skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my chief critique when my company forced us to use their AI tooling. I was trying to stitch together our CMDB, two different VMware products, and the corporate technology directory into a form of product tenancy for our customers. At one point I was trying to move and transform data from our CRM into mongoDB, and figured "eh, let's knock these mandatory agent queries out of the way by asking the chatbot to help." I wrote a few prompts to try and explain what I was trying to accomplish (context), and how I'd like it done (instruction).

The bot hallucinated a non-existent mongoDB Powershell cmdlet, complete with documentation on how it works, and then spat out a "solution" to the problem I asked. Every time I reworked the prompt, cut it up into smaller chunks, narrowed the scope of the problem, whatever I tried, the chatbot kept flatly hallucinating non-existent cmdlets, Python packages, or CLI commands, sometimes even providing (non-working) "solutions" in languages I didn't explicitly ask for (such as bash scripting instead of Powershell).

This was at a large technology company, no less, one that's "all-in" on AI.

If you're staying in a very narrow line with a singular language throughout and not calling custom packages, cmdlets, or libraries, then I suspect these things look and feel quite magical. Once you start doing actual work, they're complete jokes in my experience.
Good luck finding Zyyzzyzx Balleyhew whose address on the temporary card is registered at PO Box 42069, Utqiagvik, AK
See also a short prior discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43648056
I had to stop using Gemini 2.5 because the UI peaks my MPB cpu at max and I can’t type my prompt at more than a character every 2 seconds. I can’t even delete my chats lol. Anyone else?
This assumes that he has more power than the tech companies on the everyday life and I wonder if that is really the case. As I'm not located in the states, I'm very much interested to hear from a US resident if that is really the case.
but that would kill monetization no?
Winning going on what, 10 15 years now? Surely at some point they must start scaling?

At this point all I can imagine is that every year they run the numbers and arrive at "yup, still makes no sense whatsoever". And so its eternally doomed to tech demo status.
Also happened to an in-law of mine. After they got pre-approved fall bladder surgery, the insurer came back and said the surgery was "elective". They paid after a fight.
A bit hard to show "intent to destroy" if for 77 years of rule, they haven't actually done it, though. I mean, in what other "genocide" did the population grow, year over year, for 77 years? Can you name a single one where the population grew for even five years of "genocide"?
Wow, I wonder why Executives risk being the target of assassination. Truly a mystery.
It's not a good short term strategy at all. If that's really the goal, their left and right hands need to have a chat because one of them's going to make the deficit way worse, so if the other's goal is to "free up operating budget" by reducing debt service they really ought to get on the same page, because anything "freed up" is going to be eaten by the other bullshit they're doing.

Besides, this is a wildly expensive way to go about it. The harm to receipts from the economic uncertainty will blow a hole in the federal budget and leave states reeling (to say nothing of the "other hand" making cuts at the IRS, which will also be a net cost)
It looks like that's the data behind figure 3.7.4 - "LLMs implicit bias across stereotypes in four social categories" - on page 199 of the PDF: https://hai-production.s3.amazonaws.com/files/hai_ai_index_r...

They released a separate PDF of just that figure along with the CSV data: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/fig_3.7.4.pdf

The figure is explained a bit on page 198. It relates to this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04105

I don't think they released a data dictionary explaining the different columns though.
I think u/lotsofpulp addresses this in a comment below. I agree with that position: the reason it is becoming harder to fill those jobs has more to do with the lowered quality of the job than the pay.

I'm not sure the pay argument holds. For example, where I live, the average starting teacher salary is higher than the median overall salary. When you couple that with the fact they are on 4-day workweeks and get substantial time off (summers/holidays), the pro-rated pay is actually reasonably high for a starting salary. (Granted, I think it hits a ceiling relatively fast.) From talking to them, I suspect the driving force that make it hard to retain teachers is the lack of quality of life. I think it was Csikszentmihalyi who talks about the need for autonomy in one's career for it to be fulfilling, and the current system seems to limit that to an extreme. Just like u/lotsofpulp's comments about doctors, I think this means the job shifts much of the work from the purpose teachers chose the profession in the first place, and leads to burnout.
If you are so terrified that it interferes with your normal everyday personal functioning, then yes.
The factories will be disassembling the laptops, taking out the batteries. Then the empty laptops will be sent back to China. That will increase exports to China as well.
> without repercussions

This part is not settled yet.
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025 (Stanford University) [pdf]
You are right, I should’ve RTFA
I would like to think they just let other companies have the first mover advantage on chatbots because it only disrupts Google in their search business, which was already pretty far gone and on the way out. Where is AI actually going to change the world? Protein folding, robotics, stuff that the public doesn’t hype about. And they looked at the gold rush and decided “let’s design shovels”. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit but very bullish on Google.
GP responded to a comment about broadcasts, not paintings. I think the GP wasn't so far off. If you are not selling products you are still presenting viewpoints, experiences, and ideas.
I wish more people were asking “why does the hospital charge such absurdly high fees?” instead of “why is Blue Cross trying to not pay those absurdly high fees?”
I'll hijack this to plug Stirling PDF[0], I have it running on a Raspberry Pi with docker compose and from time to time it's incredible helpfull to edit PDFs without sending them to a third party.

- [0] https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
I have no idea, I tried calling the number on the bill but it gave me a dialer with 8 options of "if you're calling about a bill from X which is now part of Y, please dial N". When I selected 8, which was "all other" I got a canned message telling me to call between 9-5 on a week day.

I'm definitely not paying it
That’s why I wrote they could lose not they would lose.
Neither approaches the secrecy needed by government installations. Health care and banking leak PII regularly and never really suffer any consequences.
People should be more alarmed of these law firms, they will be used as his private army.
"What we are doing in practice when delegating coding to LLMs is climbing up the abstraction level ladder."

Except that ladder is built on hallucinated rungs. Coding can be delegated to humans. Coding cannot be delegated to AI, LLM or ML because they are not real nor are they reliable.
Course Catalogue – The Theoretical Minimum
I experienced the uk system briefly and it seemed decent for the simple thing I needed: wait for the NHS or pay a modest fee for private service. The price of private service is bounded by the fact that you can wait for the NHS.
OpenAl's Sam Altman Talks the Future of Al, Safety and Power – Live at TED2025
> government providing adequate child care to working women

You see this is the bias on the left, that everything must be framed as "for women". If the childcare is only for "working women", will a single dad not be able to access it?

Why not government providing adequate child care to working people?

> Why not contact your local representative and explain the issue in an articulate manner?

I do, but your have to admit there is a chilling effect in left wing spaces where openly supporting men's issues makes you very unpopular.
https://archive.is/myWkF
You're not wrong. I'm 2 & 3.
> When did Observable get their hands on D3?

Observable and D3 were created by the same person.
Modern cloud computing is more than just having a scalable infrastructure of servers, it was a paradigm shift to having elastic demand, utility style pricing, being completely API driven, etc. Amazon were not only the first to market but pioneers in this space. Nothing came close at that time.
> which a majority of Americans do not want

You may want to go look at how all the individual attributes of the ACA poll once they're phrased that way and not as in "Obamacare"
Maybe we could compile ffmpeg to WebAssembly and handle video conversion offline too?
I think that’s just insecure people in general, unless extroverts have an ability I don’t know about that makes them immune to charming sociopaths
It's not in the shadows, they're breaking everything that can oppose them to try to make the US an autocracy. It's right out in the open.
From small batteries to big claims
There are plenty of good healthcare systems, and they can be identified by looking at other countries and copying what works. That's not the problem. The problem is how to get there.
I have been in a similar situation, on a Saturday morning right after a farewell for a colleague and planning for next big release and timelines, late Friday.

I got an email from my company early on next Saturday, so I tried to log into my laptop which was now wiped(to my horror).

At that very moment I checked my DMs and realized most of my team was out the door.

No warnings, no justification. I had been promised promotion, I had been promised growth, and I had already seen a round of layoffs with promises to not do more. We were the "valued" members and we were needed.

Well not so much I guess.

Now I don't care, tbh maybe I still do. I want to, just not care though, and I am always prepared, if even a single bad sign comes up I will be out.
But I don't know if I will still see it coming.

I just want to tell to anyone else in a similar situation, don't be sad often it might be a good thing.

I managed to land jobs within the same month and my next job paid me over 2x my previous one. And it helped me grow in my career.

I have changed a lot more jobs till date and I love what I do now, but I still often care too much.

I hope people can find hope here.

Also a couple of my friends had similar luck and one of my former colleagues also now has a startup of their own, they built it on top of their open source project that got surprisingly popular.

Best of luck, world can be rough but, I hope folks just don't stop trying to do something to improve it for themselves and rest of us.

And F execs, I guess. :)
This is a populism move, not pay-to-play. The imminent reality would have been this: many Americans will want to take a vacation to Canada to get a deal on their phone. That just doesn’t make sense.
An actual video example would have helped, but nothing to see here.
The purpose of a system is what it does.

The tariffs are obviously not designed to bring jobs back.

The tariffs are designed to burn down America's relationship to the outside world and thus force us to create new jobs.

And for Trump and friends to make a lot of money bringing these wonderous new times to us. Praise Trump.

Right now it looks like I should learning to grow my own food, fix my own car, build my own weapons, etc.
Sure. Just look at medicine, quality of life, etc. /s
Part of the reason for this is likely due to customers preference to have CUDA available which TPUs do not support. TPU is superior for many use cases but customers like the portability of targeting CUDA
So they vote for the party that eviscerated the ACA and defends the medical insurance industry.

Look at Trump’s talking points. It’s all about immigrants, foreigners and wokeism that are coming to get what you have.

The US is a wealthy, prosperous nation, and I think even lower income segments of the US population are aware they’re night and day better off than people in the same economic segment in the countries immigrants come from. Wanting more is part of it, but it’s mainly about not sharing what Americans have, even though it’s not actually under threat. That doesn’t matter, people still feel threatened.

I’m a Brit. My mother is a wealthy middle class retired woman in a safe idyllic bit of countryside, but she is utterly obsessed with foreigners coming to rape and steal and destroy British society. They’re all coming to get us. She reads in the papers (The Daily Mail) and sees it on TV (GB News) every day.
> You can use as many italics as you want

Wait. This is actually hilarious.
...What makes you think some people here haven't sworn off of implementing technical systems for people who have proven they can't be trusted to steward them long term responsibly?

Admittedly, probably a vanishingly small population. Kinda hope the number of "won't" practitioners increases as for the first time, many people's eyes should be being opened to what happens when you put too much at the fingertips of too few.
Love the idea as well! Would I be wrong in thinking that, at a high-level, fbp is like erlang processes where message flow is one way?
There was literacy in the Americas prior to Columbus. Among the Aztecs, the tlacuilos (scribes) were educated in the calmecac.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_hieroglyphs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixtec_writing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_script
Healthcare and banking have no issue storing data in third party datacenters as long as they meet the applicable standards.
That's exactly what this does: https://github.com/VERT-sh/VERT/blob/2c8cb1922cf611489022645...

import { FFmpeg } from "@ffmpeg/ffmpeg";

`@ffmpeg/ffmpeg` is https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app.

If you finessed that `supportedFormats` array to add video formats, this would probably just work.
Perhaps ironically, I know a guy who uses ChatGPT to write ad copy. The snake eats its own tail.
They were well positioned for cloud business long before AWS and Azure, but they still managed to lose this battle.

Google can be good on the technological side of things, but we saw time and time again that, other than ads, Google is just not good at business.
I see this tactic exploited to the maximum by foreign state propaganda machines.

In my country which was targeted to the max by Russian propaganda, they are using the same playbook as in the US right now.

1. take any real complicated issue and blow it out of proportion so people think that it is a life and death situation.

2. heavily promote the most unfit person for the job

3. blame the worsen outcome to the predecessor

Rinse and repeat and you'll see the country drown in chaos and everyone blames everyone.

You can always argue that it is the real people, but if you look really close to the systems of promoting the divisive content - the powerhouse of it is always bot networks only followed by real people.

I think that the most of the division in western societies have to be studied from the perspective of foreign influence.
Maybe it shouldn't have been surprising after Democrats removed abolishing the death penalty from their party platform, but all the Mangione stuff on bluesky was pretty sad to see.
This seems like a strike against ‘AI’ energy usage, but not necessarily anything illegal at all. From the article, they don’t need permitting as long as they’re not in place more than 364 days in a row. It appears they’ve submitted permit applications for 15 generators, but have 35 on-site at the moment, that might be a sign that some of the additional energy usage might be temporary.
"A surprising number of people pay for the ChatGPT app and/or competitors."

I doubt the depiction implied by "surprising number". Marketing types and CEO's who would love 100% profit and only paying the electricity bill for an all AI workforce would believe that. Most people, especially most technical people would not believe that there is a "surprising number" of saps paying for so-called AI.
China. China. China. The answer is China.
Almost all far-right / neo-nazis groups with a long (real) antisemitism trajectory like the ones Elon Musk supports are now pro-Israel and pro-Gaza genocide. Sounds weird, but it makes total sense, as:

- The Zionist project is an ethno-state, just like those groups want for their countries. This also echoes the Zionist-nazi collaborations before WWII to move jewish population out of Germany to Palestine.

- Israel works as an spearhead of the global imperialism configuration, if you support imperialism on the Middle East -as those groups and their bourgeoisie do- you must support Israel.

- European neo-nazi groups are militant against immigration, and a big chunk of that immigration to their countries is muslim, so they are more than open to the Israel narratives against the muslim world... even the most extremist ones that de-humanizes Gaza children ("those children are future terrorists").
> They've finally open-sourced the notebook editor?

They didn't because it's literally their core business.
> You’re reverting to your priors despite evidence to the contrary.

Eh, I don't think what he's saying now is unreasonable.

Certainly no one feels a pressure to use a modern term that might have less perceived value-- to say "functions" or "features" instead of "complications."

A big part of the product of a fancy watch, or a bespoke suit, is the traditions. When tradition or sounding fancy is opposed to accessibility, the former will win.
> not Google TPUs

They're in limited supply. Even Google doesn't have enough for their own use.
Interesting, thanks for the references!

Upon a second look with a fresh mind now, I assume they made the LLM associate certain adjectives (left column) with certain human traits like fat vs thin (right column) in order to determine bias.

For example: the LLM associated peace with thin people and laughter with fat people.

If my reading is correct
I tried ErsatzTV, but didn't manage to get it actually up and running. This was a few years ago though, guess I'll try again!
Wrong library version is also a classic.

At some point it would be nice if someone could come up with a way of grounding/adding package docs and/or version as part of the context automatically
> today, spatial data users have a problem if they need to scale above about a million features

I found this claim to be surprising. That is a small dataset even for cartography, never mind geospatial analysis.

My heuristic advice for years has been that the comfortable limits of open source geospatial analysis are about a billion features if you know what you are doing and use the tools well. This is still a pretty small dataset for geospatial analysis but it is large enough that it covers a lot of use cases. The storage format is mostly at the margin, scalability is much more about optimal scheduling and query selectivity.

Scaling past this point puts you into the realm of exotics with custom I/O and execution schedulers (required) and much less obvious ways of organizing the data that nonetheless scale qualitatively better because they have better selectivity with a smaller memory footprint.
The point of insurance is that it should not matter. Some providers may charge more, some less, insurance should care about the average. In other countries you may be treated by great doctors and still be covered by statutory insurance.

Patient primary expectation is always to have a doctor they can trust. That can be fixed only when all doctors get the decent money and comfortable work environment and that means several things: the less middlemen the better, the cost of living including housing should be affordable and put them in middle class, the treatment standards should give them enough time and flexibility, etc.
Perhaps the task of rewriting history needs to start right away.
The color of the dictator may as well be the result of a coin toss

That seems disingenuous. Obama: "Vote for me and I'll bring you hope and change and healthcare and all this other stuff." Trump: "Vote for me and you won't have to bother voting again."

There is simply no room for BSAB rationalization here.
I understand what the email server thing was about. I also understand what the signal thing was about. I don't think it's possible to compare the two. One involved a device/software "helpfully" adding a phone number to group chat because it "helpfully" added the phone number to a contact that was not that contact's phone number.

The other one was a private email server, set up on purpose.
"All other countries"

Britain

Canada

Germany

New Zealand

Italy

Australia

France

Spain

Switzerland

Norway

Portugal

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I'm surprised Australia placed relatively low compared to the others. But yeah, that answers the question of which single countries are the most attractive. But none are overwhelmingly importing expats.
Cracking down on legal immigrants, skilled immigrants makes no sense. That’s what built America. Cracking down on illegal immigration makes plenty of sense. I hope the administration can see the difference.
I’ve done it a few months ago and it was super smooth. Sounds like the process got better.
Is there a legitimate reason you believe it will take 9 months to get a MRI? Or is this baseless fearmongering just to protect the status quo?

There are already large swaths of people who can't get a MRI period because they are excluded from healthcare in this country. And if your belief is that a single payer system will be hampered by measures such as austerity, then say that. Because then your issue isn't with single payer healthcare but instead with politicians who believe institutions need to be run as a business instead of what they actually are, which are public services.
They're already incentivized to effectively murder by denying care.
Since you don’t appreciate any of the comforts of modernity, I’ll put this is framing you will understand: The killbot drone race is inevitable and not one you want America to lose.
The whole idea of an inauguration donation is gross. No president should accept, and no one should offer.
We're building a hybrid of Italian Fascist and a Argentinian Peronist like state.

The desire for transactional wins and power overshadows all. Trump will unironically ally himself with a turd like Elon, or a turd like the UAW dude who glazed him on "Liberation Day". The state control of business is missing... perhaps we'll see that develop with Tesla.

It's a weird movement, because the baseline assumption is that the country is ruined. So any marginal win is celebrated, any loss is "priced in" politically.
Also, beyond that. These policies do not make it safer for Jewish people, rather it makes it less safe.
> many Americans will want to take a vacation to Canada to get a deal on their phone. That just doesn’t make sense.

If they’re following the law they’d have to declare the purchase when they come home.
That's a good start, but it's not the whole story. There will be a lot of talent returning to China, India, and South Korea, etc., for lack of options. Recent graduates that is. Will be difficult for those countries to take full advantage of these talents, but they might pull it off.
This. Even if you eliminated all profit margins of insurers you only decrease medical costs in the US by a tiny fraction, still leaving you far worse off than in other countries. They suck, but they're a cheap scapegoat for simpleton populists who don't know or don't want to fix the actual problems.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
You've just convinced me to spend some more time with Erlang! I've dabbled a bit and, at least on the surface, prefer erlang syntax over elixir.
Actions are protected too, as long as they’re not causing direct and immediate harm.
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