MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vixen99 | 2025-06-28 15:52:33+00:00
Britain has a very generous welfare system it cannot afford and appears to be unable to even reverse its expansion. According to the Center for Migration Control, there are 1.15 million foreign born individuals claiming some form of in-work benefit.

Irrespective of one's views on the migrant question, this is unsustainable. For instance, the National Health System (NHS) has recently been sending patients to Poland and Lithuania to try to relieve pressure on the waiting lists.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-...
by mjevans | 2025-06-28 15:52:42+00:00
Wouldn't it be nice if buying a space launch vehicle were like purchasing a car, instead of (a military) aircraft?

For that same matter, maybe that's part of what went wrong with the aircraft manufacturing business in America. The market really should not have been allowed to consolidate that much; to the point where incentives aligned to financial and regulatory capture / stasis (and pilots only certified on one type of flight vehicle), rather than someone skilled to operate a general aviation vehicle. Though with cars we do have a fairly standardized control scheme, at least for the most important parts. Steering wheel, go and stop foot levers.
by 1dom | 2025-06-28 15:52:46+00:00
> Then why did you bother responding in the first place, and why should anyone bother reading beyond that point? If you’re not interested in discussing, don’t. Throwing a bunch of words at someone and then going closing your ears singing “la la la” is worse than not being valuable, it has negative value for the discussion.

I didn't mean to imply I wasn't going to read, it's just that disagreeing so vehemently on a sentence by sentence basis - like we're both clearly prone to do - isn't always fun or productive. Neither of us is going to change our mind with the depth and detail at which we're disagreeing. You're completely fair to see it as me sticking my fingers in my ears, sorry, because that's disrespectful of me.

My intent was to give you the respect of responding in a similar level of detail to address your points, since you gave the time for me, but prevent the need for either of us to have to keep doing it...

> Here‘s the thing: The author isn’t making a general commentary or recommendation, they are recounting their own personal experience. Pretending you know what makes sense for them is arrogant and misguided. That you are unable to understand other people have different needs and ways of approaching life is a you problem.

I never claimed to know what's best for them, I would even go as far as saying I don't care what's best for them, I was speaking from a position of what I think's best for human knowledge. Fundamentally, if you agree burning books - metaphorically - is a bad thing, then you agree deleting second brains instead of just archiving is a bad thing.

Here's the thing: I'm not making a general commentary or recommendation, I'm recounting my own _personal_ view of what's best for human knowledge and what I think of the authors article. Pretending that me having a different view is "absurd", is arrogant and misguided. That you are unable to understand that I have different needs and ways of approaching life is - apparently - a problem...:P
by KronisLV | 2025-06-28 15:53:21+00:00
I have to say that after switching to Windows 11, I don't hate it as much as I thought I would. I'm still a bit upset that they took away vertical taskbars from us, but some things like multi-GPU support is better than in Windows 10: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/what-is-ruining-dual-gpu-setups

On the other hand, for whatever reason Windows 11 right now refuses to install updates (I think the logs complained about their own web view components being unavailable last I checked, which is wrong because they definitely are there), which is kind of embarrassing.

With news of many games also performing better on Linux distros nowadays like https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s... it feels like vendor lock (certain anti-cheat and software not running on anything else) and familiarity is increasingly what's keeping folks on the platform.

While I've also seen my friends struggling to get an Arch install just right, it's nice to know that if I'm willing to say goodbye to some games (e.g. looking at https://www.protondb.com) and software (I actually like the Windows version of SourceTree and tools like WinSCP and MobaXTerm and even Notepad++), then I could go back to using Linux Mint with Cinnamon as my daily driver again - pretty pleasant setup.
by zug_zug | 2025-06-28 15:53:42+00:00
Telling the US government it's broken is a favor to the US government. Freedom of speech is a gift to both the people of this country and the institution itself, helping it be pure and accountable. It's the force that prevents us from becoming like China.

Those who seek to stop that regulating force are undermining what makes America great. Where those voices of dissent were born isn't pertinent.
by mh- | 2025-06-28 15:53:47+00:00
Unfortunately, I think we're equally likely to see shortsighted lock-in attempts like this [0] one from Slack.

I tried to find a rebuttal to this article from Slack, but couldn't. I'm on a flight with slow wifi though. If someone from Slack wants to chime in that'd be swell, too.

I've made the argument to CFOs multiple times over the years why we should continue to pay for Slack instead of just using Teams, but y'all are really making that harder and harder.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals...
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-28 15:53:53+00:00
Considering ~50% of the Knesset is in opposition, I don't think it's proof that a politically large fraction of Israeli society is religiously fundamentalist.

It's non-negligible, but the reasons ultra-right parties like Otzma Yehudit [0] have a voice in politics has more to do with election calculus by Netanyahu.

The ideal 2+ party parliamentary system seems to be >2 but <6.

Below that, you get bad outcomes (US). Above that, you get bad outcomes (Israel, India).

Somewhere in the middle, it forces the right amount of coerced cooperation... most of the time (Germany).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit
by dang | 2025-06-28 15:54:09+00:00
Yes, the parent was the same kind of question; in fact I almost included that observation in my reply to you. However, it's all a matter of degree, and your comment was significantly worse in the degree of snark and flamebait that you were posting. That's why I replied to you and not the other comment. It had nothing to do with which side either of you are on, although I understand how it ends up feeling that way. (I've posted quite a bit about that elsewhere in this thread, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403947.)
by eviks | 2025-06-28 15:54:50+00:00
> Microsoft's efforts do seem to be paying off (or, at least, some combination of Microsoft's efforts and Windows 10 PCs naturally aging out of the install base). While Windows 10 is still running on the majority of Windows PCs worldwide (about 53 percent, according to Statcounter's May 2025 data)

53% is huge mere months away from the end, and actually means that the efforts have resoundingly failed.
by fintechie | 2025-06-28 15:55:01+00:00
Italy, Spain... eg. https://embalses.net shows maximum historical levels after a sharp bump these past 2 years... pretty sure it's the same story in many EU countries. Droughts are there until they aren't. Normal fluctuations if you check an actual chart going 50-100 years back.

Can you post a historical chart of Cyprus? maybe it tells a different story
by vinkelhake | 2025-06-28 15:55:09+00:00
While reading this, the old ARexx (Amiga Rexx) popped into my head. It was a scripting language that in itself wasn't very noteworthy. However, it also made it easy for applications to expose functionality through an ARexx port. And again, offering up an API itself isn't noteworthy either. But it shipped by default in the system and if an application wanted to open itself up for scripting, ARexx was the natural choice. As a result, a ton of applications did have ARexx ports and there was a level of universality that was way ahead of its time.

Come to think of it - I don't know what the modern equivalent would be. AppleScript?
by bee_rider | 2025-06-28 15:55:27+00:00
Is it really that cheap already? I thought desalination was more like an “not enough power by an order of magnitude” type problem. Solar that is a little cheaper than fossil fuels wouldn’t solve it, right?

Although, I’d be happy to be wrong there!

Desalination does seem like a useful shiftable load that could incentivize over-building solar, which is always nice.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-06-28 15:55:41+00:00
> More recent languages often just pick a style and bake it in.

Again, there's a couple examples of languages doing this, and everything else is a free for all.

> No, you misunderstood what they said.

Agree to disagree. Nothing in that comment talks about the conventions of a language, only the conventions of code. Again, I don't disagree with what you say, but the person you replied to was in a completely different argument.
by Bjartr | 2025-06-28 15:56:46+00:00
And I expect there'll eventually be a way for an AI to pay for an MCP use microtransaction style.

Heck, if AIs are at some point given enough autonomy to simply be given a task and a budget, there'll be efforts to try to trick AIs into thinking paying is the best way to get their work done! Ads (and scams) for AIs to fall for!
by Buttons840 | 2025-06-28 15:57:13+00:00
It's worth comparing these reports to the Flour Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_Massacre) that occurred over a year ago.

I'd also suggest this (impassioned) video about the event: https://youtu.be/sCW-ARvywto?t=5020

Compare this reporting from a year ago with the Wikipedia page now. How has this reporting from a year ago held up?
by dsign | 2025-06-28 15:57:59+00:00
Most of Scandinavia is recently emerged and you can use your hands and a wooden stick to remove the vegetable soil and uncover the silt that was at the bottom of the ocean a few hundred years ago. And before that, that silt was dirt mixed in the ice. So, there is not a lot of organic anything there.

However, I think that soil is good enough. With the huge caveat that I'm not an expert by any means, I do believe that fertilizers and greenhouses would work. Also, you can make soil with some organic refuse and rudimentary industry. It's more of a question of all the other factors (labor) can be put in place.
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-06-28 15:58:30+00:00
Facebook is the worst. I haven’t had the app itself in a decade, but use the mobile version in a mobile browser to catch up on friends’ posts. I hope they go through with Zuckerberg’s idea of removing all connections, at which point the lift to reconnect is too great and I will actually delete my account (and I was one of the first FB users when they expanded to my school just after Harvard).
by avoutos | 2025-06-28 15:58:45+00:00
The article you link from NPR seems to mostly cite the Haaretz article. The only possible corroboration are the claims from Adil Husain, but I am hesitant to take his words as corroboration.

The Haaretz article states it is unclear how many died from IDF fire vs the Abu Shabab group. Husain was not at the aid site and so can't state how they were wounded.

It is also the case that doctors without borders is far from a non-partisan group and has harbored terrorists in the past (e.g. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-slain-gazan-named-as-docto...)

If the soldiers truly fired on those who were only running away, not advancing, this should be investigated and charged as a war crime. However, at this point the evidence is not clear aside from a handful of anonymous sources from a single press release.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-28 15:58:57+00:00
found one more flakiness over cross platform, when seed mt19937 same way on linux and windows, same compiler, same code... but problem is std::random_device or libc internals differ under the hood. some platforms do random_device as true hardware entropy, others fake it or seed from diff system sources. so seed retrieved isn't stable cross platform. that means mt19937 starts from diff states, causing different random sequences

it's not a bug in mt19937 itself, it's how random_device (or libc randomness) works differently across environments. makes cross platform tests flaky even when logic is rock solid

>>

std::random_device rd; // might differ per platform

std::mt19937 gen(rd()); // seed depends on rd output

std::uniform_int_distribution<> dist(1, 100);

int random_number = dist(gen); // different on linux vs windows tho same code
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-28 15:58:59+00:00
> Yet nobody would seriously argue that non-native Americans/Australians should be kicked out so the land is returned to their "original owners"

Maybe somebody would if they could? Or how about not kicked out but just made subordinate to government by native original owners, how would you like that?

I guess somebody else can say but Americans developed land, built infrastructure and democracy and did good more. But then the same can be said about Israel. And unlike Americans Jews did not invade somewhere new because they were there in BC era

I don't defend bad stuff done by Israel gov but I suggest condemning specifically bad stuff instead of suggesting "bias" that you did. It's a bit more complicated.
by herf | 2025-06-28 15:59:19+00:00
The backup requirement shows a lot of self-awareness from Microsoft, but it's still too hard to migrate a Windows machine. Contrast with a new Mac, I wait a few hours, and all my stuff is identically copied over via the built-in tools, and it feels like the same machine. With Windows, preferences all over just don't really copy. I don't care about a few .docx files, I want hundreds of legacy apps and settings to be preserved. As it is, it's more than a week of work when you get a new PC.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-28 15:59:29+00:00
When Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes (or any purpose "harmful to their enemy" [other than solely medical care of injured Hamas combatants]), those hospitals lose their protected status otherwise provided by the Geneva Convention.

I don't like the prospect of hospitals being attacked, but if Hamas houses combatants or arms inside a hospital, attacking Hamas therein does not appear to be a war crime, provided Israel has issued a warning and allowed a reasonable time for Hamas to vacate the hospital.

The Geneva Convention does not provide "One Weird Trick to Avoid Combatants Being Attacked"
by tolerance | 2025-06-28 15:59:39+00:00
The scary thing is that if we take that (misattributed, but interesting) definition ("There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect") into consideration then its interpretation could be employed by whoever conservatives are supposed to be to describe the contemporary ideals of whoever isn't a conservative (or at least they don't call themselves conservatives but that doesn't mean that aren't).

And I don't think that the grandparent comment portrayed anything like anti-conservatism as you've defined it.

There's pots and kettles here clanging and banging against each other fighting to get the noose around the other's neck the quickest.
by timetodine17 | 2025-06-28 16:00:05+00:00
Weather apps are boring. So I broke the format.

Built one that turns your forecast into a perfectly matched GIF. Cloudy? You get attitude. Heatwave? Full drama.

It’s not just data, it’s a daily mood board. Something you actually want to open.

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by breppp | 2025-06-28 16:01:04+00:00
No, the difference is that the native population of western countries very much disappeared, because this was an actual genocide their percent of population is now negligible.

While the Palestinian population in Israel proper is around 25% with full rights, while those under the control of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have rights in their respective political entity.

Again there are other examples of countries where the population lost all rights and were expelled like germans in czechoslovakia and poland or greeks from turkey
by justin66 | 2025-06-28 16:01:58+00:00
People ought to understand that this problem of innocent Gazans - often children - being fired upon by IDF soldiers isn't a new one, it predates the current food distribution operation.

An article from October in the NY Times detailing some well-documented atrocities ("44 health care workers saw multiple cases of preteen children who had been shot in the head or chest in Gaza") was published as an opinion piece, in spite of the fact that it consisted of dozens of eyewitness accounts. [0][1]

The incomparable sway that Israel holds in American media and American politics prevents pressure to hold those responsible accountable on an international level. When there's enough pressure within Israel to demand accountability for something terrible (and that's rare enough, outside of their peace movement) the conclusion drawn is typically that the soldiers are just careless, but not acting with malice. [2] If there's a single instance of an IDF soldier being held accountable for a civilian killing in this conflict, someone could make me feel a little better by sharing it.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-...

[1] https://archive.is/9Lr00

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alon_Shamriz,_Yotam...
by windex | 2025-06-28 16:02:23+00:00
I mentioned this on another thread. I tried my best to avoid FB, but then they acquire products like WhatsApp to then hoover up personal data again. This shouldn't be allowed. PII and personal data should be bound to the original terms on which the product launched.

Zuck should find a quiet part of the internet or the metaverse to curl up and fade away. The guy just doesn't have any redeeming qualities.
by arp242 | 2025-06-28 16:02:41+00:00
It's just not true that this is "normal procedure". It's just not. It didn't happen before either, and now it's happened how many times? Once or twice, I can believe. This many times? Not so much.

And this line of reasoning:

> If you don't shoot them they will take a sack by force, and then everybody will take a sack by force. Usually they coordinate themselves into bands or gangs to steal the food.

is just dehumanising and morally abject.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-28 16:02:55+00:00
When my mother passed and we had to clean out my parent's house, she had boxes of the same kinds of things. Old report cards, drawings and school work from 40+ years ago. It was nice to see that she cared to save it but it was of no interest beyond that. And it was pretty clear that she herself never looked at it, as the boxes were packed away in closets and obviously hadn't been touched since they were put there.

Stuff causes stress. It's really true. Even if it's mostly out of the way, every time you see it it will cause some stress about whether it should be moved, reorganized, saved, or thrown away. The house I grew up in was always cluttered and I'm bad about it myself. Every once in a while I will order a roll-off dumpster to the house and get rid of things that have accumulated over the past 10 years or so. It's a relief but then it starts over again.

If there's one habit I wish I had it would be to regularly and ruthlessly get rid of stuff that I don't use anymore.
by pydry | 2025-06-28 16:03:31+00:00
>they have ethnically cleansed the Jews like in Hebron

Have you been to Hebron? I'd highly encourage it because you will see literally the most vile state sponsored racists in the western world.

The ethnic cleansing is not as violent as the gazan genocide but it ought to make any person with a conscience sick to the stomach. You walk around looking up at the settlement guards (more of them than there are settlers) pointing guns at you from guard towers as the racist settlers living above literally throw trash down on the Palestinian untermensch living below them.

Every year they squeeze Palestinians who live and work there further and further out.

It's also the home of the venerated terrorist Baruch Goldstein (10% of Israelis consider him a hero because he shot up a mosque), his shrine and Itamir ben Gvir - the national security minister who idolized him.

After seeing that place I became convinced that if anywhere was going to commit a nazi style genocide it would be israel. 8 years later thats exactly what happened.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-06-28 16:03:39+00:00
One of the challenges is that the decline in water in southern regions is not solely climate driven - even if we froze the climate as it is right now, ground water sources are being overdrawn (from the article for example, Cyprus is overdrawing ground water by 40%, but rainfall is only down 17% since 1900), and so we would expect regions to face agricultural collapse faster than climatic zones shift north.

So far, climatic zone shifts are on the order of 10-100km per decade.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-wor...
by sokoloff | 2025-06-28 16:04:14+00:00
> The very existence of guidance change on civilian casualties should constitute a war crime

Surely a change in tactics by Hamas could lead to a legitimate reason to change the proportion of civilian risks.

Imagine if Hamas were scrupulously avoiding all civilians and civilian structures by 200 meters before date X and changed tactics on date X to freely intermingle with civilians and occupy civilian structures with military units and arms.

I'd expect before date X for Israel to have minimal civilian casualties be considered acceptable and proportional, but after that change in tactics I would see justification for a change in the math to justify a higher figure as being the lowest reasonable amount of civilian risk.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-28 16:04:30+00:00
You nailed it IMHO.

I quit my job at Google 2 years ago to do LLM stuff, was looking forward to having HN around, but discussions re: LLMs here are a minefield.

Why?

Everyone knows at least a little, and everyone has a strong opinion on it given the impact of it. People sharing stuff sell it way high, and as with any new thing where people are selling, there's a lot of skeptics. Then, throw in human bias towards disliking what seems like snark / complaining, so stuff with substance gets downvotes.

SNR ratio is continually decreasing.

Let's dig into why this one is weird:

My work inferences using either 3P provider, which do caching, or llama.cpp, in which I do caching. (basically, picture it as there's a super expensive step that you can skip by keeping Map<input string, gpu state>)

So I log into HN and see this and say to myself: 3x! throughput increase? This is either really clever or salesmanship, no way an optimization like that has been sitting around on the groud.

So I read the GitHub, see it's just "write everyones inputs and outputs to disk, you can then use them to cobble together what the GPU state would be for an incoming request!", and write a mostly-polite comment below flagging "hey, this means writing everything to disk"

Then I start replying to you...but then I throw away the comment, because I'm inviting drive-by downvotes. I.e. the minefield describe up top, and if you look like you're being mean, you'll eat downvotes, especially on a weekend.

And to your average reader, maybe I just don't understand vLLM, and am taking it out in good hackers just pushing code.

Then, when I go back, I immediately see a comment from someone who does use vLLM noting it already does caching.

Sigh.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-06-28 16:04:32+00:00
Certainly both, but in your question, I'm suspecting your unaware of how much of this music you're familiar with it since it lives rent-free in the general zeitgeist. For example, I suspect you'd recognize Satie's work Gymnopedie no. 1[1] and perhaps putting a name to it will give you some appreciation for why his work is valued

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU