skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When he went to visit Europe and gave his famous tirade, it was very telling he didn't meet with the German chancellor but met with the leader of AfD, you know, the guys with well proven neo nazi and fascist links. He's not interested in being a gentleman, we're playing a different kind of game now - game where they believe winner takes everything and goals justify the means.
Those rules surely only apply to regular peasants^Wsubjects^Wpeople
The 2.0 version of Skype is Microsoft Teams, and they built it from scratch.

Along with the Skype code, the Skype brand was also thrown in the trash. You could question that decision—perhaps keeping both brands for different target demographics would have been a better move. Teams could be for work and business, while Skype (powered by Teams' code) could remain for regular consumers. But I’m not sure. Maybe it’s better to strengthen a single brand rather than maintain two separate products.

That said, I do have an issue with the name Teams—it doesn’t quite fit the use case of calling your grandma overseas.
So, watching the video as a brit with a number if Ukrainian friends and colleagues, my first reaction is that this is the Trump Whitehouse looking for a cheap win.

However, I think their calculation here speaks to the difficulty of the current situation.

Putting aside the morality, sovereign integrity, and such: the situation appears to be entering/in a stalemate. The Ukrainian forces have done well to proactively take and hold Russian territory, and have held the line pretty well. However, there does not seem to be a play here that will conclusively end Russian occupation presently. The best case seems to be waiting out the supply of Russian troops, but the Ukrainian army doesn't have an endless supply of volunteers in this regard (I've worked with a few who have).

So the question has to be asked: how does this end decisively if neither side can win outright? And how much support is required to maintain the status quo?

I hate to say it, but I think they will likely have to lose territory. I think they could argue for greater security architecture (i.e. part of NATO but no nukes) to prevent repeat. But otherwise I can appreciate why the current administration is where its at.

Its a sorry situation all around.
That's very likely the case, though I don't think either of us have the details to make that assertion confidently. My comment was only in regards to lobby groups which operate freely on US soil staffed mostly by Americans.

Were there an analogous "ARPAC" which lobbied for Russian interests I imagine it would be under an immense amount of scrutiny.
What was Biden’s ineffectuality about then?
If you have some constructive criticism to share, I’m all ears. Always in search for more views. Especially now where things are upside down.
The position "any compromise that ends the war is acceptable" is a nonsensical idea that gives agressors the ability to take any territory they want from weaker nations. Invade weaker nation, take some land, then force them to surrender to 'save lives'. Do you not see where this absolutist idea leads?

If the only thing that matters is saving lives, you can have whatever you want by taking lives. The end result is that people who are willing to kill for profit win.

If you don't want the world to be ruled by people willing to kill for profit, you have to take action to make that behavior unprofitable.
that's the Assignment expressions, i.e. :=
Worth mentioning that Orion is fully based on WebKit. Calling it a “Safari wrapper” would be unfair, but it’s also not extremely far from that either.
If you're an American and want to vent your frustrations, you could try the US Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121 .

You can contact your senator and ask how they are contributing to the safety and prosperity of Americans, or just human beings in general.
Assuming you're writing in good faith: Russia has already signed a treaty confirming Ukraine's sovereignty and its borders. Then ignored it and attacked - twice. First time it also pretended it wasn't them, until they turned around and said, "haha, actually it was".

Russia does not hold up bargains, so there is no positive utility in giving them things.
Trump with his bluffs and attacks operates within crumple zone of US and even of the western world but this crumple zone slowly starts giving up. Inside his head he thinks he is genius with ideas like taking over Greenland, depopulating Gaza, capturing Ukrainian resources or that Putin treats him seriously. Fact is EU has been asleep at the wheel for the last decade doing even counter productive moves like Brexit and Nord Stream, or ridiculous things like attaching bottle caps to the bottle, while corruption in Ukraine has been continuously enormous to the point they run out of money and people. Honestly, it all looks rather bleak and elites of many EU countries are ready to eject to Dubai (as Russian and Ukrainian ones have already done).
You have zero evidence for such a strong statement. Most blackmail goes undetected, so there's no way to say this confidently.
Does Mozilla sell your data, or did they remove language saying they won't?

Do you really think Brave won't, when it comes time to pay the piper?
Perhaps this has a similar explanation as the observation that universities and higher education seem to be politically one-sided.
Your debate tactic reminds me of some variation of the gish gallop. I thought there was a word for it, but I can't find it.

You just ask question after question after question after question, with an extremely disproportionate amount of effort required between you and the person you are asking, and hope that the other side eventually gives up.

Edit: jakelazaroff pinned it down for me, "sealioning"
>This will strongly alienate the other 78% of Americans

It will strongly alienate the subsection of the other 78% of Americans who learn of it and care. I suspect that's nowhere near 100% of them, and I'd be shocked if it was over 30%
Let's wait to see what that golden pager does.
Betting on the wrong horse while Xi just has to stand aside to see the crown of superpower being handed to him with no effort, Russia on the road to implode in a fire sale, while China looks to sign lucrative trade agreements with the EU.

Brexit was shooting yourself in the foot, today was a gruesome display of diplomatic suicide on live television.
Canada wonders this too.

Perhaps the playbook is:

* Russia takes part of Northern Canada (oil and lots of it, Northern passage aka the new Panama Canal)

* Canada fights, but Russia remains

* US says "If you were the 51st state, we could protect you"

US gets Canada, Russia the Ukraine, neither side objects.
I would argue that we did our bid for European stability, that everybody thought Ukraine would be quickly overrun. We don’t need to defend every inch of Ukrainian soil for us to consider it a success and a deterrent. We did far more here than Obama did to protect crimea.
It doesn't take more than engineers to maintain an open-source browser, though. Why does it have to be a company at all? Remember Firefox? Firefox was literally just an act-of-love fork from some engineers from a dead acquisition by a dying dot-com era behemoth.

Put another way, does the Linux kernel or the Python language need to be run by a company, or will foundations does these jobs ok?

There are plenty of open source projects that are enormously successful without a single lawyer or project manager in sight.
Russia probably has strong kompromats on Trump and his administration. Can't explain it any other way. Why otherwise they would go out of the way to make idiots of themselves in public in front of the whole world?

I know Trump has not been an example of tact but this is something else.
People are wildly out of touch with where the far right is and how big of a movement it is.

Sure, maybe not 51% of the country wanted this. But I would be shocked if it's less than 38%.

That number is FAR too large.
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I submitted it as a post this week. It survived for about 3 minutes before being flagged as a dupe and then deleted without any link to the conversation it was supposedly a dupe of. I did some cursory searching and could not find another conversation.
> Ukraine is not Putin’s end goal, it’s his first step

Technically his second given the invasion of Crimea.
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

We did appeasement in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea. Totally solved the problem didn't it. Just like Chamberlain prevented the meat grinder of WWII.
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I'm sure this is a very narrow use-case, but I've kinda wanted CI/CD for generating Ableton Live Albums
Oh great, now I have to brush my eyes before I go to bed too.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
The goal was always to support Ukraine for long enough to pressure Russia into the negotiation table, the concessions could varied, no one knows. Ukraine knows it cannot get it all, but they know they won't settle for nothing either.

We know this given how close even Trump got to having discussions with both parties. His competence was not there to finish any deal and took the worse turn possible.
It's a live war with thousands of dead a month. Of course it's ugly.
I think you're a strong interlocutor for a position I need to understand more.

- "Our trade with APAC dwarfs total European trade"

I assume we have a shared understanding that more than just Europe was affected by WWII.

- "Europe can and should be able to manage Russia and Africa for us"

What does manage mean?

- "this is what they did well until the 2000s."

Was America involved in any of the management of Russia that went well prior to the 2000s?

- "Both Dem and Republican admins since the Bush admin have been pushing for Europe to regain it's strategic autonomy."

Europe certainly has strategic autonomy, no?

Overall, my impression is the argument completely elides NATO, the US role in it, and the US leadership role in it.
The overall tenor of this thread, and this comment in particular, is diving right into deep conspiracy theory territory.

There’s a huge difference between supporting an ally with common interests and being somehow controlled by them.

The idea that Israel - or AIPAC - is somehow in control of the US government is straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Yeah. I keep thinking that this is going to be analogous to Chamberlain's "Peace with honor" moment in terms of how it sits in the historical narrative in 50 years.
Does anyone have any information on the whole "Krasnov" claim, whereby Trump was supposedly recruited by the KGB in the 80's and given the designation "Krasnov"?
Then you own this as much as someone who voted for it.

Abstention just buys you ownership of whatever happens, regardless of who wins.
Good television, it seems.
Let’s not strip agency from these people. They didn’t magically end up in these positions, they actively worked for this shit.
I am born in Ukraine and live now in Europe.
As European I may understand your disappointment with the West letting down some "rules based" order and democratic values.
Yet as Ukrainian, I know unfortunately that the premises of the "rules based world" do not apply to many regions in the world, inclusive Ukraine.
Let me explain, a rule-based order means that the monopoly of violence is the privilege of the state: if a bad guy annoys, you get them arrested by the police and sued by the justice.
In international relations, the cop was the US. But if you live in a region where US cannot or just doesn't want to play the cop (for the seek of is interests : think to Saudi Arabia..) then you finish up in a 'violent world' where the order comes from the violence and power.
If you accept that such regions exist, you become a realist (see mersheimer)
And if you are realist, you do not understand why Zelensky has sacrificed 1million people while another strategy would have been more suited: accept the neutrality, play the economic development, play the cultural development (remeber that economy and culture are the weak parts of Putin's policy) and gain margins of independence step by step.
I’m not sure it will help if we disclose taxpayers that the loan won’t be paid back. The idea was to sweep it under the rug, not boast about the EU’s lost money.
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The US wouldn’t have put Trump back in power if it cared about “overall looks”.
The outcome was predetermined. Z was not fully sold on this, and Trump/Vance just wanted to maximize the optics, hence the fall out. Just a small ripple, the deep states will rebalance this out.
> Their leader sucks, but so does ours

But people voted for one and not the other.
That’s my point, most people in the US naturally tie 1 city to 1 newspaper even though there may be multiple. That newspaper is usually representative of the view points of the majority of the population.
I would say that it's a net loss in the long term with all the gas they stopped buying.
Why is parity the goal? The US is on a different continent, and also (theoretically) defending US allies in the Pacific, and middle east.

It's Europe's backyard. Europe should be contributing 5x what the US contributes. They can afford it. It's the richest (per-capita) continent on earth. They outproduce Russia 5-10x.

I have been a strong supporter of US support to Ukraine and I think this meeting was gross and unbecoming, but Europeans need to wake up and understand that this is a problem they can, and have to, solve, not just as a supporting player to the US.

"We did as much as the US" doesn't matter. Give enough support to solve the problem. You have the economy and can, if you make even minor commitment — 5% of GDP would vastly outproduce Russia, for a small cost to living standards. The alternative is giving up.
It represents most Americans who voted.
> Keep sending billions to Ukraine?

Yes, absolutely. Ukraine falling to Russia represents a huge threat to the security of Europe. After Ukraine, Putin would likely take Belarus, possibly invade Poland or Finland. A weak Europe, one that is dominated by Russia, would be disastrous to the US, both abroad and at home. It is sad to me that so many Trump supporters are too short-sighted to see this.

What we've spent (and could spend going forward) in Ukraine is a teeny tiny price to pay to help ensure this doesn't come to pass.

America isn't about freedom anymore, it seems. It's about cozying up to dictators and appeasing them. I was disappointed in my fellow citizens after the 2016 election, but I could kinda understand what was going on. Now I'm just disgusted.

> Send American soldiers to die?

No, of course not, and this is such a bad-faith argument, as no one is seriously suggesting that.
In what way is it in my interest to give hundreds of billions of my nation's money toward fighting an unwinnable conflict on the other side of the world over which corrupt sex trafficking organization will control a small plot of land? The Cold War propaganda derangement that still exists in the minds of certain people is insane.
if europe has provided more military aid than why do they need united states for this conflict? cant EU and ukraine just resolve this? why did Zelenskyy come to make a deal for the resources?
he's just a small hillbilly boy from ohio
By on mobile do you mean working as a native app bloating the app size?

The "just for one thing" also seems to be a common complaint about NPM as well. I'm sure any package/library managed ecosystem suffers this problem, but it really seems the Node gets tagged with it much more frequently.
> And they don’t care about promoting WebKit at all, because any alt-browsers running it would just provide competition for Safari anyway.

Check out webkit.org:

https://www.webkit.org/downloads/

Browsers for Linux are right there.
The joke is on them.

The one's humiliated on the global scale are the ones who are lying through their teeth with less than zero class.
It seems clear that non-MAGA people who voted for Trump did so because they believed his BS promises to make the economy better and fast, and secondarily because of the immigration issue. Most of them didn't think Trump would actually do all of the horrible things he and others said he was going to do.

And even then, he only barely won the election. It was the slimmest margin since the 1800s.
If I wanted to control Trump I'd silence key members of his domestic opposition, let him get drunk on power, and then threaten to stop doing so. His ego, now inflated, probably can't handle a return trip to the real world.
There is absolutely a reason for compromise. Ukraine should be opposed to depopulating itself.

The current situation is very similar to the trench warfare of WW1. Despite there being a clear initiator of WW1, BOTH sides absolutely had a huge reason to compromise. Over 8 million lives were lost, the reason to compromise was saving those 8 million lives.
That one leads to a Twitter link.
I assume the insinuation is of Musk buying the presidency.
Trump and Vance’s behavior seems outrageous for leaders of the US. Zelensky certainly didn’t handle everything perfectly, but in comparison he looks like an actual president.
Reliable mechanics have high rates and long waits everywhere I've lived.

Hell, I've seen some that are so busy that they won't take new customers!
To be fair, Ukraine is by far the most combat ready military in the Europe right now.
Clearly not the best possible outcome. But what happened today cleared up any notion of the current US administration being an "ally". Seems like a defining moment and Europe will have to do a whole lot of think on how to move forward.
Ukraine's $500B rare earths scam:they don't exist, and we should know [video]
The Duckduckgo browser seems to offer increased privacy compared to other browsers.
In November 2024 Browsers page on link below showed:
Significant protection scores out of 30 --> DuckDuckGo: 24 Brave: 19 Firefox: 4 Chrome: 2 Edge: 2
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This is a case where before starting it's more pragmatic to be explicit and proactively ask "I will be using Claude for these assignments because it gives me a productivity increase. Is that ok?" (although there is a risk that merely asking that question will cause them to think you are using AI regardless)

There's still stigma around using AI to make jobs easier, even if it's a net productivity increase. In interviews, it makes the hiring managers internally ask the question "why do we need to pay 6 figures for this senior engineer when they are just prompting Claude like my parents can?"
Ukraine has lost massive amounts of lives, territory, and foreign funding under his leadership; Zelensky effectively has zero negotiating power.

Where are the voices that simply want the war to end so people stop dying? It’s easy to say bully this and ally that from the comfort of your office while hundreds of thousands of people die in a strip of land most “supporters” couldn’t point out on a map. At this point there’s a collective ego tied to the outcome more than there is any care for the actual people involved.
In fact, Russia's successful invasion of Georgia in 2008 - during which the West basically just said "omg plz don't" - did exactly that.
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The kernel’s graphics drivers are usually MIT licensed. This dates back to code being moved from userland into the kernel for DRM, which was Linux’s idea. The Linux kernel developers are the ones who rocked the boat here.
Please go on because nothing that you mentioned can send you in jail.
61% Americans opposed sending weapons to Israel. They got sent anyway [1]. Similarly at world stage, American govt had to bring out the veto card 49 times in Israel's defense- it was alone against the world, even all of it's strongest European allies [2].

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/740568401/Cbsnews-20240609-S.... Question No 52.

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-times-us-has-used-veto...
I actually agree that it was a planned dressing down for optics sakes but the attempt is to try to get Zelenskyy out of the way for Trump / Putin direct deal to settle Ukraine matter and the success of this strategy will depend on whether the MAGA media hype will drown out the soft power enjoyers in terms of messaging.
Israel is going to need to be a lot more internationally vocal if they disapprove of Bibi. I know the majority of american folks of jewish descent disapprove of Bibi's actions but his polling in Israel is a lot less unfavorable.
One way to avoid a two-continent war is to lend money to our European ally to buy weapons from us.

Another way is to sacrifice one continent.

I, and many others, can't stomach the second. Particularly when we built their security order, they certainly weren't managing Russia for us until the 2000s.
> Ukraine is losing the war right now

Ukraine is _stalling_ the war right now. Russia is able to capture more moonscaped villages by forcing expendable (their words, not mine) manpower to assault Ukrainian positions.

Ukraine is slowly retreating, but at the rate that will require Russia _years_ to gain a meaningful amount of territory.
Yes, Firefox is the best bad option. But I'm not sure how we dont classify it as a betrayal to remove these statements:

Does Firefox sell your personal data?
Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

and

...Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data...

While also weaseling your words about your new policy and how its "basically the same thing if you think about it" [1]

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/ - "Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
> and without feeding it machine learning algorithms

It has some built-in.

Linear regression is a machine learning technique.
absolute display of debased cowardice

if you're american and you're able to watch the video without feeling either ashamed or revolted, know that absolutely no one in the world respects the cloth you're cut from, except for the the worst dictators and their lackeys
you can't beg someone to come save you, then shit on them in the same conversation ...in what world would anyone expect a warm reception to that?
It's not as simple as you state. Courts have, in the past, had something to say about The White House revoking press passes without due process.

The very first hit searching "supreme court decisions white house press passes" yields the following, and I leave it to you to search further if it pleases you.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/yourab...
Thanks for the reminder. Donated some for defense.
Interesting. Do US colleges and US TV/movies provide sufficient cultural understanding of US to other countries' governments, without them needing US immigrants as staffers?
Let me help you out: one country invading the other, destroying homes and lives. But that should not concern you much as apparently it is not you who is under attack.