skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider instead that Donald Trump may be more like Neville Chamberlain, who wanted to appease Hitler ("peace in our time"). Your family may well have perished instead of been liberated had Chamberlain's doctrine remained in effect, and you may well have never been born.

It's not that Trump is a Nazi himself, but rather that Trump is enabling other tyrants like Vladimir Putin to pose grave threats like the ones to Ukraine today. If liberation is something you really care about in light of your family’s journey, Ukraine is a great team to cheer for.
What is opposing theory to this? I.e., idea that inequality bad

Maybe I’m in a bubble that I seem to hear this and while I do agree I would still like to know what the opposing idea is here.
Genuinely confused:

Why the downvotes?

In 2025, Trump dumped Ukraine, sided with Putin and made a number of bully threats (including invasion) to its formal National Security partners. Security which - at least still today - is bound by literal treaty.

Should Europe just roll over and wag its tail?

What kind of partnership is this that one side wants to boss around its only-good-if-wimp partner?
Even if you try to tax the riches, they have billions of ways to evade it. The tax laws are so complicated for a reason. Here in Australia, there were cases that some individuals that earned just about A$1M pa., and they paid ~A$980K to companies registered in Virgin Islands etc. for managing tax affairs. Such arrangement knocked down their taxable income to ~A$19K, and thus they paid probably a couple of dollars taxes if not not even a dime. Eye-opening, right? But those were not those super rich ones. You can just imagine what those super rich people can do. So the burden of the tax would be on mid-income people. I would expect the same in US.
Technologists keep saying they don’t need a union while taking beatings from management, boards, and shareholders through round after round of layoffs, loss of flexible work arrangements, offshoring, using visa workers to disadvantage domestic workers, etc. One day they’ll change their mind? Or they’ll just keep complaining while accepting what they get.

Is organizing so much worse than being held hostage? “You can go elsewhere.” Really? Because it looks like the labor market is frozen because employers are desperate to get control back from workers, even if they’re overworking those left to make their hand look better than it is for as long as they can until they have no choice but to hire again.

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/
EVgo says no to fast-charging extension cables and breakaway adapters
So, should Europe just roll over and wag its tail?
With privileged access, the attackers can tamper with the evidence for repudiation, so although I'd say "nothing in the logs" is acceptable, not everyone may. These two attack vectors are part of the STRIDE threat modeling approach.
Sad day for US loving people, I would say.

At this rythm, it will soon become a political statement to not boo the US anthem before sports games.
I was hoping you would say that, because it's a technical field you can do very well in without a university degree.

I don't mean to minimize your loss, but I cheer for you to succeed despite it.
"You don't ask me with respect..." - https://youtu.be/7j_3Secty54
They are not temperature constrained at altitude. It's much colder up there.

They are air, oxygen really, constrained.

You are right that the electric motors themselves won't suffer from the same oxygen starvation, but as the other commenter noted, the props or impeller blades will. They need something to push, there isn't much up there.
Amazon are eoling chime
This reminds me of when Ma Bell said no to unauthorized equipment on their network.
I'm confused by this. Colorspace is metadata, not bit depth. It's a mapping. 8 bit P3 will be exactly the same size was an 8 bit sRGB, except for the additional some hundred bytes of metadata describing the mapping (since missing metadata is assumed sRGB).

For example, you can "convert" an sRGB png to P3 (different colors result, but same bits) by doing nothing but tacking on the icc profile metadata from a P3 image.
That’s how clouds try to lock you in, by making you use a custom tool that is different for the sake of being different.

If you use standard tools you don’t have this problem.

Containers running on VMs is standard.

A mesh of microservices that depend on cloud queues and managed services is not.

One argument against standard containers is saving dev time. You can still save dev time by using standard open source software. How many different ways are there to implement a queue or a load balancer?

If you really need access to some proprietary technology then by all means use the cloud that offers it. Eg if your customer demands GPT4.5, then go with Azure.

But if you need something standard, don’t get caught in the trap.
Usually, when I point out that Google sells your data and there’s no possible way to actually opt out, someone replies to say that’s not true, then defines “sell” in some way that most people would disagree with.
what if we lived forever and money grew on trees
Dunno. I'd assume it'd have to be done in quite a few transactions, but if they'd magically had an automated system ready to do just that then 81t gives quite a lot of headroom for even a rapidly increasing price. :D
> It's interesting to see the focus on PDAs now that the product category is entirely dead:

In the context of screen sharing, I guess smartphones are the evolution of what they meant by "Pocket PC". Sure, the mobile remote desktop use-case is a little niche, but the product class isn't dead, it was just reinvented.
Between private Russians?

I believe you'll find a lot of Ukrainians found their entire towns suddenly "donated" to the war effort, not just a downpayment on a house.

War's hell, they can get bent.
LLM
I'm a fan of the team of Allen AI and their work. Unfortunately, the benchmarking of olmocr against marker (https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker) is quite flawed.

Throughput - they benchmarked marker API cost vs local inference cost for olmocr. In our testing, marker locally gets 20 - 120 pages per second on an H100 (without custom kernels, etc). Olmocr in our testing gets between .4 (unoptimized) and 4 (sglang) pages per second on the same machine.

Accuracy - their quality benchmarks are based on win rate with only 75 samples - which are different between each tool pair. The samples were filtered down from a set of ~2000 based on opaque criteria. They then asked researchers at Allen AI to judge which output was better. When we benchmarked with our existing set and LLM as a judge, we got a 56% win rate for marker across 1,107 documents. We had to filter out non-English docs, since olmocr is English-only (marker is not).

Hallucinations/other problems - we noticed a lot of missing text and hallucinations with olmocr in our benchmark set. You can see sample output and llm ratings here - https://huggingface.co/datasets/datalab-to/marker_benchmark_... .

You can see all benchmark code at https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker/tree/master/benchmark... .

Happy to chat more with anyone at Allen AI who wants to discuss this. I think olmocr is a great contribution - happy to help you benchmark marker more fairly.
America is not hardcore enough to do meaningful research? huh?
Yeah, you can't have an realistic economy that will eventually inflate small, entry-level houses to $1mm+ and college costs to the $100k's but still have jobs paying $10-20/hr (or less). Any kid who does the math will realize how hopeless that economy is. Even if you scrape by, one emergency turns you into a debt slave.

Housing needs to stop increasing in price for a number of generations. Surely the rich can find someplace else for their money.
Is NATO not expanding? What are you arguing here exactly?
I fail to see how this is related to what I said.
Money flowing out from the real estate sales on the coasts are also a big contributor.

Californians have been flooding Idaho, Nevada, Utah etc. They buy their homes and 2 new cars then have money left over to invest in the markets.
It is undeniable that European countries police speech more heavily than the US does. They have laws on the books that plainly give them this power. They exercise this power quite regularly. Feel free to argue that it is right for them to do so, but don't muddy the discussion attempting to redefine words.
Why spend that effort when any code you run on your machine (such as dependency post-install scripts, or the dependencies themselves!) can just run `gh auth token` can grab a token for all the code you push up.

By design, the gh cli wants write access to everything on github you can access.
> That is why the focus now is on security guarantees, which the U.S. is refusing so far.

This seems obvious to me, but is apparently not obvious to many here.... America (no country really) can guarantee Ukrainian security without risking WWIII, and frankly there's no reason to. At the end of the day, from a non-Ukrainian standpoint, it doesn't really matter who administers the land that today is Ukraine.
5M dollar gold card for immigrants make sense
EU response not unexpected: ‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
Not impossible since something similar has already happened in Vietnam (at least once) and in Afghanistan (at least twice)
Are you sure it's true that the pandemic increased economic inequality?

The humans worst hit were by far the elderly, and the elderly tend to have more assets than the young in industrialized countries.

Among working-age people, lower-paid "essential" workers were exposed to more risk, but by a significant margin, old people are the ones who died more.
My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities–The Final Installment
https://archive.is/M5kId
We don't have any leverage against Russia. America has no appetite to fight them directly. If Ukraine were more effective at hurting Russia where it counts, then we might have leverage but the last few years have shown that they are not capable of that.
You weren’t alone in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, fighting against talibans and Iraqi rebels is a bit different compared to the war in Ukraine so I’m not so sure your US troops are more “warfighters” than the European troops.
> In the EU, right-wing parties continue to grow. AfD, National Front, and others have all recently scored their highest levels of support. It is not impossible to imagine that they will eventually cross the threshold to actually governing, and at that point, the EU and Trump will be much more aligned.

Thing about nationalist parties, the defining characteristic, is they're interested in their own nation first, not spreading nationalism as a global ideology.

If all of Europe elected nationalist parties, none of them are going to be aligned with the USA — nor, for that matter, each other — except by coincidence, and then on small and limited domains.
How has Russia attacked the US since Putin came into power?
I don't understand why you assume your foreign friends in computing are not in favor of... eh, whatever you are "embarrassed by". And whatever it is, the (small) majority of people in the USA voted for it, so your statement simply means you are so invested in your own religion that you are willing to fool yourself into thinking "nearly everybody" is, not just every second guy. Which surely seems like "nearly everybody", if you don't want to consider their point of view has as much merit as your own.

If anything, I expected HN crowd to be one-sided, but not that one sided. All these laments in this topic are kinda crazy to read, honestly.
Most healthcare jobs don’t pay particularly well. The inefficiency is going to pay the salaries of medical transcriptionists, people handling billing inside insurance and in healthcare facilities etc. Things that aren’t improving outcomes are ultimately why healthcare is expensive in the US.

Just for comparison the minimum wage nationwide in Feb 1, 1968 was 1.60$/hour that’s ~14.61$/hour when adjusted for inflation. Median household income in 1968 was 8,600$ or ~$78,504.90 inflation adjusted and that was mostly single income.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1969/demo/p60-66...

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Because repetition is boring and the goal is interesting conversation rather than ensuring you don’t miss an interesting link. The interesting links are supposed to be a side effect of you engaging in or simply reading an interesting conversation. Summary comments, LLM output and prepared linkathons are discouraged for similar reasons, if the parallel helps at all.
One less free nation willing to stick to their principles is a loss for everyone.
https://archive.is/E8AK5
Exactly... so what's the purpose of continuing the fight and killing Russian and Ukrainian men for no reason? This forum used to be a strong supporter of men's rights, but apparently these disappear once we dehumanize them via international relations. There's literally no reason for any individual Russian or Ukrainian man to die right now, since we all agree that no territory is being gained or lost.
> Is interfering in bangladeshi elections “soft power?”

Don't act like then entire purpose of USAID and the entire definition of soft power is whatever 0.08% of one year's budget you've been told to hate today. Distributing HIV medication is soft power. Sending food aid is soft power (and good farm policy). Supporting democratic elections is soft power. If it's unarmed and promoting American interests and values it's soft power.
This is an important story. A lot of people are over-oxygenated by their health care professionals.

A common way that people induce 'too much oxygen' is by hyperventilating. One effect of hyperventilating is that it shrinks the peripheral arteries - in the brain, fingers, toes.

The simplest treatment for hyperventilation is recycling exhaled carbon dioxide with a paper bag.
AOC needs to read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. There is nothing new under the sun.
This is a really interesting project!

I'd love to hear how this project differs from Bearer, which is also written in Go and based on tree-sitter?
https://github.com/Bearer/bearer

Regardless, considering there is a large existing open-source collection of Semgrep rules, is there a way they can be adapted or transpiled to tree-sitter S-expressions so that they may be reused with Globstar?
> I suspect it is an intentional result of deceptive marketing

I mean, certainly people like Sam Altman was pushing it hard, so it’s easy to understand how an outside observer would be confused.

But it also feels like a lot of VCs and AI companies have staked several hundreds of billions of dollars on that bet, and I’m still… I just don’t see why the inside players—that should (and probably do!) have more knowledge than me—see. Why are they dumping so much money into this bet?

The market for LLMs doesn’t seem to support the investment, so it feels like they must be trying to win a “first to AGI” race.

Dunno, maybe the upside of the pretty unlikely scenario is enough to justify the risk?
McConnell for one, quite loudly.
Sure. That does not imply that Canada is flooding the US borders with fentanyl.

But that is the Trump reason for tariffs with Canada.
Mearsheimer is literally on Russian payroll and the linked video is full of lies. I'll give you one non-political example. At 8:45, he shows a map of Europe. Countries like Finland and Estonia are shown as importing 100% of their natural gas from Russia. Mearsheimer comments that this shows their heavy dependance on Russia. He omits the fact that the share of natural gas has been limited only to a small fraction of the overall energy mix, by government policy, precisely to avoid dependence on Russia. In Finland's case, that "100% Russian gas" was less than 10% of the total energy mix, and mostly in non-critical uses. This trick is known as inflated importance: using absolute percentages without relative context to exaggerate significance.

He pulls similar well-known tricks throughout the video. Shows a map that divides Ukraine into two parts by their dominant language and calls Ukraine "a badly divided country", but fails to mention that Ukraine is bilingual and the difference is only something like "92% speak Ukrainian / 88% speak Russian" and "91% speak Russian / 87% speak Ukrainian" in areas that have drastically different colors. Just compare the map shown at 6:22 with the magenta/teal bars representing Ukrainian/Russian languages at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine#/media/Fi... This manipulation technique is known as false binning: grouping values into distinct color categories that overemphasize minor variations.

The man is an incredible fraud, and the linked video is one of the most damaging pieces of propaganda produced this century.
Honestly I don't think I can see China taking Taiwan militarily. They witnessed how the world isolated Russia economically after the aggression on Ukraine and especially since their economy relies on exports. They don't have much to win other than some geopolitical credit at the expense of their manufacturing and technology sector.
China is conducting a policy where they'll cripple Taiwan's will to seek independence from just sheer soft and economic power. They offer fantastic perks to Taiwanese from the oppurtinity to work visa free, access to credit/mortgage with no social credit screening and ability to invest with no usual red tape.

The Taiwanese are being told China is an aggressor but nowadays they see the opposite. Also if China invades it'll destroy every goodwill they had built to win over Taiwanese hearts and won't get control over TSMC supply chain market since the latter promised to torpefy their fabs before China gets its hand on them.
Asking people what did "Mozilla do wrong?" is kind of like asking "How do I get to Shell Beach" in the movie Dark City, with similar results.

People say "all the stuff going on with Mozilla" like there's a list of real things that really happened when it's upwards of 90% smoke and vibes. And this is coming from someone who thinks the recent subtraction of language about not selling your data actually was a bad move and rather damning.

But it's a real thing in a long line of nothingburgers, and it's amazing once the comment gets to the part where it's supposed to make a specific charge and instead it's just "all the things going on".
Mumble was never P2P.
> that in most cases people are probably better off not taking SSRIs – that part of the problem is that people don't learn to deal with their depression anymore and as a society we don't care to help those suffering with depression beyond just telling them to take psychoactive drugs.

There's some inconsistencies in your logic there. If SSRIs aren't effective, how is it that people "don't learn to deal with their depression" due to SSRIs?

> As a depressed person myself and someone who knows a fair few depressed people, I do believe you can learn to manage it in the vast majority of cases.

The evidence supports that. The evidence also supports that without help, a lot of people won't learn to manage it, and many will literally die because of it.
Thank you! This definitely makes sense. The "emperor has no clothes"-ism around enterprise data platforms is definitely real. So is the trend of orgs building big, expensive platforms without thinking about who their end users are even supposed to be.

I actually think these are expressions of organizational dysfunction rather than something inherently wrong with data. It's the same way dysfunctional orgs might spend millions on SAFe adoption or prematurely spinning up a global sales motion - incentives and perceptions become misaligned with the reality of what the organization needs to do to succeed, the decisionmakers make bad capital outlays, and the implementers are left feeling like garbage working on a project that's doomed to fail.
Going back on shutting down nuclear would cost more money and energy than building out sustainable energy - just see how well UKs or Frances most recent nuclear experiments went - tens of billions over budget and nothing to show for it after a decade
> in the way that most people think about “selling data”

I quite frankly am opposed to any entity selling my data, in any way, for any reason, without my explicit consent because it implies you were taking my data in the first place, which is the core issue. It's my data. Not yours. Taking it (eg, telemetry) is what I object to. You selling it, I further object to. Stop. Without exception. To both. Period. The how and why of it does not matter. Worried about the breadth of the law opening you up to liability? Then stop chasing enshittification for your own gain. Don't collect the data in the first place. Its that easy.
Russia broke treaty, law, moral foundation and democratic order for a second time in a decade to try and take all of the Ukraine.

You appear to forget history, but plenty of citizens were able to leave through the back door while able-bodied citizens were required to do the only reasonable thing a democracy can do and defend its sovereignty.

First with what they had, then with conservatively provided weapons as other countries tried to figure out if Putin would actually use nukes, and finally with more effective munitions when it was apparent he would not.

No neighbor is locked in, and the US embarrasses itself as it simps for Russia in the UN and parades the president of an invaded democracy around in a jester hat.
Did you go to American high school? Most kids barely pass algebra 2. Even the “smart kids” can’t really compete in college. With standard American route there’s a sub 1% chance you can make it as a researcher in a hard science.
Yes I agree with you. There is no way to get lasting peace, really, because the US isn't currently willing to start a direct war with Russia but Russia is willing to test the waters.

US and Russia thought Ukraine was running out of steam, I suppose.

Zelensky refusing this offer is an interesting move. It could, of course, just be for show until next week when he does sign a modified deal.
From your link

> Many studies have shown the incidence of repair procedures and worse final vision outcomes were higher in groups with autoimmune conditions (SJS, OCP). The difference in outcomes appears to be related to the degree and cumulative past period of inflammation. Overall most favorable outcomes are achieved in non-cicatrizing conditions, followed by ocular burns and OCP with the worst outcomes in SJS patients.

The patient in the article was a SJS patient

> The massage therapist says he could see just fine until he was 13 years old, when he took some ibuprofen after a school basketball game, triggering a rare auto-immune reaction known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
In addition to what pvg (correctly) said, there's a big difference between carrying on a nuanced conversation, where you're connecting specifically to what other commenters are saying, vs. spraying the same material rapidly through a thread.