MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nemothekid | 2025-06-22 02:37:19+00:00
>I'm not an American but my argument would be that a free and stable world is better for the US.

You aren't arguing for a free and stable world. You are arguing for a total hegemonic power for US interests - and thats my point. You are taking the position of "this is what is good for US companies and interests" and working backwards from there.

It's remarkable you use the "were stopping China from doing whatever they want", but you don't stop and think that there are other people who have legitimate concerns in stopping the US from doing what they want. Replace China with the US and Taiwan with Palestine. Aren't we doing to Palestine what you claim we should stop China from doing to Taiwan? At the very least it comes across hypocritical to claim you are in it for a "free and stable world" when that actually means "the US should get to invade whoever it wants".

Furthermore, the same things you say about Iran, you could argue about North Korea. North Korea has killed Americans, they have an entire month dedicated to hating America (it starts next month!) and openly funds corporate espionage attacks that drains billions from Americans. Despite that do you honestly believe, that the world would be safer if we started dropping GBU-43s on North Korean children? Honestly answer me that.

Despite what you can say about North Korean regime - don't you believe a North Korea, with Nukes mind you, is far more preferable than the alternative? Where America is dropping bombs on North Korean every 5 years? Which do you think is actually better?

Why does North Korea - who again, has done all the same, and more, than Iran get a pass from the military industrial complex? Isn't North Korea clearly the bigger threat when it comes to peace as defined by the parameters you laid out? Once you interrogate this line of thinking it makes 0 sense - and anyone who thinks candidly realizes the contradiction: ironically, once our so called "enemies" have nukes, children stop being vaporized by bombs.
by runako | 2025-06-22 02:37:20+00:00
Yes, the regime changed. Objectively, that is true. We agree on that. And then...

the US lost nearly 5,000 service members in Iraq. We are still paying for the $3 trillion the war cost. Americans derived no benefit whatsoever from the change of regime in Iraq, a country that had not attacked us.

As an American who lives in a US city not currently under attack by Iran, it is reasonable to ask why we should sign up for this again. This has absolutely zero with defending Iran. How they manage their domestic affairs has no bearing on me.

If there is a case to be made that we should curtail our urgent domestic policy goals in favor of another war thousands of miles from the US, it has not been made.

My concern is this: I have no dog in this fight, but now I am going to be asked to pay for it. And it working like it "worked" in Iraq is my primary concern on that front.

Isolating the first 3 weeks or so from an 8-year war to say that it "worked" is obviously a special kind of sophistry. I'm not sure what purpose is served by such an analysis, honestly.
by dlubarov | 2025-06-22 02:37:44+00:00
They had already crossed the line into nuclear tech that's specifically for weapons, i.e. with a 400kg stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%. Unless we accept explanations like "scientific curiosity", they were already somewhere in the process of building nuclear weapons, even if success wasn't immanent.

I don't know how long these operations will set them back, but if the Iranian regime won't willingly refrain from nuclear weapons work, isn't a delay better than nothing?
by msgodel | 2025-06-22 02:38:08+00:00
Marble-QT works fine for OSM maps on Linux, if you run gpsd you can even use a GPS receiver and have the pin move around with you, I used this to help survey some land I bought recently.

Google Maps's search/review works fine on the web, I'd imagine the experience is probably nicer on the web than mobile.

Qwen and gemma both run locally on Linux and are excellent for translation.
by vivaankumar | 2025-06-22 02:39:46+00:00
I have failed countless times. I built so many projects that I thought were going to the moon and make me lots of money.

They didn't make me one dollar.

After 2 years, ExcelTutor, an AI Wrapper app for Excel/GoogleSheet that generates Excel formulas, Analyzes Insights, Creates SQL Queries, and makes Regex Patterns. It's finally made me some cash! Only a few users have bought it though...

It's a one-time payment of $8.

If anyone want's to try it out for free in change for feedback, I can leave a discount below your comment.

Also I am not quite sure why my bounce rate is 90%! Any advice on that?
by Spivak | 2025-06-22 02:40:41+00:00
I'm so confused by the chimney thing, a nice wood stove which I assume your neighbor is using because it's not practical or possible to heat your house with a fireplace can get you 70-80% efficiency and run overnight. They burn clean enough that I can't tell when my neighbors (presumably always) use theirs and they're directly across the street. The whole neighborhood knows when I use my fireplace.

My neighbors who heat their houses with wood (in an area where you absolutely don't have to—we have gas and electric at extremely reasonable prices), both have the nice high efficiency stoves to take advantage of the Biden tax credit and it seems to work just fine for them. Cords of wood around here aren't free but damn close to it.

Source: I'm considering a wood stove for my garage for working in the winter and they both talked my ear off about their experiences.
by runako | 2025-06-22 02:40:43+00:00
Has anyone credible said/demonstrated that they have developed nuclear weapons?

The US clearly does not believe they have operational nukes, or we would not have bombed them today. The actions undermine the official statements.

Put in realpolitik: would it be worth the US spending an Iraq War's expenditure of lives and $3 trillion to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon?

Why?

What makes this moment the place where the working approach of the last half-century simply cannot work another day?
by spauldo | 2025-06-22 02:40:52+00:00
It has the "feel" of a DOS program. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just that it feels a bit alien on UNIX.

The first UNIX system I learned on had pico, the editor nano was modeled after. I personally found it intuitive enough, but too simple in the long run. Editors like nano or DOS EDIT are great for light use, but you reach their limitations pretty fast if you do a lot of serious editing.
by amluto | 2025-06-22 02:41:36+00:00
This is a strange comparison. Iran funds the Houthis, for example, who commit plenty of acts of war. And if you’re talking about starting wars, it’s worth noting that the present war in Gaza was started by Hamas. (I’m making no statement about whether the actions of either side or justified — I’m just pointing out that, in the present shooting war, the first shots were fired by Hamas, not Israel.)
by susiecambria | 2025-06-22 02:42:06+00:00
I spent 11 years at a small nonprofit in Washington, DC starting in the late 1990s. I was one of two paid staff at the start and as we grew, I was appalled that the ED did not include info updates to those who sent in resumes. At most, we had 50 candidates. So I created a postcard that the administrative assistant would send if we passed on a candidate. (Of course, the admin complained about having to do such b-o-r-i-n-g work when I got all the fun stuff. I was, for a time, the only public policy person. And I had a college degree and Master's. I explained that I did all manner of work from boring, like cleaning out the supply closet because she never did and I used a lot of supplies and needed to find them quickly usually, to "fun," going to meetings outside the office.)

When I was looking for a job out of college in 1986, I hated not hearing from companies. That I was the only one of three staff who thought follow-up was important still bothers me to this day.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 02:42:57+00:00
And if you will read the wiki entry, you might notice that it only accounts for 110lbs of the 200lbs+ that went missing. It didn't come out in the wash, as a matter of fact the CIA detected the HEU's unique signature over at Dimona. Fancy it just flew there on the wind? Hitched a ride on a Congressman's jet leaving Haifa?
by Izikiel43 | 2025-06-22 02:43:03+00:00
For your first point, that’s not as big of an issue as it used to for the USA thanks to fracking, now the USA is a net exporter of oil.

For the second, I don’t think anything other than an air campaign like it’s been done will happen, it’s not like the USA is out for blood like after 9/11.

For the third, yeah, that’s unfortunately possible, North Korea, Ukraine and now this show that the only way no one messes with you is by having a good enough deterrent. However, even if this hadn’t happened, if Iran got a bomb, they wouldn’t threaten like nk does to get stuff, it would just test it on Israel, so you would get nuclear war anyway.
by ExaltedPunt | 2025-06-22 02:43:20+00:00
A large portion of Trump's base are very unhappy about bombing Iran and are very critical of any comments that are pro-war in general. I see it in a lot of comments sections and social media message to the effect of "I voted for Trump, and I didn't vote for this (war in Iran)".

Generally, Any prominent pro-Israel republican if they post anything pro-war will have hundreds of negative replies.

It is incredibly depressing to see people constantly falling into the trap that their political opposition are dumb / brainwashed.
by aisenik | 2025-06-22 02:43:29+00:00
What has Mossad been up to? Just boolin'?

It is possible that mistakes were made in the aftermath of WW2. It is possible that the victors have rewritten history in a favorable light -- in fact, that is the most reasonable expectation. This must not be used to justify genocide for if our society takes that path the victory against the Axis powers is meaningless and evil will have triumphed in the world.

Israel is more than Netanyahu and less than the Jewish people. Humanity must unite and destroy the power structures that incentivize the hyperscale atrocities we are currently manifesting.
by mcdeltat | 2025-06-22 02:43:43+00:00
> I trust software more if it's ugly

Interesting point and I was thinking if I believe the same, but I can't completely agree. Reason is there's a decent chunk of software outside of the "mainstream" app space where the UI is ugly and also broken, likely because the author isn't a great developer. I'm thinking engineering and research type apps. They have the kind of bugs where clicks do nothing, user feedback is faulty, wrong sequence of clicks causes a crash, and it makes me instantly distrust the entire product.
by 6r17 | 2025-06-22 02:43:44+00:00
tbh i get you ; but one has to realize this has nothing to do with that company and everything to do with the current nature of technological business where "everyone wins it all

What I say is that instead of hating on cloudflare one can look up how a DNS server works and start getting into DDOS mitigation ; but even after a couple of month anybody would still just have scratched the surface of it.

I don't think it's Cloudflare "goal" to centralize the internet, neither it is to set up captcha everywhere ; but it's definitely frustrating
by ggm | 2025-06-22 02:44:19+00:00
NPL used to do smart stuff. Daresbury also. SERC funded work I did in the 80s was a bit downstream of revolutionary. Good to try, good to fund but you have to be prepared to fail spectacularly and at great expense. DARPA has funding resiliency for that. People don't always talk about what didn't work, and cost a lot of money. The fifth generation and alvey comes to mind.
by hearsathought | 2025-06-22 02:44:54+00:00
> I think Netanyahu belongs in prison

Didn't Netanyahu perjure himself to congress about iraq's wmds two decades? Isn't that grounds for arrest? It's amazing how our media never mentions that netanyahu is a habitual liar when they push netanyahu's iran's wmds spiel.

At this point our media companies are israel's PR department. Fox news should be banned like RT for being a foreign mouthpiece.
by nemothekid | 2025-06-22 02:45:00+00:00
>spends rather large amounts of money funding various groups that are adverse to US interests and operate well outside Iran’s borders.

1. This describes many countries that we haven't invaded that I'm not sure you are being serious.

2. You will need to be specific. Which US interests? The interests of Californians or of Saudi Aramaco?

3. America is propoganda giant number one, and China has seemed to come up just fine despite America spending hundreds of billions trying to convince the world the communists in China are eating dirt.

I'm not convinced that this is a good use time or money for the American tax payer. I'm fully convinced American hegomonic decline is fully self-inflected and the trillions wasted in Afghanistan did more to hurt American than any backwards goat farmer in the middle east could ever accomplish.
by EvoSync | 2025-06-22 02:45:36+00:00
You're right, licensing is important, and I'll implement that soon. maybe Open source?

While standard browsers execute WASM/HTML games, my focus is on P2P distributed computation. This enables things like IoT control apps to run directly within the browser.

For security, I'm building a custom UDP protocol to incorporate advanced methods like BB84, and QUIC, aiming for truly enhanced encryption.

Regarding AI, I'm exploring how to leverage the P2P network for forward-type AI logic and Hebbian learning.

This is a very ambitious project, but it can make.

is it have value? Sorry for being immature
by protocolture | 2025-06-22 02:45:56+00:00
I see where you are coming from but not quite.

What I am saying is that the process is already legal and available, so the process isn't a barrier to melting and selling the gold. I don't take a position on whether someone would simply not do it because its illegal.

The process of growing and selling weed was illegal, and thus also a barrier to accessing weed.

If anything your line of reasoning makes me want to legalise and protect melting gold you find and selling it.
by lwansbrough | 2025-06-22 02:46:14+00:00
If they had already developed them, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion because nobody is going to war with a nuclear armed state.

The question is only, did they have the means to, and was there an indication they were? The answer is yes. They were enriching uranium at levels that go beyond anything non-nefarious. Their lead nuclear scientists were going to be meeting with their ballistic missile scientists (according to the dossier.)

On would it be worth it: nuclear proliferation is probably the most dangerous existential threat that humanity faces that is completely preventable. Iran is the most destabilizing country in the region and the cascade of nuclear proliferation that would occur if they succeeded would be a nightmare. That is easily worth $3T.
by YZF | 2025-06-22 02:46:39+00:00
Israel wasn't really at war with either Lebanon or Yemen or with the Palestinians. It was with Hezbollah and the Houthis and Hamas. All attacked Israel with no provocation before Israel retaliated.

Syria is a different story. Israel did bomb military assets in Syria once the Assad regime fell/fled out of concerns they would fall into the hands of Jihadists. It also took territory to expand the zone it controls in case said Jihadists have intentions of proceeding into Israel. It took advantage of a vacuum in an uncertain security situation. During Assad's reign it did not bomb Syria since the 1973 war (where Syria attacked Israel with no provocation, that was Assad the father fwiw).
by bushbaba | 2025-06-22 02:47:23+00:00
Actually now is different. The axis of resistance that would pop up (asad, Hezbollah, Hamas, houthis) are all basically gone and unable to mount an attack.

Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, HTS, and majority of Middle East is not in favor of Iran getting a nuke.

Hatred of Iran, is a unifying force.
by skhameneh | 2025-06-22 02:48:36+00:00
I see a number of recommendations for Logitech mice, FWIW I got a MX Master 3S because I once had a MX Revolution that I loved.

Well, I hated it and returned it. The polling speed was awful, Bluetooth connectivity laggy, no built in settings memory, it doesn't scroll correctly with anything Apple out of the box, and there's no mobile apps for it if you want to expand beyond desktop operating systems.

I ended up sticking with what I already have, but if I were to go and buy something today it would be a Razer Basilisk V3 Pro or a Magic Trackpad.
by kragen | 2025-06-22 02:48:57+00:00
According to public information, Eglin steel.

I was guessing either tungsten or depleted uranium, as for APDS, but the bomb's average density is only about 5 g/cc (14 tonnes in 3.1 m³). Length of 6.2 m times 5 tonnes per cubic meter gives a sectional density of 31 tonnes per square meter, which is about 15 meters of dirt. So Newton's impact depth approximation would predict a penetration depth one fourth of the reported 60-meter depth.

I don't know how to resolve the discrepancy. The plane wouldn't fly if the bomb weighed four times as much. Maybe most of the bomb's mass is in a small, dense shaft in the middle of the bomb, which detaches on impact?
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 02:48:58+00:00
Trump was never against war, as demonstrated by his calling Putin's aggression "genius". He was just generally critical of everything the US did, because fundamentally he hates our country. There are a boat load of earnest good-faith criticisms of our society and government. Trump excels at tapping into that frustration across the whole spectrum, which is how his cabinet is a circus of malcontents with no actual constructive ideas.
by anonymars | 2025-06-22 02:51:15+00:00
> It'd scare people of course but there are far easier things they could use to achieve that.

I wouldn't discount it, though. Remember, feelings matter more than facts. Magnitudes more people die on the road than in the air, but we know how well that translates to fear and action.

I mean heck, how about 9/11 compared to COVID? Wearing a mask for a while: heinous assault on freedom, Apple pie, and the American way. Meanwhile, the post-9/11 security and surveillance apparatus: totally justified to keep America safe
by thecrims0nchin | 2025-06-22 02:51:43+00:00
Abo is a major part of organ matching. Abo has to be considered for any organ transplant. Every organ differs but HLA antigens is a different, more complex set of antigens that needs to be matched to some degree as well. Abo is usually a simple test, so hla antigen matching is most of what "organ matching" labs spend their time on. I work in this field.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-22 02:52:15+00:00
> the chance at least one is noise is 1 – 0.95⁵ ≈ 23 %

Yes, but that's not really the big deal that you're making it out to be, since it's (usually) not an all-or-nothing thing. Usually, the wins are additive. The chance of each winner being genuine is still 95% (assuming no p-hacking), and so the expected number of wins out of those 5 will be be 0.95 * 5 = 4.75 wins (by linearity of expectation), which is a solid win rate.
by ImJamal | 2025-06-22 02:52:29+00:00
I don't know that we get anything out of it, but frankly I think we should respect what countries consider their capital. It is such a ridiculous thing to deny which we haven't done with any other country. Even our adversaries like the Soviet Union and China had their capitals acknowledged.

If there was some sort of precedence for not accepting capitals, I wouldn't have a problem, but as far as I can tell Israel is the only exception. I like consistent standards even if it is bad politicaly.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-06-22 02:52:36+00:00
But it did help in the other way, in my reading of the paper [1]. So the OP is asking why this is not even an option on supported environments, and I too think that this is indeed a good question to ask.

[1] "Hugo Gualandi reported that just adding the gcc attribute __attribute__((packed)) to the definition of the structure TValue reduces its size from 16 to 9 bytes, without any sensible difference in performance."
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-22 02:52:39+00:00
> A dirty bomb remains viable with partially enriched materials.

A dirty bomb is basically Hollywood nonsense, and wouldn't use uranium to begin with because it isn't very radioactive.

The premise is that you put radioactive materials into a conventional explosive to spread it around. But spreading a kilogram of something over a small area is boring because you can fully vaporize a small area using conventional explosives, spreading a kilogram of something over a large area is useless because you'd be diluting it so much it wouldn't matter, and spreading several tons of something over a large area is back to "you could do more damage by just using several tons of far cheaper conventional explosives".
by nsingh2 | 2025-06-22 02:52:49+00:00
What if the U.S. simply stopped interfering with other nations[1]? Have you considered that option? But of course, the U.S. can do whatever it wants because of its military might and the fact that it has nukes.

And there's the answer: on the world stage, you’d better be close friends with someone who has nukes, have your own, or be forced into a client state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
by YZF | 2025-06-22 02:53:43+00:00
Something like is going on between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran (borderline). The Iraq war. The Afghanistan war. A prolonged period of hostilities.

Something you would look back at and call "The US Iran War". I don't think the previous acts of violence, or the current one, between these two meets the mark yet. And it's not clear if this one will. Iran can't really do much right now and it's not clear whether the US will go a lot further here.

E.g. we probably aren't going to look back at the hostilities with Yemen and call them the "US-Yemen war" or the "US Houthis war" like we look at Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq.

Or as Putin would put it, it's a special military operation (yeah yeah, that one is a war).
by Cyph0n | 2025-06-22 02:54:11+00:00
Forcing Iran into submission is not going be as easy as it was in Iraq.

One of the key reasons behind why Iraq fell so quickly is that Saddam made all the wrong moves leading up the invasion.

By that point, he had alienated every single potential ally (including Iran) - and virtually all states in the region were supportive of the invasion, regardless of their positions in public.

Not to mention that the invasion of Iraq was ultimately a failure anyways..
by arandomusername | 2025-06-22 02:54:22+00:00
Israel has been oppressing Palestinians long before Oct 7th.

Israel was involved in supporting ISIS. That's why ISIS never attacked Israel (except that one time accidentally which they apologized for! How crazy is that?)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is...

Israel also supported rebel groups in Syria https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-acknowledges-long-cl...

> Israel has really no history of any hostility towards Iran that predates their proxy wars on Israel. There is absolutely no rational reason or excuse for Iran to be attacking Israel.

Israel has a history of hostility towards multiple neighbouring states. US has invaded Iraq for Israel. Iran does not want to be next.

> Exactly.

So you agree Israel should not be allowed nuclear weapons
by epicureanideal | 2025-06-22 02:54:46+00:00
Because in a well organized society where wealth accumulation is not by corruption, then by definition it would be by creating value, which benefits everyone.

The alternative is something like oligarchs that extract wealth because of state granted monopolies, corporatism that strangles competition with anti competitive regulation, etc. The accumulation of wealth is all out of proportion and possibly not even correlated in those cases with the production of actual value.