MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2025-12-18 20:14:38+00:00
10-15 vs 15-20 is definitely comparable in my view, considering how fuzzy the numbers are.

I'd put Hitler much higher, though. That figure must be excluding a lot of war deaths. For non-war deaths, there are 6 million Jews, maybe 3 million non-Jewish Soviet citizens, 3 million non-Jewish Poles, plus a bunch of other groups with smaller numbers. Taking just those big ones, that gets us to 12 million non-war deaths.

But surely we should count at least some of the war dead. Deciding what to attribute to who is very subjective. Starting with the strongest case, 3 million Soviet POWs were killed in captivity, hard to blame anyone else for that. That's up to 15+ million. There's a good case for including Allied military deaths in the European theater, since they were killed by Axis forces. The vast majority of those are the Soviets, which accounts for another 5-8 million (not double-counting the POWs killed). I'd also include Axis military deaths under the general principle that you get credit for what happens when you start a war. That's another 5-6 million. That puts us at 25-37 million.

Then you can get really fuzzy. There's many millions of Soviet citizens who starved due to wartime disruptions, do they count? There's around a million German civilians killed during the war, or died in the immediate aftermath due to the Allies, do they count?
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-12-18 20:14:39+00:00
Why?

Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this".

Imagine the browser asks you at some point, whether you want to hear about new features. The buttons offered to you are "FUCK OFF AND NEVER, EVER BOTHER ME AGAIN", "Please show me a summary once a month", "Show timely, non-modal notifications at appropriate times".

Imagine you choose the second option, and at some point, it offers you a feature described as follows: "On search engine result pages and social media sites, use a local LLM to identify headlines, classify them as clickbait-or-not, and for clickbait headlines, automatically fetch the article in an incognito session, and add a small overlay with a non-clickbait version of the title". Would you enable it?
by swat535 | 2025-12-18 20:15:08+00:00
Imagine if banks worked like that.. it's "difficult" to scale is not an argument .

These companies are critical to people's livelihood in 2025 and they should be treated at such. Many people rely on them for their life, they store sensitive information and control communication.

I'm of the opinion that if a business can't provide adequate support at scale, then it should either stay small or cease operation.

Dealing with fraud is your issue and part of your business, not citizens.
by babarock | 2025-12-18 20:15:15+00:00
You're not wrong, however the issue is that it's not always easy to detect if a PR includes proof that the change works. It requires that the reviewer interrupts what they're doing, switch context completely and look at the PR.

If you consider that reviewer bandwidth is very limited in most projects AND that the volume of low-effort-AI-assisted PR has grown incredibly over the past year, now we have a spam problem.

Some of my engineers refuse to review a patch if they detect that it's AI-assisted. They're wrong, but I understand their pain.
by 1-more | 2025-12-18 20:15:25+00:00
yeah it turns out everyone else read the end of that sentence one way and I went the other. Although the image of a train car full of straphanger burglars with a tube TV between their legs, reading a newspaper folded into 1/8ths with their free hands is kind of funny.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304608
by tommica | 2025-12-18 20:15:49+00:00
I had a larger rant written, but this is the only part that had any value:

Yes, one can argue that lack of produces results does not give big plusses towards their work processes, but it does not necessarily negate the value of the concepts that they preach. The value of a thing is not only defined by who is spouting it, one must evaluate the argument on it's own merits, not by evaluating of the people yelling about it.

There are plenty of concepts in this world that I cannot make work, that does not mean that the concepts are bad. It only means that the failure reflects on me and my in-capabilities.

And this might be something that you are not noticing: You are making claims about programming practices indirectly by stating that THEIR practices are not worth considering due to lack of shipping anything.
by catigula | 2025-12-18 20:15:50+00:00
> It was built by a team of former engineers from Dutch semiconductor giant ASML who reverse-engineered the company’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines (EUVs)

This seems like the obvious conclusion of an ethnic bloc against a mercenary creedel nation?

Any westerner reading this right now wouldn’t die for their country, it’s almost absurd. It’s like asking them to die for Walmart.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-18 20:16:07+00:00
It still wouldn't be perfect, but I'd like to see a system that rewarded publishers and authors for coming up with work that was a load bearing citation for other work (by different authors on different publishers, i.e. ones with no ulterior motive for having chosen it as a source).

Like some escrow account that the universities pay into and the publisher payouts go to whoever best enables their authors to do the most useful work... as determined by the other authors.
by BitWiseVibe | 2025-12-18 20:16:21+00:00
The article comes to a completely incorrect conclusion by fundamentally misunderstanding what moves prices. The price of Bitcoin declines in USD terms when there is more net selling of Bitcoin than buying. If Bitcoin is sold by "crypto bros", only then do they have cash to "[push] up the price of items in short supply, like houses, and tickets to big-name concerts and major sports events". If you wanted the price of other scarce assets to decline, you would hope that more capital flows into Bitcoin or Crypto or something else that you don't care about.
by raddan | 2025-12-18 20:16:31+00:00
I agree when it comes to veganism. It is more of a religion than a rationale.

I was curious about your claims that meat could be cheaper than tofu, so I made a few notes on my last shopping trip. For comparison, I chose the cheapest cuts of chicken and pork, which happened to be chicken breast and pork butt, both relatively decent cuts, and I compared them to the cheapest package of tofu available to me.

* tofu: $2.49/397g * chicken breast: $2.49/453g * pork butt: $5.29/453g

Per 100g, which is (for me) a rather healthy serving of protein, this comes out to (in USD):

* tofu: $0.62 * chicken breast: $0.55 * pork butt: $1.17

I did not bother comparing against other meats (beef, fish, etc) because all of those are substantially more expensive where I live. Canned tuna may be cheaper, but I rarely eat it, so I also left that out.

So it looks like you're right: some meats are cheaper, or are at least competitive with tofu. But tofu is still near the bottom of the price range for me. Given that you are using €, I wonder if tofu is cheap(er?) for me because the US produces tremendous quantities of soybeans.

Re: your comment about paying with time, I would argue that it depends on whether you enjoy cooking or not. I definitely enjoy cooking. I do it to relax after work. And in my experience, producing tasty tofu is not much work. Pan-fried and salted tofu is already good in my opinion, and it's easy to pair that with a simple sauce (e.g., soy sauce + ponzu) or a stir fry. For a little more work, one could marinade it. In my experience, it requires about as much prep as meat. I spend dramatically less money than most of my peers on food, because I tend to prepare most of my food myself. I also grow a substantial amount of food during the summer months which gets stored for later (e.g., canned tomatoes, squashes, potatoes, etc). Again, I trade some time to do this, but gardening is an activity I enjoy, and so does my wife, so we spend time doing it together.

I do think it is an important question as to which approaches are the most "efficient": with respect to time, monetary cost, energy input, digestible calories, carbon pollution, etc. I listened to a story on the radio recently [1] that made the case that factory farming of meat is better for the climate than organic and so-called sustainable farming. I'm sure that the answer is not simple, but it does have me rethinking my food sources. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation and myth out there about _both_ factory-farmed food and organic food. I tend to see things from an engineering perspective, so I'd love to see more data before I draw any conclusions. It's hard to argue with the basic premise that favoring a vegetarian diet over a meat-heavy one makes better use of the energy from the sun. But I am not a purist and I gave up on a strict vegetarian diet many years ago in favor of pragmatism. It turns out that adding a _little_ meat to a dish can add a lot of flavor, and to a first approximation, you're not eating much meat.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/10/24/the-climate-imp...
by mk89 | 2025-12-18 20:16:39+00:00
> China’s prototype lags behind ASML’s machines largely because researchers have struggled to obtain optical systems such as those from Germany’s Carl Zeiss, one of ASML’s key suppliers, the two people said.

So, now they just need an old retired Chinese that worked for Zeiss and build a prototype for the optical devices they need.

They use armies of graduates just to literally copy, when they could build something new or different.
by catapart | 2025-12-18 20:16:54+00:00
What about it? If it's output is generated by the manipulation of tensors and weights, it doesn't belong in my browser. It's not there to because I need to browse, it's there because I want to read content that is not in a language that the content provider has supported for me. I could feed those network responses right into a separate, non-browser app and have it translate stuff for me, if I wanted. Why should I be required to download and ignore your translation feature, when I could just as easily not have it included in the first place?

And, if I'm being honest, "translation" is the only feature I would even consider splitting the builds for. At least in that feature I can see why a "default" version of the browser might benefit more people than not by including it. But that doesn't mean that a "clean" version shouldn't be provided. Build the core app, and then include as many plugins as you think "average users" will benefit from in the "default" version. I don't mind being the minority, I just don't think it's inappropriate to ask for only what I need instead of "all the bullshit you want to force me to have".
by treyd | 2025-12-18 20:17:08+00:00
TrumpCoin and WLF are obvious grifts by parties associated with Trump and not actually part of government policy, and the president is not a rational actor trying to maintain a capable government.

El Salvador's experiment was generally a failure for various reasons, and they agreed to start rolling back the policies as part of an agreement with the IMF for another loan.

These projects happened because, yes, greed wins and destroys everything in its wake.
by ckastner | 2025-12-18 20:17:15+00:00
Coincidentally, the first issue (referencing Navi 21) was the one I started these experiments with, and this turned out to be pretty informative.

Our Navi 21 would almost always go AWOL after a test run had been completed, requiring a full reboot. At some point, I noticed that this only happened when our test runner was driving the test; I never had an issue when testing interactively. I eventually realized that our test driver was simply killing the VM when the test was done, which is fine for a CPU-based test, but this messed with the GPU's state. When working interactively, I was always shutting down the host cleanly, which apparently resolved this. A patch to our test runner to cleanly shut down VMs fixed this.

And I've had no luck with iGPUs, as referenced by the second issue.

From what I understand, I don't think that consumer AMD GPUs can/will ever be fully supported, because the GPU reset mechanisms of older cards are so complex. That's why things like vendor-reset [3] exist, which apparently duplicate a lot of the in-kernel driver code but ultimately only twiddle some bits.

[3]: https://github.com/gnif/vendor-reset
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-12-18 20:17:41+00:00
Right, which is why Deep Blue won in the early 90's and now years later, AI is moving on to far more complicated tasks, like engineering software.

The fact that you gave me the "you just don't understand, you're not a chess grandmaster" emotional response helps indicate that I'm pretty much right on target with this one.

FWIW I have been engineering software for over 15 years.
by H1Supreme | 2025-12-18 20:17:48+00:00
> The churn is largely opt-in.

It is not. React 18 changed damn near everything. You can't create a new React 17 project without jumping through serious hoops. React 19.5 introduced the compiler, so you can stop using useCallback and useMemo. Except for "common scenarios" where you still need it. Which are about as clear as mud.

I can only imagine what React 20 is going to introduce.
by lrvick | 2025-12-18 20:17:58+00:00
I run an infosec firm and we have done attacks like this on my clients over and over and over in audits. I always say any bored teen could do most of what we do because most companies are moving too fast feature farming to have any time for responsible security hardening, and now I have yet another great citation.

Unfortunately a competitive rate agreed to in advance with a company before we do any pentesting is the only way we have ever been able to get paid fairly for this sort of work. Finding bugs in the wild as this researcher did often gets wildly underpaid relative to the potential impact of the bug, if they pay or take it seriously at all.

These companies should be ashamed paying out so little for this, and it is only a matter of time before they insult the wrong researcher who decides to pursue paths to maximum profit, or maximum damage, with a vuln like this.
by bot347851834 | 2025-12-18 20:18:15+00:00
Nice! The site looks very clean, good job! I recently bought a Garmin and I was looking into analytics-heavy training platform since I'm doing a lot of different sports so I can't just go for a 10k training plan or something. I ended up going with intervals.icu, how is tredict different from it? It appears a little tighter on the visual maybe? Anyway good job!
by solid_fuel | 2025-12-18 20:18:27+00:00
With Nvidia scaling down their consumer GPU production [0] I wonder if we will see consumer GPUs shipping from China in the future. Western companies seem to be abandoning the consumer/prosumer market which will have bad implications for hobbyists and aspiring professionals down the line.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-might-cut-rtx-50-gpu-suppl...
by glenstein | 2025-12-18 20:18:50+00:00
Take a look at Graham's hiearchy and see if you can move up the ladder from tone policing. Were any of my examples: VLC, 7-Zip, Nextcloud incorrect? Let me know and I'll thank you your good faith effort to be responsive to substance.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy...
by sokoloff | 2025-12-18 20:18:51+00:00
“We don’t just want to offer assistance for part of your journey with us, but rather to support your needs during your entire journey.

Part of our service for passengers needing assistance boarding is luggage assistance wherein we take care of checking your bag through free of charge and issue you a priority assistance pass to help with collecting it at the end of your journey. We will check your bags at the originating airport during pre-boarding, ensuring they will be carefully loaded. This same assistance pass will ensure that our crew knows to keep you comfortably seated at the arrival airport while we arrange to assist you, so you won’t feel rushed.”

Let them game the system, just take away the incentive for the gaming. (Southwest did this by switching to assigned seating as it had gotten entirely out of hand due to their previous boarding scheme.)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-18 20:19:03+00:00
It's not that. Be as insulting as you wish, but this conversation shows that a significant number of folks simply can't understand any way to make money, except by harvesting and selling PiD.

Making and selling hardware is difficult. Really difficult, but some companies have been doing it successfully, throughout recorded history.

It's really strange to see it being dismissed as "impossible," nowadays.
by mk89 | 2025-12-18 20:19:15+00:00
> The team includes recently retired, Chinese-born former ASML engineers and scientists — prime recruitment targets because they possess sensitive technical knowledge but face fewer professional constraints after leaving the company, the people said.

> Their recruitment was part of an aggressive drive China launched in 2019 for semiconductor experts working abroad, offering signing bonuses that started at 3 million yuan to 5 million yuan ($420,000 to $700,000) and home-purchase subsidies, according to a review of government policy documents.

I guess they won't leave China anyways. So what's to sanction...
by nomel | 2025-12-18 20:19:44+00:00
You need to look at the history of it all. There wasn't the freedom back then, that we have now, where women could choose their profession based on personal interest. Back then programmers were women. It wasn't considered a man's job [1].

[1] https://www.history.com/articles/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-...
by bradfeh | 2025-12-18 20:19:54+00:00
The HUMAINE dataset contains human evaluations of AI model interactions across diverse demographic groups and conversation contexts. This dataset powers the HUMAINE Leaderboard, providing insights into how different AI models perform across various user populations and use cases.

The dataset consists of two main components:

- Feedback Comparisons: Pairwise model comparisons across multiple evaluation metrics - Conversations Metadata: Conversations with task complexity, achievement, and engagement scores

This dataset was created to address the lack of diverse, demographically-aware evaluation data for AI models. It captures real-world human preferences and interactions across different population groups, enabling more inclusive AI development.

Data was collected through structured human evaluation tasks, with over 35 thousand participants.
by domysee | 2025-12-18 20:20:01+00:00
> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

Many sites have rss, it‘s just not advertised as much as it was some years ago. I built a feed finder tool that goes far beyond rss autodiscover, it might be useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

And an article how it works: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds
by tete | 2025-12-18 20:20:06+00:00
I think people are getting used to stuff not working. People (like me) use crap like Teams, Slack, that web version of Office, Outlook, etc. on a daily basis and pour huge amounts money in. They use shit like Fortinet (the digital version of dream catchers) and so on.

Things break. A lot. Doctors successful or not also deal with the same shitty IT on a daily basis.

Nobody cares about engineering. It's about selling stuff, not about reliability, etc.

And to some degree one is forced to use that stuff anyways.

So sure you can go to a company understanding engineering, but if you do a job for salary you might lose out on quite a bit on it if you care for things like quality. We see this in so many different sectors.

Sure there is a unicorn here and there that makes it for a while. And they might even go big and then they sell the company or change to maximizing profits, because that's the only way up when you essentially already made it (on top of one of the big players).

For small projects/companies it depends if you have a way to still launch big, which you can usually do with enough capital. You can still make a big profit with a crappy product then, but essentially only once or twice. But then your goal also doesn't have to create quality.

Microsoft and Fortinet for example wouldn't profit from adding (much) quality. They profit from hypes. So they now both do "AI".
by Terr_ | 2025-12-18 20:20:17+00:00
> So, has trump coin and world liberty financial proven your friend wrong?

No:

1. That's not being implemented as a permanent replacement for typical currency, that's cryptocurrency as a specialized temporary vehicle for accepting bribes and fleecing the gullible.

2. Even if #1 were not true, it's rather hard for a democratic government to react when key positions in that government have (temporarily, I trust) been taken over by a cult that profits from the scheme.

> It seems that it was you who misunderstood human nature. Greed always wins.

That's an inaccurately nihilistic view of what "human nature" encompasses. If greed always won, nobody would have pets, charities would not exist, parents would enslave their children, life-insurance would just be an invitation to filicide, etc.
by necovek | 2025-12-18 20:20:19+00:00
Doing code review as described (actually diving deep, testing etc) for 10 engineers producing code is likely not going to be feasible unless they are really slow.

In general, back in 2000s, a team I was on employed a simple rule to ensure reviews happen in a timely manner: once you ask for a review, you have an obligation to do 2 reviews (as we required 2 approvals on every change).

The biggest problem was when there wasn't stuff to review, so you carried "debt" over, and some never repaid it. But with a team of 15-30 people, it worked surprisingly well: no interrupts, quick response times.

It did require writing good change descriptions along with testing instructions. We also introduced diff size limits to encourage iterative development and small context when reviewing (as obviously not all 15-30 people had same deep knowledge of all the areas).
by treyd | 2025-12-18 20:20:30+00:00
This would be more in-line with their strategy in other areas. Quietly massively improve technical capability and then utterly out-compete international competitors. They did this with solar, multicopters, are in progress with doing this with TVs, nuclear power, etc. War is expensive and destructive, it's easier and nicer to just negate the economic relevance of your opponents if you have the time and resources to do it (which they do).
by vablings | 2025-12-18 20:20:41+00:00
Absolutely, the issue of obesity is not just getting people to exercise more I 100% agree. The actual science of having someone diet, exercise and stick to that engagement is literally endlessly complicated and part of the reason why GLP-1 drugs are a big deal they can be given to almost anyone who meet the clinical criteria and see a drastic improvement in overall health and mortality.

That doesn't detach from the reality of the objectives, getting there is difficult for people and there is more research to be done.

FYI: None of my posts are medical advice and I am not a doctor
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-18 20:20:59+00:00
It's hard to imagine that it's gotten worse. My employer imploded in the housing collapse. I got to the point I could screen at least 80% of the supposed job ads as bogus. Many were the same fairly generic thing month after month, some were outright scams (apply for something a bit outside my realm but which I could do, soon I was getting people trying to interest me in training for said role), some were the same job being posted in many manifestations. Maybe the original was legit, but 20 versions of it are 1 job, not 20.