skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not a fact, that's an opinion.

It's a fact. A free and fair referendum cannot be held by an occupying force, because their very presence biases the results.

This is true even if the occupiers are honorable. It goes double for a leader like Putin, who imprisons and assassinates his political opponents.

> U.S. invades other countries whenever it likes.
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> Why can't Russia do just the same?

In both cases it's wrong. But if you want the realpolitik answer, it's because the US has a competent military.

> If Ukraine feels so lucky as to fight a Goliath - let Zelensky be that David and send as many soldiers to death as he please until the unrest inside his country ends his presidency or the other side's forceful actions lead to the same result. Harsh, but kinda fair. Know your fights. Don't fight with a Goliath alone, if you are a tiny David, and if you are - group up with others and bow to them if the success of your very existence becomes dependent on their help.

David won against Goliath, remember? That's the whole point of the parable. At least find a metaphor that supports your argument.

Besides, isn't finding support exactly what Zelensky's been doing all this time? The US may be withdrawing its support, but European support is increasing. And in terms of population, economy, and military spending, Europe is a lot bigger than Russia.

You say Ukraine should know their fights, but doesn't that apply more to Russia? They expected the war to be over in 3 days, and it's been 3 years. Putin vastly overestimated the strength of his own army, and underestimated the resistance Ukraine would put up.

How much longer can Russia's reserves actually last? Those steadily rising Russian interest rates indicate an economy that's edging ever closer to collapse.
Yes. This also holds for my favorite community on the internet, /r/AskHistorians on reddit. It's the mod team that holds it all together despite the rest of the site being a general dumpster fire. (Curiously, the least competent moderation I've ever witnessed on the internet is on the front page of reddit, specifically /r/worldnews)
The DOGE members are tech bros who are into classic Randian libertarianism,small government that only protects money and property, and all other "public services" would be provided by private markets. They want to make government look weak and impotent so that people like Musk, Bezos, the Waltons, etc can provide those services at a premium or "fuck you". it's a downward spiral that concentrates wealth in the hands of the wealthy and creates a permanent class of serfs and slaves. Until they figure out that won't work here when the masses have had enough and communism starts looking pretty good when you and your children and freezing and starving and you have a basement full of guns and ammo that you can't eat.
also, chemical substances like entheogens seem not relevant to AI now but this connection could unlock enormous educational potential once bio cell and "omnimodal" hybrid computing goes mainstream.
Interesting times ahead : )
> Now imagine that corporate tax rate was 40% instead. It completely changes the decision-making process.

Seems more like a question of degree. Dividends are also taxed as income so ~36% is already paid in tax depoending on the income of the shareholder. Increasing the corporate tax rate to 40% brings the effective tax rate to ~52%.

In my experience there's a more fundamental problem with large companies. In a small company, the best way to succeed as an individual (whatever position you have) is for the company as a whole to succeed. At a very large company, the best way to succeed is to be promoted up the ladder, whatever the cost. This effect is the worst at the levels just below the top: you have everything to lose and nothing to gain by the company being successful. It's far more effective to sabotage your peers and elevate yourself rather than work hard and increase the value of the company by a couple of percentage points.

The thing is, the people that have been there since the beginning still have the mindset of helping the company as a whole succeed, but after enough time and enough people have been rotated out, you're left with people at the top who only care about the politics. To them the company is simply a fixture - it existed before them and will continue to exist regardless of what they do.
From what I understand, shroud linings don't rotate, though. They are fixed to the engine casing. So they are not subject to the high centrifugal force that would make creep really problematic.
The KGB played a very, very long game.
https://dashboard.fr.cloud.gov/
Exactly. You tried your best but powerful shadow powers worked against you so you need even more power to fight them. And you know it may sound bad but things have to get worse before they get better. The population has to bear with you for just a bit more and you assure them you won't abuse any powers given to you, and if you do, it's because you were forced to.

It's election day, you get re-elected, rinse and repeat until the next generation has no memory of it ever being different.
Your example is nonsensical. This is not how the real world works, living in hypotheticals doesn’t help anybody.

Also quite literally the meaning of a good investment is “it goes up and to the right” and anything that goes up and to the right in perpetuity is bound to become unaffordable if the wages or wealth of the buyers doesn’t increase at the same rate as the asset.

The housing market is a Ponzi scheme propped up by governments. But that’s a topic for another conversation.
> What if Ukraine attacked Russia

They didn't. So entirely irrelevant.
Back in the day, late 60s, early 70s, you used to hear folks reference "Gresham's Law" when talking economics. This was during the debate about taking silver coins out of circulation, and going off the gold standard.

I wonder how Gresham's Law pertains to coexistence of dollars and cryptocurrency?
No, I assume but Mozilla was first collecting telemetry to see if enabling CT would cause user-visible errors or not.
This is a very confusing article that doesn’t make much sense to me. The authors runs into performance limits on their laptop and states

> maybe it’s time to port this to the web and not my machine be a blocker for the demo.

So their solution is to port from C++ and OpenGL to WASM and WebGL. Last I checked WASM and WebGL all ran on the local machine, how on earth would porting to WebGL and WASM allow the author to make their “machine be a blocker for the demo”. They’re not changing any of the hardware involved, and they’re barely changing the technologies involved.
I'm all for root cause analysis. A big part of that is that large companies become extremely risk-tolerant because history has shown there is little to no downside to their actions. If the government always bails you out, what incentive is there to be prudent? You may as well fly close to the Sun and pay out big bonuses now. Insolvency is a "next quarter" problem.

I'm aware that TARP funds were repaid. Still, a bunch of that money went straight into bonuses [1]. Honestly, I'd rather the company be seized, restructured and sold.

You know who ends up making sacrifices to keep a company afloat? The labor force. After 2008, auto workers took voluntary pay cuts, gave up benefits and otherwise did what they could to keep the company afloat, benefits it took them ~15 years to fight to get back. In a just world, executive compensation would go down to $1 until such a time that labor sacrifices are repaid.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/30/bank-bonuse...
You can't really bring non binding, non serious agreements that were never put in writing or ratified and that all parties declared no longer relevant back from the dead and feign moral outrage. That's ridiculous.
Seems like a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day"
> entire concept of time

“Entire” concept is stretching it, causality and entropy are not man made.

If you want to look at ideas people made up that have way too much influence on our lives, you need look no further than your wallet.
Because people who admit they don't understand coding should not be coding with important data. And it's very easy for you app to suddenly have important data. Do you have auth? You have PII.

Gatekeeping is restricting access to the trade with arbitrary precedence, like "real coders use emacs." It's not expecting safety. If someone wants to build a bridge out of cotton the city won't let them. That isn't what most people consider gatekeeping.
Right? If a company can't be trusted to do password hashing, then they definitely shouldn't be trusted with PII. With that said, I think it's the SSO and broader ecosystem that orgs are paying vendors for.
At some point, we start to talk about military action.

It's not clear where the current US government will draw the line, and they would be crazy to draw the line at IP licensing... but well, I have some bad news.

I have absolutely no idea what is the Trump's (or Musk's, or whoever is calling the shots) endgame is. There is the chance that military action is inevitable. It's really bad either way.
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I think this idea, and AI in general, really scares a lot of professional programmers, but this is the world we live in now. You can't spend too long denying the impact of AI on writing code.

I am such a denier. Some colleagues in my department were allowed/instructed to try out AI for coding for months just so that the company could get substantive judgements whether AI is useful or not for coding work.

It basically did not help for the tasks that we are doing (and the tasks that we are doing are quite varied (so there are a lot of different topics where an AI could (purely hypothetically) help), but none of them is "create a scrappy CRUD prototype" :-) ).

Thus: the only impact that AI has on writing code that I don't deny is that a lot of stupid managers fall for the siren call of the various A"I" companies, and cause lots of damage. Of course none of these managers will at the end carry the can for the damage caused.
This paper has an excellent, readable breakdown of how compensation and productivity has changed since the 1970s.
I agree, however the unipolar world ceased to exist a while ago. My take on what we are witnessing is that the US finally acknowledges that what has worked in the unipolar world won’t work in the one we have.
As someone who had a broken lock on their outer front door for a very long time, I could attest to this.
> Placebo could be reversion to the mean.

If they are comparing the effect of placebo with no treatment at all, then no, the measured effect of placebo actually can't be that. The reversion to the mean effect would appear for the no treatment at all people too.
because they have followers there and it won't get taken down? Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil
> worried about the inevitable future where we have to take over someone else’s “vibe coding” mess of code.

worried? we're going to make a goddamned fortune
I’ve seen 8 unit apartment buildings where each unit rents for $400 a month. A few of the units are chronically behind on rent. The building is in bad need of repairs, and the owner does as much of it as he can himself. The property taxes consume about half of the rents.

In that example, the building was paid off, so the owner could use the rest of the rents on repairs and maintenance.

Another 6 unit example recently sold around here for $40,000. If I recall correctly every tenant was delinquent, so the buyer was going to have to deal with that.
Thank you. I made a mistake copying description when batch uploading projects - fixing it right now.
plentiful whoas ahead x D
Source?

The only news I’ve heard is that they fired 12 of 85 staffers and prohibited hiring seasonal workers, which was then rescinded a few days later.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/federal-firings-coul...

Not to attack you personally, but I’ve noticed there is a lot of hyperbole here based on dramatic headlines, extrapolation based on feeling rather than facts, so important but difficult to stay informed.
sorry, what did Finland do beginning in 1945, until the Soviet Union broke apart?
I like to think that different things have a ‘substance’ to them, not unlike the nebulous concept of quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

In this sense, the appeal is not just in the tangible record but also in the ritual of listening to it on a turntable. That process of choosing a record to play and then listen to it is quite a deliberate one, and you probably wouldn’t do it if you didn’t intend to appreciate it. It’s a hobby or an enthusiasm you have and there’s an effort involved in curating your record collection.

I compare that to the process of opening up Spotify of Apple Music where most of that intentionality is stripped away. It serves a totally different purpose as a passive activity, not unlike leaving the radio on in the background, rather than an occasion you’d take time to enjoy.

In my imagination I just picture those scenes in the Bosch TV show where he puts on a classic jazz record, with the view of LA sprawling into the distance in the background. And it wouldn’t be a vibe if he just said ‘Alexa play smooth jazz.’
Feels like it had a very short lifespan. I recall it being good from 2011-2013-ish and then it seemed to have totally degenerated.

I'm surprised it still exists at this point. Who is it for now?
We sent $350 billion including tons of military equipment. Most of it got stolen. They can’t even account for it.
https://archive.ph/1oFQz

Huge if true. OpenAI and all the rest are deeply in the red running their infrastructure. The current wisdom says, "OpenAI — as with all generative AI model developers — loses money on every single prompt and output." https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
> browser vendors in general, and Mozilla as of lately in particular, aren't on my "I trust you blindly at making the right decisions" list.

That's entirely fair. But what does this have to do with Mozilla's decision to enforce Certificate Transparency in Firefox?

If you have a concrete concern, voicing it could lead to a much more productive discussion than exuding a general aura of distrust, even if warranted.
> this is why I also promote using a debugger as much as I can as well - there's nothing quite like being able to see _exactly_ what's going on.

I don't know, the speed of just reading code and maybe inserting some diagnostic messages is hard to beat. It's a pretty bad day if I feel like I need to bust out a debugger—99% of "seeing _exactly_ what's going on" is not going to be relevant and will just distract you.
Probably true. I work in a regulated space and I have done this to get my zsh config to a secure laptop, but I have always had the common sense to mark the gist as hidden (can still be accessed if you know the hash, obvs).
it's public info
How is undermining America’s alliances in security and trade with other democracies advantageous? How does that ultimately help us as a county?
JD Vance, and Elon Musk for that matter, and really everyone else lacks the one thing even Trump haters admit Trump has: charisma. Even my feminist ex-wife loved him on the apprentice. Even to this day she think's he's a funny guy and is entertained by him. Fact of the matter is his charisma has formed a cult of personality around him.

JD Vance, Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, all of these guys who think they'll be able to take over the cult lack the key ingredient - the personality. Musk has a sort of cult among specifically the HN crowd, but we are small and generally people clock him as a weirdo creep.

There is no successor to Trump, his movement dies with him. His age is our saving grace.
“Social housing” already exists; it just isn’t very desirable and it seems many people who live in it aspire to get out of it.
Haha, the title might be misleading, I'm sorry. I actually encourage using open source and that means paying for it. I checked your website, I will add your tool by the end of the week!
Org charts!? Our government is saved! /s
Countries like North Korea and Pakistan managed to build nuclear weapons and credible enough delivery systems a couple of decades ago How difficult do you think it will be for other countries with today's much more modern technology if they really want to build them? Id be very surprised if the likes of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Israel or even Iran don't already secretly possess nuclear weapons. I'd expext at least several others have ongoing programns - the cautionary lesson from the different fates of Saddam, Gaddafi, Zelensky and Kim has certainly been learned.

One way to read Iran's ballistic missile attack on empty Israeli desert is as a demonstration that Israel's defence is unable to stop anything even approaching 100% of ballistic missiles. With nuclear weapons, the cost of even 1 leaker is unacceptable. You notice Netanyahu's public feud with Iran appears to be winding down.
Reinvesting in the company is the one thing we should absolutely subsidize. That goes to wages, capital expenditure and other measures to sustain and grow the company.

Paying out dividends and doing share buybacks just strips the company for cash until there's nothing of value left. It's why entshittification is a thing.
This is especially true for the older frameworks like rails.

Half the answers are for rails 2.0 and the other half tell you to just “install this gem” which monkey patches some part of the framework that has long since been deprecated/removed
Also, the entire EUV portion of ASML is owned and manufactured by Cymer in San Diego.

They are part of ASML, but firewalled from the rest due to DoE and Federal Contractor requirements.
Limited coverage of earlier Friday morning meeting with Senators, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/zelenskyy-meets-bipartisan-g... & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKW2XJxyW4

11:15 am Fri 28 tweet by Senator (D), "will not support a fake peace agreement": https://x.com/chrismurphyct/status/1895508100595204115
> Then shouldn't we be happy that more people are embracing vibe coding?

I don’t know about you, but I’m not looking forward to reverse engineering and maintaining someone else’s vibe coded mess.

It’s like when someone makes a quick and dirty proof of concept to impress management and then hands it off to another team to make it usable in production. They did 20% of the work but took 80% of the credit. Now you have to to the remaining 80% of the work to make it into what it needs to be, but management is only going to be disappointed because you’re moving so slowly relative to the proof of concept creator.
One squints through the fog and sees nothing coherent except, perhaps, market manipulation.

Regardless, it would be indefensible as a negotiating tactic. We're not cavemen.
Ah, good point – presumably 2 also sends telemetry to Mozilla?
Yep, here's a pretty good summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

Indeed I believe that the current administration's end-goal is the collapse of the US as we know it. Thiel and other billionaires need the collapse to create their own cyberpunk states inside current US territory. The remaining territory will be probably taken by Project 2025 guys, who want to rule it as a Christian theocracy / far-right utopia.
All you have to do is look at how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket, either out of stupidity or is an actual asset that they have компромат on
You didn't say it's impossible for a tool to do it. You said it's impossible.

Also, it's guessing at the names, guessing at type definitions, and it makes further guesses based on its previous ones, correct or no. If you don't already know what you're doing, you're in trouble.

For someone to claim that they're sharing the "decompiled" source of Claude Code for the public good is self-important back-patting nonsense, let alone misleading.
The existing no/low-code has a more limited and controlled design space, and what the “coder” works with has deterministic behavior. With LLMs, they can do anything (including things you don’t want), and you don’t know how well your instructions map onto what they generate (only by testing, not by reasoning). When LLM-created designs run into unmaintainable territory, the corresponding code is invisible to the “coder”. This is unlike no/low-code, where even if the application becomes unmaintainable, the “coder” still has the full overview over their design. Vibes-coding is akin to write-only, you can’t tinker with your specification and see how the output changes; instead all previous output becomes part of the specification, an increasingly growing part that the “coder” doesn’t understand.
> You are becoming complacent.

I think that's just having a job. There's nothing inherently better about building than fixing. Hell, anyone can build something these days. You can get chatgpt to write you a fully functional bootloader without knowing a single bit of assembly or how booting operates. Being able to grasp and fix things is already the superlative talent worth hiring for.

> But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot.

The equivalent in our industry is worth a lot more money than someone who can only build. I think "building" is a lot closer to your analogy of using a word processor than "fixing" things is and you've got the reputation of the two skills completely swapped.
Presumably their defense is our defense - that was the whole point of NATO.
Similarly, wearing a seatbelt on your way to assassinate somebody.
While this meeting went really bad, and US leadership was pathetic, US could have been the adults in the room.

Let’s look at the other side for a minute,

1/ Zelensky rejects the idea of stepping down after White House spat - Is Zelensky the right leader from here on ?

2/ Zelensky needs a bench to deal with different personalities, he showed up in his usual style hoping for compassion. Trump was clearly unkind but he should have chosen his words carefully , practiced what works for this president

3/ What is the end game for Ukraine? No one is winning this war in fact Russia has support of both China and India. They can’t expect US to go into direct conflict with Russia
As I said in my initial comment those are all points that can be made respectfully. I have no issue with someone arguing in favour of deporting those who have illegally emigrated. That argument is indeed a far way away from Nazism.

Where it becomes concerning is when this dehumanising language begins to creep in. When the administration begins talking about people as "vermin" it becomes very concerning.

Where the fear of Nazism comes in is when we see Nazi salutes and plans to move "the illegals" to purpose built camps outside of normal American jurisdiction in Guantanamo Bay.
It's a rebuke. I don't mind that you're not following the connections.
I’ve had the displeasure of working for companies that did get SBIRs and firmly believe you are correct that there is an inverse relationship on producing products. The machine knows how to get grants, and it does not care about delivering anything.

Do you have any references on this topic I can look into further? I find it difficult to articulate that particular behavior to management
For starters it will outlast your digital content. Also it won’t get deleted if you forget to pay for cloud storage. And your kids can inherit it without breaking into your cloud accounts.
Did anything other than your gut reaction tell you that the information was classified or secret? I take issue with your use of the word "disinformation". This whole thing is a nothing burger, to be clear.
Can one request all of the code this dude has written or is it as his discretion what is released to the public domain?
Some of us have actually lived in both cheap and expensive areas. Cheap areas tend to have unemployed people on them who decide to play loud music at all hours of the day and night.

Expensive areas have people who are busy working jobs to pay for their expensive housing and go to sleep at night.

Ergo, people who value peace and quiet gravitate towards expensive areas.