skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT is better on average for sure than Google for arriving at a correct answer, but they fail in different ways. When Google fails, it's usually in the form of, "I cannot find an answer. Better ask someone smart for help." but when ChatGPT fails, it's often giving an incorrect answer.

Depending on your fault tolerance and timeline, one will be better than the other. If you have low tolerance for faults, ChatGPT is bad, but if you are on a crunch and decide its OK to be confidently incorrect some small percentage of the time, then ChatGPT is a great tool.

Most industry software jobs, at least the high paying ones, are generally low fault tolerant and that's why ChatGPT is not entirely replacing anyone yet.

So, even in your example, and even if you write the code all yourself, there is still a risk that you are operating above your own competence level, do exactly as ChatGPT instructs, and then it fails miserably down the line because ChatGPT provided a set of steps that an expert would have seen the flaws in.
I’m not on a high horse.
There's no evidence of a substantial number of Chinese nationals serving in the Russian military, rather then just a few notable examples. The largest foreign troop commitment by state-sanction was the North Koreans, which were about ~10,000 strong and have since been withdrawn (after heavy losses).
An introduction to Elementary Game Theory [pdf]
> I also was taught hard work translates into success, many people don't see that relationship.

That's a typical confirmation bias: you worked hard and got successful, so you're tempted to think that it's because you worked hard. Some don't work hard and get successful, many work hard and don't get successful.

The one thing that you clearly can't rule out is luck. Tell people in Gaza that if they work hard they will end up in a situation similar as yours...
The current situation reflects broader geopolitical tensions rather than simply one side being unwilling to compromise. Your framing of "who's at fault" oversimplifies a complex diplomatic negotiation. They have been at war for 3+ years, it benefits all countries that another future war does not happen again, not just for Ukraine.

Besides Donald Trump is demanding 500 billion dollars in minerals from Ukraine for further support which is far more than their contribution so far of 120 billion dollars.

Source:
- https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-af...
And yet, tons of developers install github apps that ask for full permissions to control all repos and can therefore do to same things to every dev usings those services.

github should be ashamed this possibility even exists and double ashamed that their permission system and UX is so poorly conceived that it leads apps to ask for all the permissions.

IMO, github should spend significant effort so that the default is to present the user with a list of repos they want some github integration to have permissions for and then for each repo, the specific permissions needed. They should be designed that minimal permissions is encouraged.

As it is, the path of least resistance for app devs is "give me root" and for users to say "ok, sure"
Show HN: Free Container Loading Calculator
I've built a free container loading calculator for the sea freight forwarders. It has:
- Space & Weight utilization
- Weight Distribution Analysis
Why not? The P/E ratio went from 55 to 47, my back of the napkin approximation interprets that as the market expecting ≈ 4%/year reduction in forecasted earnings. Which actually seems conservative if the market is digesting the news that LLMs are hitting scaling walls.
I agree, but it's the conservative voting public that reliably returns these people to office even though many of them have a long track record of frothy rhetoric and legislative hyperconformity. This kind of aggressively loudmouthed conservatism has been a fixture in Congress since the Tea Party and arguably back to when Newt Gingrich was speaker. IT's not at all a new phenomenon.

Political scientists have visualized legislative partisanship in Congress, and this feels like the 10th time I've posted this in the last decade :https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-...

Now, voters may not like this and feel trapped by the way the primary system works and so on, but the reality is taht they keep giving in to the partisans.
Sure maybe there was some inertia from the benevolent bettering institutions of the New Deal that have given a chance to Americans.

I just think you'd have to be so willfully in denial as to miss the darkness we are descending into. To miss how bitterly the GOP and the wealthy are building empires of lies and bespoke manufactured realities to make up down and left right, to cover for horrible treacherous actions against the possibility of the individual, stacking the deck for empire and inherited wealth. (And Dems are frequently unwilling to bite the donor class that makes winning elections possible, after the courts have obstructed democratic funding reforms.) Are actively opposing the possibility of people doing good for themselves & the world.

I strongly recommend folks go read one of the darkest periods of America, before enough was enough
Adam Hochschild's American Midnight (2022) tells an amazing story of a circa-WW1 state that had radicalized against people, that had been totally overrun by well monied powers. Of Hoover using the full power of the police state to surveil as Ralph Van Demand had done during the Philippines civil war, of of the postal service run by someone using it for information control, of American Defense vigilanism.

Its not a tale of what happened next, how that broke, just a long amazing story of how dark America got, how badly the state was an extension of capital and power, and how deeply it subverted the individual, the union, any attempt for everyday humans to make any claim to life liberty, or pursuit of happiness.

We face today not quite such amassed power, but a completely warped infosphere where these bespoke realities create lifestyle beliefs where people are on board with incredible trains of lies crafting false enemies, supporting the opposite of the signalling they claim. Its different than dark; the world today is overloaded by hell's din, by monsters of abuse, doing their worst to harm us for greed and for the possibility of undoing the good of the world.
Yes, that sucks. What would you like to study at university if you get the chance?
That's true. I remember my dad bringing home a block of dry ice and making a cloud chamber when I was a kid but I wasn't so impressed. Maybe I would have been more impressed had I also gotten a radioactive source.

The dry ice experiment I did with my son was putting a dry ice pellet into a PET bottle and watching it explode maybe 40 minutes later. (A few minutes if you add cold water, goes off like a hand grenade if you use hot water) The same concept can be done with liquid nitrogen or with a mixture of chemicals that produces gas, such as aluminum foil with either a strong acid or a base. [1]

[1] https://publicintelligence.net/vermont-fusion-center-improvi...
It is and regardless a few other commenters saying or hinting it isn't...it is. An air gapped build machine wouldn't work for most software built today.
How will all those Russian soldiers going reach the front line if all refineries are gone and the train tracks are bombed daily? Walk?
Nothing lasts forever. The rich get most of the economic growth is inevitable. It's the Matthew effect. In general, the more assets you have, the more passive income you have, which in turn frees people up from worries about making breads for the family, and thus can spend more time on think and do things more important in the long run. Again, that would reinforce their financial status. In the meantime, the poor would have to worry about next meal, and mostly don't have the reserve for investments. Thus, they will most likely struggle to save something, and even if they do manage to save some, an unexpected event can easily wipe it out before it reaches the threshold.

If the riches were conscious enough, they would return a fair share to the poor and the eventual crash will be deferred much longer. But you know, everyone wants more money, no exception for the riches. It looks the only thing we learn from the history is that we learn nothing from history. So here we are: the same drama of empires' rise and fall, the only differences are the locations and the actors.
I think it's interesting how we call this AI, because neural networks have been used for OCR for literally decades at this point.

Where does "neural networks" stop and "AI" begin?
No, but mining and transporting a constant stream of coal is kind of unpleasant even compared to lithium batteries.
The free LTS/distro and pay for support if you feel like it never really worked financially. Maybe Canonical is profitable at this point. It's not Red Hat (or SUSE for that matter.)
Are the Best Shunning AI?
Anecdotally, I have been finding those who are producting original, high quality art, music, movies, games, software etc are all super opposed to AI.

Is this something everyone is noticing?

Are there some well known folks who are producing things using AI?
They only need one working nuke out of their 6000. I'm sure at least one of them is operational.
Maybe I can't expect an answer from you but maybe someone that agree with your comment can clarify for me:

Why did suddenly "end the killing" become a talking point for the people supporting this/Trump? "End the Killing of *american soldiers*(outside US)" seems like an consistent message but when this group didn't give 2 shits about Iraqi, Afgani, Vietnam, Libya, Syria, and even essentially justify warcrimes and killings, how can the movement stay morally consistent to "Oh we are doing this to save Ukrainean life" as a slogan?

"We don't want to spend our money on other nationals, but we are ok in having colonies or natural resource exploitation at your expense" is the only sensible interpretation of current presidents behavior.

A stance that seems pretty aligned with every war since 9/11, just more explicit and any pretense such as "spreading democracy" or "WMD", and less willing to commit (american lives) for profit. Wasn't support for Trump against deepstate and all this "benefiting deepstate at the expense of the common people" wars? Why can't the movement just own up to it all.
A fine attempt to turn things on their head, but again the only one who enables the fighting is Putin's Russia.

The conflict can be stopped right now with loss of territory so long as Ukraine is given trustworthy guarantees that Russia won't invade again as soon as they've licked their wounds a bit. That is the ask, and the only one who can provide that is realistically the United States, or Europe with guaranteed support from the United States.
You can think of many examples of war and conquest, but what happened in America is more than just war. Genocide is more than just war. Framing the atrocities upon which the US was founded as merely "historically normal" is a deeply revisionist view of history. Technological development at that time allowed for many great evils which were simply not possible before.
> The dual of owning a home is the ability to deny others access to housing.

How do you figure? Are we out of land? I would argue we are not, at all.
I don’t see how you’re describing anything other than what I’ve described.

The money may come from the private sector, but the government guarantees for it. This is government spending.

On paper, the government may theoretically not have to pay, but in practice everyone knows that the loans aren’t paid back and then the government must pay for them.

These loans really are just creative accounting for giving money within the budgetary constraints European governments find themselves in.
In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot'
I didn't say that it was inaccurate or invalid per se, only that he made the decision to pick a fight on live TV in what was previously a cordial conversation, and this (to me) strongly refutes the idea that Trump and Vance intentionally set this up to humiliate Zelensky.
To quote William Burroughs, 'beware of whores who say they don't want money. What they mean is they want more money...much more.'
This is a list of things rather than a concise statement of cause and effect followed by a proposed mechanism or other details. It's difficult for me to make sense of.

> bias the probabilities on one end, before the decoherence happens

Let's start there. What do you mean by that? What would this look like in concrete terms if I went and did it on the bench?

My understanding is that any measurement you take will appear random and uncorrelated until you have the data from the other side. At which point you can say "oh hey look, turns out it was actually correlated" but you can't demonstrate that fact until you have both sets of data in hand.

So in simple, concise, and concrete terms, what violation of the above are you proposing?
Just talking aloud here and not trying to say anything in particular: I've been an HSBC customer for 20 years, 6/7 years ago things started to get a bit weird, and then there was a full blown withdrawal. I do a small amount of business with kids of CCP folks, 2/3 years ago things in those relationships changed also. I've thought for a while now there is something pretty big brewing behind the scenes, the way Trump reacted to Zelensky saying that the USA is going to feel some stuff... again, I'm not trying to say something, I'm not saying war, aliens, paradigm shifting tech, I don't know what I'm saying, but my gut says something starkly unusual is brewing.
At some point, I have to say to myself: "I do know things."

I'm not even sure what the alternative theory would be: no one stepped up to dispute OpenAI's claim that it is, and X.ai is always eager to slap OpenAI around.

Let's say Grok is also a pretraining scale experiment. And they're scared to announce they're mogging OpenAI on inference cost because (some assertion X, which we give ourselves the charity of not having to state to make an argument).

What's your theory?

Steelmanning my guess: The price is high because OpenAI thinks they can drive people to Model A, 50x the cost of Model B.

Hmm...while publicly proclaiming, it's not worth it, even providing benchmarks that Model A gets the same scores 50x cheaper?

That doesn't seem reasonable.
> freezing the conflict now without any security guarantees for Ukraine

From what I've read I think the only plan put forward is to have Europeans run the DMZ? The US having troops there would probably be a no-go since that's the primary power-conflict (even above NATO). I don't think there's any other option as historically there's always a third party regulating it. Maybe a subset of UN where possibly even China could have troops there.

Not sure what guarantees would exist for breaking the ceasefire though, besides the usual full sanctions/weapons/maybe troops. Who knows what happens now though :/
Except for the nukes, there is nothing super about the Russian army. Except maybe access to vodka, that seems to be a very high priority.
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By what metric? I think this is close to true for identical blocksizes, but most benchmarks test sequential transfers with large 1M blocks and random ones with small 4K blocks. In this case, the speed of the fastest NVME drives is more than double for sequential transfers than it is for random ones.

I don't like comparing the two, they're completely different workloads and it's better IMO to look at the IOPS for random transfers, which is where newer, faster SSDs truly excel, and where most people "notice" the performance.
> Might be a case of covering their asses in the context of services they provide for search suggestions etc.

But they already have a separate policy for the services. Why do they also need a policy for the browser itself?
Technology isn't fun anymore [video]
Then I would be very curious to see if this works with aggressive vocoders, like some VOIP use internationally.
Yeah, good luck with establishing that. The 27 EU member states are still separate sovereign nations, and nationalism has been on the rise in recent years.
Will it also show up as multiple extensions (like it does for AdGuard) if I want to use more than 1 type of blocking/lists? (I am aware that it is Apple's artificially forced limitation but thought I will still ask and whether you folks have found a way around it)
Thanks, that's extremely good news. :)
"How dare Zelensky dress like that" yet it's totally fine for Musk to dress like that AND keep a hat on.
> in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

JFC, it's funny they try to call this out as some kind of a "weird" definition when that's just... what selling is.
One important point is missing from this: building a cheap and good engine is not enough, there are more companies and industries that can do this than it seems. But you also need the maintenance and logistics network, with a ton of professionals trained for your engine type in particular. And for that you need to penetrate the market that is already captured. This is what stopping the most.
Define "orginally". You might be interested to research how the Native Americans interacted, especially the Lakota. Rights by conquest was not a new idea.
> Sanctions don't work. Please stop the sanctions.

Examples? All I can see is majority of russians living their life as usual. Sure some transplants in Moscow are sad that their consumarism routine got distracted, but that is it.

As for money frozen in EU, IIRC most of it aren't realted to the goverment and just happened to be in trasit when sanctions started.

Every oligarch knows that Putin is the hand that feeds and biting it at best gets you in prison at worst an express descend to the ground.
>> Seems like programmers are terrified

Idk why terrified, vibe coding is nice but everyone who developed something bigger than a toy knows that code is 5% of the task and never was a bottleneck. Its not like faang employees write code all day long, or even half day.

Ah and you need to make sure it doesn’t nuke your db or send weird email to your users because someone prompt-engineered it badly.
They'll deplete the stockpiles of their best weapons first: trebuchets it is!
I am still lowkey mad about how Microsoft handled Skype. They acquired a great piece of tech that was widely popular and used and they straight up butchered it. I was unable to fathom why version 7.2 dropped lists, when up at this point I was able to create lists of my contacts. I could not understand why when searching for someone using their name, the search results would show me people from other countries sharing a same name before showing me the person from my contact list. They bought it to degrade it and then destroy it, so that they could push for Teams. It worked, but from a consumer's perspective that was just disheartening.
My theory is Russia can continue to produce long range weapons and drones in factories near the Urals or even beyond in Siberia, far out of reach of anything the Ukrainians can get their hands on, and just outproduce the Ukrainians as long as it takes.
Yeah calling them weight-loss drugs seems to really be under-selling them. I suspect the anti-depressant action has more to do with BDNF-TrkB and IL-6 signaling though!
Yeah, it used to be how she kept in touch with her family. Now most of them are on WeChat but once in a while we dust off the credit she still has and use it to call someone she doesn't have a WeChat contact for. The last time we used it the experience was bad--wouldn't stay signed in, multiple annoyances in the way of simply making a call. You don't need to tell us every time that 911 won't trace properly!
Blaming Js/Ts is ridiculous. All those same problems exist in all environments. Js/Ts is the biggest so it gets the most attention but if you think it's different in any other environment you're fooling yourself.
Moral Foundations of Capitalism
You need pack animals for civilisations. Transport is the backbone of industry and is required for the high degree of specialisation in trades that produces technological advancement.
They're basically saying you can't use Mozilla VPN to get around state age restrictions for access to adult content.

Gives them an out to claim it's already not permitted on their platform and that they're not enabling crime in these states.
This place has become a real echo chamber lately. I'm seeing radically unexamined opinions stream past like a firehose and can't respond to all of them. But to the anti-peace "pro-Ukranian" people here:

1. Do you see a path to victory? If so, how many Ukranians have will have to die before Crimea is retaken? Conditioned on your answer - do you really care about Ukrainians?

2. Do you really believe that the West stands for the 'rules based international order' while it unconditionally supports the ethnostate of Israel holocausting it's indigenous population inside of a concentration camp?

3. Do you really consider Ukraine to be a democracy given that Zelensky has suspended elections and has repressed his political opposition?
Meh, as a developer who lived through the 2000-2010 era Microsoft, it’s easy to come up with a laundry list of reasons to hate on Azure.

But I tried Azure for my most recent startup because I was offended by AWS, and GCP did not have enough adoption among my customers, and Azure worked - fine.

What do you really need out of a cloud?

I want them to rent me VMs, for them to not go down, and to make it easy to do standard stuff like an object store, run containers, run databases, etc.

Azure was as good or better than AWS
LATAM will get a lot of remote work if the wages stay lower than the US since they're in better-for-US-company-timezones than India or others overseas. That's what my company is outsourcing to.
Another interesting statistic is that Europe has given Russia more money than it has given Ukraine in 2024. That's a fun one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...
"NATO expansionism" is 100% pure, refined Russian propaganda. Countries join NATO because they are afraid of Russia and Ukraine is the proof they are right to be afraid.
I don't know why I'm even writing this. Noone with half a brain believes this crap in good faith.
Yeah, +1. I started as a backend dev and for a long time, I knew just enough CSS to be dangerous. After taking that course, I feel pretty confident. Josh is quite good at balancing aesthetics, standards, and pragmatism. He explains the mechanics of CSS in a way that facilitates developing understanding and intuition, giving you an ability to reason about solving design challenges instead of just trying things and crossing your fingers.
fwiw in the US, typically even extremely messed up teeth don't require removal to fix with orthodontics. Some ortho places will advocate it because it's easier. But if you get a few quotes in a big city usually someone can do it without pulling.

Wisdom teeth often do require pulling cus they literally don't fit (idk if this is an evolution thing - were people losing teeth normally enough that a new one coming in wasn't overcrowding?)
Very typical of the Russian apologists not even being aware where the war is happening.
Why couldn't what Zelensky did be equally described as "appealing to the American people"? After all, aren't we a democracy? The President is supposed to represent us, and thus be receptive to such appeals. If it so happens that the appeal persuades Americans, the President should follow suit.

Dissuading and choking off appeals to the people suggests to me that the President is highly insecure in his position. People in secure positions don't get offended or upset when people appeal to their bosses (i.e., us).
Translation: Big Tech has too much power when it disagrees with me or fact-checks me. Otherwise, it needs to be completely unregulated as in crypto.