Trump is really a disgusting human being. I'm not a US citizen but this looks an awful lot like treason -- he is actively helping an enemy of the state.
> while hundreds of thousands get killed or mutilated?
Most of them are russians in uniform, which, as tragic as it is, is a better outcome.
The original invasion force brought tens of thousands of body bags and it is clear they weren't originally meant for russian troops.
If you have any doubt, look up the pre written article that popped on Kremlins website a few days after the full scale invasion about large tragic but unavoidable losses of civilian lives.
Or look at how the convoy that targeted Kyiv contained lots and lots of prison buses and how they brought mobile crematoriums.
It is easy to sit safely here and comment.
If you want to do something better get out and donate and help the fight.
So Russia invaded Chechnya and is now using Chechens to invade Ukraine.
You suggest that Russia takes Ukraine, then uses Ukrainians to invade Moldova?
That is what you are suggesting, right?
Also, my programmers keyboard gives me a very nice peaceful wage. A wage that I partly use to support the Ukrainian defence forces. I suggest everyone to the same: https://savelife.in.ua/en/.
Exactly, sign a fucking peace deal! And it's NOT the first time a peace deal was prevented. There were even fucking peace deals before the Russian invasion.
Ahahaha. It's an "open" forum where? Parent poster got flagged, his post no longer readable (unless a user enabled flagged posts?) and you suggest discussion to them. This HN crowd is sarcastic!!
He is saving American money for American people as was promised. You just don't like the fact that the world is heading towards de-globalisation because of whatever other political belief you have that you aren't sharing like most people here.
Perhaps off field, but I'm recruiting a PhD student in Aarhus University in Denmark (in person or hybrid). It's salaried with pension contributions and help relocating, and the agreed pay is equivalent to a graduate job in Denmark.
Title: Multimodal Medical Imaging – AI and Quantum Physics for Diagnostics
Call for applications for a fully financed PhD fellowship
Project description:
Life creates order in a universe where disorder always increases. The set of chemical reactions enabling this —metabolism— changes as we eat, sleep, exercise, or become unwell. This PhD studentship is for a transformative research project integrating physics, mathematics, artificial intelligence (AI), and cutting-edge medical imaging to unravel and quantify these metabolic processes inside people.
Hyperpolarized MRI (HP-MRI) uses quantum mechanics to boost the sensitivity of MRI by orders of magnitude, allowing real-time imaging of metabolites like pyruvate as they are processed in vivo. Unlike conventional imaging techniques such as PET, HP-MRI avoids ionizing radiation, measures multiple metabolites simultaneously, and directly maps reactions like glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation. It is uniquely powerful for diagnosing and monitoring diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s, with its clinical potential currently being explored in multinational trials.
The EU-funded project "Quantum+AI for Diagnostics" (Q-AID) tackles one of the most fascinating challenges in medical imaging: mapping the relationship between underlying biological "truths" (e.g., tumor metabolism) and the signals captured by imaging systems, which are subject to noise, artefacts, and are imperfect. These mappings are deeply complex, involving layers of transformation —signal generation, reconstruction, and visualization— before even addressing the biological dynamics of living organisms. Metabolic systems are vast, interwoven reaction networks, where only a subset of processes can be measured directly. Using "physics-informed" neural networks, we aim to combine analytical knowledge with AI tools to infer unseen processes.
In this studentship, you will:
• Develop super-resolution models to overcome the spatial resolution limitations of HP-MRI, leveraging data from conventional imaging
• Model imaging processes mathematically, bridging biological truths and observable signals.
• Design AI approaches for semantic segmentation and metabolic classification, integrating multimodal imaging datasets.
• Quantitatively unify HP-MRI with other modalities like PET and CT.
• Work closely with clinicians to build life-saving tools that will impact patient care
A really sad tale, but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications.
> but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications.
Your wording is ambiguous to me.
Are you talking about the “air boss” here?
ATCs get plenty of training and are qualified — several months of training plus 2-3 years of additional classroom work and OJT. Fairly high attrition rate as well (iirc).
I believe they meant that the air boss has a role like an ATC, in a more challenging situation (because you want to keep aircraft somewhat close). Whilst at the same time the air boss doesn't need anywhere near the same training as ATCs do.
Yeah unscripted low-altitude aviation control is something a JTAC would do in combat. This is such a high-risk way to manage aircraft over a crowd of civilians, it's shocking to hear this is normalized.
Also i don’t really understand why does it need to be improvised. The audience wants to see roaring airplanes flying by. I understand that. But why can’t the paths be pre-agreed?
I have a spinal injury and have experienced both catheters (both Foley, which have a balloon in the bladder, and isc ones, which don't) and modern absorbent underwear.
Catheters are evil pain sticks. Modern pants are wonderful and have dramatically improved my quality of life.
He could also hit the limit downloading a single image, if I'm understanding his situation.
If I'm an infrequent tinkerer that occasionally needs docker images, I'm not going to pay a monthly cost to download e.g. 1 image/month that happens to be hosted on Docker's registry.
(It sounds like you can create an account and do authenticated pulls; which is fine and pretty workable for a large subset of my above scenario; I'm just pointing out a reason paying dollars for occasional one-off downloads is unpopular)
Because that scary state that you read about in dystopian novels and hear about in dystopian histories is a state that Americans live in at the moment. We are all actually people that are living in an important moment, and should be aware of Normalcy Bias.
I'm not OP but I imagine they might be thinking that Trump will find a way to punish it, with him being a fascist and all. Just imagine you'd had done this with Hitler in 1932. By 1934 your life would basically be over.
I never thought americans were this weak and pathetic. Y'all always screamed about "muh guns" and stuff like that, but now... You're just sitting idly while your new king takes over, even discouraging others to do anything that may upset your supreme ruler?
Ideology is the direction you want to go, not necessarily the way you can go.
Its the same thing with immigration: My ideology is to help everyone and not think that every immigrant is bad. Doesn't mean that i have an issue punishing someone who comes and starts doing crime (after trying to help them nonetheless).
The ideology of right wing people is the other way: They assume all immmigrants are shit, hate them all, fear them but they still know 'the good immigrants' don't mind marring immigrants because these are the good execption immigrants.
The second attitude is the one which can spiral downhill inform of dehuminaztion and genocide.
(To be fair, though I'm not in USA / an American, if we're going to stereotype and generalize unfairly, it seems it's largely the "Muh Guns" folks you refer to that support/vote for Trump and the like).
I have a PhD [DPhil] in physics from the university of Oxford in the UK. I signed up for a course in interdisciplinary science, and ended up working on something I never new existed –– a technique (called dynamic nuclear polarisation [1]) that uses low-temperature nuclear physics, quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics of the variety you learn at university, but ultimately ends up being applied for medical imaging. People are alive because of the work I did, and I find this deeply meaningful. I loved learning about lots of new things that were genuinely very different, and applying them through the lens of physics, for very real applications – and liked being in a supportive environment that gave you the ability to choose what you were interested in and follow it through.
The thing I would say though is that 1) the supervisor or supervisors you end up working with are incredibly important and are really the make or break decision for the whole programme of study; 2) you are in a surprisingly powerful position if you are a good undergrad student (the world is your oyster! You can go anywhere and do almost anything!); and 3) think beyond the PhD: it is little more than an apprenticeship. Where are you going later – do you want to work broadly in the area of $PHD_SUBJECT for the next few years? Will you learn the skills you want to let that happen?
If you don't enjoy your subject of study, you may well come to resent being cheap labour for a rich institution, at a point in your life when you can do almost anything and go almost anywhere – and see your friends earn real money and get on with life (marriage, children, houses, etc).
Full disclaimer: just today I have advertised a PhD place for a bright mathematical scientist, at Aarhus University in Denmark [1]. I am biased, but I would encourage you to go elsewhere. There are many great institutions in europe (switzerland and the UK included) and the other thing is that you do a PhD in 3-4 years on a real salary in most places – e.g. the starting point for total compensation for a student in Aarhus is ~428500 dkk per year (~$60k/year, ~€57k/year, ~£47k/year, from which tax & compulsory pension contributions are deducted, but no health insurance) and it is expected that this is enough to live on. This is a very reasonable salary, comparable to many graduate jobs. If anyone would like to talk to me about it, I'd love to chat (see profile).
To the HN folks, maybe we need a "Who wants an academic opportunity?" type thread? Seems like there's a need for Masters / PhD / Post-Doc openings to find Masters / PhD / Post-Doc candidates. "Who wants to be hired?" doesn't seem to register quite the same way.
Something like: Location, Grad funding or financing available, degree type desired, field and project of study, background or education desired.
I am an academic working on a multinational clinical trial. I assure you, it has made many aspects of my daily life much worse, from shipping things across borders, recruiting students or staff, to discussions about patient safety and the EMA/MHRA, as well as the desire of colleagues to collaborate internationally.
I was responding to the point that leaving affected the 'day to day life for most' more than joining with, I'm not saying it doesn't change anything, or doesn't change the day to day life for anyone - I even offered international truck drivers as an example, yours is another, but I don't think most people are in that position.
If anyone wishes to comment, the CMA is explicitly wanting those to do so by sending in emails to mobilesms@cma.gov.uk, addressing the questions set out in their report[1], which basically boil down to "Should we investigate apple and google" and then "'what should we do about it"?
Really the main thing that needs to be done is opening up the RCS API on android the same way the SMS API is. Google has been holding on to it to try and pressure people to use their closed source app instead.
