skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but I am baffled as to why people are so resistant to just switching to Firefox.

Somehow Chrome has fried my brain and I can't stand the UX of other browsers. I understand you may be asking "how bad can it be? Its just a browser?" but when I use other things (even Safari) it just doesn't cut the mustard.
You’re not wrong, but there’s a reason US was in this position for this long.

There’s no ‘EU first’, every European country has constantly tried to one up their rivals for the last several centuries.
You missed the point: c++ _is_ the issue (and usually similar language).
I feel this way about documentation. I do it, a lot. I get compliments and positive feedback on it. It helps me remember things I would otherwise forget. I hope that others would be inspired by my example but it hasn't happened. I could be selfish and horde my own documentation and let others sink or swim. But that hurts me too as I'd have to pick up their slack.
I see US influence being drastically reduced in the coming years. But we need to do something about their disinformation networks.

I see people leaving their government and media positions in protest but I’d like to remind them that they are much more effective if they remain where they are. The CIA has an excellent manual just for situations like these.
Does it need to be a handwriting, or computer writing is sufficient?
Iceweasel? Probably at least the Firefox versions packed by many Linux distributions will remove any unreasonable telemetry added, just like they used to remove the trademarked branding.
If this was actually believed, he would not have to leave his continent for support.
> art (and gold)

"The Monuments Men" (2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men
his family has a past with Nazis

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/movies/2025/01/25/6794ca2...
I worry that Russia is more than capable of throwing mass casualties into the fight for longer than Ukraine can.
trump's base just goes for whatever he says now - perhaps in 2016/2017 they wouldn't, but it is a full on cult now
As with so many things in the US, civil disobedience is only considered a problem when "the left" does it.

See the police response to BLM vs the January 6th rioters.
Maybe you should try reading a mainstream news site or news aggregator instead
How to solve reference error during VS Code Setup for cpp?
C:\Users\aryan\AppData\Local\Temp\ccavqgZM.o:intro.cpp:(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `std::cout'
C:\Users\aryan\AppData\Local\Temp\ccavqgZM.o:intro.cpp:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)'
C:\Users\aryan\AppData\Local\Temp\ccavqgZM.o:intro.cpp:(.text+0x35): undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::~Init()'
C:\Users\aryan\AppData\Local\Temp\ccavqgZM.o:intro.cpp:(.text+0x56): undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

This is the error I am getting.
Poe’s Law is hitting hard right now. There are people out there making the arguments you are satirizing. These are rough times…
Maybe that will give them reason enough to refuse an order to put down protests using the Insurrection Act.
I might sound crazy but honestly fine-tuned GPT-3 absolutely blows all of these modern models out of the water when it comes to creative writing.

Maybe it was less lobotomized, or less covered in the prompt equivalent of red tape. Or maybe you just need to have a little bit of lunacy for fun creative writing. The new models are so much more useful, but IMO they don’t have even come close to GPT-3.
yeah NATO got irrelevant and Putin certainly now wishes he would not have attacked Ukraine. Rolling into these 3 mini countries with his entire army from 2022 would have been a much easier task
You create an account for this?
It went exactly the way the president wanted it to. Remember, this kind of bullying appeals to authoritarian parties.
what? you don't have negotiations in public at a press conference. what is trump negotiating here? terms that Ukraine won't accept? what resolution will come out of this outside of hardening Ukrainian resolve, bolstering Zelensky and getting Europe to fund the war?

Trump, the master negotiator /s

A shameful, tactless and pre-planned display. it's easy to blame trump and vance but the true losers here are the American people. American soft power is critical to America's economic power.
AI can "play" the drums better and more precisely than me but I still enjoy the act of playing the drums. AI can or will probably drive a Formula 1 car better than Max Verstappen but he will still enjoy being a driver. I don't see why we can't coexist with machine counterparts.
It does not seem like Trump actually wants a deal. They are not offering anything. It appears to be simply a pretext to have some reason to berate Ukraine and Zelenskyy.

"Oh you won't take our [completely ridiculous] deal? I guess we'll just have to side with Russia then!" Like that's not what they were going to do anyway.
> - when I see that browser does not allow playing video in the background (youtube on mobile phones)

The browser supports it just fine. Youtube itself disables that functionality (to try to push you to Youtube Premium). You can install an addon from the recommended addons to fix that.

> - when my browser disallows me blocking certain things

The only thing I remember Firefox blocking from meddling with is pages like mozilla.org and their addon store. Which, for security reasons, makes a lot of sense.

> - when my browser prevents me from taking screenshot of things I can see on it

That's a setting, though, isn't it? Unless you mean the optional DRM support Firefox has. You can disable that permanently if you don't like it, though you won't be able to visit many DRM-based websites. I've configured my browser to request permission before playing DRM based content and you'll be surprised how often the permission prompt pops up on websites that host normal (non-TV) media.
Usually it's best to do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

Lots of past explanations here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
AWS now supports multi-session logins, so you can log in with multiple accounts simultaneously.
"European countries have provided €132 billion in aid (military, financial and humanitarian) as of December 2024, and the United States has provided €114 billion."

"List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...
He's not serious about anything. Sorry for the low effort comment. I'm just frustrated.
I think it's the same reason Musk is promoting his Mars bullshit.

This appears as very long term thinking, while in reality is a way to siphon money in the short term and sell whatever idea they currently have under this long term plan.

Not to say that it would be bad for US to own Greenland - of course it would be great. Mars too BTW...
Power. They're having the time of their lives.
You don't understand how the world works.
I got this weird dissonance - like this was a science from a TV show about the White House, because no-one, I mean no-one would ever do that inpublic. Apart from common courtesy, even basic management training says praise in public, criticise in private.

Just doing this in front of the world’s media … it’s hard to understand
I don't know what that is supposed to mean, as far as I know he hasn't been asked to beg or been berated like this by any other nation but the United States.
Sometimes I wish I had the kind of education that allows you to interpret Terms of Use, Privacy Notices and other legal mumbojumbo in a way that answers my questions. It's great practice if you like cryptic crosswords though.
Sadly the US still has a lot of nukes and aircraft carriers ready to project power over its rebelling subjects and partners. I don’t expect the military to start refusing orders just because the president became a corrupt tyrant through legal means.
I have never in my entire life seen a better example of the "we have always been at war with Eastasia" phenomenon than the recent US switch from anti- to pro-Russia stance.
Nested Perfect Arrays
On a tangent - J.D Vance is lecturing Europe about freedom of speech while AFP is ousted for writing "Gulf of Mexico" as "Gulf of Mexico."
In the last Trump administration there were enough people handling him. This time there are only yes men, so anything we see, is him unstopped/unfiltered. Trump doesn't understand complexities just "winning", he understands that minerals are valuable so he wants them, that is it. He also wants the peace price, but he doesn't understand long term strategy or planning so this situation, this sudden shift and strong arming is him wanting to accomplish this goal now. He feels Putin is stronger so the goal is easier accomplished by forcing Ukraines hand.

If one views it trough the lens of: What a high school bully, who has no self control and can't delay gradification, would do...
then nothing Trump does is surprising.
That felt really gross to watch. I don't know what else to say that's more high-level thinking and adds to the conversation. A straight up "mean girls" moment.
Ok, you know how Superman gets his powers from the energy of the Earth's yellow sun? Same, except I use being a busybody instead of the sun.
Yeah, simpletask
I'm curious if there is any polling data on British willingness to help Canada should they face invasion from the U.S. Canada being a commonwealth country with their King as their head of state.
> Could an unguarded TreeMap cause 3,200% utilization?

I've seen the same thing with an undersynchronized java.util.HashMap. This would have been in like 2009, but afaik it can still happen today. iirc HashMap uses chaining to resolve collisions; my guess was it introduced a cycle in the chain somehow, but I just got to work nuking the bad code from orbit [1] rather than digging in to verify.

I often interview folks on concurrency knowledge. If they think a data race is only slightly bad, I'm unimpressed, and this is an example of why.

[1] This undersynchronization was far from the only problem with that codebase.
addiction to anything is harmful. You might as well have said using porn unhealthily is unhealthy. It's a tautology, and it's moving the goal posts disingenuously.

The argument is about moderate use, just like any other vice.
After this meeting I have no doubts that President Krasnov theory is real.
Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May
I have been using https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block for years.

It works great. Kind of strange it's never mentioned when ad blockers are discussed.
Is there a good one with comments for discussion? Closest thing I can think of is reddit and you know how that is with politics.
>Do conservatives even remember when Russia was the enemy and Europe was our ally?

America and Europe used to have shared values, now the average American conservative is so disgusted by the T in LGBT that they consider Russia more aligned with their values.
I just took a look at my httpd.conf, and the deflate module is being loaded, but there was no directive on what file types to apply it to that I could find. I'll have to set up a couple of tests to see the before/after of enabling it for a specific file type

I'll have to leave myself a comment in the conf file to remind me that I got a little tech support on a divergent bit of comments on a post about interesting CSS anims =)
Why kick out? Just start a new club (I'm sure they already have, probably years ago, or increased activity in one that already existed) and let this one wither.
>I wish the EU was more ... united.

it's not Europe United, it's Europe Unionized.
Yeah, from my perspective this was just a dog and pony show. Trump and Vance got to look big and strong (their perception anyways) next to Zelensky, and he got to look like he's willing to continue the conversation. Doubt anyone actually expected progress out of this.
Thanks! Updated to 60 per their author list in their paper.
> People who having passing familiarity with neuroscience often assume that psychiatric medications work by correcting deficiencies, but this isn't true.

They think this because that’s literally what the commercial for Zoloft said. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/twhvtzd6gXA
The problem with this approach is that LLM gives me unreliable answers. I know this because sometimes I ask things that I used to knew but forgot and needed to refresh my memory - and sometimes the answers were incorrect. So, unfortunately, a search engine validation step is still a necessity.

Asking LLM to provide a link does NOT work, as they hallucinate links just fine, and give links that are either broken or do not contain the information LLM says it should. Using search tools through a LLM (like ChatGPT's "search" function) sort of works (at least the link will be correct - still need to check if the contents means what LLM says it does), but it's quite limited and cannot be fine-tuned (I don't use Google but rather prefer Kagi, and I tend to heavily rely on Kagi's lenses, site: queries and negative terms to scope and refine searches).

In other words: please do NOT trust LLM's answers, even if they sound plausible. Always verify.
We ended up merging the threads to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909 since it had the original source and was posted first.
> Does that mean 'over 50%' of them improve, or is it, as is more common with pharmaceuticals, closer to a rounding error?

This question is more complicated than it appears.

One of the biggest challenges with depression studies is that the placebo group always improves dramatically, too. Using your terms, "over 50%" of the placebo group would likely show improvements in their depression inventories.

This makes it very complicated to interpret the studies, because now you have to look for how much more the active treatment group improves relative to the placebo group.

This is a huge detail that gets abused a lot by anti-pharma people, who write headlines about how SSRIs are "barely better than placebo" and then ignore the actual statistics. Another common tactic is to try to reframe the thresholds in different terms like "effect size" and then pool studies together to try to show that the "effect size" is below some arbitrary threshold.

Another challenge is that placebo response has been getting stronger over the years and nobody really knows why. Some antidepressant studies have even been halted because, ironically, the placebo group improved so much that there numerically wasn't much room left for the active group to be statistically better given the sample size. This is less of a problem with very large scale studies where smaller margins can be shown to be more statistically significant, but those are expensive and rare.

There isn't really a question about whether or not they are effective for many patients in the world of empirical treatment. However, if you go digging through the internet you can find plenty of commentary trying to convince you they don't work. Sadly, I've had some close friends and family members delay SSRI treatment for years because they read too many of these studies, but when they finally gave in and did a trial it turned their life around. The drugs aren't perfect and don't work for every situation, but they do work for a lot of people.
I, too, think that they did and underestimated Zelenskyy. Trump would love to sell his deal. Now he just embarrassed himself and his nation again.
> Squashing any error, strangeness and warning can be very expensive in some projects

Strongly disagreed. Strange, unexpected behaviour of code is a warning sign that you have fallen short in defensive programming and you no longer have a mental model of your code that corresponds with reality. That is a very dangerous to be in. Very quickly possible to be stuck in quicksand not too far afterwards.
>how little we understand the efficiency of SSRIs

A drug that is taken by millions of people, if your take is that we understand it too little, either you are deep enough in the subject to make some interest questions, or you are missing the forest for the trees.

I'm not sure how useful it is to keep investigating exactly how it works on a chemical level, yeah for sure some people should look into it, but in the same way that some one should do 1600m in the regional competition of Minnesotta, as a niche.

You can observe the effects of the medication on people, done.

I remember seeing a video on a cannabis researcher explaining that they didn't find any difference between the indica and sativa strains for example, and she talked about chemical properties. Just get 10 people to smoke one or the other and you are done.

There is such a thing as overintellectualizing, and FUTON bias isn't a particularly impressive way to do it.
The thing that enforces the existence of either SPF or DKIM is called DMARC, setting that to "reject" or "quarantine" is the most critical step for preventing forgeries like that.
What am I supposed to learn from this exchange? You imply that you understand how to negotiate, so maybe you can enlighten the rest of us as to how Trump and Vance are achieving a victory on behalf of US interests.
Not if he puts boots on the ground. Having a relative die in a foreign war focuses people’s attention real fast. They may blame Biden somehow but
Cue the super-cut of Zelensky thanking the U.S. since probably December 2022.
Not an ally any more. The US is now aligned with Russia against Europe. My brain struggles to truly accept that fact but my eyes see what are in front of them.
This is the same combination I'm using, and it works so well that I really have to wonder if all this handwringing over the move from Manifest V2 to V3 is really worth it. What is uBlock Origin supposed to be able to block that Wipr isn't already blocking?
I don't know what you think this is about "deal making" this whole show is unique as far as white house visits go, this is no some usual process....

Attempted humiliation and bullying does not make for a good deals as far as I've seen.
For anyone interested in their own depression, some anecdotal, unscientific non-medical advice that I received from HN about a year ago:

5-HTP is a serotonin precursor that you can take in low doses to help do a lot of different things. For me, it lowered food cravings and impulsiveness, balanced out sleeping anxiety, vastly improved my gut health, and really helped with my depression. I have a positive mood about me that I haven't had since I was a teenager, and I am so vastly enjoying life today, despite the trials. Before starting a daily regimen of 5-HTP, I was worried that I might one day lose myself to suicide. Now I treasure every day. Truly changed my life. Maybe it will change yours.

Again this is completely anecdotal, unscientific non-medical advice.
You do realize Russia is _puny_ in all other aspects expect corruption and lack of value of human life where they are champions.

The reason Russia has succeeded so far is because most parties have _minimized_ their engagement with the conflict _and Russia is still loosing_.

The only reason Ukraine’s flag is not in Kremlin is because Russia has nukes.

And anyone can get nukes.
The problem is both US political parties would strongly oppose any attempt to "get people in the streets", making it very challenging for any such protesters.
World needs to help out Ukraine because if Ukraine falls it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty. They are just pieces of paper that guarantee nothing. This will just lead to more countries getting nukes which means higher likelihood of a nuclear war.
Are you familiar with the Budapest memorandum?
The EU is going to be thinking long and hard if the US really is so much more friendly than China.
Sadly it will be praised as "tough" by many.
With the current string of SCOTUS decisions, Trump can have the VP shot at dawn, declare it an official act, and elect Musk as the new VP.
and law (or justice), international or otherwise, doesn't really exist without money (or collateral)

what a web
He took the same side as Russia https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895537389436833967
Any attempt to pretend Trump knows the concept of Chess, fails the moment you remember he nominated Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.
Steven Miller and Musk, not Vance
Yeah, pretty sure history will be the judge as to whether this was a colossal screwup.
The American government has been compromised by Russia. It no longer represents American interests, but Russian interests.

Whether the senior powers in America are compromised, complicit, or opportunist, it doesn't matter. America is being damaged. Russian interests are being prioritized over American interests.

Our military is too powerful for direct conflict, so alternative conflict against our political structure and economy is more logical. America is experiencing a decapitation strike, and our military is not defending us from these domestic enemies. https://archive.is/1xkxK (Decapitation Strike -- Timothy Snyder)
Exactly! This is a trend nowadays. Go to web - they even make apps for it, just to put you to that webpage - then do some or all of [1].

Unusable!

About Skype: Once upon a time I had a phonecall with my then almost 70 retired mother from abroad, who never been a tech-savvy person, to be gentle, saying we should try Skype for its video chat, better sound and its no/low cost. I will install it next time being home. Next day she called me on Skype! She used the link I sent (she is not speaking English btw.), installed, configured, looked me up and called me out of the blue. Did not happen similar before or ever since. Soon, I will have trouble getting through the typical user experience, well, more like not giving an f getting through it.

[1] https://img.ifunny.co/images/5e047ed0fb02df4c206c9d836ed21c8...

And in [1] they missed the "Try closing the 'Disable ad-blocker plugin' pop-up"
The former reality tv star is good at reality tv. What’s usually kept behind closed doors is now out in open, because it makes for great viewership. People gobble this up, which has given the reality tv star endless attention

Hacker News has fallen victim to the reality tv star’s antics
Use your browser's search function. At least 4 instances throughout the article

> It also concluded that there is a lack of evidence for the association so why would the authors call it a theory?

Read the article. It explains this in the introduction. Click some of the citations.
EU is united until it comes time to pay the bill
> That was before "move fast, break things and blame the user" became the norm.

When VCs only give you effectively 9 months of runway (3 months of coffees, 9 months of actual getting work done, 3 months more coffees to get the next round, 3 more months because all the VCs backed out because your demo wasn't good enough), move fast and break things is how things are done.

If giving startups 5 years of runway was the norm, then yeah, we could all be professional.
it was 100% the purpose, but it looks like it worked out badly. They keep underestimating Zelenski but he was certainly prepared for this confrontation. I mean, I just can't imagine anybody staying that cool in front of such provocations.
Your suggestion is that European leaders don’t believe him, which would be counter to every public statement they’ve made.

He’s getting support from European nations. The US is capable of more support, hence asking for it. This isn’t complicated, I have to suspect you know all of this and are being disingenuous anyway, and I cannot fathom why.
Trump did the exact same thing with the Polish president, made him wait for 1 and a half hours then had a 10 minute meeting with him.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-trumps-foreign-policy-is-impacting...