MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-19 03:13:50+00:00
> Hi everyone — Denise Dresser here, CEO of Slack. As Rob shared, this was our mistake. An oversight in our billing process caused the issue ...

An "oversight in our billing process" does not explain why one of your representatives demanded of a long-term customer:

However, two days ago, Slack reached out to us and said that if we don’t agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $200k a year, they’ll deactivate our Slack workspace and delete all of our message history.

> As soon as our team learned about it, we corrected it and restored Hack Club’s nonprofit pricing.

The demand is reported as being made on 2025-09-16.

The post detailing same is dated 2025-09-18.

This HN submission is dated 2025-09-18.

Is it your position that "[as] soon as our team learned about it" is defined as when this HN submission was created and received so much attention?

Because it sure looks that way.
by jm4 | 2025-09-19 03:14:00+00:00
100%. The damage that has been done in just the past several months is unthinkable. It’s not going back to the old ways any time soon, if ever. The democratic republic experiment might even be over at this point.

I’m beginning to believe the best path forward is a new constitution, which is absolutely crazy because I used to believe we had an extraordinary system designed with incredible foresight. It turns out it was full of holes and we mostly got by on the honor system. Sure, there have been lousy and corrupt politicians, but we never had a truly bad actor determined to sidestep every rule until now.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-19 03:14:25+00:00
You need to do it via Gemini in Chrome in an updated Chrome install (roughly 140.0.7339.186 or newer) on Mac/Windows using the English language with the relevant permissions enabled in the sections under chrome://settings/ai

My guess is it's either the first part (doing it via Gemini in Chrome) or the last part (permissions enabled).
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-19 03:15:49+00:00
It's a multi-user Git / CI /CD / project management platform. If you introduce this in your organization, a single vulnerability can take down the entire system and any other application running on the same host. You can't just "decide that this isn’t a threat vector" without taking the use case into account. Or at least it should come with alarm bells warning users that it's unsafe.
by barnabyjones | 2025-09-19 03:16:02+00:00
I have saved instructions for Gemini to translate queries into the local language then retranslate the output back to English, when asking about non-English speaking countries/cultures. It seems to work fairly well, but I think it's just due to the different content trained in that language; obviously there would be more in depth discussion of Indonesian cuisine in Indonesian. Whether the country is rich or democratic shouldn't really affect the output.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-19 03:18:26+00:00
Per "https://www.joerogan.com/" - Joe Rogan is "A standup comedian for over 30 years, Rogan’s seventh hour long comedy special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats premiered live on Netflix on August 3, 2024. Rogan’s previous comedy specials include..."

Joe Rogan owns a comedy club in Austin as well. [1]

Joe Rogan is a pretty busy guy.. I would imagine his professional network amongst comedians was pretty large before he blew up as a podcaster. This is not only to say that Joe Rogan has multiple comedies, but is also very likely to be very influential amongst as well.

[1] https://www.comedyinyoureye.com/post/inside-the-comedy-club-...
by jama211 | 2025-09-19 03:19:35+00:00
More languages read right to left than left to right despite most people being right handed, so the blocking what you’ve written thing doesn’t seem to add up either.

I agree human mechanics is likely the reason people tend to write down rather than up though. But I’d say it’s more about our muscles, we’re stronger pulling our arms in than pushing them out. But I’m no expert so would never claim confidence in my assumption there.
by abustamam | 2025-09-19 03:20:04+00:00
As much as I dislike Faux News (I dislike CNN too, and I lean left), I feel like silencing "fake news" is a slippery slope because for one reason or another, the US population doesn't understand what "facts" are, so red cities would probably just drop CNN on the pretense of it being "fake news," and then everyone just gets forced into their little bubbles and everyone loses.
by peterashford | 2025-09-19 03:20:45+00:00
I don't disagree with you about the history of Israel. I don't believe the state of Israel should have been created in the first place. Not because I'm opposed to the idea of a Jewish homeland, but because I'm opposed to the idea of colonisation (I say this as a pakeha (white) New Zealander who's ancestors colonised NZ).

But at this point, Israel exists. People have been born and died there. Its people's homes. Just as I rail against Israel causing forced displacement of Palestinans - a crime against humanity - I will not call for the same crime to be visited on Israelis.

Both peoples exist, have rights and deserve to exist in peace. Currently, Palestinians are treated as subhumans by the state of Israel and that has to stop, but none of that means that we shouldn't support Israel's right to exist. The alternative is to visit upon them the very same despicable crimes we criticise them for committing.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-19 03:21:32+00:00
I like nature and care about the environment. I care about my fellow man, I want them to be able to work a safe job with good pay and have the ability to provide for their family.

With that being the case, how can I in good conscious take a position that would lead to mining and manufacturing being done in any country that is not enforcing environmental and safety regulations? In any country that is not paying a living wage?

So yes, I want mining and processing done here. I want the manufacturing jobs here. We want clean air and clean water, we have to pay for it.
by snicky | 2025-09-19 03:22:30+00:00
Funny. I come from Poland and for us the East/West dichotomy always made sense: the West = Western Europe and US (think richer, more organized, pleasant to visit) vs the East = remains of USSR (poorer, corrupted, wild), the "proper Asian East" behind it and the most exotic "Far East" at the very end. Not very politically correct, but this was a cognitive construct most of us here had in their minds, at least until this decade.
by cortesoft | 2025-09-19 03:22:32+00:00
I think they chose the WEIRD acronym to challenge the western centrism. For most of the readers of the book, the culture described by the WEIRD acronym is not only the normal culture, but is in many ways considered universal.

By calling it WEIRD, the author is trying to drive home the point that the vast majority of people in the world are NOT in that culture that many westerners feel is 'normal', which would make it 'weird' in the sense that it isn't actually the norm.

Now, I have a lot of problems with the book and his arguments, but I don't think there is anything sneaky or nefarious about the word choice, it is very up front and straightforward as to the reasoning behind it.
by hollerith | 2025-09-19 03:24:06+00:00
>The lend lease part is not correct. Lend lease went mostly to UK (Google AI says about 60% of lend lease went to UK

UK sent stuff to USSR, too, including probably some of the stuff they got from the US, and they delivered it to Murmansk (rather than requiring the Soviets to come get it) during which their convoys and sailors took losses from the German navy.

I heard that the USSR received $1 trillion worth of stuff in 2025 dollars from it WWII allies. The US sent advisors, too, e.g., in how to build factories.

Of course, a few years later the US was sending stuff to Germany as part of the Marshall Plan, one of the purposes of which was to build up Germany so it could resist future Soviet aggression.
by thescriptkiddie | 2025-09-19 03:24:16+00:00
this reminds me of something i've observed. it seems like there is a general trend in software of doing things that look good (either in an ad or in a sprint review) rather than things that feel good to use. one example among many is nvidia's frame generation feature, which makes 60 fps look like 120 fps when you're watching somebody else play, but feel like 30 fps when you're the one playing.
by nomilk | 2025-09-19 03:24:17+00:00
I typed @gemini in the searchbar and it turned blue and text switched to 'Ask Gemini' to indicate it worked (but it didn't work - Gemini says it doesn't have access to the screen/webpage).

chrome://settings/ai redirects to chrome://settings (general settings). Manually searching 'ai' brings up dozens of other settings - stuff like 'mail' (which contains 'ai' string) - but nothing Gemini-related.

On the most up to date chrome: Version 140.0.7339.186 (Official Build) (arm64)

The instructional video [0] says there should be a 'Gemini' icon on the top of the Chrome browser, but I don't have one (macOS). (do I have to have a paid Gemini account for it to be there?).

In any case, when OpenAI and Grok launch things, I usually just go and try them in about 20 seconds. By comparison Google's AI launches are tedious..

(thanks for the help btw)

[0] https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/
by amluto | 2025-09-19 03:25:03+00:00
I agree with your point in general, but I do find myself actually using trigonometry for fairly basic real-world purposes more often than one might expect. For example: how big of a piece of material fits in a particular position if it’s not parallel or perpendicular to the stuff around it? If a rope supports a load in the middle, how much tension does the rope need? How much of an angle should be cut into a door to comfortably clear the jamb? (If you’ve never contemplated this before: a door with a rectangular cross-section will have less clearance to the jamb when almost closed than when fully closed.)
by dabluecaboose | 2025-09-19 03:25:11+00:00
You might feel smug and superior posting this, but it's quite ironic to post on one specific comment in an otherwise guidelines-breaking, off-topic, political circlejerk subthread like the one we're responding to.

This subthread is indeed reddit-esque: Started by a pithy, barely-constructive comment; and followed by pithy witticisms that add nothing to the conversation about Intel and Nvidia, but instead echo popular sentiments about the current administration without saying anything substantive. Meanwhile, the one contrarian opinion was instantly flagged and hidden, despite being level-headed and non-combative.
by geor9e | 2025-09-19 03:25:55+00:00
A danger with google is how flippantly they will ban google accounts for the dumbest things. Now theres a button to livesteam your browsing tied to your google account. I wonder how many people are going to lose 20 years of gmail Gphotos and GDrive files because they accidentally clicked gemini at the wrong moment on the wrong website.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-19 03:26:10+00:00
This isn't manufacturing (though even that is very dirty depending on the industry). This is mining and processing. There is NO clean way to scar the earth and then leverage chemicals to separate and extract the materials needed.

As such, there will be environmental externalities no matter what, and wishing for "clean mining and processing" is the same as giving "thoughts and prayers" - essentially meaningless.

In my opinion, we need to accept that cost.
by atonse | 2025-09-19 03:26:11+00:00
Blah. On the one hand, this is where the monopoly power of putting Gemini in Chrome should be looked into by the DOJ. On the other hand, this might make me switch back to chrome.

These are all things Apple could build into safari, but they're nowhere to be seen. They'll be stuck solving yesterday's problems (like building an infinitesimally better camera for the latest iPhone), but not at all integrating any AI into them.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-19 03:26:16+00:00
I would want to go further and use domain specialized analyzers and type systems that are extensible with 'design time' information, ala F# type providers. It is indeed still a research level project that needs multi-national corporation level funding and I doubt that'll happen any time soon. I think it's more likely that a programming languages designed for use by LLMs will spur some investment there - type system ergonomics are often limited by latency and LLMs can be both be more patient as well as learn not to rely on it as often.

EDIT: Oh Hi! I didn't realize you're from the Luau team, cool, while Roblox isn't as big as Microsoft I wonder if it's a large enough multi-national to make a real dent in the research, I do hope you'll get your wish. I know I don't have the resources to take on such a project myself. I do type directed code generation which is about as close to the sun as I can safely fly.
by Animats | 2025-09-19 03:27:01+00:00
They do. DoD made a deal with MP Minerals (Mountain Pass, CA) in 2024. DoD will buy rare earths at a guaranteed price which is well above the world price.[1]

This followed a 2021 deal with General Motors to insure GM's magnet supply.[2] That resulted in building a modest magnet plant in an industrial park in Texas, using MP Minerals ore.

This deal expanded in 2025, with DoD taking a majority stake in MP Minerals.[3]

The history here is that the price goes up and down so much that the Mountain Pass mine has been shut down twice since the 1990s. There were two bankruptcies. The most recent glut and price crash was in 2015.[4]

The process has four steps: 1) mining, 2) beneficiation, where mixed rare earth ores are separated out, 3) chemical separation, where the individual rare earths are separated, and 4) magnet metal making. For years, 3) wasn't done in the US, and MP Minerals was shipping ore to China for processing.

[1] https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement...

[2] https://investor.gm.com/news-releases/news-release-details/g...

[3] https://mpmaterials.com/news/mp-materials-announces-transfor...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_Materials
by whytaka | 2025-09-19 03:27:16+00:00
> I think people don’t participate in religion because it asks of them. Many people are lazy, greedy or hedonistic. It takes effort and “practice” to be virtuous or religious.

Say what you will of "wokeism" but it is an ethic that asks plenty of people. It constantly demands one to evaluate virtuous action or inaction. I don't think people are turning away from religion because it takes work. Because it requires real moral deliberation, it's actually more work than mere obedience to scripture.

My mileage does vary. Countless crimes of abuse and co-option of moral authority enabled by religion has proven to me that evil does exist and the presence of religion or the lack thereof is orthogonal to building a moral society.
by ATiredGoat | 2025-09-19 03:27:50+00:00
I’ve spent decades building The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge, a sprawling QBasic text adventure that now spans over 3,600+ rooms, hundreds of NPCs, and countless interactive encounters.

It’s designed to be:

Always free (no ads, no paywalls, no microtransactions)

Playable on the barest systems (runs on QB64 / retro PCs)

Continuously expanding outward rather than just upward — with new areas, lore, and secrets added regularly

This project has been a labor of love, inspired by the text adventures of the 80s and 90s, built to preserve that magic while proving text-driven games still have a place in today’s world. I’d love to hear what you think. If you grew up with Zork, Infocom, or MUDs, this may feel like coming home.
by sampsonjs | 2025-09-19 03:29:06+00:00
"Rest in Power #FidelCastro": https://x.com/blklivesmatter/status/802568605212647425

They didn't take the Jordan Neely verdict very well either. Someone joked right after the verdict on Twitter that we should brace for more riots. Whoever runs the account said that sounded like a good idea.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-19 03:29:39+00:00
I described the final state for brevity, but the slightly longer version is:

1. One morning my account was shadowbanned. Literally everything from any time in any subreddit, including truncating threads and taking other people's replies with it.

2. I logged in and used the appeals page... and it was eventually "granted" with an apologetic message!

3. But nothing changed, except that appeals page stopped working, as it claims the account is normal.

4. Mods can briefly approve what I post, but it doesn't stick. After a few minutes it becomes blocked again, with no audit-trail.

5. So... I dug up an old resume-feedback throwaway account from ~5 years ago to go asking for help...

6. Within a day, it got shadowbanned the same way.

7. For a few months, I did a monthly attempt to make a ticket via support.reddithelp.com, but never got any kind of response.

8. I guess I gave up trying to fight the faceless Kafkaesque system and slid into mild depression, as Reddit had been my primary social conduit after the pandemic.

Even if I go back and try to build up a presence again, without answers I'll be plagued by anxiety waiting for some mysterious stupid algorithm to stab me in the back and destroy everything again.
by shirro | 2025-09-19 03:31:05+00:00
Fair comment. These blocs seem kind of arbitrary, particularly when a modern, rich and highly developed society such as Singapore is grouped in with struggling war torn nations struggling with basic survival but they likely serve a purpose for someone.

> I doubt any Australians are in a hurry to classify themselves as an Eastern society and not a Western one.

Nearly 20% of the Australian population has origins in Asia so I think at least a fifth would not be too upset. We have a predominantly European descended population and that has a huge influence on our national identity. Even if it makes no geographic sense it is convention to call us a western multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society and I think we would mostly recognize ourselves by that label.

Whatever we are called we are still here a few hundred km to the south of Indonesia. Northern Australians were trading with Sulawesi before Europeans arrived. Te reo Māori is a very distant relative of the languages spoken throughout Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. We aren't moving.
by samsin | 2025-09-19 03:32:02+00:00
This thread [1] on Zuckerberg from 7+ years ago doesn't look too different. Top comments saying it's "pretty cringe-y", another posting an image from Reddit and some "Twitter bingo cards". The nature of the situation doesn't really offer much for deep analysis, but the discussion yesterday [2] on the product itself seems fine to me. You might disagree since people are more skeptical rather than being glad Meta is pushing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306
by rashidae | 2025-09-19 03:32:50+00:00
You know that sinking feeling when a customer says "I never got your text" and you have no idea why? That's exactly why I built Twilio SMS Tracker; an open-source dashboard that shows you everything happening with your SMS messages in real-time.

Open source repo: https://github.com/rashidazarang/twilio-sms-tracker
by JdeBP | 2025-09-19 03:32:53+00:00
The U.K. does not have a right to roam. It's a sore point for ramblers et al.. The legal situation differs between England and Wales, and Scotland; and campaigners would like the Scottish right to be also available in England and Wales, which largely only has what is tantamount to a codification of what the common law situation used to be back in the 20th century.

And indeed in Northern Ireland, which has the most restrictive laws in the U.K. in this respect, even more restrictive than the current situation in England and Wales.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-19 03:33:02+00:00
The "Ask Gemini" thing existed before this, between that and the lack of an AI settings page it seems it's not considering the system as one of the initial supported ones (but why specifically I'm not sure).

I can confirm a paid Gemini account is not [corrected] needed.

No problem, it took me a minute to get it enabled myself - not sure why it's so special cased for what it is.
by Stratoscope | 2025-09-19 03:34:02+00:00
Very interesting, thanks! That one is very different from what my little sister and I made as kids. Ours was more like the one from ChatGPT that I posted above.

We were big fans of cream of mushroom soup, though. Our favorite was to mix a can of that and a can of tomato soup (with the usual 50/50 dilution with water). We called it "cream of tomato".
by jhanschoo | 2025-09-19 03:35:01+00:00
> Utilitarianism leads to the bureaucratic tyranny Arendt discusses and deontology is just as hollow as belief in belief.

Can you sketch your reasoning behind these claims? And put forth the most common criticisms against virtue ethics, and defend your position against these criticisms? I don't agree with you, but you have not given me a sufficiently tight argument to convince me or take issue with.
by amluto | 2025-09-19 03:36:10+00:00
I’m entertained by the Newton’s Third Law example. The leveled-to-fifth-grade example is actually decent. The leveled-to-eleventh-grade example is outrageously bad — I’m sorry, Google, but Newton’s Third Law does not say that, when I dribble a basketball, the downward force from my hand on the ball is equal but opposite to the upward force from the floor when the ball bounces. Nor are those forces even close to equal.

(In very, very slight fairness to Google here, the time-averaged forces from my hand, gravity, the floor, and minor things like air resistance, do add up to zero, and this follows from Newton’s Second Law and the fact that there is no net change to the ball’s velocity over a dribbling cycle. But this is not what they’re saying, and it isn’t even a particularly credible example of Newton’s Third Law. Google should add a whole lot more thinking to their model or they should just stick with fifth grade.)
by mjevans | 2025-09-19 03:37:01+00:00
I seem to recall the Vega era as 'when I wouldn't buy a GPU because AMDs were just unstable' (and of course never closed source Nvidia).

Took me almost 5 min to drill through enough Wikipedia pages to find the Radeon VII string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series

Contrast that with the earlier R9 285 that I used for nearly 10 years until I was finally able to get a 9070XT that I'm very happy with. They were still refining support for that aged GCN 1.2 driver even today, even if things are a lower priority to backport.

Overall the ONLY things I'm unhappy about this GPU generation.

* Too damned expensive * Not enough VRAM (and no ECC off of workstation cards?) * Too hard for average consumers to just buy direct and cut out the scalpers

The only way I could get my hands on a card was to buy through a friend that lives within range of a Microcenter. The only true saints of computer hardware in the whole USA.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-09-19 03:37:27+00:00
True. And if it's from SAGE Software, .1 is .nope. They never release a .0, because they thínk that'll trick customers into using it instead of waiting for patches. I've had so many customers tell me they won't upgrade a SAGE product to a .1 release because "I'm not paying to be their beta tester.".

<rant> They had an SQL driver bug where, if you turned on record-level security, running a query with one set of credentials, then another query with different credentials without first unloading the driver, you'd get access to things you shouldn't. And their response was "won't fix". </rant>
by nomilk | 2025-09-19 03:37:53+00:00
> I can confirm a paid Gemini account is needed.

Google should say this up front (or at least prompt that I need to pay) rather than wasting users' time.

The 'How do I use Gemini in Chrome?' section of their launch page doesn't say anything about that requirement either.

Anyway, </rant>. Thanks for your help.