skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people think it is so far fetched that Trump is a Russian asset given his behavior in his last term (trying to blackmail Zelenskyy on an official call) and his credit problems in the past (no banks would lend to him given his failure to pay back any loan, with the exception of an obscure channel through a German bank)? Perhaps Trump is just in debt to Putin and this is payback, he was intentionally crass to Zelenskyy because he wanted to provoke him and find an excuse to revoke US aid. If it barks like a dog, often it’s really a dog.
Not really, growth in the UK has effectively stalled since 2008, quite a few years before Brexit.

I’m sure Brexit hasn’t helped, but it seems that the economic stewardship of the coalition and post-coalition governments was also lacking.

I don’t know what the UK can do about it, but it’s been stuck in a spiral of economic stagnation for over 15 years now.
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Yea, I used to use Apple Notes for everything until their recent big update where it became very jittery. (even on an iPhone). The web-version of Apple Notes always sucked.

I am using Notion now, and even though that is kinda janky on an iPhone, it is still better than Apple's own notes, and of course, their web-version is much much much better than Apple's.
No to mention that NAFTA was renegotiated under Trumps first term.

Still it might be cheaper to just give him worthless wins with no follow thru.
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They could ally with China. The Chinese are only frenemies with Russia anyways, and they make way much more money trading with the rest of Europe.
America would have to do nothing like invade Mainland China to topple the CCP. War is the authoritarian achilles heel since time immemorial and China knows it (Russia doesn't), otherwise they would've taken Taiwan 10 years ago. China's best case scenario is if it could find a way to take Taiwan like they took Hong Kong, on a technicality and relatively quietly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_Russian_invasion...

P.S: I especially question the mental faculties of someone who can't see other angles to a problem. China's hegemony is the mainstream opinion, it's obvious. Maybe try to question what you're not seeing now.
We decided to leave them, but you are correct. I’ll refrain in the future. I allowed my Id to come out to play. Lots of darkness around. No excuse to encourage more.
Except those technologies are now deprecated and you don't know when they might be removed. Jetpack Compose is now the vendor-favored way to build apps, so best practice is to use that.
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U.S. tariff strategy:

1. Impose tariffs on countries that collectively purchase ~40% of U.S. goods exports

2. ???

3. Profit
Oracle constantly kills my free instance, it's not reliable without frequent manual intervention. It's more like a "try it, see for yourself, we have a real cloud, but no guarantees" freebie toy.

I know they absolutely do cull free instances to make capacity for paying customers.
> In commodities market, the strike price is between the lowest price seller and the highest buyer.

The lowest seller price is the highest demanded price among all the sellers. All the sellers bar one would typically be willing to sell for a slightly lower price. As it is said; prices are set on the margins.

Imagine that every seller has a secret price they are willing to sell for and that is some statistical distribution. The market price will be the highest price in that distribution that actually gets sold. Most sellers aren't selling for their secretly acceptable price, but for a higher price determined by the seller with the highest demands. The distribution, if it is ever discovered, becomes the supply curve.
long term consequences of running an H1B gulag and underpaying relative to industry
Should stay. HN has a very strong opinion on WFH regardless of politics.
>Can you please provide insight into this?

The USA is historically inclined to isolationism because of geography. The voters are now inclined to isolationism and the end of 'the brotherhood of nations' because of social media access, authoritarian agitprop, and failure of the American elites to keep the domestic situation comfortable and understandable. It will take a while before these trends reverse.

There is no point relying on an extractive, transactional, reluctant protector. The democracies of the world will have to arrange to engage in collective deterrence without the USA, because nothing is worse than having the rug pulled from under you at a critical time.
>had to hightail out of Afghanistan.

Not really a good comparison. Trying to build a coalition of people who didn't really care vs supporting countries in the region who are highly motivated by their own self interest.
> blockade China

which is why china is pre-emptively claiming ownership of the south china sea, in an attempt to prevent the ability for any blockades to form in the first place!

While on paper, the US makes "guarantees" about freedom of navigation, this is even less reliable than the toilet paper it is written on.
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Beijing Retaliates After Trump's Levies Hit China, Canada and Mexico
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I happily used Migadu but switched to iCloud. The bus factor for my family is 1 with technical knowledge whereas with domains paid up for 10 years and iCloud family it is higher.
The single best economic resource I can recommend myself is the various Federal Reserve datasets, especially the St. Louis FRED tables[1]. A lot of my own OCD and generalized anxiety has been channeled into reviewing those on the regular, if only to understand my own economic risks and placate anxieties about things like employment or housing. Seriously, the fact those datasets are free blows my mind.

Admittedly I'm a bit weird in that I don't have a whole lot of books to recommend, because I'm often just reading and interpreting datasets or whitepapers instead. Books, while immensely useful and generally recommended as the best way to communicate complex information (seriously, read more books), are also colored with bias and opinion that can be difficult to untangle from actual fact in the moment, especially when they're agreeing with your own prejudices or biases. It's why I always try to approach what I'm reading with a giant bowl of salt, so I'm not as easily taken in by good writing or flimsy arguments (which has been super handy for my current read, Strauss and Howe's "The Fourth Turning"; no wonder cryptofascists hold this thing up like a Bible).

Basically, consume more data, try to identify correlating patterns, and build your own conclusions based on that data. Read more books in general (any book on systems analysis - economic, historical, logistical, technical, whatever - is going to be a great starting point and build out foundational reasoning), but always ask yourself what their bias/angle might be in the narrative.

And for what it's worth, next on my economic reading list is "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty, a book that's seemingly either the height of genius written by a brilliant visionary, or propaganda garbage trumpeted by a Frenchman cosplaying as an economist, depending on the critic in question. It's come up a lot as a reference in some other books I've read, so I figured I'd challenge myself and see what new info I can grep from it.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org
Which component do you want to bet is fake?

* Kash Patel [..] wants to live part-time in Las Vegas and work remotely, far away from FBI headquarters in Washington.

* Kash Patel lives at a home owned by Michael Muldoon, they took a golf trip together to Scotland when Patel was a federal employee on the National Security Council, which could be an ethics violation.

* ??
Pour one out for Midori, which would have replaced Windows with a capability-based OS completely written from kernel to shell in a C# dialect. Async/await, spans, and immutable support came from it, along with an (opt-in) Rust-like borrow checker. Satya canceled it, and all the work was lost to history. Singularity was the early public prototype.
This is the final answer.
That environment was directly proceeded by WW2, which required massive capital investment to rebuild Europe[1]. In the UK we were still rationing candy and meat during the early 50s[2]. So, I’m not particularly eager to recreate those conditions.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_King...
I guess his business plan is contained in his company name. Safe superintelligence.

Safe AI is reasonably well defined and would be a quite different foundational model. Assuming a few things it could also be more accurate too.
So then the other LLMs are basically commodities but he has something different and better.

And he has the best pedigree to build that.

The superintelligence thing idk. But I guess to get a $30b valuation you’d have to give the investors something there and of course it would be a little speculative by nature so that’s ok.

Curious any thoughts.
Disagree. Somewhere inbetween respectfully and disrespectfully.
How much did AI do and how much did you do?

I can't play on mobile, but looks like Galaga, etc
Engineers who care about good engineering are pretty much a thing of the past. Today the game is buffing your resume with as many complex tools as possible, and jumping to the next thing before your pile of complexity crumbles under its own weight.
Its easy to think in extremes, but the reality will be far more moderate than your characterization. Remember: US policies have a way of flip-flopping every two years as new Presidents and Senators take office, and its very likely that unless Trump can score some massive wins in 2025, Democrats will retake Congressional majority in 2026; the base is incited, if these comments are anything to look at.

But, the direction won't change: More isolationist, greater investment in homeland manufacturing and less global force projection, but still a significant and growing international trade presence, and a signatory to global security guarantees.

Here's how I put it: America bared the brunt three MAJOR, timeline-altering events in the past 25 years: 9/11, the global financial crisis, and COVID (I am not saying the rest of the world did not bare some of these, just that the US did). To think we'd just roll with the punches and there'd be no consequences of these is, frankly, ridiculous:

9/11 led to multiple forever wars that cost America an extreme amount of money and lives for almost no gain, not really even victory. Its lasting impact will be an America that is more hesitant to project force globally.

The GFC led to massive debt spending and an ongoing financial crisis that America still hasn't fully recovered from. Just when we were ramping up to start recovery, COVID hits and we do it all over again. Its lasting impact will be an America that is more hesitant to give away free stuff or take the raw end of trade deals.
Nobody, really nobody asks for the whole world consumption to be stored in batteries.

This is such a bullshit argument it really paints the rest of your comment in a bad light.
You can get so far by just storing up to 12 hours OF NIGHT TIME on a local level. Who cares about the 5% of times where we have to burn natural gas to stabilise the grid.

95% renewable is orders of magnitude better than today. Anyone saying different is literally a grifter.

Also battery storage cost prognosis is 50% less in 5-6 years. Batteries are already cost effective and there are a lot of grid storage options build right now.
The US has a different drone tech tree than Ukraine. Ukraine is adapting to the limitations of the cheap drones available to them. There is value in this as operational knowledge but it is a mistake to assume that the US is bound by similar constraints. They do things differently because they have other options. The US has plenty of experience designing wire-guided systems; they largely abandoned them for a reason.

There is much to learn about drone warfare from Ukraine but I would not expect a conflict with advanced technical capabilities to look similar.
Five? the link in the guidelines saying not to do that date back to the site's inception in the aughts
This is how I view the system in place for past few decades :

I consider US to be like brain of earth / humanity. Dollar Reserve Currency is like nerve signals. It can give that printed money to an African nation and make it buy wheat from Ukraine. Or give that money to Myanmar so that it can buy weapons from other countries. The whole setup is brilliant. Making one hand cooperate with another or hurt another if we extend the brain body analogy. US is holding a structural proverbial gun to other nations' head.

It is only a matter of time, when the body of humanity revolts against the excesses of brain's unrealistic demands.
>as long as the seppos keep the nukes to themselves while they remove themselves from the planet economically.

Big gamble, especially when we gut the DoE.
> so effective as bird killers that wind-turbines were even acknowledged officially as "top predator"

This is using "top" in the sense of "apex", because turbines have no natural predators. The paper says you could imagine them as something at the top of the trophic web. The paper explores the impact on their prey populations.

That's opposed to "top" in the sense of "kills more than other predators" or whatever. I mention it because number-of-kills is what the rest of the discussion seems to be about.
This should be the transcribed copy of that interview http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm

The part relevant to the OP:

FH: Well, one of the threads in the story is to trace a possible way a messiah is created in our society, and I hope I was successful in making it believable. Here we have the entire process, or at least the large and some of the subtle elements of the construction of this, both from the individual standpoint, and from the way society demands this of you. It’s the references in there, you know, that the man must recognize the myth he is living in, because the creation of an avatar is a mythmaking process. We’ve done it in our…in recent times. Look at what’s happening to John F. Kennedy.

WM: O, sure.

FH: Who was a very earthy, real, and not totally holy man…so here we have a likeable person, now, you see…

WM: Yes.

FH: But real in the flesh and blood sense who by the process of emulation becomes something larger than life, far larger than life, and I’ve just explored all of as many permutations as I could recognize in the process.

WM: Oh, I-I caught overtones of Lawrence of Arabia in the thing, for example.

FH: He could very well become an avatar for the…for the Arabs.

WM: Right.

FH: If Lawrence of Arabia had died at the crucial moment of the British…

WM: Say, when Allenby walked into Jerusalem.

FH: Yes. If he had died…if, for example, he had gone up and killed the people who were destroying his breed, walked into that conference and said, Gentlemen, I have here under my javala a surprise, Bang! Bang! Bang! and he had been killed…

WM: He’d have been deified.

FH: He would have been deified. And it would have been the most terrifying thing the British had ever encountered, because the Arabs would have swept that entire peninsula with that sort of force, because one of the things we’ve done in our society is exploited this power…Western man has exploited this avatar power.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwIsvKpEgOA
Don't forget to factor in the possibility of lithium shortages in the next decade. Batteries don't solve anything if you can't build them.

https://themarketbull.com.au/2025/02/07/lithium-remains-a-ke...
I set up Mint for a friend a few years ago and it took me about an hour never having done it before. What did you find difficult about it?
Alongside Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' policy that reduced the stock of social housing, there were also restrictions on how much new housing could be bought or built by local councils to replenish the availability of social housing. These restrictions had more or less remained the same until very recently. It was only during the Johnson government that the restrictions started to be lifted. Of course, the current Labour government are attempting to once again build new social housing, but it is easy to see why people look back and see Thatcher as being the cause of those three decades of social housing shortages.
Unlike you, many people do not care what they think, write or utter is copied or used. Also some believes intellectual property is not property. Real thieves are the ones who got phony monopoly grants to protect it.
Too cool. I've always wanted to watch this and you've inspired me.
There's a video.[1]

- Toast is toasted on one end, un-toasted at the other.

- Control is just a timer, so the second time you use it twice in succession it will be hot at the start and will need a shorter time, which you have to figure out.

Check out the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster (1949-1980), which is still considered the peak of toaster design.[2] It's repairable, too. Now replicating that would be a good project.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbUNDPXCWk

[2] https://www.theverge.com/22801890/sunbeam-radiant-control-to...
> Both consider themselves the temporarily embarrassed rightful heir to the centuries old concept of China.

This is an outdated take that does not reflect the contemporary feelings of the Taiwanese people and at best only describes a facet of KMT party policy. Bear in mind the KMT does not hold a majority in the legislature - they had to form a coalition with a third party to do so - and the president is from the DPP, which explicitly considers Taiwan a sovereign nation and does not buy into the notion that Taiwan is secretly the real China.
The airquotes on "mining" would signify to some that literal mining with excavators, screens, crushers, etc was not intended rather an operation that was literally on the scale of mining with an economic return on par with gold mining a rich vein.

Others might disagree. English is a fun language.

What cannot be disputed is the significant increase in national wealth brought home by the Dutch operations in what was known as the Dutch East Indies.

Batavia ( now Jakarta) was the capital of the VOC's lucrative spice trade for 3½ centuries.

Ships laden with tamarind, mace, cloves and nutmeg – at that time worth more, gram for gram, than gold - sailed from there to the Netherlands and often wrecked on the Western Australian coast returning with gold.

It's the value per weight part that merits comparison with Spanish aquisition of gold in the new world.
If it were going well there wouldn't be a "timeline update", "construction progress", nor a photo of a bunch of cranes.
No, I don't have an issue with anything but the last sentence, but the down arrow is all or nothing. We're facing a biodiversity crisis of massive scale (call it the 6th mass extinction if you like). "Fuck wildlife" isn't an appropriate policy position.
Something went way wrong around IIRC Vista.

I still had spinning rust when I upgraded. Win7 was fine. UI wasn't quite as snappy as XP, but it still felt pretty responsive.

After upgrading? EVERYTHING took forever. The friggin' start menu lagged noticeably on almost every interaction.

Upgrading to a solid state disk mostly fixed it, so they had clearly done something foundational that'd radically increased disk IO system wide. Solid state's fast, but it's not fast enough, if they'd kept going down that road. Eventually it'd start to show up there, too.
>You need to address the nativist tendencies in your country. You can't just bulldoze through them.

>You need to address the wealth inequality.

I'd suggest that you solve the former with the latter. The nativist tendencies are stoked by economic insecurity.
> Why didn't anyone think of that before?

They did

https://oibr.uga.edu/low-to-moderate-levels-of-stress-can-be...
I indeed knew the energy equivalent mileage simplified to tractive effort. What else could it have simplified to?
> It is a curly-brace language

What does this mean? Not Python?
Oh damn, I was probably there at the time, working in the building, and was completely unaware of the talk!

That would've been awesome!

By that time though my org had spun out of Xbox to become the Microsoft Band team, so we didn't get any of the cool invites anymore. :(
Does the LLC not exist in the UK?
That's a... like 20 years old talking point by now?

I mean, you can probably find _a_ Linux that's like what you say, but top Linux distros are nowhere like that.
I feel this way of viewing the world is assuming that there is no room for personal growth -- a fixed mindset so to speak. And there's no guarantee that any of us can change anything, we can only try our best.
I don't know if it's really a problem. Congress and the POTUS can always ignore a department's political requests. If there were to be guardrails they should involve a judge declaring the political statements aren't relevant to the department's mission.
Through immigration, which almost every developed country is trying as well?
> I still think the US has allies in Europe that would sanction China indefinitely. They'd probably also show up with something, if called.

China only needs to wait for a couple of years for Musk, Trump and Vance to have destroyed any remnants of the alliances, though.