MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-28 15:39:03+00:00
It's not ironic at all, it's democracy working as intended.

It might superficially appear ironic because us in the west confuse being a democracy with being moderate. But that's not the case if a large fraction of your population are religious fundamentalists, which goes to my point. In Israel, the problem isn't just the government, it's also the culture of the majority of the population.
by octo888 | 2025-06-28 15:39:12+00:00
What food insecurity?

We joined a successful agricultural union (the EEC, in 1973) and remained a member of its successor for decades and had fantastic access to produce, and some of the cheapest food in the EU (also thanks to a highly competitive grocery sector)

Even since leaving, the food supply issues have been very minor.

We may have food insecurity in the future but I'm confused if you're implying we've had any serious food insecurity the last few decades
by Simon_O_Rourke | 2025-06-28 15:39:56+00:00
The reason I'd highlighted Chinese telcos particularly, was an experience of my ex-wife who worked with a well known Western telecoms provider. She was out in the middle east (not Dubai though) to pitch for some 5G backbone business a while back.

Anyway, when she flew in, there were a couple of Chinese guys in arrivals who were pointing a camera her direction and seemingly taking her photo. No biggie, she thought, and just thought it some weird coincidence.

However, the next morning she left her room early to use the hotel gym, but doubled back upon forgetting her headphones and spotted the same Chinese guys outside her hotel room door trying to jam something in the lock.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-28 15:40:15+00:00
Meta products are such a bad deal for users.

I wish there was an alternative to Facebook and Instagram, even if it had no users. We, as users, can solve the "no users" problem for you. Facebook and Instagram became popular, contrary to popular belief, not because it had "critical mass" or some Hoffmanite bullshit like that, but because it had the technical community using them, and they brought their friends and family.

Someone just needs to build it.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-06-28 15:40:20+00:00
> An ordinary Israeli citizen is born in that land, knows nothing else, just learns that the entirety of the surrounding populations want them dead - and will with very high likelihood experience terror attacks themselves. That this upbringing doesn't exactly make you want to engage with the other side is psychologically understandable.

This "entirety of the surrounding population want them dead" language is both dehumanizing, false, and (perhaps not intended by you) genocidal.

The "surrounding population" is not a monolith. I imagine only a very small minority of people want all Jewish Israelis dead. I do Palestinian liberation work with many non-Jewish people from the middle east (I'm Jewish) and have yet to meet a single one who wants me dead.

They all want an end to Zionism.

Some may want it replaced with an Islamic government (which at its best is not different from the ideal "Zionism" you may hear defended by liberal Zionists, and at its worst is no different from the Zionism instituted by the modern state of Israel today)

Most want it replaced with a secular state where everyone has equal rights.

If your intent was to explain the mindset of an "ordinary Israeli citizen" who supports Zionism, then I agree with you, but it's dangerous to say something like this without distinguishing why this is a flawed mindset which can only exist due to an extensive system of propaganda.
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 15:40:24+00:00
From my experience, the history of Israel as discussed in the media usually begins in 1948. A standard phrase is "The state was founded and immediately declared war at".

Sometimes discussion goes back a bit further about how the area was a "League of Nations Mandatory Area" before, that was for some reason was administered by the British.

That's usually it.

An interesting detail is that the legitimacy of Israel here is usually explained with the UN (the Partition Plan resolutions and the accepted membership) - not with any kind of divine right. I think that's quite different from how (right wing) Israelis see the source of legitimacy themselves.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-28 15:40:31+00:00
> mutating values and triggering side effects should be a last resort.

Output is a side-effect.

> This is why a good js programmer uses ten times more maps then he uses for loops.

This is a) massively overstating things, and b) not relevant to a case where zero for loops can be used.

> Maybe you don’t know how dominant React is today? Two third of JavaScript developers use React at work

I checked those figures before I posted that comment to double-check my memory. Two thirds is not anywhere close to “React won the market”. Android has ~72% global market share, but I’m sure you wouldn’t say that Android has won the smartphone market.

> It feels like you’re out of touch, have you used JavaScript lately?

We disagree, that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch. Try not to be so insulting.
by avip | 2025-06-28 15:40:50+00:00
Here's the coverage you've asked (opinions my own, I do not pretend to rep. anyone)

Israel stated goals of war:

1. Return the hostages

2. Remove Hamas regime from Gaza

3. (arguably done) bring north-Israel communities safely back home

Unstated goals:

1. Open Egypt-Gaza border. This had failed.

2. Create safe zone on the Gaza-Israeli border. This is mostly done in practice. This goal cannot be stated (though it'll save many lives)

Hamas goals:

Read Hamas chapter, or see interviews with captured Hamas militants post 7/10 attack (if you believe it's not scripted)

Gazan who are not part of Hamas regime goals: survive
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-28 15:41:15+00:00
>...fought primarily by trying to erode international support for Israel

Agreed.

>Are you suggesting that it is right...

Thank you for the opportunity to further clarify my comment. If this is happening I believe that it is deeply immoral.

My comment posed a hypothetical about the incentives which may be driving these events. As you observed above, it does fit with existing knowledge of Hamas strategy. Examples would include pop-up rocket attacks near schools or hospitals.

Here is a source which some have alleged to be sympathetic to Hamas. I have selected this source not because I prefer it, but to avoid allegations of bias.

https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns...

>UNRWA condemns placement of rockets, for a second time, in one of its schools

>UNRWA strongly and unequivocally condemns the group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises under international law
by wrp | 2025-06-28 15:41:26+00:00
This reminds me of Douglas Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
by gametorch | 2025-06-28 15:41:35+00:00
https://github.com/gametorch/image_to_pixel_art_wasm

Thousands of users. 40+ GitHub stars. Original draft took 30 minutes. Added numerous feature requests and each took like 5 minutes a pop.

I never wrote a single line of that code.

Furthermore, my startup, https://gametorch.app/ has 110 sign ups, paying users, millions of impressions. Never wrote any of that code either. Typing it out at ~100 wpm is far too slow.
by breppp | 2025-06-28 15:41:56+00:00
> Please name some other countries post-WW2 that were "founded by ethnic cleansing" and embraced by the international community and educate the rest of us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Greeks_from_Istan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_German...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Turks_from_Bulgaria_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian%E2%80%93Dalmatian_exod...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_expulsion_of_Italians_fro...

It was quite common and very accepted method in the 1940s, hell, expelling 15 million germans, some living there for hundreds of years, was proposed by Churchill.

The reason you never heard about the rest of these is because the people were resettled, not kept in a state of permanent inheritable refugee state financed by the UN with financial incentives to be kept that way.
by ben_w | 2025-06-28 15:42:06+00:00
The Republicans in the USA don't have the support required to count as a supermajority:

"""Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed in one of two ways: a two-thirds supermajority votes of each body of United States Congress or a convention called by Congress on application of two-thirds (currently 34) of the states. Once proposed, the amendment must be ratified by three-quarters (currently 38) of the states (either through the state legislatures, or ratification conventions, whichever "mode of ratification" Congress selects)."""

- the wikipedia page on Supermajority, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#United_States
by pfdietz | 2025-06-28 15:42:06+00:00
It's failing at that too, in the same sense that maintaining a sailing ship fleet would have failed to provide independent seafaring capability in the latter half of the 19th century.

SpaceX has greatly raised the bar on what can be considered an "independent launch capability." Europe under the current system is greatly limited on what they can imagine doing in space. The equivalent of Starlink is not feasible, for example.

Underlying all this was a failure of vision, an assumption that use of space would be static and change only slowly, if at all, and that launch cost could not be significantly reduced.
by arp242 | 2025-06-28 15:43:12+00:00
> Crimea, where everyone speaks Russian and identifies as Russian

Blatant falsehood. In 2014 it was about 65% (ethnicity) and 80% (language).

In addition the referendum happened after the invasion and de-facto annexation, without the option of "keep the current situation with Ukraine". If you ask me "do you want to be punched or stabbed?" then I'll choose a punch. Doesn't mean I want to be punched.
by hnhg | 2025-06-28 15:43:39+00:00
I have a perfectly good machine that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 for some arbitrary reason. Fortunately, I no longer specifically need Windows and can move on from it. I actually quite like Windows now that WSL2 is decent, but I don't need this specific form of enshittification in my life (along with all the tracking and ads). I don't use Android for the very same reason.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-28 15:43:42+00:00
What industry are we talking about here? Yes, the DoJ broke up AT&T because it was a monopoly in the phone industry.

When we talk about Bell Labs and R&D, though, we usually aren't talking about the phone industry. We're usually talking about things from semiconductors to computer science. And yes, Bell Labs was very good for that.

You're the one who made the first claim, that Bell Labs was "bad for the industry". It's your claim; it's your job to defend it, not mine to prove it wrong. So let's see your case that Bell Labs was bad.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-28 15:44:37+00:00
I'd say no. A pyramid has a wide base. The problem is the population shape is more of one of a christmas tree. The top is narrow, and it widens at the middle, then you have a trunk that is more narrow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_K...

The UK doesn't even have that terrible of shape compared to many western countries, but a lot of that is because of immigration.

Countries like Japan, S. Korea, and Italy are going to have far worse problems.
by alkyon | 2025-06-28 15:44:45+00:00
Stop telling lies about Gaza conflict being "war". Israeli military has absolute superiority over Palestinians. What it is is a genocidal campaign meant to wipe them off the face of the Earth.

Also, stop using the Holocaust as a propaganda tool. My grandfather happened to be a Buchenwald concentration camp survival. It didn't give him or anybody else any right to violate Geneva convention.
by varispeed | 2025-06-28 15:44:57+00:00
Sometimes I think the entire engineering profession collectively underwent a lobotomy. Techniques like caching partial computation results to avoid repeating expensive work were so basic a few decades ago that no one would have bothered to dignify them with a paper, let alone brand them with a fancy acronym and announce them like the second coming of Turing. Now we get breathless blog posts and community calls over the mind-blowing discovery that storing KV caches of repeated text speeds things up. Next we'll get a paper on using hash tables to look things up faster. Meanwhile, actual difficult problems in large-scale distributed inference and model interpretability get hand-waved so we can posture about reinventing memoisation. Tech never fails to take the obvious, put a bow on it, and sell it back to us as groundbreaking.
by Retric | 2025-06-28 15:45:41+00:00
Things are kept vague so people can create their own narratives. But in 2024 he continued to used terms like “Drain the Swamp” that directly refer to downsizing government. So your argument is basically he had no intention of carrying though when he’s doing exactly what he said he would. Perhaps you may want to rethink what exactly you are basing that assumption on.

As to Democrats it’s not a hand wavy standpoint. Historically, taxing companies and wealthy represented a much larger fraction of the overall tax burden. ~Half of federal revenue came from companies in the 1950’s today it’s vastly lower. Changing that means lower taxes on yourself and or much lower deficits.
by layer8 | 2025-06-28 15:45:55+00:00
Population has naturally been a pyramid, historically [0], and works well that way. The current problem is that it isn’t a pyramid anymore [1]. Not having an inverse pyramid (or kite) would already be helpful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid#Demographic...
by danans | 2025-06-28 15:46:18+00:00
> At some point there needs to be a recognition of "you can't have it both ways", no?

Yes, at some point that true.

My point is that there is space for transit systems and mixed use zoning to make life easier in suburbs if they incrementally densify, but not to the point of being cramped.

To put a number on it, a population density somewhere around 5000/sqmi (vs the average suburban density right now of 2000/sqmi).
by bee_rider | 2025-06-28 15:47:03+00:00
> Unfortunately for end users, in tech companies’ rush to stay ahead, it’s not always clear what they’re agreeing to when features like this appear.

At this point, is there really a lack of clarity? I think we all know Facebook is going to interpret any permission to look at anything, as full permission to do whatever the hell they want with it.

There are people who care about this, and people who don’t. Telling ourselves there’s confusion… I think is not going to produce an accurate model of reality.

I think these social media companies are evil. I just don’t see the point in deluding myself into thinking that they are outsmarting everybody. It is a difference of priorities, not smarts.
by HappyPanacea | 2025-06-28 15:47:19+00:00
According [0], you need 1451 liter per kg of beef. Sorek B will cost $0.41/m3 [1] so water cost will be 0.59$, cheapest beef I could find in quick google here in Israel is $17.68 per kg so 3.3% increase.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food [1]: https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/can-desalination-save-a-dr...
by Dig1t | 2025-06-28 15:47:28+00:00
This is a legit good question, someone who walks across the border is extremely unlikely to be able to afford cancer treatment.

There’s a near infinite supply of needy people in the world. What is the legitimate, rational argument for allowing them all to come here and receive aid and treatment?

Even if you decide you’re not going to “allow” it, if the incentives still exist, like California’s free healthcare for illegal immigrants, they will still come because the benefits are worth the risk.
by maccard | 2025-06-28 15:47:48+00:00
If my clean builds were 30 seconds I’d prefer incremental performance too. Our precompiled headers take longer than that. A clean ue5 editor build with precompiled headers, adaptive unity builds and optimisations disabled takes 20 minutes or so. Incremental changes to game projects are usually prettt quick - under 5 seconds or so (which is fast enough when the whole thing takes 30+ seconds to boot anyway.

> Unfortunately raddbg suffers from unity-build-syndrome: It has headers but they're missing definitions, and .c files are missing includes.

We run a CI build once a week with unity disabled to catch these issues.

> Should be a minimum of 32x faster just building in parallel with our hardware ;)

My experience here is that parallelism is less than linear and avoiding repeated work is super-linear - there’s a happy medium. If you had 128 files and 32 cores it’s probably fast to compile in parallel, but likely even faster if you can just dispatch 32 “blobs” and link them at the end.
by rexpop | 2025-06-28 15:47:57+00:00
> two ideologies which are so diametrically opposed to each other that they cannot coexist

Ideologies aren't platonic solids. They must be constantly refurbished in the minds of the avowed. Every moment of every day informs them—reinforces or depletes them. Changes their character.

It's guaranteed that these minds will, eventually, change. Who survives to bare this change remains to be seen.

Keep in mind, also, that Israel vs. Gaza is in some ways just a proxy war between US/Europe and Iran/Russia who support Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Ideological differences, frankly, are only a surface patina on the same old economic games.

Lastly, consider a third framing: that Israel/Gaza is only the hottest segment of a conflict that encircles the globe: the border between imperial powers and colonized peoples, like US/Mexico etc. Borders, passports, and citizenship are a worldwide system of privileges and protections that Westphalian Nationstates collude to maintain.

I'm not sure what ideologies you refer to. Islam and Judaism? Not really relevant to the discussion, I don't think.
by caust1c | 2025-06-28 15:48:53+00:00
In my mind the only thing novel about MCP is requiring the schema is provided as part of the protocol. Like, sure it's convenient that the shape of the requests/response wrappers are all the same, that certainly helps with management using libraries that can wrap dynamic types in static types, but everyone was already doing that with APIs already we just didn't agree on what that envelope's shape should be. BUT, with the requirement that schema be provided with the protocol, and the carrot of AI models seamlessly consuming it, that was enough of an impetus.
by diggan | 2025-06-28 15:49:35+00:00
> gloriefied global variable is pretty high on my BS list

Say you have a test that is asserting the output of some code, and that code is using a global variable of some kind, how do you ensure you can have tests that are using different values for that global variable and it all works? You'd need to be able to change it during tests somehow.

Personally, I think a lot of the annoying parts of programming go away when you use a more expressive language (like Clojure), including this one. But for other languages, you might need to work around the limitations of the language and then approaches like using Singletons might make more sense.

At the same time, Fowlers perspective is pretty much always in the context of "I have this piece of already written code I need to make slightly better", obviously the easy way is to not have global variables in the first place, but when working with legacy code you do stumble upon one or three non-optimal conditions.
by cursuve | 2025-06-28 15:49:55+00:00
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883
by KennyBlanken | 2025-06-28 15:50:05+00:00
Would that be the same UN that Israel (and the US, to a large degree) refuses to recognize the authority of? Can't have your cake and eat it too, friend.

> What is reasonable?

Not instituting so many decrees ("militaty orders") that even the military authority responsible for 'ruling' the area can't produce an accurate or complete list of all of said decrees. Decrees which, I might add, forbid planting flowers, raising a flag, operating a farm tractor, going to school, or making a bank account withdrawal without the permission of the Israeli military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Military_Order

Let that sink in: if you're a Palestianian you can't go to the bank and take out your own money without permission of the Israeli military.

Another military order allows the Israeli military to seize your business if you don't open during regular business hours.

Those decrees also allow Jews to "buy" (seize) land from Palestinians who refuse to sell to them, merely by asserting "power of attorney"

Not having snipers executing children. Not conducting missile and gun attacks on ambulances and independent worldwide-recognized medical aid organizations, and then attacking rescuers who show up to render aid. Not slaughtering an entire hospital's worth of patients and burying them in mass graves. Not slaughtering people lined up to get food aid. Not purposefully starving millions of people.

Not using a black-box AI to decide who is a "terrorist" and then blowing up their entire house, thus killing not only the supposed terrorist, but the entire family, or possibly the neighbor - because a "smart" bomb would be too expensive.
by gpm | 2025-06-28 15:51:36+00:00
Windows 10 was marketed with the promise of being the "last version of windows" by microsoft employees. Personally I think they should be held to that promise, at least in so far as supporting it as long as they still support any other version of windows.

The upgrade to windows 11 is not free in so far as it doesn't support the hardware that people have.
by hearsathought | 2025-06-28 15:51:39+00:00
> I don't get why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications.

Since almost all major social media companies are american, and all major social media/tech companies are state/defense companies, the US already "vets" social media accounts of foreigners and most likely americans as well.

This has nothing to do with "vetting" social media accounts. It's about scaring the world so that the world stops criticizing primarily israel.

If we really want to "vet" foreigners, we'd be doing it secretly so that bad actors feel free to expose themselves on social media. This does the exact opposite. It's about controlling the narrative and preventing criticism of israel.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-06-28 15:51:51+00:00
> Vertical farms would work

They won't, because the energy demands are too great. Photosynthesis, after all, is 1-2% efficient

Also, let me know when cereals, pulses and nuts are being grown in vertical farms. There's a reason all existing vertical farms are just growing low-calorie low-protein leafy plants.