MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-22 13:40:29+00:00
Your arguments collapsed under scrutiny. You claimed Iran's hostility stems from "Islamic doctrine" but couldn't cite a single supporting text.

You've retreated to "if it calls itself Islamic, it's Islamic," like claiming North Korea represents democracy because "Democratic" is in its name.

When you stated "There is no version of Islam that would be representative of Islam generally," you contradict Islamic tradition itself. The Prophet Muhammad, the FOUNDER of the religion said: "My community will never agree upon error" and "Allah's hand is with the congregation" (Source: Tirmidhi). This hadith establishes that consensus (ijma) of the Muslim community is authoritative in Islam.

Look, these facts remain: you admitted Iran's system is Khomeini's modern innovation. Most Muslim nations have peaceful relations with Israel. And you've cited zero Islamic doctrines supporting your claim.

This isn't about religion: it's politics in religious clothing. If Iran's position were truly Islamic, 1.8 billion Muslims would share it. They don't.

Stop conflating one country's politics with an entire faith.
by grafmax | 2025-06-22 13:40:52+00:00
I was using famine colloquially to mean mass starvation in a wide area. But your comment prompted me to educate myself more about the IPC classification system which depends on 1) 20% of the population face catastrophic food insecurity) 2) more than 30% of children face acute malnutrition and 3) 2 deaths per 10,000 per day (or 4 child deaths per 10,000 children per day) due starvation or malnutrition & disease.

The first two criteria are very likely met. The question is the third piece. Your position is that death rates reported from starvation are low so we have not met the third criteria.

There are a few issues with this argument.

1. it is excess mortality which constitutes famine, not deaths from starvation directly. Admittedly this metric is impossible to accurately determine in the current conditions in Gaza.

2. The starvation numbers we have are from a month ago, already out of date. Deaths in famine balloon, so we are not able to conclude that there is not famine today by IPC criteria. We do know that famine was imminent as of that report so this is a valid concern.

3. Excess mortality due to starvation numbers is what counts, and excess mortality is underreported. Reasons include such factors as poplulation displacements, or the fact that severe malnutrition comprises the immune system and as such deaths can be attributed to proximate causes (disease) rather than the distal cause of malnourishment.

4. The IPC report stated May 12 that famine is “imminent”.

An argument that IPC-defined famine may not be occurring is that the projections were for this period (May 11-September), and that imminent risk of famine may refer to any point during this period.

With all that in mind you are right at least that I should modulate my language. Mass starvation is occurring. We don’t know whether the third IPC criterion for famine is currently met. A better statement on my part would be that famine is imminent as of May 11 with a beginning expected some time between May 11-September, the famine may already be occurring, but we don’t know that the ballooning death rate has yet been triggered in this timeframe. Besides that, becoming aware of the famine (whether it has begun yet or not) won’t happen immediately considering the difficulties of gathering reliable excess mortality numbers in Gaza.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-22 13:41:39+00:00
> I’ve never seen how people operate complex infrastructures outside of a cloud

That’s your issue. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I have the same issue with the junior we hire nowadays. They have been so brain washed that the idea that the cloud is the solution and they can’t manage without them that they have no idea of what to do instead of reaching for them.

> I imagine that using VPS I would have a dedicated dev. ops acting as a gatekeeper to the infrastructure or I’ll get a poorly integrated and insecure mess.

You just describe having a real mess after this.

> I imagine a dev. ops would be quite annoyed by such back and forth.

I would be quite annoyed by such back and forth even on the cloud. I don’t even want to think about the costs of changing so often.
by mslansn | 2025-06-22 13:42:21+00:00
> So if US chooses to "holocaust" a minority or ethnic group, or to invade and bomb innocent countries into oblivion, the rest of the world should just be OK with it because it's what the US citizens chose?

That’s not what I said. But yes, the opposite of “might is right” is an aberration. The only reason Nuremberg occurred is because it was for the Jews. This is the opposite case.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-22 13:43:39+00:00
I do not care about movie makers and singers in general, and for the most part I do not have direct contact with them, so it would be futile to offer any advice. I did offer advice to a couple of singers before though. What is your point besides being unnecessarily defensive over two simple, stated facts? As I said, it was not a criticism of the author or the project, it was a response to your comment. Since this is going to lead nowhere, I am going to stop responding to this thread.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-22 13:43:39+00:00
tpu's predictable latency under scale. when you control the compiler, the runtime, the interconnect and the chip, you eliminate so much variance that you can actually schedule jobs efficiently at data center scale. so the obvious question why haven't we seen anyone outside Google replicate this full vertical stack yet? is it because the hardware's hard or because no one has nailed the compiler/runtime contract at that scale?
by bopbopbop7 | 2025-06-22 13:43:51+00:00
You asked for a study, you got a study. Yet you’re still playing mental gymnastics to somehow prove that not using your brain doesn’t impair thinking. You want an anecdote now? After dismissing a study? Wild. I doubt that will convince you if a study won’t, just grasping at straws.

And no, it’s not nuanced at all. If you stop using your brain, you lose cognitive abilities. If you stop working out, you lose muscle. If you stop coding and let someone else do it, you lose coding abilities.

No one is being rude, that’s just what it feels like when someone calls you out with evidence.
by HEmanZ | 2025-06-22 13:43:53+00:00
Right wing propaganda is too strong here.

Last night I tried to explain to my MIL that Iran did not do 9/11 (after she claimed this was finally payback for that). She responded that I was wrong because I listen to the liberal media. It was like a cartoon, I felt like a crazy person. she was so convinced that if Iran got nuclear weapons they would immediately use them on US soil. When I pointed out that would be suicide for them, and accomplish absolutely nothing, she said they aren’t rational, they just want to end the world.

Her only news source is Fox, so that must be who’s peddling this nonsense.

There’s an optimist in me that says, maybe by some small miracle that given enough time in a cold-ish war current Iranian regime will get replaced by something democratic and stable. Probably a pipe dream the way things are going, but not impossible.
by iainctduncan | 2025-06-22 13:45:25+00:00
Pure Data's UI works identically on all platforms. The others I mentioned are text languages.

If you've never used anything other than SC, it's well worth learning some others. Different paradigms make different things easier, and thus affect what you are most likely to do with them.

Personally, my axe of choice these days is running text languages from within the patchers, such as Csound in Max or PD.
by Buttons840 | 2025-06-22 13:45:35+00:00
Speaking of China:

The free movement of workers is important to having an efficient economy. The US could do a lot better here; we have bad safety nets, non-competes, "trade-secrets".

When workers move freely and spread trade-secrets, this results in all companies performing better, on average. This is good for everyone except the lazy owners who would lose money to those who perform better.

While the US worries about limiting the free movement of workers, non-competes, and "trade-secrets", China is going to build approximately a billion homes and factories.

If we take the "free" out of "free market", then we're just a market, and far from the most efficient one.
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-22 13:45:50+00:00
> It sounds like you don't like the experience and an adblocker isn't going to change that.

It does though. It blocks the modal ads by content creators, the merchandise ads, and the feed ads for Google products. With other extensions I can skip through sponsored segments and see a downvote approximation.

> Content creators shill for things, sure. Youtube doesn't stop you from fast-forwarding through these segments. These creators are real human beings that put a ton of work into bringing me content and I don't begrudge them making some money. These are the ads that work on me; I deliberately use their affiliate links. I want them to spend more time making content. Hell there are a dozen different Youtube creators I pay monthly on Patreon just because!

My house is an ad free space and I do find these ads intolerable. I'm happy to pay for content I like, but there is no way for me to pay for this content without these ads. Indeed, YouTube Premium was sold to me as paying content creators more than ads, and I purchased it on that premise. This wasn't enough for content creators, however, and they wanted to make even more money. That's fine, but I refuse to listen to their ads, and I do not owe them my attention to watch their ads. So I use SponsorBlock.

> Yeah I would love to have a Shortblocker extension in my browser, no argument there. But I don't think the visible downvotes make any material difference. The recommendation algorithm is excellent and I don't see spam.

The downvote score makes an ENORMOUS difference to MANY people. It allows us to determine what is spam at a glance. YouTube is filled with low quality content which isn't helpful and is often harmful. YouTube does a terrible job of policing this content. Often the very worst content will trick a large number of people into clicking on it, which makes the algorithm think it's good content, and promotes it to even more people. This is great for YouTube's bottom line, but serving people DIY advice which could harm them is bad for us, the users. A high downvote ratio indicates that the content is inaccurate, harmful, or spam, and we can avoid it BEFORE we sit through the whole video.
Show HN: Kichan.ai Chrome extension to generate and inject userscripts
by k1rd | 2025-06-22 13:45:50+00:00
I’ve been Working on kichan.ai, a Chrome extension that allows you to generate and execute user scripts in your chrome browser pages. You can use it to modify and augment any website in the way you see fit.

You can download it and try it in the chrome extension store for free: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

It is a beta and I am actively working on it. Pushing updates few times a week based on feedback form users and my ideas. If you want to follow the development you can follow it on Twitter at https://x.com/kichan_ai
by bmacho | 2025-06-22 13:45:52+00:00
I've chosen them as example elements of the larger group: people that would harm you. It's a type of synecdoche[0,1].

I was considering reformulating it, in $CURRENTYEAR there is always someone that claims that using Russian or Chinese as a synonym for 'enemy' is Russo- and Shinophobic. I've decided against it this time.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche#Part_referring_to_w...

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars_pro_toto
by mjburgess | 2025-06-22 13:46:00+00:00
Neither you or I, and esp. not the media, have any access to facts on the ground. All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them.

All we can work backwards from are the most reliable facts we have before the war, about capabilities on the ground. We know the rough size of the iranian missile programme, of the country, economic, various military assets and similar.

We can work backwards from this to ask, "what would we be able to see had Israel achieved its claim re iran" -- and we're talking extraordinary levels of destruction in iran, across the country, and so on. We don't have any evidence of operations of that scale even taking place, let alone having been successful.

It is most likely, at the moment, that at least some alleged air force victories by israel are actual missiles they've issued from neighbouring states on the land.

However, either way, all of this is speculation. What can be stated with near certainty is that any picture presented in the media is an extremely careful creation of the propaganda arms of our states, and not a credible military briefing.

Our only access to reliable inferences is purely rational and hypothetical: what are X's aims, what are their claims, what are they claimed strategies, what are their capabilities and so on.. and then what would we see *if*...
by mopsi | 2025-06-22 13:46:01+00:00
The vote by the parliament did follow formal procedures: not those of an impeachment, because the president was not impeached, but those of snap elections, as the parliament chose to replace the government through elections. In terms of legitimacy, general elections trump over everything else. A coup is commonly defined as an illegitimate seizure of power by a small group. General elections are the polar opposite, the furthest thing from a coup.

Regarding the Crimean referendum, I do have objections: international law considers referendums held under foreign military occupation illegitimate, and rightfully so. Had Hitler staged a referendum in occupied Paris after the invasion, would that have meant that the French willingly joined the Third Reich?

The Crimean referendum is nothing new. In the 1940s, the USSR also staged a series of votes to legitimize their invasions of European nations. At this point, I would consider anyone expecting me to take these referendums seriously as either severely underinformed or simply maliciously trolling.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-22 13:46:15+00:00
Git notes are only cool if you frequently add text to a commit after the commit has happened and visible to others.

The Acked-By and mailing list discussion link examples don't seem to be good examples. Both of these are likely already known when the commit is made. And git commit message basically can have an unlimited length, so you could very well copy all the discussions about the commit that happened on a forge into the commit message itself.

One use case I think might be a better example is to add a git note to a commit that has later been reverted.
by nathan_compton | 2025-06-22 13:46:24+00:00
>Now, as we can see from the previous section on dopamine-reward-systems, what social media and quantifiable discourse is doing is mentally limiting what we can say and do, not by way of oppression, but by way or ostracization, alienation and peer-pressure.

The overton window is wider than its ever been at any point in history.

Like I think this particular thing was overblown in the first place and also people are already correcting for it.
by fho | 2025-06-22 13:46:33+00:00
Also part of the problem:

> those f-in urns filled with colored balls.

I did my Abitur [1] in 2005, back then that used to be high school material.

When I was teaching statistics we had to cut more and more content from the courses in favor of getting people up to speed on content that they should have known from school.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur
by slv77 | 2025-06-22 13:46:34+00:00
North Korea had enough conventional artillery to level Seoul with an estimated 1M casualties. That was why Clinton decided against attacking North Korea as they moved towards building the bomb:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/north-koreas-artill...

Iran’s deterrent was/is through its proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis) along with its sizable missile inventory, anti-air capabilities and strategic threats to oil and gas exports.

Israel’s investment in missile defense and the outcome of the Oct 7th attacks severely weakened Iran’s deterrence to a conventional attack.

I think the lesson should be that any nation that has enough conventional leverage to deter an attack could choose to build nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons may complement, but can’t displace other capabilities.

The US has nuclear weapons but that didn’t deter Iran from launching direct attacks on US troops in the Middle East or sponsoring insurgents in Iraq. Nuclear weapons are also essential worthless against non nation-state actors such as Al-Qaeda.
Show HN: I built a focus-driven task manager and pom timer that sorts by urgency
by zahirbmirza | 2025-06-22 13:46:55+00:00
Why I Built FluxTimer...

I got tired of spending more time organising tasks (ie copy paste and then reorder in notes) than actually doing them. Every task manager I tried either overwhelmed me with features or required constant manual categorisation. I'd waste mental energy deciding what to work on next instead of just working. The breaking point was realising I was avoiding my task manager because it felt like work to use it. I wanted something that would think for me, not add to my cognitive load.

The Three-Category System

Most productivity systems overcomplicate priority levels. I really liked one that I was taught; I can't remember the name. But, basically you set the date of when it needs to be done by, and you trust the calendar to show it to you when it needs to be done, and then you just get on with it then.

But, I really dislike the way outlook shows events and todos. So.. I settled on three categories because they match how I think about time:

Today covers anything due now or overdue. It's the "I have to deal with this whether I like it or not" bucket. Keeping this list short prevents overwhelm and makes it actually useful.

Tomorrow handles the near-term stuff - usually things due in the next few days. This prevents tasks from languishing in a vague "someday" pile until they become urgent. It's the planning I can mentally handle.

Later is everything else. Future deadlines, ideas, non-urgent tasks. It exists so these don't clutter your immediate pile but aren't forgotten either.

The system eliminates the constant mental work of deciding if something is "high priority" versus "medium priority." Time-based urgency is objective - either something is due today or it isn't.

Focus Integration I added the Timer because task selection and focus work are part of the same workflow.

Once you know what to work on, you shouldn't have to switch apps to start a focus session. The integration felt important - pick a task, start the timer, get to work. The automatic categorisation removes decision fatigue, and the timer structure removes the ambiguity of "I'll work on this for a while." Together, they create a clearer path from having tasks to completing them.

Was this a good approach? I would appreciate feedback on my concept or even the actual app if anyone here is such a legend that they download it.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-06-22 13:46:57+00:00
>> but overall unimportant sense

I can't overstate how much i disagree that it's unimportant. But first, let me try to steel-man your argument further. It'd be that fiscal freedom doesn't actually solve the harder problem. The harder problem being allocating finite real resources in the economy.

To build upon your "i had to lose $x so that the government could spend $x on something other than my own needs":

Let's say for example, your needs were to buy the only remaining steel available for your construction project but the government would also like that steel for their project. We've reached an impasse, so we still need to calibrate public spending with what the economy can produce. All spending, public or private, carries inflation risk but the problem here is that without the invisible hand, you've sleep walked into a planned economy with the entirely obvious and predictable result that you have broken it - your economy can no longer produce enough steel.

So there's no free lunch to be had here and further, you risk catastrophically unsettling a complex system that kinda mostly works. It's not that by meddling with how things work, you risk a bump in the economy. Instead the risk is some kind of disequilibrium, a snap away to a self-reinforcing runaway feedback loop that totally destroys the economy. So don't fiddle with big things that we don't really fully understand.

Decent steel man attempt? I'm still learning in this space, critique wholeheartedly invited.

Now to why i disagree with your assertion that it's unimportant. Quick recap - you can't beat inflation, when that alarm bell rings you have to redirect public spending, you might also want to encourage private spending to redirect too (the role of taxation, i.e. destroying privately held dollars) but that's a policy decision for the government of the time.

What you CAN do, is spend on things that aren't at capacity. And there's a LOT of unused capacity in the economy.

Want to pay some nurses to fix up some long term sick workers to get them productive again? Go for it. The public good doesn't always align with profit. Outbidding your luxury condo's steel to build a hospital is a contrived example but the demand-pull invisible hand still exists, it's just no longer omnipotent. Supply side economics will still attract steel making capacity in that example. The market and its prices are still the primary signal.

Edited: many times.
by jjice | 2025-06-22 13:47:07+00:00
uBlock is fantastic at what it does. I'm looking forward to this. I'm currently using both Wipr 2 and AdGuard together which has worked well. AdGuard allows user defined cosmetic filters that I've come to rely on more and more in the browser, and it makes certain mobile sites so much better. Will uBlock on iOS support this?
by HEmanZ | 2025-06-22 13:47:35+00:00
The main reason to want a bomb is to stop people from interfering with/attacking you.

It has now become even more obvious to them that the most powerful country on earth is willing to attack them in order to control them and their region. Their calculus just went from “probably screwed if we don’t have nukes” to “definitely screwed if we don’t have nukes”. They’ll find a way now, they can always dig deeper.
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-22 13:48:25+00:00
I’m French and never saw the metal cap but surely it seems perfect for the non aging one. However tradition plays a big role - even if there’s better modern caps.

Regarding the pre modern chemical techniques: not an expert but it seems people used to drink younger wine back then, and used wooden barrels or clay amphora for the older times. For in between times (and the amphora) solid cork as you mentioned seem very plausible.

Considering the material deficit: consider that when you do the microwave cam cooking, the cap double in size and don’t fall down in many small parts. It’s so big it’s basically impossible to put it back inside the bootle. My 2 cents hypothesis is they use glue to use more cork and have a better sealing, enhancing the conservation.