MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VladVladikoff | 2025-06-22 12:57:13+00:00
As a side note on this, I’m a huge fan of pure latex mattresses. Just a solid slab of latex. Maybe a few slabs of different densities if you want to get fancy. I’m 4 years in on mine and it still holds up really well, no sag issues etc. if you’re in Canada there is MFC (memory comfort Canada) this is the cheapest place I could find, but there might be a better deal if you dig deep enough.
by donatj | 2025-06-22 12:57:43+00:00
There's a big hubbub in my small town about $60k every 4 years the local government could have avoided by moving the date of local elections to align with national elections that failed by one vote.

I got curious about what our total budget looked like, so I started digging into the towns official budget which is available online. My small town is somehow paying over $70,000 a year for Office 365 seats! Doing the math even at the more expensive government tiers, that's still ~1,000 seats which I can't believe we have anywhere near that many employees.

I'm not close enough to the problem to know if it's practical or not, but it really seems like at the very least we could move the majority of people to LibreOffice and save the town a bit of money.
by hajile | 2025-06-22 12:57:52+00:00
Here in the US, our soldiers insert their nuclear keys and await instructions to turn them several times per day. If even just ONE of the hundreds of pairs of soldiers turns the key, then ALL the nukes get launched. 99.999999% of Americans have no say either.

The truth is that Iran doesn't want to take out the holy sites in Israel and if martyrdom were the real goal, then Iran would have started all-out war with Israel decades ago.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-22 12:57:54+00:00
>People don't talk about that because it's been obvious for a long time. How is it surprising a country who invades basically any country on a whim, based on false premises, also sees itself as being above international law?

Nations chose to ally with the US post-WW2 since it was the least worst option at the time. Much better to be a US ally than a USSR ally. The US was a lot more trustworthy at the time and less s.

But this situation has changed now. China is the new second superpower, and trust in the US has hit an all time low. In the past during the cold war, the US would make concessions with its allies so that everyone is happy. Now, the US foreign policy is, "America first, everyone suck our star spangled dick bitches! MAGA!", and has no issues screwing its closest allies and partners over in order to squeeze them, acting more like a mob shakedown.

Given this, it's normal to see the US as much more dangerous ally now than in the past, and try to remove dependency on them.

>Meanwhile, the cutting of email access is new, and hasn't happened before, so it is quite literally "news", while the other stuff you mention is basically an opinion-piece and not new information.

This only happened because the US gov got too comfy doing whatever it wanted and never facing any consequences for it. It's the natural evolution of things. "Spare the rod, spoil the child", as they say.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-22 12:57:56+00:00
This is pure gish galloping inflammatory rhetoric designed to provoke rather than inform. But for the benefit of anyone reading, let me show how to spot bad faith arguments by fact-checking just one claim.

You say that Muhammad 'used peace treaties as weapons of war, against Jews', but the historical record shows the complete opposite, and the full story makes your accusation look absurd.

The Banu Qurayza violated the Treaty of Medina during wartime, which was considered an act of treason in violation of the constitution agreed by all citizens of Medina, including the Banu Qurayza Jews.¹

They broke their treaty obligations by conspiring with attacking forces during the siege of Medina.

But here's the part that completely destroys your narrative: *The Banu Qurayza themselves appointed Sa'd ibn Mu'adh as their judge, and declared they would agree with whatever was his verdict.*²

They chose their own judge: Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, who was from the Aws tribe and had been their ally.

And the judgment? *The verdict for the Banu Qurayza was consistent with the Old Testament, specifically based on Deuteronomy 20:12-14.*³ Sa'd judged them to execution according to Jewish law, not Islamic law.

So let me get this straight: The Jews broke the treaty, they requested to be judged by their own ally, that ally judged them according to their own Torah, and somehow this becomes Muhammad "using peace treaties as weapons against Jews"?

This is the exact opposite of what you claimed. The Jews broke the treaty, chose their own judge, and were judged by their own law.

If someone gets such a well-documented historical event completely backwards while making inflammatory accusations, that tells you everything you need to know about the reliability of their other claims.

1. W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina (Oxford University Press, 1956). Fred Donner, Muhammad and the Believers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)

2. William Muir, The Life of Mahomet (Smith, Elder & Co., 1861), Vol. 3, Alfred Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955).

3. Deuteronomy 20:12-14 (Hebrew Bible); Barakat Ahmad, Muhammad and the Jews (Vikas Publishing, 1979).
by infecto | 2025-06-22 12:58:48+00:00
Still struggling to find anything in your wall of words that actually backs up your claims. As I always say—YMMV. On my side, we’ve seen real areas of value from LLMs. Maybe in your field or experience, that value doesn’t exist. Fair enough. But presenting your observations as objective fact is a stretch.

Nice chatting, but it’s clear you’re out of productive things to say.
by nl | 2025-06-22 12:59:17+00:00
> Israel has also been funding Hamas and other enemies of Israel.

That's not what this article says. To quote:

> Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

> Hamas was also included in discussions about increasing the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.

> Israeli officials said these permits, which allow Gazan laborers to earn higher salaries than they would in the enclave, were a powerful tool to help preserve calm.
by stirfish | 2025-06-22 12:59:21+00:00
I have a server in my pantry hosting some stuff, including an anonymous ftp server. I get a bot that uploads fake screensavers once in a while, and one time someone on 4chan made a million empty directories in it before I turned it off for 30 minutes and they got bored.

I might be naive about getting hacked, but it's been up for 5 or 6 years now and nothing bad has happened.

Edit: actually closer to 12 years total now, wtf I'm aging?
by codingdave | 2025-06-22 12:59:58+00:00
I'm going through that process as well, as I switch my projects away from coding and back to academic reading and research, which I have not done in 30 years.

What is working for me is to take it slow. To get actual books, not e-books, sit down with them in a cozy reading corner I set up, and read what I can. To go to libraries, browse the stacks, take a few books to a table, and skim through them. Basically, to avoid middle grounds and go all the way back to how I used to read before the web took off. It is not fixing my attention overnight, but I am improving over time.

It also helps to have a focus. Reading for its own sake doesn't give me the endurance I used to have, but deliberate reading to further some research goals helps me get more done.
by gspencley | 2025-06-22 13:00:21+00:00
One way to get some insight into this is to look at the demographic break down of Iran pre and post 1979 revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#Religious...

Pre-1979, per the 1976 census, Iran had a Jewish population of 62,258 (0.2%). Post-revolution it immediately fell to ~9k, where it has remained - at least until the last census in 2016 (0.0% representation).

While Christian representation didn't decline by the same amount, it took a sharp decline as well. Pre revolution (1976) saw a Christian representation of around 0.5%. 30 years later (2006 census) it was 0.2%.

What conclusions you should draw from that are open to interpretation... and when it comes to life in the Middle East and North Africa, you can also draw relative comparisons (is Iran worse or better for these groups?). But it's usually not a good sign when the population of an ethic or religious minority takes a sharp and sudden decline.
by begemotz | 2025-06-22 13:00:53+00:00
> Your hypothesis is: layout influences signup behavior.

This might be your hypothesis but this isn't the hypothesis that the p-value is related to.

>Setting a p-value threshold of 0.05 is equivalent to saying: "I’m willing to accept a 5% chance of shipping something that only looked good by chance."

P-values don't provide any information about "chance occurrence" but rather they test the probability of observing a particular outcome assuming a particular state of the world (i.e. the null hypothesis).

> Bonferonni

Besides being a very aggressive (i.e. conservative) correction, I would imagine that in industry, just as in science, the motivations to observe results will mean it wont be used. There are other way more reasonable corrections.

> Avoid digging through metrics post hoc

The reasonable solution is not to ignore the results that you found but to interpret them appropriately. Maybe the result actually does signal improved intention - alternatively maybe it is noise. Treat it as exploratory data. If that improved retention was real, is this important? Important enough to appropriately retest for?
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-06-22 13:01:06+00:00
Abuse? Runnig linters, code analysers, configuration tools, template engines, spellcheckers, pulling dependencies, building dependencies with different build systems.

Sufficiently complex project need to invole alot of wierd extra scripts, and if a build system cannot fulfil it... the n it needs to be wrapped in a complex bash script anyway.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-22 13:03:10+00:00
> nothing

So signing treaties, negotiating, having mass inspections, economic cooperation -- this is nothing? As of 2015 the official policy of the US was reintegration of iran into the economic system; trump undid that briefly, but then adopted exactly the same policy until a month ago.

> why on Earth would you think they don't mean it?

It's disappoing how effectively people are propagandised into offensive action based on the words of foreign nations.

Look at what Regan said about the USSR and vice versa, rhetoric much more extreme. At the time people couldnt understand the incomprehensibly insane world-ending rhetoric. Now we have a coherent theory of why leaders do this -- which is that you want your enemies to believe you will engage in suicidal behaviour or your deterrence isnt effective.

Here iran has enough missiles to detroy israel, but if it uses enough of them, its quite likely israel would nuke iran. Israel is the roge state in the region who goes around trying to topple regeims, bomb embassies, etc. They are the nation everyone is trying to contain.

Iran's rhetroic, and it's amassing of arms is a containment strategy for israel. Israel needs to find it semi-plausible iran will attack, or else Iran is screwed -- because israel will attack.

Welome to the world of geopolitics, where defensive behaviour by other countries looks like offensive behaviour if you're poorly informed about the situation. It makes waging wars of aggression, like this one, trivially easy to engineer consent for. Oh well, its the US's own blood and treasure, go spend it if you wish.
by yojo | 2025-06-22 13:03:33+00:00
Agree with this. I’m done with anything with springs.

Before bed in a box was a thing I built my own. 4” of high density foam base, 3” of med density latex, 2” of low density latex on top. I swapped out the top layer a few years back, but the core is still going strong ~14 years in, and it’s still my favorite bed I’ve slept on.

One tip is you’ll want some kind of cover for your latex, since long term exposure to air will cause it to degrade.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-22 13:04:17+00:00
> Many reputable democracies[1], including Germany, Australia, Norway or Switzerland, have a reference to god in their constitution

None of these say that their states are Christian and Democratic, nor do they have government decisions finding that this means anything at all. In Israel, by contrast, their highest court has found that, for example, a right to return for Palestinians would be unconstitutional - as it would undermine the Jewish character of the state of Israel. A reference to some god in their constitution would be a completely different thing.

> That in turn isn't government directive, but a political opinion amongst several.

This is an extreme downplaying of what I said. Several of the people in charge of the Israeli government have explicitly and exclusively, religious motivations in their decision making - that is a very clear sign of a form of theocracy.
by anton-c | 2025-06-22 13:04:56+00:00
I see where you're coming from. I feel it's more like: you've never heard of a product. All of a sudden every YouTuber is shilling raycon earbuds.

Well that's the only place I ever hear of them. They all say they're great! I've never seen them or had anyone else attest to it except ads that all came out of nowhere. Seems like a play to make big moves in the headphone market. They sure did spend a lot on marketing, I hope enough went to design to make em actually good.

Now, I don't own any raycons because as I said seeing this behavior makes me skeptical of the product.

Meanwhile the main headphones I use I've never seen an ad for once. A friend recommend the m50x's when we were djing. I tested em and loved em. After getting them I notice they are basically an industry standard for audio which is my work. I suspect the quality product with savvy ads in appropriate places lead to this situation. No doubt in audio magazines audio technica runs ads.

When every YouTuber has done an incogni, nord, raid shadow legends, or a few others, I have to suspect they spent more on marketing than they did their product which makes me think(and has been shown a few times) that these products kinda suck.
by DocTomoe | 2025-06-22 13:05:24+00:00
One movie that was not even mentioned: The Fifth Missile (1986).

Aboard a nuclear-armed submarine, crew members gradually begin to descend into madness. The cause: chronic inhalation of toxic paint fumes from freshly coated interior surfaces. The resulting disorientation leads them to mistake a routine drill for the outbreak of a real nuclear war.

If Down Periscope gets a honourable mention, The Fifth Missile should, too.
by GlacierFox | 2025-06-22 13:05:35+00:00
I'm British, you wouldn't hear a peep from me. I'm not Jewish either.

I think you're incorrect about the opposition. You get the loud mouth left that for some reason have aligned themselves to a terrorist organisation. But if you go down the pub and speak to real people here in the UK, it's the complete opposite. It's reflected in the most recent polling where the vast majority of the country voted for what could be described as the most right-wing party seriously operating in the UK today.

People are really getting fed up of Islamic nonsense leaking into our completely incompatible society.
by martinald | 2025-06-22 13:05:49+00:00
I do get the political nature for this but this is really easier said than done.

Desktop Linux does not have good 'enterprise' group policy support compared to Windows. Neither does Mac. I think ChromeOS comes pretty close though.

And to be honest the need for this is as big if not bigger than on Windows. To take a random example - Control + Alt + F[1-6] switches you to a terminal with no explanation of how to get back. If you are a non technical user hitting that by mistake probably means a call to IT Support which is not advantageous to say the least. In Windows you'd set a group policy to disable that kind of thing, but there isn't a clear group policy 'standard' for Linux. You'd have to write a script that patches xorg.conf to disable it.

That's just one tiny example, I think there will be thousands of these small things. The other big blocker is support for Word/Excel docs. LibreOffice gets you so far there but I suspect there will be thousands (millions?) of complex docs/excel sheets with macros and what not that tend not to play ball. This is a huge job to migrate them all. Ironically this is a much bigger blocker I suspect than software itself as apart from this nearly everything is web based.

It's all very doable but requires a lot of work to get right. Basically someone needs to come along with something like Omakub but for non technical users, with a central server for managing it all.

I haven't really seen any polished projects for this, though maybe the 'enterprise' version of Ubuntu has this kind of stuff nailed?

And perhaps this Danish project actually ends up with something very usable for this. But it is very far from just installing YOLO installing Ubuntu.
by em-bee | 2025-06-22 13:05:55+00:00
exactly why Signal uses phone numbers

the reason may be the same, but the effect is entirely different. until recently signal did not allow hiding the phone number, failing my privacy expectations. a public phone number is something entirely different than a public email address. signal is also centralized with its own servers. deltachat works completely without dedicated servers. and emails easily allow multiple accounts.

and what are reasonable security expectations? what you and i consider reasonable does not at all match what the general population expects. for most people sending encrypted emails would already be a win. (autocrypt also works with regular email clients, not just deltachat)

the goal here is to raise the general use of encryption in messages. if that is not sufficient then deltachat is not the right tool. but i have friends on telegram and whatsapp. getting them to use deltachat would be an improvement.
by samrus | 2025-06-22 13:05:57+00:00
what do we think the post LLM internet will look like?

essentially whats happening here is that LLMs have removed the NLP barrier to automating information flow. thats what agentic systems are under the hood, once you realize alot of the "agentic" stuff boils rule-based engines and hand built state machines. and it will be until the next AI winter gives us proper dynamic modelling of an envirenment, rather than static next token prediction

i think RAG replacing the traditional reverse indexing will mean information wont be tightly linked to webpages anymore. meaning no ad revenue and SEO dying. which i think is good for the internet, because ad revenue just encourages information rent-seeking. this obviously assumes AI RAG is reliable.

i think without the ad revenue profit motive, information needs to be generated some other way. journalists and bloggers need to be supported somehow. crowdsourcing like patreon and stuff could help, but that just shifts the capitalism from optimizing for sensationalist clicks, to optimizing for cult of personality, which i think will become the norm for information generation unfortunately. everyone will have to make content, rather than news to do this for a living.

but i think that wont have the pull that ad revenue does. so i think information generation shifts alot more to amateur bloggers and taxfunded government mouthpeices

for actual services, i think we get more supercharged APIs like MCPs and that makes economic activity much less frictionless. its hard to know if this will just be a quantitative change or an evolutionary one

ones this is the labour displacement. how would all the people who were doing the jobs caused by the impossibility of NLP automation make a living? i think going back to the idea the "agentic" is just rule based engines with automated NLP, which is similar to coding (which is just making rule based engines with automated Formal Language Processing) i think "prompting" (designing, implementing and maintaining rule based engines in natural language) will become the new coding (which, again, was the same thing but making rule based engines in formal languages). essentially LLMs are just the next evolution of compilers, and people will learn to use them as such.

what i have no idea about is what sort of evolutionary change this will bring up, the way compilers brought when they replaced writing machine code. i think formal language programming will still be done by people, like machine code is still written, but the newly unlocked natural language coders will far outnumber them. so then what will be unlocked by this higher level of programming? like what will be the internet of the LLM era?
by Velorivox | 2025-06-22 13:06:15+00:00
Wall street undervalued Google even on day one (IPO). Bezos has said that some of the times the stock had been doing the worst were when the company was doing great.

So, to help you understand how they can be true: market cap is governed by something other than what a business is worth.

As an aside, here's a fun article that embarrasses wall street. [0]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15536386
by teddyh | 2025-06-22 13:06:29+00:00
They could have done a quick fix by adding an explicit app.slack.com record. But instead they removed the DNSSEC signing from the whole domain, thereby invalidating all records, not just the wildcard ones.

> I do care.

I will care once something else comes around with any promise of being implemented and rolled out. Until then, I see no need to discourage the adoption of DNSSEC, or disparage its design, except when designing its newer version or replacement.

> I'd like to see greater protection of the DNS infrastructure. DNSSEC adoption is hovering around 4%.

I work at a registrar and DNS hosting provider for more than 10.000 domains. More than 70% of them have DNSSEC.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-22 13:06:35+00:00
It’s hard to think of another president with a huge number of such dedicated followers, who actively hates the mass of Americans who don’t support him, and with a Congress so unwilling to exercise its power.

Let’s say Trump decides to order an invasion. What would happen then? Mass protests? Surely. Impeachment? No way. Military decides enough is enough and removes him? Definitely not. He realizes how unpopular this move is and backs down? Lol. Lmao.
by halffullbrain | 2025-06-22 13:07:55+00:00
Considering just the office suites:

Nearly all of state and local administration uses various 3rd party solutions which have bespoke Office add-ins and rely on close integration with the formats (and security models) on the Office suite -- and are likely shifting more heavily into Microsoft 365 specific features.

So it's not as simple as rolling out LibreOffice and calling it a day. Much less Linux.