skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they do use their products and they don't like them or the company's policies. Why is this so hard for you to believe? Given a lack of hard evidence either way other than our own anecdotes, you're essentially falling into conspiracy theorizing, accusing people of being liars based on precisely fuck-all. Even going so far as to suggest it's organized, a "sport".

It's delusional.
That does not scale. We cannot ask every single citizen about every single decision. You want to decide on each funding. The next will want to decide on every tax law change. Government decides, and if majority of population thinks they’re doing a shit job and someone else can do a less shot job they get replaced after a couple of years. Otherwise it’s micromanagement hell.
I clicked through to the project at
https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr - from a quick glance at it, with 1.8k stars and 17 contributors, it deserves a better treatment than a passive—aggressive dismissal like this as a top comment.

It is a very impressive piece of work.
Israel is comitting mass murder and genocide. Meta is helping to cover it up.
Much like you leaving this comment?
A quick trip to sub-Saharan Africa will prove this is both true and untrue.
You can bypass this problem by embedding relevant source code files directly in the prompt itself.

I built a desktop GUI tool called 16x Prompt that help you do it: https://prompt.16x.engineer/
"Other places are 10x worse, you should be grateful to just eat 1 shovel of dirt / week instead of 10"
The most important takeaway is this:

"I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp."

Remember, if you don't own it this is always the case.

ALWAYS!
I would be too lazy to bother with a throwaway in almost all circumstances, but I would 100% attempt a charge back in anger. I'm uncertain how my bank would ultimately respond though.
That is actually incorrect. What you call public funding has been before produced by private individuals or private companies. The State barely generates any money itself. And when it does in large amounts by printing new money it’s actually analog to extorting money to everyone else in the society by impoverishing them via inflation.

There is a common believe that humans would never be generous, altruistic without a State forcing them. And that’s actually quite the opposite. Humankind would have never made it if that was the case. You can observe it clearly still in lots of societies populating earth, specially the poorest ones without public services.

It’s actually the unconditional access to public services that has incentivized the individuality of our society nowadays. If I’m already supported by the State why should I make any effort towards my society? In the past without public services, interaction with your local community was a must.

But it’s also a problem as a donor or supporter: how can I support or donate to any cause if the State is already taxing 50% of my wealth and I have barely any money to buy a house?
Discover Great Britain in Minecraft V2 (2025)
Nethanjahi's Government is, far from the whole country. There are every week thousands that go protest against him. Nethanjahi is not representative of the whole country.
This one I believe is not the collectible one. I think is the marketing one. Is the concept car of watch world. The LaFerrari that makes people buy the expensive but cheaper Purosangue.
> I don't understand what that means.

Probably "code that nobody critiques will fail in production". That's not always true I guess.
Just a fun I had with Gemini 2.5 pro. I asked him to create a code for a toolchain that uses some ai at a point and it stubbornly used OpenAI api and refused to generate code using Gemini apis instead. Also it said it is model trained by google. Didn't knew its name and when asked to generate code for "youself" defaulted to openai.

Probably sending people to spend money at your competition is not the surefire way to market dominance.
I think home users would be the least of their concerns.
If you don't know what an ethnostate is, you shouldn't have posted this so late on a school night hahaha

But am I to understand from your comment that the current campaign in Gaza is intrinsically tied to Judaism?
It is surprising that it's such a small number, but upon reflection maybe not so surprising. Stock markets were invented to allow massively capital intensive businesses like railways to get off the ground. You can't grow a railway organically by reinvesting profit like a regular business; it needs to be fully built before it can bring in a penny. Naturally there can only be so many of these businesses. In the case of railways they usually become natural monopolies. So being publicly owned was a really great thing.

But most businesses don't need such large capital injections anyway. They can grow organically, and there's very little reason to sell a profitable company. Although it does happen, of course, Google being a prime example, having gone public when already profitable.
All military actions made by oppressed peoples is legitimate resistance and your framing of Palestinians as instigators is troubling.
I agree with one big exception, the refocus on COM as the main Windows API delivery mechanism.

It is great as idea, pity that Microsoft keeps failing to deliver in developer tooling that actually makes COM fun to use, instead of something we have to endure.

From OLE 1.0 pages long infrastructure in Windows 16 bit, via ActiveX, OCX, MFC, ATL, WTL, .NET (RCW/CCW), WinRT with. NET Native and C++/CX, C++/WinRT, WIL, nano-COM, .NET 5+ COM,....

Not only do they keep rebooting how to approach COM development, in terms of Visual Studio tooling, one is worse than the other, not at the same feature parity, only to be dropped after the team's KPI change focus.

When they made the Hilo demo for Windows Vista and later Windows 7 developers with such great focus on being back on COM, after how Longhorn went down, a better tooling would be expected.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-hilo/
The speed with which things are ending are most important I think. For decades there has been a slow decline in US power. Today we have the BRICS trade block representing more than half of the world's population. And countries hold a basket of reserve currencies, where the dollar is still a large percentage, but not nearly as large as it used to be. If all these pillars of American empire are carelessly self-destructed, crashing the world order, it will be hugely disruptive. It forces other powers to act and move to occupy the power vacuum, while lacking the economic weapons may force US'es hand to engage with military force, to reestablish itself.
Regular people is not where the money is. For example, I get Gemini as part of my employer’s Google Workspace subscription, and as it is now decent enough, have no need to use anything else.
I think that Lottie is much more flexible than Rive, at least as a format.. But I believe that neither Rive nor Lottie have really proven to be useful for games in cases of extensive use-I would love to see something like that. Even Rive's performance did not seem to live up to what they promise. Not in Flutter.
Capitalism actually thrives where there is only 1 regulation: total transparency. After all, if we go by the classic definition of free market competition we have customers who have perfect knowledge of every product and the products are very similar and etc. etc.

Who cares if someone at the WH does insider trading? In a transparent system people would be able to trace back every transaction and realize something is brewing and they could act accordingly.
Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU
I agree with you. There is also a move toward "agents", where the AI can make decisions and take actions for you. It is very early days for that, but it looks ike it might come sooner than I had though.
That opens up even more potential for influence on financial decisions (which is what adtech wants) - it could choose which things to buy for a given "need".
> Both systems pushed the clock rate much higher than PCs at the time.

Intel reached 3.2GHz on a production part in June 2003, with the P4 HT 3.2 SL792. At the time the 360 and PS3 were released, Intel's highest clocked part was the P4 EE SL7Z4 at 3.73.
There was a multi-machine single-Linux-kernel-instance distro many years ago called Kerrighed. The company behind it died unfortunately so it hasn't kept up with Linux kernel patch rebasing. It offered a "view of a unique SMP machine on top of a cluster of standard PCs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrighed
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kerrighed/
It’s an awful feeling to have a trusted friend distance themselves with no explanation. It amplifies any insecurities we have.

I hope you find someone you can connect with. I’m rooting for you man.
> wokeness on the left… I am directly threatened by their program.

Could you please explain what that threat is exactly, and what kind of “concessions to white males” you would have in mind?
I have been using all AI tools in my job working for ai startup and none of them are google products. May be I should give it a try, their product positioning is horrible
This is silly. What are you proposing? A coup to ban AI? Because that is the alternative to waiting for legislators and courts.
Consider that government policy which prioritizes gender identity beliefs has caused real, tangible harms to women.

The worst of these is female prisoners being sexually assaulted, raped and even impregnated by male prisoners incarcerated in women's prisons. These males were transferred into the female prison estate because of policy that allows a self-declaration of female gender identity by these men to override the safeguarding rules that separate prisons by sex.

If you truly care about respecting people's dignity, think about the vulnerable women who are having single-sex spaces obliterated, to their detriment, because of policymakers with gender identity ideological beliefs.

Also, intersex conditions are sex-specific. These disorders of sex development form a discrete set, not a continuum. And this isn't relevant to male individuals who don't have any sex developmental disorder demanding access to female spaces, as is usually the case with trans.
What would be great is if the EU took some Russian money to fund all these lost projects. Include KSA in these projects so they don't complain about the confiscation of funds. Suddenly we don't lose 20 to 30 years of scientific advancement.

(Then send the rest to Ukraine, if that's cool, please)
Yet Kamala and her supporting PACs had two or three times the funding that Trump had.
Technically, they are the same. As in: people with power want to control the narrative.

This was so, is so and will always be so, everywhere.

But but but… details matter. A lot.

The west has traditions how and when to apply power, which is distinctly different from Russia.

I hand-pick two illustrations of Russia:

1.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/27/moscow-police-accu...

> Officers “beat up Kamardin very badly and stuck a dumbbell in his anus,” according to Novaya Gazeta Europe.

2. Bald man claim to power was accompanies with mysterious explosions of apartment buildings after which Chechens were declared enemies and war started.

Some interesting bits from wikipedia:

> Three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[6] The next day, FSB director Nikolai Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar, and freed the FSB agents involved.[7]

And

> 13 September 1999: Russian Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov makes an announcement about the bombing of an apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk that only takes place three days later

> 16 September 1999: Bombing in Volgodonsk, 17 are killed, 69 injured

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombi...
At this point, it's not clear that they would oppose him dropping a nuclear bomb on Ohio.
Yeah, exactly. Here on a website called 'Hacker News', we're only interested in projects when they're feature complete and mature enough for production deployment, not before. (/s)
> could act accordingly

Concretely, what are you thinking of here?
Thank you for your insightful reply. I am also registered as an Expert to the EC. I fully agree with you that completing all requirements in a 40-pager is hard. Which I think is exactly my point. It's competitive (that's good) and time-consuming. But I also believe grant applications are a muscle a startup should have when they want to do business with the government. In SpacecTech, Defense, and AI (my areas) this is largely unavoidable.
Yes, but I also disagree to some degree because it's a similar argument to "I can watch philosophy TikToks and learn".

Certainly, philosophy TikToks are better than "boyfriend caught cheating prank" TikToks, but to some degree the medium is the message. And the question is whether we want the message of "everything is a short video, everything has a simple explanation and you can always swipe away and something else will be provided for you"
Well, you would be surprised how many issues in financial education would 100 random people off the street have.

But the contract plan is not aimed at them, but at literate computer users most of them working as freelancers (so with at least some financial knowledge).

The same way a Pilot Operating Handbook cannot be judged by the understanding of random 100 people off the street.
What left are you talking about? The Democratic Party in the USA would be seen as neo-liberals too from outside the US. Calling it "the left" just shows how delusional the society in the USA seems to have become...
> Asked whether he’d trade his office for peace, Zelensky told a journalist, “I can trade it for NATO.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5159951-ukraine-pre...

Zelensky is not seizing power. Elections suspended during active, home-turf wartime is normal.
> One of them stopped talking to me for reasons I don't understand.

This is relatively common from what I've seen. People who just ghost a friend, or ghost an entire groups of friends. A lot of the times it's because they're unhappy with their life and trying to make a clean break from what they were connected to before.
The Bitter Prediction
this article precisely captures what i have been thinking recently. it’s really demotivating me.
Right, so I might have to update my statement to "they design for the most likely behavior of the average person."
The reality is more nuanced.

Take China for example. People do criticize the government online all the time. It's just that criticism magically disappears before it reaches critical mass. Generally China does not throw people (Han Chinese, minorities are different) into gulag for posting against the government. They are just constantly censoring and shaping the discussion. Only after they can't contain something they step up. Even then, there is often a phone call first. They try to be efficient.

People have rebel fantasy that US tuns into fascist dictatorship. What really happens is that US turns into illiberal democracy like Hungary. There is constant headwind going against the government or voicing your opinion, you don't get fair treatment and opportunities. Most people just stop resisting when it's somewhat inconvenient. You can still post anything but it is drowned by algorithms.
Skip a step? In Germany? Surely you’re joking.
If I would start college today I would use all the models and chat assistants that are easily available. I would use Google and YouTube to learn concepts deeper. I would ask for subjects from previous years and talk with people from same and higher years.

When I was in college students were paying for homeworks solved by other students, teachers and so on.

In the article "Evaluating" is marked at 5.5% where creating is 39.8%. Students are still evaluating the answers.

My point is that just got easier to go in any direction. The distribution range is wider, is the mean changing?
Which parts would that be? Curious about the standard applied here.
It's like arguing web components suck because there is all these problems you need to solve, while pretending web component frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, ..) that solve all those problems don't exist.
There is a whole industry in Croatia specializing in EU money extraction. Hundreds of agencies writing proposals to get grants for their clients and taking their cut. Tons of those are grifts with money directly landing into people's pockets, seaside villas being bought, hotels being made. It's so blatant that politicians accuse each other for not extracting as much money as they’ve could. After decades of blatant stealing EPPO (European Public Prosecutors Office) got involved. When they go for small fish that’s fine, but when they start investigating government politicians they (government) take the case from them and those guys get a slap on the wrist. There are just so many cases that EPPO can do only a fraction of them. Terrible situation, and I don’t think it’ll change because EU doesn’t give too much of a care about a small country like that. And it’s not their money in a sense, so they care even less.
What? So this is freedom of speech? Are you kidding me? As soon as you can't talk about one thing, your whole freedom is *gone*
Read the review and thought it looked like the kind of thing that I like, but then saw that it doesn't have SteamDeck compatibility. Sorry, but if you're only going to target Windows then you're not seeing my money.
Kodak was well placed to profit from the rise of digital imaging - in the late 1970s and early 1980s Kodak labs pioneered colour image sensors, and was producing some of the highest resolution CCDs out there.

Bryce Bayer worked for Kodak when he invented and patented the Bayer pattern filter used in essentially every colour image sensor to this day.

But the problem was: Kodak had a big film business - with a lot of film factories, a lot of employees, a lot of executives, and a lot of recurring revenue. And jumping into digital with both feet would have threatened all that.

So they didn't capitalise on their early lead - and now they're bankrupt, reduced to licensing their brand to third-party battery makers.

> You can display relevant ads in LLM output or natural language web-search.

Maybe. But the LLM costs a lot more per response.

Making half a cent is very profitable if you only take 0.2s of CPU to do it. Making half a cent with 30 seconds multiple GPUs, consuming 1000W of power... isn't.
Trust was its own reason. It's useful for the whole world to have a currency and business environment that operates by rules, even when the rules aren't perfect or fair.

That environment isn't being outcompeted by better, more fair rules - it's just getting vandalized for a few people's gain, and creating risk for everyone else .
The problem is either network effects (in social media) or massive CapEx (Spotify, Netflix).

In categories where neither is the case, you can usually find beautiful alternatives from indie makers or small businesses.

The issue with streaming and social media is that they represent 90%+ of our cultural narrative now, so it feels like there's no escape.
The implication here is appeal to a wider audience _at the expense_ of the existing customer base, right? Otherwise it wouldn't be a tyranny at all.

What I don't get is at some point the marginal user increase for a change has got to be smaller than the number of customers you tick off and lose by changing things.

Is the idea that all services converge on the same N billion people target audience who wants something almost entirely unlike the initial product? I feel like "marginal" doesn't really capture this nuance if so.
What does this gain you that you can't already do with `extern "c"` functions from rust?
May be it's my luck but I found a glaring issue with Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Studio.

I asked it whether a language feature in Zig was available. It answered yes and proceeded to generate a whole working sample code. I compiled it and got an error. Reported the error and it said the error showed I typed it wrong and asked me to make sure it's typed correctly. Eh?! It's a copy-and-paste. I confirmed again it's wrong. It then said it must be my compiler version was too old. Nope, using the latest. It then said very convincingly that based on its extensively research into the language official documentation, official examples, and release notes, the feature must exist. I asked it to show me the reference materials it used to draw the conclusion. None of links it gave were valid. I told it they were wrong. It gave back another set of links and claimed it had checked the links to make sure they are alive. The links were alive but didn't contain any mention of the feature. I let it know again. It admitted couldn't find the mentioned feature. But it insisted the feature had been merged in a PR. The PR link it gave was unrelated. I let it know. It gave me another 3 PR's and said one mentioned something related so the feature must be in. At the point I gave up.

The issue was that it sounded very convincing and stated "facts" very confidently, with backings to documents and other resources even if they were wrong or irrelevant. Even when told it gave the wrong info, it would double down and made up some BS reference material to back up its claim.
I agree with a lot of that. But, it's a lot easier to get someone to try your web app than install a native app. It's also easier to get the IT department to allow an enterprise web app than install a native app. Web apps do have some advantages over native apps.
That is not how copyright works. "Inspired" works can still be derrivative. In the US, entirely deterministic works are not considered derrivative works as they aren't considered new creative works (if anything they are considered the same as the original). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel...
Oh I know what happens, the todo app was removed from the front page.
Simply copy their positions. But if everyone's position were available, insider trading wouldn't even exist because it would give the game away
The whole left/right thing has been weaponised to distract from the up/down, top/bottom real issue.
Google is also in a great position wrt distribution - to get users at scale, and attach to pre-existing revenue streams. Via Android, Gmail, Docs, Search - they have a lot of reach. YouTube as well, though fit there is maybe less obvious.
Combined with the two factors you mention, and the size of their warchest - they are really excellently positioned.
Not a fan of Google, but if you use Gemini through AI studio with a custom prompt and filters disabled it's by far the least censored commercial model in my experience.
They're not saving money so far, they have been spending more money than the government spent in 2024. And in those cases where they will spend less they also did enormous damage, e.g. cancelling clinical trials midway through. This is pure destruction, not efficiency.

And your woke argument is a pure strawman. What were those extreme positions by Kamala Harris?
There is no need to get left/right political here. There are two political parties in the USA, and they both hit the feedback loop of $crack. One might have led to low-trust faster than the other, but they are both $crack addicts in the end.

Just to be clear as to what this means in politics on the ground... left or right, if you have a political position which disagrees with the biggest money, they will primary you. So, left or right, generally speaking, you only see politicians finally standing up for their morals when they are no longer up for election. The most obvious recent example of this is Mitch McConnell.
Google AI is a crap. Moment they start "winning" you will see it everywhere.
The following article:

»This Is What Insider Trading Looks Like«

https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what-insider-trad...
The linked cases disturb me but they are about criminal investigations. Not "reserve the right to search your device at the border".