MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hedora | 2025-06-22 03:48:56+00:00
A quick internet search says 80% of white male evangelicals voted for Trump in 2024. I assume they’re referring to that, since project 2025 is exactly what they accused the evangelicals of supporting.

Still 80 != 100, and not all evangelicals are white males. Alienating the reasonable evangelicals isn’t going to help fix stuff.
by physicles | 2025-06-22 03:48:59+00:00
Seems plausible. If anyone else is curious about the history here, I found [1]:

> The original computer terminals and microcomputers for which WordStar was developed, many running the CP/M operating system, did not have function keys or cursor control keys (arrow keys, Page Up/Page Down). WordStar used sequences of alphabetic keys combined with the "Control" key, which on keyboards of the time was conveniently next to the letter A in the position now usually occupied by the Caps Lock key. For touch typists, in addition, reaching the function and cursor keys generally requires them to take their fingers off the "home keys" with consequent loss of typing rhythm.

[1]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Wordstar
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-22 03:49:21+00:00
I hear you, but that's really not where their heart is:

https://sccgmanagement.com/sccg-news/2025/5/15/sega-sammy-se...

> Sega Sammy’s new gaming division, which started in mid-2024, became a standout performer. This part of the business includes the US-focused slot machine company Sega Sammy Creation investments in online gaming, and a 45% stake in Paradise City, an integrated resort in South Korea. The division brought in ¥5.4 billion ($36.4 million) in sales and turned a profit, with an EBITDA of ¥1 billion ($6.7 million).
by jrflowers | 2025-06-22 03:49:23+00:00
Could be talking about, for one example, Christians United for Israel, a single evangelical organization with ten million American members.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians_United_for_Israel

Are those ten million Evangelicals somehow not part of the mainstream? Like is it ten million outcasts that the majority of evangelicals do not claim? That seems unlikely due to the fact that the count of self-reported Christian Zionists is in the multiple tens of millions in the US.

https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/news/2021/10/26/video-the-christ...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-sizeable-us-demographic-many...

What I think is going on here is you either do want to speak for all evangelicals, and want to convince people that they all believe what you believe, or you are somehow part of a community in which you haven’t heard of or spoken to nearly any of its members. These are the only two ways to make sense of the “who are you talking about?” question; you are either being willfully untruthful about tens of millions of evangelicals, or you simply, somehow, haven’t heard about tens of millions of evangelicals.
by tptacek | 2025-06-22 03:49:30+00:00
CNN reports 12 GBU-57s were dropped on Fordow.

Can I say again how deeply silly this munition is? What's special about a GBU-57 isn't its explosive force. It's that the bomb casing is made out of special high-density ultra-heavy steel; it's deliberately just a super heavy bomb with a delayed fuse. It is literally like them dropping cartoon anvils out of the sky.

From what I've read, the idea is that they keep dropping bombs into the same bomb-hole that previous sorties left, each round of bombs drilling deeper into the structure.
by soraminazuki | 2025-06-22 03:49:46+00:00
The worst part is, it's only been half a year since Trump took office. We're experiencing crisis after crisis in the world stage, and it's the worst possible time to have someone unstable as him in charge of the world's most powerful military. Who knows what's going to happen in the next, sigh, 3.5 years with this shortage of adults who know patience and diplomacy.
by kdamica | 2025-06-22 03:50:47+00:00
Hard disagree with this. Unlike medical experiments, the cost of being wrong startup experiments is very low: you thought there was a small effect and there was none. It’s usually just a matter of pushing one variant vs another and moving on.

There are certainly scenarios where more rigor is appropriate, but usually those come from trying to figure out why you’re seeing a certain effect and how that should affect your overall company strategy.

My advice for startups is to run lots of experiments, do bad statistics, and know that you’re going to have some false positives so that you don’t take every result as gospel.
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-22 03:51:24+00:00
This is a great comment IMO :)

> Iran isn't actually a nation of pure evil, they are looking out for their own interests

Exactly. I do my best to consider them an "adversary", not an "enemy" for just that reason.

> The risk is when they are backed into a corner where using a nuclear weapon increasingly makes sense.

I'd argue there are two risks: one is that this puts Iran in a position where, if the regime survives, they will feel (and rightfully so) that the only way to secure their position is to possess them.

It also makes the same statement to other countries in similar positions.

I don't think we have a better option, sadly, but it is a consequence of this action.

Also, I don't think this makes a rational case for use. For possession, yes. For threatening to use them under certain conditions, yes - but the only rational use case for deploying nuclear weapons is if your opponent has already done the same. This became the case when the thermonuclear bomb was invented.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-22 03:52:35+00:00
I agree in a lot of ways, but I also feel nervous that AI could lull me into a false sense of security. I think AI could easily convince you that you understand something when really you don't.

Regardless, I do find that o3 is great at auditing my plans or implementations. I will just ask "please audit this code" and it has like a 50% hit rate on giving valuable feedback to improve my work. This feels like it has a meaningful impact on improving the quality of the software that I write, and my understanding of its edge cases.
by proc0 | 2025-06-22 03:53:28+00:00
"the system of international laws and treaties" are only effective to the extent that someone is going to enforce it, and that someone is the US and its allies. So ultimately it's military power that matters.

The status quo is only maintained because the US has military bases all over the world. If we retreat from the world and let Iran do whatever it wants (which is more influence and an Islamic empire), the the world order crumbles and that has an even more increased chance of WW3, as multiple nations will fight over the void left behind by the US.

Part of the reason things are unfolding this way is because the US rose to world power with the invention of the nuclear bomb.... which automatically means that toppling the US might mean nuclear war, which spells doom for the entire world. Not sure I would call that luck, but that is why the world cannot change to a new world order easily without existential risk. And as the "world police" the US doesn't want non-allies to get the bomb for this reason (something that Trump has been saying for years, which proves he is just maintaining status quo).
by akdev1l | 2025-06-22 03:54:43+00:00
> If they really wanted to, they would already have it. Enriched material was transported from these centers some time ago.

…

> 60% enrichment is not considered weapons-grade enrichment.

So which is it?

1. They already have enriched uranium and can just make a bomb now

2. They don’t have weapons-grade enriched uranium (and now probably cannot enrich it)
by rixed | 2025-06-22 03:55:07+00:00
Maybe training your critical thoughts on mundane things helps to understand less mundane things, and give one the good habit of not letting alien ideas settle in unchallenged?

Like gym for the mind? Ignorance is no more bliss than physical weakness is comfort.

Also, isn't critical thinking synonymous with forming one's own opinions? If most of our ideas and opinions are not really ours, then really, who are we?
by 827a | 2025-06-22 03:55:20+00:00
What? Do you really believe the world seriously beholds itself to "do as I say not as I do"? There's no such thing as international law. There's just self-interested nations who have always only done what is in their best interest. There's no higher authority.

So, in your reality, China says "but, but, you guys got to invade Iraq and attack Iran unprovoked, that means we get to invade Taiwan" and we just have to sit back and let it happen because... reasons. Nope. That's not how it works. We don't hold everyone to the same standards, and we certainly don't hold ourselves to the standards we police the world to hold itself to. That's the way it works.

Life isn't fair. Get used to it.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-06-22 03:56:45+00:00
I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNI7_u99rec

They didn't steal "secrets", but they almost certainly were covertly supplied with US nuclear material with the tacit approval of the CIA.

As for the claim about killing US sailors, here's GDF's vid on the attack against the USS Liberty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfABflKvFzk
by solardev | 2025-06-22 03:57:10+00:00
I love the concept and the renders, but I wonder... is the spatial optimization really what's holding train travel back? If you decrease passenger density in order to increase privacy and comfort, do you then have a corresponding increase in ticket prices?

In places with good train travel, it seems like they already have several cabin classes, from sardine seats (still luxurious compared to air travel) to private cabins (at several multipliers of price). Pod style rooms would presumably be cheaper than that, but still a lot more expensive than a seat?

Then in places without high speed passenger rail, like the US, this wouldn't really be able to address the major problems with train travel (slowness, lower priority than freight, low reliability, etc.).

Under what scenarios would using pods instead of cabins be more economically viable? And could these be retrofitted into existing sleeper cars, or would they have to build entirely new trains?
by benreesman | 2025-06-22 03:57:26+00:00
Maybe, but I think that in the cold calculus of geo-realpolitik, TSMC is more important than Israel in a world where WTI is unlikely to ever trade above 150 and will never break 200 [1]. APAC is influential, but not in the same way it was when the entire economy was weeks from collapse without Israel dominating the region.

And the Trump Administration understands that we can't defend them both at a cost the public will accept. I think. Even MAGA diehards are like 70% opposed to another quagmire in the Middle East even if Trump endorses like a downticket primary radical.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/rwtcd.htm
by bigyabai | 2025-06-22 03:59:31+00:00
> The only option is a military one.

Oh, I've seen this one before! Then you install a police state, back it up with foreign weapons you sell to the police state in exchange for taxpayer money, forcibly "disappear" any disagreeable types and make the entire population hate your country for centuries to come!

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/legal-and-political-mag...

All observers to trials since 1965 have reported allegations of torture which have been made by defendants and have expressed their own conviction that prisoners are tortured for the purpose of obtaining confessions. Alleged methods of torture include whipping and beating, electric shocks, the extraction of nails and teeth, boiling water pumped into the rectum, heavy weights hung on the testicles, tying the prisoner to a metal table heated to white heat, inserting a broken bottle into the anus, and rape.

Did "western liberals" get all that? Oh, I forgot this line by mistake!

SAVAK was established in 1967 with help from both the CIA and the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
by jjk166 | 2025-06-22 03:59:32+00:00
60% enrichment is not weapons grade. Weapons grade is 80%. High enrichment is used in certain reactor designs, such as naval reactors.

There are a lot of reasons to be enriching uranium besides building nuclear weapons. Considering the US reneged on its deal to drop sanctions in exchange for Iran to not enrich uranium, it is pretty obviously useful as a bargaining chip, in the negotiations.

The US intelligence community assessed that Iran has not been working on a bomb since the program was shut down in 2003. They didn't want a nuke, they wanted an end to sanctions. They further wanted to avoid provoking exactly this sort of conflict. This did not delay them getting nuclear weapons, it will make them get nuclear weapons.
by danwills | 2025-06-22 03:59:44+00:00
I think people often hear 'bioelectric' and think it means electricity (electron flux) but what Levin's work is about is a pattern of voltage gradients (that cells maintain using electrically-non-neutral chemicals) that stores a pattern like a memory (or "target in morphospace" as Levin would say) of what to grow back into when the tissue is damaged.

It is about ion transfer between cells that sets up and maintains those patterns of electrochemical gradients. Gap junctions (the cellular pores that facilitate ion transfer) are not unique to neuron cells either, and nor are they even unique to multicellular tissues! It is now thought that this type of intercellular communication evolved in single-celled microorganisms even before the advent of multicellularity (like in biofilms and in quorum-sensing such as what yeasts are known to employ).

I totally see what you're saying if you interpret this as electricity like electrons/electromagnetic-fields in a wire with power running through it, but that is really not what Levin's work is about at all.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-22 04:00:08+00:00
its not about the thing, its about the negative ramifications. If we ever want peace in the middle east we need a two state solution, to get a two state solution means horse trading and this was a horse we could have traded, instead of giving it up for free. I entirely agree with you in how its logically wrong to deny a capital change to another nation but this isn't about logic, its about politics and diplomacy in a war-torn region to try to fashion an ever lasting peace between two often/mostly/always irrational actors.
by nsingh2 | 2025-06-22 04:00:17+00:00
This conveniently ignores decades of context. The CIA-backed coup that toppled Iran’s elected government, the sweeping sanctions, support for Saddam during a brutal war, assassinations and cyber-attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.

Painting Iran as the sole aggressor skips the part where outside powers kept breaking the "rules" they imposed. Also forgetting that Iran's current repressive and theocratic government is itself a direct consequence of US interference.
by margalabargala | 2025-06-22 04:00:27+00:00
Well, no, your hypothesis is not automatically the null hypothesis that's true unless someone else goes through all goalposts regardless of where you move them to.

I know you thought about it for a moment, and therefore had an obvious insight that 40% of the profession has somehow missed (just define terms so to mean things that would make you correct, and declare yourself right! Easy!) but it's not quite that simple.

Your argument that you just made basically boils down to "well I don't think it works that way even though no one knows. But also it's obvious and I'm going to arbitrarily assign probabilities to things and declare certain things likely, baselessly".

If you read elsewhere in this thread then you might find that exact approach being lampooned :-)
by kragen | 2025-06-22 04:00:32+00:00
Historically the NSA has sabotaged public cryptography standards so that it could crack them, while adversaries hopefully couldn't. It pays its employees to do this. It seems plausible that that's what's going on here, but even if so, whether that's because they know of a fatal weakness in NTRU they fear adversaries will exploit, or know of one in Kyber that they hope to exploit themselves, is anybody's guess.
by batmaniam | 2025-06-22 04:01:00+00:00
How the heck does a US president have military powers so powerful and broad? If congress can only declare war, it doesn't make sense to me that the president can put the entire country at risk of war by directly bombing another country. Like then at that point, congress has to approve right..? Because the damage is already done. It's a big slap on the face at the global stage, with no room for political face-saving. The damage being already done to both global reputation and national sovereignty. There's no going back.

If another country bombed the US, and then their system of government was like, "oh well it isn't technically war cause it was just our single head honcho making his own decision. But good news, our second government entity officially declared not going to war with you, kthxbye srry lol", that logic isn't going to fly in the US. The US is gonna retaliate and consider it an act of war, because it was bombed by a foreign power... damage being already done.

How the heck can Trump do this. I get it if the US got attacked, then it's useless to wait for congress to decide war-or-not-war... but this literally puts the US on a direct war path with Iran. the US literally just bombed another country unprovoked.

And Trump said he hated war, which was his platform when running. He was gonna end the war in Ukraine because nobody wins and war is nasty. What is going on.. why is Congress so spineless too. They probably won't even do anything. This is the worst timeline ever.
by userbinator | 2025-06-22 04:01:55+00:00
I've been meaning for years to write some kind of server that could give me useful functionality over chat messages.

Already done:

WhatsApp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568994

Facebook Messenger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203946

SMS(!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304409
by cdash | 2025-06-22 04:03:11+00:00
I am not sure how its only a political decision when they don't have control of their own airspace. How exactly do they rebuild when as soon as they start they get bombed. I think its more accurate to say it WAS a political decision. They had the capability but did not pursue it due to the fallout of doing so. The question its do they still retain the capability and will they ever be allowed to reclaim that capability if they lost it.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-22 04:03:25+00:00
Nice explanation.

I think the example code in section "4. Reordering" would be stronger if one of the two threads had their order of operations switched, e.g.:

void thread_2() { printf("value_2: %d\n", *ptr_to_shared_2); printf("value_1: %d\n", *ptr_to_shared_1); }

That way, when you see:

value_2: 1 value_1: 0

You know reordering must have happened. As it stands, no reordering is necessary -- it could simply be that both writes took effect at thread 2 in-order, but with the write to *ptr_to_shared_1 taking effect after the first print statement.
by energy123 | 2025-06-22 04:03:45+00:00
The opposite. They're thinking "if we try to do this, we will die, because their intelligence knows where we are at all times".

This war is quite paradigm shifting in multiple ways, and I'm hopeful it serves as a strong deterrent. No longer will soldiers be the first to die. The leadership is now first to die, and within a week. That significantly alters the incentives for pursuing war. This was never the case until today.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-22 04:04:01+00:00
Oof is this for people who reuse their DTO for business logic and/or share DTOs across different APIs.

It never occurred to me to ever (in any language) have a DTO with fields I wish (let alone require for security) not to unmarshall.

This seems doubly strange in Go the language of "Yes absolutely DO repeat yourself!"

Side rant:

JS (even with Typescript) pisses me off as this is unavoidable. Splats make it worse. But still a distinct DTO and business object and don't use splats would help. (Maybe make ... a lint error)
by mlhpdx | 2025-06-22 04:04:37+00:00
From the article:

> But patients in the trial had to stay on drugs to prevent the immune system from destroying the new cells. Suppressing the immune system, he said, increases the risk of infections and, over the long term, can increase the risk of cancer.

Indeed. They’re going to need to be able to make this kind of therapy using the patient’s own stem cells if they want a market for it.
by invalidname | 2025-06-22 04:05:14+00:00
That just isn't true and assumes Western type of logic.

Iran doesn't just call death to America and death to Israel in every rally. They mean it. When they publish photos of their facilities I was shocked to see the US flag, then I understood it's on the floor. They walk on the Israeli and US flag every day in these places as an insult. As a westerner I find this pretty hilarious... But they are serious.

For reference I will point you to the Huttis... The main damage they do to Israel is waking up Israelis due to a missile alarm. As a result they lose hundreds of lives in bombings and crucial resources. That doesn't deter them. Hell, they don't even like the Palestinians since they are Sunni... It's a matter of being part of a Jihad.

Notice that this isn't true for all Muslims. The extremists are a death cult who believe that dying in a Jihad will send all of them to heaven. If they get a bomb it is very possible they won't care about the consequences in the same way a "normal" country cares about them.
by throwworhtthrow | 2025-06-22 04:05:51+00:00
Gaining the knowledge to build a nuclear weapon is not the same thing as assembling one.

Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, March 2025:

"the IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program." [1]

Please explain how "Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program" is grammar hacking the above quote.

[1] https://youtu.be/nOhOqjx1y18?t=701
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-22 04:06:36+00:00
> Death to Arabs is an anti-Arab slogan originating in Israel. It is often used during protests and civil disturbances across Israel, the West Bank, and to a lesser extent, the Gaza Strip. Depending on the person's temperament, it may specifically be an expression of anti-Palestinianism or otherwise a broader expression anti-Arab sentiment, which includes non-Palestinian Arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_Arabs
by econ | 2025-06-22 04:06:53+00:00
We have all this technology but you can't get a decent overview of any conflict. There is liveuamap which seems to have data and certainly is better than any other website I know of but the ui is a horrific mess.

I think it is important for the people of the world to get an idea how things are unfolding.

It should be an animation of the exchanges both verbally and physically. Have a complete set of news sources for each action.

The BBC is not something you can trust to report on anything. I can't even see a date with the article? Pictures of the situation room??? Trump's name written in gold??What a waste of my time.

Games from the 90's provide better visualizations than anything online today.
by runako | 2025-06-22 04:06:56+00:00
Conflating things with nonproliferation detracts from the effort to prevent that singular threat. Now we are weighing the global, persistent threat of more nuclear weapons against regional terrorism and proving unable to decide which is more important. This, in a case where by nature of the problem, “both” is not an acceptable answer.

Maybe we are detracting from some regional terrorism at the margins while increasing incentives for nuclear proliferation. I don’t think that’s a smart trade off, but that’s where we are headed.