skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a fact, that's an opinion. Because the sentence isn't detailed enough: means nothing to whom? If the vote results are this definitive, where the majority is so overwhelming that it simply can't be forged - what is even the point of having a referendum? It was merely a formality: no one disputes the results, after all. The international independent observers were invited to said referendum, but they decided not to come. And it is obvious why: because they aren't really that independent after all.

Personally I realized that if you dig deep enough you realize that all those documents, formalities, treaties and agreements - they don't mean much, as we aren't some tenant entities with an overlord above us who could judge us in case of disputes. International (I don't even know what's the right word here) situation happens mostly as a consequence of who's more powerful and who controls what.

U.S. invades other countries whenever it likes.

Why can't Russia do just the same?

> They started the war, and they can stop it and withdraw at any time they choose.

The comic part of the situation is that Ukraine can stop it any time they choose as well.

But neither side wants to stop it THAT way. Each side wants to win in this situation.

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.

Zelensky didn't bow low enough and now gets what he deserves.
Just tried making a LLM generate primes for fun in APL : gave me primes ← {⍵/⍨2=+⌿0=⍵∘.|⍵}⍳ :) I'll try submitting that to my colleagues
We should also consider experts doing things that they know they shouldn't.
If this annoys you as a software developer consider that you’re now experiencing what the artists have been going through
I think if you scroll my comments you will find I’m mostly negative on ai these days so it’s strange you are name calling me but it’s okay. I am trying to point out what you say, tools abstract expertise and we should accept that has always been the case so instead of seeing it as some kind of strange anthropomorphized object we should simply ask ourselves what new problems can we solve with what new tools. And in order to do that we need to build trust in those new tools.
> ending old equipment that is expensive to dispose of helps the US two-fold.

You fell for this propaganda. That equipment is "old" doesn't mean it isn't actively being used. The US military uses and maintains old equipment where it still makes sense, and where there is no viable replacement.
A conservative movement has no end goal. The dismantling of the government will never be over for them. The point is destroying progress, not a specific government size.
Why are they hostile to the plans?
We certainly have our share of dumdums here in Ohio but I think the actual leadership is fairly reasonable, and they do really like $$ and wouldn't do anything to jeopardize investment.

Now, I am not sure how long we'll have "the old guard" type guys like dewine, so this comment might not age well!
Economics is not zero-sum.

People working together are more productive than each person trying to subsist alone. The same goes for countries. The world economy is incredibly complex, and no country can produce everything by itself.
Imagine the paradox: holding the fate of the world in your hands, but still feeling under threat from a military alliance like NATO
I did mushrooms quite recently in a highly therapeutic setting. Bar none, it was the only thing that actually addressed my depression after decades of basically everything else. I feel refreshed each day and everything is interesting again for what feels like the first time in my life.
I agree that there should be "why" comments. Those are great to have in any codebase. However, that does not preclude descriptive comments.

Obviously, the best way to make code self-documenting is to wrap logic in a method whose name clearly describes its intended function. For one-liners however this can lead to overabstraction, and leaving a "what" comment can be entirely appropriate if the engineer decides it is. This cult-like behavior of engineers who think that well-commented code is some sign of weakness or unprofessionalism is beyond silly.

Absolutisms are a sign of a bad engineer, but I can give you the benefit of the doubt and not assume you're a bad engineer just because you employ such absolutist statements and use erroneously use them to judge code by oversimplified metrics instead of relying on deeper analysis.
With who in control? A Russia, China and US alliance? This seems very unlikely to me. All signs indicate we're moving to a multipolar world as far as I can tell.

China owns an increasing majority of global GDP and Trump seems to be either taking a path of peace, populism and or stupidity by pulling America out of its global alliances.
It has been in the news that Trump did or about to cancel Biden's Chips act. So without those funds there is no incentive for Intel to build the fab, especially with how unstable this admin is when it comes to policies. You do not know what will happen one day to the next.

I am sure we will see more of this, I thought I saw the company in Taiwan (forgot the name) is scaling down or maybe cancelling their fab in AZ. Probably for the same "real" reason as Intel.
With only object storage, handling sync conflicts [0] becomes more complicated. I can understand why they don’t do that.

[0] https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/storage/ap...
> Let’s assume $500/hour in labor.

What about the cost of that gamma ray machine? Those don't sound cheap. And all the other likely very precisely engineered testing apparatus. Overhead is also a cost center.
I've done plenty of vibe coding over the last year or so and I generally find it to be a fun and rewarding experience. Of course my prompts frequently refer to advanced concepts like memory arenas, left associative operators, and other concepts that are beyond the beginner level.

But to be honest I do take the time to read some code both to clean things up a bit and to learn something new, killing the vibe entirely. So unchill.
Many of our immigrant families crossed the Darien Gap by foot for new opportunities. Fortunately there are roads to flyover country. If you have a thumb, escape is possible. Much of my family did it with far less resources and as many familial responsibilities as you probably have
> I’m having a really hard time believing you are serious

and

> The one time I tried out azure for a few days the portal was absolutely painful.

conflict with each other. Here's what you sound like:

"I don't believe you because I have very little experience in something and it doesn't comport with that."
See, this is why the housing problem is so difficult to solve. You think you're being virtuous or something by sticking up for the poor oppressed. Why don't you be even more virtuous and move yourself to Skid Row since all those poor people are really so mild and quiet and misunderstood. All you're really doing is ensuring that this problem continues indefinitely. You're the same kind of person who insisted men should be allowed to use womens bathrooms and thus ushered in Trump 2.0, hope the good-boy-points you got for that were worth it.
I'd risk to say these people would like to see whole Europe thrown into meat grinder. And I hope Europe has enough sanity not to allow this.
When I started programming, I didn’t have an AI to help me.

I wrote a lot of spaghetti and I confused myself a lot. And it was a lot of fun.

I think the doomsayers ITT are wrong. I think you’ve forgotten what it was like to go from “how do you even make a program” to “I put something on the screen and it’s amazing that I did that”.

I think AI will help a lot of people get over the bump from not even comprehending how software works, to putting something on their screen and evolving their skills from there.

Who cares if they make some spaghetti along the way. That’s necessary for learning. AI or not.
Funny, that went away after corporations flooded the market with cheap inexperienced developers and decided they couldn't afford them either without ZIRP.
I'm sure I'll be using that one a lot. Thank you
> The article doesn't touch on race, but very deliberately. To anyone on the inside, the silence is deafening.

??? The NPI registry doesn't indicate the race of registered providers, only their sex. Really bizarre to call a limitation of the available data "deliberate".
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Intel announced the delay to the next presidential term.. The current administration is also hostile to the CHIPS act.. they’ve fired many of the administrators (the act is new enough that there were many probationary employers supporting it) and have told already-approved recipients that they are going to renegotiate the agreements. I’ve never seen such a self destructive administration..
If someone is winning, it must mean someone else is losing (hence the "deal" sums to zero)

There is no comprehension that an agreement might actually benefit both sides

This is presumably why you hear such things as "Canada is screwing us for 200 billion dollars a year" because we buy things from them

Edit: you can see it in this thread, too. As though helping poor people could have no benefit to the rich

I've seen it with people complaining about paying taxes for public transit, even though they only drive a car. Bonus points if they complain about traffic in the same rant without ever putting 2-and-2 together
I just don't think this is true though.
I actually got long more NVDA on the pullback.

Sonnet 3.7 is unbelievable.

It would hardly be shocking though if OpenAI hits a wall. I couldn't get an invite to Friendster, I loved Myspace, I loved Altavista. It is really hard to take the early lead in a marathon and just blow every out of the water the whole race without running out of gas.
Before people jump onto talking about partisan politics, the big issue driving this right now is the fact that Intel is mulling splitting their foundary business from their chip design business and selling both off to outside parties [0]

The Intel fabs in Ohio were at the early stages, and would be a significant capex hit that could scuttle any M&A opportunities in the pipeline.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/tech/broadcom-tsmc-eye-possible-intel-de...
This delay makes me wonder if Intel is struggling more than we think. With TSMC expanding in Arizona (despite their own delays), and Nvidia dominating the AI chip market, can Intel afford to push back its U.S. expansion? If the CHIPS Act incentives aren't enough to keep them on schedule, what's the real bottleneck—funding, demand, or execution?
What you described ("minimum value that is not taxed...") is the definition of a step function. But yes, binned income brackets is also a form of means testing, and a poor way to design taxes.
It depends on whether you want to support Yolo-C or not.

If you want to support Yolo-C in your codebase, then don’t rely on FUGC. Free your objects like normal.

But maybe you are writing code that’s all in for Fil-C. Then you might want to rely on FUGC.
What you're describing is an American domestic policy issue.

There's no dispute that America has become incredibly more rich and powerful over the past 40 years. The fact that that money is increasingly funneled to fewer and fewer people (as a percent of the population) is something that can be changed locally, without changing our foreign policy stance.

It's not a surprise that the "devastation" of the middle class coincides with the continued reduction of tax rates on the entities collecting all that money. The America that MAGA seems to think was great was one of higher taxes and more social programs.
> It galls me that small, arrogant, petty people with no notion of history are throwing all this away because they have a schoolyard understanding of fair and unfair.

Or maybe your ivory tower understanding simply ignores the realities of the working class people who voted for Trump to do away with these policies.
Russia had a lot of equipment in storage, equipment that was supposed to be maintained. Strangely enough a lot of that equipment never saw any maintenance despite the maintenance budget being spent. That money 'disappeared' into someone's pockets.

Now these were conventional weapons, guns, tanks, trucks, etcetera. Stuff that you could imagine being used at some point, so there was some risk of being found out.

Now imagine you are a Russian general in charge of maintaining the nuclear stockpile. Weapons that you can reasonably expect never to be actually used. Even better, if you ever get in a situation where they would be used, it's basically the end of the world and no one is going to be alive to care if you pocketed the maintenance money anyway. How much of the allocated maintenance budget do you expect to have been spent on actual maintenance?
The context is that Russia kept expanding for 13 years under the same dictator, and then this time is the straw that broke the camel's back. The trust was broken several times.

I don't really care to understand the mindset of a dictator. They want power, resources,or reputation out of it. There's not a lot of justified reasons to lead an assault that will cost millions of your citizen's lives.
The API docs are linked here: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readm...
Ah yes. It was the US that invaded and illegally annexed Ukraine's territories, got you.
I've noticed this before. Even when they're writing, people like this "think in video". And they're not very capable writers to begin with.
Why do it only show a few subdomains for .statuspage.io? I would have expected at least 10K or so. https://www.merklemap.com/search?query=*.statuspage.io&page=...

Is my query wrong or are you just showing less results intentionally if you’re not paying?
On your device: "Interests: Candles, Wooden Sculptures, Underwater Basket Weaving"

Advertiser: "Show this to users who like Candles."

Mozilla: "OK"

That's pretty standard and can be used to track people on the advertiser's side still, depending on how the ad itself is served and how clicks on the ad are processed.
Decent optimizing compiler would necessarily loose a fair bit of source information - loop unrolling, function inlining, tail-call optimizations, etc...

There is no good way to reconstruct that, AI/ML or not.
On point. We're not really interested in these things. Yeah we take a look at it and stay informed but the main focus remains bypass of controls and data itself.

With decent backend controls - apps don't/shouldn't do much in the end. Once you show information on a screen consider it potentially gone.
i'm learning backend and this will help a lot. what language do you use to build the backend of your apps?
> I remember the anti-interventionist Democrats of the 80s and 90s quite well. They criticized military adventures but never suggested dismantling NATO, abandoning treaty allies, or praising dictators while undermining their own intelligence agencies

You’re making it sound like they were on board with the general idea of using american power to police the world, but only disagreed on the particulars. That was not the case. For example, a common refrain was to criticize America’s military bases all over the world, or spending 10 times as much on defense as the next 10 countries combined: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili....

You make it sound like they merely objected to use of that infrastructure in particular conflicts for fact-specific reasons. That’s not true. Anti-interventionist liberals opposed the idea of using american military power to defend far-away borders, and the imperialism and military apparatus required to underwrite that commitment.

> Funny how this "anti-interventionism" only applies to defending democracies against Russian aggression, but not to inserting troops into cities to confront protesters or threatening military action against political opponents.

Shutting down riots is good for the vast majority of americans. Defending far away borders isn’t. The logic is simple.
They are two academics and two former government bureaucrats, just the type of folks you want dictating strategy in the ruggedly competitive semiconductor industry.

Ok. So now that we know Intel's downfall was an inside job, how about explaining how these folks got on the board or better yet, how can they be removed. Anything else is just window dressing.
Accenture, IBM and other big companies have employed vibe coders for years.

Java is a language designed to make it possible. Java style classes make it possible for someone to design the overall structure and pass it to someone who just vomits something inside it.

They have teams where maybe 1 in 3 consultants have programming knowledge and the rest just vibe something into the Java API that is given to them. Back and forth until it passes and then to the customers. LLMs make this just faster and maybe even better.

The code will be bloated, slow, and hard to maintain.
The UK depends on Trident. Apparently the terms are something like a lease agreement and Trump could ask for them back or disable them.
Lighter weights of petroleum oils (from petrol through natural gas) are highly volatile and will typically evaporate with minimal (though probably nonzero) residue. That's what makes them attractive as fuels generally as they require little persuasion to vapourise. OTOH, they're so lightweight that they cannot sustain high compressions (hence anti-knock formulations, most notoriously with leaded fuels).

Vegetable oils are nonvolatile, but also generally nontoxic and hence mostly environmentally benign. (You can choke a river or foul ground-dwelling creatures given sufficient quantities, but a few 100 ml won't cause major problems.)
Larger armies are negative sum for everyone. Historically, per capita GDP was flat until the 18th century, because wealth was measured in gold and people thought the best way to be rich was to keep robbing and colonizing one another.
Still valid otherwise you can’t distinguish a working app from an app with security issues or even malware.
He's not looking at, he's gathering
The line is the invention of actual, new, knowledge. LLMs have so far failed to do that. LLMs have not made any significant new discovery in any field. See Dwarkesh's Question: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/dw...

If AI was actually intelligent, it should've cured cancer by now, based on the amount of data that it was fed.
As for aid, the arrogance in assuming the aid was mandatory and failing to give what you want the way you want is wrong and evil,

This is insane. He's been constantly begging and thanking the US for support for years. At no point has he even come close to "assuming the aid was mandatory".

To claim that Zelenski lacked tact while Vance did not is similarly nuts. Anyone who watched the video would understand that.
Intel is mulling a breakup of the Foundry BU from the Chip Design BU and selling both to outside bidders [0]

A $28B liability would destroy the ability for any buyer to acquire the Foundry IDM portion of the breakup.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/tech/broadcom-tsmc-eye-possible-intel-de...
Ultimately it's the weakest justification to allow Russia to do what it was always going to do anyway. There's not much to really discuss here unless you thought Russia was a credible place in the last 20 years.
The "minerals deal" isn't one but in name, no idea why it's being sold as such.

It's really just a Ukrainian sovereign reconstruction fund, with the option for the US to buy its way in. Also the fund is financed through Ukraine's natural resource extraction.

The crux being:

No one else can buy into the fund. So if Ukraine is rebuilt and then disappears from the map, the US pretty much owns the fund, together with whoever is recognized as Ukraine's exile government, and with it a huge portion of Ukraine's industries.

So even if Russia were to take over Ukraine, all the money making stuff is still co-managed by the fund.

And since Ukraine is the exclusive financial benefactor of the fund, whoever takes over Ukraine ends up facing an exile government with an utterly ridiculous budget.

And if they wanted to just expropriate the fund, they'd have to expropriate the US gov, too. Good luck with that.

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The fund is a REALLY good idea, but the way it's sold to the public and Ukraine refusing to agree to it is ... odd at best.
> but the only want to actually fix shit was to get internet scale customers to break it daily and weekly.

I don't get it. There's lots of distributed systems theory that could provide a more robust, analytical approach to a scalable architecture. If a system is regularly breaking like this, it sounds like it should be a "back to the drawing board" moment.
> Before people jump onto talking about partisan politics

It is not "partisan" politics, it is money politics. No money, no fab. Intel cannot commit to anything with a fluctuating future that changes each minute.

Exclusive: Trump prepares to change US CHIPS Act conditions, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-prepares-change-us-...
I sort of like the idea of folks relying on Fil-C features and then sticking with it. :-)

Right now, the Fil-C runtime already relies on the GC in that it creates objects that don’t get freed. So it would already be hard to provide diagnostics about leaked objects. And since the GC is concurrent and runs at unpredictable times, any diagnostics it reported would be flaky.

FUGC really is designed to be something you rely on in production as opposed to being a leak detector.
> Sure, and Russia wouldn't nuke NATO targets in return.

With what? Left over nukes from the cold war that haven't been maintained in decades? I would be surprised if Russia had 1 working nuke left.
If taxes at sales time (capital gains on real estate) are keeping people from selling houses, why not eliminate those taxes to free up the frozen housing market?
I mean, it is covered by mainstream media. There’s like 4 articles on it in the last year in the NYT. Here’s one: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/opinion/el-salvador-safet...
Orbital refuelling of non-satellite spacecraft at greater than IDK a few km has not been demonstrated.

Rendezvouzing and pushing or pulling a 900K lb (350K kg) object in orbit has never been demonstrated.

In-orbit outer hull repair on a vessel with occupants has also never been demonstrated?

Are there NEO avoidance plans that do not involve fracturing the object into orbital debris on approach?
Why did they take time to invent an entire FS?
Probably not the best examples.

Sqlite famously has more test related code than database code.

Multithreading correctly is difficult enough that multiple specialized modeling languages exist and those are cumbersome enough to use that most people don't. In practice you avoid bugs there by strictly adhering to certain practices regarding how you structure your code.

You mention fsync but that famously does not always behave as you expect it to. Look up fsyncgate just for starters. It doesn't matter how well you think you understand your code if you have faulty assumptions about the underlying system.

Generally you come across to me as overconfident in your ability to get things right by carefully reasoning about them. Of course it's important to do that but I guarantee things are still going to break. You will never have a perfect understanding of any moderately large system. If you believe you do then you are simply naive. Plan accordingly (by which I mean, write tests).
No buyer will be prepared to buy a BU that has an additional $28B liability on the books.

It would make it completely untenable for any buyer to acquire the Foundry BU.