skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the ukraine war I don't remember any tangible criticism regarding the US. That would be way too hypocritical considering Europe aid has been too slow. At least nobody in my circle was asking more of the US. I really think you're being played. Also so far market are down, prices are up. Was it the best administration to deal with problems ?

I understand the parent last sentence differently. Considering America's might, giving in to a mediocre aggressor seems weak. It's not that you have to do it, but it was the previous foreign policy / aura of the USA. Leader of the free world IIRC. Now you're free to change course. But it would be wise to operate smoothly.
Sorry, but I don't think these percentages, turnouts, and other technicalities matter, at all.

This is how the American people has chosen to represent themselves. The American people created the system, and the Americans knew their own system. The system produced this guy.

Now, why does it matter which percentage did he get? He got enough, did not he? And obviously he does have the mandate, because he is able to do things his way.
Ask HN: Why aren't LLMs used for email spam detection?
Of all the use cases LLMs are being pushed into, spam filtering seems like one of the most useful. Yet, I’m getting more spam in my Gmail inbox than ever (most of it AI-generated). Google just raised Google Workspace prices to account for the value "added" by Gemini, except it didn’t solve the most obvious problem that annoys everyone: spam. Am I missing something?
Plenty of european countries have given both stockpiles and modern weapons.

As an example sweden has given Strv-122, CV90, Archer, Saab 340 AEW&C and has offered Gripen fighter jet (but Gripen has been blocked by US/France). All of those are up to date weaponry, and besides that much from older stockpiles has been given.

That's just one example from one small country with less people than one city in the US.
(2020) Not sure how many of these are still relevant
If you compare to how things began in Cold War, it’s far from a win for Russia no matter how much it may take from Ukraine.

SU lost, here we feel some ripple or aftershock. US enjoyed years of prosperity, its people lived in much higher living standards for a long time.

What’s a shame for the US is the innovators dilemma that it was not able to improve its system after the pressure of competition was gone, and now inequality brought you Trump II.
Huh. I didn't know about most of these little touches. It would be nice if the same level of care and thought were placed in the major Linux desktops.
It hasn't any strong cards only because the west (which is now Europe - the US is almost at Russias side now) is trickling the weapons supply. Open the taps!
You make a good point. The EU/NATO expansion was deliberately intended to hem Russia in, and Russia's actions are at least partly in response to that.

However, there's a big difference between expanding your sphere of influence through "soft power" whereby those countries voluntarily join you, and expanding it through military invasion, as Russia is doing.

The two are not at all comparable.
Likewiwe I'm applying it to Trump, Starmer, Macron or even Xi and Putin.

The point is that I'm tired of the electorate washing their hands from their leaders' antic. Society get the leader they deserve.
> EUROMAIDAN was a Western intelligence op

[Citation severely needed]
Psychiatric benefits of SSRIs show around 2 to 4 weeks after the therapy starts, but the serotonin levels increase on the first day. It is obvious that depression is not just some "nutritional" problem in the synapses. It does look like it can be cured by systematic "overeating", though, at least in some/many cases.
Do you not see the incredible irony accusing Zelenskyy of "disrespectful, high-pressure bargaining tactics"??

His country has been under attack by an authoritarian government for YEARS, and the problem is that he's not "respectful enough" for you? What happened to "facts don't care about your feelings"?
> about "why is Orban pro-putin?", this is a joke right?

No, genuine question, he is Eastern European. Let us go further, they claim Hungary is pro-Russian, how come?
Sorry what? Reports from Ukrainian high schools?

I live in Ukraine, this is not true.
That's one way to force attrition, I guess.

It's not like Google are at the tip top of the market for comp these days, and they haven't been for a long time. It's easy to make similar money without destroying your quality of life elsewhere.
org is timeless for sure! Personally I've been using emacs since the 80's. But as the developer of a personal knowledge management application I was hoping that an ecosystem of specialized, easy to use, tools based on org would emerge.

BrainTool is a browser extension for managing tabs and bookmarks. It saves your data in an org file. One feature is to allow an item to be marked as a TODO. For me personally I then integrate my BrainTool.org file into my overall org workflow and see that TODO in my org-agenda. But ideally a naive BrainTool user would be able to see that task in a tool like Todoist or whatever.

For a while there it seemed like there was some momentum!
You can take a look at Haskell's Software Transactional Memory then. Or you can take a look at something like the Linux kernel's Read-Copy-Update (RCU) abstraction, add some persistent data structures and a retry loop on top. It's indeed a very programmer friendly way of doing concurrency.
> After all, if we had to credit a single country, Russia defeated both Napoleon and Hitler.

So did the UK, so what’s your point?
That's the only information I have. That said, High-Flyer had about 160 people, total, in 2021. Given that F3 was in production in 2019, 60 people is a generous estimation.
And a corollary to this: There is probably an intellectual cost of returning to oral culture, which seems to be what's happening at the moment at a large scale [1].

It's been happening with social media already, but having non-human entities take over "written thought" for many is probably going to have pretty significant consequences. I'm finding a lot of utility in LLMs, but at the same time I'm concerned about what parts of my cognitive faculties it'll cause to atrophy when overused.

Then again, maybe this is just yet another inevitable (albeit much bigger than the ones before) step on the same path we've been on since the onset of cognitive tradeoff [2] in early humans?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-07/we-re-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_tradeoff_hypothesis
Site isolation is one: Firefox doesn't sandbox websites from each other on non-Windows platforms, and even on Windows its sandboxing solution is just worse than Chromium's. They're doing work on implementing sandboxing more widely, mind, but still have a long road ahead of them to get to parity.
EU+UK don't/can't/won't "conscript". They will have a volunteer military (or possibly deals with mercenary armies, or foreign recruits in exchange for citizenship) unless and until something catastrophic happens. If it comes conscription, it will have been a unconscionable failure of leadership.
I would legitimately be stoked to make $1 million plus per year to work at the leading company developing the most important technology we'll see in our lifetimes. It would be easy for me to recover 20/hours per week in the conveniences that kind of salary could bring.

Unfortunately, my skills in this area are far short of my enthusiasm.
How recently?

FWIW I use Firefox with Google Docs/Sheets extensively, with no issues.
That's pure wishful thinking. Russia spans 11 time zones, but most of Russia's population lives near Europe, west of the Ural mountains. They have as little to do with China as other people of Europe. The "mental center" of Russia is close to Eastern Europe, and their greatest ambition is to dominate the continent, for a variety of reasons that would take too long to explain. They see the US as the archenemy, because the US has stood in their way since the end of WWII.

Russia is willing to play an ally, but only insofar as it brings them closer to what they really want: Europe. Anyone who doubts this is utterly clueless about Russia and not worth listening to.
Israel has voted the other way previously. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...
Good God, it's a textbook example of corruption!
When Rust's sort algorithm changed to detect total order violations, it caused some breakage. See for example: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/insta/pull/586

I recently wrote a blog post which (while not the main focus) includes a discussion on randomized testing of sort algorithms in the face of inconsistent comparators: https://sunshowers.io/posts/monads-through-pbt/ section 2.
Do you recommend violent 2014 coups instead? That is our position on Ukraine, officially.
Section 127(2):
A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—

a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false
Whether you agree with his assessment or not - it's clear that the president has too much power for one single person to hold. _Hopefully_ congress will work to change _that_, rather than fight this one person for four years and hope to hand all of this power to somebody they trust better next time.
> Their refusal to do so is now coming back to haunt the world order.

That is partially true, but the world order would be in tatters because of Trump, regardless of the military spending of the rest of NATO.
What makes you think they aren't? They are..

Google: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-holidays-2024-spam-...

MS: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefenderfo...
Talos Linux. Replaced a fleet of RHEL OpenShift with Talos recently. We're planning on moving the rest to Talos within 1.5 years. Basically, bare metal OS is going to be an implementation detail abstracted away from the internal users and developers.
Dumb nitpicking, sorry:

The railroad car was used in 1918 and in 1940. In both cases Germany was unoccupied, in WW1 because the war was fought on French and on Flandern fields, in 1940 because it was the beginning of the war.

You're possibly thinking of the German surrender, first in Reims, then a day later again in Berlin.
It took me a while to learn to maximize o1. But 4.5 should seemingly work like 4o.

Based on that it does seem underwhelming. Looking forward to hearing about any cases where it truly shines compared to other models.
But does it actually avoid deaths though? One of them will have to stop, if neither does, there will be more bloodshed, that is a given, right? If Putin does not stop, shouldn't Zelensky do?
No, they're shutting down activities intended to gather intelligence on people who are actively attacking them, and/or disrupt those attacks.

If you want to think military, suppose somebody's been shelling my assets, so I return fire and try to knock out their guns. Is that defense or offense? I'm destroying their stuff, remember. Physically, there is no difference between their actions and mine. So should I just put up an earthen berm and forget about trying to disrupt the attack itself?

There isn't some absolute line between defense and offense.
And a naval engagement to the Czech Foreign Legion :)
Russia has historically been very good at killing off invading armies through attrition, but that's not necessarily a strength when they're the invading army in similarly inhospitable conditions
Yeah, it's so blatantly frustratingly tone-deaf that the real message is: "This site purposely wants to be full of irrelevant spammy shit, so get whatever you needed and get out ASAP."
Yes. Democracy means we are culpable for what our leaders do.
talk about showing your hand early
Not just the US but a lot of right wing or authoritarian govt in general.

The problem with this zero sum thinking is there is another player outside of the countries if the world; nature itself. Think natural disasters, climate change, diseases. No one can negotiate with it or form alliances. It does not care about our survival. The only choice we have is to come together to make sure we don't get screwed over.
Based on the claims on the blog, it feels reasonable to say that this "cannot" occur again.
They should have been thinking for a long time now, but weren't. For the 2% requirement:

2015: 5 countries

2021: 9 countries

2024: 23 countries

I don't think these levels would have improved so quickly without the US being a bully.
I think it's quite funny theme extensions even get to run code on the client. Soon: prudent CTOs ban all editors, devs forced to used nano
> The approach to layoff probationary workers has been used by Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to fire thousands of workers in other government agencies such as USAID, and according to reports, there could be as many as 500 people cut from NIST. According to Maire, the NIST cuts include 74 postdocs, 57% of CHIPS Act staff focussed on incentives, and 67% of CHIPS staff focussed on research and development. The cuts are even expected by NIST workers themselves, according to Maire, who has reportedly spoken to several NIST workers.

The administration can't just kill an act of congress.

That would definitely be less great.
There's always the option of a coup
How is a (reputable) cybercrime journalist out of his element when it comes to how much cybercrime is committed by Russia? That sounds like it's exactly his topic of expertise.

Sure, there are other things that are happening in this conflict that may or may not be worse, but he didn't say there wasn't. All he said is that he believes that the cybersecurity stuff is already enough to prove malice. If you believe there are even worse things, then you should be even more worried!
Did they want multi device? How do you sync messages? History?
I think the issue is when people start replacing their capacity to think and reason with these machines. There was an intergalactic space jihad about this IIRC.
Microsoft killed Skype years ago.
Or maybe being the hegemon doesn't mean you have to instigate and bankroll wars in every corner of this earth.
Not a (consumate, formal trained) developer so please don't take my word on this, but for what I've read the big issue development wise about forking Firefox is that its codebase is kind of a mess, in like dissociating the Gecko engine and the UI would imply a tedious, herculean effort, and this is the main reason there are few Firefox "forks" (librewolf, etc.) with little modifications respect to Firefox, whereas there are tons of forks of Chromium.

Now, I understand making a Firefox fork that doesn't include this new changes in upstream doesn't imply major changes in its code, but still it seems like if you want people to use your fork requires more than that, or maybe you'll end up with a scenario like Debian vs Biebian and Hannah Montana Linux.
Japan is absolutely thinking about its own nuclear deterrent. The conventional diplomatic wisdom is that they can spin one up rapidly. Like most countries, they're deeply taken aback by the US trashing existing alliances and showing far more rhetorical aggression toward its neighbors than its supposed antagonists.

https://www.irsem.fr/media/etude-irsem-93-albessard-japan-en...
> Is it not just speculation? Does it have any merits? Would he do it? What makes you think that it is going to happen, that he wants to do it? Could he actually attempt to do it?

Having already done it three times:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

3. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/russia-forces-ukrainians...
I use https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser for its ability to install any extension, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean. If you don't need that, I'd recommend IronFox because of its explicit security goals.
Naw, having been there, Microsoft killed Skype because it had no idea how to manage a B2C product.
> American's won't come and die for us

Not one person ever expected American blood to be spilled in Ukraine. Framing the opposing side with having these thoughts is arguing in bad faith. And what peace is there in letting a bully get away with the spoils? What's going to stop them from doing it again?

And yea the US didn't technically start the war, but if Ukraine didn't give up their nukes because of assurances by the US, then they wouldn't have been in this situation.
Pretty sure there were UN monitors and reports. Funny the people that make this claim never sight those reports.
Apologies, I definitely put the minimum effort into that response. But as you stated, the point is government control over the press tends to raise constitutional questions.
Seems to me, the person is claiming that a linear trendline increasing causes "steadily" to be an appropriate proxy for "values went up and down some, but overall went up".

If we can agree that the trendline is linear and that it goes up, then yes, we can agree on "steadily".

However, if we observe that the actual data goes both up and down over a specified period, then no, the data cannot be characterised as "steady".

For those interested, perhaps I could suggest drawing a process capability chart? The sigma variation lines would seem to clearly demarc outliers.
Note that it doesn't apply to NATO against NATO.
To be fair I rather download a 20 mb csv rather than download a smaller zip file and then have to unzip it.
That's some perl clutching. :)
Would like to know how this compares to https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
If they could be forced, they are not sovereign.
I first read this story in the back of the manual for a DOS program called Fractint in the very early '90s. It was a super-fast fractal generator made by a collective called the Stone Soup Group. It's still around but the SSG disappeared years ago.

The story stuck with me, I told it to my kids only a few weeks ago.
That's what a lot of us have. Brave's own ad systems are opt-in, and a majority of users don't opt-in. It's a minority that are interested in the crypto features. I just left the crypto stuff off, hid the icons and have a degoogled Chromium with strong adblock and some nice quality of life extras.
They don’t seem to realize that.
Create a systemd override (by using systemctl edit sshd) and add MemoryMin=32M (or whatever makes sense for your system). This makes sure sshd is never pushed out into swap.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

You can also use sibling knobs to increase the CPU and IO weights of the unit, for example but setting this to something higher than 100:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
Thanks for the summary explainer. Very hard to keep up with the abundance of models if you don't work directly in that area.
I read this sort of critique often, but what are people living with debilitating depression supposed to do? SSRIs are barely better than placebo, but so is psychotherapy; SSRIs have side-effects, but at least they're cheap and readily available. Exercise is also barely better than placebo, if you're actually capable of maintaining that effort. Everything else in the armamentarium is some combination of less effective, more risky and/or prohibitively expensive.

Do we need better treatments for depression? Yes, desperately. Are some people with mild, self-limiting illness taking SSRIs unnecessarily? Probably, in some places. Are many people with serious depressive illness not trying drugs that might help them? Definitely. Does denigrating the least-worst treatment for most people actually help anyone?
In the US south if you ask for a coke they will ask which kind - Pepsi, sprite, or a Coke coke? Etc
I think generalizing forgetting information ignores that certain conversations would likely have a better chance to be remembered
How do you make phone calls then?
Zoom has live captioning at lest for the paid version
I take the lowest dose (200mg/mcg?) from Amazon.
With blockchain you too can make irreversible fat finger mistakes!
> I hate to say it, but I think they will likely have to lose territory. I

I don't think it's territory what Putin wants. Even without its current territories, if Ukraine turns out to be successful and recover in the next 10 years, what will this mean to the Russian population? A total and absolute surrender of Ukraine is the end goal. No EU, no NATO, just another vassal-president and things go on like they were before 2022, but this time with half-destroyed country.

This war should have never started, I actually agree with Trump on this. But for that to happen, NATO should have entered Ukraine the first week after Putin did. And to those in Europe that argue against it, I would only say - are we better off now?
This is his domain. His domain is cyberattacks. This is 100% about cyberattacks. Sure some people are playing politics with it, but it is his domain more than the politicians.

Of thr people mentioned here, we have one of the world's foremost security experts, and a fox news host making a decision about cyber security. There is no evidence that the fox news host's experience is more relevant to this domain.
There was a choice Zelenskyy could have made there, but he seems to know the deal so he didn’t hold back asking
Hot take? The release notes said to not get your hopes up.
Yes, actually, that’s how a lot of modern states got founded.
This post was hidden by mods I think - not on front page
You're taken "you're surrounded by oceans on both sides" the wrong way. Zelensky was quoting Trump from just minutes before, where he himself said something along the lines of "we're going to be fine, there's an ocean between us and europe. no matter what happens, we're going to be fine". How do you justify saying something that irresponsible to a leader of an allied nation that is currently defending itself against an autocrat invasion?
I don't think you realize that those two issues are related. https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1895539811576135866

But then again, most Americans seem to have no issue with AIPAC having near full control over congress. Because if they did, we'd have seen more outrage and action.
"Professional military personnel" are not warfighters. How many of those "personnel" (did you mean "troops") have been deployed in a non UN peacekeeping capacity or as troop liasons? Very few. Meanwhile, the US just concluded a 20 year adventure in Afghanistan and Iraq. And has been waving a "big stick" standing behind little brothers in other conflicts. Ukraine's military (what's left of it) is actually battle-hardened and could probably turn around and beat Europe if Russia let up and they were so inclined (I jest, but maybe not).

The "deep state" is not a "conspiracy". It's a form of parallel government. Nothing unique about that in history. (The Roman Catholic Church should be familiar to all Europeans.) The comparison is to point out that there are two "sovereignties" in play (member states and EU) making laws. And when you have two, you have none.
At Microsoft, for every Principal Engineer/Manager there’s a dead internal project that nobody uses but had “… lots of impact.”
Being on the defense and retreating gives exactly that parity. Soviet doctrine even has a number for that which is somewhat close to the ratio of Ukrainian to russian populations.
> it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty

This is something every related country already knows, think of Pakistan and North Korea. Are you expecting China and India to drop their nukes because of some nice treaty?

> World needs to help out Ukraine...

... to achieve peace ASAP, because thousands of lives are being lost.
At this point in time would anyone bet against US troops going in and "peacekeeping" for Putin against Ukraine? It seems pretty clear that the US is aligned against the West now.

Almost everything pouring out of his mouth today is replaying what is in Russian state media sadly.