skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They increased their defense spending because of Russia invading Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. It didn't have anything to do with US bullying. The biden administration certainly wasn't going around bullying Europe between 2021 and 2024.
I keep seeing this comment in the thread, but I don’t really understand it. Sure, p2p is cool for us engineers. But why the end user ever cares about it? Microsoft’s purpose is to sell the product to as many customers as possible. If the decision was made to axe the architecture to increase the sales… it’s not the wrong decision? For us, tech snobs, we can always find an alternative anyways.
Trump is merely another step in the bar being lowered. And make no mistake, it can go lower.

The Western acceptance of authoritarianism in exchange for a good deal is what got us here. It's not just the US; it's Europe too. Putin did what he did because he knew that Europe was willing to exchange the end of Russian subordination to the post-Cold War world order for cheap gas. Middle Eastern countries have seen their awful human rights records punished by the granting of a World Cup by FIFA and European tourism to Dubai. Both China and Russia were made Olympic hosts in the last 20 years. Russia hosted a World Cup in 2018, four years after the invasion of Crimea and ten years after its invasion of Georgia.

The message? Authoritarianism pays.
He's 72. Let's say he lives to 87 (average for 1% male income earners). That's 15 more fucking years of death.
> 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.

Is this really abusing anything? It seems like the correct conclusion to draw from this is we should be giving depressed people placebos instead of SSRIs
> Sure, Grok 3 and Sonnet 3.7 can do that, but the GPT 4.5 answer was slightly better.

Sonnet 3.7: $3/million input tokens, $15/million output tokens [0]

GPT-4.5: $75/million input tokens, $150/million output tokens [1]

if it's 10-25x the cost, I would expect more than "slightly better"

0: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet

1: https://openai.com/api/pricing/
Would you rather surrender salami style, or the whole bratwurst?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang

Putin is already a threat, without actually using the weapons.
> Memecoins fail the Howey test

Surely this would depend on use. There's nothing essentially different about memecoins that would imply a distinct outcome from say bitcoin. Of all the ways you could use this test, differentiating between "memecoins" and "legitcoins" seems like the worst possible scenario: there isn't actually any qualitative difference to find in the first place. Hence, why this will eventually fall on courts to figure out.

I've never even heard of the term "app coin" before but surely it's just yet another crypto token with similar constraints and lack of obvious use.
Why a separate alliance?

Because Trump is clearly compromised by Putin.

Which also means we cannot fully rely on NATO secret keys / protocols.

A new Alliance has to be made from scratch.
> He’s trolling dude

During election when Trump said outrageous things, a lot of people had the same attitude as you, and downplayed Trump's comments: he's trolling... he is bluffing... it is just a distraction tactic... it is a negotiation tactic... and so on.

Then after he got elected and actually started doing the things he said he would the same people are like... "Trump is delivering exactly what he promised what he would deliver when he started this campaign. This is what the American people voted for!"
Oh no I didn't know this can happen with HashMaps too! Something to do with the linked list they use for collisions?
Whataboutism? We're literally talking about a war Russia is the aggressor in.

The US has stronger legal protection for speech and guns, but also more incarceration and police power. US incarceration rate is four times the UK rate.

Also in the UK, the speech restrictions are about stuff like glorifying terrorism, hate speech or harassment. You can criticize the government as much as you want.

In the US you're free to buy a gun, praise ISIS, and shout on the street that people should be murdered or that you love Hitler but not everyone likes that.
My quick (subjective) impression is that GPT-4.5 is doing better at maintaining philosophical discussions compared to GPT-4.0 or Claude. When using a Socratic approach, 4.5 consistently holds and challenges positions rather than quickly agreeing with me.

GPT-4.0 or Claude tend to flip into people-pleasing mode too easily, while 4.5 seemed to stay argumentative more readily.
If you’re a European, you should try identifying the psyops more with yourselves and your families, and support unification and democratic alliances where possible. And talk more about it since most people are absolutely influenced by conspiracies across the whole continent and across social strata. The UK was talking about the EU instituting straight bananas, and it was a key point for Brexit, including by the UK Prime Minister (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/boris-johns...)

If you’re an American, good luck. I’m sorry you’re gonna have to go through this.

At the end of the day, if you voted one way, it wasn’t your fault. You were probably deceived by foreign psyops. Happens to everyone.

If you voted the other way, don’t be angry. Turning it into class warfare does not provide any moral victory, and more so, is once again a distraction from the group of people who really are to blame for this. This is a the rallying point you were waiting for to become more politically active, in whatever way you can.

Also maybe consult with your constitution?
That sounds plausible. I did a lot of work for Japanese companies in the nineties and it was quite eye opening.
Well then thats „Volksabstimmungen“ as Switzerland has it for you.
Should have said America, not Americans. In the sense of the state. Which is distinct, even if democracy allows for a huge intersection.

Clearly there can be huge differences, especially in matters where transparency is not possible due to sensitive nature.
Thats it. Public companies only think about their shares price and KPI.
Only private/startup companies can build nice piece of software and have good product. Enterprise can only be fat and ugly
Was Russia happy about those countries joining NATO or did it protest? Were the relationships between the East and the West better so that this was of less concern? Was Russia weaker and had less power to resist? I do not see how Russia living with the existing NATO neighbors would imply that Ukraine becoming another one would be of no concern.

How do you know that Russia would not have attacked if Ukraine would have tried to join earlier? Why would Russia not have intervened in 2008 as it did in Georgia?

I am not determined to believe anything, I want to correctly understand the world and know the truth. I can give you countless examples over several decades where Russia protest NATO expansion and threatened consequences. Can you give me any sources where Russia was expressing expansionist considerations? And before you say On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, make sure you actually read it.
I dug up this photo that says you can create a bell inequality with a single source of light

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/318967/can-bells...

Does that mean quantum calculations are just a fancy way of describing correlated probabilities, and have nothing to do with spooky action?
The west has immense influence on Ukrainians, and have pushed for their integration into NATO for decades.

The arguments Mearsheimer is making are not whether Ukrainians should or should not have autonomy. It’s whether they do. And the sad reality is that they don’t, due to their unfortunate situation.
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
Maybe they weren't adults...
Probably. But all of these questions are contingent on what has been invented so far.
When people choose not to have their vote represented, for whatever reason, when the outcome was so clear in advance, then there is practically, legally, morally and philosophically no distinction between not voting and voting for Trump.
Russia started this war. The US abandoning their closest allies against their historical main antagonist results in losing the status of hegemon, and the economic and geostrategic benefits that entailed.

Russia is winning the cold war, 35 years after it "ended".
I think the critical question is what would the allies do (especially the ones with nuclear weapons) if Russia actually used one. There's a lot of treaties, words spoken and on paper but nobody really knows how people would react to the idea of partaking in a nuclear war.

If they dropped a nuke on e.g. Lithuania would the French do the same knowing that retaliation would come that could wipe out most of their people and country off the map? Would any country do that for someone else?
https://archive.ph/kAVoo
Thank you, some really good info to go on and research.
Don't hold your breath for the sudden availability of thousands to millions more therapists becoming available. I'd love to see a lot more spending for mental health care, but it ain't going to happen. SSRIs are cheap and easy, so that's what we get
This is kind of a hot take but I actually prefer debugging races in C/C++ for this reason. Yes, the language prescribes insane semantics (basically none) when it happens, but in practice you’ll get memory corruption or other noisy issues pretty often, and the fact that races are mostly illegal means you can write something like thread sanitizer without needing source code changes to indicate semantics. Meanwhile in Java you’ll never have UB but often you’ll have two fields be subtly out of sync and it’s a lot harder to track this kind of thing down.
This is what made Mike Pence the perfect VP for Trump at the time - he was never gonna steal the spotlight from Trump. However, Trump is focused almost entirely on loyalty now - the one thing that Mike Pence lacked in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyers-for-bases_deal
Perhaps what the grandparent meant is that we have little clue to how exactly any particular change in non-coding DNA actually affects the functioning of our minds and bodies, we have few tools to study that beyond the seemingly obvious fact that it does have to encode the structure of all the organs of our body and the fundamental structure of our brains somehow.
We've been having them. the media ain't covering it.
Serbian student's Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
> The solution is DOJ/FTC mandated breakup.

That will never happen in the current administration.
Peace without justice is just conquest.
Yep. As poor as the signal to noise ratio is, for many things it’s substantially better there than elsewhere.

Though as of late, that’s been eroded too. Increasingly the most useful answers are in older threads more than newer ones, an effect I’d at least partially attribute to the APIpocolpyse a while back that drove away some of the site’s best and most prolific contributors. It’s becoming filled with the same mindless drivel found everywhere else.
Perhaps saying "Russia made the US lose the cold war" would be more accurate than saying "Russia won".
From a lost position, Russia managed to make the US resign from the game.
Only thing the Russian people have to fear is falling out of a balcony in a hotel, those things are REALLY dangerous
Yes, but if we study them more we may manage to decrease some of that distance
"i wanted to get on the machine where the application gets built and the easiest way to do this would be a postinstall script in package.json, so i did that with a simple reverse shell payload"

Just want to make sure I understand this. They made a hello world app and submitted it to todesktop with a post install script that opened a reverse shell on the todesktop build machine? Maybe I missed it but that shouldn't be possible. Build machine shouldn't have outbound open internet access right?? Didn't see that explained clearly but maybe I'm missing something or misunderstanding.
Marcus with an anti-AI post - what a non surprise
Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
Just got email, Rackspace increases monthly minimum to $12 (was $10) for basic SMTP hosting.

I barely use it, but I like having a solid, independent, third-party, basic SMTP host around for when it is useful.

Name me a suggestion. I know 20% or $2 increase isn't much, but I don't want to pay that much for something I barely use, but I need something.

This unwanted fee increase has me jumping ship, not sure where to yet.

Thanks.
Germany’s energy policy has unfortunately shaped the EU one to the catastrophic level it is now.

I don’t know enough about local politics to categorise the reason why though. But a lot of the damage is now irrevocable, and residual for millennia.
As I said in one of my latest YT videos: if you can't code, sure, go all for it, the difference with x -> 0 in the denominator tends to infinity. But if you can code, there are much better ways to use generative AI to aid you in your coding tasks. Ways that will make you faster while you learn more, understand every single line of the code that is in your application, never letting badly written code go into your code base. Maybe in the future AI will be able to write much better code than humans, and vibe coding will be the right way, but now it's like when assembly was a hell lot better written by hand than what a compiler could do.
I couldn't even watch the whole video. Horrendous. Depressing. How can you tolerate having those men running your country America. Nightmare fuel.
Troubleshooting skills are really valuable but hard to market. You can deal with lot's of different technologies and effortless draw conclusions from for others totally disconnected domains. Sadly the tech market values expertise that is based on keywords. So while it is fun and creates huge value it is worth staying mostly on a path that can be explained to less mentally flexible mortals.
You forgot option 1.5: Provide Ukraine with the long range missiles they've been asking for, the ones that they can use to strike Moscow directly.

This could escalate the war, but Russia does not appear to be in a position to escalate right now.
They notice when lots of constituents call in all at once.

At least you have a congressperson on the wrong side of this who is worth pressuring. I am very tired of making calls that just say "I know you say you're on the right side of this, but will you please try to do anything?"
>treatment for depression

That reads like a treatment for death, or a solution to poverty.

Will you find the answer by doing 100 metastudies and taking advanced chemistry. Or will you find the wisdom by meditating and talking with your dad and priest.

So I'm either an anti-intellectual, or you are a super-lectual.
Netscape used to.
There is no proper replacement for ATACMS yet. At the projected rate of production for the new replacement missile, a years worth would last about a couple weeks of usage in a serious conflict. ATACMS are still 100% valuable to the US.

> A total of 110 PrSMs are expected to be procured in fiscal 2024 and 190 in fiscal 2025, Inside Defense wrote, citing the Department of Defense documents.

https://thedefensepost.com/2024/03/07/lockheed-precision-str...
Musk doesn't wear a suit in the Oval Office, is that disrespectful?
But is that a game of Russian roulette you'd want to play?
tbf, most commentators are not experts in AI and hop from expertise in Bitcoin, NFT, Metaverse to whatever's next.
OP here: I got my O-1 in 2022 and my post about it led to some interesting discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143958

Now, I built a free tool to help others figure out if they could qualify for an O-1A "extraordinary ability" visa.

The O-1 has 8 different evidentiary criteria and you only need to meet 3 of them to qualify. But there are many, often nuanced, ways to satisfy each of the criteria. I found that AI micro-workers are pretty good at handling these nuances to generate an accurate assessment. Would love to know what you think!
Certainly a world where NATO countries spend <2% of their budget on defence but the shiny new weaponry all comes from US contractors doesn't seem obviously more helpful than one where they're targeting 3% spend but making a point of building domestic industries or buying from pan-European projects.
The west made these weapons to counter Russian tanks. Every Javelin fired by a Ukrainian takes out one more tank that we don't have to worry about.
They wouldn't be used for ATC though. Internet access from aircraft is, outside of questions whether it interferes with aircraft operations, outside of FAA purview (at most, it's FCC and ITU-T depending scope)
People used to criticise Wikipedia for being bad due to being crowdsourced (at least in school they did). Now, Wikipedia looks like one of the best antidotes to LLMs.
When I started my business, i needed a voip phone number and was already in Microsoft ecosystem so I went with Skype.

It was a freaking mess. And expensive on top of that.

Couldn't believe how people were paying for Skype number services.

A few years later, i can't believe how people are paying for any Microsoft service and how this company isn't already dead.

If there wasn't for the os quasi monopoly with windows that behave like a platform on top of which they can promote office software, onedrive and so on, Microsoft wouldn't be making any money with it's software. It's absolutely pathetic.
Something to note here is that these terms only apply to the executable from an "authorized source". I'm not entirely sure what makes a source "authorized", but I would think it wouldn't include something you compile yourself, or say the Archlinux package that isn't compiled by Mozilla. IANAL.

Still. The very existence of this policy feels contradictory to the spirit of Open Source. And it has several conerning things in it:

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

This just seems to broad and ambiguous. In other comments there are justifications that "as you indicate" restricts what Mozilla can do, but it is still pretty vague what that means, and due to the ambiguity of English, there is ambiguity in what the scope of that qualifier is.

> Mozilla may decide to update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms online. We will take your continued use of Firefox as acceptance of such changes.

So, even if you think the current terms are OK, Mozilla can change them at any time, without notice.

> Mozilla can suspend or end anyone’s access to Firefox at any time for any reason

Pretty self explanatory why that is bad.
Are you willing to elaborate about how they can accelerate you?
Seems like less suicide would be better for the patient too.
Afghanistan could afford an indefinite war against a superpower twice in the past 50 years.
I don't this is a quaint or antiquated practice. Writing (preferably physically writing) and or typing long essay is extremely standard amoung certain Silicone Valley and Tech circles. Paul Graham is also one of its most vocal advocates.
And of course the whole VP nomination happened with Ford, who replaced Agnew without election and then replaced Nixon without election.
I understand your point about NATO's historical funding issues, but this isn't just about money - it's about aligning with shared democratic values and international accountability.

The 2% GDP threshold has indeed been a persistent issue, but European nations have substantially increased defense spending since 2022. The proposed alliance would be fundamentally different from NATO in two key ways:

1. It would prioritize democratic values and rule of law accountability (ICC membership) over simply being anti-Russia

2. It would develop true strategic autonomy through indigenous defense production

NATO remains structurally dominated by US interests and equipment with their potential "kill switches." Recent events demonstrate why European security can't be outsourced to powers with potentially divergent interests.

The existing industrial and technological capabilities across Europe are more than sufficient to create a credible deterrent force when properly coordinated. This isn't about creating something from scratch, but realigning existing resources toward greater sovereignty.

Democracy and rule of law aren't just ideals - they're strategic assets worth defending with our own means.
No. Not at all. There will come a point when Russia will stop the war because either Russia is completely exhausted and on the verge of collapse, or Putin is dead or removed from power. And chances are those two will go together.
> Personally, I think of DNA as being like the Linux kernel codebase

oh my god would you shut up already
I have invested considerable personal resources into fighting for democracy in my country and ended up having to flee leaving behind a rather comfortable life. The United States has always been an inspiration despite its well-known flaws.

Watching this situation unfold is very disturbing. And especially disheartening is the behavior of Republican representatives. A mere month ago these same people were Ukraine's best friends and world's dictators' most hawkish enemies and suddenly they are all parroting a completely opposite narrative. I mean, I can understand electing a pathalogical liar. Happened in my country as well. But turns out others were lying too? Suddenly turns out there's no commitment to values, but only a commitment to one man? If this can happen so easily in a 250 years old democracy, is democracy even worth fighting for? Is the Ukrainians' sacrifice worth it?
It's interesting (1) how many drugs have effects on serotonin, even if they're not SSRIs and (2) how different SSRIs and SSRI-adjacent drugs can have notably different effects, like how buspirone affects serotonin but is an anti-anxiety drug rather than an antidepressant. There's clearly a lot going on with just that one neurotransmitter!

The former can have some unfortunate consequences though, and to make matters worse, it's not always obvious which drugs you need to watch out for. Those "may increase risk of serotonin syndrome" warnings are no joke!
I am sorry, but this is stupid. You brought an argument on the basis that it comes from a neutral source. Turns out, it was not a neutral source. What do you do: hide the source.

Edit to clarify what I mean: You could have written that you are of the same opinion, independent of who that is. But instead you hide it, as if you had come to that conclusion totally on your own.
"there's less missile business, and the missile people are making moon rockets now, but I don't see how that could possibly help them make missiles again if they were asked to"
Seems to me like he's right though
Reminds me of when Trump bragged about the TV ratings for the White House press briefings during Covid, saying the ratings were on par with "The Bachelor" and "Monday Night Football". Ugh.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-brags-about-h...
It isn't about funding. It's about denigrating our allies and attacking the victim of aggression, while praising our adversaries and aggressors. Realpolitik is (correctly) in vogue as a correction to bad policies, but ideas and justice still matter.
I did Josh's React class and it was incredibly well done, I'm really looking forward to doing his animations class when it's available, I will definitely be registering as soon as it's in open beta.
But cleaning can't be done Musk's way. The whole system is kinda stable because everything is linked together. To start from scratch without anything in the meantime is just suicide.
It's like if a scientist what not giving food to an animal for a month to test if really food is needed. Well, he will conclude that food was needed, but now the animal is dead.