skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Democratic Party in the USA would be seen as neo-liberals too from outside the US

Incorrect: This is an old argument from the left to pretend that US leftism isn’t very left.

Truth: The US government is in debt of 6 trillion per year, which makes it the most powerful government of the world. The right’s “Atlas Shrugged” vision is to have a very lean government, as in, weak and powerless as possible.

Conclusion: The American left wing proposes to build a government bigger than any socialist country in the world.

Correlation: Ironically, the leftists are often anti-war and they’d be much better defended if they supported defunding the US government to the point they couldn’t wage war outside their borders. The left should support Elon Musk ;)
So then isn't using "complicated" normally, in an attention-grabbing headline, referring to the watches complications, in a round-a-bout way?
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Ironically for me it works on my MacOS laptop but not on my Debian 12 VPS
Mechanical watches don't require much maintenance. They need reoiling every decade or so. They also aren't usually very expensive. You wouldn't say that clothes are a Veblen good just because there are expensive clothing brands that are. Most mechanical watches are not this kind of luxury example.
>Linux, where there's just one thing, but its free and impossible to monetize directly

Redhat and SUSE are multi-billion dollar Linux distro companies.
It might be worth throwing in an analogy to windows PCs vs Mac vs Linux. G appeals to a subset of the market at the end of the day, being “best” does not mean everyone will use it.
I haven't seen anyone else integrate LLMs properly with email and calendar other than Google.

I had an interesting experience: I was taking out a loan for some solar panels and there were some complicated instructions across multiple emails. I asked Gemini to summarise exactly what I had to do. It looked through my emails and told me I had to go to the web site for local rebate scheme and apply there. It even emphasised that it was important that I do that. I scoffed at it because I thought my installer was going to do that and wrote it off. A few weeks later, guess what: the installer calls me because they can't see the rebate application in their portal and want me to go check that I applied for it (!). Sure enough, I missed the language in the email telling me to do that and had to do exactly what Gemini had said weeks ago.

I do think Google has a real shot here because they have such an integrated email and calendaring solution where everyone already assumes it's online, fully indexed etc.
I'm glad JRuby has been useful to you!
On 2, a few additional quotes from Wikipedia might help (they admittedly don’t directly implicate Guy Rosen, though you’d have to be extremely charitable in assuming he wasn’t party to these decisions):

“ Onavo, which allowed the company to read network traffic on a device prior to its being encrypted, thereby giving the company the ability "to measure detailed in-app activity" and to collect analytics on Snapchat app usage from devices on which Onavo was installed.[12] It did this by creating "fake digital certificates to impersonate trusted Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon analytics servers to redirect and decrypt secure traffic from those apps for Facebook’s strategic analysis."[13] The program, which was named "Project Ghostbusters" in reference to Snapchat's ghost-shaped logo, was later expanded to include Amazon and YouTube”

“ On January 29, 2019, TechCrunch published a report detailing "Project Atlas"—an internal market research program employed by Facebook since 2016. It invited users between the ages of 13 and 35 to install the Facebook Research app—allegedly a rebranded version of Onavo Protect—on their device, to collect data on their app usage, web browsing history, web search history, location history, personal messages, photos, videos, emails, and Amazon order history. Participants received up to $20 per-month to participate in the program, which was promoted to teenagers via targeted advertising on Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook Research is administered by third-party beta testing services, including Applause and BetaBound, and requires users to install a Facebook root certificate on their phone. On iOS, this is prohibited by Apple's Enterprise Developer License Agreement, as the methods used are intended solely for use by a company's employees (for use cases such as internal software specific to their environment, and internal pre-release versions of apps)”
You really hit the nail on the head with trust. Knowing the power of these AIs and how absolutely little I trust Google, I’d never tell trust Gemini with the things I’ll say to ChatGPT.
This is one reason I see to be optimistic about some of the hype around LLMs—folks will have to learn how to write high quality specifications and documentation in order to get good results from a language model; society desperately needs better documentation!
You seem to have confused expense with arrogance and elitism. Honestly it just sounds like you are envious of people that can afford to spend their money on expensive luxuries.
I will never do subscriptions. As you mentioned, the fact that you you have to "successfully stop an automatic payment" is an experience that I'm not willing to go through.
The US has been exporting it's contradictions for a very long time,and is now turning to deporting those that contradict the official line.
It's quite clear that the American people are not in support of what is bieng done, and that is most evident in the total lack of support for American troops bieng deployed in any of the conflicts currently happening.
Certainly, the whole mess is becoming less tenable with even the supream court getting uncomfortable with people, any people, bieng dissapeared off the street by masked, ununiformed, armed "agents" acting without legal warants.
Now that purely political policy is bieng "protected" by deporting those that dissagre, it is a short step for the government to act against anyone, and the next step will be to do as the Britishers are, and strip citizenship from people who oppose the govenments policy, again without warant or charges.
> undercutting Netscape’s browser

It almost sounds like you're saying that Netscape wasn't free, and I'm pretty sure it was always free, before and after Microsoft Explorer
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Wow, that's a great idea!

Thanks for sharing! It looks like it can improve performance a lot
How do you make virtual cards?
If you're on a free account and you shared it somewhere that drove a lot of traffic to it, it may be flagged algorithmically.
Long polling is easy - all it means is your server does not immediately respond - nothing more to it than that.
Let's be real, Windows Server hasn't changed much since W2K... they may have slapped the 7/Vista UI onto it, but at its core, nothing has changed.

It still operates just fine for AD, DHCP, DNS, SMB, etc etc... the only thing they could drop without the majority freaking out is IIS.
I can really relate to the feeling described after modifying save files to get more resources in a game, but I wonder if it's the same kind of 'cheating'.
Doing better in a game has its own associsted feeling of achievement, and cheating definitely robs you of that, which to me explains why playing will be less fun.
Moving faster on a side project or at work doesn't feel like the same kind of shortcut/cheat. Most of us no longer program in assembly language, and we still maintain a sense of achievement using elite languages, which naturally abstract away a lot of the details.
Isn't using AI to hide away implementation details just a natural next step, where instead of lengthy error prone machine level code, you have a few modern language instructions?
Why are conservatives hell bent on destroying the nice things we had? Sometimes nice things are better than money. Money can't always replace nice things. These laws cost infinite man hours to implement over a century and their burnt by savages on a Friday night.
The word "critter" might be used differently in your area. Perhaps you are using it casually, not meaning to dehumanize other people.
But be aware that what is going on in our country is fascist populism. Fascism did not start with mass killings. It started with calling other human beings critter, vermin, pest that we need to get rid off. We disallow others to speak up in public and deport them. Deportations already lead to deaths depending on your political, sexual, religious,... orientation. Fascist regimes start with language and are fueled by deaths.
Fee application for cancelling a subscription service should be absolutely illegal.
I think this particular anxiety was explored rather well in the anonymous short story 'The End of Creative Scarcity':

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3353977/1/The-End-of-Creative...

Some existential objections occur; how sure are we that there isn't an infinite regress of ever deeper games to explore? Can we claim that every game has an enjoyment-nullifying hack yet to discover with no exceptions? If pampered pet animals don't appear to experience the boredom we anticipate is coming for us, is the expectation completely wrong?
Open weights?
But Zionism is not Judaism.

Most of the pro-Palestine or anti-Zionist content I see is denouncing Israeli war crimes and genocide. No one is bashing Jews because of their ethnicity or religion.

Also a lot of this comes from the Jews (who are then attacked for being confused or..... antisemitic)

We're not at the point of people hunting Jews because they're Jews. We are at the point when opposing targeting/killing medics, press, children or hospitals may result in being kidnapped from the street and either locked up without charges or trafficked to the torture camp.

I do not disagree with your comment in general, I disagree with you putting "Judaism" while the almost all the critique and rebuke is aimed at the Israeli war crimes or the Zionist supremacy ideology.
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Do you have more links handy about the situation in Portugal? I'd love to read more about that.
I'm now a SAR navigator on a lifeboat and we now have a renewed focus on manual navigation as skills atrophied due to reliance on GPS plotting. While GPS in our AOR is rock solid, our plotters are not and frequently unavailable.
I run every query I do through all the major models, up to 10 of them at this point.

Benchmarks aside Gemini 2.5 Pro is a great model and now often produces the best code for me but it's not notably better than any of the other frontier models in my testing each of which tends to have their own strengths and weaknesses.

And Google's wrapper around Gemini is easily the most frustrating of any of the major AI companies. It's content guardrails are annoying and I just learned yesterday it won't let you upload json files for whatever reason (change the extension to txt without modifying the contents in any way and it works just fine).
There are no fewer dollars in the US dollar currency area after the sale than before… but those dollars are worth less than before. If capital has not left the area, it has been destroyed. That’s not to say that the US economy is inevitably doomed… but you sound very bullish.
I don't really see it. At least the article should address why we would not assume massive price drops, market adjusted pricing and free offerings, as with all other innovation before, that all lead to wider access to better technology.

Why would this be the exception?
The financial barrier point is really great.

I feel the same with a lot of points made here, but hadn't yet thought about the financial one.

When I started out with web development that was one of the things I really loved. Anyone can just read about html, css and Javascript and get started with any kind of free to use code editor.

Though you can still do just that, it seems like you would always drag behind the 'cool guys' using AI.
Google is also the only company that has had their own AI hardware that's worked (TPU). This could lead to more cost-effective training + inference and hence better AI.
Who paid: programmers switching to FP.

What was the price: two things:

- The programmers must stop using for-loops and [i]ndexes.

- The programmers must start using maps/folds/filters/et cetera.

What was the expected reward: the knowledge that their functions' outputs will only depend on their inputs.

In short: programmers who change their behaviour get the benefit of certainty about specific properties of their programs.
Server Management might be one. People seem to waste a lot of money for fancy cloud solution they don't actually need. And you said a little bash can solve do many problems
In my eyes a critical discussion does not mean that the disagreements went underground. If the team is doing its best to resolve the issue, what else are you going to do? I certainly do not believe that yelling at each other is helpful.

A toxic consensus culture usually does not even allow for a serious, critical discussion, but dissenters are just ignored or verbally patted on the head.
Personally I've never understood why would someone use a website to download videos when you have yt-dlp. A standalone program is more reliable and more ubiquitous than a website. And despite "yt" in the name, it's not only about YouTube.
This is a baffling criticism. Why would you expect a niche not to have its own jargon? Not that "bespoke" is (it is an older usage than "custom" and is used widely).

>people invent for things perfectly well described by expressions anyone can use like "high precision timekeeping"

What is "high precision"? Why are you using engineering jargon when you could say something simple like "accurate"? Why are you using such lofty elitist language?
How exactly? They lead people into signing a one-year contract without any possibility of withdrawal by misleading customers into believing it's a monthly subscription. Personally, I know two people who had to block their payment cards through their banks because it was otherwise impossible to cancel their Adobe subscription.
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Not GP, but what is the point of touching Rust at all then?
Google collects and stores grotesque amounts of data about the public https://takeout.google.com
I don't know what you did there, but clearly being ex OpenAI isn't the intellectual or product flex it is: I and every other smart person I know still use ChatGPT (paid) because even now it's the best at what it does and we keep trying Google and Claude and keep coming back.

They got and as of now continue to get things right for the most part. If you still aren'ĥt seeing it maybe you should introspect what you're missing.
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Can it run Firefox yet? The last time I tried reactOS, it BSODed just trying to launch Firefox... and don't even try using Windows drivers on it, it'll either hardlock, BSOD immediately, or during startup, regardless of whether you're in safe mode or not...
but also they compare reasoning and non-reasoning models - e.g. Meta's Llama 4
anecdotally Meta has pretty lax moderation against anti-palestinian in Hebrew, allowing tons of extremely racist/violent speech.
> I don't understand what that means.

Shit code or architecture that other devs didn't call out.
Both sides want their side engaged and the other apathetic. On a national level this means FSB employing hundreds if not thousands of people to troll political discourse in social media in the west to maximize the amount of ‘I don’t care anymore’ people. A very asymmetric setup exposing the underbelly of free speech cultures.
If I see something like "At least on Linux, long and long long are both 64 bits in size." my skin starts to crawl. Not only that, but GCC defines __builtin_popcount() with unsigned int / long / long long, respective, i.e. even in the text it should be mentioned correctly (unless a different compiler uses signed types there ... ugh). The call is done with unsigned, using uint64_t as a type-cast, but using a fixed __builtin_popcountl() which translates to unsigned long. There are systems where this will fail, i.e. the only safe bet to use here is __builtin_popcountll() as this will cover at least 64 bit wide arguments.

Also, if a * b overflows within the result type, it is an undefined behavior according to the C standard, so this overflow check is at least not properly portable, either, and the shown code for that is actually buggy because the last A1 has to be A0.

No idea why all that gets me so grumpy today ...
I’ve been running Windows 2000 Pro as my main machine from I think the second beta until it was completely dropped from support.

It ran all of my games, stable as hell, quite light with none of the bullshit added later, none of the graphical bullshit added by XP but still classic Chicago.

The only thing that could make it better were the UI rendering engine introduced with Vista and its enhanced driver and security model.
I would have more problems with it even being on the network before we start talking about exfiltration.
I recently had to check some legal thing - I gave the pdf with law to both - chatgpt and Gemini, and I was able to convince the Gemini that my interpretation is right, but chatgpt was constantly opposing me. Later I checked and found out that my interpretation was wrong, so I'd say that chatgpt was better and moreover it spared me some problems with "Polish IRS"
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> Netscape, in contrast, sells the consumer version of Navigator for a suggested price of $49. Users can download a free evaluation copy from the Internet, but it expires in 90 days and does not include technical support.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/19/business/netscape-moves-t...
> that the op meant to suggest the administration was targeting people due to

Very certainly not in the understanding of, hopefully, most.

--

Edit: now, the very clear intention of that poster, with a high degree of probability, seems from here to suggest that the running situations can be absurd.
Exactly. Btw rust toolchain is quite complicated while a code that was tanspiled to C might be as well compiled to e.g. 6052
I am not even sure how to use Gemini 2.5 pro ergonomically right now. Cursor and Windsurf both obviously have issues, probably optimized too much around Claude, but what else is there?

Is everyone copy pasting into the Google AI studio or what?
thank for PR. very fast turn around.
Because they have money? Do you know how envious you sound? I wouldn't be surprised if you were literally green with it.
To be fair, driver support sucked ass for NT3/4, and I don't think 4 even had DirectX support...
> how absolutely little I trust Google, I’d never tell trust Gemini with the things I’ll say to ChatGPT.

Are you pretty sure that Google won't eventually buy OpenAI and thus learn everything you've said to ChatGPT?
Gemini 2.5 Pro does this annoying thing where it decides to refactor every part of your code even if you didn't ask, and also it outputs way too many damn comments on almost every line in the style of:

// Increment variable by 1

I find Claude 3.7 better at following instructions, even though the solutions it comes up with may not be the best at times
It could fail if the generated C code triggered Undefined Behavior.

For example, signed overflow is UB in C, but defined in Rust. Generated code can't simply use the + operator.

C has type-based alias analysis that makes some type casts illegal. Rust handles alias analysis through borrowing, so it's more forgiving about type casts.

Rust has an UnsafeCell wrapper type for hacks that break the safe memory model and would be UB otherwise. C doesn't have such thing, so only uses of UnsafeCell that are already allowed by C are safe.
> The Pelosis' trades are public knowledge.

That happens after they are disclosed and this delay benefits them. Not you.

How did the Pelosis' know that the DOJ was going to file a lawsuit against Visa and as soon as it was filed, that would cause the stock to drop? [0]

The DOJ could have filed it at any time before the trade was publicly disclosed.

> Pelosi and her husband have outperformed the market by being tech-optimistic Californians.

People who trade on the advantage of insider (political, economic, etc) knowledge can easily outperform the market.

> One of their most lucrative investments was investing in Nvidia after ChatGPT was released triggering the AI boom. Did that require any particular political "insider knowledge"? No.

So you do admit that for most of the Pelosis' trades, they did use political insider knowledge then?

The level of people here defending politicians and family members of them, benefiting from insider trading loopholes is amusing to see.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-sold-vis...
That's boring. How can someone start a conversation like that? It leads to nowhere and the person is now way more disinterested in talking to you. Best way is to talk about books, games, TV shows, etc. It's something you can easily expand upon once you find a common ground
I'm CTO in a startup in Germany. We've applied for and gotten various grants. It's not a big deal. And there are agencies that can help with this. I know various people in different companies that benefit from this as well. There is money at the state level, at the federal level, and the European level that can be unlocked via grants.

Germany has got a well deserved reputation for its bureaucracy and lack of flexibility. We were dealing with the tax office at the same time we were dealing with grants. One part of the government trying to give us money, another taking it away. We had our first deal with not enough revenue to even pay ourselves. That was calculated as "profit". As a bootstrapped company, we got very close to emptying our accounts a few times. And stuff like this isn't helpful. But we survived and we're still around. Partially thanks to these grants.

I think this incoming government is saying the right things and looks like they are planning to do things that sound like they are good ideas. Making the process of founding a company easier, incentivizing R&D, etc. There's a lot of potential in this country in terms of companies that are very specialized and high tech, well educated people, etc. They are definitely over dependent on older companies that are a bit past their prime, e.g. in automotive.

Germany mainly needs to deal with it's risk averse bureaucracy and culture. People that want to take risk here need to move more freely and faster. It shouldn't take months to found a company. Or thousands of euros to deal with all the bureaucracy (which it does if you add it all up).

Germany tends to stifle innovation by bureaucracy, restrictive & complex rules, and a finance climate that actively discourages investment and taking risk. Especially foreign investment. If you look at a lot of big name scale ups in Germany, you'll find that they have headquarters in places like Dublin, London, or Amsterdam. There's a good reason for this: if you want foreign investors to invest, a Gmbh is simply a somewhat toxic legal construction. These companies are German in all but name. That's about more than just taxes.

That needs to change. I think people are well aware. Merz certainly seems to be. But bureaucracies have a way of pushing back and this country is run by bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers, notaries, etc. that all benefit financially from the system being the way it is. They actively resist change and insist how crucial they are to the whole thing. Everything they touch tends to get more complex and convoluted. My worry is that they'll just end up adding to the problem instead of solving it.