skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I posted this link and the feedback is just incredible. It's disappointing to see "Hacker" News so much against hard work. I am sure the Gemini team has pretty much infinite demand for engineers to join, so if someone wants to leave for other teams or companies that should be fine for them.

This feedback indeed substantiate Sergey's point that such bare-minimum people really do destroy the morale for everyone else. I certainly would have felt that had I were at Google on a critical exciting project that the company deeply cared about to the degree that a founder was actively participating in.

If the ship sinks to irrelevance, it will sink for all Googlers. In fact, the top billionaire will be the least affected.
> That sounds good - until you realize they have only 136,000 personnel total.

The UK wound down personnel when they got out of the Afghanistan quagmire

In peace time effective militaries equip and train officer corps

Large numbers of soldiers is a hinderence to a professional peace time army
> At my job we treat all warnings as errors

Pretty sure what you actually mean is that you treat some warnings as errors, and disable the others. I would find it hard to believe you're building with literally all the compiler warnings enabled all the time.
sanitized sir
Related The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels (166 points, 2020, 157 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410530
Farmers depend on climate data. They're suing the USDA for deleting it
Yeah wealthy families exist.

But also there is a lot of upwards mobility.

And they do not need to be correlated even. What if rich families maintain their wealth, and meanwhile other families create wealth and become rich. How is this incompatible?
"John Bolton, former national security adviser"

Are we so naive that we're listening to this guy now? The forever war guy that wants to bathe the world in blood?
It's a nice story and I get the bit about the culture, but it does overlook the fact that you don't need the stones while you very much do need the LLMs.
Noone in Europe knows these are loans. Everyone assumes the money is gone. Politicians don’t talk about loans, they talk about giving money to Ukraine.

Loans are the way to do it because of the way most European budgets work. But you can’t call them regular loans in good faith, and no politician in Europe does so. The language towards the public is that Europe is giving money.
Well, it's either NATO or nukes, the man himself said it.
I thought we were supposed to see AI managing costs reductions by now. Instead I just see chatbots and frantic PMs looking to prove their utility.
> The entire over answering, and combative escalation was an emotional release from Zelensky and did not aid his aims, and ultimately hurt him.

I think the reverse. It's hard to predict what Trump will do next, but the straight forward reading is his plan was always to stop supporting Ukraine. The cherry on top would have been to bully the into giving the USA minerals rights without giving much in return - certainly not security guarantees.

Which means there is nothing Zelensky could get out of the USA from that meeting. But, he still has most of the rest of the world on his side, and he could use the meeting to get them to step up to the plate.

I think he did a very good job of exploiting the dynamics of the meeting to do just that. He ensured there was absolutely no doubt what the USA's position is going forward, so there are only two outcomes: Europe either let's Russia forcibly take over another country, or they wholeheartedly commit to Ukraine defence.

Making it undeniably obvious they are between a rock and a hard place is a great way to force action.
> The EU is going to be thinking long and hard about the future of NATO now.

Thinking long and hard apparently is all the EU is capable of.

Trump's first term should have been more than enough to make the EU come to their senses. Now, we have tethered caps and the AI Act, but the EU still has no coherent vision or just even the slightest idea of how to move the continent forward instead of keeping it in the past.
> Acceptable Use Policy links to https://www.mozilla.org/about/legal/acceptable-use/ which says "You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to[

So the text of the policy itself limits its scope to Mozilla Services.

But the purpose of that section is unclear to me. If it just means you have to comply with that policy when using features that use Mozilla services, why is that section necessary, since the license for the services should already apply.

If it is trying to mean that all the terms for Mozilla services also applies to any use of Firefox... that is really clumisily written, and also just generally terrible.
Isn't it really common for build machines to have outbound internet access? Millions of developers use GitHub Actions for building artifacts and the public runners definitely have outbound internet access
In my experience, I haven't often seen the right disparaging "compassion, tolerance and intellectualism". What I usually see is the right criticizing identity politics. For example, this post is about a Biden program that has the following requirements. Would you say this case is an instance of "compassion, tolerance and intellectualism" or identity politics?

> In addition, states had to prove that they promoted participation from minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and “other socially or economically disadvantaged individual-owned businesses.” They also had to create a Five-Year Action Plan that required collaborating with unions and “underrepresented communities,” including prisoners, LGBTQI+ individuals, women, and people of color.
Taking a 10,000-foot view, I wonder why we should be conducting offensive actions against anyone…?
Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in Sistine Chapel?
> If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots

They should take control. That's why it puzzled me why they are okay to get deindustrialized, are okay to destroy their nuclear plants, and are okay to rely on imports of natural gas from Russia
Jordan and Lebanon are repressive and autocratic?
As the leader of a EU country, he can veto top-level EU decisions, so in that sense he is.
Russia is not going to use nukes.
We're 3 years in and I have zero idea. Nothing comes to mind except for plain old expansion for the sake of expansion.
"Tip your server" was a pretty great pun!
I'm assuming that was sarcasm :) Since Trump and his followers seem to save that type of posturing for Canada. But I guess he's just trolling to own the libs, like a president does...
They already stopped advancing 6 months ago.
Note that Google's version of this was determined to be checking whether you had a 9-day-old tracking cookie.

The researcher who discovered this was able to generate 60,000 "I am not a bot" cookies per day, and use them up about 15 times each in a bot before it started getting captchas.

That was in 2016 though.
This isn't a credible reason to wed yourself to Russian gas and decommission the plants Germany already had running. Despite three years of bombing the nuclear plants in Ukraine have not been (properly) hit.

Terrorist attacks on nuclear power stations can be dealt with via the standard security services.

German aversion to a functional army and nuclear energy has had consequences for the country and the EU.
From PBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAj8rRe-p0
Your comment has just made me realise that when people say “woke” to mean “anything I don’t like” the subtext is “I don’t want to face up to the responsibility and effort required to participate in a decent society. I just want to do whatever I like without consequences.”

Thanks for providing the trigger for my insight.
Your not wrong.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630
Thanks for pointing this out, I misread the parent comment.
China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply
Small discussions

(37 points, 8 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207078

(17 points, 4 days ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162502
Thanks, I read it wrongly.
> I read this sort of critique often, but what are people living with debilitating depression supposed to do?

I don't disagree strongly with anything you've said here, but I think as someone more on the other side of this argument – that in most cases people are probably better off not taking SSRIs – that part of the problem is that people don't learn to deal with their depression anymore and as a society we don't care to help those suffering with depression beyond just telling them to take psychoactive drugs.

As a depressed person myself and someone who knows a fair few depressed people, I do believe you can learn to manage it in the vast majority of cases. I think as a society if we tried to help people understand and manage their emotions then perhaps we could help people without medicating them to be honest. It's just that medicating them is easier, as you suggest.

I don't really care what others do though. If people want to medicate then more power to them... All I can say is that in my experience it's the wrong thing to do and that the only long-term way to deal with depression is to learn to experience it without being overwhelmed or burdened by it. In this sense pushing people straight to SSRIs denies them the chance at a more lasting solution. Ideally I think SSRIs should be the last option.
MedRAX: Medical Reasoning Agent for Chest X-ray
Could it be that the action of a Markov Chain on vectors, where the vector converges to an eigenvector, is similar to the action of an LLM under gradient descent, where vectors converge to a minimum? There's also a link between eigenvectors and solutions to simultaneous differential equations... I'm not that knowledgeable about all of this but it feels like there are many similarities.
Yup. I started having dreams about bullying recently, even before today's scene.
Again, the ECHR’s freedom of expression takes precedence. Good news! You can still post bad takes and disinformation online!

But you can’t abuse people with it. For example sending a hate mob on someone, defamation, swatting etc. (which are also covered by other acts).

And again, S127 is problematic because it doesn’t clearly define a line, it leaves it up to the courts on a case-by-case basis. Much of British common law is like that though.
Yea but consulting the stock market for valuation seems like consulting a council of local morons what they think of someone. Any signal provoking such a drop would itself be many times more valuable, if it is indeed meaningful in the first place.
Source?

I googled and only got back some dumb anime game links.
> Are you willing to elaborate about how they can accelerate you?

A few examples from my experience:

- Here is a SQL query. Translate this back into our janky ORM
- Write tests that cover cases X, Y, Z
- Wtf is this code trying to do?
- I want to do X, write the boilerplate to get me started
- Reshape this code to follow the new conventions

And it often picks up on me doing a refactor then starts making suggestions so refactoring feels like tab tab tab instead of type type type.
The mineral deal has at least three purposes[0]:

1. It provides a way for Ukraine to become a client of US defense instead of a an aid recipient. That is, it allows Ukraine to pay for the weapons it receives.

2. It puts Americans on the ground in Ukraine in a non-military capacity. This introduces a new diplomatic dimension, as attacking or occupying land with significant American presence is not desirable.

3. It provides money for an investment fund for rebuilding Ukraine.

Whether this is an effective strategy, I don't know.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/27/minerals-...
An US citizen was tortured and effectively murdered, and you're talking to me about "nuance"? WTF?
We tried that but they filled up with spammers and morons. Other people who are neither don't want to use those systems. It's the Nazi bar effect, but for spam.

Somewhere between there, and "recite these falsehoods someone paid us to make you recite or get banned", there may or may not be a point that's actually okay.
How does this compare to the scaling laws predicted for ai?

(See observation 1 for context)
https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations

I feel this is way out of line given the resources and marginal gains. If the claimed scaling laws don’t hold (more resources = closer to intelligence) then LLMs in their current form are not going to lead to AGI.
What about china as a weapons exporter?
it won't work for anything that requires a novel synthesis of ideas because Gen AI is incapable of novelty
I would be extremely surprised if the other half of this profit fund was not eventually meant to go into Trump's pockets rather than to the United States itself.
Thanks, I think you do a fantastic job moderating Hacker News and I realise this post is on a topic that usually wouldn't be surfaced here at all. I do wish all our world leaders could be as diplomatic as you.

And maybe I should read the FAQ properly before I comment on where a post 'should' be ranked.
> Ukraine doesn't have the cards.

Oh, but they do. We (the west) can't allow them to be overrun.

So if they refuse to accept a deal, what can we really do?

Starving Ukraine for supplies would be extremely dangerous.

(That said: I'm not sure Trump understands this)
You could do a lot worse than starting by reading this: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
In a heartbeat. If two criminal organizations want to fight over some land, that’s none of my business. Also worth noting that in a war, the greatest danger comes from your own government, not the enemy because the enemy will accept your surrender and your own government won’t.
If you move the sliders outside of the resizable area, and swap from using the 'change' event to the 'input' event, you'll have a nice fluid interactive demo.
Are we reaching the point where AI generated data is a growing bit of the training data?
The US is undermining the very institutions it built, like the UN, and the rule based world order.

That’s what the outcry is about. As of today, the US is no longer the leader of the free world.

The economic impact for the US in the long run will be significant. Trust is hard to build but easy to destroy.
I just helped a bit[0]. Good luck!

[0] https://nopaste.net/answers
Related Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees (106 points, 5 days ago, 111 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152470
Lots of us here feel the way you do and are in disbelief of our country
Depends on the moderation. /r/worldnews bans any user who says anything that makes Israel look bad (I'm not exaggerating). That does nothing for quality of content.
Democracy dies in darkness. CLICK
And how many were too apathetic to even bother voting?
They are on their way out, they understand what's about to happen.
If you're writing one-off scripts though, I find vibe coding fantastic. I found myself in a work meeting where I was mostly there to let a junior present some joint work we did and answer any questions the junior couldn't. Since I wasn't really needed (the junior eng was awesome), I was fidgeting and wanted to analyze the results from an API I had access to. A few prompts from Claude and I was hitting the API, fetching results, using numpy to crunch what I needed, and getting matplotlib to get me nice pretty graphs. I know Python and the ecosystem well so it wasn't hard to guide Claude correctly.

I probably got the whole thing done in 5 prompts and still had enough brain space to vaguely follow along the presentation. Before this kind of thing would have taken 20-30 min of heads down coding. This would have been a strictly "after work" project which means I probably wouldn't have done it (my real side projects and family need that time more than this analysis did.) That's the kind of thing that an experienced programmer can get out of vibes coding.
My read on the situation is that Zelensky is willing to make any deal for lasting peace. Meaning, if a deal is made and Russia ignores the ceasefire or continues its invasion in a month or year, what will happen to them? This is literally what he asked because Russia has violated all of the previous agreements in the same way.

What Trump was offering was to take a chunk of their resources for another temporary peace offer. Which as noted above, will almost certainly be violated in the near term by Russia again. So Ukraine is not only back where they started, but also lost a chunk of their resources. Why would Zelensky agree to that?
Who defines what constitutes "hate speech"? Do you not recognize this as a hangar-sized backdoor?
As an Electron maintainer, I'll re-iterate a warning I've told many people before: Your auto-updater and the underlying code-signing and notarization mechanisms are sacred. The recovery mechanisms for the entire system are extremely painful and often require embarrassing emails to customers. A compromised code-sign certificate is close to the top of my personal nightmares.

Dave and toDesktop have build a product that serves many people really well, but I'd encourage everyone building desktop software (no matter how, with or without toDesktop!) to really understand everything involved in compiling, signing, and releasing your builds. In my projects, I often make an argument against too much abstraction and long dependency chain in those processes.

If you're an Electron developer (like the apps mentioned), I recommend:

* Build with Electron Forge, which is maintained by Electron and uses @electron/windows-sign and @electron/osx-sign directly. No magic.

* For Windows signing, use Azure Trusted Signing, which signs just-in-time. That's relatively new and offers some additional recovery mechanisms in the worst case.

* You probably want to rotate your certificates if you ever gave anyone else access.

* Lastly, you should probably be the only one with the keys to your update server.
I'm just raising concerns! With a howitser.
Disney steals art and sells it in their gift shops
but m$ doesn't have a monopoly on video/instant chat? teams is so objectively bad that anyone who was using skype will move on to a different company's product
Good. We need a break from insane AI advances.
I appreciate the response! However it looks like I didn't explain the point clearly. I'll try again. (sorry, this is going to be kind of long...)

The problem isn't profanity and the solution isn't sanitization. Rather, the problem is crossing into pejoratives and/or name-calling and/or being aggressive to other commenters. And the solution is to edit all that out.

When you make edits like these:

WTF are you talking about? -> What in the heck are you on about?

get the fuck out of here -> get that terrible characterization out of here

You are pissing on anyone -> You are denigrating anyone

... you've sanitized the profanity, but your comment is still pejorative and swipey in the way the site guidelines are asking you (not you personally, of course! I mean all of us) to avoid.

Also, I totally missed this in the original post—this is another one:

> you should be ashamed. You need to do better.

The way to follow the site guidelines is to edit out swipes and take out pejoratives (especially personal ones). There are lots of ways to do that, but in case it's helpful, here's one:

"I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that will end the destruction in your country" was what our VP said to kick off the spat.

"High-pressure bargaining tactics" is not accurate. Zelensky didn't kiss the ring and our representatives reacted angrily when he corrected them gently on the actual history of diplomacy in that region since 2014.

That is extortive, not appropriate American diplomacy.

I don't mean to tell you how to edit your own post! I just thought a concrete example might be helpful. In any case, if you'd posted that or anything similar, I wouldn't have responded with a mod reply.

A nice side effect of doing this kind of editing is that it makes your comments more persuasive, by both polishing and sharpening your argument.
People really should look at the work of Gary Stevenson here: https://youtu.be/TflnQb9E6lw

The truth is economic growth hasn’t been occurring in real terms for most people for a long time and the rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate.

I’m starting to think the entire system is corrupt and we are headed for a destroyed Europe and a civil war in the US. Maybe I’m very pessimistic but this moment in history feels like the end of the American empire, what comes after this is extremely uncertain but people only seem to demand a fair piece of the wealth after a world war.
The purpose of a system is what it does. The system is working as intended. This is not a problem for capitalism, this has always been the goal.
Speaking of hugs, remember the mantra: "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
If you think that's confusing, let me introduce you to CPU load average values on android... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10829546/how-to-read-the...
Plenty of NATO members already build and buy from non-US sources. France basically made it a principle because of their historic fence-sitting NATO policy, Sweden mostly builds its own (but licenses parts from US/UK like fighter engines), other countries are buying artillery or tanks from south korea, etc. The US itself buys anti-tank weapons and riverine patrol boats from sweden, dutch rifles, german handguns and much more.

"but the shiny new weaponry all comes from US contractors" is not true.

It is true that the US has spent far more on it's military and made it far more global than any other country. It is also true that the US acted as a guarantor for west Europes security for most of the last 70 years and that should not be understated. That era seems to have come to an end.
The Soviet Union lost 20m+ dead because they faced an existential threat from an enemy that intentionally massacred many millions of people who lived there (including people who weren't particularly enamoured with the idea of a Soviet Union or Stalin as leader)

The situation isn't quite that bad in either Russia or Ukraine which was also one of the constituent parts of the Soviet Union. But it's certainly closer in Ukraine, even if most Russians hold an irrational level of enthusiasm for the war
To me it’s fair to say that while the moral duty might fall equally among nato nations, the geopolitical one leans heavily towards Europe.

Does this imply European nations should be contributing to the war effort more than the US? Does this shift match what the current situation leads to?
American hegemony happened by chance, and the dollar just won the reserve currency lottery?

Granted, not every war was a net win but that war machine is uniquely expensive and it may be sacrifice the public is willing to pay. But it probably wouldn't hurt to see how contemporary books on history differs from propaganda.
I don't know why people would downvote you.

ChatGPT was released in 2022! It doesn't feel like that, but it's been out for a long time and we've only seen marginal improvements since, and the wider public has simply not seen ANY improvement.

It's obvious that the technology has hit a brick wall and the farce which is to spend double the tokens to first come up with a plan and call that "reasoning" has not moved the needle either.

I build systems with GenAI at work daily in a FAANG, I use LLMs in the real world, not in benchmarks. There hasn't been any improvement since ChatGPT first release and equivalent models. We haven't even bothered upgrading to newer models because our evals show they don't perform better at all.
So why do rich families need to own all the media? All the think firms? Why do they lobby?

Avenues to upward mobility are blocked by these rich people through various methods.