MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 23:21:38+00:00
and "I guess" that Donald Trump is an outlier when its comes to how US presidents treat Israel. That the Sentate passed the law is not entirely pertinent because I am talking about how US presidents treat Israel not US Presidents and the Sentate. I get your point that the senate passed the law in 1995 and its good context, however it doesn't do anything in showing how the sequence of US presidents since then have decided to hold it over Israel's head until Donald Trump's first team, he remains as a suspected outlier.

I remain perplexed about how that was given up for seemingly nothing, much like how Donald Trump curiously decided to betray the YPG for seemingly nothing too. You got any guesses on that one, given the YPG were the troops that did great work in defeating ISIL for us all? I feel like they didn't deserve that.
by Ray20 | 2025-06-21 23:22:00+00:00
This "struggle" leads to the erosion of institutions, their discrediting, and will end with the fact that in 50 years anyone who mentions ecology will be looked at in much the same way as Jehovah's Witnesses are now looked at.

We wear plastic, we walk on plastic, we build and decorate with plastic, we drive with plastic. Fighting plastic bags is like fighting matches because forests are cut down for them, they emit CO2 when they burn, and they can start a forest fire.

The only reason people tolerate with this is because they are dumb morons on average. But even dumb morons can't be fooled forever - and when society realize the extent of the lies and uselessness they've been fed with, good luck telling them even one thing about ecology, even if it's critically important, because they still remain dumb morons, only with zero trust in the ecology.

So yes, definitely a good strategy to put the future of humanity and the existence of our environment at stake for tiny short-term political gains.
by alphazard | 2025-06-21 23:26:32+00:00
I've long thought that scientists should make their money betting on the outcome of experiments run by 3rd parties. This would allow for small steady flows of cash to establishment ideas, while breakthroughs would result in huge one time payouts. And the establishment ideas holding those breakthroughs back would be appropriately punished.

In order for this to be possible, conducting the experiment would need to be done by an impartial 3rd party separate from the researchers.
by IX-103 | 2025-06-21 23:26:47+00:00
I think the big factor there is that you'd have to wait over a decade for the transplant to be the correct size. I'm also not sure that we have the technology to keep a brainless body alive for such a long period - the brain is involved in a large number of processes that we don't yet have a way to replicate. And then you'd need a complex surgery to perform the transplant.

Pluripotent cells work fine in many animals with no apparent problems and avoid all of the issues with the clone approach. If pluripotent cells turn out to cause problems, then we could always engineer a kill switch to make sure they die off after the limb is regrown.
by martinvonz | 2025-06-21 23:27:37+00:00
Yes, the result is (almost) just regular Git commits, so there isn't anything jj can do that Git cannot do. It's just often a lot easier to do it with jj.

A lot of jj users are former Git power users. If all you do you use is `git clone`, `git commit -A`, `git push`, `git pull`, then there's much less to gain for you from switching.

Since you seem to know how to use interactive rebase, I think you are the target audience.

To clarify what's easier in the scenario mentioned above:

1. You don't need to check out a specific branch to start the interactive rebase from. You simply check out the commit you want to edit and then squash into.

2. You don't have to manually rebase other descendant branches. (I.e. if the commit you're modifying is in multiple branches.)

3. Branches (jj calls them bookmarks) get automatically updated. I know Git now has `--update-refs`, but you never need pass that with jj (maybe Git has a config for it, I haven't checked).

4. If you had a dirty working copy before you decided to fix up this commit, you won't need to manually stash or commit those changes.

5. If editing the commit results in conflicts in some descendant, you don't have to resolve those right away.

Try it and let us know how it goes?
by aacid | 2025-06-21 23:28:02+00:00
Life on Earth would be perfect ecosystem without human. Sure lion eats zebra but there are no animal species capable of eradicating other species. my (very amateurish) opinion is that "high inteligence" is very effective and successful short term genetic strategy (it allowed very average mammal species to become absolute apex predator) but long term it is very unsustainable and self destructive. Look at the lion, apex predator in his environment and it is completely content. People are never content, always need more and more. We are intelligent but so bored that we spend most of our time finding out new ways to kill or at least hate each other.

yea, I'm not a big fan of Humanity...
by spwa4 | 2025-06-21 23:28:13+00:00
> I’m curious, are you Israeli yourself?

Nope. Not even close.

> I feel like you’re not telling me the whole story here. They can’t legally modify their statutes without consulting with the UN, but they can publish whatever statutes they want? What does this even mean?

This is international law, which is a name used for a huge mess of international treaties. What is there to say? There is no international police. If you don't respect international law, there is nobody to compel you to do anything. In essentially every case, you're beyond the reach of the counter party to the treaty (especially in this case since the ICC has zero reach). This is true whether "you" refers to a person or a country.

Hell, there's even valid reasons this keeps happening like that the political situation sometimes changes far faster than treaties can be negotiated.

There were some truly exceptional times in history, like the ending of WW2, where everyone agreed on a few rules and some limited things happened, but that time is long gone. Most countries find the international order deeply unfair, especially the "you're not allowed to move any borders unless you're one of the original nuclear powers" part. Russia is allowed to attack ... Iran is not. The "non-aligned movement" is essentially aligned on a single point: they all want to start limited wars against one or multiple of their neighbors but would face total economic collapse or worse if they did that and the US responded. That is the last straw holding the UN treaties in existence, the only enforcement mechanism that has survived 80 years of UN disintegration.

And now Trump got elected and has been sighted near said last straw with scissors, asking for money, complaining the straw costs too much. But don't be fooled: there's a lot of shouting at Trump, but nobody working to strengthen the treaties with a few more straws. And while I hate Trump, you have to give him this one: if he cuts, he may be giving the start signal for WW3, but saying he's causing it, is absurd.
by conartist6 | 2025-06-21 23:30:00+00:00
Oh my god I thought I'd be angry at him like I usually am when he writes another one of his sell-out pieces but I'm not even a third of the way through and my response is between pity and revulsion at what he's describing.

He made his life a kind of hell I wouldn't wish my worst enemy: he's now fully a slave to the machine. What started as a sales pitch turned rapidly into a disturbingly transparent exercise in self-loathing
by SllX | 2025-06-21 23:30:58+00:00
At what point did I say I would be satisfied with that? I much prefer the moral victories, but one country’s morality is not another’s, but we do not carry out justice under foreign principles.

My point was that even without the moral victory, there are real problems and limits with an International court attempting to second-guess our actions against hostile powers and serve process to our leaders, and that in reality, they’re not winning that fight. Certainly not today they’re not.
by None4U | 2025-06-21 23:31:40+00:00
For Apple's own `container`[1], just remove the `--platform linux/arm64` part, like this:

container run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/workspace" ghcr.io/simonw/alpine-edit

I did have to resize my terminal for this to work, but that could be a terminal emulator issue.

[1] https://github.com/apple/container
by yapyap | 2025-06-21 23:34:23+00:00
Question: the blogpost mentions archivists needing 16mm projectors. Now I assume they would use these projectors to archive 16mm film but how / why?

Why not scan film in instead of.. projecting it on a wall and filming that to archive?

At least thats what I’m extracting from the blog with my fair but limited knowledge, if someone could enlighten me it’d be greatly appreciated!
by speakspokespok | 2025-06-21 23:36:38+00:00
A similar topic but not this link[0] was mentioned here on HN awhile back. An aboriginal man had a lock of hair which had passed down over many generations, and some of which was allowed to be carbon dated. It was old, I don't remember the specific age, but it was at least BC old. And this lock of hair had been passed down from one generation to the next. It showed his people had been in Aus for a very long time and they predate first humans in North America.

Just looking at this article Aborigines had been in Australia for 20k - 30k years before the White Sands footprints were made. I'm sure there's footprints of similar "vintage" there. It would be curious to compare them.

[0] - https://theworld.org/stories/2016/08/01/lock-hair-dates-abor...
by benjamincburns | 2025-06-21 23:36:45+00:00
I generally ask for 150% - usually on the expectation that it’ll make the non-compete go away.

It’s not at all a ridiculous ask, either. I’ve made a career out of going after high-impact roles in whatever is the fastest growing area of technology at the time. The non-compete isn’t just asking me to sacrifice the income from my next role, it’s asking me to sacrifice the experience as well. It also limits my ability to renegotiate comp while on the job, because they know your BATNA isn’t to just go get a better offer from a competitor.

If a company wants me to give all of that up, I’m sure as shit not doing it just for the privilege of working for them.
by nickserv | 2025-06-21 23:37:54+00:00
Exactly. There is pressure to sell to as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. This leads to "simplifying" the UI.

Generally this means power users now have to click 3 times instead of 1.

Of course there are alternatives, like having an advanced mode or keyboard shortcuts. But that takes time and effort for a typically smaller set of users.
by wwweston | 2025-06-21 23:38:26+00:00
> Music selection is great. Music recommendation (and video recommendation) is utter crap.

Fair point. I wonder if this is connected to the way that YouTube seems to rely more on presenting an array of suggestions than flowing linearly through a stream. In any case, I turn off autoplay and am trying to rely as much on search, follows, and curation as algorithmic recommendations, so the hit and miss quality of the recommendations doesn't bother me much personally, I could see how it might not be a great set-and-forget music replacement (for which I already have plenty of options going back into terrestrial radio origins).
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-21 23:38:26+00:00
I agree with your point. I saw a comment above they "solved?" this in some Scandenvian country by mandating the bags cost a ~$1 each. Not sure if that's high enough but I guess the point would be if you make the cost high enough people will quickly learn to bring their own bags.

I admit I am terrible at it. If I ride my bike then I bring something the carry the stuff home but if I take my car, even though I put bags in my trunk, it never even crosses my mind to use them :( Maybe posting this comment will help me remember next time.

On the other hand, my apartment complex demands we put our trash in plastic bags so I use the bags I get at the store for that ... sigh ...
by const_cast | 2025-06-21 23:40:54+00:00
> one side you have a guy who is "political" by saying he's anti dei and welcomes everyone of various politics and identities

Yes, being anti-woke and pro-Trump is political. I'm sorry, it just very obviously is. It's not a double standard because it's the same standard.

Just like DEI might piss some people off, being a Trumpie might piss some people off. If you think that making anti-woke claims or MAGA references is apolitical I don't know what to tell you. Because it is, and I was under the impression everyone on Earth should be in a agreement on that.
by Hizonner | 2025-06-21 23:41:40+00:00
I was around "at that point", and there were a bewildering number of printer types, including daisy wheels and things that were basically converted typewriters, either of which could have produced output like that.

Some daisy wheel drivers would vary the spacing to "kern" the letters, but some wouldn't. If they didn't, what you got looked basically exactly like what you'd get on a typewriter.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-06-21 23:41:57+00:00
I looked for similar for twenty years. Including compiling my own version from setedit, a clone of a turbo pascal ide. Ten years later someone mentioned “ne” which was acceptable and packaged.

Several years ago the better micro was born then packaged, I’ve used since. It has more features than edit like highlighting, though missing a menu. That’s good enough I think.

In some situations like constrained environments (openwrt) I use nano with CUA keybindings because micro is too big.
by gruez | 2025-06-21 23:42:15+00:00
>and he spends a lot of time keeping it working in the face of YouTube tactics, etc.

Does he? Is he doing original research, or just copying whatever ublock origin/easylist puts out? After all, all the bypass methods are just javascript snippets that extensions inject into the page, so it's not like you have to spend much time porting to iOS or whatever.
by Aloisius | 2025-06-21 23:42:18+00:00
The courts have granted rights to non-citizens in the United States, not non-citizens outside the United States.

James Madison provides the rationale:

"Aliens are not more parties to the laws, than they are parties to the Constitution; yet it will not be disputed, that as they owe, on one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their protection and advantage."

While aliens within the United States owe temporary obedience to its laws and thus enjoy protections under the Constitution, aliens abroad do not.

Again, see United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez where the Supreme Court determined aliens abroad were found illegible for Fourth Amendment protection as they were not considered "the people."
by crazydoggers | 2025-06-21 23:42:49+00:00
An axolotl is a salamander that remains in its larval form throughout its life, while most salamanders go through a metamorphosis during sexual maturity, so it’s not surprising it retains embryonic growth capabilities.

There’s actually a theory that hominid ancestors at some point split off from other great apes by also not going through the typical great ape sexual maturity. For examples humans look a lot more like juvenile chimps that we do sexually mature chimps.
by kelnos | 2025-06-21 23:46:17+00:00
US finance has the same thing, and also calls it gardening leave. In our case I think it's reasonably common for it to be as long as a year.

Downside for finance folks is that the usually make a decent chunk of their compensation through bonuses, not their base salary. So their gardening-leave pay ends up being quite a pay cut, and while they're "gardening", they're out of the game for a year and their skills/knowledge becomes a little out of date.
by ipaddr | 2025-06-21 23:46:30+00:00
I'm less likely to open source for that reason and others.

Anything released from this point on is suspect for llm generation assistance. Part of sharing is to show proof of being able to do this work to others. I feel like that no longer is true so I would rather leave things untouched with older dates for fear of tainting them.

Do I want others to generate my project claim credit kick me out of the loop? Not a big concern but not really.

Code was gold now it's an output of a vibe and seen as worthless.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-06-21 23:46:46+00:00
" Do what you do best, and let AI do the rest".

Exactly the approach I'm taking with Tunnelmole, which as of right now is still a one person company with no investors.

I focused on coding, which I'm good at. I'm also reasonably good at content writing, I have some articles on Hackernoon before the age of AI.

So far AI has helped with

- Marketing ideas and strategies

- General advice on setting up a company

- Tax stuff, i.e what are my options for paying myself

- The logo. I used stable diffusion and an anime art model from CivitAI, had multiple candidates made, chose one, then did some minor touch ups in Gimp

I'm increasingly using it for more and more coding tasks as it gets better. I'll generally use it for anything repeatable and big refactors.

One of the biggest things coding wise working alone is Code Review. I don't have human colleagues at Tunnelmole who can review code for me. So I've gotten into the routine of having AI review all my changes. More than once, bugs have been prevented from being deployed to prod using this method.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 23:46:57+00:00
The purpose of the ICC is that the crimes of: Genocide, Crimes against humanity, War crimes and the crime of aggression should be prosecuted among its signatories. You are correct that its jurisdiction does not contain Israel or the US, given they withdrew. However signatories are expected to respect the warrants should individuals travel to states that are signatories. Therefore it is not exceeding the bounds of its jurisdiction in issuing these warrants, otherwise one could simply withdraw, do a little war crime and rejoin, thereby creating a loophole. The whole point of the court is that it is international and looks at these crimes happening throughout the world, so its signatories play their part in encouraging them to not happen and prosecuting them when they do, when they can (i.e. when someone guilty of them travels to these nations). In that respect is it like interpol, where a nation can arrest someone who has committed a crime in a different country, if they flee to a country signed up to interpol, despite them not theoretically not having the juristdiction to do so (given the crime wasn't committed where the arrest was made).

You don't even have to talk about genocide given that Israel (as you also state) has clearly committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its war against Hamas. Its entirely in keeping with the ICC aims that an arrest warrant has been issued for both Yahya Siwar (now deceased) and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Given Donald Trump's bizarre demand that the Europe re-arm itself (which imho is terribly short-sighted and might make US foreign policy more tricky in the future), I imagine in the future we will see more instances where Europe tries to gain a ROI on its military spending and becomes more assertive in the future. Right now, it can be politically difficult for European countries to respect the warrants (as seen most recently with Netanyahu's trip to Poland) but in the future that could change.
by SllX | 2025-06-21 23:47:08+00:00
> I love an America that asks "What is right?" before asking "What are you going to do about it?"

Agreed, but I’ll put forth that the context for the first question also matters.

The context within this particular sub-thread which is within a larger thread regarding the ICC, the warrant issued againstNetanyahu and American sanctions on ICC staff is whether America and Americans as a non-signatory of the Rome Statute should be subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction. Actually it was originally Presidents, current and former, but there’s been some scope creep.

My answer is “No”. Your answer may be “Yes”, but I’m making the case for my “No”, not advocating for discarding all morality and total lawlessness and might-makes-right behavior, even if I think “might” is a mighty great deterrent for backing up that “No” to non-Americans that believe the answer should be “Yes” and would be willing to try out that “Yes” in the real world.
by kelnos | 2025-06-21 23:47:31+00:00
So tired of this garbage. I think non-competes (and the legal concept of inevitable disclosure) should just be banned completely. Sure, some things (like taking customer lists when you leave a company) are messed up and should be barred, but companies should just be required to accept the fact that their employees will take some "proprietary" knowledge/information with them to their next job.

I don't even think that non-competes should be allowed for higher level employees/executives. Everyone deserves the right to change jobs whenever they want to.
by crtified | 2025-06-21 23:49:43+00:00
I support the bans, but I can't help one targeted cynical note : the now-banned plastic bags from retail checkouts, which many consumers typically kept and used as bin liners (or storage), have arguably been replaced 1:1 in a lot of households by versions that the consumer now simply purchases themselves in retail rolls of 50-100, right there on the shelves of those very same stores.
by andy99 | 2025-06-21 23:49:44+00:00
It's not quite the same but since the dawn of smartphones, I've hated it when you ask a question, as a discussion starter or to get people's views, and some jerk reads off the wikipedia answer as if that's some insight I didn't know was available to me, and basically ruins the discussion.

I know talking to an llm is not exactly parallel, but it's a similar idea, it's like talking to the guy with wikipedia instead of batting back and forth ideas and actually thinking about stuff.
by cam_l | 2025-06-21 23:50:14+00:00
Australia is straight up banning non competes for anyone earning under $175k, for this reason.

They are also tightening up the contract law around non competes to reduce the impact of the scare tactics employers have been using to bind low level employees with unenforceable, but still litigable, contract terms.

And scare tactics are really all they are (in this country), because even before they do this the courts have a track record in this country of looking very dimly on overly broad or restrictive non compete 'agreements'.
by mm263 | 2025-06-21 23:50:43+00:00
You are missing the point. The point isn't that the legacy methods of agriculture are unequivocally better. They have their downsides, some of the downsides are pretty severe. The point is that abolishing traditional farming in favour of industrial agriculture yielded unforeseen costs, the ones that were never even hypothesized when we started scaling agriculture. Now with AI and agents, we'll reap those unforeseen costs again. The profits will go into the pockets of the owners, the unforeseen costs (which include the costs of switching from one system to another) will become the society's burden to bear, as it was with industrial-scale agriculture.