skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have trouble following the logic here.

Putin has not been able to conquer the whole of Ukraine after 3 years, but somehow, suddenly, he will be able to conquer all of the Baltic states without breaking a sweat?

So which is it? Is the Russian army fighting with shovels or are they a ferocious horde that is unstoppable? Those two things cannot be true at the same time.

I am getting tired of people parroting this narrative. If Putin could conquer Ukraine, he would have done so by now. Yet according to you this means is able to conquer more countries when his army can't even hold on to a full one.

No offense, but that makes zero sense.
Damage is done. Their intention is clear.
Mozilla name is toxic to common-sense privacy now.

If they acquired Tailscale, I'd stop using it.

If they endorsed ChaCha20, I'd question if it is backdoored.
Dupe? I didn’t see anything from this article that wasn’t already in the previously posted Mozilla blog posts which have already been submitted here.
As horrible as the 41’000 that die year from cars in the US? Even after billions and billions are spent on their infrastructure?

How safe would cities with micro mobility be if we spent the same on them?
> the U.K. has passed several measures to reduce shale-gas extraction, citing earthquake risks

It's not a risk - we actually saw earthquakes in the areas where shale gas extraction had started: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21120-how-fracking-ca... I honestly cannot take this seriously after such a lie.

This article is very thinly-veiled industrialist propaganda, covering a "report" by right-wing think-tankers lobbying the government to relax rules around real estate speculation. It does not deserve the upvotes it got.
A language that demarks code blocks with curly braces {} instead of whitespace, begin/end keywords, round brackets (), etc.

They often share other syntax similarities but not one particular common set across all of them.
Roc was inspired by Elm, and has CLI as one of its "platforms", which is systems in a loose sense. Early days for Roc, though there may be orgs using it in productiom.
It's a bit naive to expect US bases in Europe to still be there in the next 20 years. First, Trump clearly wants to pull out of Europe, because the current Republican party has basically no interest in Europe whatsoever (and it may even be seen as an enemy by them - it's the embodiment of all the "social state" fears they harbour). Second, if the US stop cooperating with the EU on security and forces Europe to rearm, they would probably become redundant and an easy target for populist movements - especially when Trump is out and will be replaced by a less appealing figure. Meloni, ... won't be able to sell Trump as a role model to their voters for long if he really plans on fucking up the European economy; if there's little to be gained it's easier for populists and nationalist in general to just paint him as an enemy.

As a European there's been a lingering feeling of anti-Americanism in Europe that's been somewhat dormant for the last 30 years. It's clearly awakening now, and it risks going mainstream too, which would basically make the position of US bases untenable unless there's a direct reward for them (like, having security guarantees)
Howdee doodilly doo! It's begun.
+1 for Migadu
> This is the only optimistic view I've heard on the subject.

In no way was my comment optimistic. It was charitable at best.

> Surely they don't actually want to hand over national security to the Russians. Right?

Well, that ship has sailed with DOGE.

Honestly, I am as much or more concerned about Chinese and (perhaps surprisingly) Israeli intelligence as I am about Russian intelligence.

Another charitable view:

I think Trump, Vance, and Hegseth are actually cooking up something that they think has internal logic in terms of a negotiations stance.

It’s probably a poorly implemented form of the “madman theory” of negotiation (a Nixon-style strategy), but who really knows?
> Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash

This looks like a deja-vu of Apple CSAM scanning.

"We didn't mean it".
This has been going on for years. I used to do a lot of iOS development, and have an eye for bugs. Almost every Apple app/service has been regressing in quality.

Take basic functionality - a phone app (calling). After certain audio sessions use (calling via WhatsApp) I can’t make regular calls over cellular - the UI app immediately cancels the call. Only reboot helps.

Or notes - for many years/iOS versions, they lived with a bug where a text note may just become blank - and only restarting Notes app makes it visible again.

Or AppStore - if an app has to be updated (I have auto updates off) - and I press Update - it gets downloaded, installed - and then AppStore is back to showing “Update” button! If you just go to the app, it’s a new version. But if you press that “Update”, it will redo update from scratch.

Sometimes I’m so frustrated, and thinking of my options - it’s either move to Android, or go get hired at Apple with a mandate to fix bugs in various products… but knowing Apple secrecy culture/silos, it’s not going to work, and requires change in their hiring process/perf review/QA.
> Maybe Apple is doing this in an automated way to prevent people using several accounts for storage.

And Apple's attempt to stop people from "stealing" a few dollars a month in storage somehow justifies bricking a $1000 piece of hardware?

Google doesn't care, because Google has WAY better anti-abuse features which cost money and so has weighed the risk of the "Google carelessly wrecks someone's online identity" headline against "someone might squeeze us for an extra 5GB of space."
Or Unity
The timescale of political events got somehow compressed: every day is a week, every week a month, every month a year.
Doc wasn't small enough.
That is actually a feature called ‚Stacks‘. Open the context menu on your desktop and de-select ‚use stacks‘.
No one even said anything about disability. Almost everyone that lives long enough to get old will end up in such a situation, and many will be in such situations in relative youth, and we don’t tend to consider it disability.

Many are the people that use tech, have poor eyesight, and struggle because they don’t know about things like browser or OS zoom or text size adjustment facilities. They just get used to using things in their own idiosyncratic way, and don’t realise better is possible. In my limited experience of enlightening such people when I observe it (in person, that is), I think they’ve always been grateful to learn of such functionality, and it significantly improves their experience.

(You being on HN makes it much less likely you’ll be unaware of such things, but still⸺.)

If you’re struggling with every other web page, and find this one good, while others are agreeing it’s bad (and, more objectively, it’s unquestionably atypical); if they’re pointing out that there’s a way of effectively applying the difference that you liked in this page, to all pages—well, that seems pretty reasonable to me.

Anyway, whether you care to employ it or not (and that is certainly up to you), deredede’s advice is very solid in general. There are a lot of people out there that would benefit from it.
If there was a competitive market, this thread would be a marketing gold mine.

If the computer industry endgame is for users to consume media via simple voice interfaces and AI, what is the business model for serving the smaller market of professional users who need powerful, classic HCI interfaces for creating new artifacts?
> The hyper-wealthy seem oblivious to the fact that you can't both be a trillionaire that's causing societal economic desperation and live in a society where people politely do their business and leave you in peace.

They have been well aware of it. See Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8

We seem to be in the bread and circus phase for the time
Curious what the bug is
Your editor doesn’t do it because handling, delegating, and slicing up capabilities isn’t a core part of the OS.
I see no clearer proof in the last 7 days that Trump is a Russian
asset, plain and simple. The current Trump government are hostile to
cybersecurity of the West, to liberal democracy and to freedom.
>The idea that the US protects Taiwan from a possible Chinese invasion over chips is one of those things that sounds believable but really isn't going to happen.

>From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves.

You've got it completely backwards. China doesn't want Taiwan because it has the best chip manufacturing in the world. Taiwan has the best chip manufacturing in the world because China wants to invade them and they wanted to give the US a reason to defend them and China a reason not to. War with Taiwan will impact global chip supply even if China can produce their own, which their economy will feel.
On mine, Apple TV+ (the official app as well as Safari) will refuse to play 4K through a similar adapter (VMM7100) on an OLED C2 42 from Cable Matters with the latest 120Hz supporting firmware. I assume it is because HDCP is broken. It works fine with the Mac Mini's built in HDMI. Frustratingly there is no great way to debug this, but if you open up Safari and look in the network tab, you can see the resolution of the video being streamed.

Does your adapter work at 120Hz without updating the firmware? If it does, does it support HDCP?
Yes.

Project 2025 linked in the current top comment here https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA... says

"NOAA consists of six main offices: [list here]

Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main
drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future
U.S. prosperity. This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management
seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is
not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized."
Pretty sure that in the US, the 1st amendment should trump this. It's a laughable concept, anyway, way too dependent on the current Overton window; makes perfect sense to have an article on Wiki "BuzzFeed, Salon and PinkNews are reliable sources" Pedia.
You did not factor in the public opinion here. Already in Europe a mass wave of boycotting American products is shaping up. The same in Canada. It's different this time.
> Even russia was able to secure hostomel despite losses.

The first air assault failed outright. The second was a not quite success that held on for two weeks and was a definitive failure to meet objectives after a month.

If you define "success" as they had a fortnight they held out for prior to being killed or forced to withdraw then yes, that was a success . . .

Big picture wise .. not the game planned by Russia that was intended to seize and hold control of the airport while taking the capital.

That was a definite face plant.
And do the winners of the Opium Wars have a verifiable historical claim to the land for thousands of years?
When will the US start to go all in an deliver military aid to Russia? Like North Korea, Iran and China...
Many great points. Thank you to reply. I have read a few times calling the UK the "Saudi Arabia of Wind". I must say: They have a metric-ton of great sites, both onshore and offshore for wind. That said, great sites don't automatically become energy production sites unless they get funded, approved, and built.

> France has way more dirty industry

I'm not here nitpick, but do you have source? I know, this one is very hard to debate. On a per capita basis, the ports of Rotterdam and IJmuiden must have a staggering amount of polluting industry (steel, chemical, etc.) And, while Antwerp (Belgium) port isn't in Netherlands, it is literally right on the border. From Google maps sky-view, you can many, many chemical plants in the area. To be clear for all readers: I'm not here to point the finger specifically at NL/BE as being any worse than other highly developed nations.
There will always be enough bread and circus. They're #1 and #2 necessary things to always give people to keep them silent on a couch rather than protesting or worse.
Does the 1080p resolution show up if you go to Advanced > Show Resolutions as List and then tick "Show all resolutions" under the list? The resolution you are looking for is probably 1920 x 1080 (low resolution). If you choose a non "low" resolution the OS will output at 4K but scale the UI to the virtual resolution.
In the old testament fanfiction UNSONG, the 1 piece of international rules to survive the complete breakdown of the laws of physics and most nations on earth is copyright. Reminded me of that
Yes, and who exactly is going to rebuild a $2000 engine instead of buying a new one?

The labor costs ALONE make that a horrible idea for anyone who isn't a mechanic already - and if an engine lasts ten years the depreciation on the car is intense enough that it doesn't matter.
There are power/perf teams at Apple that have this as their core job responsibilities
As if EU parliament is not full of clowns too. At least local parliament has some windows to break close by.

- citizen of EU member, not happy with either national or eu parliaments :D
oh god you're right https://stackoverflow.com/a/57206146/1685746 yeah sure what can go wrong, let's listen to fetch and modify requests in a service worker.
Clearly you need the right incentives for drivers.

Poland had a neat system for hitchhikers back in the day. A hitchhiker bought a book of tickets. It included a small, distinct sign to hold up to signal drivers. When you got a ride, you tore off a coupon the driver, and each ticket was ... (drum roll please...) a lottery ticket.

So, every lift you gave gave you the driver a non-zero shot at a prize.
It is not possible to make Earth bad enough for Mars to be viable.
IIRC, I read somewhere, several months ago ago, that its type inference made it slow to compile anything but small programs?
Another -often overlooked- benefit of buying used appliances, is that they have proven to be sturdy, and/or repairable.

Cheap temu-junk doesn't end up in thrift stores. Or, if it does, is easily filtered out. If I see a toaster that looks well used and/or aged, I can be certain it has at least proven to last a while and actual use.

It's also why I buy refurbished washing machine, refridgerators, etc: a refurbisher commonly won't refurbish stuff that's hard to repair: their economics prefer stuff that's sturdy, easy and cheap to repair. Win win win.
> This was a trick used by IBM's WebSphere software load balancer back in the 90's-00's

Cicso IOS SLB can work in a similar way - a virtual IP added as an alias to loopback on each server in a farm. An advantage over more widely used L3 balancing that there is need to rewrite headers in IP packets.
> My personal anecdotal opinion is that data is more honest in the non-Western nations since nobody cares about bird-deaths all that much and so the deaths are not sanitized.

that was funny
Same reason why the first thing Talibans do is going after education.
Scooters should ride on the road. There is huge backlash in the Netherlands on the growing amount of scooters and especially fat bikes [1] riding on the bicycle paths, often ignoring speed limits and increasing risks by 10x.

The conversation really should be centered on “normal” e-bikes with light pedal assist, but these monsters are imported at extremely cheap prices and becomes first choice for teenagers and anyone on a budget.

[1] low-rider bikes with very wide tires, basically an electric motorcycle where you barely have to pedal
Yeah personally speaking I created a separate account just for my WhatsApp backup, but once that breached 15GB as well... I caved and bought the 100GB google one plan.
Feel free to apply yes. We have other positions and also partners we can redirect profiles to.
> From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves.

For China it’s not about the chips. It’s about getting rid of the humiliation that is having a small island, that was originally part of China, not be a part of China.
The US is not going to defend Taiwan because of chips, but China is also not going to attack Taiwan because of chips - if they do, they'll attack it for the same reason Putin attacked Ukraine: an "us vs them" mentality helps keep dictators in power, and nothing creates such a mentality better than a war. We can only hope that China is sensible enough to see the downsides too, but the current international climate is not a real deterrent. And I have to admit China has a better claim to Taiwan than Russia to Ukraine - they never recognized Taiwan's independence, while Russia (together with the US and the UK) agreed in 1994 to guarantee Ukraine's security in exchange for it renouncing the ex-USSR nuclear weapons stationed on its territory (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-put...) - and now they're "guaranteeing their security" by invading them.
Based on the application domain, I want my personal security auto-mobile drone to resemble the gyrocopter in Mad Max.
If there's a single watt demanded by the grid and NOT supplied by gas, or coal or nuclear, because there sure as shit aren't batteries within three orders of magnitude of competitive at TWh scale, the entire grid fucking stalls and dies. At best guess, we can restart it, once.

Your renewable energy is worth 0 if it can't meet that need. No other power supply anywhere works on the principle of "yay maybe!". It's not a fucking game, it's our capacity to heat, to operate industrial processes that are equally worthless if interrupted. I've been involved in ordering steel. The UK-spec was uncompetitive if free, because of the unpredictability in delivery, directly downstream from the unpredictability in power. THERE IS A WAR ON.
The SQLite people post here sometimes
Advisory: Docusnap inventory files encrypted with static key
> - Determining which database each piece of data lives on (as opposed to using partitioning keys which do that automatically)

Most sharding databases use consistent hashing.

> - Manually rebalancing data, which is often difficult and error-prone

not really. When you setup the database, you choose a highly divisible number of shards and then consistent hashing to spread the data across the shards. Each server hosts N-shards where N changes as your data (and server count) grows

> - Adding partitions manually as the system grows

Not really. Just choose a reasonably high number of shards and divide them across your servers.

> - (Anecdotally) Higher operational costs, since matching node count to workload is tricky

This could be true, but also, there is overhead to managing a ton of SQLite databases too. I think there are tradeoffs here.
In my city you cannot charge your car inside the underground garage. No one will build the required facility to ease electric car fire extinguishing. Therefore the buildings will default to deny.
> We only promised to seek UN Security Council action

And ended up voting with Russia anyway.
> The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

...yeah? That's pretty straightforward.
> Unfortunately, dictators don't care much about damage to it's economy as long as they continue to be in power.

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted but you are completely right. I would refer people who don’t believe this to Stephen Kotkin or Sarah Palin.
"We won, you lost, get over it!"

As my taxi driver neighbour in Dagenham like saying.
It is a software issue, I also have the same issue on my M2 pro.

The issue is, that each new line you draw, gets added to a group. This will start causing lagging at some point of time.

If I highlight my whole screen in Notes or Freeform and use the `separate` tool to remove all things from the group. The lagging immediately stops. You can read more about this here [1].

Apple has many issues with “scalability” like this. Another one for instance is the imessage and its replies. If you use them too much (50 replies to message or more) it start not rendering some of the messages.

This suggests a type of culture, where things are important to look nice in demos, but are not actually usable daily.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/zqh5rt/ipad_glitching...
I'd be curious to know the specific design and capabilities of the Green Hornet's drone.
"Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." - Alexei Sayle
What's worse is there is nothing we can do about it since half the country thinks it's great.
You’re suggesting there are real deadly combat scenarios where it is beneficial to have your OODA loop compromised. Ok maybe you’re right, given the infinite possibilities.

But until you can present at least one such example scenario, no individual would be willing to take such a risk when their own life is at stake. Real combatants might value the motivating threat of being overwhelmed, but do not actually wish to be overwhelmed (i.e. have their OODA loop compromised).

In deadly combat, no one is looking to theorize. No one quibbles about their inability to prove the negative. They just want to live to see the next day.
Thanks - I figure its step away in terms of target platform.

I meant a little more in the way that software is packaged and run. My understanding is that theres a similar mechanism for storing and linking shared libraries that means multiple versions can go exist and be independently linked depending on the requirements of the calling package.
Unfortunately, I doubt that. Where in live, bike theft has been rampant for ages, even before electric models were a thing.
Buy a plane ticket and see it for yourself.

There is a demographic deficit in the Baltics, but it is only visible in rural areas and third-tier cities. Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda are absolutely lively and prosperous cities full of people, including youngsters (no surprise, because both the jobs and the universities are there).
What does Putin care about AI? From his perspective, a war and making Russia bigger, and being the supreme commander, is more fun.

Remember, he's old, probably a bit tech incompetent (compared to most people here).

> [Russia] could have focused on building huge datacenters.

Maybe that's what you think is important (or even what is important), but Putin is a different creature
I Hope I Get to Write a Lot of Elm Code in 2025
Regardless of the D3D-like API-layer (which helped Microsoft compensate for the peculiarities of PowerPC), they're both PowerPC architectures.

You apparently don't know the Story how Sony spent big R&D-money with IBM to transition from MIPS to the custom PowerPC Cell Architecture, while IBM was already selling parts of this development to Microsoft for Xbox 360, and Microsoft ultimately beating Sony in market-launch with a chipset Sony partially financed...[0]

There's a nice book about it from two of the IBM Chip-Designers called "The Race for a New Game Machine" by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jan/01/sony...
As far as I am aware, this is just straight up is not true. Do you have a source for this? Because if the financial sector in the UK halved and moved into the Netherlands and Germany the UK would be doing much, much worse, and Germany much better economically.

See:

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/01/31/brexit-four-yea...

which is a source that is not going to be biased towards Brexit success, and instead against it (not that there was any success in it, but still).