in today's media atmosphere.
There have been multiple books written about this, leaks from MI6, etc etc. It's not at all new and doesn't seem to have been debunked, just kind of glossed over.
As if the Ukrainians had a choice about fighting. If Russia gives up, the war ends. If Ukraine gives up, Ukraine ends.
When Russia annexed crimea in 2014 (phase 1 of the current war) the response was sanctions because no one wants WW3.

Russia realized it can keep taking territory if it does so slowly because everyone is afraid of a bigger war and sanctions don't bother the Russian elite that much, so in 2022 they start phase 2 and absorb the additional sanctions.

Trump has a new capitulation deal for Ukraine in hand, possibly pre-approved with Russia, but Zelensky either backed out of accepting the terms or was otherwise surprised about the details and didn't play ball with Trump; possibly because it included him losing a lot of face.
> How much more evidence does anyone need?

“Being cozy with” and “being compromised by” may look similar, but aren’t the same thing. We can’t be certain just based on the presence of a Tass reporter.

Remember, Trump is the same dipshit who saluted a North Korean general. I fully chalk that episode up to narcissistic stupidity rather than being compromised.

Edit: I mean, let’s be clear… Trump is a gift to any and every foreign intelligence service.
So, what do you read the end of that sentence mean? Because the way I read it is worse:

> to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

I don't read that as a caveat, so I'm assuming it means something different to you. To reword slightly and hopefully show how that sentence is coming across to me:

> As you have indicated by using Firefox you have given us the right to...
One possibility is that foreign policy is in fact often driven by domestic policy.

It sounds like this is the sort of reaction that Trump voters might like - both the form and substance. So Trump obliges. The foreign consequences might be of secondary importance to him.

Another possibility is that, we have seen over the past decade or so, illiberal autocrats seem to support and like each other - Orban, Putin, Le Pen in France, now also AfD and Musk. They seem to like the idea of strong leaders such as themselves, carving up the world. This might motivate Trump to side with Putin.

As to the plan: there doesn't really seem to be one, as far as I can tell. Trump implied there's some mineral extraction deal he wanted from Ukraine but unclear how it works. It doesn't promise the one thing Ukraine needs, which is security. Depending on your viewpoint, you might say Trump is extorting mineral rights from Ukraine, or that they want to put some structure on how the mineral wealth will be used to rebuild Ukraine - that's what is discussed at face value. But either way, for any mineral extraction, you need peace, so it's unclear why you would even discuss this while the war is going on.
Context / previous discussion of Firefox's updated terms of use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909
Good call!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Syria_relations

> an agreement was signed in February 1946 ensuring Soviet support for Syrian independence ahead of the evacuation of French troops in April 1946

> In 1971, under an agreement with President Hafez al-Assad, the Soviet Union opened its naval military base in Tartus

> On 8 October 1980, Syria and the Soviet Union signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation

So, "how many years after it started" appears to be a negative number.
Who led the coup in "your" country?
You’re being downvoted, but sadly your opinion is representative of a huge percentage of the population. The part that has a… simple, transactional view of each and every international incident.

That’s the most polite way I could express that.

The more nuanced view is this:

America made a deal with Ukraine: Give up your nuclear weapons in exchange for our protection.

They made similar deals with Taiwan, South Korea, and others. Sometimes with signatures on paper, sometimes with threats of “don’t even think about it”.

Now they are “all thinking about it”. All of them: the countries with small populations, small armies, inconveniently located next to a larger bully like Russia or China.

Here in Australia, the right wing government is prepping us to build nuclear weapons. We’re acquiring nuclear-powered submarines that can launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles and the only thing they’re proposing in the next election is building dozens of nuclear power plants… that they admit will only fulfill maybe 4% of our energy needs… but 100% of our weapons-grade plutonium breeding needs.

South Korea and Japan already have the nuclear plants.

What do you think they’re planning, now that they all see how worthless American promises are?

Especially since yesterday’s(!) events, when Trump was asked about AUKUS, the most important and closest military alliance the US is a part of and he had no idea what it was!

This is why even close allies are tooling up for imminent global nuclear conflict.

Because America elected a president that famously violates the terms of every contract he’s ever signed.

Twice. To make sure everyone got the message.
Dumb question but why /do/ browsers move quick? Surely we are nearing feature complete. Is it just the complexity of the task? I'm sure there are lots of awful bugs.
American debt is lucrative as long as you don't alienate the whole world by behaving completely irrationally. The USD being the world's transfer currency means that you can finance debt at the lowest interest rate on the planet and use that debt on more productive investments, which is what the USA's government is doing. There's a reason why the US still has a stellar credit rating.

American debt is lucrative and you morons are fucking up your cash cow because you don't understand banking and are willing to let a handful of crypto bros try to accelerate the international monetary system's downfall so that they can try to replace it by some bullshit rug pull coin that doesn't even have the technology to function as global currency.
Are you talking about Trump or Zelensky here?
> They are just pieces of paper that guarantee nothing.

You just noticed? Rules/treaties are useless unless you have the power to enforce them.
Ukraine wants security guarantees. A ceasefire without security guarantees is an opportunity for Russia to resupply and attack again.
> Now imagine an ASI that isn't confined to the Go board, but operating out in the world.

I don't think it's reasonable at all to look at a system's capability in games with perfect and easily-ingested information and extrapolate about its future capabilities interacting with the real world. What makes you confident that these problem domains are compatible?
Trump only won by plurality.
It’s not really inexplicable. Looking into evangelicalism.
Before flagging this post to oblivion consider the source: Brian Krebs [1] is highly reputable [2]. This is very newsworthy.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs
For others who saw this with no context and don't want to read the thread, this is a response from the librewolf team regarding requests made in response to changes to Fireox's terms of service[0], from those who are worried that Mozilla/FF will use this as the first step to selling out.

[0]https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...
The Republicans in charge now are responsible for a good chunk of that debt. $8 trillion in PPP helicopter money + tax cuts for the wealthy during Trump's term, plus trillions more for Bush's tax cuts and Afghanistan/Iraq warcrimes.

And they're looking to double down by giving billionaries trillions more in tax cut while driving up the debt. Trump/Musk/GOP do not actually care about debt or spending, it's a distraction.
This was a setup. It wasn't meant to be a meeting where policy is negotiated, it was an attempt bully Zelensky into agreeing to a bunch of pro-Russian falsehoods in hopes that he'd get something from the US. Good on him for realizing that Ukraine will get nothing from our compromised government, pushing back against false narratives and not hurting his cause trying to pursue a "compromise" just like the one that Ukraine got in 2015 that Russia reneg'd on almost immediately.
It does as part of the Lisbon Treaty, and the obligation is binding.

More here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/mutual-d...

And I would expect the call to be answered (with the exception of the already-compromised countries).
Watch the spin afterwards. The more he tries to spin it to look better, the less he feels like he came off strong.
#1 Consider searching for "sell the sizzle"
#2 Never forget who pays your wage; your clients.
#3 The Pareto principle is often important ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Israel is a solitary, functioning, modern liberal democracy surrounded by repressive, autocratic states. Until about a minute ago, supporting liberal democracy was important to all US administrations.

The people of the US are (until maybe(?) a minute ago) largely supportive of Israel. Partly because of a (relatively) large and visible Jewish population (THANK YOU EUROPE!), and partly because it has been a majority Protestant Christian nation with an affinity God's Chosen People.

You don't need to go all QAnon to figure this out.
This is the correct answer. Everyone here saying "We need to stand up to Putin..." won't be fighting on the frontlines and at worst, we can be entering WW3 if the US, Russia, and the EU keep escalating the conflict.
Give them whatever they want, again, I suppose! That's the only conclusion possible from a policy of "any compromise to end the killing".
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178831
Exactly what I said to alephnerd above.
right, ok
Nah, Trump was never going to offer Ukraine the security guarantee needed to end this conflict. Trump is just extending this "give us $500B in mineral rights in exchange for nothing" deal to manufacture an excuse to cease all aid to Ukraine and exonerate his administration from the holocaust that Putin will execute against Ukrainians after Trump gives Putin all of the intel the US military has accumulated aiding Ukraine to this point.
Trump is an open book, he says he wants the killing to stop and to save money, but saving lives is more important. Many people also believe this, and that failed negotiations and bad relations between NATO and Russia lead to this.

It’s not pro-Russian to want a conflict to end, it’s terrible to think that not wanting people to continue to die is considered bad if it happens to include people of a specific nation who have little control over their leadership currently.
Trump is a distraction.

If all people here would study Trump, then nobody would have hired him for any job. He fails, and he does that spectacularly. His businesses have floundered time after time, and his ass has been saved many a times (with Russian money too, yeah, years back). Trump's image is completely fake, he is not a great deal maker. He is born rich, at best a con man. But he is valuable.

That begs the question:

*a) what powers do select the likes of Trump, Greene, Kennedy?*
*b) For what?*

I have no horse in this race, but anybody with a clear mind can see those people are mentally impaired.

Re a. There is a small but powerful contingent in the USA elites that do NOT believe in democracy. The movements behind MAGA are part driven by extreme white-nationalist christians, notable Dominions, part driven by old-Nazi elites from the Interbellum and part driven by extreme crypto-/tech-dystopia crazies, that have access to enormous amounts of wealth, intelligence about people (Big tech) and "social" media. America falling into the hands of radical but powerful elites with extreme beliefs and tools was just a matter of time.
Articles shared here on Hacker News have been flagged over the years.

Re b. Trump, Kennedy, Greene etc are able to suck up tons of media attention. They will generate a crisis every hour without needing instructions. They are not too smart and powerful, so they will have a room in which they can operate, but they will not be able to control the tools like media themselves. But what they will do is making sure the people will get distracted by the drama of these people, whereas people should be concerned with what is happening with the democratic state. Te state is being replaced according to Plan 2025, from which you have not seen everything.

Do not focus too much on Trump and Elon. They are there pursuing their own interests, they are tolerated for now, but they will be pushed from the board once their work is finished.

America siding with Putin is just a tip of the ice berg of what is to come for America and the world.
> SSRIs aren’t shown to be much better than placebo

Or in other words: it's better than placebo.
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I guess tomorrow Trump calls Zelensky a dictator again.
I see many, understandably, comments that empathise with president Zelenski.

It is though to come to such meetings when the other party (the Trump administration) genuinely does neither care nor likes you.

That being said, I'm gonna point out Zelenski himself.

1) You can't be sitting in the oval office and tell the president of one of the most belligerent and bloodiest countries in the world "you cannot understand how it is to defend yourself, you're surrounded by oceans on both sides". If there is one thing that you should never, ever do, is question America's willingness to pick a fight. That was what triggered hugely Trump (go check the video). That was a terrible mistake, directed to the bulliest president of the bulliest country in the planet, a gigantic blunder on its part.

2) I feel for Zelenski, but after what happened today, his political career is over, that's what pundits and political analysts all over eastern Europe are saying (they are much more critical of Zelenski's naivety than Trump's behavior). Former prime minister of Poland Leszek Miller has been very critical and said Zelenski came very unprepared and leaves in a worse position.

He quits the White House in a critical situation and if Ukraine wants to get some kind of leverage it will have to necessarily consider a change of leadership. Zelenski's stance has been terrific in the first years of war, but now he's alone and unable to get most of what he can for Ukraine.
And who has?
Neither of these points contradict the fact that Americans very broadly support Israel and are opposed to Putin and Russia. Of course there are varying degrees of support on any specific issue.

Yes, the UN has attempted many more resolutions against Israel than against China for its treatment of millions of Uyghurs, North Korea for enslaving its entire population, Russia for murdering tens of thousands, Iran for its direct terrorism, and the list goes on. Which is not exactly the ethical high ground you seem to think it is.