skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not what first past the post means.

First past the post is plurality wins.

Anyways, that's not how US presidential elections work. The aggregate of votes doesn't matter, only the electoral votes divvied up by state.
Who needs weather reports anyway?
America is not a democracy in a strict sense, its a republic. To be precise, modern America is a plutocracy, not democracy.

But did America ever pay reparations for centuries of enslaving its own people? Where is the accountability?
> we do not have enough of an interest to go send young Americans to die.

This is a straw man: nobody asked you to.

> the minerals deal was actually a pretty fair offer the way it was worked out

There was nothing fair in that mineral deal: the US would get resources and Ukraine was getting... nothing. No security guarantees, no military support, nothing. Trump said it himself: he wanted it to get back what the US spent helping Ukraine so far.

Getting something for nothing is fair to you?

> as dress for the occasion

The is the King of Saudi Arabia at the white house: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/president-obama-meets-wit...

This is the pope at the white house: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/09/25/photos-...

This is Elon Musk giving an interview in the oval office: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/tech/elon-musk-x-oval-off...

Did they all disrespect the US?

Ukraine is sending its youngs to die to keep Russia (the west common enemy) at bay and your concern is... Zelinsky wearing a tie?
Does _anyone_ in these comments wonder what happened before JD goes off on Zelenskyy? What could have elicited such a scorched earth response from the VP while the administration is still negotiating?

That explosive clip, which I'm sure is all 99% of people have watched, happens like 40 minutes into an otherwise really quite friendly presser.

https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-t...

Very disappointed with practically all of you.
I just don't have the words to express how ashamed I am of my country today.
Well as nice as the sentimental definition you gave is, the legal definition of home ownership revolves around a set of rights granted to you by the government over a plot of land. I could feel safe and secure with my family a t Pizza Hut, but I don't own Pizza Hut.
Yes, and the point I'm making is that (1) Chinese nationals have served, indicating that Beijing at least tacitly approves mercenary actions and (2) China can increase deployment if needed by either economic or prisoner release coercion.

This is a meatgrinder conflict. If China can reduce its dissident or potentially rebellious population while avoiding a collapse of Russia mirroring WW1 Germany, they may very well (and I would argue are likely) do so.
Given the abuses in the tech industry, software development should be non-exempt hourly. Unionization isn't going to happen, especially with how visa dependent the industry is, but non-exempt will claw back some of the protections that have been lost.
Go back and read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212390

“voted for by >50%” is what I’m refuting. It’s literally, factually untrue.
OP described a group of families that accrued wealth over 3 generations "without inheriting any wealth". Assuming they weren't orphaned at birth, each generation definitely benefited from the fruits of the previous generation. Even without an overt handout like a trust fund, we still inherit wealth from our ancestors (eg: housing, health care, education, credit, social networks, etc). In this case, the "handout" would have been their upbringing. They feel "the system is working" because of this, but not everyone in the system has an ancestry like this.
So these uber intelligent people are working 60 hours per week, have all the resources and data in the world, and they’re still lagging behind Deepseek in the most important areas?

They should try 62 hours. Maybe those extra 2 hours will give them a competitive edge.
Vance seemed genuinely butthurt that Zelensky wasn't grovelling.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-s...
The crowd isn't some invariant. The people here and quality of their responses is a function of the kind of topics that get discussed here, the repetition these topics receive, and the grace others have in receiving those comments. You can't just neatly swap in the HN community and say "okay you used to discuss Elixr tooling now it's time to discuss US politics."

What happens instead is, people start getting heated at each other and vitriol across the site increases. Folks who don't find that grace anymore exit the site and folks who are heated stay. This attracts other people who want to be heated. This creates a downward spiral across the community. This isn't HN specific, it's the same thing that happened to pretty much every other public internet community once they started featuring lots of discussion on polarizing politics.

The entire reason HN used to be high quality open internet forum is because politics wasn't a huge part of its contents. But the site has been under quality pressure for some time now and ever since the start of Trump 2024 it's started going downhill faster than it was before. That's fine of course, if folks just want to battle out politics and shout at each other or cry out in anger they can go ahead. But it won't be the "intelligent crowd here" doing it. Those folks will go elsewhere.

As an example, this thread is ridiculously large (2818 comments as of this writing.) There is no way for a reader to get much out of this without copious amounts of minimizing threads, scrolling randomly, or page-searching for terms. The only sense I can make of it is throwing the thread into Gemini and asking it to summarize it for me. The summary tells me nothing that my own thoughts and some social media comments I've read don't already tell me. So what has the "intelligent crowd here" really given us? I'm waiting for op-eds from the MSM and blog authors I follow to give me literally anything more rigorous than the slop in this thread.
It's a design flaw. It should be nearly impossible to delete data accidentally. And it should be possible to roll back state in IIAC.

No serious organization with any scale is going to have the only thing standing between them and a production database deletion being two over tired engineers rubber stamping each other's code changes.

Bad config pushes to prod do happen and they can cause outages like the 2024 Cloudstrike outage. You don't want a tool that takes a minor (but significant) error and turns it into a catastrophic one because of poorly thought out semantics. It's better to just start with a tool that requires at least two engineers to explicitly sign off on deletion.
He canceled elections and is serving past his term. He clearly doesn't have to answer to the people of Ukraine anymore.
I missed it-- it's in the release notes file. I uploaded it to pastebin. It does look malicious.

https://pastebin.com/H5QjS4Bt
1. Is not about Ukraine. It's about the US and Europe. They benefit massively while Ukraine suffers the losses on their behalf.

Think about it. They support Ukraine by sending them surplus or aged weapon systems while modernising and funnelling money to their military industrial complex (with public support!). In return Ukraine uses those weapons systems to keep Russia tied up in a war, exposing Russia's most modern weapon systems and providing a huge amount of information on how to fight a drone war.

This is a great investment independent of what happens in or to Ukraine, basically they turn weapons they needed to replace or get rid of anyway into intel, new weapons, political brownie points at home and a weakened adversary.

China doesn't mind it that much either, though they enjoy it less because they had invested fairly heavily into Ukrainian infrastructure that is being destroyed. Keeping Russia isolated makes it easy for them to extra cheap oil & gas, push for pipelines that flow to China instead of towards Europe and also offload a bunch of their industrial surplus now that their requirements are winding down and the rest of the world is trying to tariff them for dumping.

So basically the problem is 1. is good for almost everyone except Ukraine and Russia. Trump for whatever reason can't understand that and just wants to throw a tantrum as is befitting for someone of his intelligence.
Strange. How do things like Nix work then? The nix builders are network isolated. Most (all?) Gentoo packages can also be built without network access. That seems like it should cover a decent proportion of modern software.

Instances where an air gapped build machine doesn't work are examples of developer laziness, not bothering to properly document dependencies.
Thanks, I skimmed some details about iBFT (mostly reading what the Linux kernel does with it) before writing the post, and came away with it likely being a difference in how things were hooked up in BIOS vs UEFI systems. Thanks for your perspective on it!
> I really struggle to understand what legal team believes this language is necessary in downloaded software.

Exactly. Even if nothing is changing at Mozilla, their legal team has invented a new interpretation of copyright law. That’s a huge deal from a legal perspective—Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc need to be rushing to add corresponding terms to their applications.

Mozilla PR is dropping the ball completely by trying to sweep this under the rug as ‘standard legal boilerplate’ because it’s not a clause in any other application I’ve ever seen.

Since I use FireFox at work, I don’t even have permission to give Mozilla a license to the content I create on the clock, so I will be switching browsers.
They invited him to the White House to finally sign the rare earth minerals agreement, which he had said he'd sign and then renegged two times prior[0]. This was the third attempt by the US to get it signed. During the meeting, he indicated that he would sign the agreement but then not agree to a cease fire, which was the whole point of putting it in place. Naturally, this was a deal breaker for the administration and the meeting ended.

[0] https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1895633109649134013
How much "wasted spending" do you know about?

What fraction of foreign owned land is Chinese?
Members of the military have restricted rights because of the nature of service, and because of the nature of combat I suppose to some extent it makes sense they may do things faster or differently than civilian medicine. But I don’t think we should be intimating that civil and military medicine are exactly the same and we should completely throw out the slower, more cautious nature of the civil side. It’s not like the military has had a storied history of recklessness and malpractice in the name of expediency or anything /s
Trump has been glazing despots for years, nothing about this is surprising. They were never "the world's dictators' most hawkish enemies", quite the contrary. Why else would russian propaganda be so aligned with MAGA?
I thought the initial wording/hype was around poorly phrased lawyer speak for "you give FF permission to interact (post/get requests) with a web page as a browser. Don't sue us".

The whole some may consider it "legally selling your data" proves this is not just a Terms of Use change in good faith.
"Very disappointed with practically all of you"

Zelenskyy could have stood up and urinated on him and this still would have been inexcusable for any president of any party. They cannot control what others do but they can control their own behavior.

This is the most embarrassing incident in modern US history. Reuters was barred and TASS was present.
The "don't care" continues to baffle me
In what countries is this FAQ (removed in their PR) not seen as a legally-binding contract with all current Firefox users? It seems like a very clear contractual obligation in the US.

{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", 1
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " 9+
}
},
There are some things Washington should avoid doing even if it promotes American interests.
it's not a straw man. the security guarantees zelensky requested and used to hold up the deal extend to that.

US state dep't lawyers have generally understood "security assurance" to mean that we won't violate someone's territorial integrity, while "security guarantee" implies the use of military force to defend the security of a nation and her territorial integrity. unless and until we have a fully-autonomous military, this does, in fact, necessitate putting American servicemen at risk of death. this is why i think your analysis is a misread of the situation; i haven't seen media report this distinction well and it's hard to keep track of which treaty terms are vague sympathies with a general direction of action and which promise specific actions.

it was, in fact, a fair deal. the minerals deal was to ensure we got some sort of repayment for all the aid we've already sent and to make us a bit more comfortable with the additional aid they still want. since we are already well into the twelve figures w.r.t. aid to Ukraine it seems pretty reasonable. but i don't particularly think a minerals deal is worth sending young men to die halfway across the world in a border war over land the size of west virginia.

the saudi king was in his own cultural formalwear. the pope did the same. if zelensky wanted to dress down and call it "cultural formalwear", he should have tried an adidas tracksuit. what he did was simple disrespect. it's not the end of the world but i think he owes us more than this "great value steve jobs" routine. i dress better than that for a normal workplace.

"parroting russian talking points" isn't a good response or critique. i don't read RT or alt-right twitter. i agree we have some interest in keeping russia contained and it's generally a good move to put resources behind that. i do not think there's this odd moral obligation to do whatever it takes and back ukraine to the hilt. this is sort of a "heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a good point" situation.
Europe needs to step up now that it is absolutely crystal clear that America and by extension, Americans, don't give a rat's ass about Ukraine, her people and the threat posed by Russian.

Putin must be howling with laughter.
+1 for make a lot of small games you can finish. Game jams / hackathons are good for this [1][2]. The fact that OP got their demo in front of people in ~6 weeks is heartening though for that aspect, many people lock themselves away for years only to discover their efforts were ill-advised.

[1] https://itch.io/jams
[2] https://ludumdare.com/
By your logic the “passive voters” would also support Harris if she were the winner. So you have to count them her way, too.

Which means they cancel out and no, “>50% of Americans” still don’t support the current regime.
Land is not scarce in the US. My road trip through Nevada to Salt Lake City convinced me of that much. What is scarce is land people actually want to live in - with safe neighborhoods, good schools, restaurants, shops, etc. Restrictive zoning and NIMBYism is definitely making this worse.

I don't think the amount of "unexplored" or "undeveloped" land is a good metric for social mobility. Economic growth is. New "frontiers" are created all the time. They do not have to be in the physical world (e.g. computers, the web, biotech, the App store, social media influencer, crypto, and now AI). Even in the physical world, frontiers can sometimes expand. Desirable land can be created in the middle of a desert (e.g. Las Vegas), we just don't want to anymore.

Despite its many flaws, I think the US is still better than pretty much anywhere else in the world.
> to help her find citations and sources, then using 4.5 and the edit feature to get a tone that sounds like her and not at all like ChatGPT.

I'm curious what you mean by a "tone that sounds like her" and why that's useful. Is this for submitting homework assignments? Or is note reviewing more efficient if it sounds like you wrote it?
While I don’t doubt things have worked out well for you, how many of you are able to afford owning real estate?
How about don't send ANYONE's personal information, anonymized or not, to anyone including themselves? I think that's what people want. But that will never happen because you can't make money from it.
LLMs are not Markov chains
Explain your argument because it's not at all clear to me. I do not see how that statement refutes the arguments the above poster gave.
Most of the subreddits for gamedev aren't well suited for self-promotion. I think https://www.reddit.com/r/playmygame/ is probably the most welcoming for "hey I built something - let me know what you think"
Sounds like a problem with modern software build practices to me.
Because they are a part of NATO and have basically zero military to speak of on their own. There's a reason all of their proposed plans to support Ukraine include an American backstop: because they can't stand on their own and have relied on US military spending for decades to prop themselves up.

Ukraine is not a member of NATO and has no significant mutual defense treaty with America. We intervened nonetheless, to protect Europe. I think we should continue intervening, but I also think it's ludicrous for the EU to threaten to not support America, when they've allowed their military infrastructure to rot away at our expense.
Read again, they are addressing two unrelated wording changes in two separate documents.
> One of the main benefits of Semgrep is its unified DSL that works across all supported languages.

> People can disagree, but I'm not sure that tree-sitter S-expressions as an upgrade over a DSL.

100% agree — a DSL is a better user experience for sure. But this is a deliberate choice we made of not inventing a new DSL and using tree-sitter natively. We've directly addressed this and agree that the S-expressions are gnarly; but we're optimizing for a scenario that you wouldn't need to write this by hand anyway.

It's a trade-off. We don't want to spend time inventing a DSL and port every language's idiosyncrasies to that DSL — we'd rather improve our runtime and add support for things that other tools don't support, or support only on a paid tier (like cross-file analysis — which you can do on Globstar today).
Only if you acknowledge illegal annexations.
In general I don't think sanctions work. They're clearly not working against Russia. EU countries still use tons of Russian gas, they just pay 5X more than they used to because now they have to stick their fingers in the ears and cover their eyes and buy the gas re-routed through India or Azerbaijan at a premium while they pretend they are no longer buying Russian gas. It is quite silly.

but sanctions clearly destroyed Syria.
It's basically the Back to the Future II world / timeline, which makes sense when you consider who Biff was based on.
Are you asking people to read the mind of Putin? Or speculate? It seems reasonable to believe that at the very least Putin wants the territory he attempted to take when he first invaded, Kyiv et.al.

Why would that change if he hasn't?
Electric has the virtually insurmountable problem that they have to haul the entire weight of the batteries around even if they are drained. This is a MASSIVE loss as itliners can burn off over half their weight during the flight.
American here:

We don't care. Approximately 0% of the American public believes the UK would help us if we were invaded, because we have eyes and have seen how absolutely degraded the European militaries have become, outside of a few outliers like Poland and Turkey.

I worked in the Pentagon for 10 years, and went over to the UK about twice a year for work at RAF Mildenhall, which, of course, is primarily filled with USAF planes and airmen.

European nations stopped caring about defending themselves, and turned NATO into a charity of which they are the recipients.

More recently (2016-2021), I would travel to London on a regular basis to work with a team based out of an office in Shoreditch. The sentiment of the average Londoner to the US military was fairly negative, typically accompanied by a face that looked like they had just smelled a fart.

My son is 18. I don't want him being drafted into any war on behalf of a demoralized population that doesn't want to fight for their own country. It's morally reprehensible to expect us to subsidize a society that has imprisons citizens for social media posts and fines our tech companies every chance they can get.
No judgement here. I'm just trying to understand what is even the point of taking a class for fun if you just delegate the coursework to AI.
Cats tend to do that.
If this was really about cleaning up government, or balancing the budget then it wouldn't have started with small potatoes. You would immediately cut the low hanging fruit. Say, oil industry subsidies. That would get you something like 13 billion a year in savings.

All the destruction sown by DOGE (outside of USAID) represents (favorably) 0.2% of the US budget. Including USAID it's closer to 1.3% of the US budget.

At the same time Republicans are proposing reducing revenue by 4500 billion dollars.
I think if they believed there would be enough people to justify charging for the software to make that model work, they would do it. But I don't think it's actually viable, I think the number of people that would pay for firefox is much lower than you think.

Consider how many other similarly popular software programs charge small fees for their app... I can't even think of a single one. And you can only really charge for binaries, because as soon as one person gets the source, they can distribute it, and then they (or others) can make their own (free) binaries, and then why would anyone pay money anymore.
I think a lot of people in tech unintentionally blind themselves to reality by obsessing over technology, and then thinking that is all that matters. It’s a behavior that is incentivized because it helps those with power utilize the tech-blind’s skills for their bidding.
By definition, the poor don't have money. How are you transferring wealth away from people who don't have any?
The long-term goal is to fix themselves and their family at the top of the social hierarchy just in time before biotech bros discover immortality, thus saving their place permanently in the newly ossified social order. This is the last chance fix it before the true end of history, or some bullshit like that.
On #3: The elections are suspended under well understood rules of martial law.

On how many Ukranians have will have to die before Crimea is retaken?

How much of this is about Crimea? Russia already annexed it, and the world accepted that.

On anti-peace "pro-Ukranian" people

That is an inflammatory strawman that pretty much sums up that your commentary should be ignored. Zelenskyy's point is that Russia / Putin has not honoured past attempts at diplomacy, which rings true for me.
This is incorrect. EU still buys Russian gas, its just re-routed through friendlier (than Russia) countries like India or Azerbaijan, and it costs a lot more than it used to because of logistics and transit costs.
If you say the word coke (\kok\) in front of a Frenchman, they will immediately think of cocaine. Most people aren't aware of the other meaning of coke. They will probably say it's coal (charbon), the technical term being coke (but pronounced \kɔk\) or apparently charbon de terre according to the other comments.
That was a day or two ago.
Coming from the people who spent $2.5 trillion fighting goat herders with ak47s for over 20 years, and lost, that's a good one...

Either way it's not a reason to publicly humiliate Zelensky, to announce he's a dictator, to repeat Russian propaganda talking points, &c.

If your version of peace is to unconditionally accept all of the aggressor's demands, shit on the country being invaded and steal their resources don't be surprised if people don't clap